Bourbon and better software (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Adam is joined by Robert Ross, Founder and CEO of FireHydrant — they discuss Bourbon, sniffing arms, better software, leading a successful startup, scaling teams, building vs acquiring, and Adam even gets Robert to commit to watching Silicon Valley!!

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Featuring:

• Robert Ross – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• firehydrant.com

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Hoofdstukken

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:37)

http://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

3. It's been 2 year (00:01:36)

4. What's fun? (00:02:17)

5. Let's talk Bourbon (00:03:22)

6. Unique swag (00:06:18)

7. You're in the right place (00:09:17)

8. This AI stuff (00:18:00)

9. "Real" world impact (00:20:38)

10. What have you learned? (00:25:19)

11. Sponsor: imgproxy (00:29:27)

https://imgproxy.net/

12. Leading the company (00:32:57)

13. Then vs Now (00:36:04)

14. Getting to clarity (00:38:14)

15. Hire. But how do you paying for it? (00:42:09)

16. Do you have hobbies? (00:45:03)

17. Osmosis from other founders? (00:48:12)

18. De-Hulking the Hulk (00:49:13)

19. The state of better software? (00:53:45)

20. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:58:14)

https://changelog.com/tailscale

21. Build vs Acquire (01:01:08)

22. What's the next big thing? (01:04:24)

23. Competitors be listening (01:05:18)

24. Pagerduty's gate is down over the moat (01:06:39)

25. What's "Done." for you? (01:09:20)

26. TV? Shows? (Silicon Valley) (01:10:47)

27. VC hard times getting better (01:15:11)

28. Wrapping up (01:17:09)

29. We're done. (01:19:07)