How I Launched This: A SaaS Story
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -SaaS embraces the full potential of the cloud and is transforming the way organizations work. In each episode of this podcast, we go in-depth on a different SaaS story, talking with global leaders from some of the most innovative companies. Go behind the scenes as they share stories of success, failures, and what they learned along the way
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Digitizing the World of Retail with Trax CEO Justin Behar
April 11, 2021 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBWelcome back to How I Launched This! This week, Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Jenny Brown (@jbrojbrojbro) are joined by Justin Behar, the CEO of Trax. Trax is a cloud-based analytics software company that uses the power of machine learning and proprietary technologies to digitize retail for enhanced customer experiences and more effective goods management. Justin is no stranger to tech, having spent the last 25 years in Silicon Valley founding and expanding various companies. At Trax, J...
Project Observability with Instana Co-Founder Mirko Novakovic
March 28, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week on How I Launched This: A SaaS Story, Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) is joined by Instana co-founder, Mirko Novakovic. Instana helps companies build thoughtful cloud-native applications and services with their powerful observability and application performance monitoring solutions. Mirko is no stranger to the founder's chair. Previously, he started and grew several companies and his passion for solving difficult technological issues led to Instana. Instana optimizes cloud native ...
Managing Medical Data with MEDITECH’s VP of Advanced Technology Scott Radner
March 14, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBCarter Morgan (@carterthecomic) and Jenny Brown (@jbrojbrojbro) host this week's episode of How I Launched This: A SaaS Story! They're talking with Scott Radner, VP of Advanced Technology at MEDITECH, an Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) company improving the healthcare of patients since 1969. In his 30 years with MEDITECH, Scott has seen technology develop from magnetic tapes to advanced cloud-based software capable of securely storing and managing health records. MEDITECH now also offer...
Enterprise Purchasing Power with Stimulus Founder Tiffanie Stanard
February 28, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBStephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and co-host Jenny Brown (@jbrojbrojbro) are back this week for an exciting interview with Tiffanie Stanard of Stimulus. Using extensive data, analytics, and integrations with supplier systems, CRM’s, social feeds and more, Stimulus helps companies make better purchasing decisions. Tiffanie's varied and accomplished background in everything from payroll to coding helped her learn to take risks and see opportunity even in less than ideal situations. During the 20...
Weather Damage Reporting with WeatherCheck Founder and CEO Demetrius Gray
February 14, 2021 17:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBStephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) welcome Demetrius Gray, Founder and CEO of WeatherCheck, to this week's show. WeatherCheck employs advanced AI, meteorological data, and top class scientists and developers to provide homeowners and claims consultants with specific hail and weather damage data to safeguard one of life’s biggest investments: your home. When Demetrius began running operations for a roofing company, he saw the pain and confusion weather damage c...
Automating Cloud Infrastructure with Altostra Co-Founder Gal Zabib
January 31, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBThis week on How I Launched This A SaaS Story, Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) has an insightful chat with Gal Zabib, Co-Founder and CEO of Altostra. Altostra provides individual developers and engineering teams a no-code platform to create and manage cloud infrastructure based projects. As a software engineer from a young age, Gal’s previous experiences with the Israeli Military Intelligence force and working for a startup as the R&D leader, really carved out who Gal is as an entrepreneur....
Quality Networking and Relationship Building with Warmly Co-Founder and CPO Val Yermakova
January 20, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBStephanie (@stephr_wong) and Carter (@carterthecomic) welcome Co-Founder and CPO, Val Yermakova of Warmly today on the show! Warmly helps companies leverage business contacts and streamline networking practices for more efficient lead generation: think Warm Intros to Warm Sales Leads! Val's intellectual curiosity and flexibility mean she's had myriad job titles and hobbies, including FulBright China scholar, Stanford Melanoma researcher, Security Analyst, Interaction Designer, Krav Maga and...
Customer-Driven Data Solutions with Splunk SVP of Cloud and CPO Sendur Sellakumar
January 03, 2021 17:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBSendur Sellakumar, CPO and SVP of Cloud at Splunk, joins our host Stephanie (@stephr_wong) on our first episode of 2021. Splunk is revolutionizing how enterprises use and act on data, making the process cheaper, faster, and more secure. Sendur's background in engineering and finance means he understands not only the importance of building great software but of running a customer-focused, profitable business efficiently and with empathy. WIth the help of Sendur, Splunk has moved more than hal...
2020 Year In Review: How I Launched This, A SaaS Story
December 18, 2020 01:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBStephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) take us on a journey recapping serial entrepreneurs, surprising lessons learned, critical technology pivots and uncovering there is no silver bullet to security. The episodes of 2020 surprisingly revealed many common themes between founders, CEO’s and their respective companies. While dual pandemics plagued this year, we kept the recordings going in hopes of giving listeners a platform to learn, grow from and simply enjoy. Th...
Software Delivery Management with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey
December 08, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week, Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) speaks with Sacha Labourey about enterprise software delivery company CloudBees. CloudBees enables developers to focus on what they do best: Build stuff that matters, while providing peace of mind to management with powerful risk mitigation, compliance and governance tools. CloudBees streamlines the software delivery management process for companies. Sacha starts the show with a thorough explanation of how CloudBees saw a need in the market and fil...
Online Reputation Management with Reputation.com CEO Joe Fuca
November 22, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBWelcome back to How I Launched This! Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) is back this week hosting Joe Fuca of Reputation.com. Their advanced algorithms based on years of machine learning experience help companies find, manage, and maintain their online brand presence. With his history growing companies into worldwide successes, Joe starts the show telling us about his fascinating experiences with category creation, from infancy to acceptance to widespread use. His current work at Reputation has ...
Perfecting Product with Pendo CEO and Co-Founder Todd Olson
November 08, 2020 21:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBStephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) are back with a new episode of How I Launched This. This week, we talk with Pendo CEO and Co-Founder Todd Olson. With a passion for helping teams build and adapt digital products, Todd and his co-founders from Google, RedHat, and Cisco created Pendo to help companies analyze how their product offerings are used to optimize performance for customers. Pendo offers analytical tools, messaging features inside products, feedback p...
Supporting an Inclusive Workplace With Kanarys Co-Founder and CEO Mandy Price
October 25, 2020 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBOn this episode of How I Launched this, Stephanie (@stephr_wong) and Carter (@carterthecomic) are excited to welcome the CEO of Kanarys, Mandy Price. The Kanarys platform is the first technology platform that fosters collaboration between companies and employees on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. Through gathering anonymous employee data, the Kanarys platform brings about lasting change in DEI by helping companies get the specific data and insights they need to diagn...
Reversing the Dropout Rate of Underserved Students with Upswing.io Founder Melvin Hines
October 18, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBStephanie (@stephr_wong) and Carter (@carterthecomic) are back with a new episode of How I Launched This: A SaaS Story. This week, they welcome a Google For Startup Accelerator participant and a Google Black Founders Fund recipient, Melvin Hines, Founder and CEO of Upswing.io. Upswing.io began as an online tutoring platform to assist underserved students and has since scaled to create a full service, 24/7 online student support system that empowers underserved and nontraditional students to ...
Elevating the Customer Experience with True Fit Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer, Jessica Murphy
October 11, 2020 19:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBStephanie (@swongful) and Carter (@carterthecomic) are back this week with TrueFit Co-Founder and CCO, Jessica Murphy. TrueFit is revolutionizing online clothes shopping experience utilizing a data collective of size, fit preference, body shape, gender, brand preferences to precisely pinpoint the customer's true size. When retailers personalize every part of the journey, customers gain confidence in the seamless online shopping experience. Co-Founder Jessica Murphy starts the show explainin...
Elevating the Customer Experience with True Fit Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Jessica Murphy
October 11, 2020 19:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBStephanie (@stephr_wong) and Carter (@carterthecomic) are back this week with TrueFit Co-Founder and CCO, Jessica Murphy. TrueFit is revolutionizing online clothes shopping experience utilizing a data collective of size, fit preference, body shape, gender, brand preferences to precisely pinpoint the customer's true size. When retailers personalize every part of the journey, customers gain confidence in the seamless online shopping experience. Co-Founder Jessica Murphy starts the show explai...
Understanding Consumer Behavior with Quantum Metric CEO Mario Ciabarra
October 05, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWelcome back to How I Launched This, A SaaS Story. This week, Stephanie (@stephr_wong) has the pleasure of speaking with Mario Ciabarra, Founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. Quantum Metric specializes in collecting, analyzing, and understanding real-time consumer behaviors with regards to technology. Mario, an entrepreneur from childhood with a background in molecular biology and biochemistry, has used his extensive skills as an engineer and computer scientist to advance the goals of four st...
Superior Video Streaming with Wowza Media Systems CEO Dave Stubenvoll and Vice President of Engineering Ben Mesander
September 27, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBWelcome back to How I Launched This, A SaaS Story! This week, Stephanie (@stephr_wong) and Carter (@carterthecomic) are talking with two executives from Wowza Media Systems, a world leader in live streaming content. With both managed services and highly customizable components available as downloadable software or in the cloud, Wowza is capable of catering to any client. CEO and Co-Founder, Dave Stubenvoll, starts the show with a history of Wowza and how a project called Blog Cheese got him...
AI-Driven Data Management with Informatica Senior Vice President Jitesh Ghai
September 20, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBWelcome back to How I Launched This, A SaaS Story. This week Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) hosts a conversation with Jitesh Ghai. Jitesh is Senior Vice President of Informatica and goes in-depth about the advanced data management software they've created for use with Google Cloud. As key players in the space, Informatica has excelled in facilitating customer and cloud provider relationships while also building specialized data migration and management tools for enterprise companies taking ...
Flexible Databases and Cyber Security with MongoDB Chief Information Security Officer Lena Smart
September 13, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week on How I Launched This: A SaaS Story, Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) is pleased to welcome Lena Smart from MongoDB. MongoDB is a force in the database industry, offering indexing and storage capabilities for any document. We start the show with a thorough discussion of Lena's background and her journey to becoming one of the top Chief Information Security Officers in the business. With the vital importance of security online and the ever-changing laws and regulations proliferating ...
Internet-Connected Products and the Importance of Giving Back with Aeris CEO Marc Jones
August 30, 2020 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBWelcome back to How I launched this, A SaaS Story! This week, Carter (@carterthecomic) and Stephanie (@stephr_wong) welcome Marc Jones, President, CEO & Chairman of Aeris, a technology company that helps organizations create and sell internet-connected products that consumers and businesses love. Aeris’ software powers 15 million connected devices worldwide, enabling medical professionals to remotely monitor patients, homeowners to remotely lock their doors, and vehicle owners to download se...
Cloud-Native Enterprise Imaging Platform With Change Healthcare VP Archie Mayani
August 24, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week on How I Launched This: A SaaS story, Carter (@carterthecomic) and Stephanie (@stephr_wong) are talking all about their journey in creating a cloud-native medical imaging management platform and clinical applications, and how Change Healthcare is improving the space for both providers and patients. With a passion for helping people, Archie Mayani, VP of product management at Change Healthcare, tells us how working in healthcare has driven the pursuit of purpose for her. Her mother...
Open Source In-Memory Database Systems with Redis Labs Chief Product Officer Alvin Richards
August 16, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBWe're back with How I Launched This: A SaaS story! This week, Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) talks with Alvin Richards about Redis Labs, a company optimizing the Redis open source in-memory database system to build better managed tools for enterprise clients. Alvin begins the show describing how his love of solving complex development problems and great people skills have put him in a unique position to act as intermediary between engineers and clients, gaining insights into real-world probl...
Distributed Search with Elastic Field CTO Steve Mayzak
August 09, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBCarter Morgan (@carterthecomic) and Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) are back this week with another episode of the SaaS Podcast! This week, we're speaking with Field CTO Steve Mayzak about Elastic and how they're perfecting the thorough search of data in distributed systems. Steve starts the show explaining the role of a Field CTO and how he helps develop strategies for the future of Elastic. He describes the function of Elastic in detail, sharing that the search capabilities they've develope...
Submerged in Data Lakes with Qubole Co-Founder & CEO Ashish Thusoo
August 02, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this week's episode, Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) speak with Qubole co-founder & CEO Ashish Thusoo about data lakes, analytics, and how Qubole is solving real problems in the data usage space. While working together at Facebook, Ashish and his partner Joydeep recognized the power of data to analyze the past, understand current trends, and predict the future, but data analyzation programs at the time fell short of realizing this potential. Thus the dat...
Easy Data Scaling with DataStax Chief Product Officer Ed Anuff
July 26, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBStephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) are back with another episode of How I Launched this: A SaaS Story! This week, they're talking to DataStax Chief Product Officer, Ed Anuff, about how the company has managed to create massively scalable databases capable of running on any cloud platform. Ed starts the show by explaining the inspiration for DataStax and why they chose Apache Cassandra to build their software. At DataStax, they recognized the need for packaged...
Optimizing Utility Usage with Olea Edge Analytics CEO Dave Mackie
July 21, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBCarter (@carterthecomic) and Stephanie (@stephr_wong) are back this week on "How I Launched This: A SaaS Story", speaking with Olea Edge Analytics CEO Dave Mackie. Olea is a company using cutting-edge technology to help utility companies optimize water usage, prevent water waste, and more efficiently generate revenue. We start the show as Dave Mackie, CEO, tells the creation story of Olea. Dave and his team observed high percentages of commercial water meters that were not working correctly...
Seamless Shopping with commercetools CEO & Co-Founder Dirk Hoerig
June 25, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBOn this episode of the SaaS podcast, your host Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) chats with Dirk Hoerig CEO of commercetools about what it takes to create a seamless shopping experience across multiple platforms. Commercetools came about in 2006 when Dirk and his co-founder saw the issues with online retail scaling and management on premise. By creating their own cloud infrastructure before the cloud was popular, commercetools was able to help companies accomplish these scaling and management ...
Enabling Customer Centricity with Qubit CEO Graham Cooke
June 19, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week on How I Launched This: A SaaS Story, your host Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) talks online customer service strategy with Qubit CEO Graham Cooke. A self-described lifelong geek, Graham's fascination with the latest technologies and his interest in online consumer shopping behaviors converged into his most recent project, Qubit. Qubit is a data-driven model that collects information as users shop in an effort to understand how to turn browsers into buyers. Qubit creates profiles tha...
Environmental Intelligence with Aclima CEO Davida Herzl
June 12, 2020 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBWelcome to "How I Launched This: A SaaS Story" from Google Cloud! In our first installment of the podcast, your hosts Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) talk with the folks at San Francisco-based Aclima about environmental intelligence. Aclima's air quality mapping platform aggregates and analyzes air pollution factors to aid in the diagnosis and remedy of these problems for a safer breathing environment, both locally and globally. The air quality data is colle...
Welcome to How I Launched This: A SaaS Story
June 09, 2020 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.35 MBWelcome to How I Launched This: A SaaS Story from Google Cloud. SaaS embraces the full potential of the Cloud and is arguably changing the way organizations work. Each episode, Stephanie Wong (@stephr_wong) and Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) will go in-depth on a different SaaS story, sharing the initial challenges, approaches, and ultimate impact various global leaders have faced implementing their own SaaS solutions. Stay tuned to learn more about SaaS, the technologies being employed, ot...