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James Davies

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208 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

We share in the successes.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

We share in the losses.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

All together, it's really a family-oriented style business.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And we've had a lot of success there.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And we're blessed that a lot of our employees have been here for 15 plus years, which is unheard of in the tech business.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I think of scale from a number of different lenses.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

The first one that comes to mind is our product itself and how it scales for our customers.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Again, one of our customers is the Department of Defense in the US.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So they've got lots of users.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so can the product scale?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so luckily, I feel really comfortable with that, just given that our founders focused on scalability from the beginning and his engineering background.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So we have that one covered.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Word becomes somewhat...

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Not problematic, but difficult for us as a business to scale as each of our customers does something quite differently.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So each of them have different integrations to different tools and different user experiences that they're building and managing, keeping them on the latest releases, especially when they are customers typically are installing our software into their own environments, given their security concerns and the different systems are integrating with.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so what we've been trying to do is just standardize as much as possible the way that we implement our software, putting together best practices, enforcing some of those best practices in the tool to help us scale so that we don't have to hire another person every time we add a customer, which is certainly not the case.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

But we recognize if we kept going down the road that we were with everyone's bespoke, that we wouldn't be able to scale.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So it's something that we actively address by mostly standardization, some product changes.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

to reduce headaches so that our customers can stay on latest versions of our tool, even though they can build their own worlds on top of our tool.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

It's an easy one for me, but it is one I touched on already.