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Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

In-depth, one-on-one conversations with founders, CEOs, and makers. The journey, lessons learned, and the struggles. Let's do this! Host Adam Stacoviak dives deep into the trials, tribulations, successes, and failures of industry leading entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, and visionaries.

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6/2/2023

Refocusing Docker on developer-first and growth artwork

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Refocusing Docker on developer-first and growth

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker. Scott shares his journey to the CEO role, how he's leading the company to not only grow revenue, but to also invest in developer facing features, their shift from a enterprise sales focus to a PLG driven model, and we even talk about Docker Desktop, the competition it faces, and the struggle they face when considering making it open source.

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5/5/2023

Selling to Enterprise artwork

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Selling to Enterprise

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Michael Grinich, Founder & CEO at WorkOS. Michael shares his journey to build WorkOS, what it takes to cross the Enterprise Chasm, and how he's building his sales organization for growth.

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4/20/2023

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Builder journey to streaming data platform

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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3/10/2023

Creating magical software artwork

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Creating magical software

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Jori Lallo, Co-founder of Linear, to talk about creating magical software and building high-quality software teams.

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7/19/2022

Building the best mountain bikes in the world artwork

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Building the best mountain bikes in the world

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is taking the show off the beaten path to speak with Adam Miller, the founder and CEO of Revel Bikes. Yes that's right, this episode features a founder of a bike brand, not a tech brand. Adam Miller's journey to create Revel Bikes is paved with many ups and many downs, a failed partnership, super scrappy weeks and months traveling the world to find the best manufacturing partners, the latest innovations in suspension tech and modern geometry to hit the mountain biking scene, a strong team that's been with him every step of the way (many of which are as close as family), and truly some of the best premium bikes available on the market today. BTW, Adam (host) is an owner of a Revel bike — he has a T1000 colorway Rascal that he's ridden on downhill trails, all-day epics, and everything in-between. If you enjoy this episode, please us know in the comments.

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7/15/2022

Enabling a world where all software is reliable artwork

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Enabling a world where all software is reliable

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Robert Ross founder and CEO of FireHydrant — the glue layer between your tech stack and your teams to mitigate and resolve incidents at scale. Robert shares his journey to become a software engineer, his time at DigitalOcean, this idea of incident management as a platform and how he shifted his focus from creating courses on incident management to recognizing the value of the software he was creating for the course — what is now known as FireHydrant. We also talk through his first experience in raising capital, what happens when the bar is raised on the reliability of the world’s software, and why their mantra is “Hire great people, who build, sell and market a great product, and you’ll have a great company.”

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6/3/2022

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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Adam was invited by our friends at Square to interview Jack Dorsey as part of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack Dorsey is one of the most prolific CEOs out there — he's a hacker turned CEO and is often working at the very edge of what's to come (at scale). Jack is focused on what the future has to offer, he's considered an innovator by many. He's also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin. What you're about to hear is the fireside chat Adam had with Jack at Square Unboxed 2022. Jack and Adam discuss the vision Square has for the developer platform and why it’s so central to the company’s strategy.

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5/18/2022

From GitHub TV to Rewatch artwork

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From GitHub TV to Rewatch

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Connor Sears, founder and CEO of Rewatch, joins Adam to share the journey of creating Rewatch. What began inside of GitHub to help them thrive and connect is now available to every product team on the planet. Rewatch lets teams save, manage, and search all their video content so they can collaborate async and with greater flexibility. We talk about where the tool's inspiration came from (spoiler alert, inside GitHub it was called GitHub TV which you'll hear during the show), how teams leverage video to reduce the constraints of communication, how Connor and his co-founder knew they had product-fit and how they grew the team and product, and of course the flip side of that — we talk about some of Connor's failures along the way, and knowing when it's the right time to take a big swing.

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5/10/2022

Leading GitLab to IPO artwork

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Leading GitLab to IPO

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder and CEO of GitLab, is back talking with Adam about all the details of their massive IPO last October 2021. To set the stage, this episode was recorded on Feb 1, 2022. During the show Adam mentioned they IPO'd at a $13B market cap, but they actually ended their opening day at approximately $15B. That's a massive win for open source, GitLab, Sid, and the rest of the team. For loyal listeners you know we've had Sid on this show before, so of course we had to get him back on the show post-IPO to get all the details of this new journey.

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5/5/2022

Making an open source Stripe for time artwork

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Making an open source Stripe for time

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Peer Richelsen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Cal.com, joins the show to talk about building the "Stripe for Time" — with a grand mission to connect a billion people by 2031 through calendar scheduling. Cal has grown from an open-source side project to one of the fastest-growing commercial open source companies. We get into all the details — what it means to be an open source Calendly alternative, how they quantify connecting a Billion people by 2031, where there’s room for innovation in the scheduling space, and why being community first is part of their secret sauce.

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2/12/2022

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Building an investment platform for everyone

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Joe Percoco — the Co-CEO of Titan, a premier investment manager for everyone. Titan is an investment company, a media, and a tech company, all rolled into one. Mid last year, they closed a $58 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) at a $450 million valuation. They currently have $750 million in assets managed and more than 35,000 clients. Why should Titan exist? In Joe's words, "Wall Street ignores everyday investors, and caters only to the ultra wealthy. This divide doesn't sit well with us. So, we built Titan." On today's show Joe shares the journey, the why's, the how's, and the sequencing it might take to get to a $1 trillion of assets managed.

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1/28/2022

Bringing observability superpowers to all artwork

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Bringing observability superpowers to all

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Christine and Adam recorded this show late last year, just after their Series C funding round. They talk about the superpower of observability for developers, how she and Charity Majors got to the place to found Honeycomb, the state of their platform today, what exactly observability is, and their goals for the future of Honeycomb.

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1/14/2022

Making the last database you’ll ever need artwork

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Making the last database you’ll ever need

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale. Now that PlanetScale is in general availability, Adam had to get Sam on the show to talk about the behind the scenes of building this database platform, how this is the last database you’ll ever need and what that means for developers, why serverless, its open source underpinnings with Vitess, and a preview of what's to come.

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11/24/2021

Building on global bare metal artwork

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Building on global bare metal

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Zac Smith, Co-Founder of Packet and now running Equinix Metal. They talk about the early days of the internet infrastructure space, the beginnings of Packet, the "why" of bare metal, transitioning Packet from startup to global company overnight when they were acquired by Equinix, and how all this for Zac is 20 years in the making.

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11/5/2021

Making the Web. Faster. artwork

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Making the Web. Faster.

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Today Adam is joined by Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel. They talk about building the platform that's making the web faster and lets front-enders do their best work, his framework for leading as a CEO, what's next for Next.js and Next.js Live, and how everything for Vercel is built on "Develop. Preview. Ship."

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10/28/2021

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Journey to CEO, again

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Today Adam is joined by Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. Evan's journey to become the CEO was not by way of founder, in this company. Evan has founded several companies in the past, and he's been in a CEO position for more than 22 years. But InfluxData was founded by Paul Dix, and Paul knew years ago that his role (best role?) was to lead the technical and product direction of the company, which lead him to Evan. Today we share that story as well as a glimpse into operating the business that built the defacto platform for building time series applications with deep roots in open source.

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10/20/2021

The future of code search artwork

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The future of code search

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Today Adam is joined by Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph. He's been tracking Sourcegraph for years now and knew one day they would hit Unicorn status), and that happened this year. They're just off a massive $125M Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.625B valuation to bring code search to every developer. The future of code search has never been more clear and we're excited to share today's show with you.

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9/3/2021

Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases artwork

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Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Today Adam is joined by Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly.io — a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to users. This conversation with Kurt talks through his journey as a developer and entrepreneur, fundraising, getting into Y Combinator (twice), and how they've iterated on the Fly platform since 2017 to get to where they are right now.

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8/26/2021

The acquisition of a lifetime artwork

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The acquisition of a lifetime

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

On today's show Adam is joined by John Nunemaker (an old friend). For some of you listening you might remember John's appearance on The Changelog #11, which was basically forever ago. Or his company Ordered List — they made Gauges, Harmony, and Speaker Deck which was quite popular in its time — so much so that they attracted the attention of Chris Wanstrath, one of the co-founders of GitHub to acquire Ordered List. The rest as they say is history. Today, John and I go back through that history to see what it was like to be acquired by GitHub and how that single choice has forever changed his life.

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8/13/2021

Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition artwork

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Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Eugenio Pace, co-founder and CEO of Auth0. Auth0 is a for developers, by developers identity, access, security, and authentication platform built for the cloud that secures billions of logins every year. Mid 2020 they raised $120 million at a $1.92 billion valuation after being told no several times. Then, earlier this year in March they announced they were being acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion, in a bold and future-thinking all stock deal. This episode is full of wisdom, inspiration, and tactical advice that Eugenio has used to build Auth0.

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