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Management

Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation

Founders and execs from Apple, Rippling, Carta and more share their strategies for altitude shifting as a manager.

Engineering

Mastering the Human Side of Engineering: Lessons from Apple, Palantir and Slack

Apple engineering leader Michael Lopp gives tactical advice for managers on how to empower individual engineers — and become better leaders themselves.

Engineering

The Rotation Program That Keeps This Startup’s Engineers Learning — and Not Leaving

Checkr VP of Engineering Krista Moroder opens up about the rotation program that’s helped keep her org’s non-regrettable attrition at near-zero.

In Depth

Inside Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand (Co-founder and Head of Operations)

Varun Anand is the co-founder and Head of Operations at Clay, a GTM development environment that combines data and AI to help over 5000 companies power everything from CRM enrichment to highly targeted outreach campaigns.

Management

Everything in Business is About Fighting Entropy — Here’s How Rippling Does It

Matt MacInnis, COO of Rippling, shares why most companies slow down as they scale, and his advice for how startup founders and executives can prevent it.

Management

Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better

Four top execs reveal their annual planning secrets from Notion, Stripe, Vanta, Linear, Linktree and more. From addressing AI to adjusting org charts, this COO, CFO, CPO & CRO share insights so startups at any stage can build effective, realistic plans.

Management

Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design

Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, has advised dozens of startups of all stages and sizes. He unpacks why founders should be suspicious of symmetry in their team structure, and offers a three-part framework on how to optimize for an “heirloom tomato” org chart.

In Depth

The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, an online platform designed for collaborative coding in multiple programming languages. Replit boasts over 30m users, has secured $200M in venture funding, and was recently valued at $1.2B.

Management

Add More Rigor to Your Reference Calls With These 25 Questions

When approached with craft and care, reference calls can be a massively influential piece of the hiring decision.

Must-reads

The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2023

It’s the first week of the new year, and here on The Review we’re ushering it in with a beloved annual ritual (that we find to be much more delightful than other yearly exercises like annual planning or performance reviews).

In Depth

The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)

Michael Lopp is an experienced engineering leader known for building products at iconic companies like Apple, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, and Slack. Since 2002, Lopp — as he’s more commonly known — has written about engineering, management, and leadership on his popular blog ‘Rands in Repose’.