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Very True by VerissimoEngineering Architecture & Scaling Teams - It's All About Everything Series🎧 New on the Podcast: The Evolving Role of a CTOThis episode dives deep into how the CTO role evolves—from early-stage coding to scaling teams, making strategic decisions, and integrating AI without losing your technical edge.Featuring:Michael Stoppelman, Former SVP Engineering at YelpGustav Rydstedt, Chief Architect at Chegg, former CTO & Co-founder of VerblingModerated by Nitay Joffe, CTO & Co-founder of ActionIQ, Partner at Verissimo Venturesđź’ˇ Key themes explored:Staying hands-on as a technical leaderBuilding process without bureaucracyLeading with both conviction and emotional intelligenceEmbracing AI while maintaining core engineering skillsÂ
2025-07-0259 min
All Things NegotiationMichael Stoppelman: Managing at a Hyper-Growth StartupIn this episode, we delve into the professional journey of Michael Stoppelman, who transitioned from Google to Yelp and then to angel investing. Learn about his experiences starting at Google pre-IPO, growing Yelp's engineering team from 6 to 500, and managing complex engineering and product management dynamics. Michael shares his insights on negotiation in hiring, team management, and balancing constraints in startups. He gives valuable advice for entrepreneurs and engineers on building teams, handling conflicts, and navigating career transitions.
00:00 Introduction to Michael Stoppelman
01:24 Early Days at Google
07:29 Transition to Yelp
10:00 Building and Managing Engineering Teams
14:08 Handling Conflicts and Negotiations
21:56 Compensation and...
2024-12-1735 min
The But Fixer PodcastThe But Fixer Podcast - Episode 15: Michael WombacherAfter getting his Master’s degree and working a few unfullfiling years in the corporate world, Mike Wombacher changed gears, and has been involved with dogs for over forty years. Over thirty of them as a professional trainer. During this time, he has performed around 40,000 private consultations covering the entire spectrum of dog behavior, from the mundane to the bizarre.Mike is also the author of three other books – There’s a Puppy in the House, Integrated Dog Training, and Good Dog, Happy Baby – and has another book slated for publication – Hey, What’s with the Collar: Inside the Wa...
2024-09-051h 21
AIs Wide Open PodcastS1 E14 Michael Stoppelman (Former SVP of Engineering, Yelp) - Behind the Scenes of AI InnovationMike shares his journey at Google in 2003 when the company was still a relatively small start-up with around 1,000 employees. Rohan and Mike talk about the parallels between the rapid development we’re seeing now in AI and those early days at Google… the energy among builders, the possibility of whole new markets, and industries being created.
Other topics they chat about: (a) Value capture: how can B2B AI startups effectively compete with incumbents and capture value, (b) AI safety: what does “responsible” use of AI even mean?
2023-09-1128 min
Paradigm ShiftEP38: Michael Stoppelman, former SVP Engineering at Yelp and investor in 300+ companies, on building world class engineering teams and lessons learned scaling Yelp from 6 to 600 engineersMichael Stoppelman is the former SVP of Engineering at Yelp and profilic angel investor in 300+ startups. In early 2007, he left Google to join Yelp, and helped scale Yelp Engineering from 6 to 600 engineers. In this conversation we talked about Michael's lessons learnt building and scaling a world class engineering team- from hiring to motivating to leading world class teams. We also talk about lessons learned from early days at Google, and his approach to angel investing where he has an extremely impressive portfolio and track record. This was a really fun conversation. We hope you enjoy...
2023-04-0547 min
Seed to HarvestTQ Ventures Investor Jana Iris on Developing Community Experiences Inspired By Burning Man, Her Tech Career at HashiCorp as a “Non-Technical” Talent, and Making Her First Angel Investment | Seed To Harvest Ep43Send us a textSeed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.Today, I’m joined by Jana Iris. She’s a coffee lover, start-up advisor and investor. Since 2008, she’s been an early employee of startups, including Engine Yard, New Relic, and HashiCorp, focused on building their developer communities. In 2022, she switched gears into angel investing and advising companies like S...
2022-12-1330 min
The Sequel ShowHow Do You Build a Data-Driven Culture? - Operational Analytics Conference 2021In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the second session talking about the Data-Driven Culture. Our panel is
Michelle Ballen-Griffin - Head of Data and Analytics at Billie
Jeff Ignacio - Head of Growth and Revenue Operations at Upkeep
Sean Lynch - a co-founder here at Census
Praveer Melwani - Head of Business Operations and Finance at ‎Figma
Max Mullen, a co-founder at Instacart
Michael Stoppelman, who led Engineering for Yelp for 12 years. (I said it was star studded!)
Don't have time to listen to the whole se...
2021-04-201h 12
Business and PhilosophyYelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman
Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since then, Yelp has become a worldwide brand, and as of 2021 it has over 171 million reviews on its site.
The mid- to-late 2000s represented a time of explosive growth and profound change in the web application space. Industry leaders like Ye...
2021-02-2353 min
Software Engineering DailyYelp Early Days with Michael StoppelmanYelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since then, Yelp has become a worldwide brand, and as of 2021 it has over 171 million reviews on its site.The mid- to-late 2000s represented a time of explosive growth and profound change in the web application space. Industry leaders like Yelp had to...
2021-02-2351 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 319: How To Think About And Make Pre-Emptive Burn Cuts, Operational Survival In Times Of Uncertainty & Managing Your Psychology As Founder & CEO with May Habib, Founder & CEO @ QordobaMay Habib is the Founder & CEO @ Qordoba, the platform that helps everyone at your company write with the same style, terminology and voice. To date, May has raised over $21M in funding with Qordoba from the likes of Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Bonfire Ventures and Michael Stoppelman to name a few. Before entering the world of SaaS, May was a vice president at one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B. Before that, May started her career in the New York...
2020-03-2331 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 319: How To Think About And Make Pre-Emptive Burn Cuts, Operational Survival In Times Of Uncertainty & Managing Your Psychology As Founder & CEO with May Habib, Founder & CEO @ QordobaMay Habib is the Founder & CEO @ Qordoba, the platform that helps everyone at your company write with the same style, terminology and voice. To date, May has raised over $21M in funding with Qordoba from the likes of Upfront Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Bonfire Ventures and Michael Stoppelman to name a few. Before entering the world of SaaS, May was a vice president at one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, where she was the first employee on the technology investment team, building a portfolio now worth over $20B. Before that, May started her career in the New York...
2020-03-2331 min
LA VentureMichael Stoppelman -- Angel, scout, friendMichael is one of the most sought after and prolific angel investors in LA. One year he invested in 50 companies... and that was before joining a prominent scout program. We also talk about growing Yelp with his brother Jeremy Stoppelman. Â
2020-03-0329 min