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Turning chaos into clarity: Noah Landow on the Growth Focus Podcast
Macktez founder Noah Landow joins Gary Lafferty on the Growth Focus Podcast to talk relationships, referrals, and the ideas behind Tame the Tech Beast.
July 15, 2025
Macktez founder and CEO Noah Landow recently joined Gary Lafferty on the Growth Focus Podcast. They talked about building a small business on good relationships and referrals, as we have for almost 30 years, the technology consulting work we have done over that time, and the lessons that frame Noah's book, Tame the Tech Beast.
Connecting the dots at Little Island
Our scope of work at Little Island grew as we examined other vendors' plans for the park off the west side of Manhattan. It became our job to untangle the different layers of the build-out and then implement our own recommendations to help get the park ready on schedule.
Untangling spaghetti at MakerBot
We were part of a three-year project to clean up legacy IT infrastructure at MakerBot, working in several roles to augment and train their in-house IT team.
"I wish we'd had this conversation a year ago"
The conversation with Gary is a good introduction to the themes of the book Noah is writing with Macktez COO Michael Horst, Tame the Tech Beast, which argues for a strategic approach to IT, especially for organizations during periods of growth and change.