Jerry Li - The Journey to ELC and Gradual
Try to create opportunity for yourself and for others to try different things. We realize we can learn quickly. Jerry Li
Jerry is passionate about connecting people and empower their career growth. He founded SFELC for this purpose. SFELC is a curated community of 8000+ engineering leaders across all levels in San Francisco and beyond, with a mission to connect the world's engineering leaders and help evolve how leadership is implemented in the tech industry.
Prior to ELC, he was a director engineering at Groupon, overseeing the entire payments engineering with distributed teams. Before Groupon, he was an engineer and later an engineering manager at Amazon.
The Journey to ELC and Gradual [Entire Conversation]
Highlights from our conversation
From engineering to managing to leading [9 min]
Good vs. great managers [<6 min]
Role model for great leadership: Max Levchin [2 min]
The founding story of ELC [6 min]
Facing our fear and letting go as an entrepreneur [1 min]
Starting from nothing [4 min]
Little things that lead to meaningful relationships [2 min]
Insights that led to Gradual [7 min]
Work on something you truly care about and be patience [3 min]
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