Principles of Technology Leadership | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2017

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as a classic, must-watch talk for any discussion of company values, and especially for its takedown of Amazon's leadership principles.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

RedMonk Tech Events

Topic

technology leadership and company values

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Before we get to the list: if you only watch one talk of mine, please watch Principles of Technology Leadership (slides) presented at Monktoberfest 2017. This is the only talk that I have asked family and friends to watch, as it represents my truest self …

• I love Bryan Cantrill for being that classy bad-ass engineer with so much integrity. His talk on companies principles is a must-watch: [VIDEO]

• No discussion of company values would be complete without a link to Bryan Cantrill’s classic talk, “Principles of Technology Leadership”. [VIDEO] Uber once had a stated company value of “Always be hustling”. Really.