We talk to Kevin Trethewey about his history and building up Driven Alliance and putting people before technology.

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Kevin Trethewey is one of the pillars of the local software development community, and has built up a great company and a talented team at Driven Alliance. We had Kevin on the show before talking about the Spine Model. This time round we learn more about his history, how Driven got formed, and the kind of thinking behind building the company.

We hope you enjoy the show and learn as much from Kevin as we did.

Find and follow Kevin & Driven Alliance online:

* https://twitter.com/KevinTrethewey

* https://twitter.com/DrivenAlliance

* http://drivenalliance.com/

And finally our picks

Kenneth:

* Code Retreat - https://www.meetup.com/coderetreat

Kevin:

* Google Cloud Platform - https://cloud.google.com

Chantal:

* Have I been pwned? - https://haveibeenpwned.com/

* KeyPass - http://keepass.info/

Kevin Trethewey:

* Scott Adams: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964983301/how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win

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