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Season 2, Ep. 26 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Sales Development Rap-resentative, Donovan Suggs

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 […]

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Tackling programmer’s block

We’ve all been there: you’re staring at lines and lines of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, wondering where it all went wrong. Wondering why a single good idea won’t grace your brainwaves with its presence. Wondering why you’re the one suffering from programmer’s block. Let’s get unstuck together.

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Season 2, Ep. 25 – Our outlook on remote and distributed work

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.

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Season 2, Ep. 24 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Senior Front-End Developer, Richie Clark

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.

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Remote management resources: Cultural

Remote work can happen from anywhere, which means some of the perks of office life get cast by the wayside in favor of flexibility. If you want to create a company culture that still incorporates the benefits and structure of everyone being together, you’ll need to update your approach.

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Season 2, Ep. 23 – How can brands talk about themselves authentically?

“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.

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Season 2, Ep. 22 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr

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 […]

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Remote management resources: Organizational

There are a lot of facets to remote work that are either new to your team, need an update, or need to be put in place as your current team grows. And there is no shortage of remote management tools with teams who are ready to tell you why their product or app is the […]

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Season 2, Ep. 21 – Promoting from within: why we love hiring people who are new to tech

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.

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Season 2, Ep. 20 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson

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.

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Season 2, Ep. 19 – How we market to developers even though developer marketing doesn’t exist

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.

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Season 2, Ep. 18 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s UI/UX Engineer, Regis Camimura

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.