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The current Black Lives Matter movement has surfaced, once again, the systemic inequalities that are present in our communities. At Plato, we stand in solidarity with the black community and are…

“Managing in a Remote World” — Tips from a senior leader who’s worked remote for 15 years

Get useful tips on how to lead remote teams from someone who's been doing it for nearly a decade. Ryan Scheuermann, InVision's Director of Engineering, has been working remotely for 15 years and leading remote teams for 8 years.

“Managing in a Remote World” — Tips from a manager of 100+ people across 20 countries

With the COVID-19 crisis, a lot of people are being asked to work from home these days. For those of us who need guidance on transitioning, operating, and managing remotely — we got great tips from…

“How To Work Effectively with Distributed Teams”

The concept of distributed teams is prevalent nowadays in high-growth tech companies. It’s inevitable that in the span of your tech career, you’ll have the opportunity to work with or lead multiple…

Podcast Summary: “Fundamental Learnings for Engineering Managers”

This week’s episode of Decisive Moments is titled: “Fundamental Learnings for Engineering Managers” featuring DocuSign’s VP of Engineering, Loïc Houssier. In this episode, Loïc takes us on the…

“How to Increase Visibility in a Remote Team” by InVision’s Director of Engineering, Ryan…

Hear how InVision's Director of Engineering took steps to increase visibility in a remote team.

Managing Distributed Teams

We had another great showing last month for our most recent Plato meetup! Over 100 engineering leaders flocked to downtown San Francisco to be a part of our event on Managing Distributed Engineering…

Product development for startups

Building a product that users love requires focused creativity, technical excellence, and a level of customer obsession most people would see as unhealthy. Whether your customer is the Fortune 10…

Mentor Spotlight: Laurent Paris

Plato, the leader in developing technical leaders, brings together the best of the best in engineering and product management from across industries and the globe. From VPs of Engineering and…

Plato Mentors: Building an Inclusive Engineering Culture

This past month 100+ technical leaders in the Plato community braved torrential downpour to come out for our “Building an Inclusive Engineering Culture” event! There were so many incredible…

Prioritizing and Communicating Your Product Roadmap

Building a product that will delight your users and turn curious enthusiasts into die-hard evangelists requires commitment and alignment from the entire company, from marketing to sales to…

Elevate 2019 by Plato — Afternoon Key Takeaways

This article wraps up the main takeaways of the talks of the afternoon at Elevate 2019, a one-day conference for engineering and product leaders. A principle is a simple yet well defined fundamental…

How Luc Vincent Sets Goals For His Autonomous Driving Team At Lyft

Luc Vincent was the founder of Google Street View and is the Founder of Lyft Level 5, the autonomous driving unit of Lyft. He hired 300 engineers in 18 months. In this live video AMA on Plato…

Women In Tech — Jossie Haines, Director of Engineering at Tile

In 2018, after nearly 20 years in the tech industry, Jossie Haines had become that statistic. She left her job at Apple and started her own small business to help entrepreneurs with the technology…

Women In Tech — Becky Flint, CEO of Dragonboat

Becky Flint is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dragonboat, a smart platform to help companies accelerate product execution — combining what you intend to achieve (goals for your roadmap), when you want to…

Women In Tech: Mary Nicknish, Senior Technical Program Manager

The Women In Tech series is a new initiative by Plato to shine the spotlight on our women mentors. We talk to them about their journey in tech and dig into the challenges they’ve faced, how they…

Plato Member Spotlight Series: Meet Cecilia Corral, Co-founder and VP of Product at CareMessage

At Plato, we love highlighting the amazing members of our community. In our ongoing Spotlight Series, we are introducing you to some incredible engineering and product leaders who have managed to…

Plato Member Spotlight Series: Meet Craig Kumick, VP of Engineering at Vendasta

At Plato, we love highlighting the amazing members of our community. In our ongoing Spotlight Series, we are introducing you to some incredible engineering and product leaders who have managed to…

Title: How to Find a Mentor + Why it’s Important: Part three

If you’ve recently taken over a team or are in a new role, there are bound to be times of uncertainty or you may be unfamiliar with a task.What some managers tend to is make themselves feel…

Plato Member Spotlight Series: Meet Arash Soheili, Director of Engineering at MarketSmart

At Plato, we love highlighting the amazing members of our community. In our ongoing Spotlight Series, we are introducing you to some incredible engineering and product leaders who have managed to…

How to Find a Mentor + Why it’s Important: Part Two

To continue our series around sharing some of the actionable insights from our most recent handbook on transitioning successfully into a manager role, one of the most difficult challenges new…

17 Leadership Books Recommended by Plato Mentors

If you pop “Leadership Management Books” into Google Search, you’ll get a significant number of results, but how do you decide the best ones to add to your reading list? We decided to ask our Plato…

Plato Member Spotlight Series: Meet Daniel Miller, CTO at Modern Message

At Plato, we love highlighting the amazing members of our community. In our new Spotlight Series, we’ll be introducing you to some incredible engineering and product leaders who have managed to build…

The importance of mentors and how to find one

We recently compiled leadership wisdom from engineering and product leaders into a new handbook and one nugget of wisdom that especially stood out from Jason Lemkin, the CEO of Saastr, and former…

In Celebration of Our New Website, Win a Year-long Subscription to Plato + Be Mentored by the Best…

Maybe you saw this post, where we announced our new website explained the process of designing, building, and launching it in six weeks. In celebration of our new online hub, we wanted to have some…

Plato’s Got a New Look! How we Designed, Built, and Launched our New Company Website in Six Weeks

I can’t claim to have come up with the phrase, “moving at the speed of fleeting,” but it’s an accurate representation of how fast we created a new online presence for Plato — without sacrificing…

Our Vision at Plato: To Help Engineers Become Leaders, and So Much More

As a founder, I get asked a lot about my vision for the company. And while it can be easy to get wrapped up in coming up with snappy taglines for the company (one of my favorites right now is “the…

Introducing Plato AMA Sessions: Learn Leadership Together in Small Groups of Peers

We’ve been working for over a year on our mission to help engineering and product leaders build better teams. Today, we’re launching something new: AMA Sessions. People often ask me what was the best…

Why You Should Consider Becoming a Plato Mentor

Our mission is to connect respected leaders with the broader engineering community and help them make the right decisions in their lives as managers, by sharing personal experiences with one another.

7 Brilliant Ideas That Make Inclusion and Diversity in Engineering Teams Your Best Assets

During Plato event hosted on March 28, 2018 speakers and panelists from top tech companies shared highlights about Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Teams While there is no debate about the…

Rethinking Engineering Career Path

At Plato we care deeply about making the Engineering community stronger. We’ve had thousands of calls done on our platform and many of them are around a common theme: engineering career paths. We’re…