Dan Portillo

Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo interviews Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers on managing technical teams, including career development, structuring meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing team performance. They discuss topics like transitioning into an engineering management role, aligning team motivations and thinking styles, shifting responsibilities and team capacity, insightful one-on-ones and changing interactions, building skills for growth, and improving managing up and written communication.

Dan Portillo, founder and GP of The General Partnership, talks about the role of VC and VC talent partners, backchannels, success as an advisor, and framing new ideas as experiments. They discuss the challenges of hiring, building relationships with exceptional recruiters, tools like Lattice People Management platform and Continuum, the journey of a talent partner in venture capital, finding undiscovered talent, the importance of reputation and career growth in the tech industry.