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Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.
Today, I’m joined by Jana Iris. She’s a coffee lover, start-up advisor and investor. Since 2008, she’s been an early employee of startups, including Engine Yard, New Relic, and HashiCorp, focused on building their developer communities. In 2022, she switched gears into angel investing and advising companies like Spacelift, Fermyon Technologies, SuperTokens, and CloudQuery.Now she invests alongside her team at TQ Ventures.
00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Jana Iris
05:25 Meeting the founder of HashiCorp
10:04 The difference between open core and open source
15:46 HashiCorp going public
20:05 Incorporating Burning Man into HashiCorp
25:12 Jana declaring her mentor
Show notes:
Jana Iris | https://twitter.com/janaboruta
HashiCorp | https://www.hashicorp.com/
TQ Ventures | https://www.tqventures.com/
Engine Yard | https://www.engineyard.com/
Groupon | https://www.groupon.com/
Mitchell Hashimoto | https://twitter.com/mitchellh
Vagrant | https://www.vagrantup.com/
Yehuda Katz | https://twitter.com/wycats
Evan Phoenix | https://twitter.com/evanphx
Brian Ford | https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-ford-231b4732
Gitpod | https://www.gitpod.io/
Gabbi | https://www.gabbi.com/
Grace Isford | https://twitter.com/graceisford
Michael Stoppelman | https://twitter.com/stopman
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