About this episode
Camille Fournier is a Managing Director at Two Sigma and the former CTO of Rent The Runway. She’s also the author of The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change . You can find her on Twitter @skamille . If you’re interested in doing Startup School this year, signups are open at StartupSchool.org . The course begins on July 22nd and goes for 10 weeks. Select companies who complete the course will also receive 15,000 dollars in equity-free funding. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon . Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year. Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ *** Topics 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Why do many individual contributors (ICs) never experience a good manager? 3:27 - How did the ideology of management being bad become pervasive in startups? 5:27 - What should a new manager do in their first 90 days? 8:57 - Getting better at 1:1s 11:17 - More tips for the first 90 days 13:17 - Remote management 15:12 - Mistakes rookie managers make 19:27 - Letting people go 23:37 - Being a manager and still wanting to write code 27:57 - Feeling overwhelmed as a manager 31:27 - Getting a team to gel 38:42 - Giving people kudos 39:57 - Non-engineers running engineering teams 42:07 - Staying legit technically as a manager 43:27 - Management vs leadership