Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 242 | Alex Papadimoulis - Inventions And Products
Guest:
Alex Papadimoulis talks to Dave Rael about inventions and products, making a mark, DevOps, engineering and marketing, and scaling an organization
Alex is a speaker and writer who is passionate about looking beyond the code to build great software. Alex is the founder Inedo, the makers of DevOps tools for the Enterprise, he also started The Daily WTF, a fun site dedicated to building software the wrong way.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Alex Papadimoulis
- - Alex's business: Inedo
- - Alex's life with less emphasis on coding and shifting into business concerns as opposed to the technical
- - Building an organization to the lowest common denominator
- - Alex's passion for software and how it has changed
- - Inventions vs products and engineering and marketing
- - Alex's story of learning, the hard way, about what is really involved about building and selling a product
- - International markets and Inedo's Japan branch
- - Alex's stories of failure - trying to increase product market with a complex pricing model without success metrics, renaming The Daily WTF
- - The story of The Daily WTF
- - Alex's success story - having built and scaled a stable organization
- - Scaling teams and learning about strike teams vs armies
- - The rewards of building a business people like
- - Alex's current life and balance
- - Alex's advice about choosing books
- - How Alex stays current with what he needs to know
- - Alex's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Alex
Alex's book recommendation:
Alex's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Understand the problem you're solving at least one or two levels up
- Write as little code as possible
- Have some work/life balance
