Quick lunch meetings with Utah’s tech leaders where we dig into the growth of the tech industry. These are the stories behind some of the greatest local successes and the secrets to growing tech leadership in Utah.
Best of Utah CTO Show: Matthew Barlocker
Building Product Teams - At Home Edition 3 with Kris and Brett
At Home Edition 2 - Career Change Advice
CTO Show: At Home Edition with Kris Jenkins and Brett Flake
Dave Adsit - CTO at Emmersion Learningdave.adsit@emmersionlearning.com
Chase Mathewson - CTO at Huckabuyhttps://huckabuy.com/
Michael Ries - CTO at Spiff https://github.com/CommissionAI/engineers_field_guide
Best of Utah CTO Show: Dave Stevenson
Brad Webb - VP of Product at SonderMind
Host Recap: Brett Flake of Dwelo and Kris Jenkins of Workfront
Skyler Cain - VP of Product and Technology at Rent Dynamics
Andy Page and Patrick Cox - Product Designers and Podcast Co-Hosts
Greg Wiggins - SVP of Business Development at Cybage
Trina Limpert - President, Women @ eBay
Cydni Tetro - CEO of ForgeDX, Founder of Women Tech Council - Part 2
Cydni Tetro - CEO of ForgeDX, Founder of Women Tech Council - Part 1
Richard Tripp - Inventor of the POV Method Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
Brett and Kris recap the last few months of interviews.
Matthew Barlocker - CEO at Blue Matador
Greg Larson - SVP Engineering at Divvy
Mike Trionfo is disrupting the consumer real estate industry as CTO and Co-founder at Homie.
Dave Geurts of Suralink joins us to talk recruiting and growing into tech careers. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
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Jake and Tyler come as a package deal both on this episode and also in their engineering careers. They act as a duo, sharing co-ownership of their project and engineering team. The two work in concert together to move forward. Their example of collaboration serves as an example to the rest of the Utah tech scene, on how we can come together as a community to rise above our challenges together, improve the tech industry and society as a whole, while keeping the competition friendly and uplifting.
Karen, is helping Dwelo build an IoT hub for apartments and a management system for property management. She support a team of remote engineers and she has a lot of insight on making a distributed and diverse workforce work well. How do you encourage good communication and Inclusion when you work on a remote development team? How do you manage the chaos of a start-up environment? What is some good advice to follow when leaving a larger company for a start-up? How to overcome the challenges around recruiting a diverse workforce in Utah? Finding diverse candidates with experience is a challenge, but is important to foment a truly diverse culture. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
Jason Taylor CTO at Podium and former CTO MaritzCX/Allegiance gives his take on recruiting, mentoring, leadership and encourages us to get involved in improving the tech industry in order to cultivate a more diverse work force. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
Dave Stevenson CTO at SimpleNexus explains how the vocabulary we use within our teams is important and can improve and sustain a positive culture within a start-up. Dave brings a fresh perspective on bringing a sense of humility to your workplace as he encourages developers to take customer support calls, and to act with the down to earth pragmatism of a blue-collar worker. In the latest episode of the Utah CTO Show hosts Brett Flake and Kris Jenkins grill Dave on his work life world view. Dave sees tech debt or "product health" as a positive thing, as paying it down is what allows us to continue to grow or speed up delivering value to the customer. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
Utah's tech community sets itself apart by freely sharing information and collaborating. With Utah's focus on value creation the average size of venture capital deals is actually higher than Silicon Valley. Chris Marsh believes this is due to Utah's growth mindset. We talk about the secret to be successful as a newcomer to the industry. With an attitude of continual learning and a focus on honing skills those without formal education can often thrive in the tech space. Chris recommends a focus on the patterns and best practices rather than a focus on any given specific technology. Learn why tech vocations do things they way they do it and not just how. Leadership must adapt to changing mindsets to the evolving expectations of the workforce.
As a tech professional how do you grow as an individual and measure that growth? As a manager how do you help grow your people? What are the three most important questions to ask in your one on one interviews with your co-workers? Kirby Glad CIO of Cerenimbus breaks down his personal mission of growing people and how he measures that progress in our latest episode of the Utah CTO Show. Hear Kirby's take on the two tracks in tech leadership, Individual contributor or tech management, and what might go into the decision between those two tracks. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
Ben Dilts of Lucid tells how he built up Lucid from scratch as a side project. What does it take to take a brand new product to market? Ben tells of his early struggles and the things that he had to learn or learn to appreciate about business and tech. Ever wonder what Utah's foremost tech leaders recommend for reading? Ben gives his reading recommendation in this episode How do you preserve and protect the creativity of your co-workers? Ben gives a glimpse of what it takes to lead a team of creators without stifling them. What does it take to be a great software engineer? Ben says nothing can replace the practice and experience of just writing a lot of software. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
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Clint Berry tells stories of being in the trenches of the VOIP world. Follow us on Social Media! | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |
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