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Leading effectively across company archetypes: product, business and design-led leadership w/ Sebastiano Armeli #253
39 mins; March 31, 2026
Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252
45 mins; March 24, 2026
Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251
43 mins; March 19, 2026
How OpenAI’s engineering org is reshaping teams, roles and workflows w/ Sulman Choudhry #250
43 mins; March 10, 2026
The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249
43 mins; February 17, 2026
Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler #248
50 mins; February 10, 2026
Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247
49 mins; February 05, 2026
Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246
36 mins; January 27, 2026
From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245
44 mins; January 21, 2026
Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244
32 mins; January 13, 2026
What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243
20 mins; January 06, 2026
From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale w/ Sulman Choudhry, Samir Ahmed & Lawrence Bruhmeller #242
25 mins; December 30, 2025
The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #241
46 mins; December 23, 2025
How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240
46 mins; December 17, 2025
From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239
47 mins; December 09, 2025
Beyond Replication: Building Non-Human Intelligence Through Physical AI w/ Jaime Lien & Rashi Agrawal #238
24 mins; December 03, 2025
Specs as the new source of truth, synthetic data as the next wave of defensibility, product vision & decision making frameworks w/ Ruslan Belkin #237
51 mins; November 20, 2025
Brex 3.0: An 18-Month Operational Evolution & the Brex Hacker House “AI Startup within a Startup" experiment w/ James Reggio #236
45 mins; November 12, 2025
The Impossible Job of Managers, Leadership Co-Pilots, Scaling Great Management & Augmenting Human Relationships w/ Jonathan Raymond #235
52 mins; November 05, 2025
A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234
44 mins; October 28, 2025
Platform Engineering's Shift from Tactical 'How' to Strategic Curator & Natural Language as the New Interface Paradigm w/ Miriam Aguirre #233
44 mins; October 21, 2025
Grit, the vision bottleneck & building for a future where today’s technical constraints may disappear w/ Chrystal Henke Ball #232
49 mins; October 15, 2025
Leading across technical domains, strategic deep-dives & applying your skills in new industries w/ Simone Kalmakis #231
43 mins; September 09, 2025
How Box Builds AI Agents, Redefines Technical Vision, and Balances Speed with Security w/ Ben Kus #230
46 mins; August 26, 2025
Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229
23 mins; August 19, 2025
The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for High-Velocity Execution, Ownership & Better Product Decisions w/ Michael Grinich
44 mins; August 05, 2025
Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227
