founders Creating an Open Source Culture Armory is commercializing the open source project Spinnaker, making it a "COSS" company. As Joseph Jacks puts it: COSS companies are fundamentally different from all other kinds of companies. Why? They create value
founders Counteracting the HiPPO problem with a Roundabout culture. There's a really interesting comment thread happening over in Hacker News right now, about a decision Gitlab made (and then reversed) to require users to accept telemetry in their offering without any option
founders Creating Magical Human Experiences, with Magic I was recently introduced to Magic, a virtual personal assistant, by Mike Chen, the CEO at a recent founder retreat. I'd signed up for Magic a month before on the recommendation of a
B2B Execs and Managers: An Engineer's perspective on Roundabout Culture Last night, I was in a Lyft with Brandon, one of Armory's engineers. For the past few months, Armory has had a very strong focus on creating a "Roundabout" vs. "Stoplight" culture. I
finance Should I take seed money from a large VC fund? A founder recently emailed me: Would love to pick your brain about this if you have a few minutes to spare. Let me know if you have 15 minutes to chat on the
The Hard Truth about Unlocking Innovation Another phrase for “innovation” is “learning what works.” But learning stems from failure. And failure means breakage of customer trust. Global 2,000 enterprises have an allergic reaction to breakage of customer trust.
founders Creating a Roundabout Culture As Armory continues to scale, we're crafting a "Roundabout, not Stoplight" culture because of Conway's law: I spend my days interacting with Global 2,000 CIOs who are trying to figure out how
Self DROdio .Readme Here's a primer on how to work with me effectively. Reading this will help you ramp up on my work style faster. I'd also very much like to read your "ReadMe" if we
B2B Powering the Third Industrial Revolution (aka Why I Go to Work Every Day) The benefit of being a founder is that you can dream outlandish things, and nobody's around to stop you. Now that Armory has grown up a bit, I'd like to share the outlandish
founders How Many Golf Balls Fit in a Bath Tub? I like to do a little exercise when I give a talk (like the one above), which is to ask the room how many golf balls fit in a bath tub. Not because
Self My Work, Parenting and Life Rules I've come up with a small set of rules that guide how I work, parent, and live. Here they are in no particular order: Working:Business runs on relationships, and relationships run on
Health My Peloton First Ride — and its Implications for the Fitness Industry In my recent Armory manifesto post I write about how entire industries are finding themselves competing with specific software-first companies. I believe Peloton will become one of these juggernauts in the health category.
B2B Armory's Manifesto This is a cross post from http://go.Armory.io/Manifesto . If you like this post you might also like my CEO Manifesto and the story behind our $10MM Series A fundraise. TL;
B2B Software dominates industries like the fire-breathing dragons in Game of Thrones The Game of Thrones season finale was tonight, and I thought this picture was a pretty apt analogy of the insurgent role software is starting to play in a business' ability to dominate
Ketosis Two Years in Ketosis: My Health Update I've been doing a longer experiment with ketosis for about two years now. I started naturally slipping into ketosis when I started intermittent fasting and found that I really loved the way it
DROdio's Bio I'm the CEO of Armory, a Series B funded startup in Silicon Valley that enables digital transformation for Global 2,000 enterprises. Our customers have a combined market cap of $1.52 trillion,
founders A great way to interview consumers I've never tried this myself, but I've heard it works extremely well -- and in fact, I'd love for someone to try this and then post a comment on this blog (ideally w/
founders Instrumenting a Startup: The Tools & Services We're Using to Start Armory When Isaac, Ben and I started Armory late last year, I found a lot has changed since starting my last startup, Socialize, in 2008. There's a suite of new tools available to instrument
Health A Step by Step Guide To Take Control of Your Body It just blows my mind how little we know about our bodies and how to keep them healthy. Most people I talk to aren't happy with the state of their bodies. They either
Software Software dominates industries like the fire breathing dragons in Game of Thrones The Game of Thrones season finale was tonight, and I thought this picture was a pretty apt analogy of the insurgent role software is starting to play in a business' ability to dominate
Matryoshka Doll Build Your Startup Like a Matryoshka Doll "Experience is what you get right after you need it." - James C. Wofford Armory is the startup I've always wanted to create. I'm applying everything I've learned over the past fifteen years
Mile Leverage The Last Mile One of my best "get things done" tricks: is that I focus on the "last mile" of whatever I'm doing. Here's a picture to illustrate what I mean: Most of the work went
Health What I've Learned After a Year of Prioritizing My Health When I turned 39 last year, I knew I was in trouble, and although I hadn't recognized quite how bad my health had gotten, I knew enough to realize I had to do
Ketogenic Beyond Fasting: The Ketogenic Rabbit Hole I'm about to take you down a deep rabbit hole, on a path that will challenge what you believe about nutrition and health. This is a journey of experimentation, and I encourage you
Performance 15 Month Performance Review: Betterment vs. Wealthfront vs. S&P500 vs. Other Options I wrote this post in August 2014 comparing Betterment to Wealthfront, so it's been about 15 months, and I thought it'd be a good time to check in on relative performance, as a
