Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://stackify.com/">Matt Watson</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mattwatson81">@mattwatson81</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Matt Watson talks with Dave Rael about running a business, creating valuable software, and making a culture </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Stackify was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson. Before Stackify he was the CTO of a rapidly growing enterprise software service (SaaS) provider. He noticed that agile development had caused his developers to be much more involved in day-to-day IT operations, but his team lacked the tools and server access to do it efficiently. He founded Stackify to create a suite of tools to solve this problem, which virtually every dev and dev team deals with.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Matt Watson</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's life as the head of Stackify and involvement in code</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Kansas City - home of Matt and Stackify</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - What is Stackify?</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The start of Stackify</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Matt got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Matt up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's story of failure - the omitted where clause, threatening economic condidtions</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's entrepreneurial nature</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's advice for developers who want to own something they are making</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Rewards and pain of growing a business</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Scaling systems and organizations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Stackify's lighthearted culture</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's success story - building a unique, useful, and affordable product suite</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Matt stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Matt most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's sources of pain and suffering</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackify.com/" target="_blank">Stackify</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackify.com/blog/" target="_blank">The Stackify Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kcdc.info/" target="_blank">Kansas City Developer Conference</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-166-jonathan-mills-you-are-not-alone" target="_blank">Jon Mills on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-177-lee-brandt-community-rewards" target="_blank">Lee Brandt on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-185-heather-downing-finding-the-joy" target="_blank">Heather Downing on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/CoryHouse" target="_blank">Cory House on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackify.com/prefix/" target="_blank">Prefix</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackify.com/retrace/" target="_blank">Retrace</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird" target="_blank">Flappy Bird</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djR5XD-wqbA" target="_blank">Stackify Ad</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackify.com/building-our-office-space-literally/" target="_blank">Stackify - "Building Our Office Space – Literally"</a></li> <li><a href="https://puppet.com/" target="_blank">Puppet</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.chef.io/chef/" target="_blank">Chef</a></li> <li><a href="https://cfengine.com/" target="_blank">CFEngine</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679805273/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Oh, The Places You'll Go! - Dr. Seuss</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Matt's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0694003611/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803736800/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Dragons Love Tacos - Adam Rubin</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Figure out how to make somebody's life easier</li> <li>View software from the perspective of a user</li> <li>Pay attention to details</li> </ol> </div> </div>
