Best Tobias Schlottke Alphalist CTO Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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#100 - Intuition over 'Data Driven' feat. Jason Fried // co-founder + CEO @ 37signals 58:12

1d ago58:12

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Intuition over Data-Driven, Hooks over Towel Rails and Profit over Revenue Trust your intuition, you will gain a lot from this CTO podcast featuring Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, a company known for having groundbreaking policies and products (Basecamp, HEY, Once, etc.). He is also bootstrapping hero and author of multiple books (Ge…

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#99 -Team Topologies 101 feat. Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies 1:07:30

15d ago1:07:30

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A CTO’s Primer to Value Flow, Continuous Stewardship and Decoupling in Time Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cybernetics🤖 and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive l…

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#98 - Service Levels 101 feat. Alex Ewerlöf - Sr Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars & SRE Thought Leader 53:41

28d ago53:41

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SLIs,SLOs, SLAs - The WHY, WHAT, and HOW Embrace the Site Reliability Mindset with Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars 🚗 and SRE thought leader. Understand how the different aspects of site reliability work together 🪢 and when you need a DevOps vs. Platform Team vs. SRE. Find out how to set your own Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service…

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#97 - From Maker to Multiplier feat. Pat Kua // CTO Coach and Founder of the Tech Lead Academy 49:42

2M ago49:42

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Leadership Unlearnings, Metrics, Mindshifts and Communication Let’s become better Multipliers ✖️ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs.Listen to fi…

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#96 - Radical Transparency feat. Charles Gorintin // CTO @ Alan & Co-Founding Advisor at Mistral 1:02:29

2M ago1:02:29

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Radical Transparency in Salaries, Decisions, and People Discover the power of radical transparency🧐 with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alan’s setup when it comes to internal matters. Public Salary Framework ✅Searchable Board …

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#95 - Self-Efficacy and the journey from CTO to CPTO and Back feat. David Gebhardt // CTO @ mobile.de 55:28

3M ago55:28

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CPTOs, Timeboxing and Inbox Zero Become a better CTO/CPTO with these insights from David Gebhardt, CTO (and former CPTO) of mobile.de (Germany’s largest car vehicle marketplace).Originally the Head of Tech, David evolved into CPTO, eventually leading the 400-strong Product+Tech teams before evolving business needs led him to bring on a CPO and go b…

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#94 - Melanie Rieback // Co-founder & CEO at Radically Open Security 1:07:54

3M ago1:07:54

1:07:54

Cybersecurity for CTOs in 2024 Let’s hack cybersecurity in 2024 with Melanie Rieback, Co-founder & CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity consultancy with a focus on PenTesting🔏. Melanie is on a mission to fix cybersecurity consulting by putting people before profits and empowering internal teams “how to fish…

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#93 - The Technical CTO + Readying for IPO feat. Allan Leinwand // CTO @ Webflow 52:54

4M ago52:54

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Leveraging Your Tech Knowledge as CTO: Staying Hands-On and Readying for IPO Embrace the technical side 🔧 of the CTO role with Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow 🖱️ who has combined technical know-how with great products on every layer of the OSI Model: from setting up HP’s first ethernet, CISCO’s early networks, building the world’s first CDN at Digit…

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#92 - Manage yourself to better manage others feat. Johanna Rothman // The Pragmatic Manager 57:06

4M ago57:06

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Self Management for CTOs and other Managers Want to become a better manager? Then manage yourself better! From managing the time you spend managing, and all the way to managing how you give your team new tasks… Let's get real with Johanna Rothman, whom they don’t call the Pragmatic Manager for nothing. You will love her straight-talking approach to…

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#91 - Autonomous Teams: Why, How and Who with Andy Walker // Former Senior Tech Leader @ Skyscanner + Google 46:58

5M ago46:58

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Autonomy, Motivation and Purpose Empower your team with the right type of autonomy 🚀 as we define the balance in this CTO podcast with Andy Walker, who has years of experience leadings teams at Skyscanner and Google. After 30 years in tech, Andy finally has the time to share what his hard won insights about tech leadership. You will enjoy his nuanc…

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#90 - Bob Moesta // Co-Architect of the "Jobs to Be Done" Theory 46:34

5M ago46:34

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Product Discovery for Engineers (and CTOs) Invest your engineering resources better by truly understanding the core problem your product needs to solve with this CTO podcast featuring Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs to be Done Theory, who has developed and launched over 3500 products. As an engineer-turned-product-guru, Bob’s explanation of Pr…

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#89 - Melissa Perri // Author of "Escaping the Build Trap" and "Product Operations" 1:07:58

6M ago1:07:58

1:07:58

CTOs Guide to Product Strategy and ProductOps Craft the ideal product strategy in this CTO podcast episode with Melissa Perri, author of “Escaping the Build Trap” and “Product Operations”.Find out how to become truly product-led: from your strategy to your metrics to your tooling. Listen to find out: How to balance qualitative 😍 and quantitative da…

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#88 - Luca Rossi // Creator @ refactoring.club 🌀 51:41

6M ago51:41

51:41

Time Management + Continuous Learning Tips for CTO Stay on top of your professional development with these learning and productivity tips from Luca Rossi, whose refactoring.club newsletter 🌀 is read by 50k subscribers every week. After scaling Wanderio to 25M users 🚀 as founding CTO, Luca sat down to distill his experiences and in the process creat…

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#87 - Scott Chacon // Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler 51:51

7M ago51:51

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The Future of Version Control Systems Reimagine version control systems with Scott Chacon, Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler. Because, even Scott, a Git Veteran, will admit it: Git is a pain sometimes. 🫣 There is a serious Merge Conflict ⚔️ between how modern developers code and the workflow ordained by Git in the Linux mailing list days. Version …

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#86 - Leading Through A Layoff // feat. Mike Fisher - Former CTO @ Etsy 43:45

7M ago43:45

43:45

Leading Through A LayOff: How to downsize nicely Is there a nice way to downsize? Mike Fisher, former CTO of Etsy, shares what he learned when the company downscaled by 27% in 2 rounds of layoffs right before he joined. Find out how you can help your team navigate this sensitive period - both pre- and post-layoff. How much time⏳ you lose in a layof…

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#85 - Thomas Dohmke // CEO @ GitHub 54:15

8M ago54:15

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The AI-Driven Future of Software Development, Scaling, and the Open Source git checkout the future of software development with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. This broad podcast discusses everything from refactoring and scaling to the CTO/CEO role, from open source to AI as a Dev Tool. Every day Thomas delves into the development of software develop…

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#84 - Abi Noda // Co-Creator of the DevEx Metrics Framework 51:36

8M ago51:36

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DX: The Developer Metrics that Unlock Developer Productivity Find out the best way to measure Developer Experience 🧑‍💻in a way that truly enables ⚡ your developers (i.e. Developer Productivity) in this CTO podcast with Abi Noda - co-creator of the DevEx Framework and founder of Pull Panda. For years Abi has been on a quest to discover what develope…

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#83 - Aviran Mordo // VP Engineering @ Wix 1:06:36

8M ago1:06:36

1:06:36

The Wix Guild model, Mentorship and Platform-as-a- Runtime Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model…

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#82 - Gertrud Kolb // CTO @ Eyeo 58:02

9M ago58:02

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How to restructure a large tech and product organisation Find out how to restructure your org using a matrix structure with Gertrud Kolb, CTO of eyeo (the company behind common adblockers). You will find out how Gertrud implemented changes across an already large organisation - from the team typologies to team communications. Listen to find out: Ho…

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#81 - Teresa Torres // Author of 'Continuous Discovery Habits' 47:11

9M ago47:11

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How to do continuous product discovery sustainably and as a team Find out how to do continuous product discovery with Teresa Torres who has taught over 12,000 people how to sustainably infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. You will find out why product should not be just a job title, but a mindset that the entire C-suite needs t…

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#80 - Sarah Polan // Field CTO @ Hashicorp 43:45

10M ago43:45

43:45

Platform Engineering 101: Why you need it and how to do it Find out how to use platform engineering to scale your DevOps 🚀with this hands-on podcast with Sarah Polan, Field CTO at HashiCorp. Sarah is passionate about 2 things: DevSecOps 🔏 and automating everything 🔁 (she even automates aspects of her childcare :)). Which is why this podcast episode…

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#79 - Dr. Steven Rogelberg // Author of "Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings" 30:35

10M ago30:35

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How to Have Effective One-on-One (1:1) Meetings as a CTO Did you know that effective 1:1s will 3X your employee engagement? 🤩Maximise your 1:1 meetings 🤝 by leveraging the meeting science discovered by Steven Rogelberg (Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte and author of 2 top-ranked books about meeting science: “The Surprising Science of Meeting…

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#78 - Stephen Wolfram // Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research 1:18:26

11M ago1:18:26

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Computational Thinking, LUIs and the AI-assisted Coding of the Future _ It is time to stop learning the computer’s programming language, and get computers to learn our language. _Prepare think different - or should we say alien 👾 - in this CTO podcast with Stephen Wolfram (Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research). Find out why we need to use computationa…

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#77 - Vikas Gupta // CTO @ Choco 51:43

11M ago51:43

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How to focus on business value in tech Find out how to use tech to deliver (not distract from) business value in this CTO podcast featuring Vikas Gupta, CTO at Choco (a digital platform connecting suppliers to their restaurants), who previously held senior engineering roles at Uber and Dropbox. Listen find out : ⚖️ How to balance product and platfo…

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#76 - Richard Socher // CEO @ You.com 58:02

12M ago58:02

58:02

How AI will impact search, coding, digital marketing, jobs and more Get a handle on the latest developments in AI 🤩 in this CTO Podcast featuring Richard Socher, CEO of You.com (the world’s first AI- centric chat-based 💬 search engine). This is your opportunity to learn from the AI professor 🎓who co-authored the paper that introduced the term ‘prom…

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#75 - John Engates // Field CTO @ Cloudflare 47:00

1y ago47:00

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AI-Driven DevOps, Incident Response & the Role of Field CTO Buckle up for a journey through the evolution of DevOps with John Engates, the Field CTO at Cloudflare, who has been leading the charge since his days as CTO of Rackspace (2002-2018). Get ready for a fascinating ride as we explore the role of AI in DevOps and gain insights from a true indu…

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#74 - Shawn 'swyx' Wang // Developer Experience Expert 48:34

1y ago48:34

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How to use generative AI as a DevTool Dig deep into how to use generative AI as developer tool 🧑‍💻in this CTO podcast featuring Shawn ‘Swyx’ Wang. Shawn has not only headed Developer Experience at 3 Unicorns 🦄, but he is also the editor of the Latent Space AI/ML newsletter. Tune in to discover how generative AI will change programming and how to st…

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#73 Will Larson // Thought Leader @ Irrational Exuberance (lethain) 1:01:42

1y ago1:01:42

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How to find the ideal CTO Role in 2023: Location, Stage, Domain, Culture and Red Flags Focus on your CTO career in this podcast with Will Larson about leaving a CTO role, finding a new CTO role, and negotiating your compensation. Will is the thought leader behind the popular blog "Irrational Exuberance" and the book "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of E…

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#72 - Kent C. Dodds // Co-Founder of Remix 58:27

1y ago58:27

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Revolutionizing Web Architecture: PESPA - The Future of Single Page Apps Like the UX of a SPA but developing it is a nightmare🤔?Then you should listen to this podcast about PESPA (Progressively Enhanced Single Page apps.🤩. You will learn from Kent C. Dodds, 💁‍♂️co-founder of Remix about this latest web architecture which combines the UX of a SPA (n…

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#71 - Malte Ubl // CTO @ Vercel 50:58

1y ago50:58

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The Future of Front-end Learn about the future of front-end with Malte Ubl (CTO at Vercel). Malte is the creator of JSConf.eu and has extensive experience in engineering teams on projects like Wiz (the front-end framework Google still uses in most of their consumer apps) and Google Search (Desktop). Now he is at Vercel - mainstreaming the tools and…

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#70 - Dominik Angerer // Cofounder and CEO @ Storyblok 51:06

1y ago51:06

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Remote First 101: Hiring, Compensation, IT Provisioning, Onboarding, Culture and More Learn out to run your remote 🌎 company effectively with tips from Dominik Angerer, co-founder, and CEO of Storyblok. He shares tips and insights on everything from remote recruiting to onboarding and engagement. Plus, he shares the story behind the Storyblok tech …

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#69 - David Linthicum // Chief Cloud Strategy Office @ Deloitte Consulting 56:20

1+ y ago56:20

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How to Optimise your Cloud Costs Find out how to optimize your cloud ☁️costs in this CTO podcast featuring David Linthicum (Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte, Author of Insider’s Guide to Cloud Computing, and #1 Cloud Influencer).This is your opportunity to hear about the efficient use of cloud computing from someone whose 35-year career inc…

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#68 - Patrick Campbell // Founder & CEO @ ProfitWell 1:08:03

1+ y ago1:08:03

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SaaS Pricing Strategies Find out how to price your SaaS product effectively 💸 in this podcast featuring Patrick Campbell of ProfitWell (a SaaS for subscription analytics, retention, and pricing solutions). He shares pricing insights he has learned by looking over 🧐 the data of 73 000 SaaS companies over the past decade! Listen to find out: How to g…

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#67 - Renaud Visage // Co-Founder & ex-CTO @ Eventbrite 54:13

1+ y ago54:13

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From Bootstrapping through Recession to Climate-Friendly Tech: CTO Insights for the Modern Era Find out how to bootstrap and scale fast in this CTO podcast featuring Renaud Visage - Co-Founder & ex-CTO at Eventbrite🎟. He shares what he would do differently if he would bootstrap Eventbrite again, his approach to the evolving role of the founding CTO…

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#66 - Dr. Thanasis Noulas // VP Engineering @ Trade Republic 51:39

1+ y ago51:39

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Product Analytics and the Modern Data Stack Get insight into product analytics from Dr. Thanasis Noulas, VP Engineering at TradeRepublic - whose 15+ year data career has spanned industries as diverse as trading, accommodation (Booking.com & AirBnB), Mobility (Uber) and Content (Netflix). Listen to find out: How to be data-informed when you can’t be…

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#65 - Ryan Singer // Creator of the Shape Up Method 1:09:34

1+ y ago1:09:34

1:09:34

How to ship meaningful products on time with the Shape Up Method Find out how to ship meaningful products 👍 on time ⌛ with proper product shaping in this CTO podcast with Ryan Singer, the creator of the Shape Up Method 💪. The Shape Up Method aims to better define and prioritise 🤔 projects before they are sent to be built and shipped. Listen to find…

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#64 - Carlo Szelinsky // Co-CEO & Founder @ applike Group 52:32

1+ y ago52:32

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By Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast

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#63 - Aron Spohr // CTO @ Flaschenpost 54:04

1+ y ago54:04

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Logistics, Tech, and Groceries Discover how Flaschenpost uses tech to deliver groceries within two hours ⏳ in this CTO podcast featuring Aron Spohr, CTO @ Flaschenpost - a grocery delivery service. 🍏🍞🥚🥫 Listen to find out: Why boring 🥱 is good in a tech stack (SPOILER: They run their ecommerce 🛒 site in .NET and C# ) Why they went with a hybrid app…

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#62 - Maria Meier // CTO @ Phantasma Labs 45:02

1+ y ago45:02

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Creating Simulators for the Reinforcement Learning of Autonomous Vehicles Get insight into the world of reinforcement learning in this CTO podcast with Maria Meier CTO @ Phantasma Labs (a Simulation-a-a-Service). Maria shares with us how the simulation industry🔮 is developing - particularly in the autonomous vehicle context.Listen to find out: Why …

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#61 - Bjarne Stroustrup // Creator of C++ 59:29

1+ y ago59:29

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The Past, Present and Future of C++ Come to a new appreciation of the code that powers most of the hardware you interact with in this CTO podcast featuring Bjarne Stroustrup - Creator of C++. Join us as we discuss the past, present, and future of C++ - a language used in everything from ATMs 🏧 to rocketships 🚀. Listen to find out: Why we need to di…

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#60 - Yonatan Zunger // Creator of the WXZ Layers of the System Approach 1:02:55

1+ y ago1:02:55

1:02:55

Ethical Engineering + Reliable Scalable Architecture Discover new ways to think about ethical engineering 😇 and technical architecture 🏗️ in this CTO podcast featuring Yonatan Zunger, Creator of WXZ Layers of System Approach and Distinguished Engineer at Twitter. This is your opportunity to hear from someone whose architectural philosophy is inspir…

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#59 - Andreas Wixler // CTO @ FINN 43:52

1+ y ago43:52

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How to Scale a Start Up with No Code + Low Code + Hard Code Find out how to be more efficient by using a mix of no-code, low-code and hard-code in your tech stack in this practical CTO podcast episode featuring Andreas Wixler, the CTO of FINN 🚙. Listen to find out: When, why and how to migrate ➡️ your core business code from no-code to hard-code Ho…

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#58 - Uncle Bob Martin // The Clean Coder Behind Test Driven Development, SOLID Principles and the Agile Manifesto 48:29

1+ y ago48:29

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Software Architecture in 2022 Get clarity on how to build great software in 2022 in a world exploding with methodologies and languages with the legendary software craftsman Uncle Bob Martin. The Clean Coder ✨is known for Test Driven Development ✅ and his contribution to SOLID 🧰 and the Agile Manifesto 📜 and he is here to share how to incorporate it…

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#57 - Kathryn Koehler // Director, Developer Productivity Engineering @ Netflix 56:24

1+ y ago56:24

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Implementing the Right Internal Tooling for Developer Productivity Find out what it takes to enable developer productivity in a highly autonomous environment 💪 like Netflix where there are no rules ✌️- only trust and accountability .Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity Engineering @ Netflix shares insight into lean teams, internal to…

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#56 - Ken Coleman // America’s Career Coach & Ramsey Personality 50:46

1+ y ago50:46

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How To Attract, Retain and Engage Tech Talent Learn how to be the CTO that everyone wants to work for by listening to this talk by Ken Coleman. Known as America’s Career Coach, this Ramsey Personality is also the bestselling author of books like ‘From Paycheck to Purpose’, ‘Proximity Principle’, and more. Discover the winning recipe you need to att…

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#55 - Rachel Potvin // VP Engineering @ Github 54:19

2y ago54:19

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#54 - Cal Henderson // CTO @ Slack 50:54

2y ago50:54

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How to Build Sticky Products Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack, creator of Flickr, and author of ‘Building Scalable Websites’ (O'Reilly Media, 2006) shares how Slack was built from both a tech and product perspective and what you should be doing to reclaim your focus time ⏱️. Listen to find out: How Slack does focus time What tech stack👩‍💻 powers Slack a…

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#53 - Mikko Hypponen // Chief Research Officer @ WithSecure 41:06

2y ago41:06

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Open Source Vulnerabilities; Cybersecurity in the Russian/Ukrainian conflict and AI-aided cyberattacks Find out what is new in the world of cybersecurity in this CTO podcast featuring cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen, the originator of Hypponen's Law (if it's smart📲, it's vulnerable😨) and Europol 🇪🇺 board member.Tune in to hear what he has to sa…

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#52 - Oren Etzioni // CEO of Allen Institute for AI 43:40

2y ago43:40

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Opportunities in AI, Computer VIsion and NLP. I spoke with Oren Etzioni - CEO of Allen Institute for AI (a leading AI research institute). Get an insight into what's new in the world of AI from the person whose company's incubated startups worth $300 million+ and released a number of AI tools and technologies. Listen to find out: How to get the sci…

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#51 - Eben Upton // Co-founder & CEO of Raspberry Pi Ltd 56:57

2y ago56:57

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The Ins and Outs of the Semi-Conductor and Hardware Industry Eben Upton, Co-founder & CEO of Raspberry 🍓 Pi Ltd Foundation (which produces low-cost, high-performance Raspberry Pi single-board computers and microcontrollers for kids - and adults) shares what it’s like to build hardware that makes computing accessible to more people (Did you know tha…

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