leaving corporate america w/ cto david fannin
guest: david fannin, cto and co-founder of kino
- look for product engineers who understand intent and solve problems, not just feature engineers who check boxes against acceptance criteria
- when hiring, test for competency plus humility, someone who can sit with a more junior person and still listen and learn
- make it a habit to interview elsewhere periodically so you know you are staying by choice, not because you are afraid to leave
- use ai to speed up busy work like summarizing user calls or stubbing out code, but still review and own the final work line by line
- career moves do not have to be a straight line up, sometimes a step that looks smaller gives you more room to grow and experiment