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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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65:06

#18 - Jake Saper (General Partner, Emergence Capital)...

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2023/08/23

Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital which has backed leading SaaS companies like Salesforce, Zoom, Gusto, Bill.com, and Veeva. Jake is a Board member of companies like Guru, Textio, Ironclad, Maze & many others. When I wanted to do a deep dive into SaaS business models, I could think of no one better than Jake and this episode absolutely delivered. We cover everything from single-player to multi-player product modes, various moats in SaaS, and how SaaS pricing & business models are

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59:06

#17 - Ian Swanson (CEO of Protect AI) & Emilio...

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2023/08/16

Ian Swanson is the Co-Founder & CEO of Protect AI which secures AI and ML systems. He was previously the Co-Founder & CEO of Datascience.com which sold to Oracle, where he was VP AI & ML and then was Worldwide Leader of AI & ML at AWS before starting Protect AI. I’m also joined by Emilio Escobar, CISO of Datadog as a special co-host! In this episode, we dive into what is ML & AI Security, the different types of attacks that hackers are using, and how teams can best secure their systems. We also talk

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44:44

#16 - Jade Rubick (ex VPE at New Relic, Eng Advisor...

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2023/08/08

Jade Rubick is a Eng Advisor to multiple startups (23 and counting). He was previously Vice President Engineering at New Relic and has taken on interim VPE roles at multiple other startups over the years before he began solely focused on advising startups. In this episode, Jade joins us to cover common anti-patterns he sees in eng teams, how teams can better communicate, what hiring practices work well and how to think about structuring career paths for employees. Everything from hiring tips, to

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47:08

#15 - Julia Schottenstein (Product Lead @ dbt) -...

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2023/07/19

Julia Schottenstein is a Product Lead at dbt and an active angel investor. Julia was previously a VC at NEA focused on software and data infrastructure. She joins us today to share learnings from product and VC, why analytics engineering is continuing to proliferate, and how dbt has been able to manage and grow the community over time. We dive into the data transformation and semantic layer and cover how dbt thinks about the open source and cloud products, managing feedback from all users to improve

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38:02

#14 - Kiersten Gaffney (CMO of Codefresh, Advisor to...

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2023/07/11

Kiersten Gaffney is the Chief Marketing Officer of Codefresh and a Go-To-Market Advisor for AtomicJar, CodeSee, Fermyon, Redis & many more companies. Kiersten was previously a marketing leader at Buoyant and Mesosphere, with many years of experience in software infrastructure and developer tools. She joins us today to share detailed tactics for dev tools founders on how to “do more with less”, designing content strategies, and leveraging communities to propel go-to-market forward. We dive into

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58:24

#13 - Dan Scheinman (Board Member of Zoom,...

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2023/06/21

Dan Scheinman is a full-time Angel Investor and Board Member of Zoom, SentinelOne, and Arista Networks. He joins us today to share learnings about M&A from his time running Corp Dev at Cisco, backing multiple public companies from day one, and how public boards differ from private ones. There’s numerous anecdotes that Dan shares about how he finds outlier founders, how founders are able to succeed even when they’re building in already competitive markets, and tons of actionable advice for founders

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50:57

#12 - Phillip Carter (Principal PM @ Honeycomb) - All...

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2023/06/14

Phillip Carter is a Principal Product Manager at Honeycomb, which develops a software debugging product for distributed systems. Phillip recently published one of the most interesting blog posts I’ve read titled “All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs”. The post is excellent and everyone should give it a read. In this episode, we dive deep into what the hard stuff actually is, the pros and cons of Large Language Models (LLMs) and what teams need to think about when

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48:17

#11 - Julian Alvarez (CEO of Logixboard) - Building...

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2023/06/07

Julian Alvarez is the CEO & Co-Founder of Logixboard, which is enabling freight forwarders to deliver a modern, digital customer experience to their customers with the Logixboard platform. He joins us today to talk about how to understand customer pain points in a specific vertical and gives a detailed overview of the freight forwarding and supply chain industry. Julian covers how to build a vertical SaaS software company, how scaling in vertical SaaS is different from other industries, and what

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57:09

#10 - Mia Wang (M&A Director at Cloudflare) & Oren...

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2023/05/31

Mia Wang is the M&A & Strategy Director at Cloudflare. Oren Falkowitz is the Co-Founder of Area 1 Security, a phishing security company, which was acquired by Cloudflare in April 2022. In this episode, Mia & Oren demystify the M&A process for startups (founders and employees) by discussing the real steps and decisions that both sides had to make as the acquisition was being contemplated and completed. Tactical advice is shared all along the way for founders to learn from in order to enable the

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58:44

#9 Kyle Poyar (Operating Partner at Openview) -...

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2023/05/24

Kyle Poyar is Operating Partner at Openview focused on PLG, pricing & growth. He writes the amazing and widely read newsletter, Growth Unhinged, which is one of my favorite weekly reads (multiple times a week!). It’s a wealth of information and I highly recommend listeners subscribe. Kyle joins us today to dive into all things PLG. He shares detailed and highly actionable tips with real-world examples of the countless startups he’s studied and worked with. We talk about PLG motions, multiplayer vs

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40:35

#8 Seth Rosen (Head of Data Products at Snyk,...

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2023/05/09

Seth Rosen is Head of Data Products at Snyk and previously Co-Founder of Topcoat Data, acquired by Snyk in March 2022. In this talk we cover, all things data, specifically diving into what the modern data stack is and the components that form it. We cover Seth’s experience working with customers of all sizes while he was running a data analytics consultancy, with tips for how companies can get value from data with a few core systems. Seth also explains what customer facing analytics enables and the

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75:28

#7 Brian Chambers (Chief Architect at Chick-Fil-A) -...

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2023/05/03

Brian Chambers is the Chief Architect at Chick-Fil-A, which is one of the fastest growing fast food restaurants in the US. Brian has been with Chick-Fil-A for 19 years, where the company has gone from $1B to $19B in sales (a nice 19x in 19 years). He’s seen the software architecture evolve from through various technology shifts such as datacenter to cloud, mobile, edge compute, and much more. He joins us today to talk about Chick-Fil-As architecture, how the backend technology maps to real business

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38:43

#6 Brian Douglas (Founder of OpenSauced, Dev Rel at...

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2023/04/18

Brian Douglas (aka Bdougie on all social platforms) is the Founder of OpenSauced, which is bringing enterprise insights and analytics to Open Source projects. He joins us today to dive into the open source ecosystem and the Developer Relations (DevRel) role. Brian was the 3rd engineer at Netlify and the 1st Developer Advocate at Github . In this episode, he talks about playbooks to create content that resonates with developers, how OSS projects can scale, and what is going on in the Jamstack

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59:37

#5 Matt Butcher (CEO, Fermyon) & Steve Manuel (CEO,...

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2023/03/29

Steve Manuel is the Co-Founder & CEO of Dylibso, which is creating developer tools to take WebAssembly to production. Matt Butcher is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fermyon which is building a cloud product to deploy & manage WebAssembly apps faster than existing cloud solutions. In this talk, both founders talk about why they are excited to build in the WebAssembly ecosystem, why Wasm is going to enable developers to have superpowers as the Wasm standards mature, and current companies & use cases that

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52:08

#4 Doug O'Laughlin (@FoolAllTheTime) - Founder of...

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2023/03/21

Doug O’Laughlin is the Founder of Fabricated Knowledge, one of the largest technology newsletters on Substack, covering the semiconductor industry. Many may know Doug from his anonymous Twitter. He joins us today to dive deep into the semiconductor industry. Doug takes an immensely complex industry in semis and distills everything down into digestible analogies regarding semiconductor manufacturing and the actual chips themselves. Doug specifically addresses how certain semi industry areas have

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49:19

Jamin Ball - Partner at Altimeter Capital, Cloud...

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2023/03/01

Jamin Ball is a Partner at Altimeter Capital and previously at Redpoint Ventures. He joins us today to share learnings about cloud metrics and seat based vs consumption based pricing. Jamin shares specific thoughts on cloud data infrastructure, why cloud optimization goes in cycles, and how Altimeter invests through business cycles in essential long-term businesses. We also cover the macro environment that founders should be aware of, trends in inflation, and how it affects businesses.Where to Find

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51:21

Emilio Escobar - CISO of Datadog, How security...

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2023/02/15

Emilio Escobar is the CISO of Datadog and before that previously VP Security at Hulu and Application Security lead at Sony Playstation. He joins us today to share learnings from running security at various companies, tips for security founders to distinguish themselves from the rest of the noise, and how internal security works at enterprises. Emilio shares specific tips on how he structures security orgs and makes it so that security can be an enabler to the business. We also cover why security

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51:55

Damian Schenkelman - Principal Architect at Okta,...

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2023/02/08

Welcome to Software Snack Bites the Podcast! This podcast will be an exploration of all things enterprise software from technology trend deep dives, to company building, to enterprise purchase decisions. Damian Schenkelman was Employee 10 at Auth0 and has played multiple roles in the company from early engineer, to first Director of Engineering, to Principal Architect at Okta/Auth0 Lab which is exploring new products in the auth space. He is also an angel investor and advisor to numerous startups

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SSB Teaser

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2023/02/07

Welcome to Software Snack Bites the Podcast! This podcast will be an exploration of all things enterprise software from technology trend deep dives, to company building, to enterprise purchase decisions. This episode is a short quick Teaser describing what future episodes will cover!* Software Snack Bites Newsletter: https://www.shomik.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shomik.substack.com

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