The right ingredients for your perfect team
summary
Argues that deliberate strategy beats buzzwords and gives concrete hiring choices: build a GPU and multi‑core image engine with a domain‑specific language or assemble many mids for fast six‑month features; hire compiler and graphics experts when headcount is tiny, or juniors for scale. Shows tools actually used—personality tests, spider maps—and programs tapped for diversity like apprentices. Cites managing teams from 3 to 175 people and describes what was built (Adobe Image Foundation on GPU) and why it worked.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:59The perfect team
- 1:25Lessons learned
- 2:15The most important part
- 2:37Be thoughtful
- 3:46Be strategic
- 6:21Learn
- 8:48Be agile
- 10:52Building your team
- 13:22The Adobe Image Foundation
- 15:39Constraints
- 17:57Existing team
- 19:08Diversity
- 19:34Human Diversity
- 20:06Personality Tests
- 22:39Experience Diversity
- 24:09Spider Maps
- 25:42Team Building Exercise
- 28:05Outro
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