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Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | TechnologyBuilding, Backing & Scaling in an AI-Native World with Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner @ AlleyCorpIn this episode we are joined by Kenneth Auchenberg, Partner at AlleyCorp — one of New York’s most prolific early-stage funds known for incubating companies like MongoDB, Business Insider, and Radical AI.Kenneth’s journey from coding at 16 in Copenhagen to shaping global developer ecosystems at Stripe and Microsoft gives him a unique lens into the next generation of software businesses — and the rise of AI agents.💥 In this episode, we dive into:🤖 Why “agentic” workflows are changing everything — and how founders should rethink UX, infrastructure, and pricing 🚀 The n...
2025-09-1047 min
Convergence.fmBest Of Convergence: Crafting "Surprisingly Great" Developer Experiences with Kenneth AuchenbergGreat developer experience isn't just about clean docs or helpful error messages—it's about intentionally delighting your user at every step. In this episode of Convergence.fm, host Ashok Sivanand is joined by Kenneth Auchenberg—former product leader at Microsoft and Stripe—for a masterclass on what it really takes to design and scale developer-centric platforms. The Convergence.fm podcast team is taking a break in the month of August, but we'll be back with new episodes in the fall. Until then, Ashok wants to share one of his favorite episodes. We'll be back in September with a new...
2025-08-0637 minConvergence.fmBuilding the Future of Platforms with AI & Dev Tools, Part 2 of my Interview with Kenneth AuchenbergIn this episode, Ashok Sivanand sits down with Kenneth Auchenberg to explore the intricacies of creating exceptional developer experiences. Kenneth shares his extensive knowledge on designing and delivering tools that developers love, drawing from his work at industry giants like Microsoft and Stripe. They dive into the distinctions between infrastructure and platform companies, and the roles of developer experience (DevEx) versus developer relations (DevRel). Ashok and Kenneth also discuss the future of platforms, especially in the context of AI and generative AI, and how these technologies are transforming product development. Kenneth offers practical insights on using abstraction...
2024-07-0248 minConvergence.fmCrafting "Surprisingly Great" Developer Experiences with Kenneth AuchenbergIn this episode, Ashok Sivanand talks with Kenneth Auchenberg whose history with Microsoft and Stripe taught him a lot about building exceptional developer experiences. Kenneth shares his journey discusses the core principles that drive successful developer-centric products. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the differences between infrastructure and platform companies, highlighting that true platforms generate compounded economic value and foster thriving ecosystems. Kenneth also discusses the transition from single-product offerings to comprehensive platforms, stressing the strategic necessity of relinquishing control in certain areas to enable broader ecosystem participation. Kenneth shares practical strategies for measuring and enhancing developer...
2024-06-2536 min
The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices#70 - Building a Career In Developer Tools, with Kenneth Auchenberg
Today, you're in for a treat as I sit down with Kenneth Auchenberg, a seasoned product manager - you might know him from his work at Microsoft on Visual Studio Code as well as on developer tools at Stripe. He is also a developer and overall a very nice person to know. Kenneth brings a wealth of experience to the table, especially when it comes to navigating the ins and outs of product management, shaping a career around developer tools, and trying his hand at angel investing.
In our conversation, we'll dive deep into the developer-centric aspects...
2023-12-3147 min
Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform EngineeringDeveloper Experience Infrastructure (DXI)In your company, who designs the end-to-end developer experience? From design to implementation, what is the developer experience that you actually ship? Even though the average developer wastes almost half of their working hours because of bad DX, many of us don’t even know what that means, or how to improve it.
Kenneth Auchenberg is working at Stripe, building economic infrastructure for the internet. Gerhard found his perspective on Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) refreshingly simple, as well as very useful.
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2022-11-181h 05Changelog Master FeedDeveloper Experience Infrastructure (DXI) (Ship It! #79)In your company, who designs the end-to-end developer experience? From design to implementation, what is the developer experience that you actually ship? Even though the average developer wastes almost half of their working hours because of bad DX, many of us don’t even know what that means, or how to improve it.
Kenneth Auchenberg is working at Stripe, building economic infrastructure for the internet. Gerhard found his perspective on Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) refreshingly simple, as well as very useful.
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2022-11-181h 05
The Web Platform Podcast183: Web Standards, DevTools, and Browser Preview for Visual Studio CodeSince Visual Studio Code burst onto the code editor scene, the steady improvements have made a number of web-related development tasks easier to handle. In this episode, we speak with web standards contributor and PM on the Visual Studio Code Kenneth Auchenberg (@auchenberg) on a wide range of topics. From VS Code's beginnings and current open source model, to Kenneth's recent experiments with Chrome headless in VS Code via browser-preview extension, this is an episode not to miss. Visit the website for This Week in Web, resources & more: https://thewebplatformpodcast.com/183-visual-studio-code Follow The Web...
2019-02-0700 min
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 31: Microsoft
Drew and James open the show with a plug for a cool job, a short discussion on a recent company acquisition, and some reflection on an extraordinary event that they went to on Friday. This weeks guest is Kenneth Auchenberg, a Program Manager at Microsoft. Interview starts at 0:27:53.
We have a very timely guest this week. If you haven't heard, Microsoft recently opened their new downtown office. We are happy to have Kenneth Auchenberg on the show this week to talk about dev tools, Microsoft, open source, and all the fun things that are coming...
2016-06-201h 15
.NET Rocks!Fixing Websites with RemoteDebug with Kenneth AuchenbergHow do you debug browser problems in your web apps? Carl and Richard talk to Kenneth Auchenberg about RemoteDebug, an open source tool to bring a common debugging solution across browsers. And Ken really means across browsers - you can connect Chrome, Opera, FireFox, Safari and Internet Explorer up simultaneously and see how your code changes affect the rendering of your page on all those browsers at the same time! Oh, and it works for mobile browsers also, so you can experiment with rendering on multiple phones at once, and see how the pages really look while you make changes...
2015-07-1546 min
UpgradeTap the EllipsesThe pros and cons of Apple’s relationship with the web development community, our first week with Apple Music and Beats 1, Jason doesn’t go to Comic-Con, and the first Upgrade Baby is born.
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2015-07-061h 32