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What even is a DevRel? (Interview)

Jun 20, 2022

01:15:29

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I've known garmo for many years.

00:57

How Did You Get Into Devrel?

01:13

Are You Willing to Advocate For Your Product?

01:57

What Do You Look for in a Deverel?

02:36

Introduction

3min

Rievly Robinson - Is Lee Rob a Real Persona?

2min

Deverel, Developer Relations?

2min

The Three Pillars - Education, Community and Product

5min

How to Enable a Fee Back Liop

6min

How Did You Get Into Devrel?

5min

Fire Hydrant - The Reliability Platform for Every Developer

3min

Incident Analytics Light - The Next Step to Getting Started

3min

Devrel - A New Way of Doing Things

6min

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Deverel - I'm in the Room, I'm There

5min

11.

Deverel - I Love the Fronted

2min

12.

Are You a Business Owner?

3min

13.

The Mobility of a Devrel?

5min

14.

Are You Willing to Advocate for Your Product?

2min

15.

I Think Ichermo Was a Great Example of a Founder Who Has Done the Role by Necessity

4min

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What Do You Look for in a Deverel?

3min

17.

Do Deverels Have Blind Spots?

2min

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The Developer Relations Team and the Customer Success Team

4min

19.

Engineering Block Posts - What Makes the Engineering Content Work?

3min

20.

Are You Going Heavy Into Tik Tok?

5min

21.

The Myth of Incremental Progress

3min

This week Lee Robinson joins us to talk about his journey as a DevRel. We talk about what it means to be a DevRel, what orgs they fall under, how he runs his team at Vercel, Lee’s three pillars of DevRel: education, community, and product, we compare the old days of DevRel vs now, and of course what makes a DevRel a good DevRel.

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