wanna learn about career growth, leadership, and seniority in tech? TechLeadConf is for you! Online. I’m speaking.
Early speakers look great. We’ll have folks talking about tech debt, about how your job is not to know everything, and applying AI to teamwork because of course.
You have until July 21 to submit a talk.
My talk will be about lessons learned when your team/org grows hella fast. It’s a chance for me to unscramble the brain and figure out wtf happened. I wrote once that product-market-fit feels like you’re getting dragged kicking and screaming by the market as you desperately try to hold on. Yep.
Plasmidsaurus went from ~6 engineers to ~15 since I joined in August. Whole company went from 40-ish to 100-ish. Growing even more by September 🤞
So that’s what I’ll be talking about. There’s gotta be good lessons in there right?
Come see at TechLeadConf 2025
Got questions I should answer in my talk? Hit reply.
Cheers,
~Swizec
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