Interview: Sourcegraph Founder/CEO Slack Quinn

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Company headcount grows from 25 to 180 between 2019 and 2024 and the claim is that software engineers transition into CEO roles regularly, with computer science CEOs are overrepresented (United Airlines CEO cited as an example). Growth forces tradeoffs: many advisers help but success requires trusting my intuition and a single, overruling focus to set direction and resolve cross‑functional conflict during rapid scaling.

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