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Title Agents PodcastNavigating Real Estate Tax Complexities: Ross Litkenhous' Expert Guide for Title AgentsThe intricacies of real estate tax often trip up investors and title professionals alike. Join us for this expert-led episode with Ross Litkenhous, where he explains how property tax management tools and technology can revolutionize property portfolios and streamline processes. This episode is perfect for industry leaders ready to maximize profitability and stay compliant, so tune in! What you'll learn from this episode Key challenges and lessons learned from building a business at scale How Taxonix is demystifying property tax complexities for commercial and residential real estate The importance of AI as...
2024-11-1930 min
Venture with GraceAmit Vasudev: Earl Grey Capital MP, Backing API-First Startup Innovators🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀
Amit Vasudev is the Managing Partner of Earl Grey Capital. Earl Grey Capital is an early-stage venture fund run by Amit Vasudev, Alex MacCaw, and Matt Sornson. They were part of the founding team at Clearbit. Clearbit helps companies create, capture, and convert demand from ideal customers — all from one powerful and flexible go-to-market platform. It was acquired in 2023 by HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). Earl Grey Capital invests in companies that make it easier to build things on the internet. They believe the future of venture is founders backing founders and have had...
2024-09-251h 00
Coder Radio532: Take It to the LimitMike hits the limits of ChatGPT's knowledge, a chat about editors and what we'd do for a living if it had to be outside of tech.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Berlin with Brent, Fr...
2023-08-2354 min
Latent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastCursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of AnysphereThanks to the almost 30k people who tuned in to the last episode!Your podcast cohosts have been busy shipping:* Alessio open sourced smol-podcaster, which makes the show notes here! * swyx launched GodMode. Maybe someday the Cursor of browsers?* We’re also helping organize a Llama Finetuning Hackameetup this Saturday in anticipation of the CodeLlama release. Lastly, more speakers were announced at AI Engineer Summit! 👀~46% of code typed through VS Code is written by Copilot. How do we get closer to 90+%? Aman Sanger says we need a brand...
2023-08-2259 min
Indie Hackers#280 – Replacing Yourself as CEO, Living on a Boat, and Crowdfunding to Survive with Alex MacCaw of ReflectAlex MacCaw (@maccaw) talks living on a boat, quitting his own 7-figure company, starting over with a lifestyle business, whether free will exists, crowdfunding from your own customers, and gaining a foothold in a crowded market with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).
2023-05-2052 min
Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/AccAlex MacCaw - From 50M ARR B2B SaaS to 20k MRR B2C, Hacking the first sales, The beauty of mom-and-pop tech shops, Stepping down as a CEO, Relationship with moneyAlex MacCaw is the founder and CEO of Reflect app. The note-taking tool that allows you to take notes the same way you think — by associating notes through backlinks.
Prior to Reflect he built and ran Clearbit a venture-backed 50M Eur annual recurring revenue B2B saas company.
During this episode we discuss about his journey with Clearbit from hacking the first sales to using the SaaS sales playbook, the differences between building a B2B and a B2C company, and the power of a committed community.
He is currently sailing around th...
2023-05-1136 min
Indie BitesFrom $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)Alex MacCaw is the founder of Reflect, a note taking app which he’s grown to $20k MRR with a team of 4. Previously, he was the co-founder of Clearbit, a VC-backed company that scaled to $50m in revenue. After stepping down as CEO of Clearbit, he decided to focus on doing the stuff he enjoys. So he’s sailing around the world building an app that gets him excited every day.👉 My side project, Whitstable Craft Co.What we covered in this episode:Why Alex dropped out of schoolCoding without a CS degreeBeing unemployableStarting Clearbi...
2023-03-1016 min
Build Your Thing – The Podcast For Content CreatorsHow to Supercharge Your Note-Taking With Reflect With Alex MacCawThis is an exclusive interview with Reflect App Founder Alex MacCaw
As content creators, we all know the importance of jotting down our ideas.
In fact, taking notes is at the core of my content creation process.
It allows me to come up with better ideas, to create content faster, to find new connections between my ideas to rediscover those that I may have forgotten.
And today, I'm talking to the founder of an amazing notetaking app called Reflect.
His name is Alex MacCaw.
We'll to dig deeper into...
2023-03-0734 min
Make Work Count – Moderne Unternehmensführung, Leadership & New Work#4 Von 0 auf 100 in 5 Jahren – People Growth meisternWie meistert man People Growth in der heutigen Zeit?
Wir selbst sind mit Circula in den letzten 5 Jahren auf über 100 Mitarbeitende gewachsen. Allein in den letzten 12 Monaten haben wir uns fast verdreifacht. Alle ins Boot holen, Entscheidungen treffen, einen gemeinsamen Rhythmus finden, die Kultur voranbringen – das war alles andere als einfach. Für mich als Co-Founder bedeutete es vor allem, Verantwortung abzugeben und neue Strukturen zu schaffen.
In der Podcast-Folge teile ich mit euch, was meiner Meinung nach die Basis fĂĽr Wachstum ist und was mir bei der internen Umstellung geholfen hat. Ihr bekommt auch...
2022-11-1714 min
Changelog InterviewsBuilding Reflect at seaThis week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa...
2022-08-281h 24The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceBuilding Reflect at sea (Interview)This week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa...
2022-08-281h 24
Changelog Master FeedBuilding Reflect at sea (The Changelog #503)This week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clerabit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa...
2022-08-281h 24
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.Ep. 243 How I Raised It with Richard White of Fathom.videoProduced by Foundersuite (www.foundersuite.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital. This episode is with Richard White, CEO of Fathom (www.fathom.video), an app that plugs into Zoom and helps you recall and share important moments from your meetings.
In this episode, we talk about his previous company Uservoice, the pros and cons of strategic investors (in his case, Zoom invested in Fathom), why he raised funds from 90 investors over multiple smaller rounds with no lead investors, why he decided to go through Y Combinator even though...
2022-08-2533 min
The VergecastWork from anywhere: sailboats, solar generators, and StarlinkDavid Pierce hosts a special "work from anywhere" episode of The Vergecast while he is on vacation.02:33 - CEO of Rove Jonah Hanig chats about his approach work-friendly travel. Reflect's Alex MacCaw shares his experience working from a sailboat in the middle of the ocean.17:12 - Verge deputy editor Thomas Ricker talks about his review of the Jackery Solar Generator 2000 Pro, as well as his experience of working remotely in Europe.36:28 - Verge policy editor Russell Brandom and senior reporter Loren Grush discuss the state of using satellites like Starlink to access the...
2022-08-031h 01
Fantastic FrameworksZone of Genius Alex MaccawA strength is anything that gives you energy.
A talent is an innate ability that can’t be taught. For example, a love of numbers.
A skill is a competency that can be taught. For example, knowing Excel back to front.
When all three are aligned, we are in our Zone of Genius.
2021-01-0402 min
This New WayHow to Find Your Zone of Genius with Alex MacCaw, CEO at ClearbitIn Episode #13, Alex MacCaw describes the frameworks and best practices that managers should adopt to constantly improve their leadership skills. We also talked about Clearbit’s impeccable agreements and how they can help you improve communication and collaboration across departments.
Clearbit is a San Francisco-based business intelligence company that has raised more than 17 million dollars in funding – and serves as the data backbone to thousands of businesses such as Slack, Stripe, Intercom, and Adroll. As the co-founder and CEO, Alex puts an immense focus on leadership and personal development. In fact, he recently announced Clearbit’s mission to beco...
2020-08-1341 min
Square One: Conversations with the Best in Business63: Alex MacCaw, Founder and CEO of ClearbitManagement principles are some of the easiest topics to discuss, but some of the most challenging to put into practice. The best managers and leaders have an art in making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive, that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. This week I was excited to have one of tech’s best thinkers on management principles come on the show. Alex MacCaw, CEO of Clearbit, has recently put out a book titled The Manager’s Handbook - in it he takes his experience as one of the first employees at Twit...
2020-07-3050 min
Village Global PodcastThe Art of Great Management with Alex MacCawAlex MacCaw (@maccaw), founder and CEO of Clearbit, joins Erik on this episode. He is a co-author of the book The Great CEO Within.They discuss:- The power of good management and the lack of a modern handbook for managers.- Why and how they treat interviewing and hiring as a science experiment.- What to know for a great reference check.- Managing conflict effectively.- Why you only really close a hire after the first ninety days of them working at your company....
2020-02-1152 min
Mission DailyEntrepreneurship as a Path Towards Self Actualization with Alex MacCaw, CEO of ClearbitToday, Chad is joined by Alex MacCaw, founder and CEO of Clearbit. Alex’s road to entrepreneurship was anything but conventional. Having taught himself programming at a young age, he dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to pursue a full-time career as a software engineer. Living in the London, Alex had intentions to get his visa and move to San Francisco to start his own company. But when he encountered a few roadblocks along the way, he took the opportunity to travel through south-east Asia and South America and wrote two successful books on programming along th...
2019-11-2150 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Clearbit Founder Alex MacCaw on How To Successfully Negotiate with Investors, What Value-Add Do VCs Really Bring & Why You Should Only Have Operators on Your BoardAlex MacCaw is the Founder & CEO @ Clearbit, the marketing data engine for all of your customer interactions, from customer understanding to prospect identification to personalising every sales and marketing interaction. To date, Alex has raised $17m in financing from some incredible people including Geoff Lewis @ Bedrock, Ash Fontana @ Zetta Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Battery Ventures and then former guest Ilya Sukhar, Naval Ravikant and Josh Buckley. Prior to founding Clearbit, Alex spent time in the engineering teams at both Twitter and Stripe. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Alex made his way from...
2019-09-1331 min
Indie Hackers#015 – Data-Driven Marketing and Sales with Alex MacCaw of ClearbitAlex MacCaw started Clearbit.com as a solo founder, and he's since grown it to millions of dollars in annual profit. Learn the marketing and sales techniques he's used to reach over 1000 customers.
2017-05-2456 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 084: Why Personalisation Is The Future Of Sales, The Benefits Of An Engineering Led Sales Team & Why Customers Pay A Premium For Predictability with Alex MacCaw, Founder & CEO @ ClearbitAlex MacCaw is the Founder & CEO @ Clearbit, the startup that is building a suite of business intelligence APIs to help companies find more information on their customers in order to increase sales and reduce fraud. They have backing from some of the best early stage investors including the likes of First Round Capital, SV Angel, Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe, Hubspot’s Dharmesh Shah and many more incredible investors. As for Alex, as well as being a fellow Brit who loves tea, he also worked at the likes of Twitter and Stripe prior to founding Clearbit. In Today’s Epis...
2016-12-1917 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 084: Why Personalisation Is The Future Of Sales, The Benefits Of An Engineering Led Sales Team & Why Customers Pay A Premium For Predictability with Alex MacCaw, Founder & CEO @ ClearbitAlex MacCaw is the Founder & CEO @ Clearbit, the startup that is building a suite of business intelligence APIs to help companies find more information on their customers in order to increase sales and reduce fraud. They have backing from some of the best early stage investors including the likes of First Round Capital, SV Angel, Intercom's Eoghan McCabe, Hubspot's Dharmesh Shah and many more incredible investors. As for Alex, as well as being a fellow Brit who loves tea, he also worked at the likes of Twitter and Stripe prior to founding Clearbit. In Today's Episode You...
2016-12-1917 min
SaaS Open Mic by ChartMogulSaaS Open Mic 06: Alex MacCaw - CEO, ClearbitSince launching in 2015, Clearbit has gone from strength-to-strength in their quest to be the definitive Business Intelligence infrastructure for businesses. In this chat, co-founder and CEO Alex MacCaw talks about his career in tech and engineering, including working for Stripe in the "early" days and travelling the world whilst writing his book on Javascript.
2016-02-2241 min
We Build SG LIVE004 JavaScript programming language and organizing awesome tech conferences with Thomas GorissenJavaScript programming language
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2013-10-0400 min
JavaScript Jabber077 JSJ Monocle with Alex MacCawPanelAlex MacCaw (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:13 - Going Rogue Video 02:12 - Alex MacCaw Introduction029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob Thornton JavaScript Web Applications: jQuery Developers' Guide to Moving State to the Client by Alex MacCaw The Little Book on CoffeeScript: The JavaScript Developer's Guide to Building Better Web Apps by Alex MacCaw 02:44 - MonocleAlternative for Hacker News 03:39 - SpeedAlex MacCaw: Time to first tweet sina...
2013-09-2750 minJavaScript Jabber076 JSJ Meteor.js with Marcus Phillips and Fred ZirdungPanelMarcus Phillips (twitter github) Fred Zirdung (twitter github) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:30 - Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung IntroductionHack Reactor 03:31 - Experience with Meteor 05:45 - Intro to MeteorClient-side Environment Tethered Queries minimongo 09:56 - Websockets 11:29 - Deployment Support 14:51 - The Cloud 16:43 - Meteor and Server-side JavaScript EnginesMeteor Devshop 7 - LIVE 19:48 - Meteor and Windows 22:43 - Package Management System 23:49 - Building Meteor Apps 29:04 - Meteor Methods 33:02 - Open-Source Meteor Apps 34...
2013-09-2050 min
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots56: Code in a Bubble Bath]In this episode Ben Orenstein is joined by Alex MacCaw, creator of Spine, formerly of Twitter, and now a developer at Stripe. Ben and Alex talk about travel, writing, code, and couch surfing.
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2013-07-0836 minJavaScript Jabber029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob ThorntonPanelAlex MacCaw (twitter github blog) Jacob Thornton (Fat) (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) DiscussionBower.js (web) Bower.js (twitter) Bower.js (github) SXSW Package managers ender-js BPM hem Benefits Small components Yeoman.io Browserify Dependencies Segmenting the community Transports Mozilla (github) Commands Building an actual package manager node.js Moving parts of a package manager Events Challenges Ember.js Mobile web application development Google Chrome apps Desktop apps in JavaScript PicksKershaw Ken On...
2012-10-0247 min
TechZing171: TZ Discussion - Interview with the UnicornJustin and Jason discuss how Justin's apartment almost burned down and how he sold his house in the UK, the television shows Fringe, Prophets of Science Fiction, Bloomberg Game Changers and the movie Limitless, the progress being made on AnyFu and the challenge of recruiting well-known experts, listener questions, the story of what happend to Jason's movie idea, the possibility of recurring donations and winning the iTunes review war with Startups for the Rest of Us, effective criticism, Alex MacCaw's new Ace framework (think Sinatra for Node.js), insight from Uber's most successful driver, the risk of premature generalization, how...
2012-02-221h 49
TechZing169: TZ Interview - Alex MacCawJustin and Jason talk to Alex MacCaw, author of JavaScript Web Applications, The Little Book on CoffeeScript, Spine.js and a bunch of other cool stuff.
2012-02-081h 00Changelog InterviewsSpine and Client-Side MVCWynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes:
Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter.
Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone.
Spine is written in CoffeeScript
Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine.
Alex sug...
2011-12-2023 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceSpine and Client-Side MVC (Interview)Wynn caught up with Alex MacCaw to talk about Spine, CoffeeScript, writing books, and working at Twitter.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes:
Alex MacCaw, O’Reilly writer and open source developer now working on the front-end for Twitter.
Spine Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications, inspired by Backbone.
Spine is written in CoffeeScript
Eco is Alex’s favorite client-side templating engine.
Alex sug...
2011-12-2023 min