How to Advance Your Career Without Managing People | Sam Gregg-Wallace

Name: How to Advance Your Career Without Managing People | Sam Gregg-Wallace
Uploaded: 2025-05-25
Duration: 2435 s
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: Read a transcript preview of “How to Advance Your Career Without Managing People | Sam Gregg-Wallace” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-05-25.

Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2025-05-25

Duration: PT2435S

Read a transcript preview of “How to Advance Your Career Without Managing People | Sam Gregg-Wallace” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-05-25.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] We're not a OKRd driven company.

[0:02] Instead, we have a founder who sets a

[0:04] green path for where the company ought

[0:07] to go. All of HR and talent at Shopify

[0:10] is in low distraction mode. And don't

[0:12] interrupt the people that are are

[0:14] working on Shopify, the product, unless

[0:16] you absolutely have to find people that

[0:18] actually give a and put that

[0:20] concept or that like that drive of

[0:22] giving a into everything they do.

[0:24] Then the outcomes are just going to be

[0:26] phenomenal. What we've done is built

[0:27] this super cool rewards wallet that

[0:30] allows them to select how much equity

[0:33] versus cash they want to do. This person

[0:35] got an amazing far exceeds rating and

[0:38] it's just beautiful. I've got such a

[0:40] soft spot for high agency people. We see

[0:42] almost twothirds of of our engineers

[0:44] using cursor every single

[0:45] day. Okay. Uh welcome everyone. My guest

[0:48] today is Sam, VP of talent at Shopify.

[0:51] Uh really excited to talk to Sam about

[0:54] creating possibly the most radical

[0:56] career system in tech. Uh that includes

[0:58] elevating individual crafters to the

[1:00] same level as managers, making AI usage

[1:03] mandatory, and building a

[1:04] distraction-free talent operating

[1:06] system. So welcome, Sam. Thanks for

[1:08] having me, Peter. Super excited to be

[1:10] here. All right, so um let's get right

[1:13] into it, man. Like like how how is

[1:14] Shopify kicking down the traditional

[1:16] career l ladder? Yeah, sure. I mean,

[1:19] yeah, Shopify was built with a

[1:22] commitment to craft. That's at the core

[1:24] of everything Shopify does. Um, one of

[1:27] the amazing things about Shopify is it

[1:28] was founded by by Toby with a