From Engineer to General Manager in 3 years

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# Spring Summit - 2022

# Career

# Leadership

# Management

# Motivation

# Resilience

# Team Building

# Collaboration

SPEAKER

Zhichun Li

Head of Rapid @ Scale AI

Zhichun Li is the GM of Rapid at Scale AI. She built the team from scratch with a focus on providing the fastest way to production-level quality labels within a day, with no data minimums. As an early employee of the company, she built up the infrastructure for Scale’s supply ops system and scaled up Scale’s 3D Sensor Fusion product.

Before Scale, Zhi worked at Lightspeed China Partners, Facebook, Microsoft and Airbnb with roles in investment and software engineering. She was a producer of VC Pulse, a podcast spotlighting venture capitalists in China.

Zhichun was the youngest ever admit to the Yale MBA program, and studied computer science at CMU.

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Zhichun was the youngest ever admit to the Yale MBA program, and studied computer science at CMU.

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SUMMARY

Our career path as eng leaders can be nonlinear and present many unexpected twists, turns, and opportunities. This session with Zhichun Li and Jerry Li explores the career leap from engineering to business leadership. They’ll cover principles to navigating career decisions, translating engineering experience to ops/business, building a business unit from the ground up, and pitching ideas to executive leadership.

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