Geeks Who Lead Podcast

Geeks Who Lead Podcast


Latest Episodes

Yoav Grossman - Adding LLMs to your product - a case study
August 18, 2023

This week I interviewed Yoav Grossman, VP of Product & Engineering at Spinach.io about how they went about identifying potential use cases for LLMs within their product, spiking, implementing, and releasing an offering. It’s a great mini-case study of

Mike Boufford - Creating an AI Strategy
August 11, 2023

Just before our CTO summits in May I got to chat with Mike Boufford, CTO at Greenhouse about his experiences in getting up to speed with GenAI and LLMs as a non-expert.In this thought provoking interview Mike explains how he got up to speed with the capab

Gayatri Iyengar - The Art of Storytelling for Managing Stakeholder Relationships
August 03, 2023

Especially when building platform or infrastructure, sometimes it can be difficult for non-technical stakeholders to truly appreciate the value of the work being done.In this interview, Gayatri Iyengar shares her experiences building platform solutions at

James Turnbull - Trimming your operating costs
July 28, 2023

In this wide ranging discussion, I speak with James Turnbull, SVP Engineering at Sothebys about his approach to managing his costs during a downturn. From cloud spend and SaaS costs to prioritizing fewer projects and hiring globally, its a great insight

Mona Soni - Why the grand hybrid experiment is going to fail!
July 21, 2023

While there has been a major push to return to the office (by many managers and a good number of ICs), when remote is done right, it can reduce costs, provide access to a much wider talent pool, make teams more productive and scale more effectively (beyon

Matt Welsh - LLMs for engineering teams - a practical guide
July 14, 2023

Do you still have doubts about the wisdom of leveraging LLMs in software development? Maybe youre not sure how much they can help or how best to get started with them. Or maybe youre well into the process of experimenting with LLMs for speeding up softw

Mission Driven - Josh Nesbit: Founding Member, Widespread Care
March 28, 2023

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Josh Nesbit (Founding Member, Widespread Care) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.

Mission Driven - Jim O’Leary: VP of Engineering, Signal
February 28, 2023

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Jim OLeary (VP of Engineering, Signal) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.

Mission Driven - Sam Quigley: CEO, Kicho Inc
February 14, 2023

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Sam Quigley (CEO, Kicho Inc) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.

Mission Driven - Max Roser: Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data
January 31, 2023

Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Emerson Collective) talks with Max Roser (Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data) about what it looks like to be mission driven in his work.