Hi! I'm William Pietri, a co-founder of the San Francisco startup NeedFeed, where I'm CTO. I am a developer, entrepreneur, and writer. I have spent more than a decade studying and practicing various Agile software development methods, and lately am very involved in the Lean Startup movement.
To learn more about me, a good place to start is my LinkedIn profile. I comment occasionally on Twitter, and even more occasionally post to a group blog on Agile methods.
I also sometimes participate on various nerdy forums, including Quora, the Lean Startup Circle mailing list, and the StackExchange family of sites. Some of my popular comments include:
- telling managers why wanting programmers to work longer weeks is foolish,
- a list of great nerdy tourist stops in San Francisco,
- telling programmers why they really don't want to make themselves indispensible,
- exhorting people to avoid long feedback loops, and
- and explaining why I think the Lean Startup approach has some advantages over the traditional "field of dreams" approach.
Now hiring!
I'm looking to hire a few good developers. For more information, see NeedFeed's pages on working at NeedFeed and open jobs.
Contacting me
The best way to contact me is via email. If it's about NeedFeed, send it to my first name at that domain. Otherwise, try my first name at this domain.