Conversations With Bacon Archives

Jason Warner on GitHub and Leadership

by Jono Bacon | Nov 3, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

GitHub has seen a startling level of growth. With over 31 million developers spread across 96 million repositories, it has become the quite literal hub for how people build technology (and was recently acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion). Throughout this...

Mary Thengvall on Developer Relations, Reporting, and Growth

by Jono Bacon | Oct 7, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

In recent years, developers have become an increasingly important audience for organizations to build relationships with. Not only are developers actively building technology, but they are also often helping to shape decisions inside of businesses that cover product,...

Jeff Atwood on Discourse, Stack Overflow, and Building Online Community Platforms

by Jono Bacon | Sep 11, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

Building collaborative online platforms is hard. To make a platform that is truly compelling, and rewards the right kind of behavior and teamwork, requires a careful balance of effective design, workflow, and understanding the psychology of how people work together....

Ryan Bethencourt on Growing Sustainable Food, Shark Tank, and Wild Earth

by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

What does bioscience innovation, sustainable pet food, and Shark Tank have in common? Ryan Bethencourt, that’s who. Ryan is a pretty accomplished guy. He has studied business and biotech, molecular biopharmaceuticals, genetics, and brain tumor angiogenesis at...

Emily Musil Church on the Global Learning XPRIZE

by Jono Bacon | Jul 8, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

Back in 2014, I worked at the XPRIZE Foundation, and we launched the Global Learning XPRIZE. This $15 million competition, funded by Elon Musk among others, challenged teams to build an Android tablet application that teaches kids how to read, write, and perform...

Conversations With Bacon: Kate Drane, Techstars

by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

Kate Drane is a bit of an enigma. She helped launch hundreds of crowdfunding projects at Indiegogo (in fact, I worked with her on the Ubuntu Edge and Global Learning XPRIZE campaigns). She has helped connect hundreds of startups to expertise, capital, and customers at...

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