5 Reasons Founding Engineers Need to Interface With Customers Directly

When founding engineers are heads down building the product, it's easy to lose sight of the ultimate WHY – the customers. Many startup CEOs, CTOs, and even engineers often believe that customer interactions are best left to the sales, product, or customer support teams. However, it is vital for founding engineers or startup engineers to actively engage in regular conversations with customers, otherwise you’re coding in a vacuum… and you’ll never build what customers need.

The 5 Levels of Building Data-Intensive Applications

The natural instinct of many founding engineers is to make a hacky MVP first and iterate on that as they get more feedback and learnings. But in the case of building data analytics and ML applications, starting with the data first usually leads to less wasted effort and better insights.