Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 440 | Ole Dallerup - Proving the Value
Today Ole is the CTO and cofounder of Dreamdata.io. A product which he discovered during his time leading technology at Trustpilot, one of the world's biggest review sites. At Trustpilot he grew the technology team from 3 to more than 100 full-time tech-people across 2 locations. Building a techstack that handled massive loads such as 2 billion monthly widget impressions and more than 50 billion monthly API calls, while growing the annual revenue to $50M. Having enabled product growth to billions of monthly interactions he is an experienced technology leader born in the cloud and ready to scale. Formerly Ole was also a founding technology advisory board member at Apigee (acquired by Google Cloud in 2016).
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Ole Dallerup
- - Scaling systems and scaling teams
- - Ole on being both technical and people-oriented
- - Mentors and mentoring
- - The genesis and nature of Dreamdata
- - Money as value
- - Managing for the scale you need
- - Ole's story of failure - emotional attachment to a product without proven value
- - Ole's advice for proving value
- - Ole's advice for overcoming your own bias toward thinking your idea is valuable
- - Fostering productive cultures
- - Ole's book recommendation
- - Ole on work and life, balance and taking breaks
- - Ole's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Ole
Resources:
Ole's book recommendation:
Ole's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Speed - Move faster (by finding shortcuts)
- Be cross-functional
- Value diverse teams
