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

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 – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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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This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Featuring:

• Alex Gallego – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Redpanda

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Sam Soffes the Founder of Nothing Magical and the maker of Cheddar joins Adam Stacoviak to share all the details of his wild ride as an indie software developer and designer. Sam has worked at Hipstamatic, built YouTube ripoffs, gotten offers from some of the most respected names in the business (some accepted and some turned down) all to circle back around to start Nothing Magical and build his own products. He shares the highs, the lows and all the things he’s learned along the way - plus so much more. And, check out “After Dark” for a short extended chat with Sam.

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Featuring:

• Sam Soffes – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Make sure you listen to Sam’s other appearances:

• #51: Sam Soffes / Onward - Part 4
• #40: Sam Soffes / Seesaw - Part 3
• #39: Sam Soffes / Nothing Magical, Cheddar - Part 2

• SSToolkit
• Four Years
• GitHub - samsoffes (Sam Soffes)
• Chedder iOS - Open Source on GitHub
• GitHub - samsoffes/grater
• Hello Internet: Selling My Stuff
• Hello Internet on Vimeo
• Cheddar Lessons So Far
• Cheddar
• Shares App
• The Changelog - Episode 0.8.2 - Ruby Motion, MacRuby and more with Laurent Sansonetti
• Freshly Served: Cheddar App - Take your tasks everywhere - The Industry
• The Industry Radio Show #8: Adobe, HTML5Rocks, Dialoggs invites and making Cheddar

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Peter Cooper, the Founder of Cooper Press joins Adam to talk about all the stops along the way on his path to where he is today. Peter shares an immense amount of knowledge on tech publishing, what he’s learned about marketing, email newsletters done right, setting and accomplishing goals, as well as some very good advice at the very end.

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Featuring:

• Peter Cooper – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• O’Reilly Fluent Conference
• Cooper Press
• Peter Cooper
• What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”
• HTML5 Weekly
• JavaScript Weekly
• Ruby Weekly
• LaunchBit
• Buffer
• Peter Cooper on 43 Things
• Self Promotion for Geeks

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