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Shawna Martel

Shawna Martel

Principal Engineer at Imprint, previously Senior Staff Engineer at Carta and Director of Software Engineering at Verizon Media/Yahoo.

Aug 7, 2026

33:14
Shauna, it looked like you had to say something.
33:16
Yeah, I wonder if I have a controversial take, that I think that as much as AI is changing, like how we work, I don't know that I think it's gonna have a giant impact on how we think about career paths.
33:26
I think that the folks that are leaders aren't the ones who write the best code all the time.
33:31
Like, that's not the thing that we're looking for in the folks that are the senior leaders in our teams.
33:35
We're looking for folks who can have a, like a vision of what our product is supposed to be.
33:40
We're looking for folks who can understand where we need to pivot.
33:43
We're looking for folks who can have good judgment about not just the code that we're writing, but the problems we're solving and the products we're building.

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