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Why is the transition from IC Engineer to Manager so tricky (and how to get it right)? — Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering at Figma
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The Importance of Engineering Managers in Startups
Peter Teal famously had this idea and I think Keith Rebois still believes very strongly in it, which is you take your best engineer and that is your engineering manager of the team. So I'd be curious maybe could you steelman it and make the case or explain why maybe there's some merit to that idea. And then maybe kind of loop back on some of the ideas that you shared as to why that's potentially a trap or some of the issues you've seen with that line of thinking in the past.
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