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Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)

May 18, 2020

01:32:48

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

GitHub CTO Jason Warner: What Is It Like to Be a CTO?

2min

What Is Horizon 3?

3min

How to Be a Successful CEO at GitHub

2min

Horizon 3: How to Make a Decision in a Software Development Lifecycle

5min

How to Scale an Engineering Team While a Company Is Scaling

5min

The Importance of Communication in Startups

2min

The Importance of Mission and Vision in Product Market Fit

3min

How to Scale Engineering Teams to Reach Product Market Fit

3min

10.

How to Measure and Trust Your Gut

5min

11.

GitHub Actions: An End to End Workflow Platform

3min

12.

How to Plan for the Future

4min

13.

GitHub's Acquisition Offer Landed

2min

14.

The Moment of Extreme Joy

3min

15.

The Emotional High of Leaving Microsoft and GitHub

5min

16.

The Importance of Sales Engineers in Engineering

4min

17.

The COVID-19 Quarantine at GitHub

2min

18.

GitHub HQ: A Wake Up Call

2min

19.

The Importance of Blending

3min

20.

The Importance of Efficiency in Work

3min

21.

The Trade-Off Game With Podcasting

3min

22.

The Importance of Family Time

3min

23.

The Importance of Optimizing Family Situations

2min

24.

The Future of Work From Home

2min

25.

How to Be Effective as an Engineer at Home

5min

26.

The Importance of Connection in a Remote Environment

5min

27.

How to Lead a High Impact Team

2min

28.

The Side Quest of the Stories

2min

29.

Essentialism by Great McEwen

4min

30.

The Importance of a Seasonal Conversation

3min

Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.

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