1647 -Becoming More Technical with Growth Acceleration Partners’ Dave Moore
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audio
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Publication Date |
Aug 25, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:15:35
In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Chief Innovation Officer of Growth Acceleration Partners, Dave Moore. As the Chief Innovation Officer at Growth Acceleration Partners, Dave shared that his role is centered around failure. He emphasized that innovative companies tolerate failure and embrace and celebrate it. This approach involves testing and pushing limits in a controlled environment, not about making catastrophic mistakes. Dave works internally with teams to develop innovative solutions for customers and helps them implement these processes. Dave provided an insightful overview of Growth Acceleration Partners, a company that advises, designs, and builds custom software and data solutions. With a team of 600 people based in Austin, Texas, and engineers in Latin America, they help customers build a competitive advantage by providing engineering talent and expertise. Dave emphasized the benefits of the central time zone alignment with US-based customers and the high quality of engineers in the region. Their range of services is impressive, from long-term engagements for established companies to advisory services for startups, providing flexibility and scalability for their clients' software development needs.  

Key Points from the Episode:

  • Overview of Growth Acceleration Partners and its services
  • Advantages of working with a Latin America talent pool
  • Importance of technical knowledge for business owners in software development
  • Origins and growth of Growth Acceleration Partners
  • Current trends in the industry, particularly AI technology
  • Role of Chief Innovation Officer at Growth Acceleration Partners
  • Embracing failure and iterating on ideas
 

About Dave Moore:

Dave Moore is the Chief Innovation Officer at GAP, bringing over two decades of expertise as a software developer and architect keen on creating scalable cloud-based applications. He has led large engineering teams and developed applications utilized by millions of users. Before his role at GAP, Dave served as a consultant at IBM, assisting clients across various industries with public cloud adoption, modern software architectures, big data analytics, and fostering a DevSecOps culture. Dave's versatility shines as he effortlessly advises both C-suite executives on strategic technology challenges and engineers and architects in implementing groundbreaking solutions. He is also an accomplished author and frequent conference speaker, specializing in databases and application modernization. At GAP, Dave's primary goal is to help customers transform their applications and data to gain a competitive edge in the market. His wealth of experience makes him invaluable in driving innovation and technological advancement.  

About Growth Acceleration Partners:

Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) is a strategic technology solutions partner specializing in Digital Transformation through top-notch software and data engineering teams. With a focus on building lasting client partnerships, GAP combines extensive domain knowledge and deep technical expertise to deliver seamless, transparent processes and transformative results. Founded in 2007 by CEO Joyce Durst, GAP is driven by values and committed to fostering long-term success for individuals, companies, and communities. As an early advocate of the nearshoring model, GAP provides outsourced software development services from countries close to the U.S., ensuring geographical and cultural proximity. GAP excels in designing cutting-edge solutions using the latest cloud-based...
In this episode of the Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the Chief Innovation Officer of Growth Acceleration Partners, Dave Moore. As the Chief Innovation Officer at Growth Acceleration Partners, Dave shared that his role is centered around failure. He emphasized that innovative companies tolerate failure and embrace and celebrate it. This approach involves testing and pushing limits in a controlled environment, not about making catastrophic mistakes. Dave works internally with teams to develop innovative solutions for customers and helps them implement these processes. Dave provided an insightful overview of Growth Acceleration Partners, a company that advises, designs, and builds custom software and data solutions. With a team of 600 people based in Austin, Texas, and engineers in Latin America, they help customers build a competitive advantage by providing engineering talent and expertise. Dave emphasized the benefits of the central time zone alignment with US-based customers and the high quality of engineers in the region. Their range of services is impressive, from long-term engagements for established companies to advisory services for startups, providing flexibility and scalability for their clients' software development needs.  

Key Points from the Episode:

  • Overview of Growth Acceleration Partners and its services
  • Advantages of working with a Latin America talent pool
  • Importance of technical knowledge for business owners in software development
  • Origins and growth of Growth Acceleration Partners
  • Current trends in the industry, particularly AI technology
  • Role of Chief Innovation Officer at Growth Acceleration Partners
  • Embracing failure and iterating on ideas
 

About Dave Moore:

Dave Moore is the Chief Innovation Officer at GAP, bringing over two decades of expertise as a software developer and architect keen on creating scalable cloud-based applications. He has led large engineering teams and developed applications utilized by millions of users. Before his role at GAP, Dave served as a consultant at IBM, assisting clients across various industries with public cloud adoption, modern software architectures, big data analytics, and fostering a DevSecOps culture. Dave's versatility shines as he effortlessly advises both C-suite executives on strategic technology challenges and engineers and architects in implementing groundbreaking solutions. He is also an accomplished author and frequent conference speaker, specializing in databases and application modernization. At GAP, Dave's primary goal is to help customers transform their applications and data to gain a competitive edge in the market. His wealth of experience makes him invaluable in driving innovation and technological advancement.  

About Growth Acceleration Partners:

Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) is a strategic technology solutions partner specializing in Digital Transformation through top-notch software and data engineering teams. With a focus on building lasting client partnerships, GAP combines extensive domain knowledge and deep technical expertise to deliver seamless, transparent processes and transformative results. Founded in 2007 by CEO Joyce Durst, GAP is driven by values and committed to fostering long-term success for individuals, companies, and communities. As an early advocate of the nearshoring model, GAP provides outsourced software development services from countries close to the U.S., ensuring geographical and cultural proximity. GAP excels in designing cutting-edge solutions using the latest cloud-based technologies. Their agile, accountable, and customer-centric engineering teams contribute to one of the highest client satisfaction rates in the industry. GAP ensures continuous delivery with transparent communication by seamlessly integrating into clients' organizations. GAP's expertise helps businesses scale intelligently, converting objectives into data-driven decision-making and delivering software solutions that drive crucial business outcomes.  

Tweetable Moments:

02:33 - "The talent pool of engineers in Latin America is phenomenal, so we get really high marks on the quality of engineers that are helping solve customer problems. That's the big thing."  

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Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Want to learn more? Check out Growth Acceleration Partners website at https://www.growthaccelerationpartners.com/ Check out Growth Acceleration Partners on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/growth-acceleration-partners/ Check out Growth Acceleration Partners on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GrowthAccelerationPartners Check out Growth Acceleration Partners on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GAPapps Check out Dave Moore on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmoore/ Check out Dave Moore on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DAVE_M00RE Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time!  

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