Equivalent to Magic

About Equivalent to Magic

Equivalent to Magic is a podcast about the wizards behind the world’s most influential companies and tech platforms. Two veteran tech executives, Steve Herrod and Quentin Clark, talk with CTOs, CPOs, and engineers about how they dreamed, designed and managed their way to scale. The show is produced by General Catalyst.

Publisher

General Catalyst

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Sept 2020

Latest episode

6 Jul 2021

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Jul 2021

   Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath on Maximizing Innovation

   Atlassian’s technical leader on experimentation and complex adaptive systems.

2. 

   15 Feb 2021

   Snowflake’s Christian Kleinerman on Breaking Limits of Data Warehousing

   Snowflake is reinventing the way we make sense of big data in the public cloud.

3. 

   3 Feb 2021

   GitLab’s Eric Johnson on Radical OpenCore Transparency

   How GitLab built the world’s most transparent, all-remote software development company.

4. 

   10 Dec 2020

   Dropbox’s Akhil Gupta on ‘Brutal Prioritization’

   The inside story of how Dropbox created the “Magic Pocket” cloud storage architecture.

5. 

   18 Nov 2020

   Nick Caldwell, Twitter's VP of Engineering

   Nick Caldwell chats about the different engineering mindsets at Microsoft, Reddit and Twitter.

6. 

   10 Nov 2020

   Intuit CTO Marianna Tessel on AI-First Software

   Marianna Tessel talks about engineering software for small businesses in a post-pandemic world.

7. 

   10 Nov 2020

   David Hahn on Building Product LinkedIn, InstaCart, and GoFundMe

   David Hahn talks about the trial and error of building products for millions of users.

8. 

   28 Sept 2020

   Jay Parikh on Scaling Facebook's Infrastructure

   Jay Parikh talks about building Facebook's network infrastructure from the ground-up to service billions of users.

9. 

   28 Sept 2020

   Slack CPO Tamar Yehoshua on Humanizing Software

   Tamar Yehoshua, the chief product officer at Slack, talks about developing software for a post-pandemic work world.

10. 

    28 Sept 2020

    Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham on 'Violent' Growth

    Uber's former chief technology officer shares that there’s no avoiding making trade offs when you’re scaling as fast as Uber did. No matter what, there will be massive challenges. What counts is how you lead through and learn from those moments.

11. 

    28 Sept 2020

    Introducing Equivalent to Magic

    Welcome to "Equivalent to Magic." Join us as we go deep with the people making tech work at the most successful and cutting-edge companies -- to learn what they do, how they solve problems, and how they build and lead engineering teams.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.