Building and Scaling Developer Community for Startups with Google Cloud and Race Capital
Race Capital is proud to present How to Build and Scale Your Developer Communities for Startups with Priyanka Vergadia, the Developer Relations Lead at Google Cloud.
This event is for technical founders with developer communities around their products, open source contributors, and/or founders with product-led-sales GTM motions. Below are some of the topics we'll cover:
Topics we'll cover:
How to best reach out to developers in an authentic way
How to build Developer credibility
How do we best create demos that show value
Best practices for building, growing, and maintain developer communities
We'll also talk through some of the common challenges with developer led PLG motions including:
Just talking to developers sometimes the wrong level of "customer"
How to convert from developer ecosystem to "customers"
Making sure dev community matches customer ICP
Getting stuck talking to developers/people too similar to you
Dedicating the time and effort it takes to do developer community right
Speakers Include:
Priyanka Vergadia - Developer Relations Lead at Google Cloud
Priyanka Vergadia is an accomplished technologist with more than a decade of experience in cloud computing. She is a visual storyteller who has made a significant impact in the world of technology. As a Developer Relations Lead at Google Cloud, Priyanka has earned a reputation for creating engaging and visually stunning content for developers and technical practitioners alike. With her unparalleled ability to marry artistic skills with technical expertise, she has become one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the industry. In addition to her creative contributions, Priyanka is also an accomplished author. Her recently published book, “Visualizing Google Cloud,” has become a #1 Best Seller, further cementing her status as a leading authority on visual storytelling in the tech industry.
Priyanka holds a Master of Science degree in Computer and Information Technology from University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise and educational background have allowed her to create content that is not only visually stunning but also technically sound. She is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania MCIT online programs sharing her cloud computing practical expertise with the students.
She is a very well known Cloud Computing and technology evangelist, she has amassed an impressive following of over 100K followers across social media platforms.
Chris McCann - General Partner at Race Capital
Chris McCann is a general partner at Race Capital, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Figma, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others.
Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – one of the earliest technology focused email newsletters – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University. He also writes a newsletter covering the VC and technology sectors which reaches 25,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors on a weekly basis.
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, Vectara, PlayHT, and many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.