In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and April talk about:
* A path into tech via baseball card database management and gpa optimization scripts
* Detouring around a chem-eng career and hard-hat avoidance
* TECH SUPPORT SHENANIGANS and getting away from campus to make websites
* Graduating into the cataclysm of the first dot-com bust and heading to Intel
* Early failures in operational scaling leading to product management
* Taking a side-trip to get an MBA and ending up at Google
* The leadership value of having worn many hats (or hard-hats ;))
* Advice for those wanting to get into product management
* A first official management role at Twitter
* The "academic" culture of Google vs the "business" culture of Twitter
* How hiring experience translates to investment decisionmaking
* Consideration of company culture in the context of investment
* Taking risks in the interest of a better future
* Missing the major growth experience at Slack
* The mindblowing feeling of having your team be multipliers for achieving your goals
* The responsibility you have to the people who are choosing to work for you
* Hiking goals
You can find April on Twitter at @aunder :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3