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Show HN: Elevate Conference 2023 – No-BS Edition in San Francisco(platohq.com)
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by qhoang09 5y ago
Hey everyone! I’m Quang, co-founder, and CEO of Plato. I’d like to chime in as we had several discussions with Gergely and Plato definitely doesn’t fit his vision. Happy to have this debate with you in a public setting. This discussion is a
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by qhoang09 6y ago
Would love to have your thoughts all on if mentorship is an interesting solution to help move the needle!
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Free mentorship for 2k people from underrepresented communities(platohq.com)
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by qhoang09 6y ago
A bit about my story, 50 years ago, my parents immigrated from Vietnam to France, and 5 years ago, I immigrated from France to America. A couple of folks have been helping me, Jason M. Lemkin, Michael Seibel, and others who trusted me despi
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Tips on leading remote teams from a manager of 100 people in 20 countries(platohq.com)
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How the CTO of Reddit lead his engineering team during their hypergrowth period(platohq.com)
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Luc Vincent, VP Engineering at Lyft, talks about how he sets goals for his team(medium.com)
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Live Webinar with Chris Slowe, CTO of Reddit(platohq.com)
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by qhoang09 8y ago
The thing you need to realize about startups is that everyone else is figuring it out too. If you feel left out or like you're being replaced, it's not on purpose. Unlike a big company where there's a very strict hierarchy an
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by qhoang09 8y ago
Lots of great answers here. I'll just add, as a founder myself, that things will probably not be very structured at that stage. That means you may find yourself working on very different things every day, maybe even things outside the
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by qhoang09 8y ago
Been reading a lot about Lambda School recently. Have you checked them out?
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by qhoang09 8y ago
It's one thing to read material around sales and another to practice it. That being said, one book I'd recommend is Daniel Pink's "To Sell Is Human" In general, sales is something you need to practice every day. Lik
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ELEVATE – Summit for Engineering Leaders on July 13th(elevate.platohq.com)
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by qhoang09 9y ago
Hi! I'm Quang, cofounder and CEO of Plato. At Plato, we're on a mission to help engineers become great engineering leaders. We're building a community of the best Engineering Leaders to help you find the perfect mentor and th
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Show HN: Plato (YC W16) Elevate – 500+ curated resources for engineering leaders(elevate.platohq.com)
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Tips for foreign founders to succeed in the US
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by qhoang09 9y ago
I think I know who you are, T. :) Any feedback about the product? Did you have some actionable and good advice from the mentors?
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by qhoang09 9y ago
Agreed! We have a bunch of CTOs/cofounders and small startups, but we have also Lyft, TuneIn, Betterment, Scality, Telmate as customers. Some individual paying from their own pocket to invest in their career, but it's more rare ;)
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by qhoang09 9y ago
Indeed, Matt is great. He's one of our most appreciated mentor ;) Everyone has their own incentives. Even though it can be linked to Koan, I guess that it's alwasy a combination of many factors. His words :"i've been luc
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by qhoang09 9y ago
There are two categories of mentors: 1) Mentors who are already doing that or always wanted to do that, and what we provide them is: - No time spent on scheduling / rescheduling. We take care of this for them - We do a thorough work of
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by qhoang09 9y ago
What we price is: 1) The heavy process of recruiting the mentors (we talk to each single one of them to gather some stories) 2) The engineers that are working on the matching algorithme so mentors and mentees enjoy the calls 3) The manual t
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Launch HN: PlatoHQ (YC W16) – Mentorship for Engineers
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A repository of 300 Engineering Management stories(stories.platohq.com)
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by qhoang09 9y ago
Hi HN friends! My name is Quang, I’m cofounder and CEO of Plato. Before Plato, we were Birdly and were in YC W16. After having graduated from college, with two of my engineers friends, we decided to build our own company. We made a lot of m
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Plato (YC W16) got $3.3M so everybody can learn from the CEO's past mistakes(businessinsider.com)
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Do Your VPs Have a Mentor Budget?(saastr.com)
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Benchmarks in SaaS for Seed and Series A Rounds in 2017(saastr.com)
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Engineering Management Talks (from Lyft, Segment, Facebook, Trello)- Part 1/6(medium.com)
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by qhoang09 9y ago
The idea is radically different. I define an idea: - What problem you're solving - Who are you solving this problem for? Idea 1 - The problem of gathering data of a customer (SFDC, Intercom..) - Who: Product manager, Marketer, Sales...

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