#135 - Camille Fournier

About this episode

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/skamille">Camille Fournier</a> is a Managing Director at <a href="https://www.twosigma.com/">Two Sigma</a> and the former CTO of Rent The Runway. She’s also the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth-ebook/dp/B06XP3GJ7F">The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change</a>.<br><br>You can find her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/skamille">@skamille</a>.<br><br>If you’re interested in doing Startup School this year, signups are open at <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/">StartupSchool.org</a>. 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.<br><br>The YC podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCannon">Craig Cannon</a>.<br><br>Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.<br><br>Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/</a><br><a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"></a><br>***<br><br><b>Topics</b><br><br>00:00 - Intro<br><br>00:47 - Why do many individual contributors (ICs) never experience a good manager?<br><br>3:27 - How did the ideology of management being bad become pervasive in startups?<br><br>5:27 - What should a new manager do in their first 90 days?<br><br>8:57 - Getting better at 1:1s<br><br>11:17 - More tips for the first 90 days<br><br>13:17 - Remote management<br><br>15:12 - Mistakes rookie managers make<br><br>19:27 - Letting people go<br><br>23:37 - Being a manager and still wanting to write code<br><br>27:57 - Feeling overwhelmed as a manager<br><br>31:27 - Getting a team to gel<br><br>38:42 - Giving people kudos<br><br>39:57 - Non-engineers running engineering teams<br><br>42:07 - Staying legit technically as a manager<br><br>43:27 - Management vs leadership<br></p>