London

June 2–3, 2026

New York

September 15–16, 2026

Berlin

November 9–10, 2026

Why operations matter

In this talk, James will discuss why operations and operations engineering are the secret to true, sustained scale, and how Cash App came to be more honest about the road ahead.
December 06, 2022

Conventional wisdom tells us that all it takes to successfully grow a company is product market fit. If that’s the case, however, then why do so many companies fail after crossing that milestone? In this talk we discuss why operations and operations engineering are the secret to true, sustained scale and how we at Cash App came to be more honest about the road ahead by developing a vision that told the truth about how large companies thrive from within.