CloudKitchens CTO on Intelligence, Regrets, Steve Jobs and Travis Kalanick Stories

Brian Attwell grew to Senior Staff at Uber by age 25. After that he left Uber to join CloudKitchens (Travis Kalanick’s current startup) and quickly became the CTO after his team doubled in size every 6 months. I asked him about how he did it. He also had a bunch of interesting takes about big tech and stories about Travis Kalanick and Steve Jobs.

𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:
• Transcript: developing.dev/p/cloudkitchens-cto-on-intellig…
• YouTube: youtu.be/egNtHu4q-vI
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod…

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:26 - Growth to Senior Staff at Uber
00:10:05 - Was it luck?
00:11:45 - Interviewing for IQ
00:18:02 - Intelligence and prioritization
00:22:19 - How his team doubled every 6 months
00:28:30 - Manager promos tied to scope
00:39:13 - Amazon and Google brutal honesty
00:43:39 - CloudKitchens behind the scenes
00:50:24 - Biggest career regret
00:54:17 - Travis Kalanick experiences
00:56:01 - Most impactful advice received
00:56:56 - Most impactful book for career
00:57:53 - Advice for his younger self
00:58:48 - Outro

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• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brian-attwell
• X/Twitter: x.com/attwellbrian
• CloudKitchens: cloudkitchens.com/careers
• CloudKitchens tech blog: techblog.cloudkitchens.com

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