When Investors Come Calling with Paul Stovell
What happens when your company brings on investors? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Stovell about the recent investment made by Insight Partners into Octopus Deploy. Paul talks about how a great investment group brings important skills and insights to a company - not just money. The conversation also digs into deciding when to take investment, what new opportunities open up, and how the investment can affect the culture of the company - preferably for the better!
Guests:
Paul Stovell
Paul Stovell is the founder and CEO at Octopus Deploy, a DevOps automation software company which he started as a nights-and-weekends spare time project in 2011 and now employs 100+ people. Prior to Octopus, Paul was an independent contractor and consultant. Paul lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Links:
- Awesome Repositories https://github.com/pawelborkar/awesome-repos
- Octopus Deploy Investment Announcement https://octopus.com/blog/insight-investment
- Operations Runbooks in Octopus Deploy http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/676
- Octopus Deploy Handbook https://handbook.octopus.com/