Intensely focused on building a software company

This week Adam talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder & CEO of Raygun. Raygun is an award-winning application monitoring company founded by John-Daniel Trask (better known as JD) and Jeremy Boyd in Wellington, New Zealand. They have revenues in the 8 digits annually, and have done it with very little funding (~1.7M USD). Today’s conversation with JD shares a ton of wisdom. Listen twice and take notes.

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Featuring:

• John-Daniel Trask – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Raygun.com
• The Microsoft Way: The Real Story Of How The Company Outsmarts Its Competition
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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