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Podcast: APIs and the Future of Cybersecurity

Giora Engel is the co-founder and CEO of Neosec, an API Security Platform. Giora is also the chair of the fraud prevention task force at Financial Data Exchange. In 2011, Giora founded LightCyber, which used network and endpoint behavioral analytics to help lay the groundwork for what would later become XDR. Palo Alto Networks acquired LightCyber in 2017. Giora served as VP of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks after LightCyber was acquired. Before venturing into the private sector, Giora served for nearly a decade as an officer in Unit 8200, the elite technological unit in the Israel Defense Forces, where he pioneered the development of cyber technologies.

Giora is a recognized innovator in cybersecurity, cyber warfare and behavioral analytics, and holds several patents. His broad range of technology experience spans network analysis, cybersecurity, algorithmic coding and mission-critical systems. His research in the fields of computer vision and physics has been published in Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), and the International Journal of Computer Vision. He has also contributed to Dark Reading and other publications. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Podcast: The Science of Hitting the Inbox

Ruari Baker, CEO & Co-Founder of Allegrow, has been working on the science behind inbox placement (where emails land after they’ve been delivered) since 2018. After automating more than 18 million emails through multiple SaaS applications, Ruari has developed unique expertise on the emerging issue of inbox placement effecting business and customers.

Allegrow today is used by hundreds of market leading businesses in sales and technology like SaaStr, Black Kite Software, Path Robotics and Vise. Previously Ruari was an early employee for London’s fastest growing start-up, while they scaled from 8,000 to 40,000 recurring customers.

Podcast: Starting a New Company: Learning to Cry

Jim Donnelly is a career entrepreneur who co-founded Restore Hyper Wellness in Austin, Texas in 2015. After founding and exiting his first company in grad school, Jim spent time in the US military as an Army officer before marketing stints at brands that included Kraft Foods, AT&T, Coca-Cola and Citibank. In 2001, Jim leveraged his love for travel to build one of the most popular online travel communities in the world, IgoUgo.com, which earned a Webby Award for “Best Travel Site in the U.S.” After IgoUgo was sold to Sabre Holdings/Travelocity, Jim founded Pursuit Group, an incubator that launched high-end experiential retail businesses and one-of-a-kind boutique real estate projects.

Unicorns are NOT Mythical Creatures… or Are They?

No need to grow a horn on your forehead.

These days, there’s increasing pressure for developers and coders to be able to define themselves as “full-stack”, most of the time referred to as unicorns (growing a horn in your forehead is the hardest part, though). This means essentially that they need to have a “unique set of skills”, though the skills are a little less cool than in Liam Neeson’s Taken.

Think instead in terms of HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux… A full-stack developer is practically a one-man/one-woman army when it comes to creating web apps. Can’t do all those things? Then you may have trouble getting an interview with a top employer.

Facebook, for instance, will only (allegedly) hire developers they classify as “full stack” and many others are following suit. Unfortunately, the list of skills involved in developing web apps only continues to grow.

Today there’s some debate as to whether it’s even possible to be a full stack developer. Even those who “believe” in the full-stack developer will debate the best definition for what that means. And recruiters at tech companies usually have a hard time interviewing them, since, you know, some pixie dust is required to do the trick. If you were asked what the term actually encompasses and how you might achieve that lofty, mythical status, what would you respond?

LET US HELP YOU BUILD YOUR TEAM OF UNICORNS!

Podcast: Preparing for Today’s Security Landscape

Adam Gordon is an experienced Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) / Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with over 35 years of experience working in the information technology and services industry. As a consultant, author, and educator, he is a strong information technology professional skilled in IT Service Management, IT Strategy, Virtualization, Cloud, Security, and Infrastructure across multiple vendor platforms. Adam holds pretty much every IT certification worth holding, including many from Microsoft and (ISC)2.

He runs CISSP and Azure training, having trained thousands of IT pros over the course of his career.

Belsasar (Bel) Lepe is co-founder and CEO of Cerby. He was previously the Head of Product at Impira, where he led the company’s product life cycle, helping drive a 4x increase in revenue. Prior to his role at Impira, Bel was co-founder and CTO at Ooyala where he led a global product, design, and engineering team of 300+ Ooyalans spanning five countries and seven offices. Ooyala achieved two successful exits totaling over $440M.

Bel began his career as an engineer at Google working on Enterprise Collaboration products and studied Computer Science at Stanford University. He is an active advisor and investor in start ups, with a specific focus in Latin America.

Welcome to the dojo.live Recap Show Episode 110

On today’s dojo.live recap show we are highlighting the key points from last week interviews.

We had 3 shows:

  1. The Role of Digital Treatments in the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis with Jon Sockell COO & Co-founder @ Limbix Health
  2. RevOps and Revenue Marketing: The Emerging Practice of Unifying Go-to-Market Operations with Daniel Raskin Co-Founder, CPO and CMO @ Mperativ
  3. AI-Powered Media Mix Modeling, Built for the Post-IOS14 Reality with Rob Palumbo CEO @ OutPoint

You can check out all the shows anytime right here: www.dojo.live/interviews/

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Podcast: AI-Powered Media Mix Modeling, Built for the Post-IOS14 Reality

Rob Palumbo helps consumer scale-ups optimize paid media mix and grow revenue as CEO of OutPoint. Prior to OutPoint, he previously built and led the growth & marketing functions for a few high-growth consumer fintech companies, Borrowell.com (credit & lending), PolicyMe.com (life insurance), and, most recently, Properly.ca (real estate).

Rob has a track record in supporting the growth of companies from 0-to-100k+ users and millions in revenue, taking startups from Seed to Series B+ stage.

Podcast: RevOps and Revenue Marketing: The Emerging Practice of Unifying Go-to-Market Operations

Daniel Raskin, Co-founder, CMO and CPO of Mperativ, has more than 15 years of experience building brands and driving product leadership. Prior to Mperativ, Daniel served as CMO of Kinetica, held executive product strategy and marketing roles at ForgeRock, and served as Chief Identity Strategist at Sun Microsystems.

Daniel also held leadership positions at McGraw-Hill, NComputing, Barnes & Noble and Agari. He has a master’s degree in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a master’s degree in publishing from Pace University.

Podcast: The Role of Digital Treatments in the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis

Jon Sockell is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Limbix, a company providing digital therapeutics for adolescent mental health. Limbix’s flagship product is SparkRx, an evidence-based adjunct treatment intervention for adolescents aged 13-22 with symptoms of depression.

Jon has spent over a decade working on business teams at venture backed startups in Silicon Valley. Prior to Limbix, he was the first business hire and head of marketing at KeepTruckin, and before that he worked in product marketing and client services at Medallia. Jon has a BA in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. His hobbies include golf, travel, NBA, and scrabble.

Welcome to the dojo.live Recap Show Episode 109

https://youtu.be/IIvFKRWB0mg

On today’s dojo.live recap show we are highlighting the key points from last week interviews.

We had 3 shows:

  1. Fostering a Community of Connection and Care, with Rajiv Mehta  CEO Atlas of Care
  2. Inclusion and Outperformance: The Twin Imperatives of Unstoppable Teams, with John Estafanous  CEO at RallyBright
  3. Looking for Talent in Unexpected Places, with Richard Bronson  Founder & CEO at 70 Million Jobs

You can check out all the shows anytime right here: www.dojo.live/interviews/

#technology #culture #innovation #dojolive #livestream #videoblog

I (don’t really want to) quit!

Ahhh, the infamous Great Resignation!

Why are so many people quitting their jobs, some even with no new job lined up? Companies from all kinds of verticals – although this is a big thing at tech companies – are offering higher compensation, better benefits, flexible schedules, work from home opportunities and yet workers continue to leave. The dilemma lies in the lack of understanding by the employers of what their employees really want. And no, we’re not necessarily talking about bean bags, ping pong tables and truckloads of free beer, but other things like family time, self-management, autonomy, no commuting, no stringent dress codes and useless meetings, not to mention a holistic sense of purpose and belonging. We see monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys conducted by employers to monitor engagement, but none of these surveys capture what truly matters to the employees. Most surveys are “leading the witness” to ask questions that will always point to compensation, benefits, flex schedules and other short-term boosts for employees. But who dares to ask the employees, “are you happy at work? How do you feel at work every day? What’s really important for you?”

Happiness may be the most fundamental reason why employees leave. Happiness at work and in life has two key components, purpose and contentment. Do employees feel like their job has a purpose worth fulfilling, and are they content? You can’t measure happiness with periodic pulse surveys. You need them to self-reflect and record their happiness either positive or negative every single day.

We are beginning to see trends as people keep tabs on their mood daily. Imagine how these trends will evolve when we look at the happiness scores and mood trends for entire organizations! That is where the rubber will meet the road in our understanding of work culture and mental health. And as long as folks can work in their undies and slippers while bottle feeding toddlers… we’re good.

LET US HELP YOU BUILD A HAPPY DEV TEAM!

Podcast: Looking for Talent in Unexpected Places

Richard Bronson is the founder and CEO of 70 Million Jobs–the first national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records. Richard had an extremely successful career on Wall Street, but along the way broke some securities laws. He paid the price by losing everything, including his freedom, through a 2-year prison sentence.

When he left prison, he was destitute and homeless, but had found his calling in life: help his brothers and sisters returning to society so that they could lead safe, productive lives.