Theresa Vu — Growth from Failure

This is the story of TVu, Senior Vice President at Xandr, an innovative ad tech platform and also rapper in the band Magnetic North.

This was an incredibly fun interview for me, I'm not sure if it is because Tvu is also Vietnamese or also went to Cal, but I think it's really because she's just awesome. Professionally, she is a successful engineer and also musically as a rapper!

In this episode, we discuss:

Theresa’s family's immigrant story from Vietnam

How she got hired as the first engineer at AppNexus despite failing in her interview
Her rap group, Magnetic North
How distributed systems embrace inevitable failures
Graceful degradation (aka how to fail gracefully for non-techies)
Emotional hijacking

Find out more about TVU on LinkedIn

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Thanks for listening - Yinh