Elliot Sanchez has built and led teams to engineer world-class app experiences with over 4.7M app installs and counting. Currently a Director of Technology at the New York Times, they were previously named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and awarded Teach for America’s National Social Innovation Award for their work creating first-to-market tech for kids. They started their career as an alternative school math teacher in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, but have worked in political, government, and non-profit roles before moving into technology—diverse experiences with the common goal of helping people better understand and navigate the world.
How to kill your team’s product
Elliot Sanchez shares how the mistakes made early in his career as a manager helped prepare him to handle a terrible situation in a way that stayed consistent with our values and got the members of his team to the best, most empathetic outcome we could hope for.
