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Refocusing Docker on developer-first and growth

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 onl...

1:00:48Jun 2, 2023

Selling to Enterprise

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...

2:02:57May 5, 2023

Builder journey to streaming data platform

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

1:10:17Apr 20, 2023

Creating magical software

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

1:17:35Mar 10, 2023

Building the best mountain bikes in the world

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...

1:46:15Jul 19, 2022

Enabling a world where all software is reliable

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 a...

1:47:22Jul 15, 2022

Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey

Adam was invited by our friends at Square to interview Jack Dorsey as part of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack...

43:44Jun 3, 2022

From GitHub TV to Rewatch

Connor Sears, founder and CEO of Rewatch, joins Adam to share the journey of creating Rewatch. What began inside of GitHub to help them thri...

1:54:40May 18, 2022

Leading GitLab to IPO

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 20...

1:10:25May 10, 2022

Making an open source Stripe for time

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 missi...

1:26:46May 5, 2022

Building an investment platform for everyone

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...

1:00:51Feb 12, 2022

Bringing observability superpowers to all

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...

1:19:46Jan 28, 2022

Making the last database you’ll ever need

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 sho...

1:25:59Jan 14, 2022

Building on global bare metal

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 in...

1:32:39Nov 24, 2021

Making the Web. Faster.

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 l...

1:20:03Nov 5, 2021

Journey to CEO, again

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 ha...

1:14:48Oct 28, 2021

The future of code search

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 Unicor...

1:16:38Oct 20, 2021

Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases

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. Thi...

1:45:24Sep 3, 2021

The acquisition of a lifetime

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 Chan...

1:18:52Aug 26, 2021

Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition

This week Adam is joined by Eugenio Pace, co-founder and CEO of Auth0. Auth0 is a for developers, by developers identity, access, security,...

56:35Aug 13, 2021

From open source to commercially viable

This week Adam is joined by Asim Aslam, the founder of Micro - a new cloud platform entirely focused on the developer experience of consumin...

1:59:52Aug 9, 2021

From disrupting the cloud to IPO

This week Adam is joined by Mitch Wainer, previously CMO at DigitalOcean and a member of the founding team. They talk about his journey as a...

1:10:32Jul 12, 2021

The journey to massive scale and ultra-resilience

This week Adam talks with Spencer Kimball, CEO and Co-founder of Cockroach Labs — makers of CockroachDB an open source cloud-native distribu...

1:10:10Mar 26, 2021

Intensely focused on building a software company

This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winning application monitoring company founded b...

1:21:09Feb 23, 2021

Balancing business and open source

Raj Dutt is the founder and CEO of Grafana Labs. Grafana has become the world's most popular open source technology used to compose observab...

1:35:11Nov 23, 2020

Slow and steady wins

Jeff Sheldon is the founder and creator of Ugmonk. Jeff is a designer by trade, and an entrepreneur by accident. I been following Jeff’s jou...

1:12:10Aug 3, 2020

From acquisition to full conviction

Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, a security platform that empowers software-driven businesses to develop fast and stay secure. Prior to...

1:31:50Jul 3, 2020

Leading GitLab to $100M ARR

Sid Sijbrandij is the Co-founder and CEO of GitLab — an all-remote company and complete DevOps platform. As a company, they have their eyes...

1:01:58Jun 9, 2020

Building a real programmable robot

The role of a father plays a pivotal role in a child's life. Ian Bernstein is a former Founder of Sphero and is now the Founder and Head of...

1:17:33May 8, 2020

Becoming an accidental founder

Mike McDerment is the founder and CEO of FreshBooks. Believe it or not, Mike became a founder by accident. Like many of us, Mike had an itch...

41:06Jan 24, 2020

Mastering the art of quitting

Lynne Tye is the founder of Key Values, a platform where developers find engineering teams that share their values. To be more precise, Lynn...

1:38:12Jul 5, 2019

Failing to build a billion-dollar company

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell the things they make. Since 2011 Gumroad has sent over $20...

1:12:01Jun 14, 2019

What are you optimizing for?

Saron Yitbarek is the founder and CEO of CodeNewbie — one of the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. Saron...

1:13:30May 31, 2019

Building a hardware/software product company

Colin Billings is the founder and CEO of Orro where they've built the first truly intelligent home lighting system. It knows when you're in...

1:06:12May 23, 2019

Zero up-front costs for a CS education

What would be the impact on the world if a Computer Science education was available to you completely free of charge until you get a job in...

45:31Apr 19, 2019

Isaac Schlueter on building npm and hiring a CEO

With JavaScript in every corner of software development and npm in every corner right along with it, the rise of npm can be drawn as a hocke...

1:08:13Jan 25, 2019

Leading data-driven software teams and products

For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent years as an engineering manager. Travis’s m...

1:28:39Dec 21, 2018

How $3.8M in seed funding started Gatsby as an open source company

Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, a new company he's building around an open source project of the same name. Gatsby as a proje...

1:12:07Nov 30, 2018

Tidelift's mission is to pay open source maintainers

Donald Fischer and the team at Tidelift are on a mission of making open source work better — for everyone. To pay the maintainers of open so...

1:08:23Sep 21, 2018

From dropout to CEO of Sentry and taking on New Relic

David Cramer dropped out of high school AND college, but that didn’t stop him. He ended up teaching himself programming and eventually lande...

1:12:35Sep 16, 2018

BONUS: Growing a successful sales team at Sentry

Here's a bonus segment from episode #57 of Founders Talk with David Cramer, co-founder and CEO of Sentry. Check the feed for the full length...

10:40Sep 14, 2018

Eric Berry is funding open source with CodeFund

Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately...

1:21:16Aug 28, 2018

Side hustle to $35M ARR at Zapier

Bryan Helmig, Wade Foster, and Mike Knoop started Zapier in 2011 as a side hustle. They ultimately applied to Y Combinator, twice. And this...

1:09:18Aug 17, 2018

From side project to $7.25M for Unsplash

When Mikael Cho started Unsplash from its small beginning as a Tumblr blog and side project, he had no idea it would have such a huge impact...

1:20:46Jul 6, 2018

Starting over from zero

Danielle Morrill joined the show to talk about how she's starting over from zero after the recent acquisition of Mattermark to FullContact w...

57:07Jun 28, 2018

Growing Open Collective

Pia Mancini joined the show for the first episode back from a nearly 5 year hiatus. We talked about her work at DemocracyEarth, being a moth...

1:11:53Jun 15, 2018

🔥 Founders Talk is back!

It's been just shy of 5 years since I've published a new episode to this podcast. The break was planned actually. Long story short, I had to...

03:09Jun 15, 2018

Sam Soffes / Onward

Could this be Sam's final appearance on Founders Talk? Only time will tell. Sam says he's moving onward. New things await. The future is bri...

1:18:02Sep 11, 2013

Chad Pytel / thoughtbot

Adam talks with Chad Pytel, founder of thoughtbot.

1:37:13Aug 20, 2013

Geoffrey Grosenbach / PeepCode, Part 2

Adam talks with Geoffrey Grosenbach, founder of PeepCode and now the VP of Open Source at Pluralsight.

1:08:22Aug 19, 2013