Leading Internally Focused Teams
Summary
A team focused on developing internally focused products and services is a fundamentally different beast than an externally focused team. While there is a lot of shared DNA, it can be difficult for leaders to get high fidelity advice on the strategies and struggles that are unique to this environment. In this session, we will discuss successful approaches to common problems that internally focused teams encounter (for example, hiring can be tough!) and maybe even trade some war stories. The end goal is to share something that fellow internally focused leaders can use to better balance engineering objectives with all the specific challenges of their environment.
Host
Jeremy is currently a technical principal at Sequoia Capital where he is leading internal engineering teams to help folks across the entire firm work better. During his somewhat circuitous career, he studied to become a pastor before working in engineering at Apple, GitHub, FireEye, and startups at varying stages and consulting for clients like Harvard University, Disney, and Intuit. He has written five books, been invited to the White House twice to discuss technology and civic hacking, and was part of one of the first teams to deploy multi-factor authentication on a popular consumer web app, but he considers his highest achievement in engineering to be Kathy Sierra telling him that he's pretty smart one time.
