Conversation with Cory Hutchison on startup mindset, building and retaining engineering teams and being part of fast-growing companies

In this episode  Maciej speaks with Cory Hutchison. Cory is a seasoned manager in software development, having experience both in startups and big companies. Cory was an employee number 2 at  US-based unicorn startup company OneTrust and currently, he is VP of Engineering at another unicorn startup Booksy. In the interview, Maciej and Cory discuss: The correlation between a vision of product owners and engineering teams (2:00) The challenges of an  IT executive in a fast-growing company  (3:00) Startup as a mentality  (7:00) The unicorn startup One Trust and its  stages of growth (11:00) The challenges of  B2C business (23:00) The most challenging stage regarding hiring and managing people at a fast-growing company (24:45) Three best and three worst practices in growing a startup (28:40) US vs European start-up culture in practice  (34:00) The role of managers in turquoise  organisations  (44:00) Did Agile overpromise?   (49:00) Working with distributed teams   (54:00) Links: Links to Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spreaker: https://sherpasearch.tech/en/blog/ Videocast on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/711831436  Cory Hutchison on Linkedin Maciej Szczerba on Linkedin