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Future Founder Promise — 69 episodes
Sam Blinde — Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer At Nearform | Round 2
Sam Blinde — Engineering Manager & Senior Software Engineer At Nearform
Maria Constantine — Executive Operations Manager at Stellate
Brian Walters - Accessibility Expert at Nearform | “Normal People" | Better For Everyone | Inclusive Design | Accessibility Audit | Accessibility Standards | Accessibility DevTools | MVP Accessibility
Meet The Team w/ Andreas Heiberg | Career Trajectory | Becoming A Manager | Startup Advice | Working At Stellate | Distributed Work | Mentors | Approximation Of Progress | AI | Question Everything
Meet The Team w/ Victor Tortolero | Mexico | Self-Taught | Stellate | CLI5 | Startups | Company Culture | Becoming A Developer | Math | Remote Work | AI | Open Source | Mentors | Hotspot Mexico
Meet The Team w/ Bogdan Soare | Origins | Early Tech Jobs | Startup Experiences | Travel & Remote Work | Career Highs & Lows | Async Collaboration | Stellate Experience | Connections | Future Outlook
Meet The Team w/ Van Riper | Community Liaison Work | MIT Days | Career High Points | Google Years | Fostering Remote Communities | Sense Of Belonging | GraphQL Community | Minimum Viable Communities
Meet The Team w/ Jovi De Croock: Origins; Consultancy Years; Open Source DNA; Joining Startups; Open Source Funding; GraphQL Ecosystem; Problem Solving | GraphQL’s Future; and more | Full Interview
Guy Podjarny | Clip #04 | Invisible Security | Providing Value | Risk Reduction | ROI Calculator | Aligning On Price | Messaging Is Definition | Holding Complexity | Primary Bits | Core Messaging
Guy Podjarny | Clip #03 | Heavybit Environment | High Standards | Explosive Growth | Humility Culture | Unsolved Problems | Hiring Leadership | Replacing Executives | Heads Of X | Inflated Titles
Guy Podjarny | Clip #02 | Outside Perspective | Family Grounding | Managing Family Life | Importance Of Vacations | Inflection Points | Embracing Security | Depth vs. Breadth | Product Buyer Fit
Guy Podjarny | Clip #01 | Guy's Journey | Typical Week | Growing Quickly | Snyk & Blaze | Looking Ahead | Becoming A CTO | Big Picture | Quality Co-Founders | Israel Branch | Addictive Rollercoaster
Guy Podjarny, Founder of Snyk, on His Journey; Looking Ahead; Holistic Big Picture; Addictive Rollercoaster; Developer Tooling; Embracing Security; Hiring Leadership; Messaging; … | Full Interview
Guillermo Rauch | Clip #6 | Customers As Partners | Actionable Feedback Loop | Winning Means… | Metrics As Products | Guillermo’s Personal Evolution | Improving The World | Authenticity & Transparency
Guillermo Rauch | Clip #05 | Balancing Focus | Trusting Great Leaders | Stellar Feedback | Colleagues As Customers | No or Hell Yeah! | Scaling Yourself | Owing The Web | Absorbing Insights
Guillermo Rauch | Clip #04 | Staying Ahead | Reverse Engineering | Back Porting | “Democratizing” Technology Access | Typical CEO Day | Oversimplifying Problems | Driving Change | Powerful Metaphors
Guillermo Rauch | Clip #03 | Simple vs Easy | Engineering vs Shipping | Protecting Crown Jewels | Value System | Software At Scale | Enabling Features | Psychological Safety
Meet The Team w/ Julian Bauer from Overnice: Design Agency; Berlin Startup Scene; Juggling Multiple Startups; Brand Strategy; Good Founders; Trends & AI; Working w/ Stellate; and more | Full Interview
Guillermo Rauch | Clip 2 | Promoting Quickly | Celebration Culture | Best Feedback | North Star | Saying No | “Hell Yes!” Decisions | Customer Delight | And vs Or Products | Dismissing React
Guillermo Rauch | Clip 1 | Unearthing & Fostering Talent | Community Building | Best Hires | Great Product People | Product Ownership | Vercel CLI | Spectrum Of Abstractions | API-First Orgs | ChatGPT
Guillermo Rauch, CEO @ Vercel, on Fostering Talent; Community Building; Best Hires; API-First Companies; ChatGPT; Customer Delight; Most Valuable Feedback; Improving The World; … | Full Interview
Meet The Team w/ Jenald Villena, Global People Operations Manager @Stellate | Breaking Into Tech | Sense Of Community | Caring For Others | People Operations Value | Learning-Driven… | Full Interview
Meet The Team w/ Marko Locher, Head of Customer Success @Stellate | Support & Customer Success | Getting into Startups | Voicing Ideas | Hustle Culture | Joining Stellate | European Startup Ecosystem
Lauren Bell | Clip #05 | Parents & Time | Parenting & Startup Life | Lee Bryon | Social & Self Time | Empathy For Parents | Intentionality | "Self-Eliminating" Job Candidates
Lauren Bell | Clip #04 | Applying Learnings | Cross-Departmental Management | Joys Of Startups | Progress Over Perfection | Career Changes | Jumping Into Tech | Becoming A Parent | Supportive Teams
Lauren Bell | Clip #03 | Transitioning Into Tech | Ramp Up Efficiency | Huge Change | Support Tooling | Slack Resistance | Old School Companies | Ultimate Signal For Growth
Lauren Bell | Clip 02 | Finding Rare People | Mutual Testing | Asking Hard Questions | Impressive Self-Awareness | Gravitating Towards People | Jumping Into Challenges | Initial Startup Intimidations
Lauren Bell | Clip #01 | Recruiting Journey | College Goals | Career Path | Embracing Growth Mindset | Passion For People | Joining A Startup | Stretching Yourself | Earning Years | Slope vs Intercept
Lauren Bell – Full-Cycle Recruiter at Stellate on her Journey into Recruiting; Career Path; Embracing Growth; Passion for People; Stretching Yourself; Earning Years; Taking Chances; … | Full Interview
Stephan Schneider | Clip #04 | Main Stellate Learnings | Striving For Excellence | Frequent Retrospectives | Liked-Learned-Long For | Overstepping | Developer Buy In | Alignment Phase | Feeling Heard
Stephan Schneider | Clip #03 | New Job | GraphQL Love | Quitting Beloved Job | Joining Small Startup | Productive Pair Programming | Flow State | Feeling Productive | Starting vs Proceeding
Stephan Schneider | Clip #02 | Dream Job | Back-End Attraction | Community Adoption Benefits | Facebook’s Recruiting Masterstroke | Longing To Learn | Triangulating Feedback | “Listening To Listen”
Stephan Schneider | Clip #01 | Getting Into Coding | Love For Hardware | Overclocking CPUs | Science Experiments w/ Kids | Outdated University Classes | Leaving University | First Job
Stephan Schneider, Stellate Software Engineer, on Getting Into Coding; University Classes; Backend Passion; Dream Job; Triangulating Feedback; Effective Reflection; Learning Culture;… | Full Interview
Laura Tacho | #05 | Obvious Coaching Benefits | Coaching Misconceptions | Maintaining Excellence | Finding Coaches | "Chemistry Test" | Practice Space | Winging Leadership | Skiing Instructor Training
Laura Tacho | #04 | What Is Coaching? | Coaching Stigma | "Next Level Of Greatness" | Outside Perspectives | Common Leadership Problems | "Coaching For Everyone " | Addressing Fears | Building Trust
Laura Tacho | #03 | Owning Developer Experience | Autonomous Teams | Tips For ICs | Developer Productivity | Relevant Metrics | SPACE Framework | Applied FOMO | People-Process-Platform | Small Changes
Laura Tacho | #02 | DORA Metrics | Assessing Engineering Orgs | Productivity Proxies | SPACE Framework | Developer Experience Focus | Executive Pressure | Providing Customer Value | Closing Loops
Laura Tacho | #01 | Measuring Developer Productivity | Productivity Definitions | DX | Automatically Generated Metrics | Productivity vs Effectiveness | Survey Metrics | "Elite Teams" | Telemetry Data
Engineering Leadership Coach Laura Tacho on Measuring Developer Productivity, Elite Teams, Pressure Localisation, DX, and beyond | Full Conversation
Phil Plückthun | #05 | Startup Joining Advice | Checking Vibes | Commitment To Improve | Growing Together | Joining Stellate | Good At Ideas And Hunches | Helping Customers | The Most Difficult Thing
Phil Plückthun | #04 | Starting at GraphCDN | Unexplored Niche | Unbounded Space | Leaving Formidable Labs | Company Culture Value | Caring About Employees | Putting People First
Phil Plückthun | #03 | GraphQL Client urql Beginnings | First Principle Novelty | Addressed Problems | Incubated at Formidable | Bias Avoidance | Unopinionated and Flexible Design Principles
Phil Plückthun | #02 | First Job | Startup Phase | Early React | Early Styled Components | React Evolution | Basic React | Community Pendulum Swings | Getting Into GraphQL
Phil Plückthun | #01 | Getting Into Coding | University vs Self-Taught | Creating From Nothing | Learning And Discovery | Abundance Of Routes | University Curricula | Expert Courses
Open Source Developer Phil Plückthun | Stellate Office Hours Interview | Full Conversation
Thomas Heyenbrock | #06 | Excitement About Stellate's Impact | Fixing Customer Problems | Scaling The Stellate Team | Huge Opportunities
Thomas Heyenbrock | #05 | Stellate Experience | Going Remote First | Early Stage Differences | Mission Sessions | Vision And Why | Leveling People Up
Thomas Heyenbrock | #04 | Managing Split Roles | Joining GraphCDN | Analytics Idea | To Cache Or Not To Cache | Interview Process
Thomas Heyenbrock | #03 | Learning Modern Stacks | Hype-Driven Development | Learning Projects | Expertise Transfer | Open Source Traction | Assimilating Ideas
Thomas Heyenbrock | #02 | Learning By Doing | University Degrees | Self-taught Careers | Just In Time Learning
Thomas Heyenbrock | #01 | Hooked On Math | Getting Into Data Science and Programming | First Real Job | Terrible Beginnings
Thomas Heyenbrock | Stellate Office Hours | Full Conversation
Stellate CTO Tim Suchanek | #05 | Parental Leave | Coaching for Everyone | People Organisation | Gratitude Superpower
Stellate CTO Tim Suchanek | #04 | Prioritizing | Being Overwhelmed | Sprint Planning | Values Driven | Getting Things Done | Deep Work
Stellate CTO Tim Suchanek | #03 | Modern Product Management | MVP Misunderstandings | Discovery and Delivery | Side Projects
Stellate Office Hours Clip #02 | Empty Vessel Name | Stellate Connotation | Punchline Names | Trademark Considerations | New Vision
Stellate Office Hours Clip #01 | Opening Up GraphQL APIs | Rebranding | The Global Data Graph | The Dichotomy Of GraphQL | Extending The Vision
Why We Decided To Rename Our Company: Stellate Office Hours #1
GraphCDN CTO Tim Suchanek | #02 | Ego is the Enemy | Tough Lessons | False Urgency | Letting Go | Paid Learnings
GraphCDN CTO Tim Suchanek | #01 | Getting into Startups | Ideas and Creativity | Early Mistakes | Investor Tricks
Tim Suchanek | GraphCDN CTO | Full Interview
Sue Odio | Full Interview
Sue Odio | #05 | Startup Starting | Rollercoaster Ride | Locus of Control | Advice and Coaching
Sue Odio | #04 | Prioritizing | Building Foundations
Sue Odio | #03 | Paranoia vs Pronoia | DEIB | Belonging | Benefits and Perks
Sue Odio | #02 | Coaching for Everyone | Future Founder Promise
Sue Odio | #01 | Start Of The Startup Journey | ADD As An Advantage | Typical Days