Makerpad

Makerpad

By Ben TossellBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Makerpad episodes

  • Episode #25 - Wade Foster – Zapier
    Wade Foster is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier.
    Zapier is a productivity tool that connects over 1,300 of the apps you use every day and automates the tedious, repetitive parts of your job, so you can be more productive at work.
    This product caters to individuals, small businesses, or smaller teams within larger organizations.
    In this episode, Ben and Wade discuss:
    - How anyone can pick up the skill of Zapier
    - Scoping opportunities: Code, or no-code?
    - Scaling a remote company to over 300 employees
    53 min
  • Episode #24 - Moritz Dausinger - Founder of Refiner
    Moritz is a tech entrepreneur with deep knowledge B2B SaaS.
    Right now, Moritz is in the midst of starting his fourth startup Refiner, a lead scoring application for inbound sales teams.
    During the last four years, Moritz successfully bootstrapped two startups (Mailparser and Docparser) from zero to acquisition.
    In this episode, Ben and Moritz discuss:
    - The process for content marketing to more technical creators.
    - Extracting data from documents and email
    - Automating methods for learning from leads in customer acquisition
    47 min
  • Episode #23 - Sagi Eliyahu - CEO & Co-Founder of Tonkean
    Sagi Eliyanu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tonkean, the Operating System for Operations Teams.
    Along with his partner, Offir Talmor, Sagi founded Tonkean in 2015 to create an adaptive, no-code platform that helps operations teams solve inefficiencies and challenges for their unique set of processes, people, and systems.
    Prior to Tonkean, Sagi held executive engineering roles at Jive Software. Sagi served for four years in Unit 8200, the Israeli Defense Force’s elite intelligence agency, and he applies much of what he learned from developing data and information systems for the agency to his work at Tonkean.
    In this episode, Ben and Sagi discuss:
    - Why work still feels so manual today
    - Empowering all employees to be makers
    - How will the no-code and RPA space hit the mainstream?
    45 min
  • Episode #22 - Sahil Lavingia - Founder & CEO of Gumroad
    Sahil is the Founder & CEO of Gumroad.
    The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront.
    Sahil thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that.
    In this episode, Ben and Sahil discuss:
    - How Twitter is like your own note pad
    - Making yourself replaceable in your own business
    - Making features simple and frictionless
    - How Sahil uses no-code automations personally
    56 min
  • Episode #21 - AJ - How personal and business roadmaps have changed since COVID, and how Carrd is carving out it's own niche
    AJ is the founder & CEO of Carrd. He's been designing and developing stuff for the web since the mid-2000s. I'm mostly known for building HTML5 UP, Pixelarity, and a handful of projects over at GitHub.
    Carrd is a platform for building simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything, whether it's a personal profile, a landing page with a MailChimp signup form, or something a bit more elaborate. It's fast, flexible, simple to use, and 100% free.
    This episode covers:
    - Roadmapping your product features
    - How COVID has changed AJ's business
    - The difference between scoping custom web development vs. no-code development.
    39 min
  • Episode #20 - Sjoerd Handgraaf - Launching marketplace startups and reducing startup complexity using Sharetribe
    Sjoerd Handgraaf is a Growth & Product Marketing Specialist, with nearly a decade of experience in SaaS startups & growth companies (both web & app) in digital media, B2B & B2C software & clean-tech.
    He's currently the CMO of Sharetribe, a platform for making your own platform or marketplace.
    This episode covers:
    - Should you use a single solution or a stack of solutions?
    - How support can give you a skewed view on your own tool.
    - Using exit interviews.
    - The ""VC"" view vs. the Maker view
    42 min
  • Episode #19 - Duncan Hamra and Tyler Bell – How every category of business is building recurring memberships using Memberstack
    Tyler and Duncan have been best friends since pre-school.
    They built & sold their first business together at 16, and attempted to start several more before starting Memberstack.
    Memberstack helps site owners, turn websites into members-only sites, dashboards, web apps, and intranets with user accounts and payments (for any website.)
    This episode covers:
    - Customer conversations and Feedback
    - Organizing your road map
    - How do developers see the no-code movement?
    - Finding solutions with constraints
    33 min
  • Episode #18 - Nirman Dave - Empowering your employees by removing repetitive tasks with Obviously Ai.
    Nirman is the Founder of Obviously.ai.
    Growing up in a small town in India, she was always fascinated by computers, so she ended up teaching myself how to code from YouTube videos and kickstarted my journey into creating beautiful projects that people loved. Eventually, these projects became products, and products became companies.
    In this conversation Nirman and Ben discuss...
    - Machine Learning and Data
    - How Machine Learning overlaps with no-code
    - Nirma's 5 no-code predictions
    - How obviously AI plans to tap the power of community
    30 min
  • Episode #17 - Mike Williams - Building products and creating value with Buildlab.
    Mike Williams is the creator of Build Lab, which leverages a wide array of tools and expertise to build everything from no-code automation to fully-coded custom applications, and everything in between.
    Mike is also a freelance developer on Upwork, and generally gets hired to consult companies (big and small) on their tech stack and automation such as Airtable, Integromat, APIs, Database management, and web development.
    30 min
  • Episode #16 - Nathan Barry - Reinventing email marketing for creatives with Convertkit
    Nathan Barry, the Founder and CEO of ConvertKit, email marketing software designed to help creators connect with their audience. Before creating ConvertKit, Nathan wrote extensively about designing and launching digital products online.
    In this conversation, Ben and Nathan discuss their team's shift to focusing their products on creators, how they build their audience with free-to-start products, and how they structure their internal company revenue share for employees.
    59 min

About Makerpad

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At Makerpad we teach people how to build software solutions without writing code. In this podcast, we will be talking to the founders of the no-code tools themselves, people like Vlad from Webflow Emmanuel from Bubble, and the founders and makers, professionals who are using tools and no-code solutions in their business to automate workflows, set up processes, and increase their productivity to allow themselves to be more creative at work.