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Life on Mars - A podcast from MarsBased

Welcome to Life on Mars! A podcast about technology, entrepreneurship and innovation from MarsBased. You will listen to stories of the best founders, investors, experts and celebrities from all around the galaxy every two weeks.

Business Development Management Technology Entrepreneurship Innovation
Update frequency
every 13 days
Average duration
52 minutes
Episodes
99
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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039 - Facebook is down! What to do when my platform goes down?

039 - Facebook is down! What to do when my platform goes down?

For six hours, Facebook and some related services, like Whatsapp and Instagram, disconnected themselves off the internet.

The whole world turned to Twitter and to other similar services, taking them d…

00:54:42  |   Tue 12 Oct 2021
038 - Hiring and managing developers, with Xavier Redó (MarsBased) & Laura González (Schibsted)

038 - Hiring and managing developers, with Xavier Redó (MarsBased) & Laura González (Schibsted)

One more episode remembering conversations from other events to kick off the new season of Life on Mars.

We're bringing back the panel we hosted on our Startup Grind Tech 2019 Conference with our CTO …

00:43:45  |   Sat 25 Sep 2021
037 - New season of Life on Mars!

037 - New season of Life on Mars!

In this episode, our CEO Àlex talks at length about the new season of Life on Mars and all the changes that come with it.

It is a symbolic change, not a full season change, so you won't see a differen…

00:31:43  |   Wed 15 Sep 2021
036 - Hiring and growing an AI team in Barcelona, with Elisenda Bou (CTO @ Vilynx)

036 - Hiring and growing an AI team in Barcelona, with Elisenda Bou (CTO @ Vilynx)

For this last summer edition of Life on Mars, we're going all the way back to October 2018, when we hosted Elisenda Bou (CTO & Co-founder of Vilynx) at Startup Grind Barcelona.

We usually don't host C…

00:52:23  |   Mon 30 Aug 2021
035 - Choosing technologies and technical co-founders, with Dorion Carroll (CTO/CIO @ Zynga)

035 - Choosing technologies and technical co-founders, with Dorion Carroll (CTO/CIO @ Zynga)

We're repurposing an old (but still rings true today!) fireside chat we hosted at IronHack Barcelona in March 2017 with our good friend Dorion Carroll.

Dorion had just quit his role as CTO/CIO at Zyng…

00:57:07  |   Mon 16 Aug 2021
034 - Interview with Àlex at itnig!

034 - Interview with Àlex at itnig!

For this episode, we'd like to share a small interview with Àlex, our CEO, at an investors pitch event hosted by our friends at itnig.

This time around, Àlex is the guest, while Bernat Farrero (Co-fou…

00:17:46  |   Mon 02 Aug 2021
033 - How tech can prevent sexual harassment at work, with Eleanor Manley (CTO @ Metta Space)

033 - How tech can prevent sexual harassment at work, with Eleanor Manley (CTO @ Metta Space)

Studies show that over 50% of people have experienced sexual harassment at work, and even a bigger amount of people have witnessed it.

We can't operate in business without acknowledging this and doing…

00:48:36  |   Mon 19 Jul 2021
032 - Building a CMS from scratch, with Didier Lafforgue (LocomotiveCMS)

032 - Building a CMS from scratch, with Didier Lafforgue (LocomotiveCMS)

We had the pleasure of hosting Didier Lafforgue, creator of LocomotiveCMS and CEO of the development agency NoCoffee.

In 2016, we compared all the Ruby on Rails-powered CMS systems out there to pick o…

01:03:12  |   Mon 05 Jul 2021
031 - Seven years of MarsBased - Q&A with the founders

031 - Seven years of MarsBased - Q&A with the founders

We wanted to celebrate our seven years as a company with a very special episode. Seven freaking years, already.

We decided to take questions from the community, our closest friends and colleagues from…

00:54:29  |   Mon 21 Jun 2021
030 - Dissecting TwilioQuest (product, tech & community), with Chiara Massironi and Kevin Whinnery

030 - Dissecting TwilioQuest (product, tech & community), with Chiara Massironi and Kevin Whinnery

Pixel art, dial-up modem sounds, 8-bit fantasy, RPG-like environments and tasks, retro music and HUGE loads of nostalgia. Does this sound appealing? This is what the folks at Twilio used to build the…

00:55:52  |   Mon 07 Jun 2021
029 - How to get into angel investing, with Liz Dunn Carroll

029 - How to get into angel investing, with Liz Dunn Carroll

Liz Dunn Carroll has spent big part of her life working in technology corporations and high-growth startups in Silicon Valley, like Technorati, Pandora or Verizon on the Product and Innovation areas.

00:56:24  |   Tue 25 May 2021
028 - Data at scale, with Jorge Gómez Sancha (Co-founder of TinyBird)

028 - Data at scale, with Jorge Gómez Sancha (Co-founder of TinyBird)

Data, data, data and data. Millions of companies are generating more and more data every day, while others are focused on treating it or storing it. And while, generally speaking, dealing with data a…

01:01:56  |   Mon 10 May 2021
027 - Why is adtech broken? - with Nandini Jammi (Check My Ads)

027 - Why is adtech broken? - with Nandini Jammi (Check My Ads)

Companies are spending a fucktonne of money in marketing, and more specifically in ads, mostly on the main platforms like Google and/or Facebook. However, these platforms act like a black box. You ha…

00:55:45  |   Mon 26 Apr 2021
026 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 2), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)

026 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 2), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)

No one reads podcast episode descriptions, so let's rehash the one from part 1 and add a bit of Lorem Ipsum text to see if anyone notices.

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01:00:41  |   Mon 12 Apr 2021
025 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 1), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)

025 - What to do when you're approached by a buyer (part 1), with Mike Counihan (Transcend Partners)

Company sales: the miracle all entrepreneurs and business owners aspire to, mostly because we're bombarded every day with company exits news, and articles about serial entrepreneurs selling their 14t…

01:04:43  |   Mon 29 Mar 2021
024 - The role of Developer Relations in tech companies, with Ana Cidre (auth0)

024 - The role of Developer Relations in tech companies, with Ana Cidre (auth0)

In this episode, we hosted Ana Cidre (Senior Developer Advocate at auth0) to talk about the role of Developer Relations in tech companies.

Developer advocates, tech evangelists, developer relations an…

00:55:17  |   Mon 15 Mar 2021
023 - Leadership & communication in difficult times, with Pere Vallés (CEO @ Exoticca)

023 - Leadership & communication in difficult times, with Pere Vallés (CEO @ Exoticca)

The last twelve to fifteen months have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many. The COVID-19 pandemic brought several industries to a halt and forced many businesses to shut down. Suffice to sa…

00:54:06  |   Mon 01 Mar 2021
022 - Stonks, Elon Musk, Gamestop, Doge, tech journalism and... metal! with Alex Wilhelm (TechCrunch)

022 - Stonks, Elon Musk, Gamestop, Doge, tech journalism and... metal! with Alex Wilhelm (TechCrunch)

The last few weeks have been crazy on the stock market, or should we say "stonks" market? The WallStreetBets movement against hedge funds, making GameStop skyrocket to an unthinkable price per share,…

01:00:00  |   Mon 15 Feb 2021
021 - From CTO of TaskRabbit to founding a B2B open-source project, with Brian Leonard (CEO @ Grouparoo)

021 - From CTO of TaskRabbit to founding a B2B open-source project, with Brian Leonard (CEO @ Grouparoo)

Brian Leonard co-founded the B2C startup TaskRabbit in 2009 and built its initial prototype coding it in Ruby on Rails, one of our preferred development frameworks.

TaskRabbit went on to grow until it…
01:01:31  |   Mon 01 Feb 2021
020 -  Choosing the tech stack and taking technological decisions, with Pau Ramon (CTO @ Factorial)

020 - Choosing the tech stack and taking technological decisions, with Pau Ramon (CTO @ Factorial)

Pau Ramon has been spearheading the technical department of two of the hottest Barcelona-based startups of the last years: Redbooth (previously known as TeamBox) and Factorial.

We've invited Pau to ta…

00:49:32  |   Tue 19 Jan 2021
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