Tate Talks - The MSP Podcast

Tate Talks with….Ian McChord, Zorus

Another chat with an old friend (spot a theme with this Podcast) Ian McChord of Zorus. We chatted a little about his background from Datto and all the way through to his time now at Zorus.

Ian is also running another of his great series around “Running the Perfect QBR” - It’s highly recommended and you can register here

You can check out the previous installments here

About Ian

Ian McChord is the CEO at Zorus. Ian brings more than a decade of channel experience from running the product department at Datto to starting his own company in the product marketing space. He graduated from University of Colorado and is certified is product management and program management.

You can connect with Ian on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianmcchord/

Zorus  - https://zorustech.com/

Ian spoke about :

Podcast  - How I built this

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks with….Vicky Bruns, ConnectWise

Listen to me have a great conversation with Vicky Bruns, starting with me totally mispronouncing Asio along with a super fun fact about owls - Trust me.

From selling diamonds and business loans, all the way to the world of MSPs and rescuing donkeys.

Enjoy..

About Vicky

Vicky began her career at ConnectWise in early 2015 as a Business Development Manager. In 2017, she attended CompTia’s ChannelCon in Austin, Texas, and was instantly hooked on becoming more involved in the channel community. Later that year, she was promoted to the Growth Org to assist with orchestrating the onboarding, sales, and management of strategic channel vendors within the ConnectWise Ecosystem. In 2020, she took on the additional role of helping to manage partner experience and strategy through the transactional ConnectWise Marketplace, which experienced 40% growth from 2020 to 2021, and 60% growth from 2021 to 2022. As current Manager of the Marketplace Account Management and Vendor Specialist teams, she is responsible for helping to lead customer adoption, expansion and retention efforts of 3rd party products and services within The IT Nation community on a global scale.

You can connect with Vicky on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-bruns-a7615420/

ConnectWise - https://www.connectwise.com

Vicky spoke about :

Group - Carrie Richardson - A Seat at the table weekly peer group

Podcast - Killing IT Podcast

Podcast - MSP Media Network

Podcast - New York Times Daily Podcast

Podcast - Ted Talk Radio Hour

I mentioned No Such Thing As A Fish

Book - The Outward Mindset

Book - Never Split the Difference

Book - Spare by Prince Harry

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks with…. Matt Takhar, Pia

I enjoyed chatting to my friend and ex-colleague Matt Takhar about his career and his unusual hobbies..

I learned a bit about parrots too..

About Matt

Matt’s worked within technology for over 23 years. He originally started his career as a Technical Engineer, then moved into software development, business consultancy and management whilst working for a large MSP on the south coast of the UK. He has since moved into the technology channel working for Autotask, Datto and Inbay and has also covered roles in MSP consultancy, Product Director, Director of Sales Engineering & Partner Success and more recently CEO. This experience has allowed Matt to develop a well-rounded and informed view of how pia can help our Partners.

Background  & Expertise

23 years IT experience

8 years working for Taylor Made Computer Solutions (MSP)

4 years working for Autotask / Datto

7 years working in the channel

Strong operational background

You can connect with Matt  on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/matttakhar/

Pia - https://pia.ai

Matt spoke about :

Maui the Macaw - Instagram - OVER 18,000 FOLLOWERS 

Book - Start with Why by Simon Sinkek

Bool - Traction by Gino Wickman

Tate Talks with....Colin Knox

The final episode of Tate Talks Season Two (Sponsored by JumpCloud for MSPs)

Today I spoke to industry legend and all round nice guy, Colin Knox of Gradient MSP about his journey from MSP to Passportal to Gradient MSP.

You can contact Colin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/realityknox/ or check Gradient out at https://www.meetgradient.com/

Please subscribe so you hear when the next season is launched..

About Colin

Colin Knox is an entrepreneur, inspiring leader, and a big thinker. Where he sees problems, he’s driven to apply effective, creative solutions. He builds smart, highly effective teams – and then gets out of their way. He is a two-time category disrupter turning start-ups into market leaders.

Colin is the Founder & CEO of Gradient MSP, Passportal (acquired by SolarWinds/N-able in 2019), and XCEL Professional Services (acquired by F12.net in 2016). He lives in Calgary, Canada with his family. When he’s not working, he enjoys spending time driving fast cars and exploring the outdoors with his family.

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks with…. Chris Day

It was great to finally get Chris Day onto the Podcast. He’s a great story to tell about his journey through the MSP industry. Most people will know him as the founder of IT Glue, but there is a lot more to it than that. Enjoy.

About Chris

Chris Day is a recognized technology leader, strategist, and investor. In 2002, Chris founded Fully Managed, and led its growth to become one of Canada’s largest and most successful Managed Services Providers (MSPs) for SMBs. In 2022, Fully Managed was acquired by TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers.

In 2013, Chris launched his first SaaS venture, IT Glue. IT Glue quickly became an industry-leading documentation platform which was acquired by Kaseya via Insight Venture Partners in 2016.

In 2015, Chris launched his investment firm Top Down Ventures, and began investing in early-stage SaaS companies, including Backup Radar, ScalePad, Quoter, ControlMap, iQKitchen and Produce8.

You can connect with Chris  on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbday/

Topdown Website - https://www.topdown.com/

Chris spoke about :

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks with…. Gavin Garbutt

In this episode I spoke to the founder and former CEO of N-able and current founder and Chairman of Augmentt about his entrepreneurial journey and love of sailing.

About Gavin

As Chairman and Co-founder, Gavin plays a key role in helping Augmentt define its vision and strategy to ensure continued success.

Prior to founding Augmentt, Gavin was a board member and strategic advisor for THP, a marketing company that was recently acquired by WLT (Williams Lea Tag). Gavin’s channel career began in early 2000 when he launched N-able Technologies. As CEO, Gavin built the business to become a leading vendor in the RMM space and ensuring its continued success through the sale of N-able to SolarWinds in 2013.

You can connect with Gavin on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavingarbutt/

Augment - www.augmentt.com

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks with…. Rajat Bhargava

Join me on a chat with the co-founder and CEO of JumpCloud Rajat Bhargava. Raj has a fascinating story as a serial entrepreneur.

About Rajat

Rajat Bhargava is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and a co-founder of JumpCloud. An MIT graduate with over two decades of high-tech experience, Rajat is a ten-time entrepreneur with six exits including two IPOs and four trade sales.

He is also the co-author of The Startup Playbook - Check it out here

Contact Raj

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat-bhargava-8190a723/

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks is kindly sponsored by JumpCloud for MSPs

Tate Talks with…. Luis Giraldo

Really interesting conversation with Luis - We touched upon his music career, touring with Shakira and how he found himself in the world of IT and MSPs.

About Luis

Luis Giraldo serves as ScalePad’s CXO, helming its Partner Success and IT organizations.

In addition to building his own MSP business, Luis previously developed and commercialized SaaS application Monkey Box, and has held senior leadership roles in product, strategy, and marketing at major MSP tool vendors IT Glue and N-able prior to joining ScalePad.

A consummate IT professional and product strategist, Luis provides thought leadership to the industry, and presents frequently on MSP best practices and strategies.

Contact Luis

https://twitter.com/luisgiraldo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisgiraldo/

Michael Fass

I don’t have the link to Luis’s album yet, in the meantime here is the one from Michael Fass that we mentioned.

Credits:

Music - https://www.purple-planet.com

Tate Talks is kindly sponsored by JumpCloud for MSPs