Business Logic is a show for software developers to gain tactical, practical business knowledge. Join your host, Andy Qin, as he interviews luminaries in the tech industry to answer perennial questions that business-minded developers have, such as:
• How can I convince more people of my ideas?
• Should I get an MBA?
• When should I work for myself?
...and many more. This show is intended to make you more effective at work by providing the business context for the products you work on.
E8: Julianna Lamb of Stytch on organization design
Passwordless authentication methods provide a better user experience and are more secure than passwords. But how do developers make sense of the many differing technologies out there (WebAuthn, FIDO2, magic links, authenticator apps, Touch ID, etc.)?
Julianna Lamb cofounded Stytch (https://stytch.com/) to help us out. They make it easy to integrate modern, passwordless authentication flows into your apps. She shares her expertise on picking the right authentication method, how she started a company during a pandemic, and her approach to organization design and people development.
Episode resources
Check out Stytch (https://stytch.com/)
Blog posts on org design and code reviews
Julianna is on Twitter
So is Andy (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin) and this show (https://twitter.com/businesslogicfm)
6 Apr 2020
E7: Jaren Glover of Robinhood on code, capital, and culture
How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color (https://www.devcolor.org/), and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play Bond in the next 007 movie.
Episode resources
Jaren's favorite new consumer apps: Stadium Live, Compound, Bighead, Realtime, and Cappucino.fm
Rebekah Cox's Ambition and Higher Standards essays
Searching "Kelsey Hightower (https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower)" on YouTube returns magical technical content, in Jaren's words
aphyr's notes on distributed systems
The Remarable Story of Risk
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
The Defiant Ones (https://www.hbo.com/the-defiant-ones/episodes) on HBO
The Black Godfather (https://www.netflix.com/title/80173387) on Netflix
2 Mar 2020
E6: Michelle Bu of Stripe on rapidly scaling yourself
Michelle Bu has played pivotal roles in authoring products like Stripe Elements, Stripe Radar, and most recently, Stripe's new suite of payments APIs. She's learned a thing or two about building exceptional developer experiences, how to use product metrics, and building the team that builds the product. Lucky for all of us, she was generous with sharing her takes on these and more in this fun first episode of Season 2.
Episode Resources
Read Michelle's (soon-to-be-updated) blog (http://blog.michellebu.com/)
Follow Michelle on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/hazelcough)
Follow Andy on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin)
31 Oct 2019
E5: Oz Nova of Bradfield on pursuing engineering mastery
Oz Nova, founder and instructor at the Bradfield School of Computer Science, explains how he approaches teaching, what he does to create a safe learning environment, and his moonshot idea to create a world-class computer networking class delivered over the internet.
Listening to this episode will make you a more effective teacher. That's the Business Logic guarantee.
Episode Resources
Bradfield School of Computer Science (https://bradfieldcs.com)
The Gallwey approach to learning tennis
From Nand to Tetris (class) (https://www.nand2tetris.org)
Follow Oz on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/oznova_)
Follow Andy on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin)
30 Sept 2019
E4: Chetan Puttagunta of Benchmark on enabling mass creativity
Founders and company builders, this one is for you. Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner at Benchmark Capital, offers his approach to recruiting pipelines, remote work cultures, and go-to-market strategy. Toward the end, we cover what software companies can take away from the ordering experience at Starbucks.
Episode Resources
Bill Gurley's talk on chasing a passion (https://youtu.be/xmYekD6-PZ8)
Follow Chetan on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/chetanp)
Follow Andy on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin)
30 Aug 2019
E3: Jeff Weinstein of Stripe on owning your career
Sometimes the next step in a career is not clear. When there's a fork in the road between things you are passionate about and things you are good at, which should you pick? Jeff Weinstein, Product Lead for Payments Infrastructure at Stripe, offers learnings from his own career as guidance. Prior to Stripe, Jeff founded Wagon, which acquired by Box in 2016.
Episode Resources
"Be a player, not a victim" talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXdN5kMioRQ)
Follow Jeff on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/jeff_weinstein)
Follow Andy on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin)
30 Jul 2019
E2: Aline Lerner of interviewing.io on winning at interviewing
Hiring developers is hard. Getting hired as a developer is also hard. How on Earth can these both be true? Aline Lerner helps us identify the challenges of software developer recruiting and how to conquer them. She's the founder of interviewing.io and a distinguished thinker in the technical recruiting space. Listen to this episode for tips on getting hired at any company and being a world-class interviewer once you get there.
Episode Resources
How to negotiate salary by interviewing.io
Aline's backstory on the Indie Hackers podcast
Follow Aline on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/alinelernerLLC)
Follow Andy on Twitter! (https://twitter.com/andylouisqin)
19 Jun 2019
E1: Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers on working for yourself
First episode! Andy sits down with Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers to discuss what it takes to start an independent software business and why anyone can do it. We cover a ton of ground, including: What kind of business should you start? Should you launch a product quickly and get feedback, or spend extra time to make a killer first impression? If things aren't going well, when should you quit?
Episode Resources
Indie Hackers Podcast
Become an Indie Hacker
Lynne’s story (Key Values)
Mike’s story (Sidekiq)
Follow Andy on Twitter!
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