A startup within a company
My name is Mangirdas, I’m an Engineering Manager here at Vinted, and I’ve just participated in a miracle project. Our team (Stardust) coped with a big technical challenge to bring a new project to life: the Vinted Go lockers network.
What happened is remarkable. Vinted is already a big company by Lithuanian standards, with well over 1000 employees in Vilnius alone. It’s not a secret that the bigger the company, the harder it is to launch new products and move fast. However, in this case, our team, responsible for the engineering part of the project, had the complete freedom to make decisions and move as fast as a brand new startup. Until now, I’ve only read books about these ‘startup within a company’ projects. This time I got to experience it, and it was incredible.
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