[ BETTER TECH LEADERSHIP ]

A leader in engineering: Leading people, tech and strategy

[ THE SPEAKERS ]

Meet our hosts & guests

Phil Freo
VP of Engineering at Close

Phil is currently VP of Product & Engineering at Close.com, building a product people love and growing our SaaS business to be something great. Previously he spent two years leading the Engineering team at Quizlet, building study tools that millions of students relied upon. Phil has also interned at Google and Yahoo! as a software engineer, and did lots of freelance website design while at the University of Florida.

Matt Warcholinski
CO-FOUNDER, BRAINHUB

Co-founder of Brainhub, Matt describes himself as a “serial entrepreneur”. Throughout his career, Matt has developed several startups in Germany, wearing many hats- from a marketer to an IT Engineer and customer support specialist. As a host of the Better Tech Leadership podcast, Matt talks about growing successful businesses and the challenges of being a startup founder and investor.

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