Engineering Why Firing Brilliant Assholes Is Required to Build a Great Engineering Culture SimpleGeo Co-founder Joe Stump on the challenges of engineering leadership and why attitude trumps talent more often than not.
People & Culture How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent.
People & Culture How Etsy Grew their Number of Female Engineers by Almost 500% in One Year CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea shares the strategy Etsy used to get more female engineers interested in joining the company.
People & Culture Kawasaki on Why Your Startup is Dead if You Can’t Enchant Entrepreneur and investor Guy Kawasaki on the importance of making your product approachable, surprising and delightful.
Management How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares his strategy for getting up to speed fast to succeed as a novice founder.
Management Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees Evernote's CTO David Engberg goes in-depth on all the security threats you'll face as your startup grows and how to combat them.
Management The Best Approach to the Worst Conversation: "You're Fired" Michael Lopp has headed up People Operations at both Palantir and Pinterest. Here, he explains how to fire people the right way.
Management The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2013 Our 2013 roundup of the very best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs shared by experts and leaders across the tech industry.
PR & Marketing The Seven Deadly Sins of Startup Storytelling Andy Smith specializes in the intersection between psychology, social media and marketing. Here, he shows how to tell a great brand story.
Management How to Make OKRs Actually Work at Your Startup Swipely CEO Angus Davis shares how his company deployed OKRs to grow past 50 employees and $1 billion in sales.
Management What It Takes to Grow Your Startup 500% in Months Angel investor and seasoned consultant Paul Arnold on how to introduce organization that will accelerate your startup.
Product Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better Tom Lehman, Co-Founder of Genius, talks about the real value of MVPs and why it's good to build bad sometimes.
