Clarence Chio - Being a cofounder and an engineering leader at the same time

Highlights of my conversation with Clarence:

• Moving from a lead IC role to a co-founder
• Leading through influence
• Giving up the building hat
• Realizing that you need to let go earlier than you think
• Look at processes when you see a law of diminishing returns
• Trial by fire when you don’t know when to ask for help
• Finding peer groups were a great resource to help deal with similar problems
• When you start, take your time to find out what you want to do
• The role of the founder is to find, grow and nurture experts

Meet: Clarence Chio is the co-founder and CTO at Unit21, a Google-funded startup in San Francisco building tools to fight fraud, money laundering, and online abuse. He authored the O’Reilly Book “Machine Learning & Security” and is also an adjunct lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, teaching a graduate course on the same topic.

If you have any questions for Clarence, please feel free to reach out via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cchio

https://twitter.com/cchio

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