Will Larry
Co-Host of Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
Will Larry has hosted 44 Episodes.
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478: Senga with Agnes Malatinszky
June 8th, 2023 | Season 11 | 22 mins
Agnes Malatinszky is the Founder of Senga, which takes care of back-office administrative needs for freelancers, contractors, and solopreneurs.
Victoria and Will interview Agnes about the thoughtbot Incubator program and what led Agnes to choose to apply, what the demands on her time were like, how it worked, and how she feels now that she's at the end of the program.
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477: 20th Anniversary Episode
June 1st, 2023 | Season 11 | 52 mins 35 secs
Chad joins cohosts Victoria and Will to talk about thoughtbot's 20th birthday! 🤖🎉
In this episode, you'll find the 411 on the thoughtbot mascot, "Ralph," taking the company fully remote, and our company values and how we believe products should be designed and built!
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476: OpenSauced with Brian Douglas
May 25th, 2023 | Season 11 | 41 mins 23 secs
Brian Douglas is the CEO of OpenSauced which helps enterprises discover the best engineers in Open Source.
Victoria and Will talk to Brian about meeting as many developers as possible, setting goals, and keeping himself accountable, and what makes a successful open source project.
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469: Harpoon with Dominic Holt
April 6th, 2023 | Season 11 | 46 mins 26 secs
Dominic Holt is CEO of harpoon, a drag-and-drop Kubernetes tool for deploying any software in seconds.
Victoria talks to Dominic about commoditizing DevOps as a capability, coming up with the idea for drag and drop just thinking through how he could do these things in a visual and intuitive way, and using Kubernetes as a base for Harpoon.
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467: Healthie with Cavan Klinsky
March 23rd, 2023 | Season 11 | 25 mins 48 secs
Cavan Klinsky is Co-Founder and CTO of Healthie, a scheduling engagement and EMR platform used by healthtech organizations who seek to build long-term relationships with their clients.
Will talks to Cavan about providing an underlying infrastructure that other digital healthcare companies use to be able to focus on patient care and not reinventing the technology wheel by providing a scheduling platform, an electronic medical record, and a patient engagement solution–all available via API, via an API-first design as well as through fully branded interfaces. Healthie lets companies get to market faster, scale with less headaches, and provides effective patient care much cheaper than if they tried to build everything themselves.
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464: IVP with Zack Willis and Eric Liaw
March 2nd, 2023 | Season 11 | 38 mins 19 secs
Eric Liaw and Zack Willis are part of IVP, a leading venture firm with a 43-year history of partnering with entrepreneurs who are undaunted on the path to innovation.
Will talks to Eric and Zack about what has made IVP so long-lasting in the Venture Capital industry, how they help companies' portfolios, and the accomplishments they are most proud of.
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463: EmergeOne with Aarish Shah
February 23rd, 2023 | Season 11 | 31 mins 45 secs
Aarish Shah is the Founder of EmergeOne and Projected.ai and host of Off Balance and Nothing Ventured Podcast.
Will talks to Aarish about having the venture capitalist money idea and having that "aha!" moment that it could work, what drives him and having a purpose of helping others, and using his podcast to teach lessons that he's learned along the way.
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460: Frontrow Health with Irfan Alam
February 2nd, 2023 | Season 11 | 48 mins 40 secs
Irfan Alam is the CEO of Frontrow Health, a startup with a mission to finally put Americans in the front row of their own healthcare.
Will and Victoria talk to Irfan about his background in business strategy and development for healthcare companies, how he went about searching for and building the perfect team, and how he started the culture of Frontrow Health on a level where there is balance and people want to join because it has a good culture.
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455: Hello Inside with Anne Latz
December 29th, 2022 | Season 11 | 32 mins 19 secs
Dr. Anne Latz is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Hello Inside, a company that specializes in scientific self-care.
Will talks to Dr. Latz about why glucose?, being a business-person first and what drove her to become a medical doctor, and where she sees wearable technology going in the in the next 5-10 years.
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453: Greenpixie with John Ridd
December 15th, 2022 | Season 11 | 28 mins 33 secs
John Ridd is the Co-Founder and CEO of Greenpixie, which is building solutions to reveal and reduce cloud emissions.
Chad and Will talk to John about giving a clearer view of AWS emissions down to the service level, why cloud emissions are a much bigger sustainability issue than most people realize, and how this will be the next big issue of the climate crisis.
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452: SHEMATTERS with Jade Kearney
December 8th, 2022 | Season 11 | 26 mins 4 secs
Jade Kearney is the Co-Founder and CEO of She Matters, a digital health platform designed to improve postpartum comorbidities for Black women through community, culturally competent healthcare providers, and culturally relevant resources.
Victoria and Will talk to Jade about why postpartum depression is so dangerous for women, her experience as a mother and why she founded She Matters, and what culturally competent care looks like for Black women.
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449: Welcome, Will Larry!
November 17th, 2022 | Season 11 | 35 mins 43 secs
Will Larry, Software Developer at thoughtbot, joins Giant Robots as host! 🎉
Will talks about how he got into tech, how everything is going so far at thoughtbot, interviewing at thoughtbot previously but not getting the job, and why he decided to interview again (and snagging the job!)