How Are You Building Productive Engineering Teams?

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The CEO of a startup talks about bridging the gap between his engineering and sales teams. He says it's important to have an early team that is product minded but also customer oriented. The two things he did in this round was communicate more with engineers so they could see how their products were being used, as well as get feedback from customers.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins, pulls back the curtain on building tech companies in Japan. He shares his lessons from Cloudbees and how building two very different engineering organizations from the ground up showed him the importance of diversity in engineering teams.

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