Business
Episode #5 This Alumni Achiever episode features a Berkeley Engineering Leader Panel recorded March 21, 2017 as part of the Newton Lecture Series. The discussion is moderated by Amit Kumar, Partner at VC form Accel and features Padmini Pyapali of Uber, Jeff Huang of Facebook, and Sanjay Jeyakumar of Twitter. 01:04 - Panel introduction 03:29 - Berkeley experience 10:11 - Microsoft to Facebook considerations 13:37 - Zynga to Uber considerations 17:07 - Oracle to Google to startup to Twitter 19:20 - Startup terrified 20:54 - Navigating internals of a company 24:30 - Getting into management 27:55 - Tech architect path 34:01 - Getting acquired by Twitter 35:54 - Working at a lightning rod company 40:27 - Advice for students 45:36 - Q&A