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Our Best Advice on Communication and Hiring Strategies with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs

Modern CTO
1541November 27, 2025
Product & Engineering

This is some of the best advice we’ve ever heard on managing teams. Today, we're talking to Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs. We discuss why knowing your audience is the foundation of effective communication, how to create psychological safety for escalation without surprises, and why hiring remarkable talent requires unconventional tactics like asking for negative references and spending six hours with final candidates. Thank you to Digital Ocean for sponsoring this episode.

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