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Feb 2021

22m 48s

Founder as a first time manager - what a...

KONSTANTIN DUBOVITSKIY

About this episode

Simon Gong, Senior Manager, Capacity Engineering & Analysis at Facebook talks about startup founders being the first time team managers. We spoke about the major problems that they face as team managers, how they can prepare themselves for what's coming up and how to solve some of the issues that appear on your manager's path.

Simon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simongong/

Book on being the first time manager.

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