#founder-interview

Founder Interviews: Todd Olson of Pendo
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Learn how Todd Olson created Pendo, a product experience platform that helps software product teams deliver software users love.What’s your background?Before I started Pendo in 2013, I had a long career building companies and products. I had a passion for programming and entrepreneurship from the beginning. I was writing code as an intern at a large commercial bank when I was 14, and in my senior year at Carnegie Mellon, I became a part-time student in order to start a software company with a friend. It was called Cerebellum Software, and we raised more than $20 million in venture capital. I went on to found another company called 6th Sense Analytics which was acquired by Rally, where I became VP of product and contributed to a successful IPO.At Rally, I experienced the need that would (...)

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Founder Interviews: Jim Rose of CircleCI
▻https://hackernoon.com/founder-interviews-jim-rose-of-circleci-edd76bea3c65?source=rss----3a814

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Six-time founder and CircleCI CEO Jim Rose is on a mission to give everyone the ability to build and deliver software at the speed of imagination.Davis Baer: What’s your background, and what are you working on?Jim Rose: I’m originally from Wisconsin and went to Duke for undergrad. After I graduated, I spent some time in China as an analyst working on the copy machine supply chain. There are lots of stories there, but we’ll save those for another time. After a while I came back to the States and spent some time working in Seattle, and then for WPP. It was just at the start of the first tech boom, and I started a company called MobShop. We wanted to give consumers the ability to get discounts when they bought goods at volume — this was way before Groupon, who had a similar idea and ended up (...)

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Changemakers in #programming: Brendan Eich
▻https://hackernoon.com/changemakers-in-programming-brendan-eich-e43f2cc7d269?source=rss----3a81

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Changemakers in Programming: this new blog series will be focusing on organizations, associations and people who have had and/or continue to have a positive impact on the tech world and the world of programming!For this second post, we will learn about the inventor of #javascript. This is the story of BrendanEich, a programmer with a long and growing list of accomplishments!Currently, Eich is the CEO of Brave, which has developed a new internet browser (called Brave) that promises its users more privacy, better security, and faster browsing speeds. But you may also know him as the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla (where he was also CTO and briefly CEO).In this blog post, we’ll explore how Eich got to where he is today and discuss his latest project (Brave) and how it might (...)

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#gitcoin: Open Source Bounties-Interview & Platform Explanation with Co-Founder Vivek
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▻https://medium.com/media/e25013f03cd602c344c9100151a3a37f/hrefGitcoin is the easiest way to leverage the open source community to incentivize or monetize work.Gitcoin is a double sided marketplace that matches employers with talent. Using Gitcoin, employers can find talented individuals to work on their problems and incentivize them to help grow their projects with bounties.Using Gitcoin, talent can find work at the intersection of #blockchain and OSS. They can find a community that cares about building (not speculation) and build relationships and products that positively impact their ability to find work in the blockchain space.Things discussed in this episode:What is Gitcoin in brief?How did Gitcoin project begin and how did you get involved with itCurrent situation of funding of open (...)

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