Two brothers made cloud training easier to buy and easier to follow. Buying Linux Academy exposed the expensive part of letting students learn by doing.
Justin Talerico is the CEO of Automox, a Boulder, Colorado company building cloud-native autonomous endpoint management software. He stepped into the top job in May 2025 after four years as the company's chief marketing officer, a stretch in which he helped quadruple growth. A lifelong builder who started coding at age nine, Talerico co-founded the interactive content platform ion interactive in 2007 and sold it to ScribbleLive in 2017, and later held leadership roles at Linux Academy and A Cloud Guru. He and his wife Anna run Beacon9, a SaaS best-practices advisory.