Tido Carriero has had an amazing journey leading engineering and product at some of the most iconic companies. He started off on the engineering team at Facebook during the late stage start-up days, becoming a manager in just a few years, then he led product engineering at Dropbox, and most recently he was the VP of Engineering and the Chief Product Development Officer at Segment. From this vantage point, he’s had visibility and a driving role on growth and product development for products that have reached literally billions of users.

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In this episode, you’ll hear how Tido: 1) helped grow Segment’s world class engineering team by starting with building the company and engineering brand, 2) leveraged Segment’s strength in open source and content to filter the list of candidates to find the best people, 3) experimented with multiple approaches to finding product-market fit for their newer products, 4) laid the groundwork for the enterprise business.