On today’s episode, we’re joined by Kumar Erramilli, Chief Technology Officer at ACTO, the #1 learning and insights platform for the life sciences industry. We talk about:



• Advice for launching a new SaaS product & going to market
• How the process has evolved since 2009
• How to allocate budgets & justify what new features to build
• Balancing existing customer demands & innovating for the market
• Gamification of customer feature requests

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Artem Koren, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder at Sembly AI, a SaaS platform that helps to make meetings more effective. We talk about:



• Leveraging external AI services & models vs. building in house
• Automating follow-on activity beyond meetings
• How to decide to build a feature or integrate a third party
• The future of human-free meetings

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Ali Allage, CEO of BlueSteel Cybersecurity, Developer of humanized cybersecurity compliance programs that create sustainable security and confidence for SaaS-based organizations and government agencies. We talk about:



• Vital Qs to ask in order to document your process
• When a growing company should invest in dedicated security personnel
• When to call for security help versus DIY
• The role of regulations & their impact on SaaS companies

On today’s episode, we’re joined by two guests, Farzad Aref, Founder and CEO of Farlinium, a business-first consultancy that provides strategy, training, tools, and platforms to enterprises. Our additional guest, Dara Kharabi, is the Product Lead, Data and Data Strategy, at Rearc, a boutique cloud software & services firm with engineers that have years of experience shaping the cloud journey of large scale enterprises.



We talk about:

• Are AI/ML advancements driven by customer request or tech provider innovation
• Struggles validating whether ML model outputs are meaningful or correct 
• The need for quality systems around AI services to enable automated use
• Potential concerns, including ethics & data privacy

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Jonathan Crawford, Chief Architect, LeaseAccelerator, the leader in the enterprise lease accounting and lease lifecycle management software market.

We talk about:

Building best-of-breed multi-cloud infrastructure 

Tackling challenges with a multi-cloud solution involving AWS & Oracle

Coping with rising cloud costs during hyper growth

How to wring the maximum performance out of your databases

Reducing database costs while dealing with spikes in processing & storage