Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter, on Diversity, Legacy, and Sacrifice
with Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter
show notes
Today’s episode is one of our most valuable interview episodes yet!
We brought on Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter, who oversees a team of 700+ working on Twitter’s main consumer product.
Nick has had a long and illustrious career in tech, starting his career at Microsoft, moving to help scale Reddit and Looker (now acquired by Google), and finally to Twitter. We talk about his story of how he went from a kid in DC to doing his undergrad at MIT and MBA at Berkeley, some advice he has for succeeding in tech, and how to make lasting change in the tech industry.
5:00 how did you get to where you did, considering where you came from? 9:00 COVID and remote work, why the bay is still the best place to be for tech 12:58 advice for finding that work life balance, from a workaholic 19:00 How do we actually make silicon valley more inclusive?
You can learn more about Nick's non profit /dev/color here: devcolor.org/ and more about Nick here: nickcaldwell.com/