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August 2024

How do you decide whether a startup idea is worth committing to?
Last week one of my previous colleagues asked me, “How did you decide whether an idea is worth committing to for your startup?” I said, “Ah, I figured…
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Individual Excellence vs. Team Excellence
Last week, when discussing interview candidates of different experience levels, my co-founder Gene asked me, “any thoughts about the biggest learning…
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Humane Leadership
Remembering Susan Wojcicki
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Facebook is No Longer for Thoughts
When I worked in Meta, I had an internal workplace group called “Yunkai’s Tidbits”, and it was well received.
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July 2024

I Am: Celine Dion
Paris Olympics 2024 opened this week, and the opening ceremony created a lot of Internet buzz, like not being held in a stadium, controversial themes of…
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So you want to work on AI
When I first thought about this topic, somehow Shania Twain’s “That don’t impress me much” song popped into my head (just ignore the fact that it was a…
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EM or IC
I continue to get a lot of pings since publishing Founding Engineers, Part 1 and Part 2. A new trend surfaced this week, which is on the topic of EM or…
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Founding Engineers, Part 2
Risk tradeoff for early stage startups
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Founding Engineers, Part 1
Qualifications for early stage startups
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June 2024

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