Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar

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In this episode, Jessica McKellar, CTO & Founder @ Pilot, shares her story as a serial founder and the lessons that can help you become a more impactful, strategic business contributor & eng leader. She reveals strategies for identifying your company’s ideal end state & the steps needed to achieve product-market fit, daily practices that help measure important metrics, business-building disciplines that need to be prioritized long term, and steps for creating positive collaboration between product, eng & design teams. ABOUT JESSICA MCKELLAR Jessica McKellar ( @jessicamckellar ) is a repeat founder and the CTO of fintech unicorn Pilot, an accounting firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for Zulip, a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America Diversity Outreach Chair.

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