Join Alex Hobcraft, founder of AWH Marketing, as he reconnects with the DiscoPosse Podcast. Alex takes us on a journey through his entrepreneurial path, starting from a humble music school in 2009 to becoming a marketing expert. Discover how Alex navigated the challenges of the 2008 economic crash, scaled his business, and learned the importance of hyperlocal marketing.

Alex shares invaluable insights into the intricacies of digital marketing, from the importance of a Google Business Profile to leveraging analytics and social media effectively. With a blend of humor and deep knowledge, Alex and the host delve into the evolution of marketing strategies and the significance of understanding your customer. Whether you're a small business owner or a marketing enthusiast, this episode offers a wealth of practical advice and inspirational stories.

Tune in to learn how to turn creative passion into a successful business, the importance of serving your community, and the art of making every customer interaction count. This episode is a masterclass in combining creativity with business acumen to achieve remarkable results.

This podcast is made possible by the team at GTM Delta

In this episode, Karina Klever, founder of Klever Compliance, shares her extensive experience in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). With a career spanning over three decades, Karina delves into the fundamentals of GRC, breaking down complex concepts and offering practical insights on streamlining compliance processes. She emphasizes the importance of creating tailored policies, managing vendor relationships, and the necessity of passive evidence collection. The conversation also touches on the impact of AI and data retention in modern compliance frameworks. Tune in to gain valuable knowledge on demystifying GRC and making it more manageable for your organization.

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Sean Falconer is currently Head of Marketing at Skyflow. Prior to Skyflow, Sean led developer relations for Google’s Business Communications product suite, founded Proven.com and was a Postdoctoral student in Bioinformatics at Stanford University.

Sean is both a fantastic technologist and a storyteller, which makes him a great person to learn from. We chat on the challenges of securing and protection data for AI as more companies continue to find out the hard way that they need help.

Great lessons and thank you, Sean, for a great conversation! 

This podcast is brought to you by GTM Delta and DiscoPosse.com

Julian wood is a Senior Developer Advocate for the Serverless Product Group at AWS.  We discuss lots of great stuff around the serverless platforms, transforming IT (yes DIgital Transformation is real) and transitioning careers and methods from "traditional" Ops to new was of operating your environment.

Check out lots of AWS Serverless resources here at https://serverlessland.com 

Follow Julian on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/julian_wood 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals

Over the past three decades, Don W Long has founded/co-founded six different companies his most recent which was in the top 1,000 companies in the United States in that particular industry.

He is the author of three books The Blueprint of God and the international bestselling book Sell or Don’t Eat and joins us for a discussion on his latest book God's Blueprint for Nations and we delve into the power of mentoring and community on growing ourselves and our businesses. 

Get the book here:  https://amzn.to/3893xGk

Visit Don's website here:  https://donwlong.com 

 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals

Warren Shaeffer is the CEO and founder of Knowable, the world's first audio learning platform for the podcast generation.  Warren and his team are truly rethinking and reinventing learning with not only how they are delivering content but in how he shares personal and business lessons to help the future entrepreneurs build and succeed.

This was a real enjoyable and in-depth chat on the science of learning, building a startup, and making what Warren perfectly describes as nutritious content for the mind. 

Check out Knowable at https://knowable.fyi and on your mobile platform!

 

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Luis Ceze is a computer architect and co-founder and CEO of OctoML. I do research in the intersection of computer systems architecture, programming languages, machine learning and biology. 

OctoML is doing some very cool things about demecratizing ML and transforming how ML models are optimized and made secure for deployment. Luis shares a lot of great info on the foundations of ML, ethics of data, and how he builds a team.

Check out OctoML online at https://octoml.ai

 

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Thomas Graf is the CTO and co-founder of Isovalent as well as a long time open source contributor to numerous projects. Linux kernel, BPF, networking, containers, security. He also previously Linux kernel developer at Red Hat and shares a ton of great info on the challengs of security and networking in Linux and Kubernetes as well as how he and his team have built a business on open source technology.

Check out Isovalent at https://isovalent.com

Get involved with the Cilium project here: https://cilium.io

 

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Paul Zychowicz is a technologist and elite performance athlete specializing in triathlon. This is a great discussion around achieving personal performance, the jump into elite sports, and how Paul motivates himself through adversity and challenge which helps both in sport and in life.

You can follow Paul on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/zekezee/

 

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Chris Psaltis is the co-founder & CEO at mist.io. Chris has an unbounded curiosity and an urge to find out how things work. Chris shares insights into the myths of multi-cloud, how to grow a successful distributed startup team, and how the power of ML and AI are creating incredible opportunities for business and society.

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals

Jeff Bermant is the founder of Cocoon MyData Rewards™, an app that pays users cash just for sharing their online data anonymously.  This discussion explores empathetic leadership, selling when you're not in sales, and how adversity and challenge formed Jeff's future and what his story could unlock in empowering you.

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Aeva is a technology architect, team leader, mentor, and industry veteran with a career spanning 20 years, several startups, and multiple Fortune 500 Companies. Aeva’s areas of expertise include open source strategy, cloud computing, hardware security, and database development and consulting. They currently focus on Confidential Computing at Microsoft Azure, building the next generation of secure cloud-native application services.

You can catchup with Aeva at https://twitter.com/aevavoom

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Rick Hall is a software entrepreneur and CEO of Agility focused on the analytics market.  He has led the development of over a dozen software products and taken several companies from the early stage to an eventual sale.

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

 

Gerry Neu from Tecflair joins for a fun discussion into the most important thing that a technology buyer/user should understand: being a good partner. Gerry brings true humility and pragmatism to his approach to building outcome-focused solutions using strong human and technology partnerships. It's a master class in how to delight customers and to be a solid supporter of your own alliance partners and clients. 

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Rory Wheeler is the mind behind Just Roar Communications. This is a particularly important discussion as companies prepare for remote annual sales and company kickoff events that are likely to fail to meet their goals without the right tools and techniques to adapt.  Rory shares thoughts on how to engage your employees and customers more effectively for today's remote situation and beyond.  Plus it was just a really fun conversation!

 

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Gabe Luna-Ostaseski is the co-founder and CRO of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that connects organizations with highly skilled tech talent.  

Our conversation explores the power of two-sided marketplaces, how Gabe built his first company, and powerful lessons in growth and leadership which will make this a must-listen for anyone in the startup ecosystem.  

Thank you for the very open and dynamic discussion, Gabe!

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Sean Heiney is the founder of SignalWire, the world’s largest telecom platform. Their technology forms the backbone of modern communications applications like Amazon, Netflix, and Zoom.  

We explore the power of product management, how the startup industry is fundamentally changing with the events of 2020, and how Sean and how to go from bold idea to product delivery in a time when you're often surrounded by doubters.

Thanks to Sean for such a dynamic and wide-ranging discussion and lots of lessons which will be a must-listen for founders, product managers, and anyone in the startup ecosystem. 

 

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Ron Rock and his team at Microshare knew they had the capability, and responsibility to use their technology in ways that could help change how the world dealt with COVID, although that wasn't where they began.

We have an all-encompassing conversation about the Microshare enterprise scale IoT integration which is now being used for real-time:

Infection Control Predictive Cleaning Occupancy and Asset Zoning Smart buildings without sacrificing privacy   COVID-19 has made “nice to have” health metrics into matters of life and death. 

Ron shares important lessons on how to adjust as a business in the face of adversity, and personal lessons that are important to people of all backgrounds and roles.

 

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Jo Bhakdi is the founder and CEO of Quantgene, creators of the Griffin Deep Genomics Platform, which combines Deep Genomic sequencing and AI to detect disease down to a single molecule.  

Our conversation delves deep into how emerging and innovative work in genomics and cancer detection can profoundly change the face of healthcare, and what it takes to bring a truly disruptive idea and method to the world. 

You will be inspired by the mission, and powerful lessons on what it takes to launch and scale a disruptive company.  Thank you to Jo for such an amazing conversation!

 

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Jen Snyder is the Chief Evangelist at GovQA, the leader in enterprise workflow automation for government requests, mainly focused on Public Records (FOIA).  We have a very extensive conversation that covers how the pandemic and protests have changed the way “Smart Government” agencies across the country communicate via public records – and caused many to see that the time to act and modernize with technology is right now.

Jen shares lots of lessons on how to be an empathetic sales leader, how to be effective in selling to the public sector, and how she made the transition herself from real estate to leading the sales teams.  

 

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Vince De Benedetto, MBA is the Founder and CEO of the marketing automation firm - Automated Dreams - in Portland, OR. He helps transformational leaders and businesses scale their positive impact in the world through automation, conversational marketing, and mentors leaders to work smarter not harder.

Vince shares powerful lessons learned in leading the charge with pragmatic automation for marketing teams, startups, and more. Not only does he explore the challenges and wins of automation and tooling, but we also talk through powerful lessons in being a founder and his personal journey building Automated Dreams and how he selects and nurtures a successful world-spanning team.

Check out Automated Dreams here: https://www.automateddreams.com 

 

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Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of AI AppStore, and the first female Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Platform tech CEO.  She founded her first company at 5 and started an AI company in 2019 and exited in 2020.

We explore the impact (both positive and potential risk) of AI, how to change the future of work through already accessible platforms and tools, and how to automate what should be automated so humans can do what matters.  

Jennifer has spoken at the UN’s AI for Good summit and is also creating a children's book series on AI which is very exciting to see how we can educate our future generations now on the power of AI!

Check out the AI Appstore here: https://www.aiappstore.com 

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bonine-76552b2/ 

 

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Sam Ovett is the co-founder of Mobile Pocket Office and is leading the way in helping new and established businesses augment their human and technological resources to leverage growth and streamline productivity.

Sam has a storied background including being a Professional Athlete for WaveSport Kayaks & AT Paddles and Master Educator for Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics.  

We discuss the power of automating the right things so that human can do things with greater meaning and impact.  Sam also shares a lot of life lessons that have proven to be invaluable to his business and how we can all do little things with great impact.

Check out Mobile Pocket Office with our special podcast site at https://mobilepocketoffice.com/DiscoPosse 

 

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Paul Clayson joined AgilePQ in 2017, bringing extensive experience in launching and growing early stage companies. Paul has launched four disruptive technology companies, and served as CEO to five early stage companies in nanotechnology, automotive, graphene, carbon nanotube, PCB, microprocessor and other advanced technologies.

Our conversation spans the challenges of IoT security, the need to work toward Post Quantum technologies, and a wide ranging discussion on effective team building and leadership in emerging technology startups.  Paul brings a wealth of lessons and experience with stories that will leave you excited and empowered.

Check out AgilePQ here: https://agilepq.com 

Connect with Paul on LinkedIn to talk further here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulclayson/ 

 

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Leena Joshi is the co-founder & CEO at CloseFactor, helping sales teams multiply and accelerate their pipeline. This is a fantastic chat covering how we build human intelligence into automation and how to create good behaviors in the organization with technology and people.

This episode is brought to you by the fine folks at Veeam Software, GTM Delta, and Diabolical Coffee!

Brian Leroux is the co-founder of Begin.com and someone who has been doing fantastic and positive things in the development community for many years before and during his time as a founder.  

As an AWS Servless Hero (https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/brian-leroux/) and much more, Brian has been someone who personally inspires me to think about how we can do things better both in code and in the community.  

This was a great and wide-reaching conversation on why serverless is a boon for developers and ops teams, and some the the amazing challenges and advantages we have experienced in the developer community as serverless, PaaS, and FaaS unlock new potential in velocity for developers and ops teams.

Check out the "shit you don't need to do with Begin.com" page which is a must-read and truly a masterpiece in marketing and value differentiation: https://begin.com/learn/shit-youre-not-doing-with-begin 

Sign up for Begin here: https://begin.com  Follow Brian in a few different ways here: https://brian.io 

 

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Marth Weidmann is CEO and co-founder of NINE dot ARTS which uses the power of original art to transform spaces into one-of-a-kind experiences.

The NINE dot ARTS team curates inspiring collections that not only present a visual narrative, but connect people to places and client brands. They have purchased and placed more than $30 million of art for projects in 35 states.

Martha shares her lessons in how to create a positive spatial experience, how to support the art community in unique and positive ways, and she also explores her story of founding NINE dot ARTS including valuable lessons in product management, funding, and making tough choices in the early and growth phases of your startup.

Check out NINE dot ARTS here: https://ninedotarts.com 

Connect with Martha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-weidmann-b112396/ 

 

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Gaetan Castelein is the head of marketing at Tecton.ai, which is the first enterprise-ready data platform for machine learning.  Built by the creators of Uber Michelangelo, Tecton extends the concept of the feature store to manage the complete feature lifecycle.

Gaetan and I explore the challenges of data and training models for rapid, ethical advancement of Machine Learning.  The advantages and challenges that the industry faces are being realized and it's exciting to hear how Gaetan and the Tecton.ai team are taking on the challenge. 

Check out their website here:  https://tecton.ai 

 

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Rachael is the founder of Tribal app, which just launched in May 2020.  With a storied background both in life and career, from a humble and challenging start in life to becoming a graduate of the United States Military Academy, a former Army Captain and Apache helicopter pilot.

Rachael holds a degree in Engineering Physics with a minor in Nuclear Engineering, but found her passion in entrepreneurship and helping connect people to a more meaningful life.  

The stories shared in this conversation will have you absolutely engaged and wanting more.  I had such a great time and was truly inspired by our discussion.  I hope that you enjoy this as much as I did.  Proof that stories really can connect us all. 

Check out the Tribal app here: https://tribalapp.com 

 

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Jacob is a dynamic technical leader with a career defined by more than 20 years of operational excellence and technical leadership. As the Founder and Managing Director of M Genio Inc.

This dynamic discussion explores the challenges of being a founder, how to bring together people and dev skills for greater success in teams and consulting, and many startup lessons on what can go wrong and how Jacob has both surpassed and avoided risk across multiple startups. 

Great lessons for anyone in a product or consulting startup. Thank you for the great discussion, Jacob!

Check out M Genio here: http://mgenio.com 

 

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Rachel Haley is the co-founder and CEO of Clarus Designs, a consulting firm specializing in corporate growth through efficient scaling to maximize potential.  Not only is Rachel very kind to share a lot of insights into the business lessons she's captured along the way while building and growing Clarus and previous companies, but she also shares candid personal lessons about leadership, productivity, and the value of gaining control by letting go. 

 

So many great lessons on mentoring, personal growth, and how to be a good listener to become and grow as a leader. If you're at all involved with sales automation and digital marketing, this will be even more 

 

Check out Clarus Designs here: https://www.clarusdesigns.com

Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-h-59ba677/

Check out 500 Startups where Rachel participates as a mentor: https://500.co  

 

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As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Product Strategy, Danny Allan is responsible for Veeam’s global product roadmap and strategy group, and for spearheading the company’s technology vision as the #1 provider for Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management. 

Danny shares a ton of great insights into personal growth, team development, and how building products using a platform-centric approach and building outwards and upwards.  This was a fun episode that is filled with life and business lessons! 

Follow Danny on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/DannyAllan5

Visit Veeam here:  https://vee.am/discoposse 

 

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JJ Asghar is a Developer Advocate and someone whom I've had a massive respect for in how he approaches community building in tech.  JJ is much more than just what his title would indicate, and this was a wide ranging conversation which explores building and nurturing tech communities, mentoring, product building, and how to be a positive influence both in and out of the tech environment. 

Follow JJ on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/jjasghar 

Check out JJ on GitHub here: https://github.com/jjasghar 

 

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Rajoshi Ghosh and Tanmai Gopal are the co-founders of Hasura.  Their aim is to instantly make your data accessible over GraphQL and are doing so with a very interesting platform, and approach.  

We explore how to build and nurture a strong open source community, the power of "we" in technology, and how to both create commercial value and open communities successfully.  

What will really make this fun for you is how diverse their backgrounds are and what lessons they share in this dynamic and fun discussion. 

Enjoy the conversation and make sure to connect with Rajoshi and Tanmai and follow the Hasura team as the grow.

Rajoshi Ghosh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajoshighosh/ 

Tanmai Gopal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/ 

Visit Hasura on the web:  https://hasura.io 

Follow Hasura on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hasurahq 

 

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Ryan Frederick is a Founder and product person at heart. Ryan has had the privilege of being part of starting and growing several software and service companies. He has helped companies grow from inception, to viability, through to sustainability.  

This wide-ranged conversation covers everything from how to build great products, avoid feature-chasing challenges, measuring value, building teams, and so much more!  Ryan was such a great person to share time with and I definitely recommend you buy his book if you're at all close to the tech industry. A must-have for any founder, product marketer, or product manager.

 

Check out the book here: https://www.thefoundersmanual.com 

 

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Tori Barker is an insightful marketer with a great podcast and consulting practice to help companies get their marketing to the top of their game! This is a great conversation and I am super thankful to Tori for the insights! 

This episode is brought to you by the fine folks at Veeam Software, GTM Delta, and Diabolical Coffee!

Adam Gilbert is the founder of MyBodyTutor.com Helping people transform their body, mind, and ultimately life — is his passion. That’s why if you call, text or email, you’ll hear directly from Adam. Your success is what Adam and his coaching team lives for, and it’s why MBT will be the last program you ever do.

 

Adam's dream is to do much more than succeed now, instead, he's focused on building a company that his own boys can take over one day, which is why everything they do is focused on the long term.  

 

We discuss health, wellness, and the lessons of turning passion into business, successfully.  This was a fantastic discussion and a real set of lessons for every aspect of life.

 

Check out MyBodyTutor.com here: https://www.mybodytutor.com 

Visit Adam on Instagram and to reach via email here: https://www.instagram.com/mybodytutor/ 

 

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Matthew Korban is a coach, mentor, and a true inspiration.  Matthew gained international success professionally, and was awarded multiple times by multinational companies for his achievements until he was told terrifying medical news.. Refusing to surrender, Matthew decided to take his fate and his outcomes into his own hands.  Not only that, but also Matthew started coaching top executives on achieving balance in their lives and to avoid what he had to endure.  

 

This is an inpsiring story that will have you on the edge of your seat, and you will come away with an inspired approach to making great change for yourself.

 

Visit Matthew's website at https://matthewkorban.com 

Follow Matthew on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/matthew_korban/ 

 

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Don W Long is a best selling author, speaker, and peak performance consultant.  Don's storied background in business came to a head at a fateful time which brought a renewed focus and led to his new focus on motivation and helping others create opportunity, wealth, and better themselves.  We explore Don's approach to business, personal growth, and the story of the most difficult time he experienced that triggered a turnaround and started the path to a new future. 

You will definitely come away from this conversation inspired and ready to put new steps into motion for yourself and others.  

Check out Don's books and online courses here:  https://www.donwlong.com/products 

Book Don to speak and see some of his keynote content here:  https://www.donwlong.com/speaking 

 

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Chris Dickey is the founder and CEO of Visably, the world’s first platform to manage brand visibility in search.  Chris and I explore the challenges of SEO, SEV, how PR and advertising are fundamentally trapped without the right tools and processes, and much more. 

This is a great episode that really opens up how Chris and the team are approaching the problem of better visibility for any business thanks to his own history and challenges he faced in a successful career in marketing.  This will be a must-listen for anyone in marketing, in business, or who's in tech and wants to understand more about this exciting and challenging part of the industry.  

Check out Vsably online at https://visably.com 

Thank you for a great discussion, Chris! 

 

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Curtis Ray is the founder of SunCor Financial, LLC and serves as the President and CEO since 2014 when was introduced to the world of financial planning & insurance.

You'll hear about how Curtis started his first business in the granite countertop industry which led to the most significant setback that launched the next phase in his career and life. Our dynamic conversation touches on many subjects including:

• 5 Rules of Wealth
• Value investing using compound interest
• Getting past setbacks in life

Curtis shares a ton of great information including his 5 rules of wealth so this is a must listen for anyone who's keen on understanding the power of compound interest on you and your financial well being.  Sometimes the simplest answers are the best, and the right ones.  Thank you for sharing, Curtis!

Follow Curtis on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/iamCurtisRay

Follow Curtis on Instagram here:  https://www.instagram.com/iamcurtisray/ 

Check out the documentary featuring Curtis here:  https://linktr.ee/iamcurtisray 

Buy Lost Science of Compound Interest here:  https://amzn.to/3dY06SE 

 

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Sherri McGurnaghan is a DevOps leader and business analyst who brings years of experience to this dynamic conversation.  We explore how to empower people, how to be a successful mentor, how to build and motivate a team, and much more.  Sherri proves the power of community and has had a direct and indirect impact on many people.  A must-listen episode for everyone in tech or in business. 

Find Sherri at her website here:  https://themislogic.com

Connect with Sherri on Twitter here:  https://twitter.com/trafalgargirl 

 

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Rakhi is product design lead at lumosity.com and long-time meditator.  You'll inevitably know Lumosity which is designed to improve memory, increase focus, and feel sharper and is known as the leading brain training app, personalized for you.  Rakhi uses her proven experience in human-centered design to do some amazing things to help people through a digital experience. 

Our conversation tackles a wide array of topics from how we can attain mindfulness (even for me who does not like meditation), how UX design has an ethical implication, and how we can do more for ourselves to create better app and societal interactions.  

Rakhi's blog is available here:  https://www.rakhip.com 

Rakhi also writes on Medium here:  https://medium.com/@design_rakhi

Connect with Rakhi on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakhidesign/ 

 

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Tenry Fu is the co-founder of Spectro Cloud and Tina Nolte leads out development as VP of product. Together, with a strong foundation in creating business value using open technologies, Tenry and Tina share the story of Spectro Cloud and much more.  

We explore the story of Spectro Cloud, the challenges of Day 0, 1, and 2, with operating Kubernetes, and also how the lessons from their previous companies has influenced how Spectro Cloud is being brought to the market. There are some great lessons on product management, community engagement, and how open communities and open technologies create great opportunities for commercial platforms to grow adoption while maintaining the fundamentals and values of open source. 

Check out Spectro Cloud here:  https://www.spectrocloud.com

Connect with Tenry Fu:tenryfu on LinkedIn

Connect with Tina Nolte: tinanolte on LinkedIn

 

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Nathan Jones is the co-founder of WhiteCanyon Software.  What begins as a story about what to do with all the old systems in your company before you let them go traverses the spectrum as we discussion data protection, personal and corporate practices around data security, and much more.  Nathan and I have a fantastic conversation that also covers tons of great tips for navigating a career in tech, how sales is everyone's job, and a stroll down memory lane for anyone who's been in the industry for a while.

Check out WhiteCanyon Software here:  https://www.whitecanyon.com 

Visit the LinkedIn page for WhiteCanyon Software here:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecanyon-software-inc-/ 

 

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Dr. Steven Tersigni is one of the world's first certified Light Adjustable Lens surgeons. Steven has operated on some of St. Louis' most famous influencers.  He has been published in national journals and has authored and edited content for numerous medical educational publications and websites. He has been an investigator on nine U.S. FDA trials involving advanced technology lens implants, corneal treatments and investigational therapeutic medications, among other studies.   This conversation spans everything from the science that’s bringing advancements to corrective eye surgery to powerful lessons in business, learning, and how the patient (and customer) experience can be advanced through the power of empathy.  A strong set of lessons for anyone regardless of their background.   Check out Dr. Tersigni’s practice at Brinton Vision here:  https://brintonvision.com/     This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Scott Jones is the co-founder and Chief Scientist at Stackless. We chat on their freshly launched EstateJS platform. I've long been a fan of pragmatic approaches and the balance of opinionated solutions with open standards. Scott is a fantastic technologist and thinker, so this was a real pleasure to dive into what he and the team are doing.

Check out Stackless here: https://stackless.dev 

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Try out EstateJS which you can find on the GitHub project page

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Brian Knudtson is the host of the CloudBytes Podcast and has also worked as a customer, value-added reseller, vendor, and service provider, including roles in web development, system administration, post-sales deployment, pre-sales architecting, public cloud design, and technical marketing.  

We discuss the keys to successful podcasting and have an extensive discussion on how we came up in technology and made the jump to finding career success inside the tech vendor community.  Brian shares what his skills secrets have been to technical marketing and what could unlock great things for other technologists looking to map out their career growth.  

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Connect with Brian on Twitter and read his blog here

Read more about the VMUnderground here: https://blog.vmunderground.com/

 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Steve Watson is a CFO and CHRO, and but not an insurance salesman. He is, however, the founder of Trendbreakers, a connector, and an educator who has used his network to help folks improve their health and insurance benefits while lowering annual premiums.  Steve shares how his role as a CFO and CHRO have shaped his career, how mission work influenced his life, and we explore into very interesting areas of discussion around nurturing your business and employee relationships, the crossover between finance and Human Resources, plus why the health care industry is broken, and how to fix it. 

 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Nik Parekh is a founder and author of the new book The Future of Extraordinary Design. As Design Strategy Lead for Samsung, Nik bolstered earning potential by $35B by contributing product management to ‘go to market’ 17-person team for 4 separate ventures.  

We discuss the values and vision of great human-centered design and how empathy is not just a buzzword when it comes to understanding how to build great products.  Nik shares great insights for product managers and creators everywhere.  

 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals