
David Gudeman
Co-Founder and CTO at Velocity AI, building AI-powered sales performance tools.
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Aug 14, 2026
Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups
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Shane HastieHOST
How do we create an environment where that sort of growing and re-teaming is done well?

David GudemanGUEST
Yeah, that's a tough one because I have really only seen that once, where the team really grew beyond kind of the initial core team, and it did become unwieldy, right? And the approach that I saw to try to manage it, I think ultimately was not necessarily the correct approach, or it was done overzealously.

David GudemanGUEST
So I can speak to that experience and what I think should have been done, so to speak.

David GudemanGUEST
As the, the team at Actim kind of grew, we added more and more engineers, and there was kind of like tribes, so to speak.

David GudemanGUEST
There was like data people that were, had a different stack, had a different cadence, the way they interacted with like customer success.

David GudemanGUEST
And then there was kind of like sort of some product which had to answer to the product team.
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