First Name Basis - a TribalScale Podcast

Amar Varma, arguably Canada's most successful tech entrepreneur and business man of this past decade, shares his tech journey from XtremeLabs to creating Tinder with TribalScale's CEO and CO-Founder Sheetal Jaitly. His first interview in five years, we hear about challenges, successes, and tips fo the trade from someone who has seen it all from Silicon Valley, through the Dot-com bubble, 9/11, the...

TribalScale's CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Family Physician Dr. Daniel Pepe of London Lambeth Medical Clinic and Anna Foat, Director of Global Transformation at Sunlife .  Daniel and Anna give an in-depth look into their partnership on their efforts to digitally transform our healthcare system using connective technology to give health care workers more bandwidth, more support, a...

On this episode of First Name Basis: Remote Edition, TribalScale's CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Farhan Thawar, VP Engineering at Shopify . They swap stories on their layoffs and firings, how they bounced back, and owned their careers.  Their in-depth analyses of their experiences on searching for work shortly after 9/11 and learning from mentors draws important conclusions on tak...

Our host CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by personal friend and Lawyer Caitlin Fell, who is a Founding Partner at Weisz Fell Kour LLP. They chat in-depth and transparently about financial hardships and successes when dealing with funders, banks, crises and more. Caitlin lays out the next steps for anyone or any company struggling financially through this current COVID-19 pandemic. 

Our CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by the youngest VP U.S Mid-West on the Toronto Stock Exchange, George Khalife. They discuss successes, failures, building yourself for success in times of trouble, and overall, owning your mindset.  You can also catch George Khalife as the host on his own podcast, Let's Grab Coffee . Make sure to tune into more of our remote podcast live stream on Instagram and You...

In this episode, we brought in two of our past interns, Natalia and Gavin, to talk about their internship experience. They also had a chance to chat with our CEO, Sheetal Jaitly, for life lessons and advice. -- Guests: Sheetal Jaitly, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of TribalScale Natalia Zigante, Former Marketing Intern Gavin Goh, Former Design Intern

In this episode, we sit down with special guest Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product at Netflix, Chief Product Officer at Chegg, SVP Product at The Learning Company, and a Producer at Electronic Arts. Gib shares his experience at Netflix and how the team made tough decisions as the company grew to support more than 140 million members worldwide. We then dive into all things product, people, process...

In this episode, we sit down with our new President and COO to hear her career story, and why she made the move to join TribalScale. Lori and Rachel then talk innovation, our plans for the future and why community is so important to us. -- Guests: Lori Casselman, President and Chief Operating Officer at TribalScale Rachel Wexler, Director of Marketing

In this episode, three of our designers sit down to talk about our recent initiative ‘Everyone’s a Designer’ and why its important for everyone to understand the principles & practices of design. --- Guests: Betty Zhang, Former Design Strategist at TribalScale Leila Tisdall, Product Designer at TribalScale Megan Arraial, Lead Marketing Designer at TribalScale

In this episode, we sit down with Shifra and Ahmed from The Knowledge Society, an accelerator that develops ambitious young people to impact billions using emerging technologies. These young innovators will be talking about the life-changing projects they’re currently working on, and how they’re solving tough problems like finding a cure for cancer, or advancing the robotic prosthetics and healthc...

In this episode, our Head of Financial Services, Jared Gordon, sits down with Frank and Michael from Google's Customer Engineering team to talk about GCP and how enterprises can leverage it for digital transformation. --- Guests: Jared Gordon, Head of Financial Services, TribalScale Frank Currie, Customer Engineering Manager, Financial Services, Google Cloud Michael Craig, Customer Engineer, Googl...

In this episode, our OTT and media experts discussed what OTT is, trends in the media space, the type of technologies we're seeing, and design and development considerations for OTT devices (i.e. Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, and Chrome Cast). --- Guests: Mark Jefferson Arthur, Agile Software Engineer at TribalScale Mark Zou, Agile Software Engineer at TribalScale Andrea Barros, Former Product Design M...

Hear from our voice experts, Kari and Sid! They discuss the current and future trends in voice technology, and tips and tricks on developing Alexa Skills and Actions on Google. --- Guests: Kari Ostevik, Manager, Product Management at TribalScale Siddhartha Garg, Agile Software Engineer at TribalScale

In this episode, we sit down with three of the first employees of TribalScale to learn what it's like to be at a company that has grown from 5 to 200+ employees in less than 3 years. They reflected on the past, talked about retaining talent, and gave their career tips and Fail Fast moments. --- Guests: Trisha Neogi, Former Senior HR Coordinator at TribalScale Ainan Ameen, Former Engineering Manage...

Watch this special episode of our new podcast, spoiler alert: we reveal our new brand! Rachel Wexler and Jane Motz Hayes discuss the importance of a company’s brand, when and why a company should rebrand, and they give a sneak peek into our rebrand process with OneMethod.