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How to Lead Your Team to Success When Failure Seems Inevitable—with Gwen Shapira I Postman
Breaking Changes
52 minutes 30 seconds
1 year ago
How to Lead Your Team to Success When Failure Seems Inevitable—with Gwen Shapira I Postman
In this episode of Breaking Changes, Postman Head of Product-Observability Jean Yang interviews Gwen Shapira, co-founder and CPO of Nile, for an insightful discussion on engineering leadership and navigating transformations. Learn about her strategies for keeping up with trends and balancing long-term visions with user feedback, as well as the rewards of finding the right people for the right challenges. Discover Gwen's advice on offshore teams, cultural bridges, serverless tech, AI's impact on content, and Nile's exciting developments!
For more on Gwen Shapira, check out the following:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwenshapira/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwenshap
Personal Website: https://hackingsaas.thenile.dev/
Nile Website: https://www.thenile.dev/
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Episode Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Background04:18 - Getting into Engineering Leadership08:07 - Gwen's Current Job and the Role of a Founder10:38 - Smooth Introduction of a Necessary Change21:27 - Change that Didn't Go Well23:02 - One Thing that Didn't Change at Confluent25:25 - One Thing that Did Change at Confluent29:45 - Keeping Up with Trends in the Industry37:43 - Balancing Vision and User Feedback41:03 - Working with Offshore Teams42:02 - Advice for Introducing Offshore Teams43:09 - Creating Independent Offshore Teams44:36 - Ensuring Equality and Opportunities for Offshore Engineers45:49 - Bridging Cultural Differences47:57 - Underrated Breaking Changes: Serverless48:49 - Preparing for Breaking Changes in AI51:28 - Exciting Changes at Nile52:29 - Finding More Information about Gwen and Nile
Breaking Changes
Breaking Changes is a weekly talk show where stellar guests from all across the API universe to discuss, debate, and solve the latest topics around APIs and API-first.