The Pagely Podcast

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Tessa Kriesel is the Community Manager for CircleCI and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW. She wears many hats but the consistent theme of her work is empowering under-represented minorities to learn to code and transition into rewarding & high-paying careers. 

In this interview Tessa shares her public speaking experience, how she copes with impostor syndrome, a beautiful "where are they now" story of a former student now gainfully employed as a React Developer, her experience chairing the speaking selection committee for WCUS, the criteria they used to balance diversity with content and more. Enjoy! 

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Today Josh Strebel interviews Brian Krogsgard, founder of Post Status. Post Status provides top tier industry analysis, an excellent community chat for WordPress professionals, a high quality WordPress job board, exclusive deals for subscribers, and more. Their goal is to cater to people that know and love WordPress so they can do what they do better and more informed.

In today's episode Josh and Brian discuss the state of the WordPress space, trends they're seeing developing into the coming years, the role of peripherally related tools and frameworks like Gatsby and Laravel, how things will change if the economy goes into recession and what Brian sees as being the major opportunity for how people can capitalize on domain expertise in the realm of WordPress. 

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Today we have Jake Goldman and Zach Brown of 10up.  Jake is President, owner and founder of 10up and Zach is their Director of Systems Engineering.  10up is a company that makes the Internet better with consultative creative & engineering services, innovative tools, and dependable products that take the pain out of content creation and management. Founded in February 2011, 10up has grown to more than 180 full time employees, with an impressive roster of clients such as ESPN, Microsoft, TechCrunch, Google, New York Times, Walmart, Time inc ,and Conde Nast. 

In this episode we discuss the origin story of 10up, how they've attracted the upper echelon of brands as clients, the process of launching their first products, the role of AI & machine learning in the WordPress space and their vision of where WordPress is headed. Enjoy!