Episodes
In episode 51 of EnterpriseReady, Grant Miller speaks with leadership coach, investor, and filmmaker Matt Mochary. Together they explore themes on executive coaching, building trust, scaling businesses, conflict resolution, and customer retention. Additionally, Matt unpacks the characteristics of CEOs that drive the most success.
Published 10/20/22
Published 10/20/22
In episode 50 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Matias Woloski of Auth0. This talk contains unparalleled lessons on utilizing authentication and authorization services, landing your first enterprise customer, making smarter hiring decisions, and understanding the complexity of the CTO role.
Published 05/19/22
In episode 49 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Omri Gazitt of Aserto. They began with a dive into Omri’s early beginnings in enterprise software, including his time at Microsoft working on the .NET framework and XML team at Microsoft, and the lessons learned that would lead to the creation of Azure. Finally, Omri unpacks what led him to found Aserto, a solution to enterprise-grade access control.
Published 04/26/22
In episode 48 of EnterpriseReady, Grant Miller is joined by Sanjay Poonen. This expansive conversation draws on Sanjay’s long and storied career in software, from the early engineering days at Apple and Microsoft to his executive and entrepreneurial experience building and scaling multi-billion dollar businesses like VMware. Together, Grant and Sanjay unpack invaluable lessons on engineering, product management, marketing, sales, work-life balance, and much more.
Published 04/06/22
In episode 47 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Mark Lorion of Tempo. They discuss Mark's programming background and early enterprise software roles, the importance of seeking customer data at the source, and deep insights on enterprise marketing.
Published 03/09/22
In episode 46 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Donald Fischer of Tidelift. Donald shares lessons from his early career journey in product and venture capital, and together they discuss the importance of supporting open source creators at scale.
Published 02/10/22
In episode 45 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Ed Anuff of DataStax. They discuss the importance of onboarding engineering, the carrying costs of legacy software, and building consumer trust that lasts for years.
Published 01/26/22
In episode 44 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote. They discuss Job’s pivot from neuroscience to startups, his experience building opinionated software at GitLab, and the future of remote work.
Published 12/21/21
In episode 43 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Neha Sampat, CEO & Founder of Contentstack. They discuss Neha’s career journey into enterprise and how Contentstack is accelerating the shift from monolithic suites to agile technology stacks.
Published 11/17/21
In episode 42 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph. They explore Quinn’s self-taught development career, insights on finding perfect product-market fit, and the pain points large orgs face when managing massive codebases.
Published 10/28/21
In episode 41 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Wade Foster of Zapier. They unpack Wade’s career journey, how Zapier was founded and self-funded, and lessons learned on maintaining camaraderie among distributed teams.
Published 09/28/21
In episode 40 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Alexis Richardson of Weaveworks. They discuss Weave GitOps, insights on brand revitalization, and the storied career journey that led Alexis from finance to startups to enterprise software.
Published 08/30/21
In episode 39 of EnterpriseReady, Grant Miller is joined by Loris Degioanni of Sysdig. They discuss Loris’s storied career journey, the creation of Sysdig, tactics for better understanding enterprise customers, and the future of open source.
Published 08/05/21
In episode 38 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Brandon Heller of Forward Networks. They discuss tactics for improving enterprise networks, tips for hiring engineers, and insights on the many roles co-founders play as they launch their companies.
Published 06/08/21
In episode 37 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Jay Simons of Bond. They unpack the many lessons Jay has learned from his long and celebrated software career, including growing Atlassian from a startup to the massive, publicly-traded behemoth it is today.
Published 06/01/21
In episode 36 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Shannon Williams of SUSE. They unpack Shannon’s many years working with cloud-native and open source communities, his pioneering of Infrastructure as a Service, and the future of open source.
Published 05/20/21
In episode 35 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Karthik Ranganathan of Yugabyte. They discuss Karthik’s enterprise journey, the fruits of maintaining a customer-driven ethos in business, and building modern databases.
Published 04/13/21
In episode 34 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Gene Kim of IT Revolution. They discuss his journey to founding Tripwire, his prolific career as a DevOps author, and the positive social impacts technology adoption could have in the future.
Published 03/10/21
In episode 33 of EnterpriseReady, Grant is joined by Shishir Mehrotra of Coda. They discuss important lessons for building and launching products, as well as Shishir’s role as a technology leader at YouTube in it’s pivotal early years, just after the Google acquisition.
Published 10/12/20
In episode 32 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Mike Gregoire of Brighton Park Capital. They discuss strategies for growing through a recession, the changing role of modern enterprise salespeople, and the internal metrics Mike uses when evaluating acquisitions.
Published 07/30/20
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.
Published 07/17/20
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.
Published 06/23/20
In episode 29 of EnterpriseReady, Grant speaks with Mitchell Hashimoto of HashiCorp. They discuss Hashicorp’s founding story, fundraising tactics and pricing models, and monetizing open source projects
Published 05/12/20
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.
Published 04/28/20