Enterprise Ready

In episode 31 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. They discuss Rob’s expansive range of disciplines and the perspectives he’s gained on topics like fundraising, hiring, mentoring, scaling, and delivering value to customers.

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In episode 30 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Alex Solomon of PagerDuty. They dive deep into product assortment, incident response management, on-call alerting, and company culture insights.

Alex Solomon is the CTO and Co-Founder of PagerDuty. Prior to PagerDuty, he was a software development engineer at Amazon.

In episode 30 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Alex Solomon of PagerDuty. They dive deep into product assortment, incident response management, on-call alerting, and company culture insights.

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In this episode, Grant sits down with Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp. The two dive deep into the history of HashiCorp, its products, its go-to-market, its success, and many of the challenges it faced along the way.

Mitchell provides a candid view into the company’s inner workings, starting with how he and his co-founder, Armon Dadgar, transitioned to become enterprise software founders. Their journey is rooted in technology, product, and customer needs, but they eventually realized they needed to transition to the enterprise. They knew the product requirements and recruited excellent leadership, including a CEO with extensive enterprise software experience.

Mitchell details the process of defining a framework to differentiate between features for the enterprise vs. features for the free and open-source versions of their software. The conversation turns to early designer partners/customers and introduces what Mitchell refers to, amusingly, as “hipster enterprises.”

With the news of the recent HashiCorp IPO, we can’t help but reflect on Mitchell’s words from this episode and celebrate just how far the company has come. As Mitchell says, “The HashiCorp mission still stands. We want to be that important piece of infrastructure that every company has.”

This episode is filled with great lessons for technical founders or anyone working on specialized products. We hope you enjoy it!

Mitchell Hashimoto is the founder and CTO of HashiCorp. He also created Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and Nomad.

In episode 29 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Mitchell Hashimoto of HashiCorp. They discuss Hashicorp’s founding story, fundraising tactics and pricing models, and monetizing open source projects.

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In episode 28 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Adam Gross, seasoned enterprise investor and advisor. They discuss the inevitability of platform change, how software deployment has evolved, and how the enterprise application ecosystem might develop in years to come.

Adam Gross is an enterprise investor and advisor. He was previously the CEO of Heroku, SVP of Marketing and Sales at Dropbox, and VP of Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.

In episode 28 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Adam Gross, seasoned enterprise investor and advisor. They discuss the inevitability of platform change, how software deployment has evolved, and how the enterprise application ecosystem might develop in years to come.

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In episode 27 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Christian Beedgen, CTO & Co-Founder of Sumo Logic. They discuss Christian’s background, security analytics, the challenges faced by first generation on-prem software companies, and the evolving security landscape.

Christian Beedgen is the CTO & Co-Founder of Sumo Logic, a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service. He was previously Chief Architect at ArcSight.

In episode 27 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Christian Beedgen, CTO & Co-Founder of Sumo Logic. They discuss Christian’s background, security analytics, the challenges faced by first generation on-prem software companies, and the evolving security landscape.

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In episode 26 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Alex Miller, former GM at Stack Overflow. They discuss Alex’s background, what Stack Overflow Enterprise does, Alex’s four constituencies of enterprise software, and much more.

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