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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

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Each company approaches this challenge uniquely, but there are a few features consistent in every workplace that are hard to leave. In Silicon Valley, the average tenure for an engineer is eighteen months, and one-third of new hires leave after only six months. Engineers want to see how their work affects the company.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

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The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. Our entire company is in Raleigh, our entire development team is in Raleigh, entire product management team is there, I’m there. I had my CTO and everyone would be like, “You can’t do this.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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I think most companies overcome it because they’re already at 20 million. So I would say that’s a leadership failure for a lot of CEOs, right? QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category.