Learn about how Patrick McKenzie combined his technical skills with marketing/sales skills to launch & grow several successful internet businesses. Patrick is the creator of Bingo Card Creator. He learned marketing and sales to launch and grow Kalzumeus Software; He has worked with 37signals, Fog Creek Software, and is now in content & community at Stripe….
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This week’s episode has Dan Jones, the Founder and CTO of VictorOps. Dan has years of experience building highly scalable, distributed systems and started VictorOps to help engineers building those systems get notifications when things go sideways (even if it’s 3 AM) and fix those problems with the entire team’s knowledge and experience at their disposal (even if it’s 3 AM).
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This week’s episode is a talk by Greg Schafer, presented at the ‘Future of Tech’ track at Boulder Startup Week. Greg is an engineer at Occipital, a full stack Spatial Computing company based in Boulder Colorado. Greg’s talk is entitled ‘Connecting Humans in Virtual Reality’. In it, Greg articulates an optimistic vision for humanities future of people being connected, to their passions and to each other, through the immersive technology that is known as ‘Virtual Reality’.
Find Greg on twitter @ https://twitter.com/grschafer and find Occipital at Occipital.com.
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This week’s episode is the final interview from the “How to CTO” event at Boulder Startup Week, an interview with Scott Brave.
Scott is the CTO of FullContact, a company in Denver with teams in Europe and Asia, so he has some really interesting advice on distributed workforces. Also, Scott is an academic researcher in a former life and is the best person I’ve ever talked to about algorithms and scaling engineering.
Find Scott on twitter @ https://twitter.com/sbrave and find FullContact at FullContact.com.
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This week’s episode is a talk on privacy-centric cryptocurrencies by Zooko Wilcox.
Zooko has more than 20 years of experience in open, decentralized systems, cryptography and information security, and startups. He is recognized for his work on DigiCash, Mojo Nation, ZRTP, “Zooko’s Triangle”, Tahoe-LAFS, BLAKE2, and SPHINCS.
Find zooko on twitter @ https://twitter.com/zooko and find ZCash at https://z.cash/
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Jay Zeschin is a co-founder and the Chief Architect at Ello. Jay sits down with Miles during the “How to CTO” event at Boulder Startup Week to talk about what it’s like managing a team of engineers when everything is going really well and when you’re getting so much traffic and users that the CTO of Heroku calls you to see if they can help.
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Piper Merriam is a Senior Software Engineer at QuickLeft and a contributor to the Ethereum Project. In his talk at the Boulder Startup Week 2016, he presents his vision for “The World in 2026”; a world in which the world is transformed by Cryptocurrency & Smart Contracts
Follow Piper on twitter at @pipermerriam.
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In this week’s episode, we listen to another interview from the “How to CTO” event from Boulder Startup Week. This interview is Aprille Jordan, the Director of Technology at Katasi. In the episode, we talk about hiring, growing out of an MVP, and diversity.
See more about Aprille and her team at Katasi.com.
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Vikas is co-founder of Occipital, a mobile computer vision startup in Boulder Colorado. Occipital is working on making mobile phones “see” like humans do, and in this special episode recorded at Boulder Startup Week, Vikas will make some predictions about the future of spatial computing.
Follow Vikas on twitter at @vikasreddy.
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Last week was Boulder Startup Week here in Boulder, and as the development track lead, Miles held an event called “How to CTO” where 4 area startup CTOs were interviewed by Miles in front of an audience of about a 100.
In the first of the interviews, Miles talks to Nader Akhnoukh from Kapost. The conversation includes product engineers, managing a larger size team, remote working, and a good war story.
See more at Kapost.com and find Nader on Twitter at @iamnader.
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Diana has a PhD from MIT, is the CTO of ResilientOps, an organizer at Analyze Boulder, and an Instructor of Business Analytics at CU Boulder.
Find Diana on twitter at twitter.com/dianam.
Find Miles on twitter at twitter.com/miles_matthias.
