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On Managing Technical Teams as a First-Time Manager: CTO, Engineering, Management | Y Combinator

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Nov 17, 2020 10:32 PM
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Camille Fournier is a Managing Director at Two Sigma and the former CTO of Rent The Runway. She’s also the author of The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change.

You can find her on Twitter @skamille.

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00:00 - Intro

00:35 - Why do many individual contributors (ICs) never experience a good manager?

3:15 - How did the ideology of management being bad become pervasive in startups?

5:15 - What should a new manager do in their first 90 days?

8:45 - Getting better at 1:1s

11:05 - More tips for the first 90 days

13:05 - Remote work

15:00 - Mistakes rookie managers make

19:15 - Letting people go

23:25 - Being a manager and still wanting to write code

27:45 - Feeling overwhelmed as a manager

31:15 - Getting a team to gel

38:30 - Giving people kudos

39:45 - Non-engineers running engineering teams

41:55 - Staying legit technically as a manager

43:15 - Management vs leadership