The Sean and Thomas Show by Devscale
We are Sean & Thomas, co-founders of devscale.com and the hosts of The Sean and Thomas Show! Each week we sit down with a prominent tech leader in Chicago as part of our series called "ScaleTalk". The goal of this series is to shed light on the stories behind some amazing people right here in our city. We nerd out with CTOs, talk revenue and growth with CEOs, and get inspired with amazing entrepreneurs. Let us know what you think and make sure to hit subscribe! Cheers everybody! Reach out at sean@devscale.com with any questions or feedback :)
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The Sean and Thomas Show is produced by Devscale.com
On this episode we chat with our friend Elliott Garms, the founder of Human Predictions. We dive deep into tech recruiting, raising money, and how to successfully hire your first sales team; something Thomas and I are about to go through ourselves.
Hey everyone! I’m Sean, co-founder of the Chicago software development agency, Devscale and welcome to The Sean and Thomas show…this is episode number 005 of FounderSpotlight — a series where Thomas and I talk with early stage startup founders here in Chicago.
Today’s episode is a special one for us, our guests are Jonny and Jeff Immerman who are two really good friends of ours as well as our client. Jonny and Jeff have a cra...
Hey everyone! I’m Sean, co-founder of the Chicago software development agency, Devscale and welcome to The Sean and Thomas show…this is episode number 10 of ScaleTalk — a series where Thomas and I talk with successful, Chicago-Based founders, CEOs, and CTOs that have scaled up their businesses tech teams. The hope is for us learn something from them that we can all apply to our lives and businesses.
On Today’s show we have Kristi Z...
Welcome to The Sean and Thomas show…this is episode number 009 ScaleTalk — a series where Thomas and I talk with successful, Chicago-Based founders, CEOs, and CTOs that have scaled up their businesses tech teams. The hope is for us learn something from them that we can all apply to our lives and businesses.
We’ve been looking forward to today’s episode for a really long time. Our guest is Jason VandeBoom, the CEO and founder ...
Today’s episode is a conversation we had with Alida Miranda-Wolff, the founder of Ethos which is a consulting company that helps growing and growth-stage businesses build incredible and incredibly diverse company cultures to fuel success. Alida share some incredible insights, we seriously learned so much from her on this call about time management, team management, and how to read 2 books a week like she does. That sounds like a jo...
On today's show we have the co-founders of LoveLeigh Loops, Jillian and Jordan. They are both good friends of ours from school when we were all at Miami University, it was super fun catching up with them. Two years ago they both quit their full-time jobs and are now teaching calligraphy online to thousands of students! This is a great story for anybody thinking about starting a side project or trying to turn their passion into a bu...
Super pumped to get this episode out to everyone. We had a really great conversation with Dave about his new business HalfDay CBD. This is one of Chicago's first truly Chicago-based CBD companies. Dave left his successful career in technology sales to jump headfirst into the world of CBD and hemp farming. It's a booming industry that Thomas and I didn't know much about so Dave got to teach us all of the ins and the outs of THC, CBD...
Hey!! We're Sean & Thomas, the co-founders of Devscale, a boutique software agency and staffing firm. This is the first installment of our new series, Founder Spotlight! On this series, we’ll talk with the founders of small/medium sized businesses and talk about the early days of their businesses and how they got to where they are today. Some of the most inspiring stories come from founders like today’s guest Matt Gornick who i...
Hey!! We're Sean & Thomas, the co-founders of Devscale, a boutique software agency and staffing firm. This week we talked with Francois Toubol, the Sn. Director of Engineering at Reputation.com. We covered a ton of topics with him since he is such a source of wisdom and knowledge. Topics included managing a remote dev team, what it's like being a leader of a large tech team, the importance of EQ in business, books, podcasts, an...
Hey!! We're Sean & Thomas, the co-founders of Devscale, a boutique software agency and staffing firm. This week we talked with James Lloyd, the CTO of Redox. We talked about what it's like to run a 100% remote team distributed across the country, healthcare systems, hiring developers, and so much more.
Hope you all enjoy!!
Hey!! We're Sean & Thomas, the co-founders of devscale.com, a boutique software agency and staffing firm. This week we talked with John Barnes, the CTO of Infutor.com. We covered everything from big data, scaling development teams, going from developer to leader, to traveling to Costa Rica. We really nerded out on this episode and it was a BLAST. John has had an incredible career path from developer to leader of a company that ...
We had a really fun conversation with Marvin Russell, the founder and CEO of Checkli.com. Marvin is started, grown, and sold two other businesses in the past and is working on his third startup currently. Every conversation with him has nuggets of insights that are super valuable to any business owner or aspiring entrepreneur.
This was fun for Thomas and I since we're actually business partners with Marvin as the mobile development...
We had a great conversation with Jenny Farver, the newly named CTO of Lightstream. Jenny is on her second CTO position and has lots of great advice about life as a Chicago tech leader. We talk about what it's like to go from developer to technology leader and the challenges associated with it.
Lightstream builds live streaming creative tools and technology with a true passion for live video production, gaming and supporting the exp...
Hey Podcast listeners - I Just wanted to give you a heads up that Thomas and I will soon be releasing episodes for The Sean & Thomas Show. We’re really excited to start connecting with you via podcast.
The goal of the show is to highlight the stories of all of the amazing people we’ve meet here in Chicago the past couple years.
It’s going to be a lot of fun for us and hopefully really beneficial for you to hear how...
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