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Podcast: The Engineering Leadership Podcast
Episode: Technology, Leadership, & Opportunity with Max Levchin, former CTO @ PayPal & Ben Jun, CEO @ HVF Labs #9
Description: Max Levchin shares lessons and stories that have been critical to his development as an engineering leader. He shares stories from the early PayPal days and foundational insights for leading Affirm as a mission-driven, values-based company. He also shares essential principles for building and hiring, and how the hardest problems are almost never about code.
“I should just solve the thing that matters. I don't need to worry about the hard stuff, it will show up on its own. And there's plenty of hard problems and the more you work with people, the more you'll realize that th...