Frontier Podcast by Gun.io
by Gun.io
After over a decade of working with highly skilled developers and businesses of all sizes, we've discovered that there is some pretty good advice just waiting to be shared. We've also learned that learning is something we just can't get enough of. This season of the Frontier Podcast, we'll be talking to experts from every walk of the technical life, while also taking a peek into the tech history that has gotten the world to where it is today. Gun.io is a global talent agency that specializes in pairing the world's best software professionals with world-class companies. Interested in getting in touch? Come check us out at Gun.io.
Episodes
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Ep. 46: Matt Genovese, CEO and Founder of Planorama
This week, Teja sits down with Matt Genovese, CEO and Founder of Planorama, a company that designs UX/UI flows for products with complete enablement for software teams. They discuss the intricacies of living abroad, the importance of incorporating design, and how de-risking early on in the life…
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Ep. 45: Brian Pontarelli, CEO and Founder of FusionAuth
On this week's episode, Teja sits down with Brian Pontarelli, Founder and CEO of both FusionAuth and Cleanspeak. They discuss the complexities of growing two businesses at the same time, making progress without using AI, and the subtle clues in an interview process that let you know someone's a...
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Ep. 44: Sabber Ahamed, Founder of xoolooloo
This week, Teja talks with Sabber Ahamed, Founder of Xoolooloo and Data Scientist at Bridgestone. They discuss the proliferation of data science, the joys of working on your own projects outside of the 9-5, and the different things career goals of a computational geophysicist can really shake up.
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Ep. 43: Harpreet Singh, CEO and Co-Founder at Launchable
This week, Teja talks with Harpreet Singh, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Launchable, a company that's on a mission to make software testing faster and smarter. They discuss the DACI framework and the importance of intentionality in decision-making, what it's like to bring a behemoth like Jenkins to...
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Ep. 42: Brian Douglas, CEO and Founder at OpenSauced
In this week's episode, Teja talks with Brian Douglas, CEO and Founder at OpeSauced. They talk about how a good open source portfolio is more than just getting your name on big projects, the natural progression from developer advocacy to building an open source marketplace, and the trials and...
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Ep. 41: Ian Villa, COO and Co-founder at Whisper Aero
Joining Teja on this week's episode is Ian Villa, COO and Co-founder of Whisper Aero, a company that is developing cleaner, quieter, and more efficient propulsion solutions. They discuss the pros and cons of a campus with on-site housing, the burgeoning Nashville tech scene, and how a 5 am trip…
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Ep. 40: Kate O'Neil, CEO and Co-founder at Teaming
This week, Teja sits down for round two with Kate O'Neil, who has moved into the CEO position at Teaming since the last time they talked. They discuss the differences that come with the transition to becoming a CEO, the importance of incorporating movement into your life, and why getting the best...
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Ep. 39: Jeremy Snyder, CEO and Founder at FireTail
After a brief holiday hiatus, Teja is back this week with Jeremy Snyder, the Founder and CEO of FireTail, an API security platform that provides application layer visibility, real-time, inline inspection, and blocking of malicious API calls. They talk about being a less technical founder, how…
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Ep. 38: Stefan Avram, Head of Growth and Co-Founder at WunderGraph
Teja sits down with Stefan Avram, Head of Growth and Co-founder at WunderGraph, an open-source GraphQL federation. They discuss how injuries can change your life trajectory, the complexities of working with distributed teams, and how sometimes getting fired can be the best thing that's ever...
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Ep. 37: Marc Taverner, CEO and Co-Founder at XEROF
This week, Teja welcomes Marc Taverner, the CEO and Co-founder at XEROF, a Swiss financial institution that specializes in turning cryptoassets into fiat forms of money that can be used worldwide. They discuss the wild ride crypto has been on, financial regulations in emerging markets, and the...
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Ep. 36: David Khourshid, CEO and Co-Founder at Stately
This week, Teja talks with David Khourshid, Co-founder and CEO at Stately. This AI tool serves as a visual source of truth for creating, deploying, and analyzing any type of logic. They discuss the importance of considering the customer at the outset, the ways metrics can skew your path, and how...
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Ep. 35: Brandon Bayer, CEO and Co-Founder at Flightcontrol
This week, on Founder to Founder, Teja talks with Brandon Bayer, CEO and Co-founder of Flightcontrol. This developer-first AWS infrastructure allows teams to deploy on AWS without the overhead of hiring a DevOps team. They discuss running a lean team, building better experiences for software…
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Ep. 34: Asher Weiss, CEO and Co-Founder of Tixologi
When Asher Weiss, CEO and Co-founder at Tixologi, started his first company at the age of eight, he had no way of knowing he'd be a lifelong entrepreneur. This week, he sits down with Teja to talk about working for the Orlando Magic, getting poached by the Warriors, and why event ticketing needs…
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Ep. 33: Shane Sniteman, CPO and Founder at Strumn
In this week's episode, Teja talks with Shane Sniteman, Chief Product Officer and Founder at Strumn, an app that connects musicians and venues to book gigs. What started as a final project for a software boot camp program and sat dormant for years has now become a thriving marketplace for live...
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Ep. 32: Evan Kirkham, CEO and Co-Founder of Outlier
Teja talks with Evan Kirkham, CEO and Co-Founder at Outlier, a sports betting platform, this week. They discuss playing sports, changing gears on your business plan when you're already successful, and the importance of surrounding yourself with entrepreneurs who will push your boundaries and get...
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Ep. 31: Jerome Hardaway, Founder of Vets Who Code
When Jerome Hardaway was hired at the Department of Defense, it wasn't because of the skills he learned in the military; it was the ones he taught himself after leaving the Air Force. This week on Founder to Founder, he talks with Teja about the life-changing world of software, working to help…
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Ep. 30: Kent Kiersey, CEO and Founder, Invoke AI
This week, Teja sits down with Kent Kiersey, the CEO and Founder of Invoke AI, an open-source generative AI product designed to give creators more control over the images they develop. They talk about the importance of building with an OS community, having a solid foundation in product, and why...
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Ep. 29: Yaron Ben Nun, CTO and Founder of Nostromo Energy
After a short hiatus, we're back in the saddle with another episode of Founder to Founder. This week, Teja talks with Yaron Ben Nun, CTO and Founder of Nostromo Energy, about building a company from a good solution, the best way to learn how to negotiate, and how sometimes the best ideas are the...
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Ep. 28: Miss Manners addresses computer correspondence
These days, barely a second thought is given to sending off some manner or another of virtual correspondence. But back in the infancy of computer-typed messaging, Miss Manners had quite a few things to say about how inappropriate its use was, as Abbey and Victoria talk about on This Week in Tech...
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Ep. 27: DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-founder of Meroxa
What kind of role models did you have growing up? For DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-Founder of Meroxa, it was seeing the innovative ways his family started on their own entrepreneurial journeys that led him to a life in tech. This week on Founder to Founder, he sits down with Teja to talk about the...
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Ep. 26: Internet Explorer wants to be your default
When it comes to programs asking if you want to use them as a default, nobody did it better than Internet Explorer. On This Week in Tech History, Chris and Abbey talk about the company's decision to include the browser in the release of Windows 95, and the implications it had for internet access,...
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Ep. 25: Vinay Patankar, CEO and Founder of Process Street
This week, on Founder to Founder, Teja sits down with Vinay Patankar, CEO and Founder at Process Street, an AI-powered process creator that helps companies achieve operational efficiency. They talk about growing up in tech, gaming, hitting the grind when building a business, and the importance of...
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Ep. 24: The first email sent from space
Today, we take for granted that an email can be sent with the quick flick of the wrist from a computer you keep in your pocket. But when the first email was sent from space in 1991, it marked an occasion that would change communication forever. On This Week in Tech History, Grey and Abbey chat...
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Ep. 23 - Max Howell, CEO and Founder of tea.xyz
This week, Teja sits down with Max Howell, the brain behind Homebrew, about his latest venture, tea. They talk about the growth of the industry, the challenge in paying open source developers, and an unthinkable time in history when being a software developer really wasn't all that cool....
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Ep. 22: The first transatlantic telegraph cable is completed
Despite four previous ill-fated attempts by a man named Cyrus West Field, he persevered and on the fifth attempt, succeeded in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. On This Week in Tech, Abbey and Tyler talk about the troubles the project faced, the various methods attempted...
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Ep. 21: Massi Genta, CEO and Founder of Metabob
This week on Founder to Founder, Teja sits down with Massi Genta, CEO and Founder of Metabob. They talk about the process of building companies. the difference between using LLMs and GNNs to help with code reviews, and why adding context and a human element to your tech can help build a…
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Ep. 20: Ford sells the first Model A
We're pretty much exactly in the middle of the 2023 Formula 1 season, so it's perfect timing that on This Week in Tech History Abbey and Chris get down to business and talk about the very first Model A to roll off the lot. While other Ford models were perhaps more influential for the things they...
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Ep. 19: Cullen Schwarz, CEO and Founder of DoneGood
After a stint in politics, Cullen Schwarz, CEO and Founder of DoneGood, realized that the best way regular people could influence policy was through spending. This led him to start DoneGood, the online marketplace that features companies dedicated to social good. On this week's episode, he sits...
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Ep. 18: Apple introduces the iBook
What started as a product aimed at educators became the catalyst for the remote work we have the ability to do today. On This Week in Tech, Abbey and Garish talk about Apple's iBook: the first mass-produced, consumer-focused, WiFi-compatible laptop to ever hit the market. They discuss how it...
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Ep. 17: Adit Jain, CEO and Founder of Leena.ai
This week on Founder to Founder, Teja talks with Adit Jain, CEO and Founder of Leena.ai, a tool designed to improve onboarding and internal communications with their advanced virtual assistants. They talk about the ins and outs of growing a global workplace culture, the future of AI, and…
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Ep. 16: Code Red worms its way through the internet
If you only know of Code Red because it's a Mountain Dew flavor, it's time to gain some knowledge about the notorious computer virus that wormed its way across the internet in July of 2001. On This Week in Tech History, David and Abbey talk about the history of computer worms, virus protection…
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Ep. 15: Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder of 46 Labs
A lot of companies talk global connectivity, but Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder at 46 Labs, has put his boots on the ground to build networks around the world. In this week's Founder to Founder episode, he talks to Teja for about building an infrastructure business, the similarities between…
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Ep. 14: Happy Birthday, Internet!
Has there been a modern invention that has had a more profound effect on humanity than the internet? This week, Chris steps in as guest host and talks with Victoria about the birth of the internet, its growth through the teenage years, and all the ways we continue to use it well into its adulthood.
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Ep. 13: Devon Wright, CEO and Founder at Lumo
On this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Devon Wright, CEO and founder of Lumo, a smart irrigation system that is helping growers save water, monitor usage, and tackle the water shortage problems that plague the American West. They talk about building to scale, how to stay...
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Ep. 12: The first iPhone goes on sale
The way smartphones changed our interactions with technology is hard to understate. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, we had no way of knowing how reliant we would be on them in the very near future. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Haley discuss the wait, the features, and how it...
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Ep. 11: Andrew Greenstein, CEO and Head Product of SF AppWorks
This week Teja talks with Andrew from SF AppWorks. From their origins in a music creation startup, they've always been a force for positive change through technology. Andrew's story is one of resilience, innovation, and a relentless commitment to improving lives. They also get into what your…
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Ep. 10: Alan Turing is born
The world would be hard-pressed to find a historical figure who was more influential to modern computing than Alan Turing. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Deividi dive into the work he did, the lives he saved, and ponder how many more advances he could have made had his life not been cut...
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Ep. 9: Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers
This week, Teja talks with Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers, for our Founder to Founder series. They discuss the need to be hungry and communicative if you want to be an effective leader, the importance of hiring the best if you want the best, and how many parallels there…
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Ep. 8: TWiTH - TI introduces the Speak & Spell
As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn't pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Read and Speak & Math. In This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Tyler talk about the implications it had for...
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Ep. 7: Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of Ellipsis Drive
What happens when a hipster, a hustler, and a hacker come together to build a better way to process and serve up geospatial data? Ellipsis Drive has the answer, as we learn in this week's Founder to Founder episode. Teja sits down with Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of the company, to...
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Ep. 6: TWiTH - Jurassic Park is released in theaters
For a movie that only featured dinosaurs for 15 minutes, Jurassic Park had an outsized impact on the way CGI was used in film. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Regis talk about the graphics, the puppetry, and how movies today are almost too real to be real.
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Ep. 5: Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA
Oh this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA, a company that produces compostable, eco-friendly packaging. They talk about the complexities of creating a brand new product, how to grow across four continents, and how she bridged the...
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Ep. 4: TWiTH - Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the ISS
While it may seem like the International Space Station has been around since the beginnings of space exploration, it was actually just a little over 24 years ago that it was built. And on This Week in Tech history, Abbey and Chris talk about the Space Shuttle Discovery's trip to the ISS, making…
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Ep. 3: Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Ome Kitchen
On this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Ome Kitchen. They discuss her path from neurosurgery to kitchen hardware, the winding road to building and funding an amazing idea, and how an appearance on Shark Tank helped to build the brand to...
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Ep. 2: TWiTH - PacMan is introduced to the public
What began as one man's dream after seeing a pizza with a slice missing out of it grew into nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Grey talk about Pac-Man's introduction to the world, their favorite arcade games, and how Pac-Man changed the landscape of...
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Ep. 1: Dylan Etkin, CEO and Founder of Sleuth
Season 4's Founder to Founder series kicks off this week with an insightful, engaging, and incredibly entertaining conversation between Gun.io's CEO and Co-founder, Teja Yenamandra, and Sleuth's CEO and Co-founder, Dylan Etkin. After years spent honing his skills as the Jira architect for...
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Ep. 30: The Mesa Lab at NCAR is opened
The building that kicked off I.M. Pei's career as a building architect also featured prominently in the city where two current staffers went to college. The NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado is the subject of This Week in Tech History, where Faith and Chris talk about the importance of…
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Ep. 29: The best takeaways from Season 3
As we wind down Season 3 of the Frontier Podcast, Faith takes a look back at some of the highlights from our incredible slate of guests.
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Ep. 28: The first SPAM message
Spam can mean quite a few things, only one of which is super tasty (spam musubi, if you're wondering), but when it comes to the dreaded emails and text messages, it all dates back to one guy flooding a message board with his marketing spiel. This Week in Tech History, Faith and Abbey discuss the...
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Ep. 27: Improving software delivery with AI and Open Source
If you are building a product for developers, but aren't asking them for feedback via an open source option, you're missing out on some reliable data. It can help to not only improve what you're building, but also garner some goodwill among a community of people who are invested in what you're...
About this show
After over a decade of working with highly skilled developers and businesses of all sizes, we've discovered that there is some pretty good advice just waiting to be shared. We've also learned that learning is something we just can't get enough of. This season of the Frontier Podcast, we'll be talking to experts from every walk of the technical life, while also taking a peek into the tech history that has gotten the world to where it is today.
Gun.io is a global talent agency that specializes in pairing the world's best software professionals with world-class companies. Interested in getting in touch? Come check us out at Gun.io.
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