In episode 635, Rob Walling catches up with Tony Chan, the co-founder of CloudForecast, an AWS cost monitoring tool. Tony shared his victories, challenges, and failures in TinySeed Tales Season 3. It has been over eight months since we recorded the final episode.

In this episode, we reflect and catch up on what’s been happening with Tony and CloudForecast.

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Topics we cover:

3:03 - Losing one of CloudForecast’s engineers
5:35 - Tony’s approach to hiring engineers
8:31 - Did Tony end up hiring someone to help with content marketing?
17:32 - What is Tony struggling with right now?
21:07 - Managing your founder psychology
25:08 - Tony’s recent conundrum

Links from the Show:

Tony Chan (@toeknee123) I Twitter
CloudForecast
TinySeed Tales Season 3
MicroConf Local: Austin

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