094 - Producing Software with Virginia Murdoch

Jacky Winter Gives You The Business

This week, it’s all about Producing Software, and we're over the moon to say that we’re joined by the fantastic Virginia Murdoch.

Virginia is the Director of Product at Culture Amp — a Melbourne HR startup that provides employee feedback technology that helps their 2,500 customers in 47 countries transform, maintain and scale positive company culture. Founded in 2009, Culture Amp has since expanded its offices to San Francisco, New York and London, with 400 staff members globally, and just this past September they raised $82 million US dollars in Series E funding. Impressive. Just as impressive is Virginia herself — now 3 years in at Culture Amp, she previously ran her own web agency, Inventive Labs, which along with doing lots of work for local booksellers and publishers (like Readings and Scribe), also created a number of the early iterations of the Jacky Winter website! She and her team built Book.ish, a product that allowed people to read ebooks in their web browsers, before selling the company to OverDrive, where Virginia then headed to serve as their product manager for a few years. She’s also on the board of the not-for-profit group Women and Mentoring, which provides support to women who are coming into contact with the justice system; helping them stay on track and avoid custodial sentences.

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Intro

Culture Amp
https://www.cultureamp.com/

OverDrive
https://www.overdrive.com/

Women and Mentoring
http://womenandmentoring.org.au/

Interview with Virginia Murdoch

Basecamp – Shape Up
https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Slack
https://slack.com/intl/en-au/

Google suite
https://gsuite.google.com/

Zoom video conferencing
https://zoom.us/

Corvid
https://www.corv.id/

Todoist
https://todoist.com/?lang=en

Open Tabs

Obey Gantt - Jeremy
https://obeygantt.com/

Upwork - Lara
https://www.upwork.com/

Impeachment.fyi - Virginia
https://www.impeachment.fyi/
(https://www.fastcompany.com/90219582/this-company-hired-anyone-who-applied-now-its-starting-a-movement)

Virginia’s Socials

Virginia’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/virginia

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