Low Code Legends: 5 minutes with Ben Tossell, founder of MakerPad

In this episode Peggy and John chat about Peggy's new report on the State of Low Code: what's coming, what she's seeing, and the different low and no code are making for both startups and established businesses ...

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Edmund Amoye and Lee Launches. Edmund is chief of community at TheOrbit; Lee is a freelance motion designer. Together, they have built MyLaunchStash, a platform for creators to share affiliate links. In other words, a platform that is built with low code and no code tools, for the low code and no code community. Very meta, but also very cool. They are both passionate and committed members of the low/no code community, and explain powerfully and emotionally how they've learned and grown as a result of the community, and how they want to give back.

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Dan Parry. Dan is one of the co-founders of a customer research company he founded along with his brother. He's had a varied career starting off by doing IT Support, moved in copywriting at advertising companies, then started a music tech company and a development company to bootstrap the music tech business. While being Head of Product at Tectonic, Dan is also the founder of Wellos – a platform to help creative wellbeing professionals monetize their audience, and CNTO of Evermind – a platform to help people get affordable mental health services from therapists around the world.

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Oleg Oksyuk. While working in startups on the engineering side I created cool things like Adobe Flash Player for Embedded Linux and MPEG/H264 Video Streaming with Fast Forward and Rewind without bitrate increase (according to Apple engineers that was impossible). Then I started to found startups and switched to the business side with many ideas that failed after fast trials of 2-6 months (including Ethereal Lite - Create art with your bare fingers in the air) and modest success in LiveExpert (an expert advice marketplace). I've been working on AllRight, an online English School for kids for the last 4 years, where I've built the team to 80 people ... not counting 700 teachers.

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Madhuri Maram. Madhuri is a a co-founder at Xperian, an ecosystem for makers. She has 8 years of experience in design and started out as a UI Designer. She slowly fell in love with HCI, exploring the UI side first. Then she graduated to handle UX and Product Design and finally Product Management. Now she is choosing her "second innings," to be fully dedicated to no-code solutions. Madhuri loves problem solving, putting together a solution quickly. She describers herself as "lazy," and hence looks for ingenious ways of solving problems. She loves to tinker. She has a zillion ideas in her head at all times and is also a fan of the startup world. So, putting together ideas + tinkering and trends is something she genuinely loves.

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Mike Kotlov. Mike Kotlov is the CEO of IntellectoKids, a developer of educational apps and games for kids aged 3-7, which he founded in 2017. He previously founded Camopulse, a social networking app for teenagers, in 2013, and prior to that, had a background in investment banking.

This is Low Code Legends: quick hits with top people in low and no code. Today: Ben Tossell. Ben Tossell is the founder of MakerPad, a two-year-old no-code education and networking platform with more than 2,500 members. He's also an investor in early stage low- and no-code tools through the rolling MakerPad Fund, which he launched last year. Previously, he was head of platform at Earnest Capital, a provider of early-stage funding to internet entrepreneurs. MakerPad was recently acquired by Zapier.

Can low code help you build tools out of molten metal? Today, we’re chatting with an amazing leader from an amazing company ... one with literally 115 years of history inventing some of the most critical technologies we use today. The company is Xerox ... one of the few whose name became a verb. Xerox literally invented modern computing -- think the mouse, or WYSIWYG --  and now they’re re-inventing manufacturing, among other things. And guess what: low code and no code are helping. In this episode of Low Code Ninjas, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier talk to the head of innovation marketing at Xerox, Momin Mirza, and Riad Lemhachheche, VP of business development at FollowAnalytics.

Low Code Legends is our "5 minutes with" segment at Low Code Ninjas, highlighting the best and brightest in low and no code. Today, Lacey Kesler! Lacey Kesler is currently head of education at Adalo, a provider of no-code app building software. She's also the founder of Women in No Code, a collective providing resources, education and networking for women in visual development, and a co-founder of Visual Dev School a no-code education/training platform, where she is an instructor and co-hosts the Visual Developers Podcast.

Low Code Legends is a series of Low Code Ninja shorts: 5-minute episodes featuring legends in the low and no-code industry. In this episode we feature Sandro Munda. Munda is the CEO of Forest Admin, a SaaS provider of low code, stack agnostic admin panels for web apps, which he founded in 2015. Previously, he was a software engineer for several tech startups, most recently eFounders, and has an extensive background as a freelance developer