

MarsBased podcast - Life on Mars
MarsBased
MarsBased podcast - Life on Mars is your go-to space for technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.Brought to you by MarsBased, a high-end development consultancy specializing in Ruby, JavaScript, and Python. If you are a software engineer, you can expect deep dives into tech, but we go far beyond the code. We share our first-hand expertise on remote work, company culture, management, and digital transformation based on our journey building a successful lifestyle business.Every two weeks, we sit down with the best founders, investors, experts, and celebrities from across the galaxy to hear their stories. After years of investing heavily in the startup and tech communities in Barcelona and worldwide, we are bringing that same value to you through this channel.Follow us to join our journey! 🚀
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May 30, 2020 • 1h 2min
002 - Choosing technologies for your new company, with Jordi Miró (ex-CTO @ RakutenTV)
Going back a couple years, we recover this interview from one of our first Martian Tech Talk events, with our friend Jordi Miró, who had just quit his job at RakutenTV (formerly known as WuakiTV before the acquisition by the Rakuten group) and was creating his new company, Lernin Games. For this new venture, Jordi had to go back to coding, so we talked about how to pick the right technologies for a company, both in startups and in big corporations, how to deal with legacy code, how to build teams of developers and keep them engaged through different technological cycles, pair programming, Ruby on Rails, native mobile apps vs hybrid and more.Support the show🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/

May 30, 2020 • 1h 3min
001 - How to do remote work the right way, with Sergio Gago (EVP @ Naviga Global)
Affected by COVID-19, everyone has been forced to go remote, so we thought we'd bring one of our best friends in the industry and a person that has been working remotely for as long as he can remember. In this episode, we talk about how to do remote work, how to deal with your employees/managers/colleagues/clients/etc, an overview of the tools required to do this transition, how to do things and how NOT to do things, and much more. Sergio Gago has been a CTO in companies like Rakuten, Tangelo Games, Zinio and now is EVP Technology at Naviga, the company delivering the broadest range of technology solutions for the global news media industry, including content management, digital advertising, circulation & audience relationship management. Sergio has also built his own businesses, including a development consultancy and a scuba diving portal while he was living the nomadic life around the planet, and has published two books, in Spanish, about how to live like a nomad, long before the trend began around these parts of the world.Support the show🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/

May 30, 2020 • 43min
003 - How to grow your Chrome Add-on into a business, with Eduardo Manchón (CEO @ Mailtrack)
In this episode, Mailtrack's CEO Eduardo Manchón explains how he is hacking his way up from being a simple Chrome add-on to a full-fledged email tracking company with a most profitable business, bleeding-edge technology and tips on growth-hacking.Support the show🎬 You can watch the video of this episode on the Life on Mars podcast website: https://podcast.marsbased.com/


