The Midlife Crisis
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Javi Santana describes his career building software for farmers (founder of Agroguía) and his work at CARTO maintaining mapping software used by NASA, Twitter and the Wall Street Journal. He reflects on nine years of creating tools that simplify agriculture and on operating production-grade geospatial infrastructure.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:32Technical team growth
- 9:10Early-stage mistakes
- 15:07Funding and expansion
- 20:00Management challenges
- 26:00Company culture and transparency
- 33:17Career growth and hiring
- 36:26Team well-being focus
- 37:30Conclusion
- 40:19Q&A
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