by Ryan Choi11/22/2019

Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year.

by Ryan Choi10/1/2019

Cynthia Rogers, a CS graduate from WPI near Boston, made her move to San Francisco with no job lined up, a decision tree of startup failure outcomes and well wishes from her old team at DraftKings.

by Craig Cannon12/3/2016

Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies.

by Craig Cannon11/30/2016

A conversation with Mara Castro, Warby Parker’s first employee.

by Craig Cannon9/28/2016

A conversation with Olaf Carlson-Wee, Coinbase's first employee.

by Craig Cannon9/19/2016

A conversation with Aston Motes, Dropbox’s first employee.

by Craig Cannon9/6/2016

A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee.