It's a fireside chat episode this week as Josh and Ben hold down the fort on FounderQuest. They contrast the challenges of bootstrapping a smaller company vs. hiring a team to do much of the heavy lifting for you. They also talk about physical fitness, joining a PTSA, and living their best fully-vaccinated lives.

In the latest episode of the ManageEngine Insights' podcast, John Donegan speaks with Frank Satterwhite, the principal cybersecurity consultant at 1600 Cyber, a cybersecurity consultancy based out of Germany. Satterwhite discusses how he uses music to inform communities about technology, and he addresses his top cybersecurity concerns of the moment, including the fight against disinformation online.

CircleCI CTO and host of The Confident Commit podcast Rob Zuber is joined by HashiCorp co-founder and CTO Armon Dadgar for a conversation about the inspiration of HashiCorp, infrastructure challenges and opportunities, and the future of security. Listen along for the insight story of HashiCorp's origins and early days, as well as keen insights for managing infrastructure and ways to better deliver software to infrastructure environments from two of tech's top leaders.

This week The Founders talk about the possibility of working more closely together and if it'll ruin the company's current approach to project management, anarchy. If that's not enough, Ben talks about streamlining SOC 2 auditing, Josh talks about updating Hook Relay's marketing, and Starr reviews Twist, our potential Basecamp replacement.

This week, the crew dives into topics that were spurred from interactions with Cycle users: why was Cycle built, and how did the name come to be?

This week, Josh and Ben talk crypto with Mike Mondragon! They cover the technology rather than the hype behind Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and NFTs. Yep, crypto on FounderQuest, pigs are flying! Don't miss creating Commit Coin to make NFTs out of merged PRs and Mike gives away some solid crypto business plans. Also, did someone say Honeybadger was acquiring Heroku?

This week The Founders check out some Basecamp alternatives for funsies just to see what's out there (or if they should just build one). They also discuss yak shaving and Josh's new ASCII yak for Honeybadger's Slackbot. Lastly, take a trip down memory lane as Ben and Starr discuss sweet tea and other Southern goodness. Kick up yer heels and listen up ya'll!

Get to know the Cycle crew as they discuss what is being worked on for the week. Conversations include the development team moving towards marketing, building a marketing API, Changelogs, and more.

This week The Founders talk about the Basecamp drama and break down how it may impact companies using Rails. They also discuss customer support for developers and Gen Z's emoji game leaving Millennials and X's for dead. Check it out! ;-p (I've still got it!) FounderQuest Episode 16, Season 3 May 7, 2021.

This week The Founders get real and talk about whether it's better to ship something with known issues and deal with support requests or hold off and keep banging your head against the wall trying to get it to 100%. They also discuss vaccines, the (un)official release of React Native support, and Lego space shuttles! FounderQuest Episode 15, Season 3 April 23, 2021.