Making Work Work: Recent Episodes
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What makes a company sink or swim? Learn from the first-hand experience of devs and builders, SMB and start-up founders, leaders in cloud tech, and DigitalOcean experts, alongside your host Rachael Lewis-Krisky.
Tech innovation is happening everywhere. Many U.S.-centric technologists may spend much of their time looking to North America for tech evolution, but countries all over the world are full of builders who are creating exciting, innovative new projects.
In this episode, we focus on India. Host Rachael Lewis-Krisky chats with guest Mohan Ram (he/him), DigitalOcean Senior Manager of Regional Marketing in India to explore what tech innovations are brewing across India and why markets like India as so exciting for people in tech.
As the Head of Global Field Marketing at DigitalOcean, Mohan leads the regional expansion and marketing initiatives for the company to drive growth in key and emerging markets
From its simplicity to its scalability, serverless computing offers businesses an affordable and efficient way to make developers’ lives easier without compromising results. But how does serverless work? And is it everything its boosters say it is?
In this episode, host Rachael Lewis-Krisky talks to Anshu Agarwal (she/her), DigitalOcean VP and GM of Serverless, about all things serverless to learn how it works, what it can do, and how your business can make the most of it.
Anshu is the general manager of Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean. Prior to this, she was the co-founder and CEO of Nimbella, a serverless cloud provider. She has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, building and evangelizing products that have solved real-world problems for organizations large and small across the globe.
At startups, marketing is often deemphasized compared to product development, meaning marketing teams often receive less money and less attention than other parts of the business. Marketing, though, can have a massive impact on whether or not a product succeeds. After all, if no one knows about your product, can it succeed?
In this episode, host Rachael Lewis-Krisky speaks to Wendy Zajack (she/her), Professor of Marketing and Media Relations at Georgetown University, about the best way for a company to focus on impactful and appropriate marketing strategies with limited resources.
With more than 20 years of corporate experience in public relations, marketing, media relations, and internal communications, Wendy thrives on working to make complex topics easy to understand, exciting, and relevant to broad audiences. Now, as a Faculty Director and Associate Professor of the Practice for Integrated Marketing Communications and a Design Management Communications program at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, she now spends her time thinking about the intersection of education, communications, and technology and how to thoughtfully deliver tailored, personalized and impactful curriculum to adult learners.
Technology has far-reaching implications for societies at large and for the children who grow up in those societies. How should companies think about the effect their products might have on future generations? How do you design a product with the future—and those who will live in that future—in mind?
In this episode, host Rachael Lewis-Krisky moderates a panel of guests who will take us through futuristic and, more importantly, critical thinking around technology’s impact on kids, all to give listeners the tools to consider how their business will fit into the future.
Panelists:
- Matt Cowley (he/him), DigitalOcean Senior Software Engineer I and Cloud Chats co-host
- Mike Loukides (he/him), VP of Content Strategy for O'Reilly Media
- Tim Osborne (he/him), CTO & CoFounder of Atom Learning
Corporate social impact has become a crucial component of successful global companies, more so in recent years than ever before. Whether or not a company has resources dedicated to creating a positive social impact can, and probably will, affect their bottom line.
In this episode, host Rachael Lewis-Krisky talks with DigitalOcean VP of Social Impact, Admas Kanyagia (she/her), about how companies of all sizes—from startups all the way to mega-corporations—can, and should, prioritize doing social good into their work. Then Admas answers some questions from new entrepreneurs about how they can bring social impact to their startups. These entrepreneurs include:
- Matthew Hoogestraat, creator of the Badger hoodie from Valid Adaptive
- Ingrid Eskeland-Adetuyi, CEO and Founder of Tens
- Katie Pearson Fucci, CEO and Founder of Parrotfish
- Mehrad Noori, Founder and Producer of AnythingEverything
At Digital Ocean, Admas drives philanthropy, product donations, employee engagement, and ESG programs. She has spent her entire career in the social sector working to support nonprofits, humanitarian organizations, foundations, government, and now companies.
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Growing your business. Hitting your numbers. Scaling up. Companies all over the world are looking to expand their footprint to get more revenue and to do it all with less. To actually achieve all of that requires companies to deeply consider their infrastructure, data, and product development processes so they can effectively do more without adding new teams.
In this episode, host Rachael Lewis-Krisky talks to DigitalOcean Chief Product Officer, Gabe Monroy (he/him), and Sam Eaton (he/him) from Roblox and Crave Cookie. They discuss how not to overcomplicate a tech stack, avoiding deep tech debt, and the vital importance of being thoughtful about what the data you collect is telling you.
At DigitalOcean, Gabe is responsible for overall product vision and customer-facing product, engineering, and design, as well as the ex-VP of Microsoft Developer Division, responsible for Azure developer services. Sam Eaton is a Growth Engineer at Roblox and a Co-Founder at Crave Cookie. He previously led Growth Engineering at Praxis, worked as a Senior Growth Engineer at InVision, a Senior Engineer at Socrata (acquired), and was the first Growth Engineer at Qualtrics (acquired by SAP for $8 bil).
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