Quang Hoang

CEO / Cofounder at Plato

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6 Years

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Executive

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Scaling Team

Building a Team

Remote

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Managing Expectations

Hello I'm Quang, CEO at Plato. I come from an Engineering Background, graduate from French Engineering Schools Supaero and Polytechnique. I built this company because I found it extremely hard to transition from an engineer who is coding to a manager who is responsible of people who are coding.

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Stories

Ways to make your business start-up profitable

14 March

In that story, I explain how we built the first version of Plato, how we found our first users and how we confirmed the problem as well as validate a first promising solution. Here are some lessons learned from the Plato journey.

Leadership

Quang Hoang

CEO / Cofounder at Plato

Design Sprint is an effective tool to build a Product

21 August

Quang Hoang shares the lessons he learned on how he used design sprint when he and his team designed their product for Plato.

Quang Hoang

CEO / Cofounder at Plato

Having work agreements in the absence of signed documents as evidence

21 August

Quang Hoang shares advice to a mentee whose role and stake in the company were challenged because his appointment as a co-founder was not supported with a formal document: the Co-founder seemed not interested anymore in honoring their verbal agreement.

Health / Stress / Burn-Out

Quang Hoang

CEO / Cofounder at Plato

Videos

Engineering Talks with Plato: Part 1/6 Introduction - 15th May 2017

Trailer Plato Event #2: Bringing the best from Silicon Valley to Europe

Engineering Leadership Talks by Plato

"What Makes Life Changing Advice" by Quang Hoang, CEO of Plato

Experience

Cofounder and CEO

Plato

Jan 2017 - current

At Plato (www.platoHQ.com) we're on a mission to help Engineers become better Engineering Leaders. Through seamless integration with Slack, we match tech managers to mentors who are highly experienced engineering leaders from top tech companies, to help resolve challenging management situations. We have amazing mentors in our community who accepted to share their knowledge, including VP Eng Segment, VP Eng Lyft, EM at Facebook, Google, Spotify, Trello, Slack, Netflix… Here is a list: https://www.platohq.com/our\_mentors.html

Chief Executive Officer

Birdly

Sep 2014 - Jan 2017

Birdly is a YC company (w16) helping engineers become better managers and better leaders. Visit us : http://www.getbirdly.com

Winter 2016 batch

Y Combinator

Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

Birdly was part of the Winter 2016 batch of YCombinator. We were one of the 120 startups among more than 5000 applications and 1 of the 2 French startups to participate to this batch.

Season 6 @ Le Camping (Numa Accelerate)

Le Camping Startup Accelerator

Sep 2014 - Jan 2015

Part of season 6 of Le Caming Acceleration program, Birdly was accelerated with love in Paris. 12 startups accelerated among 360 startups applications

Project Manager @ Innovation department

TOTAL

Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

In charge of open innovation among startups and Total : \- Working on methods to structure an Open innovation cell: partnerships canvas, agile and lean startups methods… \- Identifying and analyzing internal Business Units needs towards innovation and startups \- Sourcing of innovative startups for Total Business units \- Catalysis for several open innovation cases : biomass valorization and digital startups \- Designed a partnership canvas among startups and big corporations

Strategy Consultant

Advancy

Apr 2013 - Sep 2013

Business strategy consulting. Examples of assignments : \- Business Plan challenge for a Private Equity firm interested in a 500m€ sales company in building industry \- Market study of façade in France, Brazil, Argentina and the US \- Market Sizing of a niche specialty product for a leading chemistry company

Project manager @ Social Impact assessment

IBEKA

Feb 2012 - Aug 2012

Social and environmental performance analysis of IBEKA, an NGO that unlocks the power of hydro for rural areas \- Reported directly to Tri Mumpuni, member of the social entrepreneurs network Ashoka and Social Entrepreneur of the year 2011 by Ernst & Young \- Ran a quantitative analysis on social impact \- Provided strategic recommendations based on observations and analysis on the field

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