alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

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**alphalist.CTO Podcast – For CTOs and Technical Leaders**

This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.).
Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge.
The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to understand how they think and act. Get awesome insights into the world‘s top tech companies, personalities with this podcast brought to you by Tobias Schlottke.

Latest Episodes:

#28 - ‪Rasmus Rothe // founder of Merantix Jun 17, 2021

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AI trends and applications

We spoke to Rasmus Roth, leader in AI space- he has 5 products just based on machine learning.

What is involved in productising and commercialising a machine learning-based service 📈➡️💰
The need for ML ops 👨‍💻
Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure and why he doesn’t stick to one ☁️
AI and its applications in medical field ⚕️, autonomous driving 🚘and BI 📊
His go-to resources for libraries, ML ops and conferences

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Sastrify

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost.

They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma.

They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

#27 - Eric Johnson // CTO GitLab Jun 03, 2021

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Successfully managing remote companies

I had the chance to talk to Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab about

How to manage remote teams: async, stand-ups, onboarding, burn out, internships, compensation, and more
How Gitlab uses git for everything from Marketing to Policy
The difference between servant-leadership and situational leadership and when to use what
- A message to those who think parenthood might take away from their career

If you loved his straight-talking ReadMe about himself, you will also like this thought-provoking episode on leadership, management, and of course remote work from someone who manages a completely remote team of 560, in a company of 1300+

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Sastrify and Fastly

They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma.

They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

#26 - John Romero // CEO Romero Games May 20, 2021

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This Podcast episode is DOOMed 🔥🌋😈🧟🕯👿☠👹🦹 I had the chance to talk to John Romero, the inventor of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen and founder of id Software about

Developing games in the early 90s and how they developed DOOM in a crazy small team
Developing games in 2021 and how it’s still possible to develop games with only a single person team
The crazy amounts of money they made with DOOM 🤑💶🤑
The crazy amounts of energy drinks they consumed
Why not he would not start developing a game engine again

Thanks a lot John! Was really fun talking to you.

#25 - Tim O'Reilly // Founder & CEO O'Reilly Media May 06, 2021

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The Oracle of the Silicon Valley

Today with me in the Podcast is Tim O'Reilly, the Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media and boy, his 1,5 million twitter followers are there for a reason!

People call him "the Oracle of the Silicon Valley", he came up with the term "Web 2.0" - This man is crazy a wizard!

We spoke about:

Writing as superpower! How it helps you to structure your thoughts.
How he started OSCON and great nerdy 90s
The big tectonic "Platform changes" and how the giants use "Algorithmic Rents" to silently put more money into their pockets
The wrong incentives and optimization functions of our economy and how to change it
How we are part of "the machine" and "the machine" needs us to decide what is good ("ham") and what is bad ("spam")

Brilliant thoughts! Thank you so much Tim!

#24 - Peter Grosskopf // Ex CTO Börse Stuttgart & Solarisbank Apr 29, 2021

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Blockchain 101 for CTOs

In this episode we dive deep into the principles of Blockchain together with Peter Grosskopf who is our guest for the 2nd time.

Peter recently quit his job as CTO @ Börse Stuttgart to fully focus on building a decentralized bank in the DeFi (Decentralize finance) space.

We spoke about:

How does a blockchain work
Why to use blockchains
Concrete use-cases and applications
How ether works and how to get started

#23 - Olivier Bonnet // CTO BlaBlaCar Apr 08, 2021

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This time I had Olivier Bonnet, the CTO of BlaBlaCar in the podcast. BlaBlaCar is the carpooling company: They own the market. They are active in 22 Countries, have 100M+ Users and acquired 12 other carpooling companies. Olivier, the CTO, joined me to talk about:

How his time at  Apple taught him to think long term
100 million users, 12 acquisitions: The strategy behind BlaCar
The complexity of route planning 🌐
How writing 🖊️ helps people at Bla to structure their thoughts: They are writing press releases for new features, Amazon style.
You build it, you run it! How technology decision discipline works at BlaCar

Was a great ride with you, Olivier! We both turned out to be a bit more Bla ;-) in this episode than we initially thought.

#22 - Frank Karlitschek // CEO NextCloud Mar 25, 2021

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How to make a living from Open Source? My guest Frank Karlitschek, the CEO of ☁️☁️ NextCloud ☁️☁️ the open alternative to Google Cloud and Microsofts Office 365 (!) does it for years and tells us where to start. He knows the game!

Other topics we touch?

The 3 Ultimate tipps for open source developers/publishers How he leads his team of 50+ FTE almost fully remote
How GDPR can be seen as a chance for European entrepreneurs
How he built his company without any VC money

Thanks a lot Frank for being my guest!

#21 - Jason Warner // CTO GitHub Mar 11, 2021

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In this episode I talk to Jason Warner, Github CTO aka "the PaaS Guru". He used to work for Heroku before and explained what he's planning and executing at Github and how Github uses it's massive amount of data to go away from pure repo-hosting.

Topics that stand out:

How Microsoft is working out quite well for them (Careful: contains Steve Balmer rants)
How Github will revolutionize the Platform as a Service world (PaaS)
His thoughts about developer productivity and the broken idea of measuring an individual engineers performance 📈📈📈
How he breaks down the organization strategy into mission, vision, priorities, goals, and tasks to get everyone aligned

He also reveals his past as 🏋️ Fitness Guru, having written multiple fitness books and what happened when a colleague found that out…

#20 - John Graham Cumming // CTO Cloudflare Feb 25, 2021

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This time I spoke to John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of 🌩 Cloudflare🌩, a publicly listed CDN and Edge Computing platform.

Topics we touched:

His GNU Make book ;-)
How they grew to 25 BN marketcap 📈
What he thinks about edge computing and concrete usecases for it
How COVID changed the security world
How they operate and maintain a global network with millions of servers

Thanks a lot John for the Chat. Looking forward to see what Cloudflare comes up with next.

#19 - Mitchell Hashimoto // CTO HashiCorp Feb 11, 2021

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This time I'm talking to an absolute legend: Mitchell Hashimoto, the CTO of HashiCorp the company behind a series of brilliant open source products (Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Vagrant) that are highly successfully both business wise and community wise. I would even argue that HashiCorp is the only company that manages to do that.

We talk about:

The path from 7 to 1000+ employees in the last 10 years 📈📈📈
How Mitch is still able to be a very active github user and contribute a lot of code while growing a big enterprise company to IPO
How to build successful open source projects
Where to draw the line in open core businesses
How to be able to prevent cloud providers from sucking your blood 🧛

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