Episode 440 | Ole Dallerup - Proving the Value

Guest:

Ole Dallerup

@oledallerup

Ole Dallerup talks with Dave Rael about money and value, tech cultures, balance, and scale

Today Ole is the CTO and cofounder of Dreamdata.io. A product which he discovered during his time leading technology at Trustpilot, one of the world's biggest review sites. At Trustpilot he grew the technology team from 3 to more than 100 full-time tech-people across 2 locations. Building a techstack that handled massive loads such as 2 billion monthly widget impressions and more than 50 billion monthly API calls, while growing the annual revenue to $50M. Having enabled product growth to billions of monthly interactions he is an experienced technology leader born in the cloud and ready to scale. Formerly Ole was also a founding technology advisory board member at Apigee (acquired by Google Cloud in 2016).

Chapters: 0:15 - Dave introduces the show and Ole Dallerup3:14 - Scaling systems and scaling teams5:58 - Ole on being both technical and people-oriented9:21 - Mentors and mentoring11:43 - The genesis and nature of Dreamdata16:20 - Money as value20:14 - Managing for the scale you need21:50 - Ole's story of failure - emotional attachment to a product without proven value25:34 - Ole's advice for proving value30:18 - Ole's advice for overcoming your own bias toward thinking your idea is valuable32:49 - Fostering productive cultures37:44 - Ole's book recommendation41:47 - Ole on work and life, balance and taking breaks43:52 - Ole's top 3 tips for delivering more value47:21 - Keeping up with Ole

Resources: Ole on LinkedIn Dreamdata.io Trustpilot The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) - Frederick P. Brooks Jr. The shutdown of Google Reader TechCrunch The Dreamdata newsletter

Ole's book recommendation: INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan

Ole's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Speed - Move faster (by finding shortcuts) Be cross-functional Value diverse teams