Bits, Bytes and Business

Hiring technical team members can be a daunting experience for people that have no technical background.

In this podcast our CTOs Bhairav Patel and Sam Noble talk about their approach to hiring tech resources and what you should be looking for when hiring someone in-house

RFPs or Requests for Proposals are the starting point when you're trying to find the right partner to develop your technical platform

In this podcast Sam Noble and Bhairav Patel talk about their approach to writing RFPs and what you need to look out for when selecting the right tech partner

In this podcast Atom CTO co-founders Sam Noble and Bhairav Patel talk about their experiences when outsourcing projects to external vendors

Atom CTO has outsourced projects to vendors across the globe and both Sam and Bhairav talk about what has worked well, not so well and how they approach the selection of vendors and manage external teams

In this podcast we talk with Russell Jaques the co-founder of Fin-Q, a company that helps businesses automated their accounts payable processes.

Russell talks about the benefits of automating the accounts payable process, what drove him to start the business and how his sales process has adapted during the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you would like to learn more about Fin-Q, visit their website:

https://www.fin-q.co.uk/

In this podcat we talk with journalist Toby Muse about this new book Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels.

In this book Toby traces the journey of a kilo of cocaine from those that pick the coca leaves to the drug traffickers that move their product around the world. We also talk about Toby's experiences reporting on the war in Syria and his time in Aleppo when embedded with the local militias

If you want to buy this book or learn more about Toby, visit his website:

https://www.tobymuse.com/

In this podcast we talk with ex Royal Navy Warfare Office, Nicholas Ealey. Nick talks through his decision to join the Navy and shares his experiences of living and working on a submarine.

We focus on a number of key topics relevant to business:

- Keeping teams focused

- Managing conflict at closed quarters

- Leadership under pressure

- Adapting to new situations

In this podcast the Atom CTO co-founders Sam Noble and Bhairav Patel describe the role of a CTO, when and how you should hire one and we also explain the Atom CTO model and the services we provide as virtual CTOs

In this podcast you'll be meeting Bhairav Patel, co-founder of Atom Ventures, Atom CTO and CEO of Avrium. Bhairav began his career at PwC, IBM and then became the CTO of award winning businesses including a Forbes FinTech 50 Finance company

To learn more about Bhairav you can find his profile here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhairavpatel/

In this series of podcasts: Meet Atom CTO, we will be interviewing the team so that you can get a feel for who we are, how we work and why we started the business and why we love what we do!

The first interview is with Sam Noble, co-founder and virtual CTO. Sam has an impressive resume starting off his career with a company formed from the incubator at McClaren, moving on to large scale supply chain and logistics projects and then finally to becoming the CTO for an award winning healthcare app. You can see Sam’s full profile here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnoble/

We hope this podcast gives you an insight into Sam’s experience and what motivates him to work as a virtual CTO

In this week's podcast we're talking to Joshna Maharaj, a celebrity chef based in Toronto Canada.

We cover a range of different topics from Joshna's journey to becoming a chef, her activism with regards to improving the food quality within our public services to trolling and the effects of criticism on social media. In addition to this we also cover the cultural appropriation of food!

For more information about Joshna, visit her website and follow her on Instagram and Twitter

https://www.joshnamaharaj.com/