MarsBased podcast - Life on Mars
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MarsBased podcast - Life on Mars is your go-to space for technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Brought to you by MarsBased, a high-end development consultancy specializing in Ruby, JavaScript, and Python. If you are a software engineer, you can expect deep dives into tech, but we go far beyond the code. We share our first-hand expertise on remote work, company culture, management, and digital transformation based on our journey building a successful lifestyle business.
Every two weeks, we sit down with the best founders, investors, experts, and celebrities from across the galaxy to hear their stories.
After years of investing heavily in the startup and tech communities in Barcelona and worldwide, we are bringing that same value to you through this channel.
Follow us to join our journey! 🚀
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Why the AI slop problem is getting worse | David Okuniev (Typeform co-founder)
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May 26, 2026 |
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Why I left big tech to build again: The reality of being a founder
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May 12, 2026 |
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100x faster every 6 months: Linus Ekenstam on the future of AI
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Is your NDA a rookie mistake? Lessons from 12 years in tech - Building MarsBased #7
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Troy Hunt: 12 years of Have I Been Pwned & the truth about AI scams
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Agency Q&A: Recruiting "Champions" and optimizing for answer engines (AEO) Building MarsBased #6
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Scaling a remote team: Lessons on trust, productivity, and firing | Building MarsBased #5
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Generalist or specialist? Inside our biggest business debate: Building MarsBased #4
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Silicon Valley’s longest-standing CEO: 37 Years leading Micrel
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Working with friends? Building MarsBased #3
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Road to CTO: From Mafia Wars to Amazon, 35 years of tech leadership wisdom
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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When is the right time to start your company? Building MarsBased #2
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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How to come up with your first business idea: Building MarsBased
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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We finally bring an expert on company culture / Aaron Schmookler
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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New series: How to build an agency | Life on Mars
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The CEO who made herself “irrelevant” (and scaled to millions ARR) / Laura Urquizu
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Halfway through 2025: How MarsBased is evolving, growing, and staying true to its values
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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10 years without shortcuts or investors: the MarsBased keynote reveal
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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When does company culture break? with Greg Scown (TextExpander)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Top 10 podcast moments that shocked, cracked us up, or both!
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Beyond the AI demo: Turning prototypes into real businesses
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May 13, 2025 |
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Road to CTO #1: From economist to coder: why Charles Chase never went back to corporate
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Prompt engineering vs. Spaghetti prompting
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Quantum computing: The future is closer than you think - Corporate Innovation Summit
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Corporate Innovation Summit: How AI is moving from obedience to autonomy
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Future of Agency Work: Navigating AI and Growth Strategies with Szymon Boniecki
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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How punk rock influences Simone van Neerven's innovation strategy on reBel.la
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Is M&A activity REALLY on the rise this year? with Clemens Rossberg
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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087 - Our 2024 in review + forecast for 2025
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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086 - Open source, open heart: Ghost’s John O’Nolan secret (spicy) sauce
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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085 - Beyond TextExpander: Greg Scown’s journey after stepping down as co-founder
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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084 - Goodbye to Startup Grind
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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083 - Bootstrapping, marketing, branding & ass-kicking, with Tanya Van Gastel (Co-founder of The Multiverse AI)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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082 - Road to profitability and AI, with Mercè Tell (Co-founder @ Encomenda Capital Partners)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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081 - Fighting online scams and Ad fraud, with Nandini Jammi (Check My Ads)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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080 - Balancing creativity and business in Spain, with Brian Farrell (Farco)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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079 - Building the next 10 years of MarsBased
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May 07, 2024 |
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078 - The future of SEO and content strategy in an AI-driven world, with Clemens Rychlik (COO @ Bourbon)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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077 - M&A Masterclass with Founder Partners
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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076 - Building a thriving Shopify agency, with Keyven Ferland (Founder of La Web Shop)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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075 - Bootstrapped Businesses, with Amir Salihefendic (Founder @ Doist)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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074 - The unfiltered reality of serial entrepreneurship, with Francesc Font Cot (Co-founder of Incapto)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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073 - From Rails to revenue, with Khash Sajadi (CEO & Co-founder @ Cloud 66)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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072 - We're back! Riding out a crazy wave in the tech industry
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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071 - Taking investment or selling MarsBased?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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070 - How we find clients in San Francisco, with Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit (CEO @ MarsBased)
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May 17, 2023 |
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069 - Remote, async and more, with Job van der Voort (CEO @ Remote)
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May 10, 2023 |
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068 - No code in 2023, with Toby Oliver (CEO @ Bravo Studio)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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067 - Pros and cons of running a boutique agency, with Jamon Holmgren (CTO @ Infinite Red)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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066 - WTF happened to SVB, with Victor Horcasitas
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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065 - Growth through partnerships, with Kat O'Brien (CPO @ ClimateTrade)
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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064 - All about becoming a UI/UX freelancer, with Fabio Basile
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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063 - 2022 recap + 2023 predictions
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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062 - Tips for agencies and contractors during economic downturns
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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061 - The solitude of managers, with Xavier Noria and Pau Minoves
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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060 - Calculating and taking risks in extreme conditions, with Jonas Rinde (CEO @ Nomono)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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059 - Factorial, Kantox and the third wave of Barcelona startups
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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058 - How are we going to type text in the future? With Olivier Plante (CEO @ Fleksy)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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057 - Remote worker solitude, with Nikki Parsons & Sara Ronzero
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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056 - Q&A with Àlex
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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055 - TV campaigns and marketing at scale, with Carlota Pi (Co-founder @ HolaLuz)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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054 - Bootstrapping an AI product in Barcelona, with Marc Assens (CTO @ Happy Scribe)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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053 - Techstack changes & product rewrites with Ingrid Ødegaard (ex-CTO @ Whereby)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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052 - Frictionless development at scale, with Pau Minoves (CTO @ Typeform)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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051 - From developer to CTO, with Miguel Andrés (CTO @ Simplr)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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050 - Maximising the chances of a good exit, with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)
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May 09, 2022 |
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049 - Consolidation in the developer bootcamps market, with Boris Paillard (CEO @ LeWagon)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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048 - Company culture and hiring tech talent in hyper-growth mode with Jordi Romero (CEO @ Factorial)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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047 - Building the world's largest community of entrepreneurs, with Francisco Cruz
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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046 - The secret sauce of newsletters, with Jessica Ford (Startup Digest)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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045 - Async & full-remote work challenges, with Amir Salihefendic (CEO & Founder @ Doist)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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044 - No-code as a solution to the global shortage of developers, with Nile Frater (NoCode.tech)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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043 - Interview with Àlex at IndieHackers BCN
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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042 - Company update, December 2021
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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041 - Community is f***ing hard, with Mark Birch (AWS)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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040 - Growth & ethics in marketing with Thomas Petit
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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039 - Facebook is down! What to do when my platform goes down?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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038 - Hiring and managing developers, with Xavier Redó (MarsBased) & Laura González (Schibsted)
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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037 - New season of Life on Mars!
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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036 - Hiring and growing an AI team in Barcelona, with Elisenda Bou (CTO @ Vilynx)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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035 - Choosing technologies and technical co-founders, with Dorion Carroll (CTO/CIO @ Zynga)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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034 - Interview with Àlex at itnig!
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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033 - How tech can prevent sexual harassment at work, with Eleanor Manley (CTO @ Metta Space)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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032 - Building a CMS from scratch, with Didier Lafforgue (LocomotiveCMS)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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031 - Seven years of MarsBased - Q&A with the founders
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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030 - Dissecting TwilioQuest (product, tech & community), with Chiara Massironi and Kevin Whinnery
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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029 - How to get into angel investing, with Liz Dunn Carroll
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May 25, 2021 |
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028 - Data at scale, with Jorge Gómez Sancha (Co-founder of TinyBird)
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May 10, 2021 |
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027 - Why is adtech broken? - with Nandini Jammi (Check My Ads)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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026 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 2), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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025 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 1), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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024 - The role of Developer Relations in tech companies, with Ana Cidre (auth0)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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023 - Leadership & communication in difficult times, with Pere Vallés (CEO @ Exoticca)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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022 - Stonks, Elon Musk, Gamestop, Doge, tech journalism and... metal! with Alex Wilhelm (TechCrunch)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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021 - From CTO of TaskRabbit to founding a B2B open-source project, with Brian Leonard (CEO @ Grouparoo)
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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020 - Choosing the tech stack and taking technological decisions, with Pau Ramon (CTO @ Factorial)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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019 - Breakdown of 2020 at MarsBased, month by month, with Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit (CEO)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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018 - Facts and figures of a fundraising round, with Cristina Vila (CEO @ Cledara)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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017 - The future of tech events, with Victoria Gago (European Blockchain Convention)
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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016 - Selling to enterprise, with Gordon Cardiff (ClearPeaks) & Pontus Österberg (Prototyp)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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015 - Self-organisation and time management in hyper-growth startups, with Jeff Dunham (CTO @ Wallbox)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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014 - Present and future of the music industry, with Julien Truchan (Co-founder @ Benighted)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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013 - Keeping the fire alive after 10 years, with Pieter Omvlee (CEO @ Sketch)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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012 - One SaaS to rule them all - Controlling access, expenses and more with Brad van Leeuwen (Cledara)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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011 - No-code: what, why, when and more, with Ben Tossell (Founder @ Makerpad)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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010 - How to transition from senior developer to CTO, with Rob De Feo (AWS)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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009 - Manufacturing developers on a global scale and the role of dev bootcamps in society, with Ariel Camús (CEO @ Microverse)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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008 - Work ethics and the fraud of the gig economy, with James Bloodworth
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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007 - How to keep the house clean: sunsetting legacy systems and tech hygiene, with Dorion Carroll (Amazon)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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006 - How to run one of the best tech podcasts in the universe, with Chad Pytel (CEO @ thoughtbot)
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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005 - Stepping down as the CEO of your company, with David Okuniev (Co-founder @ Typeform)
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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004 - Product people, who are they and where can you find them? with Howard Love (CEO @ LoveToKnow)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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001 - How to do remote work the right way, with Sergio Gago (EVP @ Naviga Global)
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May 30, 2020 |
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002 - Choosing technologies for your new company, with Jordi Miró (ex-CTO @ RakutenTV)
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May 30, 2020 |
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003 - How to grow your Chrome Add-on into a business, with Eduardo Manchón (CEO @ Mailtrack)
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May 30, 2020 |