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Fred Stevens-Smith is CEO of Rainforest QA, a no-code test automation platform for modern product teams. Rainforest was founded in 2012 during YC, and has raised over $40m while helping hundreds of startups improve their QA. Rainforest is a fully remote company, with 40 developers, designers and PMs all over the world. Fred is a nomad, heading to wherever the internet is good and the snow is plentiful!Connect with Behind Company Lines and HireOtter   Website   Facebook  Twitter LinkedIn:Behind Company LinesHireOtter  Instagram Buzzsprout 

Fred Stevens-Smith is CEO of Rainforest QA, a no-code test automation platform for modern product teams. Rainforest was founded in 2012 during YC, and has raised over $40m while helping hundreds of startups improve their QA. Rainforest is a fully remote company, with 40 developers, designers and PMs all over the world. Fred is a nomad, heading to wherever the internet is good and the snow is plentiful! Connect with Behind Company Lines and HireOtter <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.hireotter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/otteratyourservice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/hireotter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a></li> <li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/behind-company-lines/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Behind Company Lines</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/hireotter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HireOtter</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hireotter_/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li> <li><a href="https://behindcompanylines.buzzsprout.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buzzsprout</a></li> </ul>

Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest QA

Episode 49 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO at Rainforest QA This episode of Hacker Noon is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Discover why developers love DigitalOcean and get started with a free $50 credit at https://do.co/hackernoon In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO at Rainforest QA. In it is discussed quality assurance, automation and the threat to human jobs, and the ramifications for society.  "Most people don't really have the tools to understand how software really works. So it becomes this question like whether robots going to take my job or not?" - Fred Stevens-Smith Production and music by Derek Bernard - www.haberdasherband.com/production Host: Trent Lapinski - https://trentlapinski.com https://hackernoon.com/ https://community.hackernoon.com/ https://contribute.hackernoon.com/ https://sponsor.hackernoon.com/ https://podcast.hackernoon.com/ https://twitter.com/hackernoon/ https://facebook.com/hackernoon/

Episode 49 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO at Rainforest QA This episode of Hacker Noon is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Discover why developers love DigitalOcean and get started with a free $50 credit at <a href="https://do.co/hackernoon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://do.co/hackernoon</a> In this episode Trent Lapinski interviews Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO at Rainforest QA. In it is discussed quality assurance, automation and the threat to human jobs, and the ramifications for society.  "Most people don't really have the tools to understand how software really works. So it becomes this question like whether robots going to take my job or not?" - Fred Stevens-Smith Production and music by Derek Bernard - <a href="http://www.haberdasherband.com/production" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.haberdasherband.com/production</a> Host: Trent Lapinski - <a href="https://trentlapinski.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://trentlapinski.com</a> <a href="https://hackernoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hackernoon.com/</a> <a href="https://community.hackernoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://community.hackernoon.com/</a> <a href="https://contribute.hackernoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://contribute.hackernoon.com/</a> <a href="https://sponsor.hackernoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sponsor.hackernoon.com/</a> <a href="https://podcast.hackernoon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcast.hackernoon.com/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hackernoon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hackernoon/</a> <a href="https://facebook.com/hackernoon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/hackernoon/</a>

E49 - Quality Assurance and the Future of Society with Fred Stevens-Smith

In this episode, you’ll hear about:-Why Fred and his cofounder Russell decided to leave Europe and come to San Francisco to create their company -Fred’s family tradition that inspired him to think creatively about problems, even when he was a child-How Rainforest tries to incorporate diversity in its culture, and why it’s important not to reward office politics-Why working weekends doesn’t translate to more success, and why you have to always believe in your own approach -Why the main job of a founder is to endure the bulk of the stress for the company, and why employees shouldn’t always look to them for the right answers-Fred’s main motivator, and what success will look like for RainforestThough it’s a longer than normal episode, be sure to catch the end of the show. Fred shares two favorite startups (one of which is a future podcast interviewee!), and how his family’s iMac inspired Fred to be a designer.

In this episode, you’ll hear about: -Why Fred and his cofounder Russell decided to leave Europe and come to San Francisco to create their company  -Fred’s family tradition that inspired him to think creatively about problems, even when he was a child -How Rainforest tries to incorporate diversity in its culture, and why it’s important not to reward office politics -Why working weekends doesn’t translate to more success, and why you have to always believe in your own approach  -Why the main job of a founder is to endure the bulk of the stress for the company, and why employees shouldn’t always look to them for the right answers -Fred’s main motivator, and what success will look like for Rainforest Though it’s a longer than normal episode, be sure to catch the end of the show. Fred shares two favorite startups (one of which is a future podcast interviewee!), and how his family’s iMac inspired Fred to be a designer.

Episode 37: Fred Stevens-Smith, Rainforest QA

Fred Stevens-Smith is the Co-Founder &amp; CEO @ Rainforest QA, which if you listened to 20VC with Byron Deeter, you will remember he discussed them and their amazing trajectory. So for QA first, it is essentially QA as a service making it fast and easy to test your webapp in multiple browsers and they are backed by some of the best as we said there Byron Deeter @ Bessemer, our own Jason Lemkin, Y Combinator, previous guest Kris Duggan @ Betterworks and Marc Benioff just to name a few. As for Fred he is the man at the helm as Co-Founder &amp; CEO and absolutely smashing it I might add. In the show Fred mentions his favourite reading material to be Jason Lemkin and Aaron Ross’s new book From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hypergrowth Companies Create Predictable Revenue and if you have not read that, that is a must and can be found here! In Our Discussion with Fred You Will Learn:  How did Fred come to found Rainforest QA? What was his origin story to YC? How did Fred look to establish the pricing model with Rainforest? Why does Fred believe most software companies undervalue their software? What are the challenges of going upstream? How does it affect product? Sales cycle? Does Fred agree with Mark Organ that in a new category, the company CEO must be the category CMO? How much of a role does content play in Rainforest QA’s education funnel for customers? Why does Fred believe you should spend the most time with your best people? Similarly, the least amount of time with your worst people? How has Fred gone about building out the sales team? What did Fred look for in sales reps and Heads of Sales?  If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented you can follow us on Twitter here:  Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings Saastr Fred Stevens-Smith 

<a href="https://twitter.com/fredsters_s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fred Stevens-Smith</a> is the Co-Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="https://rainforestqa.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rainforest QA</a>, which if you listened to 20VC with Byron Deeter, you will remember he discussed them and their amazing trajectory. So for QA first, it is essentially QA as a service making it fast and easy to test your webapp in multiple browsers and they are backed by some of the best as we said there Byron Deeter @ Bessemer, our own Jason Lemkin, Y Combinator, previous guest Kris Duggan @ Betterworks and Marc Benioff just to name a few. As for Fred he is the man at the helm as Co-Founder &amp; CEO and absolutely smashing it I might add. In the show Fred mentions his favourite reading material to be Jason Lemkin and Aaron Ross’s new book <a href="http://amzn.to/29l3ngy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hypergrowth Companies Create Predictable Revenue</a> and if you have not read that, that is a must and can be found here! In Our Discussion with Fred You Will Learn: <ul> <li>How did Fred come to found Rainforest QA? What was his origin story to YC?</li> <li>How did Fred look to establish the pricing model with Rainforest? Why does Fred believe most software companies undervalue their software?</li> <li>What are the challenges of going upstream? How does it affect product? Sales cycle?</li> <li>Does Fred agree with Mark Organ that in a new category, the company CEO must be the category CMO? How much of a role does content play in Rainforest QA’s education funnel for customers?</li> <li>Why does Fred believe you should spend the most time with your best people? Similarly, the least amount of time with your worst people?</li> <li>How has Fred gone about building out the sales team? What did Fred look for in sales reps and Heads of Sales?</li> </ul> If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented you can follow us on Twitter here: <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/jasonlk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Lemkin</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry Stebbings</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/saastr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Saastr</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/fredsters_s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fred Stevens-Smith</a></li> </ul>

SaaStr 038: Rainforest QA's Fred Stevens-Smith on Firing Fast, The Transition From Founder To CEO & Why You Should Spend The Most Time with Your Highest Performers

An excellent podcast with the co-founder of Rainforest.

Fred Stevens-Smith, Co-Founder & CEO at Rainforest - Interview

Ilya Sukhar

I’m happy to share the first episode of Caveat Founder, Heavybit’s newest podcast. Caveat Founder is a regular series featuring founders sharing their experiences building developer facing companies. Gain insight into what it takes to build a successful developer facing company by hearing success (and failure) stories directly from founders themselves.In this inaugural episode, Ilya Sukhar and Fred Stevens-Smith talk through pricing challenges at developer facing companies, the type of investors developer facing companies should look for, and the sometimes difficult transition from Founder to CEO.The post  appeared first on Heavybit.

I’m happy to share the first episode of Caveat Founder, Heavybit’s newest podcast. Caveat Founder is a regular series featuring founders sharing their experiences building developer facing companies. Gain insight into what it takes to build a successful developer facing company by hearing success (and failure) stories directly from founders themselves.In this inaugural episode, Ilya Sukhar and Fred Stevens-Smith talk through pricing challenges at developer facing companies, the type of investors developer facing companies should look for, and the sometimes difficult transition from Founder to CEO.The post <a href="https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/caveat-founder/ep-1-ilya-sukhar-fred-stevens-smith" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.heavybit.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heavybit</a>.