Code Story - January 2021

Happy New Year! Below is January’s content. We kicked off 2021 with Season 4 of the podcast, with amazing guests and great conversations. We are 4 episodes in, and have many more coming soon! Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and buy some gear!

Episodes

E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive — codestory.co
Sophy has been working on her current product for 6.5 years, starting at a different company formerly known as Shuttle. The product was built originally to map out a trip from point a to b, and have a driver give a protected ride to a child. Four years ago, her current company acquired the product, at which point she joined as CTO to lead the Technology & Information Security team.

Bonus: Tech Talks Daily — codestory.co
Adam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first programming project was using Q-Basic, following a tutorial on how to make a pro wrestling simulator.

E2: Charlie & Chinmay, RidePanda — codestory.co
Charlie & Chinmay got together early in 2020, with a shared passion for reducing transportation related emissions by creating the one stop e-mobility shop – complete with a marketplace and vetting system for the best micro mobility options available. This is the creation story of RidePanda.

E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop — codestory.co
When Davit Buniatyan started in on his PHD at Princeton, he started working with large data sets to recreate neural networks. In doing so, he realized how much computational power was required to learn from even a small – large scale data set. With this, he set out to build a tool to make companies more efficient at learning from their data.

E4: Hrishi Dixit, Yieldstreet — codestory.co
Towards the end of his time in San Fran, Hrishi Dixit worked in fintech – loving the connection point between math, science and software. He was the founding CTO of LearnVest, which was sold to Northwestern Mutual. Around the time of the sale, he met the founder of his current venture and joined the team as a consultant, and then advisor. During that time, he built out the makings of an alternative investment platform – in fact, the first of its kind.