How to Handle Hyper-Scale from a Former Alexa VP Christmas time…the year is coming to a close, things are slowing down, and almost everyone is on some sort of break. Not consumer electronics teams, though. They aren’t resting. When you are about to have a massive surge of new customers booting up your product all at the same time, you aren’t relaxing.

Driving up Highway One, I realized that our devices might stop listening and start acting. Soon.

But most organizations aren’t ready to pivot when given the chance In every startup I’ve been a part of, there's a moment where it hits you: the original plan wasn’t enough. Not wrong. Not broken. Just... not enough. It was time to “pivot,” which is a terrible name for what actually happens: You start to see the real shape of the opportunity and you go after it.

Simple Organizational Principles to Save Your Company I have worked for and consulted with numerous tech companies that have buried themselves with perpetual development. They constantly build new features and products to stay ahead, and more code always seems to be the answer.

Our founder and CEO, Anthony Bay, joined this recent podcast conversation to share the mission behind Techquity — an advisory collective helping companies navigate technology challenges and scale with confidence.