#tech-leadership

#tech-leadership

"So all practiced answers, I don't like them," he said. "I'll ask them questions like, 'Tell me how you changed yourself.'"

infamously boasting that the tech was doing the work of " 700 full-time agents" last year - only to regret his decision months later, admitting that humans play an important role after all.

Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the UK on Wednesday. The banquet seating chart included NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; venture capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and OpenAI's Sam Altman, according to the New York Times.

David Fischer - Former CRO at Meta, Fischer scaled annual revenue from less than $1 billion to over $100 billion, connecting 200 million businesses with customers worldwide. Earlier, he built Google's early sales engine. Adam Bain - Former COO of Twitter, Bain built its sales, product, and ad operations from scratch, growing revenue from millions to billions in five years.

If you had told me as a teenager in Soviet Georgia that one day I'd be running an American public tech company - let alone something like Grindr - I couldn't have grasped it. The moment I stepped out of JFK airport, I felt something different - later I realized it was freedom. America gave me not just liberty, but the chance to unleash my potential, pursue my dreams, and come to terms with being gay.

For some tech leaders, Burning Man is better than a boardroom. Over the years, the arts festival has become a stomping ground for tech moguls, celebrities, and models who want to spend a few days in the Black Rock Desert. Burning Man attendees encourage some level of anonymity, with costumes and nicknames that give public figures the privacy to party among their fellow Burners.

Founders often bring the rare combination of vision, grit, and salesmanship that can take a company from idea to juggernaut.

Patrick Collison uses AI tools like xAI's Grok mainly for answering factual or empirical questions, finding them very helpful in voice mode while reading.

Being an architect is not just about design; it's about the entire lifecycle of software, collaboration, and making impactful decisions in various systems.

"PMs sometimes have a misconception that all requirements have to be big and that they have to drive them alone. Bring in your engineers and designers early."

Low code/no code platforms typically provide a set of predefined templates and components that make it easier for business users to develop simple apps quickly, however, these templates often lack the depth and flexibility needed for complex applications.