Bruce Parker from Modo joins Revvolutionaries to answer the question, "can payments change the world?" Along the way, we explore why payments systems are challenging to build, the complex ecosystem of payment systems participants, and where payment product innovation is happening.

Cyrus Karbassiyoon, CTO and Co-Founder of Scratchpad, joins the podcast to talk about his entrepreneurial journey and building products for sales people. Cyrus talks about the "jobs to be done" by sales people and how that framework influenced how Scratchpad thinks about the product roadmap.

Ashley Grant and Sam Rafalowski join the podcast this week to share their insights and practices for good technical interviews. We talk about how to make sure interviews focus on the skills needed for the actual job, the dangers of ruling qualified candidates out because of bad interview practices, and how candidates can better prepare for interviews.

Daniel Foley and Surya Lolla join Revvolutionaries to talk about six hot topics in cloud technology: different solutions for building elastic PaaS platforms, different so-called "serverless" solutions and how they compare and contrast, open source solutions vs. commercially supported options like OpenShift, secrets management in hybrid cloud settings, CI/CD with Helm, and the differences between observability and monitoring.

In the not-so-distant past, putting software out into the world required a host of skill sets and infrastructure that made the barrier to entry high. Today, cloud platforms like Heroku make it possible for a single developer to put software in people's hands without needing intimate knowledge of the operational underpinnings necessary to make that a reality. We talk with Chris Castle, Director of Developer Advocacy at Heroku, about the journey of creating technology that changed the world of software development forever.

Kristen Janick joins the podcast to talk about all aspects of product management: beginning with the role of customer research to inform product vision and strategy and then exploring how product roadmaps and success metrics contribute to building competitive products.

Sri Muthu, CEO and Managing Founder at HealthVenture, a digital health incubator/foundry for startups and established firms, joins us to talk about product thinking as it relates to healthcare. The challenges - and success - Sri experienced in financial services help inform how to approach building highly regulated, high stakes products.

Thomas Doochin, CEO and Chief Believer at Daymaker, joins Revvolutionaries to talk about how they operate a compassion platform. Daymaker's technology creates the connective tissue between donors, employers, non-profit partners and children in need in a highly localized, personal way. Thomas shares how Daymaker makes a difference in the lives of children - and the donors that give to them - through the platform and how the product and technology evolved to make it possible.

Unlocking the connections between donors and charities is at the center of Amicus' mission, and technology plays a critical role in increasing the effectiveness of that mission. Cor Hoekstra, CEO of Amicus, explains the landscape and relationships that play an important role in charitable giving and technology's enabling role in making philanthropy easier and more accessible.