Archive - Builders Gonna Build

Ep.8: John Crickett on growing your LinkedIn and newsletter audience

John Crickett is the creator of Coding Challenges, a newsletter for engineers that has over 54k subscribers. John’s LinkedIn profile grew from 3k to…

May 9 •

53:52

April 2024

Ep.7: Jason Fried on building products, calm companies and the Jeff Bezos investment

Jason Fried is a co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp and HEY. Together with his business partner David Hannemeier Hanson, Jason…

Apr 24 •

1:15:36

Ep.6: Creating a niche of your own with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist

Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles well known for his sense of humor and unrelenting…

Apr 10 •

1:14:57

March 2024

Ep.5: Don't do agile, be agile with Dave Thomas, Agile Manifesto and Pragmatic Programmer co-author

Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Agile Manifesto, on the true spirit of being agile (vs. "doing agile"), mistakes engineering…

Mar 14 •

59:15

February 2024

Ep.4: Henry T. Kirk, entrepreneur, ex-Google & Amazon engineer

For 10 years, Henry built mobile apps at Google and Amazon. Now he is a partner at a software development agency studio.init(). Henry shares his…

Feb 28 •

59:37

Ep.3: Dennis E. Taylor, author of best-selling sci-fi series Bobiverse

Dennis E. Taylor built software for 35 years before trying himself as a sci-fi author. His first novel Outland earned him some “Starbucks money” on…

Feb 14 •

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48:56

January 2024

Ep.2: Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp and Reaper

Justin shares how he created Winamp and sold it to AOL at age 20 and tells us about his current project, digital audio workstation (DAW) Reaper.

Jan 31 •

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54:42

Ep.1: Christian Selig, creator of Apollo Reddit app and Pixel Pals

Christian tells a story of how Apollo got started, grew and eventually had to shut down following Reddit's API pricing decision.

Jan 17 •

59:51

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