Charity Majors , CTO and co-founder at honeycomb , grew up in rural Idaho and dropped out of college. This is her unlikely journey from pianist to successful high-tech entrepreneur. She's a pioneer in the monitoring and observability space who turned her learning at Facebook into a company focused on helping developers find and fix bugs faster. Charity's opinionated, thoughtful, and one of the most outspoken critics of, well, the status quo :). Listen and learn... What motivated Charit...
Oct 17, 2021•44 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Kai Nunez , VP Research & Insights at Salesforce, didn't always know she wanted to pursue a career in AI because it didn't exist as a field. Her dad was a linguist and she became interested in human-computer interaction at a young age. Kai's deep concern for values-based leadership and operating with integrity led her to become a leading voice in the DEI and AI ethics communities. Today, her teams are creating a culture of awareness about the impact tech has on underserved pop...
Oct 10, 2021•41 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast René Morkos , CEO and Founder of ALICE Technologies, grew up wanting to build things. That passion led him to degrees in Construction Management and an adjunct professorship at Stanford. In 2015, he founded ALICE to improve the efficiency of complex construction projects. Rene has since raised nearly $40M from an incredible list of investors including Lightspeed, Merus, and Future Ventures. Listen and learn... What René learned from his first job after college working on construction sites in Af...
Oct 03, 2021•39 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Gary Bolles , entrepreneur, venture advisor, and best-selling author, is a deep thinker who established roots in Silicon Valley in the 80s to pursue his joint passions for technology and exploring what he calls the three boxes of life - learning, work, and leisure. He’s the author of The Next Rules of Work which was published August 31. He’s also the chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University and the founder of eParachute among other companies. Oh, and his LinkedIn courses have helpe...
Sep 26, 2021•42 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Derek Steer cut his teeth as a data analyst at Facebook and Yammer more than a decade ago. He co-founded Mode in 2013 to make it easier to ask questions about data and get better answers faster. Mode has since raised four rounds of funding including a recent $33M round from an exceptional group of investors. 52% of Fortune 500 companies use Mode and Derek has grown the team to more than 300 employees. Derek's vision: "drive the time to do analysis down to zero." He's well on ...
Sep 19, 2021•35 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff Meyerson , entrepreneur, musician, technologist, and author of the acclaimed " Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software ", discusses the stranglehold Big Tech has on developer tools and how the future of software development may be quite different from the present. Listen and learn... What Jeff learned about sales from playing poker How Facebook builds software... and how it can avoid being evil Why React is the "Linux of the frontend of the web" The development tools Jef...
Sep 12, 2021•42 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Krishna Gade was an engineering leader at Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook before realizing AI is eating software... and responsible AI is essential. He turned a passion for "trustworthy AI" into a company that recently raised $32M to make AI explainable. Listen and learn... Why AI explainability matters... and how to instrument it in AI models What developers need to know to ensure AI models don't make bad decisions What legislators need to know when creating frameworks to regula...
Sep 05, 2021•31 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Neelima Parasker started coding at a young age. Inspired by her entrepreneur mother, she studied Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering before eventually starting SnapIT Solutions. Neelima's passion for investing in unproven talent has guided her as a leader. She's an active entrepreneur coach and is involved in many civic organizations in and around the Kansas City area. Listen and learn... The single most important lesson for parents looking to cultivate a love of Science, Techn...
Aug 29, 2021•28 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Rachel Chalmers aspired to be an English professor before being inspired by a technology journal to relocate from Ireland to San Francisco. She has since covered over 1,000 startups as an industry analyst and invested in many more as an investor. Rachel is passionate about representing the under-represented and encouraging all those who have been told they can't live their dreams. This is a must-listen for entrepreneurs who have ever felt disadvantaged by circumstances out of their control....
Aug 22, 2021•33 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Cataltepe is an accomplished scientist and entrepreneur... with a social conscience. She has published more than 100 academic papers and is a three-time recipient of the "Women Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Dr. Cataltepe and her team believe building and managing AI models should be something anyone can do... even her 70 year old mother who is a farmer in Turkey :). Tazi's vision is to make AI explainable, accessible, and configurable for "mere mortals". Listen an...
Aug 15, 2021•42 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Ken Gonzalez has spent the better part of 35 years as an IT practitioner, CIO advisor, and industry analyst. He has fielded more than 2,500 inquiry calls and contributed to some of the most impactful IT trends. Ken's advisory work focuses on IT metrics and organizational change. Hear Ken share the one workplace technology shift that all organizations must make to remain competitive in the next decade. Listen and learn... What it means for IT to adopt a "product management mindset"...
Aug 08, 2021•31 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Dan O'Connell , former founder and CEO of TalkIQ which was acquired by Dialpad, discusses the future of cloud communications. Dan's vision for helping teams sell more with less churn led to Dialpad becoming a unicorn last year having raised $100M at a $1.2B pre-money valuation. Exceptional investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures are betting on Dialpad's ability to convert legacy telephony infrastructure into cloud-native, SaaS systems using AI to analyze voice ...
Aug 02, 2021•37 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Dion Hinchcliffe has been reporting on and prognosticating about the future of work for more than 20 years. He speaks with 100s of global CIOs annually about how to use technology to deliver great employee experiences. In this discussion, Dion shares mind-boggling stats about IT spending patterns and provocative thoughts about how to fix what's broken in the workplace. Listen and learn... The real definition of "digital transformation" Why CIOs have the shortest tenure in the C-su...
Jul 25, 2021•40 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast John Whaley has been programming since age five. He has been a lecturer at Stanford in Computer Science, a founding CTO, and a founding CEO. John raised a large series A in 2017 and has sold two companies. Oh, and he's out to save the world from passwords. UnifyID is a pioneer in the use of biometric data stored on mobile devices to authenticate users. Listen and learn... How John's personal journey led to the founding and successful acquisition of UnifyID by Prove. About the ethical i...
Jul 18, 2021•44 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Filip Dousek is a successful entrepreneur having sold his last company to Workday. He's also the author of Flock Without Birds , a two-part novel that challenges how the whole relates to its parts. Stories, Filip's company, is solving the problem of extracting insights about people from massive datasets to be able to answer questions about diversity, organizational behavior, and skills gaps. He also discusses the challenges of growing a startup in Prague. Listen and learn... Why enterp...
Jul 11, 2021•39 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Wojahn has been building companies and helping enterprises use technology for nearly 30 years. He learned a few things before launching Thirdera , the largest pure-play ServiceNow partner, earlier this year. Jason shares his perspectives on the right ways to introduce innovation to clients... and also the right way to reward innovation within his own team. Thirdera has created a brand that is fun and a culture that empowers everyone to do their best work. Listen and learn... Why there&apos...
Jul 05, 2021•31 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Tiernan Ray is an accomplished journalist who has written extensively for publications like ZDNet, the New York Times, Barron’s, CNN Money, Fortune, and Bloomberg. He famously launched coverage of machine learning for Barron’s back in 2015 with a cover story called “The Cloud Chip”. In this wide-ranging discussion, Tiernan shares how the principles of ethics should be applied to AI based on his thorough analysis of current research. Listen and learn... Why the field of AI ethics requires "t...
Jun 28, 2021•42 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Bryan Talebi learned the value of education after fleeing Iran and living in a Turkish refugee camp. He worked for NASA at age 16 and, after helping lead many successful startups, started Ahura to disrupt the education system "which hasn't changed in 150 years". Bryan realized the millions of workers being displaced by automation need a way to more rapidly prepare for careers in the labor market of the future. Listen and learn... What skills are required to succeed in the new labo...
Jun 20, 2021•37 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Milin Desai was an executive at VMware before taking the CEO role at Sentry last year. Since then, he led a $60M funding round that valued the company at $1B. An exceptional group of investors including Accel and NEA as well as new investor BOND participated. In this discussion with Dan Turchin, Milin openly shares the challenges of growing a startup and where there's room for innovation in the crowded monitoring space. Listen and learn... What all other monitoring vendors are missing that ...
Jun 13, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Slater Victoroff is a machine learning expert and science fiction writer who is never shy when sharing opinions about AI and the future of technology. His passion for giving unstructured content meaning led to the founding and success of Indico . The company has since raised $36M from an impressive set of investors including Jump Capital and Sandbox Ventures. In this discussion, hear how Slater went from dorm room programmer to entrepreneur. Listen and learn... How Indico was launched by pineapp...
Jun 06, 2021•35 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast A first on the show this week... we meet a guest whose digital twin has its own YouTube channel. Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a futurist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is a popular keynote speaker about issues related to how we co-exist with technology in an increasingly digital world. Listen and learn.... Why it is we're living in "exponential times" How future societies will be organized by "digitalism" instead of "liberalism" based on who can access ...
May 31, 2021•34 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Zi Wang , Timeless founder and CEO, learned a lot at Google in eight and a half years. Enough that he was inspired to turn his Google-esque bold vision for the future of time management into a company. Timeless isn't solving the calendar app problem - Zi and his team are solving the problem of how to get the most out of what little time we have. Listen and learn... The founding vision of Timeless About the future of time management The value of a "marketplace for time" Why data pr...
May 23, 2021•31 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Most of us won't learn as much in a career about DevOps as Banjot Chanana forgets in an afternoon. Having built teams and products that have given rise to DevOps over a 20-year career as a product leader, Banjot is qualified to have strong opinions about the right ways to develop and deploy software. The best part? He's as enthusiastic as ever about what's ahead. Listen and learn... Where there are opportunities to innovate in and around DevOps. Where VMs failed and created an opp...
May 17, 2021•35 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast It's tough being entrepreneurs in Belgium and Italy. Our appetite for risk and access to capital in the U.S. is an unfair advantage. Ciro and Jacopo moved to Silicon Valley to pursue their dream and, in the process, learned why entrepreneurship is a full-contact sport. Their journey from MIT to startup to successful exit is a classic tale of grit and determination. Listen and learn... What's unique about Silicon Valley for founders. How to turn a technology into a product. What disting...
May 10, 2021•39 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Kordel France taught himself to code to automate his Calculus homework. He was inspired by seeing robot tractors on the family farm. Not the conventional background for a high-tech CEO. Kordel and Seekar have turned a passion for AI and machine learning into novel applications in fields as diverse as medicine, law, and professional sports. The best parts of this conversation are when Kordel describes what it means to practice responsible AI. A heads up for investor-types: Seekar is a hot company...
May 05, 2021•33 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Two firsts this week on the podcast: first time we’ve had a two-guest interview and first time we’ve had guests who aren’t native to the tech industry. Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon are pioneers in the talent management space having worked with A-list celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer. A decade ago they set out to bring what they learned in entertainment to the tech talent economy. They’ve since published the popular book Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy an...
Apr 28, 2021•35 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast This week's guest has been called “America’s Best Leader” by U.S. News and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” by ABC, Fox, and NPR. Linda Rottenberg is the Co-founder and CEO of Endeavor , the world's leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. She's also an accomplished author, speaker, investor, and mentor for global entrepreneurs. Linda's a mom of twins, a compassionate leader, and a force of nature having overseen the creation of more than four million jobs and 27 billion i...
Apr 18, 2021•37 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate... and governments around the world are mismanaging the opportunity to prepare citizens for the new labor market. He has written extensively on how regulation is stifling innovation. Denis is a serial entrepreneur having started and sold multiple successful companies including EduFactory in the e-learning space. He's also an accomplished author and frequent TV and radio contributor in France on the future labor...
Apr 12, 2021•36 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Rehmann went from investment banking to fish farming. His passion for solving the protein problem in Eastern Africa led to one of the most successful aquaculture farms in the world. Joe's story should inspire entrepreneurs everywhere. No problem is too big to solve. Technology we take for granted can be used in ways we can't imagine... until leaders like Joe redefine what's possible. Listen and learn... What inspired Joe to start Victory Farms How Victory Farms used mobile pho...
Apr 03, 2021•29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Philippe Cases has been an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he founded Topio Networks to automate the process of generating business insights in tech markets like edge computing, IoT, and blockchain. Philippe has strong opinions about everything from autonomous driving to augmented reality and is paid to influence how they evolve. Listen and learn... How an engineer growing up in France and Germany came to be a Silicon Valley success story. Why w...
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