Greylock executive in residence (EIR) Wade Chambers and partner Josh McFarland on cultivating and coaching engineering leaders.
In the latest Greymatter episode, we welcome back Twitter's former head of revenue engineering, now Greylock executive in residence, Wade Chambers. He sits down with Greylock partner Josh McFarland to discuss what characteristics make a great engineering leader and the best environment to foster leadership.
Wade helped scale product and build out the engineering, product, and services team for TellApart (which Twitter acquired in 2015) at a time when the company was on track to almost triple its revenue to over $50 million. He and Josh, who cofounded TellApart and served as its CEO, share lessons learned from building their company, how founders can create a culture built on honest conversations, and advice for coaching up great engineering leaders.
Below are several key takeaways from the podcast. To hear more from Wade, listen to his previous Greymatter podcasts on Increasing Your Team's Capacity to Win and the follow-up discussion on The Art of Hiring 10x Engineers.
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- Characteristics of a great engineering leader
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- Lead through change
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- Practice "radical candor":