John Samuelson

Co-Founder & CTO, ScatterSpoke · 2 appearances on the record.

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John Samuelson co-founded ScatterSpoke alongside Colleen Johnson to turn agile retrospectives and developer metrics into actionable insights for engineering teams. Supported by TinySeed and Atlassian Ventures, the company serves software organizations across multiple enterprises.

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Opinion

Samuelson: European developers are less whiny than US developers

“I've found developers in Europe especially just seem to Not be so whiny, just to put it blunt”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 23:10 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

Insight

Engineering tool purchasing power sits with directors, not developers

“Most software engineers are not the person that can swipe the credit card and engineering managers can, but we see it sometimes usually goes up to directors of engineering that are usually like, yep, I approve because they usually own a budget.”

John Samuelson Oct 13, 2020 ▶ 18:38 Episode 518 | A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke

Disclosure

Samuelson: Enterprise features for ScatterSpoke unexpectedly boosted small team conversions

“We built a bunch of custom features for that big enterprise client. Those features now work for all of our small teams just as well, right? So we built these enterprise grade features for these guys that wanted them, and it's actually helped the smaller end fu…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 13:26 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

Insight

Samuelson: Side-hustle founder guilt is a heavier burden than long hours

“The biggest thing to me is I can work long hours. I can work hard. That's just part of who I am, but it's more of a guilt problem to me. And what I mean by that is, like, if I'm not at my W-II job, and I'm at home, and it's a Saturday, and I take four hours to…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 17:37 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

Insight

Samuelson: Technical founders must accept imperfect code to scale

“You cannot Hold everybody to your standards, and at the end of the day, and after being an engineer for many years, it doesn't matter if, you know, the buttons work. There's so many big systems are built with duct tape, and they work, so you gotta get over tha…”

John Samuelson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 25:01 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

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Insight

Johnson: Early maker mindset caused ScatterSpoke to overreact to user feedback

“I think in some ways being kind of a maker project hurt us early on. We, you know, John was excited to try out new technology and I was so close to the teams using it that every time we heard feedback about the simplest thing, we tried to go implement that or …”

Colleen Johnson Oct 6, 2020 ▶ 5:56 Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Episode 518 \| A Live LinkedIn Ads Consult with Anthony Blatner and Scatterspoke	Oct 13, 2020	12m
Episode 517 \| Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product	Oct 6, 2020	7m

John Samuelson

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