Intensely focused on building a software company

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

02/23/21 • 81 min

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

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02/23/21 • 81 min

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership - Intensely focused on building a software company

Transcript

Transcript for Founders Talk #74 Adam Stacoviak:

I think one thing that's interesting, John-Daniel, is the business you've built, from where you've built it. I'm here in the U.S, Houston, middle America, and to compete with on a global scale, you've done an amazing job building the company. I think the one thing we want to talk about today is that journey for you - where you're from, and maybe the perspective of doing what you've done and the struggles you've had from where you'

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