August 18, 2022

Clarence Chio - Being a cofounder and an engineering leader at the same time

19 minutes

Highlights of my conversation with Clarence:

Moving from a lead IC role to a co-founder

Leading through influence

Giving up the building hat

Realizing that you need to let go earlier than you think

Look at processes when you see a law of diminishing returns

Trial by fire when you don’t know when to ask for help

Finding peer groups were a great resource to help deal with similar problems

When you start, take your time to find out what you want to do

The role of the founder is to find, grow and nurture experts

Meet: Clarence Chio is the co-founder and CTO at Unit21, a Google-funded startup in San Francisco building tools to fight fraud, money laundering, and online abuse. He authored the O’Reilly Book “Machine Learning & Security” and is also an adjunct lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, teaching a graduate course on the same topic.

If you have any questions for Clarence, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cchio

https://twitter.com/cchio

I hope you enjoyed the episode. The best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please message me if you want me to cover specific topics with future guests.

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