Welcome to Software Snack Bites the Podcast! This podcast will be an exploration of all things enterprise software from technology trend deep dives, to company building, to enterprise purchase decisions.

Damian Schenkelman was Employee 10 at Auth0 and has played multiple roles in the company from early engineer, to first Director of Engineering, to Principal Architect at Okta/Auth0 Lab which is exploring new products in the auth space. He is also an angel investor and advisor to numerous startups and is happy to help any founders who reach out! He joins us today to share the journey of Auth0 from the beginning and how early decisions on things like supporting on-prem and cloud customers can impact a company in the long term. We talk about the differences between being an individual contributor and a manager and also cover topics related to scaling reliability, tradeoffs between microservices & monoliths, and how phase shifts in a company lead to needing to build and codify new decision making frameworks over time. There are numerous insights in here for companies in the early stage and also at scale as to how to avoid potential pitfalls and grow with their customers. For those who don’t know, Auth0 was acquired by Okta for $6.5B in 2020.