DiscoPosse Podcast

Aeva is a technology architect, team leader, mentor, and industry veteran with a career spanning 20 years, several startups, and multiple Fortune 500 Companies. Aeva’s areas of expertise include open source strategy, cloud computing, hardware security, and database development and consulting. They currently focus on Confidential Computing at Microsoft Azure, building the next generation of secure cloud-native application services.

You can catchup with Aeva at https://twitter.com/aevavoom

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals

Rick Hall is a software entrepreneur and CEO of Agility focused on the analytics market.  He has led the development of over a dozen software products and taken several companies from the early stage to an eventual sale.

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Rory Wheeler is the mind behind Just Roar Communications. This is a particularly important discussion as companies prepare for remote annual sales and company kickoff events that are likely to fail to meet their goals without the right tools and techniques to adapt.  Rory shares thoughts on how to engage your employees and customers more effectively for today's remote situation and beyond.  Plus it was just a really fun conversation!

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Gabe Luna-Ostaseski is the co-founder and CRO of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that connects organizations with highly skilled tech talent.  

Our conversation explores the power of two-sided marketplaces, how Gabe built his first company, and powerful lessons in growth and leadership which will make this a must-listen for anyone in the startup ecosystem.  

Thank you for the very open and dynamic discussion, Gabe!

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Sean Heiney is the founder of SignalWire, the world’s largest telecom platform. Their technology forms the backbone of modern communications applications like Amazon, Netflix, and Zoom.  

We explore the power of product management, how the startup industry is fundamentally changing with the events of 2020, and how Sean and how to go from bold idea to product delivery in a time when you're often surrounded by doubters.

Thanks to Sean for such a dynamic and wide-ranging discussion and lots of lessons which will be a must-listen for founders, product managers, and anyone in the startup ecosystem. 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Ron Rock and his team at Microshare knew they had the capability, and responsibility to use their technology in ways that could help change how the world dealt with COVID, although that wasn't where they began.

We have an all-encompassing conversation about the Microshare enterprise scale IoT integration which is now being used for real-time:

Infection Control

Ron shares important lessons on how to adjust as a business in the face of adversity, and personal lessons that are important to people of all backgrounds and roles.

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Jo Bhakdi is the founder and CEO of Quantgene, creators of the Griffin Deep Genomics Platform, which combines Deep Genomic sequencing and AI to detect disease down to a single molecule.  

Our conversation delves deep into how emerging and innovative work in genomics and cancer detection can profoundly change the face of healthcare, and what it takes to bring a truly disruptive idea and method to the world. 

You will be inspired by the mission, and powerful lessons on what it takes to launch and scale a disruptive company.  Thank you to Jo for such an amazing conversation!

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Jen Snyder is the Chief Evangelist at GovQA, the leader in enterprise workflow automation for government requests, mainly focused on Public Records (FOIA).  We have a very extensive conversation that covers how the pandemic and protests have changed the way “Smart Government” agencies across the country communicate via public records – and caused many to see that the time to act and modernize with technology is right now.

Jen shares lots of lessons on how to be an empathetic sales leader, how to be effective in selling to the public sector, and how she made the transition herself from real estate to leading the sales teams.  

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Vince De Benedetto, MBA is the Founder and CEO of the marketing automation firm - Automated Dreams - in Portland, OR. He helps transformational leaders and businesses scale their positive impact in the world through automation, conversational marketing, and mentors leaders to work smarter not harder.

Vince shares powerful lessons learned in leading the charge with pragmatic automation for marketing teams, startups, and more. Not only does he explore the challenges and wins of automation and tooling, but we also talk through powerful lessons in being a founder and his personal journey building Automated Dreams and how he selects and nurtures a successful world-spanning team.

Check out Automated Dreams here: https://www.automateddreams.com 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals 

Jennifer Bonine is the CEO of AI AppStore, and the first female Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Platform tech CEO.  She founded her first company at 5 and started an AI company in 2019 and exited in 2020.

We explore the impact (both positive and potential risk) of AI, how to change the future of work through already accessible platforms and tools, and how to automate what should be automated so humans can do what matters.  

Jennifer has spoken at the UN’s AI for Good summit and is also creating a children's book series on AI which is very exciting to see how we can educate our future generations now on the power of AI!

Check out the AI Appstore here: https://www.aiappstore.com 

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenn-bonine-76552b2/ 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals