2. Who?
• Founded in 2011. Global team: Mountain View, CA USA (Headquarters), Tokyo Japan, Seoul Korea
• $54 million raised from Silicon Valley VC firms & Strategic Investors
Sierra Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Jerry Yang, SBI (formerly Softbank Investment), IT Farm, Bill Tai
• ~1M rows/second
• 700,000 Presto queries/day
@j14159
(Twitter, GitHub)
3. What/Where?
• Dev → Senior Dev → Lead Dev
• Senior/Lead → Manager (hybrid manager-developer)
• Lead → Manager (hybrid again)
21. – Sarah Mei (@sarahmei)
“The line between service and authority can be thin,
and authority can seem ‘easier’. If you don’t have
to gain consensus you can go faster.”
22. – Sarah Mei (@sarahmei)
“Ultimately, the difference is that
authority drives out creativity
and the cycle of ideas that is so vital in software.
It does so by design.
34. Reading List
• Nonviolent Communication
https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/
• The Manager’s Path
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920056843.do
• High Output Management
https://www.amazon.ca/High-Output-Management-
Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884
• Ego Is The Enemy
http://egoistheenemy.com/