July was a big month, with some epic stories. Check out the links below to learn more about our fantastic sponsors, amazing episodes, and podcasts we love. Enjoy!

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors!

Courier – Your Complete Communication Stack — www.courier.com
Courier is the smartest way to design and deliver notifications. Design once, and deliver to any channel – email, Slack, SMS, push, and more – through one API.

CTO.ai – Serverless CI/CD Tools for Kubernetes & Cloud Native — cto.ai
Create your own ChatOps, GitOps or CI/CD to easily preview Cloud Native Apps such as Websites, APIs and Microservice on Kubernetes.

IMG.LY: Video & Photo SDK with 100’s of Features, Fast Setup — img.ly
IMG.LY’s video and photo SDK brings beautiful creative editing to your applications. Powering 500+ million creations per month.

Routable – Current Openings — apply.workable.com
We are looking for the best engineers and operators to join our team. If you want to help us on our mission to remove the burden of business payments, we are hiring.

Cloudways – Managed Cloud Hosting Platform — www.cloudways.com
Focus on your business and avoid all the web hosting hassles. Our managed hosting guarantees unmatched performance, reliability and choice with 24/7 support that acts as your extended team, making Cloudways an ultimate choice for growing agencies and ecommerce businesses.

Episodes

E7: Kristen Buchanan, Edify — codestory.co
In 2015, she started her own business to offer learning & development services, and specializing in software engineering onboarding. She was challenged by a mentor to turn this into a software solution, and after some reflection time, she decided to do just that.

Bonus: Josh Millet, Criteria — codestory.co
After getting involved in the hiring process at his prior company, Josh felt the pain of knowing when an interview was over early on. He thought, there has to be a way to use data and tech to make the process more efficient.

Bonus: Angel Munoz, Beacon — codestory.co
After launching a successful, social media platform around the gaming community – called GTribe, Angel started to create experiences inside the community. So much so, he and his team attempted to integrate video game aspects into an audio video experience.

E6: Braden Stenning, Raven — codestory.co
When he left Microsoft, Kirt found himself deeply involved with people in the music community in Seattle. He had seen the independent scene go through much disruption, and decided to help artists by starting a label. Through the label, he saw the gaps in the music industry, and set out to try and fill those gaps.

Bonus: Meha Agrawal, Silk & Sonder — codestory.co
At the end of 2017, Meha realized that despite her gratifying life, she was feeling unfilled and anxious. She picked up an empty journal, and channeled techniques and structure into her daily process of journaling. What she found was that her health improved… and she decided to create a product taking bits and pieces from bullet journaling techniques.

E5: Kirt Debique, SyncFloor — codestory.co
When he left Microsoft, Kirt found himself deeply involved with people in the music community in Seattle. He had seen the independent scene go through much disruption, and decided to help artists by starting a label. Through the label, he saw the gaps in the music industry, and set out to try and fill those gaps.

Bonus: Shaun Cooley, Mapped — codestory.co
During his time at Cisco, Shaun started to see the the fragmentation of data in the industrial environment… so much so, that he set out to create the business intelligence layer, sitting on top of the the raw network of devices.

E4: Hazel Savage, Musiio — codestory.co
After joining an incubator, Hazel was paired up with her now co-founder, who is deeply technical and well versed in AI. Combined with her extensive knowledge of the music industry, they set out to change the face of music… and the fingerprints found inside it.

Bonus: Real World AI — codestory.co
In Real World AI, Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger and Wilson Pang share dozens of AI stories from startups and global enterprises alike featuring personal experiences from people who have worked on global AI deployments that impact billions of people.

Podcasts We Love

Between Two Mics: The Remote Recording Podcast — squadcast.fm
Podcasting is actively being defined & B2M is talking with the people who are defining it. Exploring challenges, opportunities, & new ideas that push the limits of what’s possible in Podcasting.

The Friendship Onion Kast Media | Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd — podcasts.apple.com
‎Join your favorite Hobbits, friends and co-stars, Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan as they take a look back at their time on The Lord of the Rings. Featuring interviews with cast and crew, diving deep into life behind the scenes, and answering the many fan questions, The Friendship Onion will peel back t…

How I Built This with Guy Raz : NPR — www.npr.org
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built. Order the How I Built This book at https://www.guyraz.com/