Staying Calm with Duffie Cooley

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Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and life advice from one of the kindest people in the industry.

Links

Unfortunately, we don't have links for most of the companies Duffie talks about because they've all been acquired. CoreOS, Heptio, and Isovalent are all either gone or part of bigger companies now.

• CoreOS -> Red Hat -> IBM
• Heptio -> VMware -> Broadcom
• Isovalent -> Cisco

Thankfully the Isovalent products are still going strong. Check them out at isovalent.com