Tech interviews kill productivity—burning 15+ hours weekly per senior engineer. But the smartest teams have weaponized recruiting as their growth accelerator.

Stop the Bleed Today.

Your senior engineers are burning 15+ hours weekly on recruiting. For a 10-person engineering team, that's nearly 8,000 hours annually lost to interviews instead of building.

In this unfiltered Founder Pack conversation, Roberto Ortiz walks step-by-step through the leap from North Philadelphia’s public-school computer lab to a secret-clearance job at Lockheed Martin at 16, to designing core products at Google, to co-founding a fantasy-sports startup that Yahoo later acquired.

If you expected Apple to finally go all-in on AI at the iPhone 17 event, you missed the real story. They barely mentioned it because they're playing a completely different game.

Great leadership is more than a feel-good perk—it’s a force-multiplier. When leaders set a clear north star, coach instead of command, and celebrate progress, entire teams level-up. Midwestern’s CEO, Matt Johnson, breaks down five counter-intuitive ways this happens.

Tired stand-ups, bloated backlogs, stalled releases—high-performing agile teams dodge all three. How do your teams stack up?