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Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, an

Episodes

Total: 105

From open source to commercially viable
2021/8/9

This week Adam is joined by Asim Aslam, the founder of Micro - a new cloud platform entirely focused

From disrupting the cloud to IPO
2021/7/12

This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the foundin

The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience
2021/3/26

This week Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of Cockroac

Intensely focused on building a software company
2021/2/23

This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winn

Balancing business and open source
2020/11/23

Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world’s most popular open so

Slow and steady wins
2020/8/3

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur

From acquisition to full conviction
2020/7/3

Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, a security platform that empowers software-driven businesses to

Leading GitLab to $100M ARR
2020/6/9

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platf

Building a real programmable robot
2020/5/8

The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child’s life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sp

Becoming an accidental founder
2020/1/24

Mike McDerment is the founder and CEO of FreshBooks. Believe it or not, Mike became a founder by acc

Mastering the art of quitting
2019/7/5

Lynne Tye is the founder of Key Values, a platform where developers find engineering teams that shar

Failing to build a billion-dollar company
2019/6/14

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell the things they ma

What are you optimizing for?
2019/5/31

Saron Yitbarek is the founder and CEO of CodeNewbie — one of the most supportive community of progra

Building a hardware/software product company
2019/5/23

Colin Billings is the founder and CEO of Orro where they’ve built the first truly intelligent home l

Zero up-front costs for a CS education
2019/4/19

What would be the impact on the world if a Computer Science education was available to you completel

Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO
2019/1/25

With JavaScript in every corner of software development and npm in every corner right along with it,

Leading data-driven software teams and products
2018/12/21

For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent yea

How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company
2018/11/30

Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, a new company he’s building around an open source pro

Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers
2018/9/21

Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for eve

From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic
2018/9/16

David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching