CEO/Board Member/Advising/investing. CEO @CommerceHub. @Skyscanner. @awscloud, @skype, @microsoft before that.

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Joined August 2015
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I’m excited to share some of my learnings from the last decade on how senior engineers & technical leaders can play a massive role in shaping product and company strategy. Honored to be working with @matt_muffin, @bdove99 & @bbalfour on this. Check out the fall courses @reforge.
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3/ Technical Strategy Created with @harshsinha (CTO at Wise) and Bryan Dove (ex-CEO at Skyscanner, Dir Eng at Amazon). For eng leaders. Go from executing strategy to creating and influencing company strategy with technology. Details: reforge.com/technical-strate…
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High density, worth the read if you want to get super deep on creating marketplaces
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👇Thread. The Head/Heart/Hands framework - or in emoji form, 👩/❤️/✋- for company cultures and personalities at work. The idea is that every work culture can be described as a pie chart of these three factors. (credit to my friends/coworkers at Uber who first described to me)
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1/ HIGH AGENCY Once you SEE it - you can never UNSEE it. Arguedbly the most important personality trait you can foster. I've thought about this concept every week for the last two years since I heard @ericweinstein discuss it on @tferriss' podcast. THREAD...
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Good questions and thinking to ask yourself about applying growth loops to your career. Long thread:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers. Moats should be: - Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you) - Skills that are rare and valuable - Legible - Compounding over time - Unique to your own talents & interests
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I have some news to share! a16z.com/2018/07/17/connie-c…
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Good article to understand the concept of a SuperApp in China. This time it's a review of Meituan-Dianping who's worth 30B and will IPO soon buff.ly/2MbfSw2
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Hypergrowth and The Law of Startup Physics buff.ly/2HItSLk
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Plenty of wisdom in this thread xitter.cf/naval/status/100210336…
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
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Fascinating blog post on flattening growth curves and what to do about it. well worth the time investment buff.ly/2Ly2DpG
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Good thread on unconscious bias training and what it takes to make it work from Joelle (CEO at @prdgm) xitter.cf/joelle_emerson/status/…
With the Starbucks training coming up, we’re getting a lot of questions about unconscious bias training. Is it effective? How does it work? We’ve researched this quite a bit, so I wanted to share some thoughts.
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Worth a read for product managers or anyone who works with a product team xitter.cf/noah_weiss/status/9993…
1/ Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship. There are number of dangerous myths about what the PM role is. Here is a thread with five…
A fun Quora read on the "most sophisticated software ever written", the Stuxnet virus buff.ly/2Lah437
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How Softbank's 100B fund is affecting the global startup ecosystem buff.ly/2GauVm8
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Example README files from engineering leaders across various tech companies buff.ly/2KAGIO5
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Why stories took over on smartphones buff.ly/2HT1mHP
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Great thread on why scaling up paid marketing before you've solved for network effects and/or retention can be a trap xitter.cf/andrewchen/status/9935…
1/ Many of the biggest implosions in recent history - especially ecommerce - have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. As spend scales, it always gets more expensive and harder to track - never less.
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Lessons learned about leadership and writing from all of the Bezos shareholder letters buff.ly/2FrWRl6
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