Adam Sypniewski is the CTO of Deepgram, a startup that focuses on speech recognition. He talks to Shane Hastie about the environment for development at Deepgram. He also talks about why Rust is a great choice for a backend language for voice recognition.
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TranscriptIntroductions [ 00:56 ]Exploring technology choices – why Rust? [ 03:25 ]Getting to higher and higher levels of abstraction [ 05:56 ]Make your environment so interesting that great people find you, rather than you need to find them [ 07:09 ]Inspiring people to do great work [ 09:09 ]Creating semi-autonomous pods of people and giving them sets of problems to address [ 11:10 ]Keeping teams healthy and avoiding burnout [ 13:07 ]Being a remote-first organisation [ 15:22 ]Build rather than buy [ 16:40 ]Look for people with funky, strange, interesting, eclectic backgrounds [ 19:19 ]Encouraging diversity and creativity [ 22:13 ]The role of the leader in this environment [ 23:52 ]Professional growth in multiple pathways [ 24:39 ]About the Author1 Impression