How to Recruit, Build, and Scale World Class Engineering Teams
Calling all engineer founders and tech leaders!
Are you navigating the challenges of hiring top-notch engineers and scaling your team effectively? Join us for an insightful meetup where seasoned founders and engineer leaders from Microsoft, Linkedin, Coursera, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Databricks share proven strategies to build and grow exceptional engineering teams.
Join this exclusive founder meetup at Race Capital happening on November 6, 2024 (Wednesday)!
What You'll Learn:
Recruitment Mastery: Learn how to attract and retain elite engineering talent in Silicon Valley.
Building Blocks: Discover best practices for fostering a strong engineering culture that promotes innovation and collaboration.
Scaling Up: Uncover techniques to scale your team seamlessly without compromising on quality or agility.
Real-world Insights: Hear success stories and lessons learned from Coursera, LinkedIn, Microsoft, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Databricks, etc
Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded founders and technical leaders
Who Should Attend:
Engineer founders looking to expand their teams
CTOs and technical leads in startups
Speakers include:
Richard Wong - Former CTO at Coursera & Engineering Leader at LinkedIn
Richard Wong is Former CTO at Coursera. At Coursera, he oversees its infrastructure and product development. Prior to joining Coursera, Richard held various engineering leadership roles at the early days of LinkedIn, with key focus of scaling Jobs marketplace and Talent Solutions to become its first billion-dollar product. Richard also oversaw the product development for Linkedin international expansions. Prior to LinkedIn, Richard spent over a decade at Microsoft leading various product development teams including MSN Hotmail, Active Directory, Windows Server, and System Center. Richard received his Master’s degree from Stanford University.
Alfred Chuang - General Partner at Race Capital
Alfred Chuang is the founder and general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO”, Alfred is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
Prior to Race, Alfred co-founded and took BEA Systems public (Nasdaq: BEAS). In addition, Alfred became BEA’s chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for $8.6B. BEA was the fastest enterprise technology company to reach revenue of USD$1B.
Prior to BEA, Alfred spent eight and a half years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. During his tenure, Sun grew from less than 1000 to 60,000 people strong with revenue over $6B. Alfred led product development, network infrastructure, systems architecture, and expanded Sun’s business to Asia.
Alfred’s notable awards include C/F Silicon Valley Philanthropist of the Year, SD Forum Visionary Award, CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree and Community Star from Asian Americans for Community Involvement, eChina Forum Silicon Valley Award Honoree, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. University of San Francisco President’s Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal.
Alfred is an independent advisor at the University of San Francisco School of Engineering, Member of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Board of Advisors, Member of the School of Business Dean’s Committee, City University of Hong Kong, and Member of the School of Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Alfred received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Alfred also attended St. Andrews College and Wah Yan College.
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, Agora.io, and many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.