Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind.

Why are the right values important for a company that changed the way the world builds software? How does pair programming help scale & maintain the company culture? What is it like to grow a company to 3000 employees over 30 years?

Today we have the privilege of Rob Mee, former CEO of Pivotal, the real home of Cloud Foundry and Concourse CI. Rob is now the CEO of Geometer.io, an incubator where Elixir is behind many great ideas executed well, including the US COVID response programme.

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Featuring:

• Rob Mee – Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• BBC News: The firm that starts work at 9.06am
• Cloud Foundry
• Concourse CI
• Pivotal IPO - 2018
• 🎧 Ship It! #9 - the one where we talk about the RabbitMQ Concourse CI pipeline
• 🎬 Panel discussion around startups, venture capital in the Erlang Ecosystem - Code BEAM America 2021

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!