A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world AGL 300: Mona Akmal from Falkon AI
About Mona
Falkon CEO and Co-founder Mona Akmal is a product and engineering veteran who builds resourceful, kind, and output-driven teams that create and scale success-enabling products. With a passion for crafting elegant solutions to technically difficult problems, she has grown teams, businesses, and many products at Microsoft, Amperity, Code.org, and Zulily. The impact of Mona’s work includes ramping from $0 to $11M in ARR and 15 household brands as happy customers at Amperity; from 10M to 100M students learning computer science on the Code. org platform; and from 1M to 1B docs in the cloud with OneDrive and Office.
Today We Talked About
- Mona’s background
- Data
- Useful data
- Automation
- Positive Emotional connection with tasks
- Impact to the business of automating a task
- cost of errors
- Task must be low cognition or must have lots of data for ML training
- AI Wars
- Root cause analysis
- Leadership
- Cult Leaders
- Authenticity
- Servant Leadership
- NO MANAGERS – Everyone is an individual contributor
- Highly Collaborative projects
- No performance review
- Feedback training
- Challenger Program
Connect with Mona
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