Lata Ahuja is currently the VP of Engineering @Pixibility and THIS is a story perseverance, strength and scrappiness from the jump. We roll through situational leadership, lessons in team-building and letting [it] roll and a whole bunch more. Positive energy. Positive Attitude. Positive growth. Ship it. Timestamp Listening - 0:4:40 – Learning scrappiness in startups sans redundancy 06:14 – A belief in great teams and great products 07:10 – Unconventional strength & finding your edge 10:30 – Purpose driven self sufficiency 13:13 – Finding your mentor in everyone 15:24 – Finding your toolkit 20:11 – Working like a startup in a bigger company & letting the small things roll 23:40 – Situational Leadership & Growth 26:59 – React / Python … and a smorgasbord of AWS “stuff” 30:00 – Learn to be scrappy 33:26 – Risk Junkie 37:10 – Tooling for a distributed culture 43:27 – Defining culture w/ situational fabric 47:40 – The evolution of leadership [&] cultural byproducts 49:20 – Learning leadership lessons from “little ones” 51:30 – Too much wisdom to contain in once sentence

Payal Agrawal Divakaran is a Rockstar! She's also a Principal at .406 Ventures making tech startup dreams come true. Press play as we peel back the curtain of the mysterious investment banking world and ask all the hard hitting questions - about #Culture. Keep learning. Keep beating the Culture drum. Timestamp listening: 0.00.00 - Intro 0.10.00 - What is Culture? 0.12.30 - Being intentional + Persevering 0.17.30 - Tying Culture into Investment Strategies 0.29.00 - Make Culture a Priority 0.34.00 - Diversity & Inclusion 0.38.00 - Q&A

Pete Martin is the CTO @ WePlayed [& the former VP of Engineering @ Pixibility & Tremor Video]. This is one that will have the brain churning and the blood pumping as we take things from his current startup - Founded by a former NFL Lineman - right back to his early days w/ an Atari 65 and bad grades (not necessarily in that order :) Listen in. Listen up. Learn! Timestamp Listening: 00:02:39 - An Atari 65 00:04:12 - Saving your work [& losing your source code] 00:08:30 - Catching the startup bug 00:11:50 - Experiences being @ the helm 00:17:10 - The NFL and a CoFounding Experience 00:26:00 - The Anthropological Side of Culture 00:29:41 - Balance in Team-building 00:32:25 - Autonomy, Ownership = Power[ful] 00:35:35 - Leadership by the numbers 00:38:35 - Culture on my mind 00:44:16 - Learning to learn about your team 00:45:37 - Makeup. Literally. 00:55:30 - Self Reflection and the 'big picture' 01:05:00 - They 'Why' Equation

THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!!! Well.. they're coming to clean your floor [...and your lawn] at least. Ever wonder what's behind the cultural gearing in a $B+ Robotics company? Well, Look no further. John Hernandez - the Director of Robot Software @ iRobot takes deep under the hood for some good, clean.. learning. 0:00:00 - Intro - John Hernandez & iRobot 0:24:30 - Culture @ iRobot 0:32:30 - Learning to be a leader / find a mentor 0:38:30 - Diversity 0:43:00 - Leadership & Management styles 0:47:00 - Innovation @ iRobot (10% time) 0:55:00 - Q&A

PeopleOps in the house! Introducing Jennifer Paxton. Opera singer, Founder of the now famous [and exclusive] boston-based “Talent Breakfast” and the brains behind some amazing feats of team-building in tech. This was a fun one. We answer some big questions from a culture perspective, dive headlong into the driving force that is “the why” vs. “the what” and discuss thoughtful best practices around proactively diversifying team building. [Plus.. a whole lot more that Brett made me cut out of this write-up]. Headphones on. This one is a PRIVYledge…

Jeremy Weiskotten [still] doesn't need an introduction.. [Part 2 of 2] Timestamp Listening - 00:01:42 - Leadership styles 00:03:24 - Bottleneck delegation 00:04:45 - Making yourself approachable 00:06:48 - WHAT is culture? 00:10:59 - Team commitment and problem solving 00:13:36 - The value of diversity 00:16:00 - Eliminating biases at scale 00:21:34 - Bridging gaps with intentionality 00:26:50 - Diversity starts at the top of the funnel 00:28:05 - Unpitch uncovered 00:36:35 - Networking & Scotch O' Clock 00:46:06 - Ty Danko is a world class luger

Jeremy Weiskotten really needs no introduction.. [Part 1 of 2] Timestamp Listening - 00:11:01 - Finding the right fit 00:20:00 - A "Terrible" Name 00:32:10 - Rushing to ship and learning to succeed 00:34:53 - Natural skincare and lessons from the ecomm world 00:39:37 - Soul searching and investing in yourself 00:40:05 - Sparking a path 00:43:10 - Connecting to PillPack 00:45:34 - What makes the team great [&] what makes a great team 00:49:40 - Getting into leadership styles

Sunrises are a lot more fun.. Get up. Live. Learn. Listen.

@Techniq we started a podcast to A) Meet awesome people B) Force diversity of thought upon ourselves AND C) Learn.. A Lot. Sharing those lessons along the way.. Tanya Cashorali is the CEO & Founder of @TCB Analytics (https://tcbanalytics.com/) AND she's the embodiment of all the reasons we do the podcast. Listen. Learn. Energize your mind. Timestamp Listening - 00:00:41 – A Founding Story 00:07:05 – Sports Betting Gigs 00:08:10 – Passionate attention getting 00:08:27 – Jumping Off [intentionally] on your own 00:10:02 – Work Life Freedom & Answering to your own choices 00:11:07 – Repeated patterns and client-strapping 00:11:47 – TCB Analytics “Today” 00:15:22 – Expanding possibilities w/ a distributed team 00:17:55 – Diversity through distributed teaming 00:23:05 – Moving from Contracting to Full-time [as a company] & Discussing Mission & Value Structure 00:29:04 – Horror stories in execution [in engineering] 00:30:11 – Fearlessness - done casually 00:32:29 – Learning how to network 00:36:00 – Advice for colleagues & overcoming the fear of asking questions 00:39:10 – Diversity in Tech & “Mannels” 00:42:35 – THE Data Science Community – “Friendly Tech Space” 00:48:30 – “What do you do to learn?” 00:52:42 – Expectations in hiring. Exact fit vs. Exactly good hire hires 00:56:40 – The future of TCB 00:59:00 – Rapid Fire Q&A

In this episode we sit down with Sue Aman, VP of Engineering at Circulation, Inc (www.circulation.com). There's no better way to kick off 2019 than to digest a healthy dose of #Culture - and Sue nails it! We travel down the 'culture road' as Sue shares wisdom on the importance of continual learning & trying new things, diversity, and female mentorship & empowerment. You won't want to skip this one. Press play. Tell your friends. Subscribe. Comment. Learn. Grow. Timestamp Listening - 0:00:00 - Intro - Sue - Circulation 0:25:30 - Definition of Culture - Culture is EVERYTHING 0:35:30 - Culture w/in 'Mission Driven' companies / Culture horror stories 0:46:00 - Continual learning, Trying new things, Recognition & Promoting Liberally 0:53:00 - Female Mentorship & Empowerment 1:02:00 - Q&A