Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of
With Nathan Hill, Adam Witanowski, Cloë Stanbridge, Matt McFarlane
About Claudia Barriga-Larriviere
Claudia Barriga-Larriviere is a people-and-culture specialist with close to 20 years' experience building teams inside Australian startups and scale-ups. Known as BlueChilli's "Flamingo-in-Residence" from 2016, she went on to lead Employer Brand & Belonging at AMP and hold senior people roles at Sendle and, more recently, Good On You. She now also runs Startup Flamingo, coaching founders and leaders on culture, hiring and belonging, and coaches Startmate's Women's Fellowship. On Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald, she discussed why AI can make teams faster without making them more productive, and why the team has to be right before it's augmented.
- Talks about
- AI, Hiring & Team, Leadership, Startup Lessons
In conversation.
2 episodes
Start hereAre Your People More Productive — or Just Faster? — Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Startup FlamingoHer full interview on whether AI makes teams more productive or just faster, and on feedback and psychological safety.
Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald 
Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald Are Your People More Productive — or Just Faster? — Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Startup Flamingo
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Key moments from Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of.
- 0:00Cold open: what should a 10x engineer be paid?
- 0:19Nathan Hill: quantifying what AI is actually worth
- 1:05Million-dollar salaries as a bet on future ROI
- 1:28Adam Witanowski: nine companies, seven offers, real numbers
- 2:35US$500k in the US vs $220k here: which one would you choose?
- 3:50Why the gap is structural: funding, hyperscalers, enterprise mindset
- 5:37Claudia Barriga-Larriviere: more productive, or just faster?
- 6:15"What you don't measure, you can't change"
- 7:26Matt McFarlane: the jump is too big, because you've been underpaying
- 8:32Tokens are eating the people budget
The path so far.
- Now
Founder · Startup Flamingo
- From 2016 · Startup
Head of People · BlueChilli
- Earlier
Entrepreneur-in-Residence · Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Sources: startupflamingo.com
Startup Flamingo on Day One
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