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Join veteran tech leaders Han Yuan and Hitesh Chudasama as they unpack the career stories behind technology's most impactful transformations. Each episode features candid conversations with product and engineering leaders who share their hard-won insights, strategic decisions, and lessons learned. Along the way you'll learn how each person leveled up their career, their life, and the companies they worked for.
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Send us a text In Episode 7, Han and Hitesh sit down with Hugh Williams, who went from teaching himself Fortran in rural Australia to co-inventing infinite scroll at Microsoft and leading search teams at eBay and Google; holding 38 US patents along the way. In this episode, Hugh shares how Microsoft's "six to eight people can change the world" mentality fundamentally changed what he believed was possible in his career, why he believes the future of commerce will be conversational rather than ...
Send us a text In Episode 6, Han and Hitesh sit down with Marty Abbott, whose unconventional path took him from Army officer and paratrooper to CTO at eBay during its most explosive scaling period, and eventually to co-founding AKF Partners nearly two decades ago. Since then, he's worked with organizations ranging from high-growth startups to the White House—including helping fix healthcare.gov after its infamous launch failure. In this episode, Marty shares the discipline-driven principles t...
Send us a text In Episode 5, Han and Hitesh sit down with Balki Kodarapu. Balki has built his career across 20+ years in fintech, analytics, and healthcare, evolving from individual contributor to fractional engineering leadership. In this episode, he discusses the critical decisions that shaped his transition from hands-on engineering to leading multiple companies simultaneously, and shares essential advice for engineers adapting to today's rapidly changing landscape. Support the show Find u...
Send us a text In Episode 4, Han and Hitesh talk with Steve Heyman, CEO of SnowOwl, who discovered that true scale comes not from solving impossible problems yourself, but from creating systems where entire teams can tackle them together. From writing web servers that handled a billion daily requests to building organizations from 0 to 80 people, Steve shares how he evolved from elite engineer to CEO over 25 years in Silicon Valley. In this episode, he reveals why he chose to move...
Send us a text In Episode 3, Han and Hitesh sit down with Sagar Shukla, CEO of Foresight. Sagar shares his journey from being employee #10 at DealCloud through its acquisition and IPO, to eventually starting his own company. In this episode, he discusses how navigating through brutal client demands and data disasters taught him resilience, why advocating for himself revealed when it was time to leave, and what it really means to be a "finder" rather than a founder in the startup world. Suppor...
Send us a text In Episode 2, Han and Hitesh sit down with Bala Meduri. Bala has built his career specializing in data and AI. In this episode, he discusses the professional decisions that enabled him to transition his career from leading foundation teams to business teams at a Fortune 500 company. Support the show Find us on LinkedIn! Han & Hitesh
Send us a text In Episode 1, Han and Hitesh share their vision for this podcast — creating a space where tech leaders can learn from authentic stories, not sanitized success narratives. Expect candid insights, tactical advice, and hard-won wisdom from those who've shaped technology's frontier. Support the show Find us on LinkedIn! Han & Hitesh
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