In this episode,  Andreas and Johann discuss the importance of conducting technical due diligence, the key components of the process, and how it can help startups make informed decisions. They both discuss their approach to technical due diligence with startups, broken product processes, and the evolution of technical roles (mainly that of the CTO). Enjoy!

If you are interested in more, check out Johann's checklist on preparing for tech due diligence.

In this episode, we’re not gonna discuss something technical like we usually do, but we’ll talk about remote retreats. Back in October, with madewithlove, we organized our first remote retreat, something we usually do in real life, but it was obviously not possible last year.

Mike Veerman is a software strategist from Belgium. He has tremendous experience in building products and managing engineering teams, and he will enlighten us on how things should be done to get the best results when building software. We'll also talk about a blog article he wrote last year, and that was heavily debated inside madewithlove.

In today's podcast, we're between us again, and we're gonna talk about that famous programming language called PHP. PHP has quite a long history already, and for some reason, it doesn't have a great reputation among some developers who consider it a thing of the past. So, is PHP still a thing? Or to be blunter, is PHP dead? To answer that question, I asked two of the best PHP people I know to join me today: Wouter Sioen and Jonas Drieghe, both software engineers at madewithlove, the latter slowly becoming a regular on this podcast.

Andreas Creten is the co-founder and CEO of madewithlove, a web application development and technical consulting company based in Leuven, Belgium. Andreas has been working at madewithlove for 11 years and has been the CTO in 22+ companies and counting.