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Startup made, enterprise grade: Earning trust, scoping tight, and shipping quality with a small team

Small teams are increasingly expected to build for enterprise-scale customers, and AI is changing how they get there. This talk explores how startups can ship enterprise-ready features with lean teams, what’s changed along the way, and how they’re adapting for what comes next.

Speakers: Frances Thai

Frances Thai

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Many startups have had to build upwards – planning, building, and maintaining products for teams much bigger than their own. AI has enabled this more than ever before. How do comparatively small teams ship enterprise-ready features to production, and how has that changed in the age of AI? We’ll chat honestly about the journey to the present, what we’ve changed along the way, and how we prepare for an ever-changing future.

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  • Frances Thai
    Frances Thai

    Frances Thai is an engineer engineering leader who focuses on productionizing the features that matter most to the company’s largest enterprise customers.

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