The Second Act : Keynote with Michael Lopp (Rands in Repose)

The first version is the fun part. You're small, you're fast, nobody's watching, and shipping something that works feels like magic. Then it works. And everything changes.
Now you have users to keep, a team to grow, a reputation you didn't have to protect before, and a much harder question staring back at you: what do you build next without breaking the thing that got you here?
That's the second act. It's where most of the real work of a product, a team, and a career actually happens - and almost nobody warns you how much harder it is than the first. Michael's going to get into why, and what it takes to get through it.
Michael Lopp has lived the second act more times than most. He's a veteran Silicon Valley engineering leader who builds both people and products, at some genuinely historic companies - Slack, Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. When he's not reminding the robots why he's still relevant, he writes about leadership, timepieces, superheroes, and humans at the long-running weblog Rands in Repose.
Come for the keynote, stay for the questions - this is one to bring yours.
When: Wednesday, September 3rd
Where: Adyen, West Loop, Chicago
More on Michael: https://randsinrepose.com/speaking/