Best Josh Colbert Podcasts (2024)

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Performance Management at Indeed 35:13

9M ago35:13

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Performance management has been a hot topic during this “year of efficiency”. In this Interview RC Johnson shares his experiences of building out, scaling and refining the performance management process at Indeed.By Peter Bell / RC Johnson

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Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful 42:04

9M ago42:04

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In a world where getting everyone into the same office five days a week is increasingly difficult, offsites are becoming an essential tool for aligning and connecting teams, departments and companies. But all too often, the planning falls to someone with limited events or facilitation experience - on top of their day job - and substantial value is …

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Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale 41:04

9M ago41:04

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Over the last decade as Avant has scaled to an 800+ person company, town halls have been a consistent pillar of their interval communications strategy to support and reinforce culture. This week Paul Zhang shares his experience and approach to running both company wide and department specific town halls and demo days to better align his team.…

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Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth 38:59

9M ago38:59

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Hiring junior developers is always a concern. They’re easier to find and cost less than experienced engineers, but in addition to being less productive, they can easily become a drag on the performance of the senior devs you depend upon to ship mission critical features. Drawing on his experience in the Israeli Military (think the Israeli NSA), Avi…

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Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change 33:57

10M ago33:57

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As engineering leaders, we have a responsibility to our organizations and their bottom line. At the same time, we’re leading humans, not automatons, and understanding and supporting the people in our org is both the right thing to do as a person and the most effective way to deliver business value. In this wide-ranging discussion Rukmini Reddit, SV…

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Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned 43:14

10M ago43:14

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Kit Colbert has taken an atypical route to becoming the CTO of a large, publicly traded corporation. He started at VMWare 20 years ago as an individual contributor and worked his way up to CTO leading a 2,300 person engineering org. In this fascinating interview, we walk through Kit’s progression from junior IC to senior engineering leadership and …

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Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction 40:16

10M ago40:16

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Naturally, as CTOs, we often think about our job as to work with developers to ship software. But what does that mean in a world of frameworks, low code, no code, and even GenAI solutions? In this fascinating interview, I got to chat with Jeremiah Stone, CTO of SnapLogic about heuristics for finding the right level of abstraction for delivering bus…

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Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand 37:03

10M ago37:03

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Over the last decade Josh Builder has led engineering at The Orchard (music), SoulCycle (fitness), Rent the Runway (fashion), and now Signify Health (healthcare). None of these were deep tech companies, but in each case, he found a core of engineering excellence and used that to entice and retain top talent to join his team - despite not being able…

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Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs 32:18

10M ago32:18

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In this week's interview with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, we discussed the changes that LLMs might bring - to our engineering teams, our products, and our society. We looked at the potential impact on how we write software, what software we need, opportunities for both incumbents and AI native startups, and the broader…

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Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation 32:31

11M ago32:31

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Raji Subramanian brings a wide range of experience to the role of CTO at Opendoor (Nasdaq OPEN). She honed her technical chops culminating in a Principal Engineer role at Amazon and then ran engineering orgs at Yahoo and Amazon and cofounded Pro.com which was acquired by Opendoor. In this wide ranging interview, we discuss everything from the trend…

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Yoav Grossman - Adding LLMs to your product - a case study 35:34

11M ago35:34

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This week I interviewed Yoav Grossman, VP of Product & Engineering at Spinach.io about how they went about identifying potential use cases for LLMs within their product, spiking, implementing, and releasing an offering. It’s a great mini-case study of the steps involved in adding GenAI to a product thoughtfully, but quickly. Spinach is a smaller st…

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Mike Boufford - Creating an AI Strategy 35:59

11M ago35:59

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Just before our CTO summits in May I got to chat with Mike Boufford, CTO at Greenhouse about his experiences in getting up to speed with GenAI and LLMs as a non-expert. In this thought provoking interview Mike explains how he got up to speed with the capabilities of the latest LLMs and his thoughts on how CTOs should think strategically about engag…

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Gayatri Iyengar - The Art of Storytelling for Managing Stakeholder Relationships 36:52

11M ago36:52

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Especially when building platform or infrastructure, sometimes it can be difficult for non-technical stakeholders to truly appreciate the value of the work being done. In this interview, Gayatri Iyengar shares her experiences building platform solutions at both Uber and Doordash and how she used storytelling to connect business stakeholders with th…

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Episode 16: Janno Lieber on Transforming NYC Transit 35:28

12M ago35:28

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Less traffic. Cleaner air. Safer streets. Better transit. That’s the personal motto of Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. And it’s certainly a good one aspirationally. The challenge is putting it into practice. Lieber joins host Charles Lane to discuss the triumphs and pitfalls of running one of the world’s greates…

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James Turnbull - Trimming your operating costs 35:06

12M ago35:06

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In this wide ranging discussion, I speak with James Turnbull, SVP Engineering at Sotheby’s about his approach to managing his costs during a downturn. From cloud spend and SaaS costs to prioritizing fewer projects and hiring globally, it’s a great insight into how a traditional enterprise is engaging with a tighter financial environment.…

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Mona Soni - Why the grand hybrid experiment is going to fail! 34:56

12M ago34:56

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While there has been a major push to return to the office (by many managers and a good number of ICs), when remote is done right, it can reduce costs, provide access to a much wider talent pool, make teams more productive and scale more effectively (beyond a certain team size, every company is distributed). In this interview I chat with Mona Soni a…

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Episode 15: Gov. John Bel Edwards on Being a Deep South Democrat 31:30

12M ago31:30

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Louisiana is a unique state and Charles Lane knows its history; his 2008 book, The Day Freedom Died, told the story of the Colfax Massacre of 1873, in which dozens of Black men were slain. And the state has a unique governor, John Bel Edwards, who has been elected to two terms as a rare pro-Medicaid expansion, pro-life Democrat. Charles met the gov…

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Matt Welsh - LLMs for engineering teams - a practical guide 40:10

12M ago40:10

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Do you still have doubts about the wisdom of leveraging LLMs in software development? Maybe you’re not sure how much they can help or how best to get started with them. Or maybe you’re well into the process of experimenting with LLMs for speeding up software development and you’d just like to compare notes?!In this fascinating interview I got to ch…

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Episode 14: Josh Kraushaar on Antisemitism and Politics in America 36:10

1y ago36:10

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Political extremism and antisemitism have a habit of going hand in hand throughout history. Josh Kraushaar, veteran political analyst and editor-in-chief of Jewish Insider, joins host Charles Lane to talk about the rise of antisemitism in America, partisan sentiment and the U.S.-Israel relationship, and political trends more broadly.…

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Episode 13: Colbert I. King on D.C., Journalism, and Black History 33:26

1y ago33:26

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Colbert “Colby” I. King has served the nation in a myriad of roles, including as “the unofficial journalistic voice of the city for more than three decades.” He sat down with host Charles Line to share his thoughts on the District’s political limbo, the state of journalism today, and the importance of teaching Black history. This episode was record…

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Episode 12: Natasha Crampton on Building Responsible AI 40:56

1+ y ago40:56

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Artificial Intelligence has played a game-changing role across many industries, from banking and health care to retail and manufacturing. But as AI impacts our lives in increasingly direct ways, are companies harnessing its technological power safely and responsibly? Microsoft’s Chief Responsible AI Officer Natasha Crampton joined Charles Lane to d…

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Mission Driven - Josh Nesbit: Founding Member, Widespread Care 29:04

1+ y ago29:04

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Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Josh Nesbit (Founding Member, Widespread Care) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.By Peter Bell / Raffi Krikorian / Josh Nesbit

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Episode 11: Anna Lembke on Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence 45:47

1+ y ago45:47

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Is pain necessary to appreciate the good in life? Has unfettered access to pleasurable stimuli–from drugs and alcohol to internet and streaming TV–dulled our ability to experience true pleasure? Dr. Anna Lembke uses neuroscience and narrative to explore these questions and more in her book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. …

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Mission Driven - Jim O’Leary: VP of Engineering, Signal 25:08

1+ y ago25:08

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Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Jim O’Leary (VP of Engineering, Signal) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.By Peter Bell / Raffi Krikorian / Jim O’Leary

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Mission Driven - Sam Quigley: CEO, Kicho Inc 21:54

1+ y ago21:54

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Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Sam Quigley (CEO, Kicho Inc) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.By Peter Bell / Raffi Krikorian / Sam Quigley

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Mission Driven - Max Roser: Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data 22:19

1+ y ago22:19

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Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Max Roser (Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.By Peter Bell / Raffi Krikorian / Max Roser

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Episode 10: Jorge Castañeda on the Challenges Facing Latin America’s Young Democracies 49:31

1+ y ago49:31

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Do democracies offer progress or only the promise of progress? NYU professor and former foreign minister of Mexico Jorge Castañeda breaks down some of the challenges currently facing the western hemisphere’s youngest democracies, those of Latin America. From Mexico to Peru and Brazil, a centrist vacuum in the region is contributing to everything fr…

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Peter Bell - Refocusing the business and the podcast 3:31

1+ y ago3:31

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We’re going to take a breath on the CTO Connection podcast for the next 3-4 weeks. When we first started the podcast, it was a “startup CTO podcast”. We’ve really enjoyed sharing the wisdom and experience of our guests on building and managing engineering teams at startups. However, we’ve seen over time that the challenges of running (say) a 5-20 p…

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Mission Driven - Laura Edelson: Postdoctoral Researcher / Co-Founder, NYU / Cyber Security for Democracy Project 28:10

1+ y ago28:10

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Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Laura Edelson (Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU, and Co-Founder of Cyber Security for Democracy Project) about what it looks like to be mission driven in her work.By Peter Bell / Raffi Krikorian / Laura Edelson

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