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Hey there, I’m Quang, CEO of Plato. We’re launching our annual Elevate Conference in-person, after two years of Covid restrictions, on Nov 7-8 2023. The conf is targeting engineeri…

Hey everyone! I’m Quang, co-founder, and CEO of Plato. I’d like to chime in as we had several discussions with Gergely and Plato definitely doesn’t fit his vision. Happy to have th…

Would love to have your thoughts all on if mentorship is an interesting solution to help move the needle!

A bit about my story, 50 years ago, my parents immigrated from Vietnam to France, and 5 years ago, I immigrated from France to America. A couple of folks have been helping me, Jaso…

The thing you need to realize about startups is that everyone else is figuring it out too. If you feel left out or like you're being replaced, it's not on purpose. Unlike a big com…

Lots of great answers here. I'll just add, as a founder myself, that things will probably not be very structured at that stage. That means you may find yourself working on very dif…

Been reading a lot about Lambda School recently. Have you checked them out?

It's one thing to read material around sales and another to practice it. That being said, one book I'd recommend is Daniel Pink's "To Sell Is Human" In general, sales is something …

Hi! I'm Quang, cofounder and CEO of Plato. At Plato, we're on a mission to help engineers become great engineering leaders. We're building a community of the best Engineering Leade…

Hi all, http://www.businessinsider.com/french-entrepreneur-on-what-it-took-for-americans-to-take-him-seriously-2017-11 I shared in that article what it took to get Americans to tak…

I think I know who you are, T. :) Any feedback about the product? Did you have some actionable and good advice from the mentors?

Agreed! We have a bunch of CTOs/cofounders and small startups, but we have also Lyft, TuneIn, Betterment, Scality, Telmate as customers. Some individual paying from their own pocke…

Indeed, Matt is great. He's one of our most appreciated mentor ;) Everyone has their own incentives. Even though it can be linked to Koan, I guess that it's alwasy a combination of…

There are two categories of mentors: 1) Mentors who are already doing that or always wanted to do that, and what we provide them is: - No time spent on scheduling / rescheduling. W…

What we price is: 1) The heavy process of recruiting the mentors (we talk to each single one of them to gather some stories) 2) The engineers that are working on the matching algor…

Hi HN! We are the cofounders of PlatoHQ ( https://www.platohq.com ) and we come from an Engineering Background. After having graduated from college, with two of my engineers friend…