What Does It Take To Be a Successful Tech Lead?

Jean Hsu
Co Leadership
Published in
8 min readSep 11, 2019

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Earlier this year, we interviewed a few dozen tech leads and asked them this simple question:

“What does success look like as a tech lead?”

Across small and large companies, infrastructure and product teams, enterprise and customer-facing companies, people shared that being a good tech lead means some version of: good execution with a team that’s happy.

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Jean Hsu
Co Leadership

VP of Engineering at Range. Previously co-founder of Co Leadership, and engineering at @Medium, Pulse, and Google.