Today's guest is Rachel Potvin.

Rachel is SVP of Engineering at Sanity, ex-VP of Engineering at Github, and previously worked at Google and Ubisoft. She has had an incredible career journey and is a world renowned speaker.

With Rachel we talked about her journey across what feels like different generations of companies. We talked about scaling teams, challenges, lessons learned and the great work she's doing at Sanity right now.

Here is what we talked about:

(01:37) Introduction
(02:39) Rachel's journey at Google
(08:06) From Google to GitHub
(14:29) Building healthy engineering culture
(18:56) GitHub growth & hiring
(21:44) Rachel's career at Sanity
(26:21) Being a VP in Big tech
(29:36) The road to "Sanity"
(28:17) Startup planning
(39:22) The fun factor
(40:51) Adapting your experience to a new journey
(47:13) Startup focus vs Big tech focus
(49:13) Top-down strategy is good

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