#451 Why Are You Still Spinning Up Your Own Environments? with Tommy McClung, Co-Founder & CEO at Release

Today we’re talking to Tommy McClung, Co-Founder & CEO of Release. And we discuss how Tommy founded Release to solve the huge problem of quickly spinning up environments, why the best entrepreneurs are extremely persistent, and why being vulnerable goes a long way as a leader. 

All of this right here, right now, on the ModernCTO Podcast! 

To learn more about Release, check them out at https://releasehub.com

About Tommy McClung:

Tommy is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Releasehub, a YC, Sequoia and CRV backed Environment-as-a-Service company. Prior to that Tommy was the CTO and CPO for Truecar, where he managed the product and technology organizations of nearly 300 employees. Tommy joined TrueCar though the acquisition of CarWoo! an online automotive marketplace he co-founded. Prior to Carwoo! Tommy co-founded IMSafer and was the VP of Engineering. Tommy has extensive experience as a senior engineering executive, leading organizations through agile transformation.

About Release:

Release makes it easy and cost effective to create cloud native full-stack environments with data, on-demand. These environments are being used for previewing and QA’ing features in the dev workflow, demoing software with sales demo environments, running production applications and delivering SaaS products into their customer’s VPC.

Release enables engineering organizations to deploy more code, faster without worrying about infrastructure.