TBLP025 | Farhan Thawar: Building Together is Genius
Farhan Thawar is the CTO and Co-Founder of a Helpful.com. Most recently he was the CTO, Mobile at Pivotal and the VP of Engineering at Pivotal Labs.
Farhan is best known for scaling Xtreme Labs from 10 to 350 people and building the most popular mobile apps in the world. He is an avid writer and speaker and was named one of Toronto's 25 most powerful people.
Prior to Xtreme, Farhan held senior technical positions at Achievers, Microsoft, Celestica and Trilogy.
Farhan completed his MBA in Financial Engineering at Rotman and Computer Science/EE at Waterloo.
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- The experience growing Xtreme Labs from 10 to 350 people and building the most popular mobile apps in the world
- The benefits of paired growing and the best practices to managing it successfully
- Mobile and the enterprise, what is missing
- How the acquisition of Xtreme Labs by Pivotal helped change his leadership style
- How businesses can utilize AI for talent selection and how it will impact future jobs
- Some leadership myths not to follow
Links
Reading List
If you enjoyed this episode, please share to a friend:
About TBL
A resource for multipassionate business leaders, entrepreneurs and creators looking to 100X their impact. Follow on your favourite podcast player:
Featured Sponsor
Featured Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4XoT_o_Y8Recent Episodes
Follow on Spotify
Sign up for our newsletter today and never miss an episode!
You agree to receive updates on new episodes and business leadership-related podcasts. We promise never to spam you!
Made with by Podcast 100X © Resonity Media