#893 From 2 Guys in a Garage to 700 Employees with Scott Henderson, CTO & Co-founder at Celigo

He walked away from a cushy job to build products in his garage. Here’s how he made it work.

Today, we're talking to Scott Henderson, CTO and Co-founder at Celigo. We discuss why AI needs minimal autonomy instead of maximum freedom, how the future of SaaS is chat-to-validate rather than click-to-execute, and why the most expensive AI mistake is adopting it too slowly rather than spending too much.

Thank you to Digital Ocean for sponsoring this episode. For simple cloud and powerful AI that’s built to scale, check out Digital Ocean here.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Celigo, check out their website here.

About Scott Henderson

Scott Henderson has worked in the enterprise software space since 2003, focusing largely on emerging technologies and applying them to business software integration problems.

Scott was Celigo’s first engineer and has since led the company through multiple technology shifts. Scott is responsible for Celigo’s product engineering operations along with Celigo’s product technology strategy, and oversees a global engineering force driving Celigo’s development and innovation.

Scott holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

About Celigo

The Celigo platform is a world-class integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows IT and line of business teams alike to automate both common and custom business processes, enabling the entire organization to be more agile and innovate faster than ever before.