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Software Snack Bites

Shomik Ghosh of boldstart ventures

A podcast series exploring all things enterprise software. We"ll interview experts from all areas of company building, the enterprise buyer perspective, investors viewpoints and deep dive into specific technology trends. shomik.substack.com

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48:55

State of Developer Tooling - Redmonk (James Governor...

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2024/03/12

For anyone interested in developer tooling, you won’t be able to find better analysis than the Redmonk team and this pod goes in depth into trends, analysis, and AI’s impact on coding.James Governor and Kate Holterhoff are analysts at Redmonk, the developer focused analyst firm. They have been doing analysis of open source tooling and developer trends since 2002 when the firm was founded (20+ years ago). In this episode, we talk about analyzing what will persist in hype cycles, AI’s impact on coding

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45:09

Time Management for Knowledge Workers - Matt Martin...

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2024/03/05

All of us as knowledge workers are interested in improving our time management. This episode is packed with tips from a founder who breathes this with the product everyday.Matt Martin is the Co-Founder & CEO of Clockwise and previously an Eng Manager at Salesforce through the RelateIQ acquisition. In this episode, we discuss time management tips and calendar optimization. We dive into research behind different aspects of time and behavioral management. And of course, get Matt’s insights from 7+

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58:23

Health 101 for Entrepreneurs - Ben Canning (Founder,...

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2024/02/27

As much as we talk about company building and technology trends on this podcast, one of the most essential aspects of entrepreneurship is maintaining your health. High performance comes first form taking care of your body, mind, and lifestyle to drive clear decision making.Ben Canning is the Founder of We Hack Health and a trainer to founders & employees across the tech and cybersecurity ecosystem. He has coached many high performers in their jobs and helped them improve even further by focusing on

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52:08

Replay: Doug O'Laughlin (Founder, Fabricated...

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2024/02/13

Given all that’s happened in the year since this first aired (March 2023), replaying this for everyone to understand what is happening within the Semiconductor space, the different players, why Nvidia is set up to dominate (Doug predicted this well before that 1st epic quarter), and much more. Since this episode aired, Nvidia is up 2.6x!Doug O’Laughlin is the Founder of Fabricated Knowledge, one of the largest technology newsletters on Substack, covering the semiconductor industry. Many may know

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47:46

Nick Schrock (Founder, Dagster Labs & Co-Creator,...

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2024/02/06

For those excited about Open Source, data, and understanding Facebook’s high performance culture, this is the episode for you!Nick Schrock is the Founder of Dagster Labs and previously Co-Creator of GraphQL while at Facebook. In this episode, we discuss how Facebook maintained a culture of urgency and decentralization. Nick dives into the problem solved behind GraphQL’s creation and how the product rolled out within Facebook. We also cover the modern data stack and how Dagster Labs is moving beyond

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82:57

Zack Urlocker (Exec - Duo Security, MySQL, Zendesk,...

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2024/01/24

For those interested in understanding how to drive high performance teams, create focus in an organization, and drive organizational excellence, this episode is jam-packed with tactics and anecdotes across software industries.Zack Urlocker is an active Board Member and advisor to many different startups. His resume is too long to fully write out but he previously has served as CEO, COO, VP Marketing, VP Product, and VP Engineering across 7 different companies including Duo Security, MySQL, Zendesk,

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46:13

Utkarsh Ohm (Director of AI, Thoughtspot) - The...

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2024/01/15

This episode is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to learn how to apply AI into their product especially for high fidelity analytics use cases.Utkarsh Ohm is Director of AI at Thoughtspot. He previously was a Co-Founder & eng leader at various startups. In this episode, we cover applying LLMs alongside other models to customer facing products. We discuss where LLMs in particular are helpful vs traditional ML models, why text to SQL use cases need to be supplemented by internal insights to improve

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54:49

Hank Taylor (Fractional CMO & Former VP Marketing,...

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2024/01/09

This episode is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to get tactical insights on how to automate aspects of the SDR role without sacrificing quality and first principles thinking on managing inbound leads.Hank Taylor is a Fractional CMO & advisor to many different startups. He previously was VP Marketing & RevOps at Vercel and held leadership & IC roles at companies like Gitlab, Neo4j, and Tray.io. In this episode, we get tactical from the start. Hank walks through specific email collateral and

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45:58

Swati Raju (Head of Eng, Confluence Cloud, Atlassian)...

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2024/01/03

At Atlassian’s scale, it’s mind-boggling to consider how rapid innovation and product architecture changes are implemented on a daily basis. This episode covers the “how” spanning effective team collaboration to cloud transitions.Swati Raju is Head of Engineering, Confluence Cloud at Atlassian. She previously was a CTO, eng manager and IC at various companies including Groupon, Yahoo, and Ticketmaster. In this episode, we cover how Swati builds effective remote engineering teams. We also cover how

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42:45

Bobby Pinero (CEO, Equals) - Why Freemium Doesn't...

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2023/12/19

Nowadays we hear about “the consumerization of IT” and removing friction from user funnels everywhere. This episode covers how sometimes that can be the wrong move for the business even if users and the market think a freemium go to market is the best approach.Bobby Pinero is Co-Founder & CEO of Equals, a next-gen spreadsheet. He was previously the first finance hire at Intercom and employee 20. In this episode, we cover why Freemium didn’t work for Equals and how Free Trial is actually a better

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39:57

Fergal Reid (VP AI, Intercom) - Applied AI Insights...

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2023/12/12

Intercom was shipping and experimenting with AI enabled products since 2017. This episode is for those interested in hearing about the evolution of AI models, the customer results, and how these models can be applied in production.Fergal Reid is Vice President of AI at Intercom. He started at Intercom nearly 7 years ago to help the company begin delivering products leveraging AI. In this episode, we cover how ML & AI has evolved since 2009 and why the reasoning engines that exist in models today are

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61:49

Chris Huskey (Partner, Octahedron Capital) - A...

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2023/12/05

One of the most exciting private companies today is Databricks, growing over 50% at $1.5B ARR with a recent valuation of $43B announced in September 2023. This is the deep dive you’ve been waiting for to understand the product, growth, and competitive landscape.Chris Huskey is a Partner at Octahedron Capital, a hedge fund that invests in public and private markets. Databricks is a large position in Octahedron’s portfolio. In this episode, we cover every aspect of Databricks. The origin story,

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78:23

#26 - Marten Mickos (CEO, HackerOne & prev CEO, MySQL...

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2023/11/28

Curious about how to scale Open Source companies. Want to hear anecdotes of existential company killing moments that turned into defining assets? This episode has everything from leadership tactics, hard earned advice, managing in competitive industries, new category creation and much more.Marten Mickos is CEO of HackerOne and the OG of Open Source. He has 36+ years of enterprise software experience. His resume would take too long to fully cover but he previously was the CEO of MySQL (one of the

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40:34

#25 - Kunal Agarwal (CEO, Dope Security) & Emilio...

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2023/11/13

This episode is for whomever is curious about Secure Service Edge (SSE) or Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Security and why seemingly every public security company seems to be trumpeting their solutions in this space which Gartner predicts will be one of the fastest-growing categories of spend in the coming years.Kunal Agarwal is the Founder & CEO of Dope Security which is building a modern Secure Service Edge (SSE) platform. He was previously Sr Director of Product at Forcepoint and GM at

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35:26

#24 - Glen Kacher (Chief Investment Officer, Light...

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2023/11/07

Many of us in the private markets are curious about how public markets view AI’s impact and the approach that public market investors take to investing in companies. This episode uncovers that from one of the top public software investors in my opinion.Glen Kacher is Chief Investment Officer at Light Street Capital. He founded Light Street 13 years ago after stints at Integral Capital Partners and Tiger Global. In this episode, we cover a long term successful public market investor’s view on how AI

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53:50

#23 - Ethan Schechter (VP Sales & 1st Sales Leader,...

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2023/11/01

This episode is packed with tactical advice for all things sales and go-to-market. It’s relevant across stages whether your company is at $0M ARR or at $100M+ ARR. Ethan Schechter is VP Sales at Snyk. He started at Snyk 6 years ago as the first sales leader. In this episode, we cover tactical insights from Ethan’s experience leading early sales to scale at Snyk and ZeroTurnaround. He describes how to position a product when “shift left” was a new and scary term, how to make first sales, tradeoffs to

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50:02

#22 - Kevin Wang (Chief Product Officer, Braze) -...

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2023/10/18

This episode is useful for all founders, startup employees, and investors who are interested in early stage startup advice, enterprise product tips, and learning how employees can scale from Day 0 to public markets.Kevin Wang is Chief Product Officer at Braze. He started at Braze ~12 years ago as employee #5 going from software engineer, to PM, and eventually to CPO. In this episode, we cover learnings from Kevin’s incredible journey and how he as well as the company scaled from Day 0 to a public

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48:41

#21 - David Dorman (VP Self Serve, Grafana) - Open...

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2023/09/27

This episode is useful for all founders, startup employees, and investors who are interested in product marketing, self serve, and PLG for developer focused, enterprise software products.David Dorman is VP, Self Serve at Grafana and formerly Director of Product Marketing at DigitalOcean. In this episode, we cover learnings from DigitalOcean’s incredible content strategy, what Self Serve means and specific advice that David has for teams in this area, how developer marketing differs from Self Serve

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63:41

#20 - Alex Mackenzie (Tapestry VC) & Ian Livingstone...

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2023/09/13

This podcast episode is a new format where I introduce everyone to my go-to brain trust to chat new technologies with. This episode can be consumed end to end or you can jump to specific categories that particularly interest you (timestamped below).Alex Mackenzie is a Partner at Tapestry VC and Ian Livingstone is a Team Lead at Snyk. In this day and age, there’s a new technology that seems to capture the interest of the ecosystem (particular tech Twitter) every month. When I need to dive into these

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62:31

#19 - Muji (Founder of Hhhypergrowth) - Data...

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2023/08/30

This podcast episode is for all of those who are interested in trends like cloud data warehouses, data & AI, edge networks, SASE security, zero trust security and companies like Snowflake, Databricks, Cloudflare, Z-Scaler, Palo Alto Networks, and of course the big cloud providers. Muji is the Founder of Hhhypergrowth, which is my favorite research publication for all things software infrastructure and security. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND subscribing. Can’t say enough about how worth it Muji’s research

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