Enterprise Ready

In episode 31 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. They discuss Rob’s expansive range of disciplines and the perspectives he’s gained on topics like fundraising, hiring, mentoring, scaling, and delivering value to customers. About the Guest Rob Zuber is a startup expert and the CTO of CircleCI. He previously co-founded Distiller, Copious, and YooHoot.

In episode 30 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Alex Solomon of PagerDuty. They dive deep into product assortment, incident response management, on-call alerting, and company culture insights. Alex Solomon is the CTO and Co-Founder of PagerDuty. Prior to PagerDuty, he was a software development engineer at Amazon.

In this episode, Grant sits down with Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp. The two dive deep into the history of HashiCorp, its products, its go-to-market, its success, and many of the challenges it faced along the way. Mitchell provides a candid view into the company’s inner workings, starting with how he and his co-founder, Armon Dadgar, transitioned to become enterprise software founders....

In episode 28 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Adam Gross, seasoned enterprise investor and advisor. They discuss the inevitability of platform change, how software deployment has evolved, and how the enterprise application ecosystem might develop in years to come. Adam Gross is an enterprise investor and advisor. He was previously the CEO of Heroku, SVP of Marketing and Sales at Dropbox, and...

In episode 27 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Christian Beedgen, CTO & Co-Founder of Sumo Logic. They discuss Christian’s background, security analytics, the challenges faced by first generation on-prem software companies, and the evolving security landscape. Christian Beedgen is the CTO & Co-Founder of Sumo Logic, a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service. He was previo...

In episode 26 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Alex Miller, former GM at Stack Overflow. They discuss Alex’s background, what Stack Overflow Enterprise does, Alex’s four constituencies of enterprise software, and much more. About the Guest Alex Miller is the former General Manager of Stack Overflow, where he previously held the titles of Vice President of Operations and Chief of Staff. He wa...

In episode 25 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Jonathan Ellis of DataStax about Apache Cassandra and the complexity of distributed storage systems, as well as recruiting, interviewing, and hiring executives and engineers.

In episode 24 of EnterpriseReady, Grant joins John Whaley of UnifyID to discuss the process of monetizing university research, how technology enables businesses, and how inherent human behavior threatens security. About the Guest John Whaley is the Founder and CEO of UnifyID, an identity platform based on implicit authentication. He previous founded Moka5, and was taught Program Analysis and Optim...

In episode 23 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Abby Kearns, executive director of Cloud Foundry. They discuss enterprise infrastructure, the future of the cloud, technological ecosystems in China, and open source business models. Abby Kearns is the Executive Director at Cloud Foundry Foundation. She’s had an immense technology career spanning operations, product marketing, product management...

In episode 22 of EnterpriseReady, Grant chats with Derek Steer, CEO of Mode. Together they pull back the curtain on data science tools, and how enterprise software companies can use data analysis to drive business forward. Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a data analytics and business intelligence tool. Derek previously held analytics positions at numerous renowned companies including Yammer, Faceb...

In episode 21 of EnterpriseReady, Grant interviews Michel Feaster, CEO and Co-Founder of Usermind. They discuss Michel’s journey from gas station employee to enterprise software CEO, as well as the relationship between product, product marketing, and marketing. Michel Feaster is the Co-Founder and CEO of Usermind, responsible for company vision, strategic direction, planning and execution. Michel’...

In episode 20 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet. They discuss her experience serving on boards of enterprise software companies, transitioning from a single product company to multiple products, and the role of professional services. Yvonne Wassenaar is a seasoned C-level executive with broad experience scaling, diversifying, and transforming businesses through...

In episode 19 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Mark Geene, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloud Elements. They discuss Mark’s early days in enterprise, integrations between apps and APIs, and the go-to-market lessons learned along the way. About the Guest Mark Geene is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cloud Elements, a cloud API integration service. He was previously Vice President of [TenFold}( https://www....

In episode 18 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Elizabeth Zalman, Founder & CEO of strongDM. They discuss enterprise software go-to-market, remote teams, product prioritization frameworks, and SOC 2 certification. Elizabeth Zalman is the Co-Founder & CEO of strongDM. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of the cross-device profile company Media Armor. After its acquisition, she serve...

In episode 17 of EnterpriseReady, Grant joins Ben Hindman, Co-Founder & CEO of Splash. They discuss Ben’s path into enterprise software, the community-driven power of events, and the freemium business model. About the Guest Ben Hindman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Splash, the world’s first event marketing software. He was previously National Events Manager at Thrillist in New York.

In episode 16 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Spence Green, Founder and CEO of Lilt. They discuss language translation services for enterprises and governments, the rigor required to deliver enterprise software, and the internationalization of products. About the Guest Spence Green is the Founder and CEO of Lilt, a machine-assisted language translation company. He graduated from Stanford wit...

In this episode of the EnterpriseReady Podcast we interview Jeff Williams, founder and CTO of ContrastSecurity. We explore Jeff’s early career in cyber security where he worked as a security consultant as the internet started to gain early traction. From there, we dive into his founding role at a security consulting firm where he stayed very involved with the security community through his role as...

In this episode of the entepriseready podcast, we hear from Michael Pryor the founder and CEO of Trello. Micheal has had an incredible career as one of the founders of FogCreek Software which has spun out products such as FogBugz, StackOverflow, Glitch and of course, Trello which was acquired by Atlassian for $425 million dollars back in 2017. We cover a wide range of topics primarily from the per...

In this episode of the EnterpriseReady podcast we sit down with Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. Superhuman recently announced a $33m series B from A16Z which was their first funding announcement despite having raised over $17m previously. I have Rahul give us some details about his fundraising history and strategy which is quite unique. Rahul and I spend a lot of time discussing his ex...

Welcome back to the EnterpriseReady podcast. Today we are talking with William Morgan, CEO, and Founder of Buoyant, a company that primarily focuses on contributing to the open-source ServiceMesh project, Linkerd. Linkerd was born out of William and his co-founder Oliver’s experience building infrastructure at Twitter, where they were responsible for reducing the frequency in which the infamous “F...

In this episode of the EnterpriseReady podcast, I sit down with Bob Tinker, co-founder of MobileIron, a company that he served as CEO of, from founding through IPO before stepping down in 2016. Bob recently co-authored a book called Survival to Thrival, in which he lays out the foundations for building and growing an enterprise software company. We focus on several of the frameworks that Bob devel...

In this episode of the EnterpriseReady podcast, we sit down Joel W. CEO of Wickr, a secure messaging and communications platform. We learn a bit about Joel’s background in the cyber security industry, with a focus on his time running 3rd party security firms. From there, we dive into the history of Wickr, which started as a consumer, mobile first communications tool on the back of perfect forward...

Welcome back to the EnterpriseReady podcast, today our guest is Zack Blum, Founder and CEO of Fleetsmith. In the episode we dive into the founding story behind Fleetsmith and then move into how they brought the product to market. Given the nature of the business, the story of Fleetsmith is intertwined with lessons about what all companies should be doing for internal security. We also spend a good...

Welcome back to the EnterpriseReady Podcast! Today our guest is Davle Cole, who at the time of recording was the Chief Product Officer at Tenable, but has recently left to start a stealthy startup in the security space. This episode is long, but that’s because Dave has such a great history of bringing enterprise software to market and there were so many topics for us to dig into. Dave shares his 1...

In this episode of EnterpriseReady we are speaking with Paul Querna, the CTO and Cofounder of ScaleFT, which was acquired by Okta not too long ago. Paul likes to say that ScaleFT is in the business of granting people and machines access to the systems and endpoints they should be reaching. We get some back story on the company’s founding and then we focus on the Zero Trust concepts that ScaleFT ev...