Authority Issues

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 achiev