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Ep. 36: David Khourshid, CEO and Co-Founder at Stately from 2023-12-07T07:00:53

This week, Teja talks with David Khourshid, Co-founder and CEO at Stately. This AI tool serves as a visual source of truth for creating, deploying, and analyzing any type of logic. They discuss ...

Ep. 35: Brandon Bayer, CEO and Co-Founder at Flightcontrol from 2023-11-30T07:00:16

This week, on Founder to Founder, Teja talks with Brandon Bayer, CEO and Co-founder of Flightcontrol. This developer-first AWS infrastructure allows teams to deploy on AWS without the overhead o...

Ep. 34: Asher Weiss, CEO and Co-Founder of Tixologi from 2023-11-23T07:00:59

When Asher Weiss, CEO and Co-founder at Tixologi, started his first company at the age of eight, he had no way of knowing he'd be a lifelong entrepreneur. This week, he sits down with Teja to ta...

Ep. 33: Shane Sniteman, CPO and Founder at Strumn from 2023-11-16T07:00:44

In this week's episode, Teja talks with Shane Sniteman, Chief Product Officer and Founder at Strumn, an app that connects musicians and venues to book gigs. What started as a final project for a...

Ep. 32: Evan Kirkham, CEO and Co-Founder of Outlier from 2023-11-09T07:00:21

Teja talks with Evan Kirkham, CEO and Co-Founder at Outlier, a sports betting platform, this week. They discuss playing sports, changing gears on your business plan when you're already successfu...

Ep. 31: Jerome Hardaway, Founder of Vets Who Code from 2023-11-02T06:00:43

When Jerome Hardaway was hired at the Department of Defense, it wasn't because of the skills he learned in the military; it was the ones he taught himself after leaving the Air Force. This week ...

Ep. 30: Kent Kiersey, CEO and Founder, Invoke AI from 2023-10-26T06:00:40

This week, Teja sits down with Kent Kiersey, the CEO and Founder of Invoke AI, an open-source generative AI product designed to give creators more control over the images they develop. They talk...

Ep. 29: Yaron Ben Nun, CTO and Founder of Nostromo Energy from 2023-10-19T06:00:12

After a short hiatus, we're back in the saddle with another episode of Founder to Founder. This week, Teja talks with Yaron Ben Nun, CTO and Founder of Nostromo Energy, about building a company fro...

Ep. 28: Miss Manners addresses computer correspondence from 2023-08-24T06:00:35

These days, barely a second thought is given to sending off some manner or another of virtual correspondence. But back in the infancy of computer-typed messaging, Miss Manners had quite a few thing...

Ep. 27: DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-founder of Meroxa from 2023-08-22T06:00:01

What kind of role models did you have growing up? For DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-Founder of Meroxa, it was seeing the innovative ways his family started on their own entrepreneurial journeys that...

Ep. 26: Internet Explorer wants to be your default from 2023-08-17T06:00:50

When it comes to programs asking if you want to use them as a default, nobody did it better than Internet Explorer. On This Week in Tech History, Chris and Abbey talk about the company's decision t...

Ep. 25: Vinay Patankar, CEO and Founder of Process Street from 2023-08-15T06:00:37

This week, on Founder to Founder, Teja sits down with Vinay Patankar, CEO and Founder at Process Street, an AI-powered process creator that helps companies achieve operational efficiency. They t...

Ep. 24: The first email sent from space from 2023-08-10T06:00:16

Today, we take for granted that an email can be sent with the quick flick of the wrist from a computer you keep in your pocket. But when the first email was sent from space in 1991, it marked an oc...

Ep. 23 - Max Howell, CEO and Founder of tea.xyz from 2023-08-08T06:00:58

This week, Teja sits down with Max Howell, the brain behind Homebrew, about his latest venture, tea. They talk about the growth of the industry, the challenge in paying open source developers, a...

Ep. 22: The first transatlantic telegraph cable is completed from 2023-08-03T06:00:03

Despite four previous ill-fated attempts by a man named Cyrus West Field, he persevered and on the fifth attempt, succeeded in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. On This Week i...

Ep. 21: Massi Genta, CEO and Founder of Metabob from 2023-08-01T06:00:51

This week on Founder to Founder, Teja sits down with Massi Genta, CEO and Founder of Metabob. They talk about the process of building companies. the difference between using LLMs and GNNs to hel...

Ep. 20: Ford sells the first Model A from 2023-07-27T06:00:13

We're pretty much exactly in the middle of the 2023 Formula 1 season, so it's perfect timing that on This Week in Tech History Abbey and Chris get down to business and talk about the very first Mod...

Ep. 19: Cullen Schwarz, CEO and Founder of DoneGood from 2023-07-25T06:00:59

After a stint in politics, Cullen Schwarz, CEO and Founder of DoneGood, realized that the best way regular people could influence policy was through spending. This led him to start DoneGood, the...

Ep. 18: Apple introduces the iBook from 2023-07-20T06:00:22

What started as a product aimed at educators became the catalyst for the remote work we have the ability to do today. On This Week in Tech, Abbey and Garish talk about Apple's iBook: the first mass...

Ep. 17: Adit Jain, CEO and Founder of Leena.ai from 2023-07-18T06:00:23

This week on Founder to Founder, Teja talks with Adit Jain, CEO and Founder of Leena.ai, a tool designed to improve onboarding and internal communications with their advanced virtual assistants....

Ep. 16: Code Red worms its way through the internet from 2023-07-13T06:00:56

If you only know of Code Red because it's a Mountain Dew flavor, it's time to gain some knowledge about the notorious computer virus that wormed its way across the internet in July of 2001. On This...

Ep. 15: Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder of 46 Labs from 2023-07-11T06:00:14

A lot of companies talk global connectivity, but Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder at 46 Labs, has put his boots on the ground to build networks around the world. In this week's Founder to Founder...

Ep. 14: Happy Birthday, Internet! from 2023-07-06T06:00:32

Has there been a modern invention that has had a more profound effect on humanity than the internet? This week, Chris steps in as guest host and talks with Victoria about the birth of the internet,...

Ep. 13: Devon Wright, CEO and Founder at Lumo from 2023-07-04T06:00:26

On this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Devon Wright, CEO and founder of Lumo, a smart irrigation system that is helping growers save water, monitor usage, and tackle the ...

Ep. 12: The first iPhone goes on sale from 2023-06-29T06:00:35

The way smartphones changed our interactions with technology is hard to understate. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, we had no way of knowing how reliant we would be on them in the very ne...

Ep. 11: Andrew Greenstein, CEO and Head Product of SF AppWorks from 2023-06-27T13:01:22

This week Teja talks with Andrew from SF AppWorks. From their origins in a music creation startup, they've always been a force for positive change through technology. Andrew's story is one of resil...

Ep. 10: Alan Turing is born from 2023-06-22T06:00:55

The world would be hard-pressed to find a historical figure who was more influential to modern computing than Alan Turing. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Deividi dive into the work he did,...

Ep. 9: Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers from 2023-06-20T06:00:08

This week, Teja talks with Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers, for our Founder to Founder series. They discuss the need to be hungry and communicative if you want to be an e...

Ep. 8: TWiTH - TI introduces the Speak & Spell from 2023-06-15T06:00:50

As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn't pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Re...

Ep. 7: Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of Ellipsis Drive from 2023-06-13T06:00:46

What happens when a hipster, a hustler, and a hacker come together to build a better way to process and serve up geospatial data? Ellipsis Drive has the answer, as we learn in this week's Founde...

Ep. 6: TWiTH - Jurassic Park is released in theaters from 2023-06-08T06:00:09

For a movie that only featured dinosaurs for 15 minutes, Jurassic Park had an outsized impact on the way CGI was used in film. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Regis talk about the graphics,...

Ep. 5: Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA from 2023-06-06T06:00:28

Oh this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA, a company that produces compostable, eco-friendly packaging. They talk about the com...

Ep. 4: TWiTH - Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the ISS from 2023-06-01T06:00:59

While it may seem like the International Space Station has been around since the beginnings of space exploration, it was actually just a little over 24 years ago that it was built. And on This Week...

Ep. 3: Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Ome Kitchen from 2023-05-30T06:00:08

On this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Ome Kitchen. They discuss her path from neurosurgery to kitchen hardware, the winding road to b...

Ep. 2: TWiTH - PacMan is introduced to the public from 2023-05-25T06:00:27

What began as one man's dream after seeing a pizza with a slice missing out of it grew into nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Grey talk about Pac-Man's...

Ep. 1: Dylan Etkin, CEO and Founder of Sleuth from 2023-05-23T06:00:20

Season 4's Founder to Founder series kicks off this week with an insightful, engaging, and incredibly entertaining conversation between Gun.io's CEO and Co-founder, Teja Yenamandra, and Sleuth's...

Ep. 30: The Mesa Lab at NCAR is opened from 2023-05-11T06:00:37

The building that kicked off I.M. Pei's career as a building architect also featured prominently in the city where two current staffers went to college. The NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorad...

Ep. 29: The best takeaways from Season 3 from 2023-05-09T06:00:58

As we wind down Season 3 of the Frontier Podcast, Faith takes a look back at some of the highlights from our incredible slate of guests.

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Ep. 28: The first SPAM message from 2023-05-04T06:00:15

Spam can mean quite a few things, only one of which is super tasty (spam musubi, if you're wondering), but when it comes to the dreaded emails and text messages, it all dates back to one guy floodi...

Ep. 27: Improving software delivery with AI and Open Source from 2023-05-02T06:00:04

If you are building a product for developers, but aren't asking them for feedback via an open source option, you're missing out on some reliable data. It can help to not only improve what you're...

Ep. 26: The government sues Microsoft from 2023-04-27T06:00:30

Once upon a time, Microsoft tried its hardest to become a major player in the personal finance world by buying Intuit, the brand most well known for its QuickBooks software. The federal government ...

Ep. 25: Coaching companies to greater growth from 2023-04-25T17:56:09

There's an argument to be made that Julien Smith, Founder and CEO of Practice, was born to be a career coach. But beyond that, the New York Times best-selling author has also done the hard work ...

Ep. 24: Researchers run FORTRAN for the first time from 2023-04-20T06:00:59

If you've ever used an IF statement (and if you're reading this, there's almost a 100% chance you have), you can thank FORTRAN. Of course, you can thank it for plenty more, as Girish and Faith disc...

Ep. 23: Scaling. white label product from 2023-04-18T06:00:01

When Jody Soldo joined the product team at Highnote, she was employee #13. Fast forward a couple of years, and company has grown to over 100 employees, while Jody has become the Director of Busi...

Ep. 22: Metallica sues Napster from 2023-04-13T06:00:04

For the majority of us, streaming music is about the only way we listen to it. But when Napster hit the web in the late 90's, it was the first service to expand on that horizon, and not everyone wa...

Ep. 21: The life-changing power of a good UI from 2023-04-11T06:00:48

There's often a good deal of heart and soul poured into design, but for Creative Navy CEO Dennis Lenard, the data behind the design is even more important. This week, Faith talks with him about ...

Ep. 20: IBM introduces the 360 System from 2023-04-06T06:00:18

How often would you replace your computer if the newest model wouldn't work with your monitor, keyboard, or mouse? This is the core of the issue IBM was trying to solve when they developed the 360 ...

Ep. 19: AI that can tell if you're sober from 2023-04-04T06:00:56

Breathalyzers have existed, in one form or another, for almost 100 years and have helped determine safe usage levels of a legal intoxicant. This week Ken Fichtler, CEO of Gaize, talks with Faith...

Ep. 18: Pixar's Tin Toy wins an Academy Award from 2023-03-30T06:00:56

A last-ditch effort to prove the Pixar Image Computer was a valuable tool for entertainment and not just scientific imaging proved to be the serendipitous beginning of a new genre in animation when...

Ep. 17: Using AI to find unbiased news from 2023-03-28T06:00:24

What if there was a way to understand how biased your news source is? That's the problem Seekr's CEO, Pat Condo, set out to solve. This week, Faith sits down with Pat to talk about how to promot...

Ep. 16: Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet from 2023-03-23T06:00:21

Today, we take Twitter for granted, even as other options vie for their time in the sun. This week in tech history, Jack Dorsey sent the very first Tweet, unknowingly setting in motion one of the w...

Ep. 15: Software as healthcare from 2023-03-21T06:00:02

What started as an interest in "serious gaming" eventually led Sunny Atwal to Luminopia, where he serves as the Head of Engineering. Luminopia uses virtual reality tech to treat neural visual di...

Ep. 14: Apple sues Microsoft from 2023-03-16T06:00:42

Homogenous design didn't happen overnight; there's a long and storied history of operating systems looking the same. And today, Grey and Faith talk about the very first instance of Apple suing Micr...

Ep. 13: ChatGPT for hiring from 2023-03-14T06:00

ChatGPT can do a lot of incredible things, not the least of which is to help you make better hires and put yourself in contention for better jobs. This week, Faith sits down with our resident GhatG...

Ep. 12: Al Gore's "I invented the internet" speech from 2023-03-09T07:08:06

When Al Gore made his famously misquoted speech, he was the subject of ridicule for weeks. But was he really that far off? This week in tech history, Ashely and Faith talk about his "I invented the...

Ep. 11: Equity in data ownership and crypto from 2023-03-07T07:00:25

Big data rakes in big money, and the Cirus Foundation wants to make sure you're getting your cut. This week, Faith talks to Julia Guz, Head of Operations at Cirus Foundation, about how everyone ...

Ep. 10: The first Homebrew Computer Club meeting from 2023-03-02T07:00:04

When the Homebrew Computer Club met up for the first time in Menlo Park, they had no idea they'd be so instrumental in spreading awareness and enthusiasm for personal computers. This week, Chris an...

Ep. 9: Transparency and accountability in digital advertising from 2023-02-28T07:00:26

The web of digital advertising is wide-spread and many-threaded; when companies use ad tech to promote their products, they don't always know what their ads are supporting. This week Faith talks...

Ep. 8: The first warrant is issued for a computer search from 2023-02-23T07:00:10

Long before we all knew how to use Incognito mode or clear a search history, someone had to be the first person to do something illegal on a computer. And in 1971, that first person was caught afte...

Ep. 7: Conducting user research from 2023-02-21T07:00:18

Understanding your users is the most important step you can take in building product that is used exactly how you want it to be used. In this episode, Faith talks with Product Management leader Fat...

Ep. 6: This Week in Tech History: Computer Bulletin Board System from 2023-02-16T07:00:21

What did we do before email existed? Coincidentally, this episode answers exactly that question: we used Computer Bulletin Board Systems! In today's episode of This Week in Tech History, Regis and ...

Ep. 5: Why design systems are important from 2023-02-14T07:00:38

Designing every button from scratch is probably fine if you've got three buttons and one designer, but what happens to all of that when you start to scale? This week, Faith sits down with Michae...

Ep. 4: This week in tech history: Garry Kasparov loses to Deep Blue from 2023-02-09T07:00:53

We take AI for granted these days, but once upon a time, there had to be a first human to be bested by tech, and that man was famed chess champion Garry Kasparov. On February 10th, 1996, Kasparov l...

Ep. 3: Building community, online and in-person from 2023-02-07T07:00:49

When Darko Bozhinovski went looking for a tech meetup in his hometown of Skopje, Macedonia, there wasn't much to see. So in 2019, he started his very own chapter of BeerJS, and had twice as many...

Ep. 2: This Week in Tech History: The TRS-80 is approved for production from 2023-02-02T07:00:46

Where would the world be without personal computers? On February 2, 1977, the TRS-80 was approved for production and sale at Radio Shack, setting off a digital revolution that could not have possib...

Ep. 1: Using tech to empower personal growth from 2023-01-31T07:00:03

To kick off Season 3 of the Frontier Podcast, we have Jordan Ambra, CTO of Photobooth Supply Co. We talk about the challenges of building a product that involves both hardware and software, how ...

Season 3 Trailer from 2023-01-24T07:00:47

With Season 2 in the rearview, it's time to get ready for a new set of conversations in Season 3. We will be talking to people and brands who are doing great things in and for the community, as wel...

Ep. 35: What we learned by making this podcast from 2023-01-17T07:00:05

We had an idea, and we had a company, and we had recently secured our Series A funding, so why not re-start the podcast? When Faith and Abbey started down this path halfway through the year, they h...

Ep. 34: Meet the team: Product Manager, Haley Harris from 2023-01-12T07:00:46

Breaking into product can be really difficult, even if what you've been doing your whole career is technically build products. In this week's "Meet the team" episode, hear how our newest recruit, H...

Ep. 33: How we advocate for developers from 2023-01-10T07:00:22

At the heart of what we do at Gun.io is our amazing community of developers. In this episode, Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr, shares how integral they are to our success, what we do to supp...

Ep. 32: Meet the team: Sales Development Rep, Greyson Wooten from 2023-01-05T07:00:25

When Sales Development Representative, Greyson Wooten, wanted to make a career change, he did a full 180. Or did he? This week, Faith chats with him about moving from teaching to startups, being pa...

Ep. 31: How companies find success with Gun.io from 2023-01-03T07:00:54

This week, Faith sits down with our Account Executive, Ashley Yearby, and Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler, to talk about how we streamline the hiring process and help companies find success...

Ep. 30: Meet the team: Client Success Manager, Jeff Vedenoff from 2022-12-29T07:00:20

Before taking on a role here at Gun.io, Client Success Manager, Jeff Vedenoff, made his way up the ranks helping people with the biggest purchases of their lives: homes and vehicles. Hear what it t...

Ep. 29: 2022: It's been a big year for us from 2022-12-27T07:00:42

With a team that almost doubled in size, and our first foray into venture backing, 2022 has been quite the year at Gun.io. In this episode, Teja and Faith talk about the growth of the company, next...

Ep. 28: Meet the team: Technical Talent Advocate, Girish Kumar from 2022-12-22T07:00:59

When you hear that someone like our Technical Talent Advocate, Girish Kumar, who casually started TWO companies while running a third, is the kind of talent who helps to vet our talent, it sends a ...

Ep. 27: The parent trap: How Gun.io families get along during the week from 2022-12-20T07:00:42

From 7-month-olds to teenagers, our team is growing the next generation of dreamers and doers, one WFH day at a time. In this episode, you'll hear how they manage their time, find hidden spots of s...

Ep. 26: Meet the team: Sales Development Rep, Donovan Suggs from 2022-12-15T07:00:33

When your first sales job was hustling your classmates over Yu-Gi-Oh cards at six years old, you're bound to be one of the best in the biz by the time you're a full-grown adult. Such is the case...

Ep. 25: Our outlook on remote and distributed teams from 2022-12-13T07:00:09

In this episode, Faith, Teja, and Abbey sit down to talk about the changes Gun.io made prior to going remote, the numerous benefits of distributed and remote teams, and why it's totally okay to tel...

Ep. 24: Meet the team: Senior Frontend Developer, Richie Clark from 2022-12-08T07:00:44

Senior Frontend Developer, Richie Clark, started his development career by promising great things, and he continues to deliver to this day. Hear more about his path from Play It Again Sports to Gun...

Ep. 23: How brands can talk about themselves authentically from 2022-12-06T07:00:59

"Be militant about the things you can control so that you can be frivolous elsewhere." Sage advice from our Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson, and just one of the many great nuggets of ...

Ep. 22: Meet the team: Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr from 2022-12-01T07:00:48

It's ironic that our Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr, moved to Nashville knowing she wanted to leave her live of running music events behind, but great for us that her superb operational ski...

Ep. 21: Promoting growth: why we hire people who are new to tech from 2022-11-29T07:00:31

In this episode, Faith sits down with our VP of Operations, Tyler Newkirk, to talk about how we've traditionally approached growth and promotion at Gun.io. It turns out our secret sauce is hiring t...

Ep. 20: Meet the team: Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson from 2022-11-24T07:00:05

We don't have health inspectors knocking on the door during dinner rush, but there are plenty of other parallels between tech and restaurants, as our Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson, talks abo...

Ep. 19: How we market to developers with Content Lead, Abbey Charles from 2022-11-22T07:00:59

Free t-shirts only get you so far. So how do you market to a group of people with discerning tastes highly-attuned BS meters? Authenticity and expertise are our two best tools, as Content Lead, Abb...

Ep. 18: Meet the team: UI/UX Developer, Regis Camimura from 2022-11-17T07:00:54

We wanted to call this episode "Just get it done," because that's what our UI/UX Engineer-turned-one-man-Army, Regis Camimura, has applied to most situations in life. In this episode, he talks abou...

Ep. 17: The evolution of the Gun.io brand with CEO & Co-Founder, Teja Yenamandra from 2022-11-15T07:00:53

Every brand goes through the evolution of its own identity, and Gun.io is no different. In this episode, the CEO and Co-founder of Gun.io, Teja Yenamandra, sits down to talk with Faith about Swi...

Ep. 16: Meet the team: Account Executive, Ashley Yearby from 2022-11-10T07:00:13

When our Account Executive, Ashley Yearby, isn't busy leading world-class food tours or designing a dice game that takes the boredom out of your home bar, she's making sure our clients are getti...

Ep. 15: What we learned from 5x-ing our sales team from 2022-11-08T07:00:59

A lot of things have changed at Gun.io since we first started, but no department more than sales. In this episode our Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler, and VP of Revenue, Ben Kettle, talk ab...

Ep. 14: Meet the team: Client Experience Coordinator, Cameron Holmes from 2022-11-03T06:00:40

It's not easy keeping all the balls in the air when it comes to matching multiple developers to multiple projects. Luckily, we have Cameron Holmes, one of our extremely talented and multi-faceted C...

Ep. 13: Complexity and prioritization: How we decide what to build with VP of Product, Grey Garner from 2022-11-01T06:00:52

When you have a small team, deciding what gets built is always a balance of complexity and priorities. In this episode, our VP or Product, Grey Garner, talks to us about how he triages short-, medi...

Ep. 12: Meet the team: Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler from 2022-10-27T06:00:51

From higher education to educating herself in tech hiring, our Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler, has learned a thing or two about what it takes to build trust, talk tech like a pro, and crea...

Ep. 11: It depends: Choosing the right tech stack with Wade Williams and Deividi Silva from 2022-10-25T06:00:53

When it comes to choosing the right tech stack to build your product with, there are a lot of considerations you need to take into account. While trying to say "it depends" as few times as possible...

Ep. 10: Meet the team: VP of Product, Grey Garner from 2022-10-20T06:00:37

When our VP of Product, Grey Garner, started making band websites to support his music habits, there was no way of knowing how far it would take him into the land of tech. In this episode, we talk ...

Ep. 9: Getting top talent takes top talent: hiring and vetting with Director of DevRel, Deividi Silva from 2022-10-18T06:00:34

Our use of developers to vet other developers is one of the most important things setting us apart from the competition. In this episode, we talk to our Director of DevRel, Deividi Silva, about our...

Ep. 8: Meet the team: Director of Developer Relations, Deividi Silva from 2022-10-13T06:00:09

When you're more or less a manager to thousands of people, being able to fall asleep at the drop of a hat seems like an incredibly useful skill. Hear how our director of Developer Relations, Deivid...

Ep. 7: Growing out of our bootstraps with Director of Growth Marketing, Faith Benson from 2022-10-11T06:00:53

Growth marketing is so much more than just customer acquisition. In this episode, we talk with our Director of Growth Marketing, Faith Benson, about how she helped Gun.io grow out of our bootstraps...

Ep. 6: No software is better than no software. Gun.io’s Director of Software Engineering (and Janitor), Wade Williams from 2022-10-06T06:00:57

Sure, you have someone at the helm of your engineering department. But do you have someone that used to be a professional waterskier? Probably not, and we promise that's just one of the amazing thi...

Ep. 5: From line items to large-scale ideas, inside our wild ride to profitability from 2022-10-04T06:00:40

When we started, there wasn't even an official payroll. With budgets and ideas in balance, we take a look at how Gun.io thinks about profitability. In this episode, we sit down with the VP of Opera...

Ep. 4: What do you get when you marry copywriting and coding? Gun.io's Content Lead, Abbey Charles from 2022-09-29T06:00:37

Have you ever wondered who puts the words to the page when it comes to tech sites? This week, we introduce our Content Lead, Abbey Charles, in the first team member interview of the new season. She...

Ep. 3: How we think about sales hiring from 2022-09-27T06:00:20

Sometimes being a part of a sales team can feel akin to being in the desert on a broken bike six miles from the trailhead when it's 115 degrees out, trying not to panic. And how do you hire for tha...

Ep. 2: Our first foray into fundraising from 2022-09-22T06:00:36

What startup says "no" to funding for almost an entire decade? One that's either totally crazy or incredibly astute. Maybe we're a little of both? Hot off the heels of our Series A raise, we talked...

Ep. 1: From the beginning from 2022-09-20T06:00:21

What happens when an idea to hook your friends up with jobs becomes a multi-million dollar talent agency operating on a global scale? In the opener to season 2 of the Frontier Podcast, you'll learn...

Networking for Introverts with Dave Delaney from 2022-03-30T21:44:19

Cal sits down this week with a Nashville local, Dave Delaney, to chat about networking on and offline, how to make an impression, and the best way to keep track of who's who when business cards ...

Inside Gun.io: Victoria Stahr from 2022-03-23T22:47:42

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A roundtable with our Technical Talent Advocates from 2022-03-16T22:01:13

Our Developer Relations team, or as we call them, our Technical Talent Advocates, share their do's and don'ts of the job hunt.

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Inside Gun.io: Faith Benson from 2022-03-09T21:37:25

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Moving from management back to engineering from 2022-03-02T17:20:47

Moving into engineering management roles can feel like the obvious next step for some senior devs. But what happens when that next step turns out to be one you want to take back? In this week's epi...

Gunslinger Interview: Wolf Donat from 2022-02-23T14:22:46

This week, Cal Evans talks with Wolf Donat about Commodores (not the band), fisheries, and woodworking.

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Gunslinger Interview: William Rodriguez from 2022-02-09T18:50:47

This week, Cal Evans talks with William Rodriguez about accidentally becoming a dev, modernizing 100-year-old tech, and jamming out at the end of a long day.

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Lessons Learned Managing Remotes with Dave Hall from 2022-01-25T21:27:13

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Gunslinger Interview: Jon North from 2022-01-19T22:24:42

This week, Cal Evans talks with Jon North about his path to software, that one time they each did UX, and what Jon has cooking up next.

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Samantha John from 2021-10-22T15:37:21

In this episode, we speak to Samantha John, Co-Founder and CEO of Hopscotch, about the amazing things kids can create when they have access to software tools, why coding isn't just for boys, and wh...

Kate O'Neil from 2021-08-16T23:29:35

In this episode, we speak to Kate O'Neil, Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Teaming, about key identifiers fo...

Nick Gavronsky from 2021-06-15T12:00:48

In this episode, we speak to Nick Gavronsky, CEO and Co-founder of Welcome, about the power of appreciating people in your product, the need for more transparency around compensation for employees,...

Bo Boroski from 2021-04-30T13:00:14

In this episode, we speak to Bo Boroski, Founder and Managing Director of RefQuest, about the best decisions he's made as a founder, the importance of hustled mistakes, and how to build a support s...

Gabe Batstone from 2021-04-20T13:00:31

In this episode, we speak to Gabe Batstone, co-founder and CEO of Contextere, about doing good and making money at the same time, why raising money is a goal, not a victory, and how personal relati...

Rachel Van Nortwick from 2021-02-22T13:00:06

Rachel Van Nortwick, CEO and Founder of Vinylly, talks about the compatibility solution Vinylly has solved in the dating application space, the lessons she learned as a non-technical founder, and h...

Sam Lessin from 2021-02-16T14:00:32

In this episode, we speak to Sam Lessin, co-founder and co-CEO of Fin, about his journey from the VP of Product Management at Facebook to coding boot camp, his "human in the loop" approach at Fin, ...

Eoghan McCabe from 2020-10-22T01:23:32

In this episode, we speak to Eoghan McCabe, Chairman and Co-founder of Intercom about making your own space in the SaaS market, transitioning to a new leadership position after 10 years, and the ex...

Russ Roberts from 2020-03-18T11:00:11

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Gant LaBorde from 2020-03-11T11:00:21

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Michael Dibernardo from 2020-03-04T12:00:34

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Scott Meschke from 2020-02-26T12:00:33

In this episode, we are joined by Scott Roe-Meschke, Director of Engineering at Blinker. Scott discusses the importance of cultivating trust and transparency for your team in an engineering leaders...

Vinay Mahadik from 2020-02-19T12:00:36

In this episode, we are joined by Vinay Mahadik, CEO and Co-Founder of Securly. Vinay discusses how his experience as a father and in enterprise security formed the company that is securing the saf...

Madison May from 2020-02-12T12:00:47

In this episode, we are joined by Madison May, Machine Learning Architect and Co-Founder of Indico. He shares insights into sitting in both leadership seats and building custom models for custom pr...

Lisa Reeves from 2020-02-11T12:00:41

In this episode, we are joined by Lisa Reeves, SVP of product at Zenefits. Lisa shares how her years of experience as an operator, investor, and entrepreneur has been a guide in her uncapped succes...

David Yakobovitch from 2020-02-05T12:00:52

In this episode, we are joined by David Yakobovitch, Principal Data Scientist for Galvanize, and the host of HumAin, an AI podcast. David shares his insights from his extensive experience in AI, an...

John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, & Jon Ash from 2020-01-29T12:00:02

In this episode, we are joined by John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, & Jon Ash of the 6 Figure Developer podcast.

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Scott Parker, Director of Product Marketing at Sinequa from 2020-01-08T12:00:14

In this episode Ledge chats with Scott Parker, Director of Product Marketing at Sinequa.

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Matt Stone, Director Global Technical Support at SignalFx from 2019-11-27T12:00:55

Matt Stone is an accomplished Customer Experience professional with a broad scope of industry knowledge ranging from Fortune 100 to leading SaaS private vendors, and he joins Ledge in this episode ...

Ian McGaw, Vice President of Technology and Innovation at ENGworks from 2019-11-25T12:00:51

In this episode, Ledge is joined by Ian McGaw, Vice President of Technology and Innovation at ENGworks, to talk about how they are using cutting edge tech to design and build better projects by sav...

Marco Palladino, Co-founder and CTO of Kong from 2019-11-20T12:00:26

Marco Palladino, co-founder and CTO of Kong, joins Ledge on this episode of the pod to talk about the history of Kong and how they built the most widely adopted open source API ...

John Dubois, co-founder of Oculus360 from 2019-11-18T12:00:19

John Dubois is the co-founder of Oculus360, joins Ledge on this episode of the pod to discuss the AI space, and how Oculus 360 is using AI to change the game on generating consumer insights for bra...

Jason Burns, CEO and founder of Kortivity, from 2019-11-13T12:00:54

Ledge sits down with Jason Burns, CEO and founder of Kortivity, about his journey to starting Kortivity after being frustrated with the lack of transparency and accountability in the recruiting ind...

Mike Duensing, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Skuid from 2019-11-11T12:00:28

Mike Duensing, the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Skuid, joins Ledge to discuss how Skuid is building a ...

Christopher Furlin, Content Development at Tempered Networks from 2019-11-06T12:00:44

Ledge sits down with Christopher Furlin, Content Development at Tempered Networks, to talk about journey from stock broker to technical writer, and the importance of customer empathy.

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Dave Shewfelt, Director of Integration Services at Vidado from 2019-11-04T12:00:24

David Shewfelt, Director of Integration Services at Vidado, joins Ledge in this episode to discuss the intelligent automation tech in capturing human handwriting.

from 2019-10-09T11:00:26

Teja sits down with Kristie D'Ambrosio-Correll, VP Engineering at MIRROR in this episode of the pod to talk about how MIRROR is revolutionizing the home workout market with their uniuqe approach to...

Andrew Phillips - Product Manager at Google Cloud from 2019-10-08T11:00

In this episode of the Pod, Teja is joined by Andrew Phillips to talk about his journey from software engineer, team lead, infrastructure builder, community evangelist and now his work on product m...

Kevin Wang, VP of Product at Braze from 2019-10-07T11:00:33

Ledge sits down with Kevin Wang, VP of Product at Braze, to share how they are leading the way in helping brands such as Microsoft, Citi, Postmates,and KFC to build rich relationships with their cu...

Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory from 2019-10-07T11:00:30

Teja is joined in this episode of the pod by Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory about staying fulfilled in your career and about his approach to technical management and building a world-class engine...

Donnie Goins, Chief Engineering Officer & Business Development at Software Development Europe from 2019-10-02T11:00:44

Donnie Goins joins the pod to share his story about how an MBA project to redefine outsourcing by tapping into Central and Eastern Europe became a successful business venture. 

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Jason Kiesel, CPO, Rock Solid; Former CEO, CitySourced from 2019-09-30T11:00:55

Jason Kiesel joins the pod to discuss how his company, CitySourced, worked with local governments to develop mobile solutions to keep their citizens engaged. This is a must listen for anyone intere...

Bruce Brien, Chief Strategy Officer at Hive9 from 2019-09-23T11:00:31

Bruce Brien, Chief Strategy Officer at Hive9, joins the pod to share his insights on career development, and how to build a relationship with your customer.

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Karan Zaveri, Chief Technology Officer at 24/7 Software from 2019-09-18T11:00:28

Karan Zaveri joins the pod to discuss the balance of engineering vs entrepreneurship, and shares the learnings and failures he learned along the way in his tech journey.

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James Graham, Founder of Community Phone from 2019-09-03T11:00:31

Ledge sat down with James Graham, Founder of Community Phone, to talk about how Community Phone is reinventing the way we look at telephone companies by helping millions reduce the cost of their mo...

Jason Hintersteiner, CTO at Imperial Network Solutions from 2019-08-30T11:00:08

Jason Hintersteiner is the CTO at Imperial Network Solutions and is an expert on all things WiFi and joins the podcast talk about this technology that we use everyday and how to think about securit...

Andrew Plato, CEO, President, and Founder of Anitian from 2019-08-29T11:00:54

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Andrew Plato, CEO, President, and Founder of Initian to chat about accidentally discovering the SQL attack, and through that experience gaining an appreciation...

Adtech innovations at the retailing edge from 2019-08-28T11:00:36

In this episode Ledge sits down with Michael Weissman, 10-time entrepreneur, career high tech executive, and consultant to such tech allstars as Apple, Amazon, Adobe, and more.

Michael...

From Startup Weekend to YC to startup success from 2019-08-27T11:00:58

Technology co-founder Matthew McDonald is no stranger to rapid change. He joined a Startup Weekend event, met some contractors there with an idea to change construction equipment rental industry...

Pet Tech - Wearables for Healthy Best Friends from 2019-08-26T11:00:05

Electrical engineer, Fabrizio Filippini, has always had a strong passion for web, IoT, and sports. That got him into wearables, which led him to join as a co-founder of FitBark. 

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We’re all targets: Preparing for inevitable security breaches from 2019-08-23T11:00:57

Dan Tienes, CTO of Corporate Cost Control, has unique perspectives on cybersecurity, particularly having taken a personal interest in the well-known Equifax breach, having spent time working at ...

Applying disruptive technologies in a familiar fashion in conservative business sectors from 2019-08-22T11:00:43

Tim Anderson is the Vice President of Technical Operations of Kasasa, a community financial institution fintech company. Kasasa offers a suite of checking account products for which Tim runs the...

Video calling technology on the cutting edge with Lifesize from 2019-08-21T11:00:06

Video connections are critical in a remote business environment. If we’re going to embrace remote work, we need video calls. That’s what Ledge talks about with Bobby Beckman, CTO of Lifesize, a ...

Technical trends and trade-offs with a career CTO from 2019-08-20T11:00:34

Three-time CTO, Rich Brown, put in his Fortune 500 time across the enterprise sector at Bank of American, SAP, and others. 

Ledge and Rich discuss the trade-offs of native and hyb...

Scaling remote engineering teams like Auth0 from 2019-08-19T11:00:23

Damian Schenkelman is the Director of Engineering at Auth0. Ledge reached him at his remote office in Brazil. 

Auth0 provides SDKs and APIs for identification and login. Auth0 is ...

The amazing business of being ‘uncool’ from 2019-08-16T11:00:29

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups.

Nav go...

Adapting to Change in The Workplace from 2019-08-15T11:00:21

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Nav Bhachech, who boasts an impressive CV having worked at both Microsoft and Amazon, to talk about his work with various SV-area startups.

Nav go...

Better Sales Conversions with Next-gen Software Demos from 2019-08-14T11:00:47

Do we take software demos for granted? Should we be investing more energy and attention into demo UX? CEO and founder of Omedym, Greg Dickinson, believes so. Omedym’s solution helps companies cr...

Retail SaaS Platforms at the Cutting Edge from 2019-08-13T11:00:07

ason Zubrick has enjoyed a trailblazing career in retail finance, helping small-scale outlets revolutionize their technology approach, as the CTO at defi SOLUTIONS. defi’s loan origination solut...

Mobile App Security and Threat Defense from 2019-08-12T11:00:22

Mobile app security expert Domingo Guerra is an authority in a field that’s growing at a frenetic pace. As the founder of Appthority, Domingo witnessed first-hand how businesses require increasi...

Software dominates high-traffic commerce from 2019-08-09T11:00:25

Leon Fayer began his prolific software engineering career some 25 years ago in government contracting, and has since shifted gears to focus on the private sector. His multi-sector gives him uniq...

F.A.T.E. – From Addict to Entrepreneur; “Chasing the High” (Author Interview) from 2019-08-08T11:00:47

Entrepreneur Michael Dash had it all -- a multi-million dollar business, cars, real estate, you name it. He also had a compulsive and addictive personality that led him to gambling, drugs, and a...

‘Showing respect for abstraction’ - an AI pioneer on machine learning and data science from 2019-08-07T11:00:57

AI pioneer, Sandra Carrico, joins Ledge in this fascinating episode where she recounts the early days of AI, the early 80s AI winter, and the dawn of computational linguistics.

Now the...

Making the leap from Philosophy to Software Engineering from 2019-08-06T11:00:31

Caleb Ontiveros, who left the University of Notre Dame’s PhD program in philosophy to pursue a career in tech, is often asked by people studying philosophy how he transitioned to software engine...

Psychological safety in tech and software engineering with a human touch from 2019-08-05T11:00:06

Software may be written on machines, but it's written by and for human beings.

That’s according to Ledge’s guest, April Wensel founder, of Compassionate Coding, a company offering advi...

Drone software and cognitively diverse remote teams from 2019-08-02T11:00:27

Eric Hauser has spent his entire career working in software engineering. Beginning with stack development and ending up in management, Eric is currently working for Drone Deploy, a San Francisco...

Machine Intelligence and the Future of AI from 2019-08-01T11:00:06

A 20-year veteran of software engineering, Oren Boiman’s Bay Area-based Magisto has reached 100 million users over the last decade. Oren has been a visionary in his field, understanding the impo...

Innovating a mature product: making email smarter, easier and safer from 2019-07-31T11:00:24

With over 50 years of existence, email is one of those things we just take for granted. But it is by no means solved: there is an ongoing conflict between security, control, and user experience....

Driving traffic that converts for B2B sales through video from 2019-07-30T11:00:20

ideo ads for B2C are all the ra ge in 2019: we expect our favorite brands to reach out to us through engaging, high quality video content. But what about B2B? Can video help move your customers ...

Health tech, subscription boxes, and streaming video from 2019-07-29T11:00:21

Ryan Yockey has accrued an enviable résumé, after over 15 years of working with a wide variety of cutting-edge companies. 

A self-taught dev, Ryan founded his own art business, DN...

Measuring the Impossible with Data Science from 2019-07-26T11:00

John Feland attempts to measure the impossible! In a world in which the consumer market is increasingly defined by data, John Feland assists companies with enhancing their social capital; the tr...

The inside story of Gun.io from its founder and CEO from 2019-07-25T11:00:29

For our special 100th episode, Ledge sat down with Gun.io’s founder and CEO, Teja Yenamadra for a first-time telling of the history of the company going all the way back to the dorm room days an...

The myth of junior developer risk and how to create a balanced engineering team from 2019-07-24T11:00:20

Lee Warrick wasn’t satisfied with the standard storyline regarding junior developers. A career-changing bootcamp graduate himself, Lee heard the same tired explanations over and over again about...

The global future of sensor technology on the smart edge from 2019-07-23T11:00:51

CEO and President Becky Oh started her career as an Apple chip designer and quickly realized she wanted a bigger view of how her products played into the broader business. She took a role in Fie...

Organizing a tech conference; advice from the pros from 2019-07-22T11:00:13

Tech conference veterans Sarah Withee and Colin Dean joined Ledge in this episode to talk about their combined dozen years of organizing tech conferences, what they personally get out of it, and...

EdTech and the ‘empathy-based’ technology vision from 2019-07-19T12:00

Kirk Gray relishes his role as VP at McGraw-Hill Education. In this episode, Ledge talks to Kirk about his fascinating perspective on technology and education. 

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We are at the precipice of something totally, totally different from 2019-07-18T11:00:20

As CTO of ONIS Solutions, David Ramsey is at the forefront of the big data movement. With a passion for technology and nuanced view on the subject given his work in Africa, in this episode David...

Investing in a smart home that won’t soon be obsolete from 2019-07-17T11:00:33

Despite the hype surrounding virtual assistants like Alexa or Google Home, a fully digital home isn’t a reality quite yet. But can we prepare our homes for the future, to avoid tearing down wall...

Engineer or engineering leader? What’s the difference and where do you fit? from 2019-07-16T11:00:05

Software engineer or engineering leader? What’s the difference and where do you fit?

Corey Nichols began his career in the tech industry as a software engineer.

He anticipate...

Better smart homes with connected cloud services from 2019-07-15T11:00:07

When Kent Dickson founded Yonomi just over five years ago, smart devices were still an obscure concept. But the likes of Alexa and Google Assistant helped change that, and now Yonomi is playing ...

Hybrid data science and engineering teams and remote management from 2019-07-12T13:53:22

As data science becomes increasingly important for business, hybrid science and engineering teams are a necessity, but managing these distinct types of experts for maximum collaboration is a com...

Scalable video capture and playback plus building an international team from 2019-07-11T11:00:43

Oliver Friedmann is the CTO and Co-founder of Ziggeo, an API for video recording and playback, that’s essentially like Stripe or Twilio for video. The service abstracts all of the work for devel...

From whimsical consumer product to critical B2B enterprise technology from 2019-07-10T11:00:11

Amir Rubin co-founded Paracosm in 2013 with a mission to “3Dify the world.”

Since then he’s led the company through a total conversion from fun, visionary consumer product to critical ...

Soft skills, communication, and programming as a thinking activity from 2019-07-09T11:00:33

“We need to be able to talk to people. Talking to the computer is the easy part.” That’s Java developer advocate Trisha Gee at JetBrains. 

Trisha speaks worldwide about career dev...

Celebrating Independence the Freelancer Way from 2019-07-04T11:00

In this July 4th bonus episode, we at Gun.io would like to celebrate the spirit of independence shared by our professional freelancers with this short audio essay from our host, Ledge. Enjoy, and h...

Hardware is hard; you make it happen or you don’t from 2019-07-03T11:00:05

Keith Nothacker, Founder and CEO of BACtrack, even in college knew that he wanted to be an entrepreneur. When he was looking for something -- anything -- to sell online, he decided it was crazy ...

What really caused that bug? from 2019-07-02T11:00:09

Software and DevOps engineers spend a great deal of time in logs, analyzing what's happened, and trying to surmise why it's happened. APM software gets us part of the way there, but what about a...

How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? from 2019-07-01T11:00:01

How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? Eric Klinker knows.

He’s the Founder and CEO of Resilio, and former CEO of BitTorrent. Resilio is a vastly enhanced enterprise ...

Understanding the full business impact of your technology from 2019-06-28T11:00:31

When you reach an executive position, you need to understand all of the functions of the business. That’s especially true when you grow out of a purely technical role. Your view needs to expand ...

Megascale high-performance decision engines from 2019-06-27T11:00:43

If you’re shopping online for pretty much anything, there’s a very good chance the pages you’re looking at are being dynamically generated based on A/B testing and automation powered by RedPoint...

The software and hardware behind parking tickets from 2019-06-26T11:00:45

If we’ve learned anything at the Frontier, it’s that interesting technology stories can be found anywhere… even in that parking ticket you got last month that you’re still cursing over. Ever won...

Engineering management tips for worldwide Ops, Dev, and Leadership from 2019-06-25T11:00:41

Scaling an engineering organization is challenging enough when you’re colocated, and when your whole team is developers. What happens when you also introduce data science and 24/7 SRE? That’s th...

DevRel and community building for authentic relationships from 2019-06-24T11:00:03

Communities are people who not only share common principles, but who also develop and share practices that help individuals in the group thrive. DevRel means building communities for technical a...

Adopting enterprise risk management to conserve capital from 2019-06-21T11:00:08

APIs, microservices, connections to external systems, integration with legacy systems… the list of software complexities gets longer and longer.

In this episode Ledge is joined by glob...

How to manage hybrid remote/colocated teams from 2019-06-20T11:00:08

In this episode, Ledge sits down with Greg Starling, a full stack e-commerce and mobility expert with broad experience in the CTO seat. Ledge and Greg talk through his advice for staying on the ...

Scaling a team to support every stack from 2019-06-19T11:00:32

John Isdell is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures. You may not know of Red Ventures by name, but you’re virtually guaranteed to have been on one of their sites like BankRate.co...

Strategic acquisitions to enhance your company’s value from 2019-06-18T11:00:35

Most of us have engaged with, and even built, products and platforms that make heavy use of messaging. But how does anyone know if those messages convert into sales or other actionable metrics? In ...

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Author Interview) from 2019-06-17T11:00:21

There's a saying that people don't leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Management can ma...

Hiring a dev team when you're non-technical from 2019-06-14T11:00:19

Ubiquitous platform technologies like Wordpress open up a world of opportunities for entrepreneurs in every conceivable sector, yet even user-friendly tools usually require implementation and custo...

AI for everyone, AI ethics, and problem solving from 2019-06-13T11:00:29

Yoav Rubin is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure AI. Previous to that he was a Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM Research. He’s a published author and self d...

Fractals! And let the scientist have the DevOps from 2019-06-12T11:00:21

Oksana Shmaliy, scientist turned technologist, currently leads IT Strategy and Architecture at Grange Insurance, where she led the DevOps transformation company-wide.

In this episode, ...

Agile transformation and delivering “first value” from 2019-06-11T11:00:40

One of the most difficult transitions an organization can make is moving from “how much will that cost?” and “how long with that take?” to “how quickly can we deliver first value?”

Tha...

Look-alike audiences for B2B success from 2019-06-10T11:00:16

Facebook and Google pioneered lookalike audience marketing for B2C. Serial entrepreneur, and engineer-turned AI marketer, Olin Hyde, started Leadcrunch to do the same for B2B marketers, a group ...

AI-powered superheroes, aka “the humans in the loop” from 2019-06-07T11:00:27

David “Gonzo” Gonzalez is the CEO and Co-founder of Ziff.ai, a deep learning as a service platform. Ziff’s goal: Reduce the complexity required to profit from AI in an enterprise setting. Listen

Product management from zero to 120 million users from 2019-06-06T11:00:23

How do you make application changes when you have 120 million active monthly users? Ledge sat down for an amazingly useful chat with James Colgan, Microsoft’s Sr. Product Manager for Outlook Mob...

The three pillars of engineering team productivity from 2019-06-05T11:00:46

“How does your software development team measure performance?” -- that’s the question Dan Lines and Ori Keren set out to answer with Linear B. Ledge sits down to talk with the duo, each veteran ...

Ethical engineering on the path to excellent systems from 2019-06-04T11:00:58

Liz Fong-Jones is a 15-year Site Reliability Engineer. She’s a former Google and current SRE and observability advocate for Honeycomb.io.

Liz evangelizes “Building Excellent S...

Best practices from distributed team management across 30 countries from 2019-06-03T11:00:45

Chris Overton is the VP of Cloud Engineering at open source leader, Elastic, a globally distributed company with engineers in more than 30 countries.

Chris and Ledge discuss how suppor...

How customer empathy drives better engineering performance from 2019-05-31T11:00:57

Ravi Sahu is the founder and CEO of Strayos, a VC-backed computer vision and deep learning company that’s improving the mining industry by using 3D aerial intelligence to reduce costs, and to im...

Building a Recruiting Pipeline for Engineers Who Want to Win from 2019-05-30T11:00:31

“Engineers want to win.” says Steve Prosser, VP of Software Development at Guaranteed Rate, one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the US, responsible for more than $20B in annual loan vo...

AI could be your new legal assistant from 2019-05-29T11:00:42

Ever had to parse through an absolutely awful contract? How about a 60-page MSA from one of those big company procurement departments? One of the promises of AI is that the happy robots will sta...

China, Huawei and the future of global technology from 2019-05-28T18:03:45

How will Chinese companies like Huawei affect the future of cyber security? How does our relationship with China affect the open source community and the future of AI? These are big questions fo...

Winning in a new industry with best practices from another sector from 2019-05-27T11:00:39

How can best practices from one industry change another industry? 25-year Technology Executive, Dave Ugan joins Ledge in the episode to deep dive into a real example: how he spent 6 years bringi...

Killing off unplanned work for Frictionless Development from 2019-05-24T11:00:04

Unplanned work blows up estimates, kills team morale, and drives down productivity, which makes it no surprise that the best agile engineering leaders target operations improvements as a core va...

Put your DevOps through P90X from 2019-05-23T11:00

You’re one of the largest exercise brands in the world. How do you get your DevOps in shape? Ledge sits down with Bob Chen, Senior Director of Technical Operations at Beachbody to chat DevOps, d...

Integrity and quality in engineering, and leadership as an art from 2019-05-22T11:00:56

Software quality is like integrity - it’s doing the right thing even if no one is watching. That’s according to Merlin Quintin, Director QA Engineering at Redbox.

Merlin joins Ledge in...

Making yourself an indispensable engineering hire from 2019-05-21T11:00:28

Is recruiting engineering talent similar to courting professional athletes? That’s been our experience at Gun.io, and Steve Bayette agrees.

After traveling the world as a digital nomad...

Using a F.A.I.L. Mindset in Scaling Organizations from 2019-05-20T11:00:11

No stranger to screens big (very big) and small, David Shapendonk was the Direct of Technical Ops for IMAX before flexing his entrepreneurial muscles.

He's now the CTO of Maestro Games...

We've been acquired; we're laying off your entire team from 2019-05-17T11:00:32

You'll hear a lot of stories on The Frontier about starting, growing, and enhancing engineering teams. In this episode, Philipp Svehla, helps us explore the other side of the coin: bringing a te...

Separating The Noise to Simplify Multi Cloud Strategy from 2019-05-16T11:00:10

As companies move more and more workloads to the cloud, sometimes the number of new questions can seem to grow more quickly than the number of answers. In this episode Ledge talks to Leon Thomas...

Technical Evangelism as The Voice of Building Better Software from 2019-05-15T11:00:35

What exactly is "technical evangelism?" At Gitlab, it's sharing opinions on what's going on in the community as technologists -- helping each other to collectively move forward to build better, ...

Managing Teams with The Iron Triangle of Engineering Leadership from 2019-05-14T05:01:54

You might have heard of the "Iron Triangle" of software development: Cost, Quality, and Speed. You can only choose two. How about the "Iron Triangle" of engineering leadership?

No, it'...

The Engineering Magic Behind Low Code Platforms from 2019-05-13T11:00:57

What if digital and marketing teams could really launch amazing web apps without needing developers? That's the promise of low-code and no-code platforms. The interesting paradox is the extensiv...

Technology for good and people-first FTW from 2019-05-09T11:00:55

Embracing technology to make the world a better place; that's a common theme with this podcast. Kevon Saber’s story continues to weave that fabric.

Kevon started his tech career develo...

Avoid The Fog of Development Through Continuous Learning from 2019-05-07T11:00:54

It only takes a few minutes of talking to Ravi Lachhmann before you realize, "This dude seriously loves engineering." That personality serves him well as a Technical Evangelist at Cisco company App...

Tips on Technology Leadership from One Phone Call from 2019-05-03T11:00:43

Imagine this: you get a call for a CTO job. The company has never had a CTO. It's a global company with boots on the ground in every country and all 50 states. It gathers scientific data in droves ...

Improving UX with Automated Business Solutions from 2019-05-02T11:00:54

Tyler Foster is the Vice President of Engineering for Sentient Technologies. As both a senior individual contributor and executive, Tyler has spent more than 18 years delivering technical soluti...

Digital transformation and the right tool for the job from 2019-04-30T11:00:07

Dan Morgan is a lifelong Chicagoan, with nearly 20 years of experience as a developer and manager. He’s worked across multiple industries including entertainment, paper products, tra...

Coordinating engineering teams to build a seamless user experience from 2019-04-29T05:00:33

In this episode, Ledge chats with Ryan Burgess, Software Engineering Manager at Netflix, about leading their Acquisition UI team optimizing the signup and login processes for one of highest usage a...

Open Source, the grey areas, and keeping sharp with community from 2019-04-25T05:00:41

Ahmad Nassri is a force in the open source world. Any given day you can find him leading advisory groups at the Node.js Foundation, kicking off OSS conferences, or masterminding technology commu...

Microsoft Azure Insights From a Developer Advocate from 2019-04-23T05:00:55

Burke Holland is a Nashville-based Developer Advocate for Microsoft. He's one of the rare people who's had a developer advocate position since way back in 2011, so I asked him about his path to ...

How to scale DevOps, standards, and automation in a high-growth agency from 2019-04-18T05:00:11

I spoke to Tyler Shambora in late 2018. At the time of this recording he was the Directory of Technology at BVA. He recently founder Pack Digital, an e-commerce agency focused on innovation and ...

Digital transformation, bleeding edge, and legacy tribal knowledge from 2019-04-16T05:00:46

Nick Lumsden, COO of Online Tech, joined me in late 2018 to chat "digital transformation" or as I put it, "Hey, what's exciting between legacy and bleeding edge?" It turns out companies can make a ...

Open Source Neural Networks in 500 Lines or Less from 2019-04-15T05:00:04

The fourth book in the Architecture of Open Source Applications series is called "500 Lines or Less." The book focuses on the design decisions that developers make in the small when they are buildi...

Keeping The Open Source Community First Priority from 2019-04-11T11:00:29

Jason Lengstorf runs developer relations at Gatsby, a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps. 

By addressing the ...

How To Provide Effective Feedback to Engineers from 2019-04-09T11:00:26

"Manager Voltron" Lara Hogan knows some things about high performing engineering teams. 

Following roles as Engineering Director at Etsy and VPE at Kickstarter, she founded Wherew...

E-commerce Innovations, and Decision Engines from 2019-04-04T11:00:44

Innovative shopping experiences drive e-commerce revenues by turning shoppers into buyers. In this episode I talk with Andrew Guldman, VP of Product Engineering and R&D at Fluid. Andrew and his...

Pigs, chemistry, startups, and CTO stories from 2019-04-02T11:00:23

CTO of Labdoor, Helton Souza, has stories to tell. Stories about moving to America to learn English, about selling pigs (yes, pigs) online, about pitching for Startup America, and ending up in Sili...

Creative influence with The Tech Ninja from 2019-04-01T11:00:24

You might not recognize the name Kevin Nether, but chances are you've watched at least one video by Kevin The Tech Ninja. If you haven't, fire up your YouTube app.

A self-described "gu...

UX Ideas from Technology in Marketing from 2019-03-28T11:00:11

David Feinman is the CEO of Viral Ideas Marketing. We met him in his role as one of the Community Managers of Online Geniuses, a huge internet marketing community known for their industry leader...

Scaling an engineering team in a transformational industry from 2019-03-26T11:00:54

Boston Code Viking, Steff Kelsey started as engineer #3 at Notarize. This episode was recorded while he was their VP of Engineering, leading a team of 40. He's now the VPE of Appcues. 

How to Lead a Meeting Engineers Love: Lessons from improv from 2019-03-21T11:00:33

A veteran of Microsoft, Groupon, and now Mode Analytics, Engineering Leader, Ushashi Chakraborty has gotten used to hearing the most abnormal feedback: "I love coming to your meetings!"  Listen

Understanding The Full Customer Discovery Process from 2019-03-19T11:00:15

Practitioners turned tech founders give us a unique view into the customer discovery process because they usually start their companies in order to solve a problem they've experienced themselves. S...

Putting People First, and Engineering Tools Second from 2019-03-14T11:00:56

Google Staff Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower is tech community famous for his down-to-earth and refreshingly funny keynotes. In this episode we talk about putting people first and tools second ...

Borrowing Innovation from Aerospace Technology from 2019-03-12T11:00:32

Sina Golshany is the Director of Technology at Fabricated Extrusion Company. He previously spent 8 years at Boeing in various aerospace engineering roles.

Sina established and manages ...

Pragmatic Microservice Design: keep calm, and ship code from 2019-03-07T12:00:02

In it's purest form, the microservices architectural pattern tells us to "dream small" while designing services, which is all well and good, but how small is still useful?

Pragmatic mi...

Improving The Product to Market Process to Deliver Faster from 2019-03-05T12:00:28

Business and technology leaders face consistent pressure to bring products to market faster. Never in the last quarter century has the pace of change, the quantity of available tools, and the raw c...

Solving Customer Problems as a Sales Engineer from 2019-03-04T12:00:16

When we talk about the software development lifecycle, we often focus on the product and engineering functions, potentially leaving out a critical team: Sales, and specifically Sales Engineers. To ...

Launching a tech startup inside of a legacy enterprise from 2019-02-28T12:00:12

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) is a global leader in the B2B Travel Management space. The Hotels division within CWT was rebranded as RoomIt in the summer of 2017. My guest in this episode, Alex ...

Startup life, stability, payroll, and change from 2019-02-26T12:00:03

There's a difference between working for a startup, founding a startup, working freelance, and working as a consultant for a company on payroll. It all comes down to the risk profile you are willin...

Modern CI/CD Tools with Legacy Mainframes from 2019-02-21T12:00:39

When you hear "mainframe" I bet you think "old school," or "dinosaur," or at the very least "legacy." After this episode with Compuware's Tim Ceradsky, you might change your mind. With hundreds of ...

Stuck in a Career Rut? Improve Your Public Speaking Skills from 2019-02-14T12:00:57

There comes a time in almost every engineer's career where they may need to communicate with a customer, train a teammate, pitch a project, or prove they are credible to a potential client.

Stuck in a Career Rut? Improve Your Public Speaking Skills from 2019-02-14T12:00:57

There comes a time in almost every engineer's career where they may need to communicate with a customer, train a teammate, pitch a project, or prove they are credible to a potential client.

Building an Engineering Recruitment Process that Candidates Love from 2019-02-12T12:00:10

Alan Spadoni is the Director of Engineering at Buildout. He's was an engineering leader at Groupon for six years prior to his current post. Alan shares some awesome insights on making your engineer...

The Intersection of AI and Medicine from 2019-02-07T12:00:52

One of most promising areas for artificial intelligence research rests at the intersection of biology and medicine. That's where we found Robert Fratila, CTO and Co-founder of Aifred Health. He and...

Post-Crypto Distributed Ledger Technology for Business Leaders from 2019-02-05T12:00:28

Mike Talbot is the CTO of Veracity Consulting where he leads their data and emerging technologies practices.

He writes and advises on distributed ledger technology for government and b...

The Importance of Soft Skills for Engineers from 2019-01-31T12:00:14

Rusty Wilson started his career as a signals intelligence analyst in the US Army where, while deployed in Korea, he cut his algorithmic teeth on Perl scripts that ended up slicing days of proces...

Native vs Hybrid Apps: When to use & What's Next in Mobile App Dev from 2019-01-29T12:00:25

Simon Reggiani is a multi-platform native and hybrid mobile developer with over a decade of experience launching apps on iOS and Android using Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, and React Native. Si...

Machine Learning in Healthcare: Interoperability via Machine-to-Machine Data Architecture from 2019-01-22T12:00:51

Jim Nasr is Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Synchrogenix where he spearheads strategy and implementation of emerging technologies such as large scale blockchain and machine learning ...

DevOps Automation, Orchestration, and Choreography from 2019-01-15T12:00:25

Steve Peak is the founder and CEO of Asyncy, an ambitious foray into the brave new world of DevOps automation, orchestration, and choreography. An accomplished software engineer himself, Steve's...

Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture from 2019-01-08T12:00:57

Travis Scheponik is a Master Software Engineer, currently with Capital One. His previous decade of experience has included work in finance, government, education, and a series of multi-industry ...

Democratizing Blockchain Technologies from 2019-01-02T11:00:13

As blockchain technologies proliferate, one of the most challenging aspects for business users and developers alike is accessibility and user experience. In this episode, Ledge chats with Joel N...

Remote Tech Teams: How to Make it Work from 2018-12-26T12:00:48

Ledge sits down with Laurel Farrer, a remote work strategist and consultant, to chat about what it takes to strengthen virtual communication, streamline digital processes, and develop long-dista...

On-Prem vs. Cloud Deployments from 2018-12-18T12:00:16

Roland Cooper is a 10-year technical operations and infrastructure expert with broad experience in fintech, e-commerce, and B2C. In this interview Roland talks to us about the tensions between o...

Disrupting Technology in Healthcare from 2018-12-11T12:00:09

Our guest this episode is Chris Venturini. Chris is a healthcare technologist in the venture technology space with broad expertise in platform development and domain-driven design. In this wide-...

Teach Your Engineers To Play Risk from 2018-12-04T12:00:33

Ledge sits down with Rahul Garg, SVP Engineering & Product Management at Pypestream, to share tricks of the trade when it comes to orienting engineers around a product vision, teaching risk ...

First Principles Thinking for Bitcoin Exchanges from 2018-11-27T15:04:21

Today we're joined by Zach Dexter, CTO of LedgerX, to chat about Bitcoin, First Principles Thinking, and throwing away everything you know about a market in order to disrupt it. 

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API-As-A-Business from 2018-10-16T16:45:28

We talk with Christine Spang of Nylas about building a business with engineers, for engineers, using a modern API platform.

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The Technology of Politics from 2018-10-12T18:22:01

We talk with Josh Hendler of Purpose about the unique challenges of building technology for organizations and campaigns in modern election cycles.

If you love The Frontier, we bet you'...

Dealing With Legacy Code from 2018-10-05T18:14:40

Expert discussion and advice with Debbie Madden (CEO | Stride Consulting) and Jason Ables (Team Coach and Creative Scientist | Ethode) on the important considerations in dealing with legacy code...

Dealing With Legacy Code from 2018-10-05T18:14:40

Expert discussion and advice with Debbie Madden (CEO | Stride Consulting) and Jason Ables (Team Coach and Creative Scientist | Ethode) on the important considerations in dealing with legacy code...

What's Next In Blockchain from 2018-10-03T21:31:34

John Fitch from Animal Ventures talks with us about how Blockchain is driving innovation in categories well beyond cryptocurrency.

If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our week...