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Today's guest is Aditya Agarwal.
Aditya is a legend: he joined Facebook as employee #10 and, years later, joined Dropbox as CTO when there were ~20 engineers. Today, he is partner at South Park Commons, through which he invested in more than 300 companies.
Today we talked about early stage Facebook, differences and similarities with Dropbox, engineering teams in hyper growth and the future of engineering management.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:17) Introduction
(03:10) Facebook Employee n 10
(09:57) The value of being a "generalist"
(12:46) Moving fast and breaking things
(19:24) From Cove to Dropbox
(22:10) Dropbox vs Facebook
(25:56) Finding company's culture
(29:23) The challenges of hyper growth
(34:42) The hyper growth in the next era
(39:35) Engineering managers are more technical
(42:42) Being a technical CTO
(45:33) South Park Commons
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