Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

Noah Kagan, Founder of App Sumo talks with Adam about his journey to success. Send an email to [email protected] for more details about something special for 5by5 listeners.

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Featuring:

• Noah Kagan – Twitter, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• App Sumo
• Intel
• Facebook
• Mint
• Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

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Adam was invited by our friends at Square to interview Jack Dorsey as part of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack Dorsey is one of the most prolific CEOs out there — he’s a hacker turned CEO and is often working at the very edge of what’s to come (at scale). Jack is focused on what the future has to offer, he’s considered an innovator by many. He’s also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin.

What you’re about to hear is the fireside chat Adam had with Jack at Square Unboxed 2022. Jack and Adam discuss the vision Square has for the developer platform and why it’s so central to the company’s strategy.

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Featuring:

• Jack Dorsey – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Block.xyz
• Square Unboxed 2022
• Square Unboxed 2022’s replay on YouTube
• Square Unboxed 2022’s recap blog post
• Jack Dorsey on Lex Fridman (#91)

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Eric Berry started Code Sponsor a year ago because of his passion for finding ways to sustain and fund open source developers. He ultimately had to shutdown due to potential legal issues with GitHub, but was given new life as CodeFund when he went to work for ConsenSys and Gitcoin. We talked through the backstory of this idea, why he’s so passionate about funding open source, ethical advertising, being unapologetically focused on your mission, the value of honesty and openness, and the future direction of CodeFund.

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Sponsors:

• Vettery – Vettery helps you scale your teams by connecting you with highly qualified tech, sales & finance candidates. Download their tech salary report for 2018 with insights from tech hiring activity in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Download at vettery.com/founderstalk.
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• Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com.
• Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

Featuring:

• Eric Berry – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• CodeFund
• What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source
• The CPC Illusion
• gitcoinco/codefund
• Code Sponsor + Gitcoin = OSS Sustainability
• Why Funding Open Source is Hard
• React Table
• Material UI
• nayafia/lemonade-stand
• Codesandbox
• Nuxt.js
• Sustain Summit 2018
• Open Collective
• Founders Talk #52: Pia Mancini is now CEO and growing Open Collective

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This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winning application monitoring company founded by John-Daniel Trask (better known as JD) and Jeremy Boyd in Wellington, New Zealand. They have revenues in the 8 digits annually, and have done it with very little funding (~1.7M USD). Today’s conversation with JD shares a ton of wisdom. Listen twice and take notes.

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• Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – Linode is our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog OR text CHANGELOG to 474747 to get instant access to that $100 in free credit.
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• Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
• LaunchDarkly – Test in production! Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Featuring:

• John-Daniel Trask – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Raygun.com
• The Microsoft Way: The Real Story Of How The Company Outsmarts Its Competition
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Full-disclosure: Raygun is an active sponsor of JS Party and a prior sponsor of The Changelog and Changelog News.

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This week Adam is joined by Christine Yen, co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Christine and Adam recorded this show late last year, just after their Series C funding round. They talk about the superpower of observability for developers, how she and Charity Majors got to the place to found Honeycomb, the state of their platform today, what exactly observability is, and their goals for the future of Honeycomb.

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• WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com
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Featuring:

• Christine Yen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• How Honeycomb Is Using $50M in New Funding to Bring Observability to All
• The Changelog #356: Observability is for your unknown unknowns with Christine Yen
• 2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

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