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High-Impact Engineering

Roman Nikolaev, Benedikt Kantus

How product & engineering orgs work, and break, in their first ~30 people.

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    CTO @ Cambri. How product & engineering orgs work and break in their first ~30 people.

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    Concise bits of real-life experience for product managers and product leaders.

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