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The hottest role in tech — the forward-deployed engineer — was "the ugliest duckling" for a decade. In this conversation, Akshay Krishnaswamy, Chief Architect of Palantir, joins a16z GP Erin Price-Wright to cover: - Why a good team of engineers is like a hive mind - The archetypes of...

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