<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminrjohnson/"><strong>Benjamin Johnson</strong></a> is the Founder and CEO at <a target="_blank" href="https://particle41.com/"><strong>Particle41</strong></a>, where he leads a global software consultancy that has operated for more than 12 years across remote teams in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and beyond. Rising to prominence in the 2010s, he became known for building high-performing engineering organizations that ship end-to-end digital products, from cloud-native platforms to AI-ready application modernization. As a fractional CTO and podcast host, he is widely regarded as an influential figure for founders seeking to scale technology capabilities without sacrificing speed or reliability.</p><p>Previously, as Chief Technology Officer at <a target="_blank" href="https://dockworks.co/"><strong>DOCKWORKS INC</strong></a>, he architected a web-based marine management platform that grew to serve more than 100 marine businesses in roughly 2 years before being acquired by DockMaster in 2023. In this role he led work order management, vessel tracking, and billing capabilities that helped streamline operations for small marine shops and boatyards while overseeing a full product and engineering organization. He also guided the post-acquisition integration, ensuring continuity for customers and enabling a combined product roadmap across two brands.</p><p>His career highlights include serving as Director of Software Engineering at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.legalzoom.com/"><strong>LegalZoom</strong></a>, where he revamped the company’s Robotic Process Automation strategy, created excellence in document automation, and developed a company name-check algorithm that achieved approximately 98% state acceptance prediction accuracy for new business names. Earlier, as Co-Founder and CTO of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.legalinc.com/"><strong>Legalinc Corporate Services Inc.</strong></a>, he helped grow the enterprise legal automation platform from zero to a successful exit to LegalZoom in about three years, building a one-of-a-kind legal filing API that secured partnerships with platforms such as Stripe Atlas, Yahoo Small Business, and Amazon. At <a target="_blank" href="https://www.intellicentrics.com/"><strong>IntelliCentrics</strong></a>, he managed DevOps for roughly 125 servers across three data centers, implemented auto-scaling and continuous delivery, and upheld a 99.9% uptime promise while training teams to independently extend automation.</p><p>As host of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@particle41"><strong>Particle Accelerator</strong></a> podcast, he interviews technology and business leaders on strategic problem-solving, digital transformation, and leadership at scale. Through this work and frequent guest appearances on other shows, he continues to shape how founders, CEOs, and engineering leaders think about modern software development, DevOps, and AI-enabled growth.</p><p><em>Hey, Thanks for reading this. I mean that. There's a lot of content out there competing for your attention, and you spent some of it here. I hope it was worth it. Even better, I hope it prompted you to think about something differently enough that you'd share it with someone who'd get something out of it too.I started this podcast because tactics never stuck with me. What stuck were stories — business biographies, autobiographies, the decisions people made and why they made them. The principle only clicks once you know the story behind it.</em></p><p><em>So I built the thing I wanted to read. Every week I have two conversations with people who build in technology and product. Then I write the essay I wish I could find — one that puts you inside the conversation, through my eyes. What caught me off guard. What I kept thinking about after we hung up. Where the principle actually lives once you strip away the jargon.</em></p><p><em>I make this for myself first. If you read the way I do, you’ll want it too.</em></p><p></p><p>Subscribe to The Way of Product</p><p></p><p><em>PS — If you want to pitch coming on the show, or you know someone I should talk to, shoot me an email at </em><a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]"><em>[email protected]</em></a><em> with "January752" in the subject line so it gets past my filters. I'm not optimizing for famous guests. I'm optimizing for interesting conversations, even from people who aren't LinkedIn influencers.</em></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano at <a href="https://www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">www.wayofproduct.com/subscribe</a>