Building High Performing Engineering Teams

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters. com and click on, be our guest to apply. All right. So did I have Yasir Drabu on the line and he's co founder and CEO over at Taza. And we're going to talk about building high performing engineering teams. So Yasir, first off, welcome to the show. All right, so we got a whole lot to talk about today. I want to talk about the growth of Taza. How you built the company. I want to get into like some of the things that made you successful along that way. Also talk about, you know, what, what are some of the plans going forward for Taza and any, and what type of projects do You typically find are the best fit for for people looking for developers. But before we get into all that, we'll start this episode, the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So yes, sir, we have mission matters. We amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Yes, sir. What mission matters to you? I think the impact of software on humans, right? So we, the reason I started the company itself was really around when I saw terrible software being built that had horrible experiences in terms of people. So our mission is really focused on building software for people who use them, making their life delightful. Now it can be in the mid market segment, which is where we focus, you know, companies that have been around have found a good product market fit, but. Have all these different sign out system that they try to put together, either for their employees or for their customers, and we come in with innovative mindset with, you know, with a consumer brand approach like Uber and others that people are used to and try to bring that. into the enterprise as well as the customers who end up using. So at the end of the day, it's, you know, how do we make the life of every human that we are, who touch our software better, that they, when they use it, there's a little bit of a smile. There's a little bit of joy, essentially that drives us actually. And when we see people use it, do that, that's, that's really our mission is how to build that, that category leading. Product innovation in the space that we focus on, which is in the mid market. Love it. Love, love bringing mission based individuals on the line to share why they do what they do, how they're doing it, and really what we can all learn from that so that we can all grow together. So, so interested to hear more of your story. Like where, where'd the entrepreneur side come from? Like, did you always have it in you? Like, where, where'd that come up from? Let's start at the beginning. So I think it was always there. I mean, I, I remember having a little bit of a small Commerce activity during high school that I would, I would sell unique items that were very rare back in India. I'd find them at the, you know foreign markets and sell them, whether it was pens or unique stickers from Japan and things like that. I think it was always there, but hold on, hold on. I gotta go a little bit further in that one. We got some commonality here. So my original, my, my first maybe business endeavor, I think it was baseball cards for me. It was baseball cards. I'd go shop and find like the cards that I felt were rare. Then I take them to school and then sell them. And I think that more comic books. So hold on. So you were going and you were hunting for rare items or stickers of things like that. And then bringing them to school and kids love them. I mean, there was a good margin because they were so rare to find. I actually had to find them in various places. Eventually they would become common and kids would come back and say, now they're not as unique, but it just came out from an opportunity standpoint. I think there was a little bit of a hustle in high school, I think, but then I evolved into more, got into technology and things changed from there. And I got more into computers and programming and then when did, when did the tech part? When specifically, when did that make its way? Do you remember when that made its way into your life? That was way early, like in eighth grade. I, you know, back in, back in the day, I don't want to date myself. Commodore 64 was very rare in India. And I had a very good friend whose dad bought a Commodore 64 on his trip back from the U S. I cycle, like, Five, six kilometers or a few miles to his place. And then we would sit and program games just for fun. And we used to use a tape drives to load. That's amazing. It's okay to date yourself. We're, we're, we're given history here. Now this is an important part of history, man. So, so that's when it started. And you know, that curiosity kept building. I mean, how did you know, did you know at that time, or was it just like being a kid and you did like, just started, like, it

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