Dev Interrupted

How a $725M VC Judges Your Engineering Team w/ Redpoint Ventures' Jason Warner


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How does a former-CTO-turned-VC assess companies now that they're the one with the money? What do they look for - and expect to find - in a company’s engineering team?

Enter Jason Warner on the Dev Interrupted stage.

Jason is the most unique of investors: He made the jump from being a CTO to managing his own $725M fund at Redpoint Ventures. After leading GitHub to one of the best exits in the history of Silicon Valley, Jason is now dedicating his full time to picking the tech, teams and products he thinks will define the next decade and beyond.

In this freewheeling conversation, we cover everything from Jason’s start in tech carrying boxes while interning at IBM, his tenure as GitHub’s CTO, the reason full stack engineers may be a dying breed and why Redpoint Ventures avoids “yoloing” investments, even if it’s a lucrative practice.

 We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

Learn more about our INTERACT conference on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/

Repoint Ventures' website: https://www.redpoint.com/
Jason's Twitter: https://bit.ly/35WhGrV

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