HeyJaredEngineering Founders
The show for engineering leaders making the leap to start their own company! We dive into the stories, pivotal moments and critical insights from former eng leaders turned founders, that helped them take those early leaps to launch their own company!
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Hiring top-tier talent, the importance of adopting an evolutionary mindset, and taking critical feedback to solve technical problems w/ Sergiy Nesterenko @ Quilter (opens the original)
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In this episode, Sergiy Nesterenko (CEO @ Quilter) joins the pod to share how he turned a personal technical challenge into his own company, even before the market caught up. He shares his unique journey from SpaceX to Quilter and addresses common eng leader / founder challenges, including taking critical feedback to solve tough technical problems, knowing when your most important role is educating the market / customers, and choosing the right customers. Sergiy and Jerry also dissect insights i
Parallels between CI and AI: Reflecting on strategy, scaling, and messaging w/ Matt Moore @ Chainguard (opens the original)
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Matt Moore (CTO & Co-Founder @ Chainguard) joins us to share his founder journey and dissect how potential founders can take their technical problems and identify if they have a real product on their hands. Matt shares his founder journey and lessons learned along the way, including having conviction in your product before the market catches up, bringing together your founder team, identifying your product’s messaging, and knowing when your product has finally achieved product market fit. We als
Scaling TensorFlow, Navigating Startup Pivots, ML Edge Infrastructure and AI Inference Strategy w/ Rajat Monga (opens the original)
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Rajat Monga joins the podcast to discuss his leadership and founder journey, from Google Brain / Tensorflow to inference.io and back to Microsoft. He dissects what it means to refound vs. start from scratch, the value of the open source community, and strategies for discovering what problem to solve when going the startup route. We also cover how to determine your users’ hidden incentives and what that means for both product development & marketing, along with navigating the balance between a pr
Hiring top-tier talent, leveraging open source models, and staying competitive in the age of AI w/ Benny Chen @ Fireworks AI (opens the original)
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Benny Chen, Co-Founder@ Fireworks AI, joins the EF pod to discuss his founder journey and share valuable insights on navigating common founder / product dev challenges in today’s agent-first landscape. He and Jerry cover strategies for creating effective messaging, staying competitive in a crowded market space, hiring top-tier talent / what qualities to look for in high-performing engineers, navigating the cultural shift to managing agents, creating data flywheels & how this can help your custom
Community-driven product roadmaps and why engineering leaders have a unique founder advantage w/ Lenny Pruss @ Amplify (opens the original)
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Lenny Pruss, General Partner @ Amplify Partners, joins the pod to share insights with Jerry on why engineering leaders have a unique founder advantage & how to capitalize on that by using their lived experiences to solve important problems. Lenny discusses how to build an effective go-to-market narrative and how to use community insights to both shape the product roadmap and market your product. He offers his perspective on the role of AI in the software development cycle – and what skills and f
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