Chris Obdam's guest appearances

Chris Obdam

Fast Moving Targets

Retail Tech Podcast

Futures In Focus

SaaS Bazen Podcast

Urban Nomads Netwerk

The G&T Sessions

No Code & Code

Marnix Broer

Brian Anderson

Charlene Li

Vitaly Golomb

Jason Miller

Ben Marcus

John Lee Dumas

Joost De Valk

Sean Ellis

Riley Newman

Tijmen Blankevoort

Amy Webb

Erik Anderson

Safi Bahcall

Armin van Buuren

OwlTail

This episode of The No Code &amp; Code Podcast features Chris Obdam, CEO and Co-Founder of Betty Blocks.Chris starts by giving insight into how and why he and his brother first started Betty Blocks and then dives into how Betty Blocks benefitted from finding its target audience right from the start. He goes into detail about how focusing on their target group of enterprise companies meant honing in on building bigger and more complex applications instead of smaller, more general tools for independent professionals, and how keeping this as the focus helped the company operate at higher efficiency.Chris also discusses how Betty Blocks was able to combine many essential components to a usable no-code tool, including a drag and drop UI builder, visually linking tables, a workflow diagram, and integrations. In addition, Chris touches on the politics associated with software development, unique capabilities that Betty Blocks has, including flexibility, safety, and optimization, VC-funding in the no-code space, and more.Chris wraps up the episode by giving his two cents on what he thinks the no-code space will look like in 10 years and discusses how long he thinks it will take before we see a large company built on top of a no-code platform.You can find Chris on LinkedIn, and don’t forget to check out Betty Blocks and the tools and resources mentioned in this episode: ResourcesBetty Blocks: https://www.bettyblocks.com/HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/MySQL: https://www.mysql.com/Power Apps: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft Dynamics: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/SAP HANA: https://www.sap.com/products/hana.htmlAirtable: https://airtable.com/Javascript: https://www.javascript.com/

This episode of The No Code &amp; Code Podcast features Chris Obdam, CEO and Co-Founder of Betty Blocks.Chris starts by giving insight into how and why he and his brother first started Betty Blocks and then dives into how Betty Blocks benefitted from finding its target audience right from the start. He goes into detail about how focusing on their target group of enterprise companies meant honing in on building bigger and more complex applications instead of smaller, more general tools for independent professionals, and how keeping this as the focus helped the company operate at higher efficiency.Chris also discusses how Betty Blocks was able to combine many essential components to a usable no-code tool, including a drag and drop UI builder, visually linking tables, a workflow diagram, and integrations. In addition, Chris touches on the politics associated with software development, unique capabilities that Betty Blocks has, including flexibility, safety, and optimization, VC-funding in the no-code space, and more.Chris wraps up the episode by giving his two cents on what he thinks the no-code space will look like in 10 years and discusses how long he thinks it will take before we see a large company built on top of a no-code platform.You can find Chris on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisobdam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, and don’t forget to check out <a href="https://www.bettyblocks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Betty Blocks</a> and the tools and resources mentioned in this episode: ResourcesBetty Blocks:<a href="https://www.bettyblocks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.bettyblocks.com/</a>HubSpot:<a href="https://www.hubspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.hubspot.com/</a>Azure:<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/</a>AWS:<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://aws.amazon.com/</a>Kubernetes:<a href="https://kubernetes.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://kubernetes.io/</a>MySQL:<a href="https://www.mysql.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.mysql.com/</a>Power Apps:<a href="https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/</a>Microsoft Dynamics:<a href="https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/</a>SAP HANA:<a href="https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html</a>Airtable:<a href="https://airtable.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://airtable.com/</a>Javascript:<a href="https://www.javascript.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.javascript.com/</a>

Chris Obdam - founding enterprise no-code platform Betty Blocks & growing to 192 employees

Johan in gesprek met Chris Opdam, de CEO van Betty Blocks over zijn no-code platform. Je hoort alles over het ontstaan en de groei van Betty Blocks. Over internationalisatie, over het houden van focus en over het opzetten en bewaken van een sterke en eigen bedrijfscultuur. Vanuit Alkmaar groeide het bedrijf uit tot een internationale topspeler in hun vakgebied en Chris deelt zijn geheime recept. Spoiler: geen grote investeringsrondes of fancy growth hacks, maar ondernemen met Hollandse nuchterheid.https://www.bettyblocks.com/ https://saasbazen.nl/ https://community.saasbazen.nl/ https://nordhaven.io/ https://academy.nordhaven.io/

Johan in gesprek met Chris Opdam, de CEO van Betty Blocks over zijn no-code platform. Je hoort alles over het ontstaan en de groei van Betty Blocks. Over internationalisatie, over het houden van focus en over het opzetten en bewaken van een sterke en eigen bedrijfscultuur. Vanuit Alkmaar groeide het bedrijf uit tot een internationale topspeler in hun vakgebied en Chris deelt zijn geheime recept. Spoiler: geen grote investeringsrondes of fancy growth hacks, maar ondernemen met Hollandse nuchterheid. <a href="https://www.bettyblocks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bettyblocks.com/</a> <a href="https://saasbazen.nl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://saasbazen.nl/</a> <a href="https://community.saasbazen.nl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://community.saasbazen.nl/</a> <a href="https://nordhaven.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nordhaven.io/</a> <a href="https://academy.nordhaven.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academy.nordhaven.io/</a>

25 | Betty Blocks CEO Chris Obdam over no-code platforms

Chris Obdam is founder and CEO of no-code platform Betty Blocks. He’s a born programmer turned internet entrepreneur with a passion for people and a lust for life. His vision is to empower the human side of innovation and push the limits of what is possible with technology. Under Chris’s leadership, Betty Blocks is bringing no-code to the world.

Chris Obdam is founder and CEO of no-code platform Betty Blocks. He’s a born programmer turned internet entrepreneur with a passion for people and a lust for life. His vision is to empower the human side of innovation and push the limits of what is possible with technology. Under Chris’s leadership, Betty Blocks is bringing no-code to the world.

Chris Obdam, Co-Founder & CEO of BettyBlocks

The idea of no code programing is so exciting because code is the epicenter of the digital age. Most of us are not equipped or even skilled to do this but we will live more and more in a code -based world. Lego let people play at building and imagining everything from spaces-hips to cars and even Lego football games. Imagine a world where code could be as easy and accessible as Lego and what we could with this in healthcare, automotive and even government segments.This model is going to change the very nature of how we think about software and development costs. Chris’s example of how old industries like the legal industry has grabbed this to become more of a technology-based platform. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The idea of no code programing is so exciting because code is the epicenter of the digital age. Most of us are not equipped or even skilled to do this but we will live more and more in a code -based world. Lego let people play at building and imagining everything from spaces-hips to cars and even Lego football games. Imagine a world where code could be as easy and accessible as Lego and what we could with this in healthcare, automotive and even government segments.This model is going to change the very nature of how we think about software and development costs. Chris’s example of how old industries like the legal industry has grabbed this to become more of a technology-based platform. See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Chris Obdam – No Code Programing 

Chris Obdam en Ate van der Meer zijn beiden 'jongens uit de polder'. Dat is niet het enige wat zij gemeen hebben: beiden zijn oprichters van succesvolle softwarebedrijven.  Chris staat, samen met broer Tim, aan het hoofd van het in Alkmaar gevestigde Betty Blocks. En Ate is CCO van Snakeware, waarvan het hoofdkantoor in het Friese Sneek staat. In deze podcast vertellen zij over hoe ze ooit zijn begonnen, over (internationaal) zakendoen in een snel veranderende IT-wereld en welke ambities zij nog voor de toekomst van hun bedrijven hebben.   Tijdschema: 01:40 Hoe is het begonnen? 04:10 Alkmaar ligt verder van Amsterdam dan omgekeerd 06:12 Wat doet Snakeware en waar komt die naam vandaan? 07:53 Wat doet Betty Blocks en waar komt die naam vandaan? 15:13 Internationaal zakendoen 16:58 Overeenkomsten tussen Snakeware en Betty Blocks 21:28 Bedijfspanden als statement 24:23 Developers en bedrijfscultuur 29:33 Partnerschap met Big Tech 33:08 Plaats van hun bedrijven in de Europese markt 39:53 Ambities voor de toekomst 46:42 Agenda juni van Het Nieuwe Warenhuis

Chris Obdam en Ate van der Meer zijn beiden 'jongens uit de polder'. Dat is niet het enige wat zij gemeen hebben: beiden zijn oprichters van succesvolle softwarebedrijven.  Chris staat, samen met broer Tim, aan het hoofd van het in Alkmaar gevestigde Betty Blocks. En Ate is CCO van Snakeware, waarvan het hoofdkantoor in het Friese Sneek staat. In deze podcast vertellen zij over hoe ze ooit zijn begonnen, over (internationaal) zakendoen in een snel veranderende IT-wereld en welke ambities zij nog voor de toekomst van hun bedrijven hebben.   Tijdschema: 01:40 Hoe is het begonnen? 04:10 Alkmaar ligt verder van Amsterdam dan omgekeerd 06:12 Wat doet Snakeware en waar komt die naam vandaan? 07:53 Wat doet Betty Blocks en waar komt die naam vandaan? 15:13 Internationaal zakendoen 16:58 Overeenkomsten tussen Snakeware en Betty Blocks 21:28 Bedijfspanden als statement 24:23 Developers en bedrijfscultuur 29:33 Partnerschap met Big Tech 33:08 Plaats van hun bedrijven in de Europese markt 39:53 Ambities voor de toekomst 46:42 Agenda juni van Het Nieuwe Warenhuis

Chris Obdam van Betty Blocks en Ate van der Meer van Snakeware

In this interview I spoke with Chris Obdam, CEO of Betty Blocks on the topic of no-code and low-code software development.  Betty Blocks is one of the leading companies in this space with the vision of enabling business users, aka citizen developers, the power to create applications quickly without the need to involve IT and development teams.

In this interview I spoke with Chris Obdam, CEO of Betty Blocks on the topic of no-code and low-code software development.  Betty Blocks is one of the leading companies in this space with the vision of enabling business users, aka citizen developers, the power to create applications quickly without the need to involve IT and development teams.

Interview with Betty Blocks CEO Chris Obdam - What is no-code software and the role of developers in future of product innovation

Wanneer je als bedrijf een goed idee hebt, dan wil je dat het liefst zo snel mogelijk uitvoeren. Dat geldt ook voor het maken van online applicaties. De tussenkomst van een programmeur vertraagt de boel. Betty Blocks biedt een oplossing. “Wij zijn een platform waarmee je zonder kennis van programmeren applicaties kunt maken zowel voor mobiel als desktop. Wij zijn gericht op zakelijke toepassingen. Het draait om mensen die affiniteit hebben met applicaties. En wat van belang is: we blijven door ontwikkelen en steeds simpeler worden”, aldus Chris Obdam, CEO van Betty Blocks.