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At the heart of everything we do here at Gun.io are our incredible Gunslingers. They’re the talent we send out to tackle the big ideas and help brands build and scale. And we want to share their stories with you in a new series called the Gunslinger Interviews. This week, Cal Evans talks with Jon […]

Cal sits down with Josh Butts, CTO of Ziff Media Group, to discuss how time in 1:1s can and should be used. Hint: if you’ve fallen into the trap of only using them as a time to talk tasks, you’re doing it wrong.

This month, Cal sat down with Boyd Hemphill, Director of Cloud Infrastructure at Contrast Security, to chat about the acronym on everyone’s mind: OKRs. Despite being a common goal-setting framework among technology companies, few really understand the purpose of objectives and key results, and how to set truly meaningful ones.

Olivia Liddell is a Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services developing innovative teaching and technical training courses for partners and customers who are trying to learn more about AWS products and services. Over the course of her career, Olivia has provided her expertise as a Technical Curriculum Developer and Certified Ethical Hacker to audiences […]

In this episode, we speak to Samantha John, Co-Founder and CEO of Hopscotch, about the amazing things kids can create when they have access to software tools, why coding isn’t just for boys, and what landing an investment deal on Shark Tank is really like.

Cal Evans, Gun.io’s Developer Evangelist, has been committed to providing valuable resources for software developers through conversations with experts. These have included Josh Holmes from Microsoft on public speaking, and Keith Casey, who previously served on the product team at Okta and as an early evangelist at Twilio on how to become a software architect.

If you’re like Cal Evans, a Developer Evangelist at Gun.io, and other such software professionals with 35+ years of experience, you probably got into software development because you were more interested in working with technology than talking to people.  Fast forward to now, and Cal has given countless talks to thousands of people at tech […]

In this episode, we speak to Kate O’Neil, Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Teaming, about key identifiers for a strong team, where most leaders get it wrong, and how Teaming is helping leaders improve engagement, communication, goal setting, and psychological safety for their team members.

In this episode, we speak to Nick Gavronsky, CEO and Co-founder of Welcome, about the power of appreciating people in your product, the need for more transparency around compensation for employees, and how his team at Welcome is improving pay equity and equality across the board for the companies on their platform.

In this episode, we speak to Bo Boroski, Founder and Managing Director of RefQuest, about the best decisions he’s made as a founder, the importance of hustled mistakes, and how to build a support system both inside and outside of the business.

In this episode, we speak to Gabe Batstone, co-founder and CEO of Contextere, about doing good and making money at the same time, why raising money is a goal, not a victory, and how personal relationships pay off more than your technology.