HappyRobot CEO on What It Takes for SEs to Become FDEs

HappyRobot CEO Pablo Palafox, who built the FDE function from scratch at the $1.2B-valued company, says SEs transitioning to forward-deployed engineering need redesigned system permissions and stronger communication skills—not more technical chops.

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