In Austin since 1998, Mark has worked in Austin’s startup community, where he’s helped to build technology teams at several venture-backed startups, including Trilogy Software and SolarWinds. Most recently, Mark has been a long-time part of AlienVault (a cybersecurity company), which was acquired by AT&T in 2018. At AT&T, Mark was an Associate Vice President in their Cybersecurity business. Outside of work, Mark has been a long-time supporter and volunteer at many Austin organizations, i...
Nov 10, 2020•37 min•Ep. 17
Charlie Cuddy currently works at OpsCompass, a cloud security posture management leader, as a cloud solution engineer with an emphasis on customer success. Prior to working at OpsCompass, Charlie spent nearly a decade as a public high school math and computer science teacher as well as a head cross country and track coach. He is passionate about learning, relationship building, and helping others successfully recognize and reach their full potential. For more information on today's episode, visi...
Nov 03, 2020•43 min•Ep. 16
John Grange is a seasoned entrepreneur and is co-founder and CTO at OpsCompass, a leading SaaS product for managing compliance and security in clouds like Azure, AWS, and GCP. He has 15 years of experience building products and companies including co-founding a top 5 global Microsoft ASP.net hosting provider and creating SaaS products in areas as diverse as healthcare and marketing tech. John's passion is identifying those mega-trends that truly impact how technology is consumed and then buildin...
Oct 20, 2020•43 min•Ep. 15
Patrick is CEO and a co-founder of Jorsek Inc, makers of easyDITA. Since beginning with Jorsek in 2005 Patrick, has worked on a wide range of projects all focused on improving authoring, production, and distribution of content. Most recently, his primary focus has been empowering the users of easyDITA and generally advancing the knowledge management and product documentation industry.
Oct 07, 2020•48 min•Ep. 14
Dan Balcauski is an experienced product leader and principal customer churn consultant for Product Tranquility based in Austin, TX. He focuses on helping growth-stage B2B SaaS leaders who are struggling with churn. Over his career, he has worked in both consumer and B2B companies, across consumer internet, mobile, IT software, and test and measurement hardware and software in addition to company sizes ranging from startups to publicly traded multi-national enterprises.
Sep 24, 2020•44 min•Ep. 13
Nate is the founder & CEO of Appsembler, a B2B SaaS company that he founded in 2011, and is now a 100% distributed team hailing from 8 countries. Appsembler helps companies like Redis Labs, Chef Software and Dremio deliver online hands-on technical training at scale. Nate has been heavily involved with several open source communities in his 25+ year tech career, and loves tinkering around with emerging technologies and playing jazz saxophone in his spare time.
Sep 03, 2020•43 min•Ep. 12
As the leader of the TrustRadius marketing team, Russ Somers balances a data-driven approach and an interest in growth hacks with narrative instincts honed by years as a songwriter and performer. He has led marketing teams for high-growth startups including TrendKite (acquired by Cision), Invodo (acquired by Industrial Color Studios), and sonarDesign. Russ started his marketing career with Fortune 500 companies including Dun & Bradstree, Dell, and Sabre Holdings. He spends his spare time wit...
Aug 26, 2020•42 min•Ep. 11
Christopher Holmes, CEO of Grey Matter has a strong background in management, vision, and large-scale industrial enterprise resource planning and middleware technology - specializing in hybrid cloud techniques, IT to Business measurement and data security. He is an accomplished senior information technology professional and leader offering over 25+ years of demonstrated career success developing and executing operational strategies to promote organizational growth and optimal utilization of emer...
Aug 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 10
Dan is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur and growth expert with proven operational and strategic leadership. He has participated in $5B in successful exits, IPO experience and many buy-side acquisitions with successful outcomes. Dan currently is a Managing Partner with High Tide Advisors, a boutique consulting firm created to help investors and software companies create and execute high-growth GTM strategies and is also an operating advisor for Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based Private Equi...
Aug 07, 2020•50 min•Ep. 9
Michael Massad is a software investor at Elsewhere Partners where he co-leads sourcing efforts and conducts operational / financial due diligence. Previously, Michael was a product marketing manager at Microsoft and an investor at Stonelake Capital Partners. Michael strives to connect capital and operational expertise with growing software companies across industries – most recently in infrastructure and cybersecurity – that are located outside of traditional VC hubs.
Jul 31, 2020•48 min•Ep. 8
Brian Reale is the CEO & Co-founder of ProcessMaker, a leading workflow and business process management software company. Brian is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience managing high tech companies. Prior to founding ProcessMaker in 2000, Brian was the General Manager of Unete Telecomunicaciones, a long distance voice and data carrier in South America that he founded in 1997 and sold to a publicly traded US Telecom company in 2000. Brian also co-founded Spotless LLC, an...
Jul 07, 2020•50 min•Ep. 7
With more than 25 years of experience across all aspects of Product, Corporate, and Digital Marketing, John Pasquarette helped scale National Instruments from a small private company to a billion-dollar public enterprise. As leader of NI’s software business, he helped establish NI’s platforms as an industry standard for test and measurement – launching multiple product platforms and functionality, leading and driving industry consortia, and shifting to a recurring service revenue model. As leade...
Jun 16, 2020•54 min•Ep. 6
A retired Infantry Marine, Justin Endres has almost 25 years of experience, developing and executing efficient and profitable sales models and growth strategies. At ActivTrak, his expertise will be pivotal in accelerating growth across the remote workforce management space, driving motions to extend the company’s market leadership position. During his career, Justin has held Executive positions with small venture-backed companies and public companies. His ability to create a coaching culture of ...
May 19, 2020•36 min•Ep. 5
Alfredo Ramirez is a seasoned entrepreneur with direct experience in building early-stage software technology companies, which is why he proudly serves Vyopta as CEO and Co-Founder. A nod to his passion for pushing the button of innovation, Alfredo previously co-founded Vitalz, a venture backed enterprise software company acquired by Oracle, and Daman Consulting. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and writes about topics such as technolo...
May 12, 2020•44 min•Ep. 4
Andrew Kahl has over 20+ years in customer facing roles and was an early proponent of the Customer Success model that has become popular today. He has spent his career slightly obsessed with how companies engage and retain customers. He is the former Chief Customer Officer for SailPoint and has held senior executive leadership roles with leading global customer delivery teams for NetApp and Juniper Networks. Andrew co-founded and led CREDANT Technologies for 12 years before it was successfully a...
May 01, 2020•46 min•Ep. 3
Chief Technology Officer at Kasasa, Pradeep Ittycheria is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with 17 years of experience managing software product engineering teams across a range of industries. Pradeep co-founded Oink, a payments company that targets the under 18 demographic. Oink has over 1.3 million users with an online wallet and a prepaid product in collaboration with Discover Financial. Pradeep has successfully led new product development initiatives using global engineer...
May 01, 2020•44 min•Ep. 2
Kevin Gervais has had an entrepreneurial spirit since childhood. He is now the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Statflo, and a Partner at Bruce. From 2012-2018 he served as founder and CEO at Statflo to enable compliant one-to-one relationships between retailers and customers. Since 2015, they scaled the team from 2 to 40+, surpassed $5M ARR, raised $21M, hired a CEO in Jan 2019 and oversaw back-to-back years of 100% ARR growth. Follow Kevin: https://twitter.com/startupkevin https://kev...
May 01, 2020•32 min•Ep. 1
Welcome to CapitalGeek a podcast dedicated to the founders and operators that create the products we love and turn them into fabulous companies with meaningful exits.
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