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00:01:08 · S3, S4
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00:01:40 · Benjamin Mann
[00:01:40] S5: I think one very helpful skill to have as a CTO, you gotta be really at home in chaos. User demand spiked. Governments all of a sudden had very concrete ideas what you need to do. The business has very strong ideas of where to handle the growth. The platforms have not been built. How do you scale a platform during this crisis time? It was very interesting. So hi. My name's Ben. I lead engineering for Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero is one of the world's leading food delivery and Kricuma's platform serving billions of orders every year in 72 countries in the world. I lead all of engineering and require a lot of engineers around the world. So my job is basically ensuring that we are building the right things for our customers the foreseeable future, right, two, three years down the road. My mother always says, like, it's lucky that I'm curious because my impatience will just not allow me to give up on things very easily. So I'm starting digging more and I want to know more. I am fascinated by hard things. The harder the better. I'm very stubborn. So I usually don't take a no. So when someone tells me you can't, my initial answer to it is like, watch me. But I started as a software engineer as a kid. There were very egoistical reasons. I was very into video games. My mother, in her wisdom, decided not to buy me a new video game until I finished the old one. And I was stuck at a certain game, so in order to get myself a new one, I had to figure out, like, how do I beat this game? And that introduced me to the wonderful world of cheat code writing, and that just awoke in me a fascination of building things and making things and breaking things, to be honest, and that never left me. I entered university. I was already on the side working as a programmer. Back then in the day in Austria, you had to start university at the beginning, so they teach you things like Java one zero one. Man, I'm already working as a software engineer. I really don't wanna do Java one zero one again because I'm gonna be bored. So the first time I quit, then a bit later I tried again, and then I flunked out, failing some of the tests that were mandatory to continue. That was the end of my university. Not very successful. So I was working freelancing on the side, and that was a great life because there were not a lot of people doing what I could do.
00:03:58 · Benjamin Mann
So I made quite okay amount of money for my age, and I would probably have done this for much longer, if not my mother would have one time said, you need a job. Right? You cannot work like this forever. And I'm like, do I have to? And she insisted, so I started to work in my first company. So I was working for a company in Austria called Global Blue. So we introduced a lot of products that today in the industry of tax free refund and tax free shopping are common, but they really weren't when I joined there. So we built a lot of them for the first time. One of a sudden, the VP of engineering back then moved to Singapore and he asked me like Ben, do you want to come along and help me build the Singapore engineering team? I'm like, why not? And then simply moved on through various phases. I became a senior engineer, a principal engineer, tried management once, hated it, went back to becoming a principal engineer and swore myself, I will never manage people again in my life. Walking into a team environment where trust is lacking is I think the hardest one to solve because it will take a long time and you can't screw it up. Right? If you make make one mistake there, you're back to zero. I learned there that if you wanna have a team successful, you really need to focus on yourself, how you are as the leader of this team, because your team will never do what you say, but always do what you do. Right? So they will always follow your behavior and what you see is acceptable or good or what the kind of role model that you are as a leader, you will see that in the culture of your team. Most of the times, positive lessons, sometimes you learned it the hard way, but then I gave it a couple of, another try a couple of years late.
00:05:41 · S0, S1, S2, S3
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00:06:49 · S3, S6
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