Business and Philosophy

Business and Philosophy episodes:

• 04.17.2024

  Startup Investing with George Mathew

  George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the...

  
• 12.04.2023

  KubeCon Special: Docker with Justin Cormack

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Justin Cormack who is the CTO...

  
• 11.30.2023

  Software Architecture with Josh Prismon

  Josh Prismon is a veteran software architect, having worked at FICO for 17 years before shifting to Index Exchange in 2022. In this episode, Josh joins the podcast to speak with host Lee Atchison, who also has deep experience in...

  
• 08.31.2023

  Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon

  Cox Automotive has been at the frontier of digitizing the automotive space with popular products such as AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and Dealertrack. To deliver these products the company manages large quantities of data and diverse engineering teams. Scaling its...

  
• 08.10.2023

  Expanding B2B Payments with Sohil Pandya

  The Buy Now, Pay Later model, or BNPL, is traditionally a business-to-consumer model that is gaining traction in the business-to-business domain. Adoption of BNPL in business-to-business scenarios offers benefits like improved cash flow management for buyers, and increased sales for...

  
• 07.13.2023

  Engineering Insights with Christina Forney

  As Companies scale and their codebase becomes large, it can become difficult to measure team effectiveness. With so many moving pieces, and an increased lack of visibility, Engineering Leaders mostly rely on gut feelings to guide decisions and determine impact....

  
• 06.29.2023

  Resale Revolution with Richie Ganney and Harry Riley

  The company Continue has a new take on the resale marketplace. By partnering with brands and pulling post-purchase data onto their platform, this innovative solution simplifies and enhances the resale process, empowering consumers to participate in a more sustainable and...

  
• 05.19.2023

  Shift Conference with Ivan Burazin

  In the Software Industry, Conferences are crucial for developers, offering learning, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Attendees stay updated on the latest technologies, gain new skills, and connect with peers. These events expose developers to industry trends, inspire innovation, and foster...

  
• 05.11.2023

  Early Stage Venture Capital with Astasia Myers

  Astasia is a Partner on Quiet Capital’s enterprise team. Prior to joining Quiet, she was an investor on Redpoint Venture’s early stage enterprise team. Astasia joins the show to talk about Early Stage Venture Capital. Sean’s been an academic, startup...

  
• 02.23.2023

  Seeding Bold Engineers with Lee Edwards

  Lee Edwards is a Partner at Root Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups that are focused on solving hard engineering problems. Lee is an investor in Privacy Dynamics, a company that offers data anonymisation as a...

  
• 09.15.2022

  Mental Health in Tech with Andy Johns

  Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. Andy Johns is our guest in this episode. Andy previously worked on...

  
• 04.02.2022

  Developer Health with Gabe Greenberg and Michelle Bakels

  Gabe Greenberg Michelle Bakels Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. During the pandemic, the strains of being an...

  
• 03.24.2022

  Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter

  Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their...

  
• 03.17.2022

  Substack with Chris Best

  Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity. Chris...

  
• 03.08.2022

  National Instruments with Luke Schreier

  National Instruments develops software and hardware for engineering in a wide variety of domains, from aerospace to government technology to application testing. The interface between hardware and software presents a variety of difficult engineering challenges. Luke Schreier is a Senior...

  
• 03.03.2022

  Taloflow with LV Jadavji

  Increasingly, technology groups need to be strategic about the cloud services they adopt to ensure their vendor’s pricing is both fair and measured exactly right for the application’s unique access pattern.  Definitely answering questions like these can take a significant...

  
• 02.01.2022

  Clubs Poker with Taylor Crane

  Online poker was deemed illegal in the United States ten years ago. Since then, poker has decreased in popularity, then found new invigoration thanks to live streaming and a large volume of bored gamers looking for something to do during...

  
• 01.12.2022

  Pinterest Engineering

  Pinterest is a visual discovery engine people use to find ideas in home, food, style, beauty, and more. The service grew quickly after its founding in 2010 and the company has grown to be a global team of thousands of...

  
• 01.03.2022

  TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi

  TechLit Africa is a non-profit on a mission to lessen African poverty by leveraging the internet.  Rural Africans lack digital skills and computers to gain from the digital economy, even though developed countries have an abundance of used computers.  That’s...

  
• 12.18.2021

  Urbit with Galen Wolfe-Pauly

  As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems.  To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet....

  
• 12.15.2021

  UiPath with Boris Krumrey

  Robotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process.  Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox.  I’ve worked with a lot of salespeople that configure complex email follow-up campaigns...

  
• 12.01.2021

  The Software of Climate Adaptation with Gopal Erinjippurath

  Climate modeling is increasingly important as supply chains, emergency management, and dozens of other efforts need to make predictions about future conditions and how they will impact business.  Analyzing climate data requires geospatial systems, and those systems need a full-stack...

  
• 11.30.2021

  Internship Management Solutions with Nikita Gupta from Symba.io

  Internships can be an incredibly valuable resource to new professionals and are often the first professional work experience for many participants.  It’s often the case that internship programs are suboptimal.  Employers don’t always provide a clear path to success for...

  
• 11.19.2021

  Building Engineering Teams with Tramale Turner

  With a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person.  It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from...

  
• 11.12.2021

  AI in Sales with Ohad Parush

  To many people’s surprise tech sales is not much of an art. It’s actually a regimented science where reps have clear step-by-step processes to bring in new business. Each stage takes the customer closer to the end of the deal...

  
• 11.11.2021

  Treasury Prime with Christopher Dean

  The banking industry uses technology that some modern software engineers may regard as out of date or old-fashioned.  Entrepreneurs wanting to create products in the banking space historically faced a steep curve to build software that could integrate with established...

  
• 11.10.2021

  #FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

  Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They...

  
• 11.04.2021

  The Future of Quality Engineering with Liliya Frye

  It wasn’t that long ago that companies scheduled downtime in order to release an updated version of the software running their website.  That’s rare today.  Most developers want continuous testing, integration, and deployment.  While that comes with many benefits, it...

  
• 11.01.2021

  Building Startups Around Deep Tech Innovations with Fernando Gómez-Baquero

  Welcome to Software Engineering Daily; I’m your guest host, Joey Baruch. I’m the CTO at Alvarez and Marsal Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), prior to which I co-founded and was CTO of HuMoov, a vertical SaaS. I’ve been a software...

  
• 10.25.2021

  Online Communities on Gather with Phillip Wang

  Virtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space...

  
• 10.21.2021

  The Future of Gig Work with Adam Jackson

  The gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee.  Some workers find the relationship between worker...

  
• 10.20.2021

  Investing in Infrastructure and Dev Tools with Timothy Chen

  Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups.  No one builds technology from scratch.  There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly. ...

  
• 10.12.2021

  Getting Businesses Unstuck with Jon Dwoskin

  The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the...

  
• 10.06.2021

  Developer Productivity with Utsav Shah

  By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software...

  
• 10.03.2021

  Software Daily Prospectus

  Abstract Software Daily is a place to create software. Introduction SoftwareDaily.com is a social network that allows people from all over the world to come together and create software. Inspiration from Amazon Working at Amazon taught me that we can build anything. Inspiration...

  
• 09.24.2021

  Reimagining Banking at Current with Trevor Marshall

  Financial technology or fintech has always been a hot topic.  This is increasingly true in recent years as disruptive companies enter the market to give better alternatives and solutions to consumers. Current is focused on creating better financial outcomes.  In...

  
• 09.09.2021

  Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs with Tomasz Lelek

  A software engineer will make many mistakes on their career journey.  In time, engineers learn to make smaller mistakes, recognize them faster, and build with appropriate guardrails.  The demands of delivering software in a timely and efficient fashion often demands...

  
• 09.03.2021

  The Tech Radar with Lior Kanfi

  The Israeli Tech Radar is an opinionated map of the latest technologies and trends in the Israeli tech industry. Now in its fifth edition, the Tech Radar was built in collaboration with Monday, Wix, Riskified, Netapp, Tabula, and other tech...

  
• 09.01.2021

  The Missing Readme with Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy

  This episode is hosted by Kyle Polich of the Data Skeptic podcast. We’re glad to welcome Kyle to the Software Daily team. Becoming a contributor to an existing software project can be a daunting task for an engineer. A common...

  
• 08.14.2021

  How Facebook Works: Comparing its Engineering Process to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon

  This episode was published on the GeekWire podcast. Subscribe to GeekWire for more great content. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees recently that the company’s long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life” — helping to create an interconnected world of...

  
• 08.09.2021

  DTC: Content Creation with Daniel Snow

  Direct-to-Consumer companies sell their products without going through a traditional middleman like an outlet store or wholesaler. By posting content on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, companies can reach millions of users.TikTok, for example, has an estimated 1 billion...

  
• 07.30.2021

  Preface with Farooq Abbasi

  In this episode we discuss venture capital and more with Preface Ventures Founder and General Partner Farooq Abbasi. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

  
• 07.27.2021

  Our Current Strategy

  We’ve been running Software Daily for 6 years.  When we started it back in 2015, the goal was to create a software engineering podcast that was 60% as good as Software Engineering Radio, but aired with 5x the frequency.  5...

  
• 07.22.2021

  Stack Overflow for Teams: A Centralized Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Platform with Tom Limoncelli

  If you’ve ever googled a CS or programming question, you likely found an answer (or many) on Stack Overflow. Founded in 2008 and named after a common computing error, Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge....

  
• 07.18.2021

  How to Convince Ashmeet Sidana to Invest in Your Business

  Ashmeet Sidana is the founder of Engineering Capital.

  
• 07.13.2021

  Move Fast with Jeff Meyerson

  In this episode we discuss the new Move Fast book, as well as many aspects of the current state of software engineering. Daliana Liu interviews Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Daily and author of Move Fast. This interview was also...

  
• 07.09.2021

  Investment Strategy: Defining New Markets with Sarah Guo

  We talk to a lot of exciting startups from all over the world about their tech products. Recently we’ve heard from people innovating in the blockchain space, cloud infrastructure, databases, and automation tools. However, in today’s episode, we’re going to...

  
• 07.07.2021

  Career Karma with Ruben Harris

  In this episode we discuss coding bootcamps, fear, fitness, and more with Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

  
• 07.04.2021

  Build Your Own Amazon

  When I worked as an engineer at Amazon, I would arrive at the office every day before 6:30am. Amazon’s enormous campus is in downtown Seattle. The company expands across the city like a massive, growing organism composed of towering buildings...

  
• 06.25.2021

  Cloud Cost with Martin Casado

  The cloud has delivered amazing benefits like on-demand infrastructure that’s easy to use, pay-as-you-go subscription plans, and effortless scaling of applications. This flexibility minimizes the growing pains for businesses and explains why today’s startups and established companies are both building...