alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

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Peter Großkopf // CTO Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange Aug 20, 2020

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This time, I have the honor to talk to Peter Grosskopf, CTO of Börse Stuttgart digital exchange and former CTO of Solarisbank. He's an amazing guy for philosophical discussions around finance, tech and we share one love that is no longer as cool as it was in the 00's: Ruby on rails!

This time we discuss:1

How he made regulations his hobby 👓 and wants developers to feel like working for Spotify or Soundcloud even with regulations in place
The do's and don'ts in Fintech
Why he rather picks mature stacks (aka Postgres and Ruby on rails) against the "new kids on the block"
How he thinks about new things tech like Apache Kafka

Sergei Anikin // CTO Pipedrive Aug 06, 2020

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How to scale a SaaS product

I had the chance to interview Sergei Anikin about how to scale a SaaS product. Sergei Anikin comes with vast experience in “large scale tech” as he was with Skype when it was sold 3 times (eBay, Private Equity, Microsoft) and is CTO at 90-million funded Pipedrive (CRM SaaS) now.

Laser-sharp focus on the essential features
“Scaling problems are good problems to have”
Microservices vs. Monoliths
Team structure at scale: Missions and Tribes
How they do M&A and post merger integration

Mikko Hyppönen // F-Secure Jul 23, 2020

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I had to deal with cybersecurity topics recently; I've even been in touch with the FBI 👮. On this occasion I invited a brilliant guest for the alphalist Podcast: It’s Mikko Hyppönen, a computer security specialist and scientific director at the security company F-Secure.

He spent half of his life hacking and chasing hackers and he knows how to talk about it: I saw at least 3 TED Talks by him and yes, they are very entertaining and helpful.

Key topics in the Podcast are:

The recent Twitter hack and the stupidness of the hackers
How cybersecurity evolved and became a required skill for companies and countries
His recommendations for modern mid sized companies around Cybersecurity (Where to start with processes, recruiting, tools, budgets)
What to do if you’ve been compromised

Sebastian Thrun // Google X Jul 09, 2020

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AI and software world, Stanford vs. TU-Munich, Udacity\ and why Germany is a Car Nation

He is a Stanford professor, founder of Google X, built the first self driving car, won the Darpa-Award for it, started the online-academy Udacity and is now building autonomous planes at Kitty Hawk. Wow.

Can you tell why I highly admire him and how excited I was when I won him for my podcast?

We talked about the car nation in Germany, how competitive we are in the AI and software world, Stanford vs. TU-Munich, why Sebastian is striving for a brain-computer interface, why he has built the leading online university Udacity and how to tackle machine learning as a modern CTO.

He also explains why he eventually comes up with a Bluetooth-connected Smart-Bra next.

Daniel Gebler // CTO Picnic Jun 25, 2020

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Building an app-only E-Commerce platform with data science, supply chain and fulfillment

Tobias talks to Daniel Gebler, the CTO of the “Dutch supermarket unicorn” Picnic about his story from the 4k Demo Scene to operating and growing Picnic to a billion Euros marketcap and 5000+ employees.

Topics we touch in this episode:

How Picnic works
Why they chose to build an app-only platform
Picnics secret sauce in data science, supply chain and fulfillment
How their business and tech literally exploded with Corona
His thoughts on Microservices And many more!

Thanks a lot to Daniel, we had a great time!

Jan Ramm // FreeNow Jun 11, 2020

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In dieser Ausgabe begrüssen wir Jan Ramm, den CTO der FreeNow Gruppe (ehem. MyTaxi). Wir sprechen unter anderem - von seinem Werdegang vom Schulschwimmer zum CTO - wie und wo FreeNow seine Entwickler sucht & findet - wie sich der Mobility Markt entwickelt hat und noch entwickelt - was sein Blick auf Mobile-Frameworks ala Flutter ist.

Stephan Schulze // Project A May 28, 2020

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VC Due Diligence and more

Tech in Project A Startups (Frameworks, Tools, Sprachen, Trends & Prozesse), seinen Einfluss als VC auf die Technologie in Project A Startups und natürlich über mein Lieblingsthema, die technical due diligence. Also den Qualitätscheck den er als VC bei allen Startups durchführt.

Sebastian Betz // About You May 14, 2020

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In der heutigen Folge spreche ich mit Sebastian Betz, dem CO-CEO und CTO von About You über technologische Trends, Frameworks und aktuelle Hypes sowie seinen Job als CTO und wie der Tech Stack von about you unter der Motorhaube aussieht.

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