David Ledgerwood
David is a Managing Partner at Add1Zero where his team provides lead-to-close sales execution for tech-enabled B2B services companies ready to leap from 6 to 7 digits of revenue. He is also a co-host of the Leaders of B2B podcast. When David isn’t working, he spends time with his five kids and frequently travels between Dallas and Nashville to keep his interstate marriage alive.
Celebrating Independence the Freelancer Way with Ledge
In this July 4th bonus episode, we at Gun.io would like to celebrate the spirit of independence shared by our professional freelancers with this short audio essay from our host, Ledge. Enjoy, and happy Independence Day to you and your loved ones.
Hardware is hard; you make it happen or you don’t with Keith Nothacker of BACtrack
Keith Nothacker, Founder and CEO of BACtrack, even in college knew that he wanted to be an entrepreneur. When he was looking for something — anything — to sell online, he decided it was crazy that the police could test anyone for their blood alcohol level, but consumers couldn’t test themselves. So he decided to […]
What really caused that bug? with Doug Suvalle of Glassbox Digital
Software and DevOps engineers spend a great deal of time in logs, analyzing what’s happened, and trying to surmise why it’s happened. APM software gets us part of the way there, but what about actually seeing what the user did to trigger that bug? In this episode Ledge sits down with Doug Suvalle at Glassbox […]
How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? with Eric Klinker of BitTorrent
How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? Eric Klinker knows. He’s the Founder and CEO of Resilio, and former CEO of BitTorrent. Resilio is a vastly enhanced enterprise version of BitTorrent Sync – a completely P2P alternative to Dropbox. As computing at the cloud is beginning to migrate back to the […]
Understanding the full business impact of your technology with Cheada Lao of Allied Administrators
When you reach an executive position, you need to understand all of the functions of the business. That’s especially true when you grow out of a purely technical role. Your view needs to expand from the project context to the overall business context. That’s been the experience of Cheada Lao, EVP of Operations at Allied […]
Megascale high-performance decision engines with George Corugedo of RedPoint
If you’re shopping online for pretty much anything, there’s a very good chance the pages you’re looking at are being dynamically generated based on A/B testing and automation powered by RedPoint. George Corugedo is the firm’s co-founder and CTO. In this episode George sits down with Ledge to discuss how his global engineering organization created […]
The software and hardware behind parking tickets with Jim Suttles of Republic Parking Systems
If we’ve learned anything at the Frontier, it’s that interesting technology stories can be found anywhere… even in that parking ticket you got last month that you’re still cursing over. Ever wonder how they know where your car was parked and for how long? Ledge being a collector of parking tickets himself had to find […]
Engineering management tips for worldwide Ops, Dev, and Leadership with Alex Newman of Institution Machines
Scaling an engineering organization is challenging enough when you’re colocated, and when your whole team is developers. What happens when you also introduce data science and 24/7 SRE? That’s three entirely different types of work. Now distribute those workers around the world and imagine the complexity. Ledge sits down with Alex Newman, serial founder, engineer, […]
DevRel and community building for authentic relationships with Mary Thengvall
Communities are people who not only share common principles, but who also develop and share practices that help individuals in the group thrive. DevRel means building communities for technical audiences. If you want to know about DevRel and community building, you need to know about Mary Thengvall and her host of curated, authored, and spoken […]
Adopting enterprise risk management to conserve capital with Dipanjan Choudhury of ValueMomentum
APIs, microservices, connections to external systems, integration with legacy systems… the list of software complexities gets longer and longer. In this episode Ledge is joined by global enterprise IT leader Dipanjan Choudhury. With almost 20 years of experience in software development, platform, and consulting leadership roles, we wanted to get his perspectives on risk mitigation […]
How to manage hybrid remote/colocated teams with Greg Starling of Monscierge
In this episode, Ledge sits down with Greg Starling, a full stack e-commerce and mobility expert with broad experience in the CTO seat. Ledge and Greg talk through his advice for staying on the right side of Apple’s review processes, and how to stand out in the crowd to potentially earn yourself a mobility partnership […]
Scaling a team to support every stack with John Isdell of Red Ventures
John Isdell is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures. You may not know of Red Ventures by name, but you’re virtually guaranteed to have been on one of their sites like BankRate.com, Reviews.com, and CreditCards.com. They’re a digital portfolio company with a huge consumer web footprint, and with that footprint comes challenges of […]