From Hustle to High-Growth with Cyril Allgeier
Release Date: 07/03/2025
Austin Tech Connect: The Podcast For The Austin Technology Ecosystem, Business Leaders, and Tech Entrepreneurs!
Austin Tech Connect closes out 2025 with a milestone episode celebrating the podcast’s three year anniversary and ending the year with a high energy conversation about entrepreneurship, custom software, and what it takes to keep building in Austin. Thom welcomes Scott Kenyon, founding partner at Applaudo, a firm that helps companies go from early stage ideas to real products, covering strategy, MVPs, design and development, cloud platforms, AI, DevOps, and cybersecurity. Scott shares his entrepreneurial path, including leaving college to start a business, then returning later to finish after...
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This week on Austin Tech Connect, we are sharing the keynote from the 2025 State of Tech breakfast, hosted by the Austin Technology Council and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Tyson Tuttle, CEO of Circuit and former CEO of Silicon Labs, unpacks how AI is accelerating into the physical world, why energy and compute infrastructure matter more than ever, and what the convergence of AI, semiconductors, and industry means for the next decade of innovation in Austin and beyond. "Texas gives us scale, Austin gives us soul" - Tyson Tuttle
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Austin Tech Connect welcomes back data and AI expert (and ATC board member) Ronnie Sheth for a very real conversation about what is actually happening inside companies trying to adopt AI. Ronnie helps organizations design human first experiences with data and AI, and she brings both a strategic lens and a deep sense of responsibility to how this technology shows up in our businesses and our community. She also cares deeply about Austin as a global tech hub and about the Austin Technology Council’s role as a connector across the ecosystem. In this episode Ronnie explains why AI adoption...
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In this episode of Austin Tech Connect, Thom Singer sits down with Austin Tech Hall of Fame inductee Bob Fabbio, a founder and leader whose career is woven into the story of our region’s tech ecosystem. Bob shares how a reluctant interview trip from Massachusetts to IBM Austin in 1987 turned into a one way ticket to a city he quickly fell in love with. After realizing he was “a fish out of water” in big corporate environments, he left IBM to launch Tivoli Systems, pursuing a then radical idea to manage heterogeneous computer networks as if they were a single machine. People told him he...
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In this episode of Austin Tech Connect, Austin Technology Council CEO, Thom Singer, sits down with Greg Cooper, president at Offerd, to explore how PropTech is reshaping commercial real estate and why Austin is a compelling place to build it. Greg’s Austin story spans three decades and a rare path. He grew up in Jamaica, spent time in England, went to high school in Houston, then earned a UT law degree focused on real estate. While in law school he co-founded Austin Java and ended up running a fast growing restaurant company with hundreds of employees, an experience that sharpened his...
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Patrick Smith, Tax Principal with CLA... and new comer to the Austin tech ecosystem joins the conversation on the Austin Tech Connect podcast to talk about recent changes in the tax laws and how it impacts Austin companies. The Austin Tech Connect podcast is the official podcast of the Austin Technology Council and one of the premier podcasts in the Austin tech scene.
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In this episode of Austin Tech Connect, Thom Singer sits down with Tyson Tuttle, the former CEO of Silicon Labs and one of the most influential figures in Austin’s technology landscape. Tyson shares an inside look at his remarkable journey from a hands-on engineer to a purpose-driven CEO who helped shape one of Austin’s most respected semiconductor companies. The conversation explores how curiosity, courage, and collaboration guided his leadership approach and how his experiences continue to inform his perspective on innovation and community today. Tyson reflects on the early days of...
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John Hartigan, CEO of Lumineo, returns to Austin Tech Connect to share what has changed since his 2023 visit and how his team fully pivoted into AI for corporate learning. Host Thom Singer, talks to John about practical wins over hype, from improving content creation and microlearning workflows to blending live action with AI avatars, and what is coming next with interactive AI tutors. John explains where AI saves time, where humans add the creative spark, and why, in his words, “mediocrity is now free.” We dig into leadership, retraining teams, prompt skills, and ethical transparency...
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Austin Tech Connect is sponsored by Calavista Software: Software Development without the Drama. In this episode of Austin Tech Connect, Thom Singers sits down with long-time friend and Austin tech leader, Sam Goodner. Sam arrived in Austin in 1992 after growing up in Europe and serving in the Swiss Army Special Forces. He cut his teeth at Dell, then co-founded what became Catapult Systems. Along the way he helped launch product companies like Inquisite, guided Catapult to be Microsoft’s top global partner, and sold the firm in 2013. After a family year of world travel, he returned to scale a...
info_outlineIn this engaging episode of Austin Tech Connect, Thom Singer sits down with Cyril Allgeier, Co-Founder and CRO of CodingIT, for a fast-moving and wide-ranging conversation that weaves together personal grit, entrepreneurial insight, and big ideas for Austin’s tech future. Cyril shares his unique path from hospitality and car sales to leading a software development firm... and why being “the fool in the room” is sometimes the smartest move a founder can make.
You’ll hear how he went from managing vending machine contracts at Halliburton to training enterprise car sales reps, eventually creating new B2B programs inside large organizations before stepping out on his own. Now, through CodingIT, Cyril helps mid-sized companies spin up new tech products, embrace data ownership, and solve real business problems... not just build features.
More than a founder story, this episode is a masterclass in thinking beyond the transactional. Cyril opens up about the value of showing up, trading knowledge, being a resource for others, and helping clients see their own businesses differently. He talks candidly about mentorship, his immigrant family roots, and why Austin’s tech ecosystem must stay scrappy and collaborative as it grows up.
If you’re building a company, leading a team, or simply want to better understand what it takes to thrive in a crowded space, you’ll find plenty of actionable insight, and inspiration, in this episode. And if you care about the future of Austin as a city where companies scale and founders succeed, this one is a must-listen.