April Underwood (#Angels)

About this Episode

In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and April talk about:

• A path into tech via baseball card database management and gpa optimization scripts
• Detouring around a chem-eng career and hard-hat avoidance
• TECH SUPPORT SHENANIGANS and getting away from campus to make websites
• Graduating into the cataclysm of the first dot-com bust and heading to Intel
• Early failures in operational scaling leading to product management
• Taking a side-trip to get an MBA and ending up at Google
• The leadership value of having worn many hats (or hard-hats ;))
• Advice for those wanting to get into product management
• A first official management role at Twitter
• The "academic" culture of Google vs the "business" culture of Twitter
• How hiring experience translates to investment decisionmaking
• Consideration of company culture in the context of investment
• Taking risks in the interest of a better future
• Missing the major growth experience at Slack
• The mindblowing feeling of having your team be multipliers for achieving your goals
• The responsibility you have to the people who are choosing to work for you
• Hiking goals

You can find April on Twitter at @aunder :)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3