Determining bets, using customer insights to pivot, and gaining developer buy-in & trust w/ Tomas Reimers #264
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Determining bets, using customer insights to pivot, and gaining developer buy-in & trust w/ Tomas Reimers #264

B1IntermediateJuly 21, 202638 min

Tomas Reimers, Co-Founder & CPO @ Graphite, reveals his journey to becoming a founder and some of the major moments from Graphite’s product development story. He dissects frameworks for determining when it’s time to quit your full-time job to pursue becoming a founder and analyzing the costs vs. benefits of that decision. We cover how to decide what customer problems to solve, understanding how software development trends impact what you’re building, and product market fit and selling considerations. Lastly, Tomas shares valuable strategies when it comes to selling to developers. ABOUT TOMAS REIMERS Tomas...

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This episode is brought to you by Sedaro. If your team runs Kubernetes, chances are upgrades can feel risky. That's what the Talos platform is for. It's built on immutable, minimal OS designed for Kubernetes.

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Immutable means clusters cannot drift, so they stay identical and upgrades are a non-event. Minimal means there is almost nothing to attack. 50 binaries, no shell, no SSH, so it's secured by default. Upgrades gets boring, security gets boring, and that's exactly the point.

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Check it out at sideralabs.com. That's S-I-D-E-R-O labs.com. I think the question is, would I rather stay at Facebook for N more years, then take the leap? Or would I rather take the leap and then maybe go to a job after that? And my thought was, I think I'd rather do it now. Mostly because I don't actually think the skills

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