Interview: Sourcegraph Founder/CEO Slack Quinn
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Founder/CEO Slack Quinn says Sourcegraph learns from regrets 2021 product launches where features shipped that shouldn’t have, and takes responsibility for poor mentorship of early-career engineers. Claims early success requires deliberate tradeoffs: aggressive iteration, high engineering standards, and accepting that early-career progression often involves extra nights and weekends if people choose to accelerate. Describes adding Steve Yagi from Google for code-search expertise, which speeds iteration and makes core search work robust.
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