Taylor Otwell: the business of Laravel in 2022

Taylor Otwell, is the founder of Laravel, a programming framework
for PHP. But he's also one of the most successful indie SaaS
operators I know. In this episode we discuss:


0:30 – Taylor is changing how he hires and manages people at
Laravel

6:01 – How Taylor is finding new employees to work on Forge,
Vapor, and his other products

7:34 – The Laravel ecosystem has incubated incredible talent:
Miguel Piedrafita, Caleb Porzio, Adam Wathan, Aaron Francis, Jack
Ellis...

10:03 – More and more indie SaaS apps are being built in
Laravel

10:48 – When is the next Laracon conference?

13:11 – Taylor Otwell has the classic bootstrap success story

14:28 – Laravel has been running too lean

17:00 – What's it like to work as a developer at Laravel?
(pair programming)

18:33 – How Taylor does product development

22:08 – "I haven't told anyone this yet, but I actually
considered selling Laravel this past year." Here's why Taylor
decided not to sell.

26:30 – How do you deal with internet fame, and being a
"known person?" 

28:59 – Dealing with haters on Twitter

31:50 – What is the future of web development, and the
full-stack developer? What is the future of Ruby on Rails and
Laravel?

35:53 – Building excitement around PHP and Laravel with young
people.

42:13 – What inspires kids to get into programming? When it's
fun, easy, accessible. This is why so many people started with
Hypercard, Microsoft Access, PHP, Adobe Flash...



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