Brian Attwell grew to Senior Staff at Uber by age 25. After that he left Uber to join CloudKitchens (Travis Kalanickโs current startup) and quickly became the CTO after his team doubled in size every 6 months. I asked him about how he did it. He also had a bunch of interesting takes about big tech and stories about Travis Kalanick and Steve Jobs.
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โข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/cloudkitchens-cto-on-intelligence
โข YouTube: https://youtu.be/egNtHu4q-vI
โข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:26 - Growth to Senior Staff at Uber
00:10:05 - Was it luck?
00:11:45 - Interviewing for IQ
00:18:02 - Intelligence and prioritization
00:22:19 - How his team doubled every 6 months
00:28:30 - Manager promos tied to scope
00:39:13 - Amazon and Google brutal honesty
00:43:39 - CloudKitchens behind the scenes
00:50:24 - Biggest career regret
00:54:17 - Travis Kalanick experiences
00:56:01 - Most impactful advice received
00:56:56 - Most impactful book for career
00:57:53 - Advice for his younger self
00:58:48 - Outro
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โข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-attwell/
โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/attwellbrian
โข CloudKitchens: https://cloudkitchens.com/careers/
โข CloudKitchens tech blog: https://techblog.cloudkitchens.com/
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โข Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/
โข X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman
โข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/
โข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
โข Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman
โข TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
