Agile Algorithm CTO Hire Product Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. This is not what I have in mind. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.
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