A CEO’s Step-by-Step Guide to Surviving the Economic Crunch

Posted Dec 14, 2022 | Views 80

# ELC Annual 2022

# Leadership

# Resilience

# Strategy

# Budgeting & Finance

# Team Building

SPEAKER

Andrew Lau

CEO @ Jellyfish

Andrew Man-Hon Lau is Co-Founder and CEO of Jellyfish, the leading Engineering Management Platform (EMP) that provides complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate.

Prior to Jellyfish, Andrew was the Chief Strategy Officer for ad-tech leader Nanigans after his social retail-tech company LoopIt was acquired. He also previously helped create companies at Redstar Ventures. Andrew was VP Engineering and founding technology team member of Endeca Technologies, an enterprise search software company that was acquired by Oracle Technologies for over $1B. He also has experience at companies such as Microsoft and IBM.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a certified barbecue judge for the Kansas City Barbecue Society. He hails from Oakland, CA and is still an avid fan of the Oakland Athletics despite living in Red Sox country for over 20 years. He lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife Elsie and two young children Callie and Mira.

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SUMMARY

This is a stressful time to be in tech. For the companies that only know the past few years of massive funding rounds and sky-high valuations, it feels like the sky is falling. But if you’ve been in the tech industry longer, then you’ve seen this movie before — in Jellyfish CEO Andrew Lau’s case, this is the fourth showing.

By applying the lessons from the dot-com bubble, the Great Recession and COVID-19, tech companies can make it out of this downturn alive — and even better for it. In this session, you'll learn three keys to survival that can provide organizations with the positioning and wherewithal to overcome economic pressures and emerge from the crisis stronger.

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