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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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Season 2, Ep. 17 – What’s in a name: The evolution of the Gun.io brand
Every brand goes through the evolution of its own identity, and Gun.io is no different. In this episode, the CEO and Co-founder of Gun.io, Teja Yenamandra, sits down to talk with Faith about Swiss timepieces, capsule wardrobes, and the various stages of our own personal branding throughout the years.
Season 2, Ep. 16 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Account Executive, Ashley Yearby
When our Account Executive, Ashley Yearby, isn’t busy leading world-class food tours or designing a dice game that takes the boredom out of your home bar, she’s making sure our clients are getting matched with the kind of talent that fits their every need. Hear how she balances all the most badass things at once […]
Season 2, Ep. 15 – What we’ve learned from 5xing our sales team with VP of Revenue, Ben Kettle + Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler
A lot of things have changed at Gun.io since we first started, but no department more than sales. In this episode our Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler, and VP of Revenue, Ben Kettle, talk about what it has looked like to grow the sales department by 5 times its size.