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.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath on Maximizing Innovation
Over the last two decades, Atlassian has become the leading creator of enterprise project management software. Its suite of tools include Jira, Confluence and Trello -- products that guide the workfl…
Snowflake’s Christian Kleinerman on Breaking Limits of Data Warehousing
In this episode: Christian Kleinerman, senior vice president of product at Snowflake.
Snowflake is a pioneering data warehouse platform that helps companies make sense of massive amounts of informati…
GitLab’s Eric Johnson on Radical OpenCore Transparency
In this episode, we’re talking to Eric Johnson, the EVP of Engineering at GitLab.
Eric oversees a distributed team of engineers at GitLab, which is one of the world’s biggest all-remote companies. An…
Dropbox’s Akhil Gupta on ‘Brutal Prioritization’
This week’s episode is all about magic pockets, nickels, cupcakes, and brutal prioritization. It’s a conversation with Akhil Gupta, the general manager and VP of enterprise at Dropbox.
Before that, he…
Nick Caldwell, Twitter's VP of Engineering
In this episode, we talk with Nick Caldwell, the VP of Engineering at Twitter.
Nick joined Twitter over the summer, after a long career building enterprise products. He now leads a team of 700 engine…
Intuit CTO Marianna Tessel on AI-First Software
In this episode, we speak with the Chief Technology Officer of Intuit, Marianna Tessel.
Marianna is a seasoned tech executive who oversees all of Intuit’s product engineering, data science, informati…
David Hahn on Building Product LinkedIn, InstaCart, and GoFundMe
In this episode, we talk with David Hahn, the former CPO of Instacart.
Throughout his career, David has learned deep and meaningful lessons about what individual and enterprise customers need -- and …
Jay Parikh on Scaling Facebook's Infrastructure
In this episode, we speak with Jay Parikh, Facebook’s outgoing VP of engineering. Jay is the architect behind Facebook’s data center infrastructure and engineering teams, who helped design and execut…
Slack CPO Tamar Yehoshua on Humanizing Software
In this episode, we're speaking with Tamar Yehoshua, the Chief Product Officer at Slack.
We’re talking about designing products for the future of work, today.
The pandemic injected a lot of urgency at…
Former Uber CTO Thuan Pham on 'Violent' Growth
In our very first episode, we’re talking to Thuan Pham, the former CTO of Uber.
Thuan is the longest-serving executive at Uber. He started there in 2013, when ride-sharing was in just a couple-dozen …
Introducing Equivalent to Magic
Join Former Dropbox CTO Quentin Clark and Former VMWare CTO Steve Herrod as we go deep with the people making tech work at the most successful and cutting-edge companies -- to learn what they do, how…