On this episode of The Built in Seattle Podcast, I talked with Yadhu Gopalan, CEO & co-founder at Esper (esper.io).

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Episode Highlights

• Why the pandemic forced quick changes at Esper.
• How shifting strategy led to new, bigger opportunities.
• Day in the life of startup CEO managing a global team and still writing finding time to write code.
• How Yadhu's builder mindset got him obsessed with solving this problem.
• The "what if" questions he asked to find a market insight.
• Why he likes have a co-founder who is his opposite.
• The power of following passion and curiosity
• Why start a company after 25 years at MSFT and AMZN.
• Why "all roles are open" and growing the team.
• Coffee as a continuity instead of a count.

Guest Bio

Yadhu Gopalan co-founded Esper with 25 years of experience and 35 patents in embedded systems and security. A former Chief Architect at Microsoft and Amazon, Yadhu worked on the Windows CE OS, the FireOS, AWS backend systems, and Amazon Go. Today, Yadhu is CEO and unofficial CTO of Esper, an Android DevOps minicorn.

Where to follow Yadhu

https://twitter.com/gopalanyadhu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadhug/

Where to follow Adam:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamschoenfeld/

https://twitter.com/schoeny

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