I have spent most of my career building engineering teams-hiring hundreds and interviewed thousands. After building the data infrastructure and machine learning platform teams as Uber, I co-founded Tecton. I spent two years building out the core engineering team - the strongest I have had the privilege of working with.

Some of the lessons learned in previous roles transferred, but I found that recruiting today for an early-stage company has a unique set of challenges - ones I wish I knew years ago.

Hiring and engaging a great team is the most critical piece of building a tech startup. If you have the right people, you can fix almost any other problem. With the wrong people, it is tough to get anything else right. Great startups need to be great at recruiting great people