Building Eng at RudderStack with Sumanth Puram

Sumanth Puram, VPE, RudderStack, shares the story of scaling the Eng team more than 10X, on the path from Customer Validation to Customer Creation.

• 1:58 [Provenance] Build tooling for developers
• 3:54 [Customer Validation (Process)] Hypothesis Testing of the need for a "CDP for Developers"
• 6:54 [People] Type of people you need in the initial team
• 18:20 [Customer Validation (Process)] Challenges with building a product for Developers
• 23:30 [People] How Transparency helps with scaling the team
• 31:40 [People] Book recommendation for frameworks for scaling Eng teams