Sitemap - 2023 - Software Snack Bites

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

Fergal Reid (VP AI, Intercom) - Applied AI Insights from Shipping Fin (an LLM enabled chatbot)

Chris Huskey (Partner, Octahedron Capital) - A Databricks Deep Dive

#26 - Marten Mickos (CEO, HackerOne & prev CEO, MySQL & Eucalyptus Software) - The OG of Open Source, Lessons Learned Scaling Multiple Enterprise Software Startups, Tactical Leadership Learnings

#25 - Kunal Agarwal (CEO, Dope Security) & Emilio Escobar (CISO, Datadog) - Deep Dive into SSE & SASE Security, The Convergence of Networking & Security

#24 - Glen Kacher (Chief Investment Officer, Light Street Capital) - AI's Potential Impact on Public Software Companies, How to Conduct Rigorous Research, Lessons learned from Julian Robertson

#23 - Ethan Schechter (VP Sales & 1st Sales Leader, Snyk) - "Trade Dollars for Speed", "The Minute You Stop They Win", and More Tactical Advice for Sales from Early Stage to Scale

How to Sell in a Tough Macro Environment

#22 - Kevin Wang (Chief Product Officer, Braze) - Scaling from Employee 5 to Public Company Exec, 0 to 1 Anecdotes and Advice for Early Stage Startups, Product Advice from early to scale

Israel Donation Resources

The Worst of Times for M&A & The Best of Times

#21 - David Dorman (VP Self Serve, Grafana) - Open Source GTM, Developer First Marketing, Product Marketing & Self Serve Tactics

Surfing the Wave: Setting the Foundations to Scale GTM

#20 - Alex Mackenzie (Tapestry VC) & Ian Livingstone (Snyk) - Round Table Explaining New Technologies - Javascript Runtimes, Edge Compute, Observability, Encryption, LLMs & AI

Borrowing From Other Budgets

#19 - Muji (Founder of Hhhypergrowth) - Data Infrastructure Trends, Operational vs Analytical Databases, Benefits of Edge Network Architectures, Emergence of SASE Security, Zero Trust Security

#18 - Jake Saper (General Partner, Emergence Capital) - Moats in SaaS, AI's Impact on SaaS, Learnings from Salesforce, Zoom, Gusto & more

#17 - Ian Swanson (CEO of Protect AI) & Emilio Escobar (CISO of Datadog) - Deep Dive into ML & AI Security, Emerging Attack Surfaces, MLSecOps, and LLMs Use in Adversarial and Defensive Security

#16 - Jade Rubick (ex VPE at New Relic, Eng Advisor to Jeli, Flatfile, Mode, Maze & more) - Tactical Advice for Building Effective Eng Teams, Anti-Patterns for Eng Teams to Avoid

#15 - Julia Schottenstein (Product Lead @ dbt) - Trends in Analytics Engineering, Data Transformation & Semantic Layer Deep Dive, Open Source to Cloud Product Learnings

#14 - Kiersten Gaffney (CMO of Codefresh, Advisor to AtomicJar, CodeSee, Fermyon, Redis & more) - Detailed Market Tactics for Dev Tools Founders, How Early Stage Companies Should Approach Marketing

Memphis: Building Stream Processing that Doesn't Suck (aka a Delightful Dev First Experience)...Welcome to the Boldstart Family!

#13 - Dan Scheinman (Board Member of Zoom, SentinelOne, Arista Networks) - Finding Outlier Founders & Angel Investing from Day One, Demystifying Public Boards, Winning in Competitive Markets

#12 - Phillip Carter (Principal PM @ Honeycomb) - All The Hard Stuff when Building Products with LLMs, Actual Results from Leveraging AI

#11 - Julian Alvarez (CEO of Logixboard) - Building and Scaling a Vertical SaaS Company, Explaining Freight Forwarding & the Supply Chain Industry

#10 - Mia Wang (M&A Director at Cloudflare) & Oren Falkowitz (Co-Founder of Area 1 Security) - Demystifying the M&A Process, Tips for Founders on Executing a Smooth Process

#9 Kyle Poyar (Operating Partner at Openview) - Detailed Tips & Tactics for PLG motions, Pricing & Packaging, Product Led Sales & Marketing Tips, and Specific Case Studies

Why Incumbents LOVE AI

#8 Seth Rosen (Head of Data Products at Snyk, Co-Founder of Topcoat Data) - A Modern Data Stack Overview, How Product Management & Data Teams Work Together, Future Trends in Data

#7 Brian Chambers (Chief Architect at Chick-Fil-A) - Technology Powering Fast Food, Enterprise Architecture, Edge Compute Use Cases, How New Technology is Adopted in Enterprises

#6 Brian Douglas (Founder of OpenSauced, Dev Rel at Github & Netlify) - What is Developer Relations, How to Succeed at Dev Rel, Scaling Open Source Projects & Contribution

#5 Matt Butcher (CEO, Fermyon) & Steve Manuel (CEO, Dylibso) - Why WebAssembly is the Future of Computing, Current Use Cases for Wasm, What to Expect in the Future

#4 Doug O'Laughlin (@FoolAllTheTime) - Founder of Fabricated Knowledge, A Detailed Primer on the Semiconductor Industry, What Powers AI Under the Hood, Trends in Chips for the Future

The Rise of Platform Engineering

Jamin Ball - Partner at Altimeter Capital, Cloud Metrics, Macro Viewpoint for Founders, Backing Essential Companies, Trends in Cloud Data Infra

Network Density - When & Why It Matters

Emilio Escobar - CISO of Datadog, How security companies can stand out from the noise, trust & safety vs security orgs, how enterprises manage security

Damian Schenkelman - Principal Architect at Okta, Scaling from Employee 10 to Exit at Auth0

Hashicorp's ALEER Sales Process

How Developers Discover Products

Be Macro Aware, Micro Obsessed

Why Investors are Focused on Efficiency

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