Stephen Barr is someone whom I've long sought out as a guest. He's been a real inspiration on how he connects people and technology with a fanatical focus on finding the right answer over being right. 
Stephen works with his team at CloudFix to solve for cloud cost and complexity, and through his work there and over the years in academia and the tech industry, he's collected a lot of knowledge which he shares with everyone. It was a great chance to dive into a lot of topics and we also nerd out about audio/video because Stephen has that among his many talents. 
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Matt Butcher is CEO of Fermyon and they are solving a very interesting problem with the dev stack that has long been the dream of developers to fix. The promise of prototype to production in as few steps as possible has eluded the industry. Matt and the Fermyon team are trying to deliver what has been missing for far too long.
We talk about WebAssembly, startup challenges, solving hard problems by choosing the right abstractions and constraints, and much more.
Thank you, Matt, for a great conversation and make sure you all check out the team at Fermyon.
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David Frank is the CEO and co-founder of Stonehaven LLC which is a really nifty FinTech startup that has done something rarely even attempted, and they've done so successfully. David's focus on customer community, partner community, and company culture all come together in the trifecta of how to build a profoundly successful organization and raise value for all involved. 
It was a real pleasure to meet David who possesses a unique curiosity, humility, and drive to do better for himself and his surrounding communities. Make sure to check out David's work at Stonehaven and connect with him on LinkedIn. 
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Ori Weizman is a podcaster, technologist, tech evangelist, and all around fantastic human. Ori works at Silk who are doing some really neat things around database optimization for the public cloud so you should definitely check out their work. 
This is a deep discussion into what makes a technologists tick, how to really understand ourselves, and how to have an impact with what we do in the technology startup ecosystem. 
Thank you, Ori, for a really enjoyable and mindful conversation.
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Zack Brigman is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Commvault working on the Metallic platform team. We cover the most important facets of developing a product for success by understanding the human impact.
This is a lesson in product marketing and product features planning. Super helpful to have this chat and also a fun surprise at the end! Thanks, Zack!
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Don W Long is a successful entrepreneur, mentor, and best selling author. His WCBS (World Class Business Systems) method has led world-leading companies to new levels of growth. Don joins to talk about the state of business and entrepreneurship in 2023 and to announce a fantastic new opportunity for a new community that I am proud to be joining for coaching startup founders.
Big thanks to Don for this great conversation. A real inspiration! Visit Don at https://donwlong.com
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Derek Videll is the founder of Social Bamboo and someone who aims to make business and life better in many ways. Derek's approach and integrity are noteworthy and you should definitely check out his free course to learn about leveraging and monetizing social media.
Beyond that, he's just a fantastic human and really taps into some meaningful things to me which made this an amazing and enjoyable conversation. Thank you for a wonderful chat, Derek.
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JR Butler and Anthony Flaherty unpack what is the most powerful opportunity ahead as we head into a high risk period for so many companies. Startups are especially vulnerable as the market shifts. This is also the most critical time to hire the right people to sell into the downturn.
A must listen for anyone in tech startups or any business for that matter. Thanks to JR and Anthony for a great chat and don't forget to check out the Las Vegas Event Experience coming up November 28-December 1st, 2022 which you can stream live at https://gtmdelta.com/live
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Yasmin Rajabi is a product leader focused on building products that empower engineers to move the business forward. She is currently VP of Product at Stormforge, responsible for Product Management, UX, and Docs.
We talk about the multi-variant challenge in Kubernetes Ops, the evolution of Ops, Platform Ops, and SRE, plus the real human experience that drives effective product building and adoption. Yasmin is a rarity in the level of empathy and curiosity she brings along with fantastic coding and product management and engineering. You're going to love this chat as much as I did!
Check out StormForge at https://StormForge.io
Follow Yasmin on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/yasminnx13
Here's the entire Cloud Field Day 15 page feature lots of content with StormForge: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd15/ 
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Noemi Greyzdorf is an experienced go-to-market professional with a passion for innovative technologies that drive value. Noemi does everything from Product/solution positioning, messaging, route to market, pricing strategy, channel program, to sales enablement, and much more.
We catch up after our last chat and get to learn more about Noemi's approach to market positioning, technical product marketing, and what is new with what is happening at Fungible. I would love to share much more of Noemi's wisdom and I can't thank her enough for all that she has done to inspire me in so much of what I do. 
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George Georgalides is the Founder of Basis, a startup that automates healthcare planning using a data-driven, person-centered care approach that integrates effortlessly into our daily lives. 
His mission is to reduce friction and expenses while improving an individual's health results via an AI-assisted autonomous care model.
George is also a serial entrepreneur who has created two medical products, raised $13 million in funding, and had one exit. He previously served in the Cyprus army as a team leader, which he believes better prepared him for the business world.
This is a really wide-ranging chat where we discover personal habits, health options that we should be using right now, and the path to entrepreneurship. 
Thank you for a great conversation, George!
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Tim is CEO of Redmond Growth Initiatives (RGI), an organization designed to help you grow your profits, grow your business and grow your life through Tim’s innovative coaching process. He's proven himself in starting, running, and growing businesses and is sharing that knowledge through his coaching and mentorship.
It really was an honour to share time with Tim on the show.
Check out Redmond Growth Consulting here: https://redmondgrowth.com/ 
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Rick Taylor is an internationally known software architect with over 25 years experience in developing next-generation networking products. Rick is an active member of several standards organisations, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where he co-chairs two Working Groups.
Check out Ori Industries here: https://ori.co/ 
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Matt Munson is a CEO and Executive coach with Sanity Labs, a boutique leadership coaching firm he founded in 2019 that provides coaching to dozens of venture backed and bootstrapped companies.
Matt draws on his own experience as a venture-backed CEO, as well as a variety of coaching disciplines, to help others navigate the perilous journey of leadership and organization building.
Check out Sanity Labs here: https://www.sanitylabs.co/
You can get in touch with Matt here: https://www.mattmunson.me/ 
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Elliot Shmukler is Co-founder and CEO of Anomalo. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Elliot's been leading a small but growing team since Anomalo being founded in 2018. He's had previous roles as a Product and Growth leader at tech companies like Instacart, LinkedIn, and Wealthfront.
This is a great chat packed with lessons on startup growth, finding quality in your data, and much more. Thank you Elliot for a great discussion!
Check out Anomalo at https://anomalo.com 
Connect with Elliot here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshmu/ 
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Scott Danner is the CEO of Freedom Street Partners and the author of Freedom Street. We discuss how to unlock potential in yourself and to define and create your path to freedom. What does freedom mean to you? We delve into mentoring, Scott's personal story that led him to his current role, and much more. A must listen for sure! Thank you to Scott for the inspirational conversation.
Check out Scott and his team here: https://www.raymondjames.com/freedomstreetpartners/scott-danner.htm
Get Scott's book here: https://amzn.to/39vE90S
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Danny Allan is the CTO at Veeam Software and shares updates and news that we will see happening at VeeamON in Las Vegas May 16-19.
On top of that, we cover why system-level protection is a fundamental need, plus some great discussion on why data protection for containerized apps is the new normal.
Check out VeeamON here: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon (includes virtual registration for free!)
Grab all the latest news on Veeam products here: https://vee.am/DiscoPosse
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GET THE AUDIOBOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/3OYdtpX
Michelle Seiler Tucker is the founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc., a company that has sold over 1,000 businesses and currently owns and operates several successful businesses. She is the author of the books“Think & Grow Rich Today,” “Sell Your Business for More than it's Worth,” and her latest book is“Exit Rich.”
Congratulations on the release, Michelle! Big thanks for letting me be a part of amplifying this book which I LOVE LOVE LOVE and highly recommend you get.
Drop me a comment with to let me know you picked it up. ONLY 2.99$ for the entire month of MAY so don't miss out! Seriously, just get the book. It's fantastic. Heck, drop a reply and if you're in the US or Canada I'll help a bunch of folks to pick up a copy before the price goes up.
GET THE AUDIOBOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/3OYdtpX
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Dr. Andrew White is an experienced programme director, teacher and researcher at the Said Business School at Oxford. Andrew's areas of expertise include innovation management and leadership development.
Andrew is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice, and was previously the Associate Dean of External Relations (2020-2021) and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Corporate Relations (2010-2020) at Saïd Business School. This was very enjoyable discussion that covers a lot more than just leadership and modernizing business education.
Andrew was an absolute pleasure to chat with and shares lots of insights into the leaders of today and research he and his team are coming out with soon. Thank you for a great discussion, Andrew!
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JR Butler is the Founder and CEO of Shift Group. This is an episode filled with lessons on what it takes to commit to building yourself, your team, and your business. JR is an inspiration and I can't wait to have him back on to dive into more of his story and the work he is doing with Shift Group.
Check out Shift Group at https://shiftgroup.io and big thanks to JR on the launch of our new partnership to help amplify what he and the Shift Group team are doing to help empower elite athletes with the tools to succeed in technology startups as growing sales leaders.
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