Leading data-driven software teams and products

Leading data-driven software teams and products

Author: Changelog Media December 22, 2018 Duration: 1:28:39
For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent years as an engineering manager. Travis’s mission at GitPrime is to bring crystal clear visibility into the software development process and bridge the communication gap between engineering and stakeholders. This communication gap is often an ongoing plague in product development lifecycle. We talked through focus, tech debt, leading teams, predictability, and more.

Behind every successful company, there's a human story that rarely gets told in the headlines. Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership from Changelog Media is built on the idea that the real value lies in those unvarnished, personal narratives. Host Adam Stacoviak sits down for extended, thoughtful conversations with the people who have actually built things-founders, CEOs, and makers across the technology and business landscape. This isn't about quick tips or surface-level success stories. Instead, each episode functions as a case study in resilience, peeling back the layers on the specific challenges, pivotal failures, and hard-won lessons that define a leadership journey. You'll hear the nuance behind decisions, the weight of responsibility, and the moments of doubt that precede a breakthrough. By focusing on one guest at a time, the podcast creates space for depth and reflection, moving beyond theory into the practical realities of creating and sustaining a vision. It's for anyone curious about the substance behind the startup myth, whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a leader in your own field, or simply fascinated by the psychology of building something meaningful. Tune in for honest dialogues that replace jargon with genuine experience, offering a clearer picture of what innovation and leadership truly demand from the people at the helm.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership
Podcast Episodes
From open source to commercially viable [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:59:52
This week Adam is joined by Asim Aslam, the founder of Micro - a new cloud platform entirely focused on the developer experience of consuming and publishing public APIs. Asim's journey spans many years of open source wor…
From disrupting the cloud to IPO [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:32
This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the founding team. They talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and marketer, the early days at DigitalOcean, and everything that…
The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:10
This week Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distributed SQL database. Cockroach Labs recently raised $160 million dollars on a $2 bi…
Intensely focused on building a software company [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:09
This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winning application monitoring company founded by John-Daniel Trask (better known as JD) and Jeremy Boyd in Wellington, New Zeal…
Balancing business and open source [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:11
Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world's most popular open source technology used to compose observability dashboards (we use Grafana here at Changelog). Raj and team are 100% focus…
Slow and steady wins [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:10
Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s journey for the better part of Ugmonk’s existence. I’m also a customer. Jeff and I…
From acquisition to full conviction [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:50
Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, a security platform that empowers software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure. Prior to Snyk, Guy founded Blaze which was acquired by Akamai and became CTO. We talked t…
Leading GitLab to $100M ARR [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:58
Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platform. As a company, they have their eyes set on taking the company public to IPO and they're very outspoken about their c…
Building a real programmable robot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:33
The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child's life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sphero and is now the Founder and Head of Product of Misty Robotics — they're building the first programmable robot for th…
Becoming an accidental founder [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:06
Mike McDerment is the founder and CEO of FreshBooks. Believe it or not, Mike became a founder by accident. Like many of us, Mike had an itch that he just had to scratch. One thing led to another and soon enough FreshBook…