Faith Benson

With a team that almost doubled in size, and our first foray into venture backing, 2022 has been quite the year at Gun.io. In this episode, Teja and Faith talk about the growth of the company, next year’s goals, and how important it is to take a step back and be bored every once in […]

When you hear that someone like our Technical Talent Advocate, Girish Kumar, who casually started TWO companies while running a third, is the kind of talent who helps to vet our talent, it sends a clear signal that our team is up to snuff.

From 7-month-olds to teenagers, our team is growing the next generation of dreamers and doers, one WFH day at a time. In this episode, you’ll hear how they manage their time, find hidden spots of solitude, and embrace the walk to school. Shout to Bluey, y’all, because only her energy can match these kids’!

When your first sales job was hustling your classmates over Yu-Gi-Oh cards at six years old, you’re bound to be one of the best in the biz by the time you’re a full-grown adult. Such is the case with Donovan Suggs, one of Gun.io’s Sales Development Reps. And when he’s not working for us? He’s […]

In this episode, Faith, Teja, and Abbey sit down to talk about the changes Gun.io made prior to going remote, the numerous benefits of distributed and remote teams, and why it’s totally okay to tell people you love your job. A few other tangents will keep you laughing through this one.

Senior Frontend Developer, Richie Clark, started his development career by promising great things, and he continues to deliver to this day. Hear more about his path from Play It Again Sports to Gun.io and why the logistics of the pork market are more complicated than you think.

“Be militant about the things you can control so that you can be frivolous elsewhere.” Sage advice from our Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson, and just one of the many great nuggets of advice he has about brand authenticity, and how people will always remember how you make them feel above all else.

It’s ironic that our Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr, moved to Nashville knowing she wanted to leave her live of running music events behind, but great for us that her superb operational skills have made our talent onboarding program the success it is today. Hear what she has to say about how to mae moves […]

In this episode, Faith sits down with our VP of Operations, Tyler Newkirk, to talk about how we’ve traditionally approached growth and promotion at Gun.io. It turns out our secret sauce is hiring talented people and giving them the space and tools to thrive, even if their background isn’t in tech.

We don’t have health inspectors knocking on the door during dinner rush, but there are plenty of other parallels between tech and restaurants, as our Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson, talks about on this latest episode.

Free t-shirts only get you so far. So how do you market to a group of people with discerning tastes highly-attuned BS meters? Authenticity and expertise are our two best tools, as Content Lead, Abbey Charles, talks about in this episode.

We wanted to call this episode “Just get it done,” because that’s what our UI/UX Engineer-turned-one-man-Army, Regis Camimura, has applied to most situations in life. In this episode, he talks about his development journey, life challenges, and how unacceptable it is to not know when the World Cup is happening.