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We took the Top 5 episodes for 2020, based on your listens, and listed them here. - [Apex Minecraft Hosting - Signup Here!](https://codestory.co/apex-minecraft-hosting-signup-here/): In Season 3 of the Code Story podcast, we interviewed Seth Mattox, co-founder and CEO of Apex Hosting. Within this episode, which was episode 12, we uncovered the innovative bits around how Seth and his friends never wanted to stop gaming... so much so, that they build a successful business around Minecraft hosting. And not just any hosting company, but a hosting company with the best support in town.We thought it was so great, we decided to make it super easy for those looking for Minecraft Hosting to signup using the link below. Enjoy this great product and company!Click here to signup for Apex Minecraft Hosting. - [Try Saga this Holiday Season!](https://codestory.co/try-saga-this-holiday-season/): Previously, we interviewed Andrew Overton on the Code Story podcast, about his startup - Saga. I wanted to give a... - [Vote Code Story - Best Episode!](https://codestory.co/vote-code-story-best-episode/): The nominations are in for the MicroConf SaaS Podcast Awards! Code Story was nominated for Best Episode, featuring Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma from Season 2. Click the link below to vote for Code Story, and the other amazing podcasts, hosts, and shows listed! - [Code Story Review - November 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-november-2020/): Throughout the election month, the fall, and Thanksgiving holiday month, we had some great guests, great sponsors, and great stories... - [Code Story Review - October 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-october-2020/): Welcome to the October review for Code Story! I hope everyone who participated had a safe and fun Halloween -... - [Code Story Review - September 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-september-2020/): It was another great month, full of amazing conversations with tech leaders, and working with great people. Want to help... - [New SWAG Design - Get yours today!](https://codestory.co/new-swag-design-get-yours-today/): Hello Code Story community! I wanted to let you know about an exciting new t-shirt design we just released, keying... - [Code Story Podcast - A few COOL announcements!](https://codestory.co/code-story-podcast-a-few-cool-announcements/): Howdy listeners! Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you haven't done so, please have a listen... - [Code Story Review - August 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-august-2020/): August was a whirlwind month for the podcast, featuring amazing guests, bonus episodes, and world class stories you come to... - [Code Story Review - July 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-july-2020/): Welcome to the July issue of the Code Story Review! We had a stellar month of interviews, finishing up some... - [Podcast Awards - Vote for Code Story!!](https://codestory.co/podcast-awards-vote-for-code-story/): Hey guys! There are only 2 more days left to vote for Code Story on the Podcast Awards! It would... - [Code Story - Support the Show!](https://codestory.co/code-story-support-the-show/): Hey listeners! First off, thank you for listening, subscribing and all out ensuring that the show stays alive. Without you,... - [Code Story Review - June 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-june-2020/): Here is your June review for the Code Story podcast! We've had some great guests on the show this month,... - [Code Story Review - April, May 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-april-may-2020/): Good morning! We are doubling up on this newsletter, as we skipped April during the craziness of the pandemic. This... - [Code Story Review - March 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-march-2020/): To put it simply, March was a tumultuous month - with the COVID pandemic, massive layoffs, market turbulence, and shelter... - [Code Story Review - February 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-february-2020/): In February, we officially launched Season 2 of the podcast, kicking it off by interviewing Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers.... - [Code Story Review - January 2020](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-january-2020/): ANNOUNCEMENT: Season 2 of the podcast launches on Tuesday! Make sure to subscribe on the podcasting app of your choice.... - [Code Story Review - December 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-december-2019/): Howdy! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story, the last one reflecting on and wrapping up 2019. In December,... - [Top 5 Podcast Episodes of 2019](https://codestory.co/top-5-podcast-episodes-of-2019/): In 2019, we had big things happen... like starting a podcast :) The interviews we had within this year were amazing, full of learnings, stories, mistakes, and moments of great learning and pride. We've ranked these episodes, based on your favorites... and your downloads. Enjoy! - [Code Story Review - November 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-november-2019/): Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In November, we went LIVE with releasing 1 episode a week!... - [Code Story Review - October 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-october-2019/): Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In October, we released episodes with Andy Abbott and Shelby Stephens. - [Code Story Review - September 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-september-2019/): Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In September, we released episodes with Jonathan Campos and Jon... - [Code Story - International Podcast Day](https://codestory.co/code-story-international-podcast-day/): It's International Podcast Day! The celebration is a great opportunity to connect with fellow podcasters, podcast listeners, podcast enthusiasts, and... - [Code Story Review - August 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-august-2019/): Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In August, we released episodes with Alvaro Sabido and Jonathan... - [Code Story Review - July 2019](https://codestory.co/code-story-review-july-2019/): Hello! Welcome to the first monthly review of Code Story. In July, we released episodes with Leah Culver and Sean... --- ## Episode - [Bonus: Gaurav Bhattacharya, Jeeva AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-gaurav-bhattacharya-jeeva-ai/): At his prior startup, Gaurav and his team were working in the healthcare space. They became learners of go-to market strategies, how to do sales, and how to do marketing. They enjoyed it so much that they grew to want to start their next company in that space. - [E7: Artem Rodichev, Ex-Human](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-artem-rodichev-ex-human/): Artem spent several years building a Core AI stack at Replica. What he noticed was that people really enjoyed connecting with their digital friends - and, he noticed the limitations of this experience. He aimed to correct that limitation, in starting a new venture focused on broader empathetic AI. - [Bonus: Keren Fanan, MyOp](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-keren-fanan-myop/): Keren and her co-founders felt similar pains in the industry, all from different angles. No matter how good their ideas were, no matter the initiative, there is always a long process in software dev to bring it to life. This was especially true for non technical founders. They wanted a way to bring their ideas straight to production, without having to wait on the full life cycle. - [E6: Michael Sacca, Leadpages](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-michael-sacca-leadpages/): Prior to his current role, Michael was the Chief Product Officer at Dribbble. After he left that company and dabbled in some other ventures, he was approached about a CEO role at a well known darling company in Minneapolis. - [Bonus: Ofir Bibi, Lightricks](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ofir-bibi-lightricks/): In 2012, a company was formed around bridging the gap between imagination and creation, through video, apps, and studio grade tools. Ofir recently celebrated 10 years with the company, and came in with the title "Neural Networks" guy. - [E5: Austin Federa, DoubleZero](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-austin-federa-doublezero/): Austin acknowledges that though we all love the internet, it's actually not very good... for high performant systems. And though companies are trying to build dedicated networks in the world, there hasn't been one created for blockchain - IE, not centralized around single party. - [Bonus: Tim Eades, Anetac](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tim-eades-anetac/): Being a multi-time CEO, Tim has some experience around starting companies. He interviewed many cybersecurity leaders, asking about identity and why vulnerabilities around it was still a problem. During a Liverpool game, he downloaded a powerpoint template and put together a pitch to build a company and solve this problem. - [E4: Brooke Hartley Moy, Infactory AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-brooke-hartley-moy-infactory-ai/): A few years ago, Brooke and her now co-founder observed that people were viewing AI as this end-all-be-all solution. But what quickly happened was that the data needed to make AI effective was not in quite the same state. - [Bonus: Yaroslav & Sergiy, Railsware - Part 2](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-yaroslav-sergiy-railsware-part-2/): Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. - [Bonus: Yaroslav & Sergiy, Railsware - Part 1](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-yaroslav-sergiy-railsware-part-1/): Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. - [E3: Rob Duffy, HealthEdge](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-rob-duffy-healthedge/): Rob's has a track record of successfully building platforms - IE figuring out how to do things once instead of multiple times. His current company was growing through acquisitions, and Rob was brought on to unify these and create a converged platform for what the company had to offer. - [Bonus: Emmanuel Straschnov, Bubble](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-emmanuel-straschnov-bubble/): Many years ago, Emmanuel noticed that there were a lot of people searching for technical founders, and using services to find technical founders. He thought this to be wrong, as many people have product ideas and just need a product to help them build it... so, he created something just for them. - [Bonus: Clayton Gentry, Podstock](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-clayton-gentry-podstock/): Toward the end of 2022, Clayton and his co-founder, Michael, re-connected on starting something new. Given Michael had extensive industry knowledge in the podcast world, Clayton and he combined their super powers to take on the multi-platform nature of podcasting. - [Bonus: David Asamu, Nesla](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-asamu-nesla/): Previously, David was working at a fintech company. While he was there, he and his friends were observing the trends around AI - and they wanted to get more involved. So they got together and built something over the weekend... and eventually decided to advance AI through research. - [E2: Clément "Kero" Renault, Meilisearch](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-clement-kero-renault-meilisearch/): Seven years ago, Kero was in school, and he wanted to build a solid search experience, but not just a general search - one that indexed your data, and allowed you to have a "Google" just for your info. After winning a school hackathon, Kero and his mates wanted to take it to the next level. - [Bonus: Arnab Deka, Metacast](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arnab-deka-metacast/): Arnab took a sabbatical from work, and on this journey, he realized that he liked deep work and interacting with customers directly - as opposed to high level strategy and planning. He met with his now co-founder in 2022, walking then Seattle lake front, and realized what podcast junkies they both were - and they decided to build something for it. - [E1: Rob Woollen, Sigma Computing](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-rob-woollen-sigma-computing/): Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets. - [Bonus: Erik Braund, Katmai Tech](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-braund-katmai-tech/): Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren’t doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. - [E30: Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Uniqode](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-ravi-pratap-maddimsetty-uniqode/): Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. - [Bonus: Shai Horovitz, Jit.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shai-horovitz-jit-io/): The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. - [The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier?](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-are-you-ready-for-the-genai-data-frontier/): Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - [E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-lucas-lovell-paddle/): Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform was some function around invoicing - which started him on his journey of product creation. - [Bonus: David Young, Federated Computer](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-young-federated-computer/): David noticed that that problem with SaaS today is that it's expensive, and adds up as you compile solutions. Right alongside that, open source software is free - but requires more setup and maintenance to keep it up and running. He decided that there must be a better way to purchase software, while getting the best price on a bundle of solutions. - [The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Are Your Systems Smarter Than a Threat Actor?](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-are-your-systems-smarter-than-a-threat-actor/): Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - [E28: Kavitta Ghai, Nectir](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-kavitta-ghai-nectir/): Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school. - [Bonus: Darko Fabijan, Semaphore](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-darko-fabijan-semaphore/): In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own. - [The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - Fortifying Your Data Defenses](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-fortifying-your-data-defenses/): Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - [E27: Gino Ferrand, Tecla.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-gino-ferrand-tecla-io/): Gino attend the University of San Diego, and was really into startups. He was building mobile games for the iPhone in 2012, while living back in Peru for a short time. He hired a few engineers from back home, and this started him on the journey of understanding the great talent in South America. - [E26: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 2)](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-ivan-nick-archetype-ai-part-2/): Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. - [The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): A Data Security Dilemma](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-kiss-keep-it-simple-stupid-a-data-security-dilemma/): Today, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - [E26: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 1)](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-ivan-nick-archetype-ai-part-1/): Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. - [Bonus: Quinn Li O'Shea, Braid](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-quinn-li-oshea-braid/): Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something. - [E25: Alberto Simon, Masterworks](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-alberto-simon-masterworks/): Alberto and his co-founders had worked in the startup world for quite some time. They noticed the trends of platforms leading the charge on portfolio management, without advisors, alongside the democratization of investments in things like real estate, crypto, etc. They decided to move forward in removing the opaqueness from investment in art. - [Bonus: Don Gossen, Nevermined](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-don-gossen-nevermined/): In 2016, Don caught the crypto bug, but not from the speculative component. He was fascinated with the providential integrity that is found in the blockchain. This culminated with 20 years of experience in deep tech, and led him down the path of AI agent payments. - [E24: Shmuel Kliger, Causely](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-shmuel-kliger-causely/): When his past venture winded down, Schmuel found himself at the center of an idea that was the culmination of all his years in technology. To build something that could not only process large amounts of observability data - but could make sense of it, and take appropriate action. - [Podcasthon 2025 & the American Cancer Society](https://codestory.co/podcast/podcasthon-2025-the-american-cancer-society/): Today is going to be a special episode, a bit out of the ordinary to our normal programming. I'm participating in Podcasthon, which gives Code Story the opportunity to dedicate one episode to a charity of choice. Hundreds of podcasts are participating in this, releasing their episodes simultaneously in a coordinate effort, with the goal of creating a massive and international wave of inspiring audio content. - [Bonus: Tyler Wells, Braingrid](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tyler-wells-braingrid-episode/): At the sunset of his prior company, Tyler and his co-founders started digging into the AI Code Editor, Cursor, and how the agent side of things could increase the power and speed of coding. Through the shutdown, they decided to start something new. - [E23: Anthony Eden, DNSimple](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-anthony-eden-dnsimple/): In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple. - [Bonus: Andrew Lau, Jellyfish](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-lau-jellyfish/): Andrew met his current co-founders in 1999. Recently, they re-connected, recalling the successes and camaraderie they had during their startup days. They recalled that the act of leading engineering teams is hard - and they wanted to build something that makes that easier. - [E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-ayush-agarwal-dodo-payments/): When Ayush met his now co-founder, they started to think through businesses and how much goes into setting up payments, taxes, etc. They started to dream about building this layer of payments, to enable builders to send and receive global payments easily, so they can focus on their core competencies. - [Bonus: Josh Ho, Referral Rock](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-ho-referral-rock/): Prior to his current venture, Josh had a SaaS product he attempted to launch that didn't work out. While he was getting his car worked on at a dealership, he noticed patrons being referred to salesmen in real time - and he started to think, who manages this sort of thing for other businesses? - [E21: Austin Vance, Focused.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-austin-vance-focused-io/): Austin had several experiences with consulting firms, where they operated under traditional "land and expand" models. IE, increasing the footprint of their teams. He felt passionate about building a services company that was designed to deprecate itself - starting with the wide world of DevOps. - [Bonus: Jason Schappert, Moola](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-schappert-moo-la-moola/): For 16 years, Jason grew and ran a business in aviation. After a successful exit, he and his wife Magda were considering what to do next. She quickly remembered all of the things Jason did behind the scenes to setup their personal finances for success, in the midst of a chaotic startup life. - [E20: Tameem Hourani, RapDev](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-tameem-hourani-rapdev/): In the past, Tameem had been burned by consulting firms. He saw a gap in the industry, and when he left his prior role at Wayfair, he wanted to become a trusted, transparent technology partner - the one that he had longed for in his previous roles. - [Bonus: Shahar Azulay, Groundcover](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shahar-azulay-groundcover/): Shahar and his co-founder are veterans when it comes to using observability platforms for their systems. They wanted to build a platform that balanced the needs of the system, with a lower cost of a fully functional platform. - [Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Imad Gharazeddine, CEO of Mamo](https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-imad-gharazeddine/): In this episode, we are excited to speak with Imad Gharzeddine, the visionary CEO and Co-Founder of Mamo, a pioneering fintech platform simplifying payments and empowering businesses in the MENA region. - [E19: Simmi Singh, Hook Music](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-simmi-singh-hook-music/): While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board. - [Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov, Neon](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nikita-shamgunov-neon/): Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways. - [Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO, DIFC Innovation Hub](https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-dubai-mohammad-albalooshi-difc-innovation-hub/): For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region. - [E18: Cory O'Daniel, Massdriver](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-cory-odaniel-massdriver/): Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process. - [Bonus: Torrey Leonard, Thoughtly](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-torrey-leonard-thoughtly/): Last summer, Torrey built a platform that allowed you to build out voice agents. After doing so, he realized that there wasn't a good way to do this through a UI, and he realized this was an obvious thing that needed to be built. He decided to leave his prior company to pursue this vision - which headed towards the Zapier for call center agents. - [Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-dr-marwan-al-zarouni/): Today, we are speaking with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI for the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism. Dr. Marwan. He is going to help walk us through how Dubai is creating a foundational hub for AI, Blockchain, and the intersection of both. - [E17: Joni Klippert, Stackhawk](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-joni-klippert-stackhawk/): Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST - dynamic application security testing. - [Bonus: Eric Leebow, FreezeCrowd](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eric-leebow-freezecrowd/): When he went off to college, Eric had with him picture books. He noticed that there were key words next to each person, which indicated their interests. He thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we can use this information to connect people within school? - [E16: Mihri Minaz, Beams](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-mihri-minaz-beams/): In the past, Mihri's experienced problems with her team, as far as measuring and optimizing productivity. This was related to the different number of tools used, along with the lack of a unified view of these tools. She and her co-founder clicked on this problem, and decided to build a solution. - [Bonus: Wes Tatters, Rapyd Cloud](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-wes-tatters-rapyd-cloud/): Ten years ago, Wes started in on the Wordpress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn't perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites. - [Bonus: Thomas Hansen, Amplitude](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-thomas-hansen-amplitude/): Thomas was introduced to his current venture through an early investor in the company. He met with the co-founder, Spenser, and sparks flew. There was a great fit and chemistry between them, and he was invited on board to push the company forward to new heights. - [Bonus: Anand Kulkarni, Crowdbotics](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anand-kulkarni-crowdbotics/): Though the AI space is crowded today, Anand and his team have been working in the space since 2016. They observed the need to modernize legacy software and digitally transform organizations. They wanted to utilize an intelligent approach to this, and started down the path of building a large dataset, building software to learn from it, and use that to modernize software. - [E15: Hannes Lenke, Checkly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-hannes-lenke-checkly/): In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring. - [Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jonathan-stark-consultant-teacher-author/): At his prior company, Jonathan was leading teams to build software. He wanted to hire senior engineers, but was told junior engineers would better fit the budget. He couldn't figure out why, but then it dawned on him - hourly billing a junior created more margin. He wanted to pivot away from hourly billing as a company and went solo to figure out how to do this. Once he did, he never looked back. - [E14: Eric Müller, Presence](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-eric-muller-presence/): Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board 6-7 months later, and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products. - [Bonus: Andrey Kudievskiy, Distillery](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrey-kudievskiy-distillery/): Right after he graduated from University, Andrey saw a fantastic level of talent in developing countries. At the same time, he noticed the amount of profitable opportunity in the United States - and decided to build a business that joined the two. - [Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Sonia Gokhale, VentureSouq](https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-sonia-gokhale-venturesouq/): Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global - [E13: Josh Levine, Chess.com](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-josh-levine-chess-com/): In 2011, Josh joined an amazing online game website, when they started supporting his favorite game variant. Ten years later, he researched this company and their technology to see how it worked. He applied for one of the jobs, got rejected, but then quickly got a call from the CEO, who liked his application. - [Bonus: Daniel Loreto, Jetify](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-daniel-loreto-jetify/): As part of running an team, Daniel had to create a platform engineering squad to support the development process. What nagged him about this was that he felt like he was recreating the wheel, having done this many times before. He figured someone should solve these problem by building products to make cloud dev delightful. - [Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Raakin Iqbal, Nucleus AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-and-dubai-raakin-iqbal-nucleus-ai/): In this episode, we are speaking with Raakin Iqbal (aka Rock N Roll), CEO & Co-founder of Nucleus AI. Raakin is not only going to tell us about how Nucleus is building pre-AGI, but also how the ecosystem in Dubai is supporting their growth and success. - [E12: Nick Mistry, Lineaje](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-nick-mistry-lineaje/): At the time of the log4j, Nick found himself troubled by the fact that people did not know if exploits were included in their software. He spent months diving deep into this issue and talking with people in the industry, and eventually he connected with a prior colleague, working on this very concept. - [Bonus: Jon Perl, QA Wolf](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jon-perl-qa-wolf/): At his previous company, Jon observed a failure in systems that required his customers to fall back to manual systems. The pain of this situation led him and his current co-founders to have a strong desire - to make sure something like this never happened again. - [E11: Nigel Smart, Zama](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-nigel-smart-zama/): Very early on, Nigel got involved with one of his current ventures. As an advisor, he stated to spend more and more time with the company, supporting it through its many iterations in building next level encryption for application builders - and doing so through open source. - [Bonus: Michael Louis, Cerebrium](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michael-louis-cerebrium/): Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. - [Bonus: Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, Penpot](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pablo-ruiz-muzquiz-penpot/): Pablo built a company called Kaleidos, which aids in the creation of software solutions. They hold a core belief that there should be a close connection between designers and developers. What they found in the tooling to support these disciplines is that they weren't built to embrace this concept. So, they decided to incubate a product, and make it open source. - [E10: William Neill, Basket](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-william-neill-basket/): William and his co-founder met in a coffee shop in London. As they were chatting about prior projects, they figure out there was a lot of overlap in the things they were interested in. Eventually, they returned and built some solutions together - and off the back of a prior wishlist project, they decided to make an online shopping cart to end all others. - [Bonus: Rohith Varanasi, Block Party](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rohith-varanasi-block-party/): Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. - [E9: Jason Harbert, Flowspace](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-jason-harbert-flowspace/): Jason and his co-founder, Ben, were having a beer, coming out of their prior startup life. Over the beer, Ben was sharing some stories about tight warehouse space and product distribution. They started to ask the question - how can you add flexibility to warehousing? They decided to set out and build something to create this solution. - [The Haunted House of APIs - A Portal to the Beyond with Allison Averill](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-a-portal-to-the-beyond/): Today’s episode is titled A Portal to the Beyond: Securing Gen AI and other Third-Party APIs in Your Applications, with Allison Averill. Developers are building exciting new features with Gen AI, often leveraging 3rd party APIs. Doing this isn’t new, but are these integrations secure? - [The Haunted House of APIs - Phantom Threats with Adam Arellano](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-phantom-threats-with-adam-arellano/): Today’s episode is titled Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security, with Adam Arellano. API security threats often go unnoticed, hiding like ghosts in your infrastructure. Bots, sophisticated fraud attempts, account takeovers and attackers disguising themselves within legit traffic… these all pose risk to your organization, and can bypass traditional security measures. - [E8: Shashwat Sehgal, P0 Security](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-shashwat-sehgal-p0-security/): In his prior years, Shashwat noticed that developers spend a large amount of time securing business assets in the cloud. He dreamt of a world where this was just an abstraction layer on top of the cloud, making it easier for developers to complete the task. - [The Haunted House of APIs - The Haunted Web of APIs with Richard Bird](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-the-haunted-web-of-apis/): Today’s episode is titled The Haunted Web: Navigating API Sprawl and Creepy Crawlers, with Traceable’s Chief Security Officer, Richard Bird. As organizations scale and evolve, so does the complexity of their APIs. API sprawl, the uncontrolled expansion of APIs, creates a tangled web where vulnerabilities linger in the shadows. - [The Haunted House of APIs - The Dark Corners of APIs with Katie Paxton-Fear](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-dark-corners-of-apis/): Our episode today is titled The Dark Corners of APIs: Uncovering Unknown API’s lurking in the shadows, where we speak with Katie Paxton-Fear. APIs are the gateway to your digital infrastructure, but hidden deep in the recesses of your system are unknown APIs – shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented API’s. Each of these present a unique threat to your organization and can be exploited by hackers. - [The Haunted House of APIs - The Witch’s Brew with Jayesh Ahire](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-the-witchs-brew-with-jayesh-ahire/): In today’s episode, we will be talking with Jayesh Ahire, an expert in API testing and OWASP, will guide us through the "brew" of common vulnerabilities that haunt API ecosystems, focusing on the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. He’ll share how organizations can use API security testing to spot and neutralize these vulnerabilities before they become major exploits. By emphasizing proactive security measures, Jayesh will offer insights into creating a strong API testing framework that keeps malicious actors at bay. - [Bonus: Elkhan Shabanov, Digicode](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-elkhan-shabanov-digicode/): As I mentioned, six years ago Elkhan joined a company that wanted to be more than a software development shop. He and the founder of the company wanted to build a company that did more than throw bodies at a problem - but actually because a long term partner to their clients. - [E7: Vishal Agarwal, Checkmate](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-vishal-agarwal-checkmate/): In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution. - [Bonus: Heiki Riesenkampf, Commonbase](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-heiki-riesenkampf-commonbase/): Previously, Heiki spent time working for a VC, eventually building a product in a completely different domain. After personally realizing that he didn't want to be known for the product he was building, he pivoted towards building something that impacted him personally as an immigrant. - [E6: Guy Guzner, Savvy Security](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-guy-guzner-savvy-security/): After selling his past company to Symantec, he stayed on to help existing and future companies. What he realized was that people were still mis-using their identities. He observed this behavior, and decided to take identity to the next level. - [Bonus: Rob Grazioli, Bread](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-graziolo-bread/): Eight years ago, Rob and his partners started a company called Density, allowing businesses to count the number of people in a room. After growing that business, Rob realized that he wanted to get back to building things. And, after working with early businesses, he found his passion in being founders for hire. - [E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-sebastian-raffaele-minotaur-trading-systems/): Sebastian realized that the manual processes for a trader are overwhelming, along with making it difficult to be consistent. And alongside this, he saw the cycle of manual traders returning the money they made to the market - sort of like "the house always wins" in casinos. He wanted to build something close the gap for these traders, and solve this problem. - [E4: Brendan Wood, SnapTrade](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-brendan-wood-snaptrade/): Brendan and his team were running into the problems surrounding integrations into brokers. People started to reach out to his team to ask if they could use the integrations... and they started ideating about making this its own product. - [Whats New with SWOB - Alex Florio](https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-swob-founder-alex-florio/): Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember our episode with Stephanie Florio in Season 6 over 2 years ago, where she clued us in on the creation story of the company. Today, I'm speaking with her co-founder and brother, Alex, to hear the update on Swob and what the team has been up to since then. - [E3: Kevin Hurley, Lightspark](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-kevin-hurley-lightspark/): Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. - [Turso Update with Pekka Enberg](https://codestory.co/podcast/turso-update-with-pekka-enberg/): Today, I have an incredible follow episode from our friends at Turso. You may remember our episode with Glauber Costa in Season 8, where he told us the creation story of the platform. Today, I'm speaking with his co-founder, Pekka, to hear the update on Turso and what the team has been building over the past year. - [E2: Matt Van Itallie, Sema](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-matt-van-itallie-sema/): Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? - [Bonus: Anurag Goel, Render](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anurag-goel-render/): In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. - [E1: Sagar Batchu, Speakeasy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sagar-batchu-speakeasy/): In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. - [E35: Prince Ghosh, Factored Quailty](https://codestory.co/podcast/e35-prince-ghosh-factored-quailty/): Prior to his current venture, Prince started Workbench while his co-founders created an agency, which was more like an operations company in a box. When they started working together, they realized there was a large opportunity to combine forces and simplify quality control. - [E34: Anish Dhar, Cortex](https://codestory.co/podcast/e34-anish-dhar-cortex/): While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC - [E33: Rick Caccia, WitnessAI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e33-rick-caccia-witnessai/): After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. - [E32: Shalin Madan, Formidium](https://codestory.co/podcast/e32-shalin-madan-formidium/): Shalin found himself frustrated with working for others, which drove him into entrepreneurship. When he came across his current venture, he invested in the firm, became a part of it, and eventually, became the last co-founder, in a company administrating funds with cutting edge technology. - [E31: Konrad Niemiec, Lekko](https://codestory.co/podcast/e31-konrad-niemiec-lekko/): Konrad worked at Uber, working on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and quickly realize how quickly configuration bloat appears in the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags. - [Bonus: Jason Hill, Owwlll App](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-hill-owwlll-app/): Jason has been a podcaster for many years, interviewing founders and creators of new startup and tech solutions. When COVID hit, he was struck with how difficult it was to connect with individuals via audio call. He validated an idea he had, and combining his ambition and a little bit of boredom, he got a crew building a solution. - [E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-adam-jacob-system-initiative/): Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control. - [Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-berkay-atatop-maestra/): After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond. - [E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-umaimah-khan-opal-security/): In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy – and that people weren’t willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it. - [E28: David Cauthron, Outpave](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-david-cauthron-outpave/): David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses. - [Bonus: Omry Hay, env0](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-omry-hay-env0/): Omry and his cofounder used to work together at a prior big company in Israel. They encountered problems scaling environments efficiently and fast. Back then though - there was no cloud, it was just getting started. When they started building something internally to solve this, they encountered infrastructure as a code - and the game changed. - [E27: Neil Patel, Axiom](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-neil-patel-axiom/): Prior to 2020, Neil and his team was attempting to build tooling around understanding the data around events. After a while, they realized that no matter what was done on top of an event store, you couldn't realize value without storing all events. So they pivoted, and focused on fixing the data store problem first. - [E26: Sanjay Nagaraj, Traceable AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-sanjay-nagaraj-traceable-ai/): For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time. - [Bonus: Nic Beique, Helcim](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nic-beique-helcim/): Nic started his first payments business a decade ago, which lived under the shadow of the bank. After many years of negotiation, he convinced the powers that be to let his company become its own payment processor. And after 3 years, he built a giant MVP to build the Square for grown-ups - [E25: JJ Tang, Rootly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-jj-tang-rootly/): At Instacart, JJ started to build a tool for infrastructure monitoring. When he realized that building it was cumbersome, and nothing existed in the market, he decided to take one of the companies best SRE and start a company, building this very product. - [E24: Alex Gallego, Redpanda Data](https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-alex-gallego-redpanda-data/): Alex was working with a large dataset in ad tech. After this startup did well, he was hooked, he went on to build a computing framework, which eventually sold to Alkamai. During his time at that company, he started playing with squeezing every bit of compute out of hardware - and decided to combine this in order to optimize storage. - [Bonus: Adam Sandman, Inflectra](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-sandman-inflectra/): In the past, Adam realized that there were not great tools out there for QA testing. He noticed a lot of people were using Excel and Word, along with manual testing through the industry. Given his experience as a project manager and architect, he saw an opportunity in the market - and set out to build a solution. - [E23: Vlad Sadovskiy, Netevia](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-vlad-sadovskiy-netevia/): A few years ago, Vlad acquired a number of businesses in the payment space. Having spent many years in the payment space, he decided it was time to be a founder and create something in the payment space with a twist - specifically, for the "reseller community". - [Bonus: Sasha Mitchell, BeL2](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sasha-mitchell-bel2/): Being in the space for a long time, Sasha has been witnessing what he describes as the drop in the value of currency, by manipulation. He wanted to see decentralized, smart contracts create a smart economy - as part of a new internet. - [E22: Roman Sevast, Awesomic](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-roman-sevast-awesomic/): Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI. - [Bonus: Björn Kolbeck, Quobyte](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-bjorn-kolbeck-quobyte/): Bjorn started a PhD program, and was part of a large project with the goal to build a distributed version of Linux. Within this program, he met his now co-founder, and they were responsible for a package within that project, surrounding data management. Little did they know that their exciting part of the project would later turn into a separate distributed file system. - [E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-matt-hocking-wellsaid-labs/): Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. - [Tech Update: Rene Morkos, Alice Technologies](https://codestory.co/podcast/tech-update-rene-morkos-alice-technologies/): Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. - [E20: Michael Hummel, Establish](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-michael-hummel-establish/): Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. - [Bonus: Alon Arvatz, Pointfive & Author of Battle for Your Computer](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alon-arvatz-pointfive-author-or-battle-for-your-computer/): Through his time in the military, Alon was exposed to the difficulties of managing cloud cost. Alongside his 15 years in cybersecurity, and writing his book on the topic, he figured out that a focus on efficiency could help businesses with their cloud costs - starting with a minimum integrate-able product. - [E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-linus-hakansson-gravitee/): Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good. - [Bonus: Erin & Jesus, MSquared](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erin-jesus-msquared/): Erin and Jesus are stationed in Denver, Colorado. During the pandemic, they were hanging out at the back yard picnic table, with wine and smokes. They were ideating over building a digital strip mall, to help local businesses build their platforms. Eventually, they started up a platform engineering company and when Lionsgate called, their pandemic picnic table idea started to grow. - [E18: Jai Ranganathan, Motive](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-jai-ranganathan-motive/): In 2013, Jai's current CEO saw a huge opportunity for the millions of heavy freight vehicles on the road. He built an app to track service hours, around the time that Jai joined - but, they didn't plan on stopping there. - [Bonus: Amy & Whitney, Disruption Advisors](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-amy-whitney-disruption-advisors/): Amy was researching women who had become though leaders, and stumbled upon the work that Whitney was doing. They started out doing a small project together in 2015, and discovered that not only do they like working together, their strengths complimented each other - which led to the forming of a partnership. - [E17: Jake Ward, Data Protocol](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jake-ward-data-protocol/): Jake figured out that 85% of developers want their content through video, over documentation or other means of info comms. He believes that developers are building the world around us - and the world is underperforming in how those people are supported. He decided to change this, and set out to build docs and guidance learnings into one video content platform. - [Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luka-yancopolis-grapevine/): For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around these problems, specifically into the medical supply chain, and discovered a whole list of things needing to be addressed to support medical professionals in their buying. - [E16: James Perkins, Unkey](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-james-perkins-unkey/): James and his co-founder were friends and colleagues before their current venture. They had an idea around building a small version of API authentication. After building and releasing this version, they wanted to see how people received it. They were overwhelmed with the response, and figured they should push harder on this to be a company. - [Bonus: Zach Goldberg, Gruntwork & The Startup CTO's Handbook](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-zach-goldberg-gruntwork-the-startup-ctos-handbook/): A few months ago, Zach was introduced to the founders of his current company, through the executive coaching and consulting he does. They all had great conversation around approaches to DevOps and what the future of the industry is - so much so, that he decided to join the team and lead the conversation. - [E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-saravana-kumar-document360/): In past projects, Saravana encountered the need to build a knowledge base for a different product - and one that had the flexibility to serve his unique needs. After he couldn't find it, he encourage his team to build something during a hackathon - which validated the product idea, and led him to want to take this further. - [Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-craig-sellars-self/): Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether stable-coin and the first every NFT platform, now known as Baton. Throughout his tenure in this space, he has learned that you - the user - is the most valuable asset in the world. And in learning that, he wanted to pursue building the standard of internet identify. - [E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-mike-bifulco-craftwork/): Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs? - [E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-david-boskovic-flatfile/): In the past, David had built CSV imports into websites many, many times - even back to the site he built for his Dad at 12 years old. After being presented the need to build it again, he asked the question... when does it make sense to build this as a product, and launch a company? - [Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-debbie-levitt-delta-cx/): In the 90's, Debbie was helping businesses get on the web, strategizing with them around how to deploy their website and build an online presence. Fast forward many years, she has shifted into doing work and leading projects, centered around customer experience online. - [E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-yoav-abrahami-velo-by-wix/): In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build it to what it is today. Fast forward to today, Wix has collected infrastructure and application partners, allowing them to offer these integrations to Wix users. What they figured out next was that people wanted it done for them, turn key, without having to learn how to spin up a server. - [Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shauli-rozen-armo-security/): In the past, Shauli noticed that the world was not actually ready for Kubernetes. The adoption curve proved to them that businesses had different problems outside of security. After spending 2 years of discovery and intimately learning Kubernetes, they spent 2 weeks to change the game in security - using open source. - [E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-srikar-sam-yeruva-pycube/): Srikar started working with hospitals in many different capacities to understand how things worked. This gave them a lot of perspective on how to help them best - administrators, doctors, nurses, etc. Once they learned how to serve them best, they pivoted to building software solutions to help them lower cost. - [Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-hartmann-helio-additive/): In 2014, David took a sabbatical from his Corporate job. He started to dig into 3d printing, and ended up meeting the founder of Polymer. They started talking about why the industry hadn't accomplished much of the things they had hoped, and they realized that software was generally, the answer. - [E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-dennis-pilarinos-unblocked/): Dennis is a self proclaimed impatient person, and a mediocre developer - which drives his building of solutions. In context of a company, there is a lot of information that exists in the context of a company, which is necessary to know when getting familiar with a codebase. When you can't find that info, you are essentially... well, blocked. So, Dennis decided to help people solve that problem. - [Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruslan-zaripov-riskhunter-by-krit/): Eight years ago, Ruslan bought into the company KRIT, becoming a co-owner. KRIT builds software products for large enterprises, in the heavy energy and metallurgy plants. He and his team wanted to create a product that brought safety to the forefront each employees mind. - [Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-gross-the-tech-academy/): Erik has a background in training, while being a working engineer. He continuously took on side gigs, where he would need to have a junior engineer join him - and he couldn't find them. He decided to build a program that created this engineers for him, and was affirmed when he found a competitor doing the same thing. - [E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-ryo-koyama-remote-it/): Ryo and his co-founder have both been in networking for a very long time. They notice that the internet was going to make this part of the industry - IE networking - invisible. They decided to encore some of the prior work to create connectivity as code. - [E8: Roger Light, Cedalo](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-roger-light-cedalo/): In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was being used to track electricity monitoring. What he realized was that an open source version of management software didn't exist. He happened to be looking for a project at the time, and thought "this should only take a couple of months". - [Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nate-henderson-bilt/): While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar with today, and replace them with 3D graphical instructions. The idea was conceived, but to really bring it to life, he and his co-founder needed to take it outside the 4 walls. - [Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-craig-mcluckie-stacklok/): In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. - [E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-naomi-chopra-hatica/): Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to get their work done. He and his team started to ask the right questions, around why don't we build something to collect the signals from these tools, and present information to help drive velocity, alignment, and well-being. - [E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-melissa-pancoast-the-beans/): Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it. - [Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jonathan-norris-devcycle-taplytics/): In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. - [E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-gilad-shriki-descope/): Gilad has known his current founding team for many, many years, and their last product was bought by Palo Alto Networks. When looking at what was the next big problem to solve, they dug into authentication and figured out - that this was still a major problem in the ecosystem, for developers and from the standpoint of cybersecurity. - [Replay: Alexander Deeb, Classhook](https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-alexander-deeb-classhook/): One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - [Bonus: Sahil Patel, Spiralyze](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sahil-patel-spiralyze/): In the past, Sahil was a client of his current venture. In leading ER Express, he saw great value in a tool to predict conversion. He liked it so much, that after he sold his company and moved on, he wanted to join the team - and take it to the next level. - [Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ariel-irena-healthbird/): Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance. - [E4: Ayal Regev, Redefine.dev](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-ayal-regev-redefine-dev/): Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD. - [Bonus: Leonardo Shapiro, Not Alien](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leonardo-shapiro-not-alien/): For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that would make this process easier, and he couldn't find it. He wanted to fix this, and provide something for his fellow "not" alien's. - [Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-blake-burch-shipyard/): Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own. - [E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-reinis-simanovskis-finfra/): In the past, Reinis and his co-founders noticed that no one was approaching embedded finance in Indonesia. At the same time, he was seeing other companies be successful at this very thing in the US and other countries, and they started to realize the magnitude of the opportunity. - [Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-raven-jiang-arc/): Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup. - [Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-avi-freedman-kentik/): Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for network observability. - [E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-juan-barroso-salsa-payroll/): Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own. - [Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-fabiana-clemente-ydata/): As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science. - [Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-carberry-coder/): Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off. - [E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-matt-levine-cachefly/): While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN. - [Season 9 Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-9-trailer/): What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? - [Replay - Puneet Gupta, Amberflo](https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-puneet-gupta-amberflo/): The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. - [Replay - Glauber Costa, Turso](https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-glauber-costa-turso/): Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. - [Replay - Sefi Genis, Firefly](https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-sefi-genis-firefly/): Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. - [Replay - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy](https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/): When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. - [Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-yarotsky-hubstaff/): Twelve years ago, the founders of Alex's current venture noticed that the demand for freelancers was growing in the market. They also noticed that very few time tracking solutions existed, and they wanted to tackle this niche. Later, Alex joined the crew to take the product to the next level, as CTO. - [Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pato-echague-split-io/): At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem. - [E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-moti-rafalin-vfunction/): After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process. - [Bonus: Shaun Ritchie, nClouds](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaun-ritchie-nclouds/): In 2022, Shaun set out to accomplish a new goal. He put together the financial resources to acquire an organization, with the goal of transforming it into a premier services company - by leading and growing people to the next level. - [Bonus: Arunabh Dastidar, RealSage](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arunabh-dastidar-realsage/): Arunabh was on a very important call, and his excel sheet was crashing. He looked left and right, and couldn't find anything to support what he needed. He found some co-foudners, and built the solution he wished he had for the industry. - [E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-zach-wasserman-fleet/): In 2014, Zach was working at Facebook. During that time, a team member wanted to build a platform where they could know what was going on with all of their assorted machines. They ne eded a way to ask questions without writing code, and more quickly get answers about their community of devices. - [Bonus: Steven Schkolne, MightyMeld](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-steven-schkolne-mightymeld/): Steven was working on a VR project in the past, and a component required some web development. What he immediately noticed was that although Unity Game Engine development was visual, but web development required you to build visually in the realm of code. He started to wonder if there was a way to bring this sort of thing to web dev. - [Bonus: Somak Chattopadhyay, Armory Square Ventures](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-somak-chattopadhyay-armory-square-ventures/): In 2013, a group of professors and business people noticed that early stage companies in Syracuse were required to move to NYC - primarily because there was lack of capital and access to talent. A year later, Somak and his team stepped out to solve this problem in New York regions... and beyond. - [E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-maxim-fateev-temporal/): During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually, at Uber, he launched an open source library that eventually would become the basis of his current venture. - [Bonus: Ibrahim & Jay, Astera](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ibrahim-jay-astera-leaders/): Going back several years, Ibrahim started a consultancy in 2005 or so, and mentions working on successful products in the area of mortgage banking. In 2008, the financial meltdown happened, and all of their customers (save 1) went out of business. After struggling for while, they decided take a foundational utility they had built and bridge the gap to 2.0 of their business. - [Bonus: Jason Radisson, Movo](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-radisson-movo/): Through his career, Jason gained great experience in the gig economy, through his time at Uber and other ventures in Latin America. He saw many shifts run the market through his time, and throughout the pandemic, and he saw that people were looking to maximize the productivity of the workforce they currently had. - [E27: Valeriy Bykanov, Prodigy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-valeriy-bykanov-prodigy/): Valeriy had some past experience in recruitment, having had run his own agency. He found great reward in placing people, but eventually wanted to build a solution for the process. After he met his co-founder, they both decided to attack the creation of a new kind of recruiting tool. - [Bonus: Massoud Alibakhsh, Omadeus](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-massoud-alibakhsh-omadeus/): Massoud held a strong desire to find a solution to the complex communication problem between people and systems. He decided to approach this with deep AI integration, smart objects, and an object messaging model. And in doing so, he put AI in project management, and discovered the next development paradigm. - [E26: Josh Purvis, Assembly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-josh-purvis-assembly/): In the past, Josh and his current co-founder started to discuss employment engagement. They also noticed that sharing information across a large company was, well - inefficient, with many points of failure. On the side, they started building something that would improve both of these areas together. - [Bonus: Max Rudman, Prodly](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-rudman-prodly/): Within his last startup, Max discovered that deploying configuration rules on Salesforce was clunky and took a long time to do so, even for a seasoned engineers. Eventually, he decided to build a tool to focus on this process alone. - [Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kaj-pedersen-astrumu/): In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1.0 conception. - [E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-andrew-colombi-tonic/): In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure. - [Dev Interrupted: Assembling & Nurturing Engineering Teams](https://codestory.co/podcast/dev-interrupted-assembling-nurturing-engineering-teams/): Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted! - [Bonus: Max Howell, Tea](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-howell-tea/): Max is the creator of Homebrew, the widely used package manager which is probably installed on your computer right now. After the success of the tool, he wanted to figure out a way to continue to bring value to open source, and power digital money in the web3 space. - [Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shirshanka-das-acryl-data/): After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version. - [E24: Jon Ricketts, Writerly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-jon-ricketts-writerly/): Jon observed the maturation of AI, in the creation of tooling like ChatGPT and generative AI. He envisioned building an application to extend the progression of natural language processing to enable work productivity. - [Bonus: Tim Tutt, ClearQuery](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tim-tutt-clearquery/): In the past, Tim played the role of the middle man between the data and those who needed answers from the data. Like a good engineer, he always automated the repeat things he was asked to do. He asked his co-founder one day... wouldn't it be nice if we could just get out of the way? - [Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alfredo-ramirez-vyopta/): Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it. - [E23: Will Gaviria, Coactive AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-will-gaviria-coactive-ai/): Will and his co-founder observed first hand the explosion of visual content. At the same time, artificial intelligence had reached a mature state, such that you could use it to learn from unstructured data. They set out to build the next big thing, specifically in context of unstructured visual data. - [Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-kahl-backbox/): Andrew was part of a private equity group, which acquired BackBox in late 2021. He stepped in as CEO, maintaining the technology team in Israel and bringing the GTM team to the US. Taking over a fantastic product, Andrew set his sights on growing the company. - [Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pete-hunt-dagster/): Pete was one of the founding team members of React, and his cofounder, Nick, was one of the creators of GraphQL. Post Facebook, they wanted to figure out what was next, and wanted to build something impactful. After interviewing some folks, he realized that managing data and data pipelines was a challenge that needed to be solved. - [E22: Eric Olden, Strata Identity](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-eric-olden-strata-identity/): Prior to his current venture, Eric was running a large division at Oracle, surrounding identity. He saw that most cloud customers were utilizing multiple clouds, but most tooling didn't allow for those cloud identities to play nice together. He saw this opportunity sitting in plain sight, and decided to step out and attack it. - [Bonus: Barak Glanz, Coddy.tech](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-barak-glanz-coddy-tech/): A year and a half ago, Barak and his childhood friends shared the personal struggle of learning how to code online. What they noticed was that the current solutions didn't offer helpful ways to practice building real world projects. So they built their own. - [Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-hurwitt-troove/): Dave spent some time in college admissions in the past. And, as his kids grew up, he started to look into the process again. He found that when visiting a school in person, there wasn't solution that utilized preferences of the graduates, helping them identify patterns to help match them to their perfect school. - [E21: Jared Ward, Luminous](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-jared-ward-luminous/): Jared has spent a lot of time in the eCommerce world, serving numerous different roles. What he noticed is that with evolution of eCommerce companies, it is difficult for them to develop a system of record early on. Jared wanted to change all that, and take on the juggernauts head on. - [Bonus: Vikram Chalana, Pictory AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vikram-chalana-pictory/): Vikram noticed that content marketing has shifted from text to images to videos. In a prior organization, they only had 1 person who was trained to create videos, though the demand for assets was high. After attempting to learn tools to make these videos, he wanted to find a better way to generate this type of content. - [Bonus: Dor Laor, ScyllaDB](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dor-laor-scylladb/): Dor and his co-founder met long ago at another startup. Post acquisition, they listed ideas of what to start building next. They decided to build an operating system like to Linux, and noticed that databases still didn't run faster within their system. They decided to tackle distributed NoSQL databases instead. - [E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-artem-koren-sembly-ai/): Artem and his co-founder have years of experience in digital transformation. With the latest innovations in AI proving useful, they decided to make digesting, and utilizing, information from meetings easier - using said AI. - [From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere](https://codestory.co/podcast/from-tools-and-weapons-putting-ai-in-the-hands-of-people/): Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - [Bonus: Adam Nathan, Almanac](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-nathan-almanac/): Adam found himself inundated with messages and emails, all surrounding the workflow of reviewing and approving documentation. Keying off what Github accomplished for developers, he wanted to became a centralized, beautiful place, for business users to collaborate on documents. - [Bonus: Idan Plotnik, Apiiro](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-idan-plotnik-apiiro/): In the past, Idan sold two companies, one of which to Microsoft. At Microsoft, he felt the challenge and the pain of talking to risk management and security folks, begging them to integrate their tooling into the development process - which slowed down delivery. After spending so much time on non-value add activities, he decided to set out and optimize this process. - [E19: Yann Ravel-Sibillot, Flowie](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-yann-ravel-sibillot-flowie/): When Yann was a CTO of a group of restaurants, he was pursued by the accounting department, to ensure he was validating invoices. Though he tried to build a system for this, it wasn't enough to alleviate the pain of the problem. Eventually, he set out to build the right solution to solve this. - [Bonus: Danielle Shaul, Nilus](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-danielle-shaul-nilus/): Prior to her current startup, Danielle had to execute financial workflows manually - cause back then, when she was at Fundbox, software for these workflows didn't exist. Her and her co-founder clicked over the idea to build the software that she wished she had. - [Bonus: Dan & Caroline, Overplay](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-caroline-overplay/): One day, Dan was watching some videos online. He had a thought, a desire, a want - to play the video like it was a game. And eventually, this idea turned into a business, which he started with his co-founder Caroline. - [E18: Ritukar Vijay, Ottonomy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-ritukar-vijay-ottonomy/): Prior to COVID and during lockdowns, Ritukar started ideating about the autonomous delivery for an industry that was overlooked for automation. They started to created robots to service the industry, and did so - from their guest rooms. - [Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-long-kosli/): At his previous company, Mike was the CTO of a DevOps consultancy company. He realized that they would see the same problem over and over again in regulated environments - businesses needed a process to follow to ensure changes were tracked, and they could in turn, "keep the receipts" for proof of changes. - [Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-suman-kanuganti-personal-ai/): In his previous company, Suman built solutions around augmenting the human experience for blind people. Moving forward, he wanted to expand this to allow people to use AI to create long term memory, personally for you and your loved ones. - [E17: Jay Sarmaz, Truve.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jay-sarmaz-truve-ai/): Jay and his team were doing consulting, prior to launching their current startup. During COVID, law firms were going through significant digital transformation, and didn't know what to do with all of their data. Wanting to scale their consultancy, they wanted to find a better way to provide analysis at scale. - [Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-reza-farahani-wfhomie/): Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams. - [Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-bovee-conductorone/): Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on. - [E16: Job Rietbergen, Alphadoc](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-job-rietbergen-alphadoc/): In his last role, Job was in charge of marketing and growth, of an integrations platform in healthcare tech. He dreamt of a way to enable developers and users of this platform to easy understand and implement their system. Once he met up with his co-founder, who was passionate about solving the same thing, they set out to solve this problem. - [Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer](https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-daniel-jordan-wayflyer/): Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - [Bonus: David Frank, Stonehaven](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-frank-stonehaven/): From his experience in the industry and in the market, David saw a gap for small and medium size organizations to have a system to run financial businesses on. He and his team set forth to build the next generation, broker dealer platform - one that is better than they could build themselves, and better than what the large institutions have. - [Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-walker-piton-labs/): Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage. - [E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-alex-louisy-upflow/): Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity. - [Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow](https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-bryce-crawford-meow/): Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - [Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matthew-oriordan-ably/): Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work. - [Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ali-nichols-getaway/): Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people. - [E14: Dan Lines, LinearB](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-dan-lines-linearb/): Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains. - [Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy](https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-ilia-zintchenko-ntropy-cto/): Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - [Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-einat-sitbon-ifocus-health/): Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem. - [Bonus: Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sharekh-shaikh-cleverx/): When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust. - [E13: Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-colleen-schnettler-helloquery/): Recently, Colleen and her co-founder did a pivot of their previous offering, which was a package to solve reporting problems by embed them into your application. They are now focused on a SaaS tool, to provide this functionality for you. - [Bonus: Eduardo Abeliuk, Teselagen](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eduardo-abeliuk-teselagen/): Together with some colleagues from Stanford, Eduardo felt the pains of planning research projects. This process contained several processes that could have been automated through software. So, they decided to set out and build an enterprise solution for R&D projects. - [Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy](https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/): Today we are kicking off a new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - [Bonus: Adriaan van Rossum, Simple Analytics](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adriaan-van-rossum-simple-analytics/): For several years, Adriaan was a freelancer. Each time he built an application for his clients, he did the usual song and dance with Google Analytics - he copy and pasted the script. This didn't feel right, and his girlfriend prompted him to build his own... so he did. - [E12: Stephanie Mertz, Eisen](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-stephanie-mertz-eisen/): Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it. - [Bonus: Fredrik Björk, Grafbase](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-fredrik-bjork-grafbase-api-layer/): Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below. - [Bonus: Jaclyn Ling, Hatchways](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jaclyn-ling-hatchways/): Jaclyn is a self proclaimed terrible interviewer, which never gave her the best foot forward when looking for jobs. When her co-founder and she wanted to solve a problem in the space of hiring, they wanted to enable people to have access to more opportunities, and get noticed better for your first job. - [Bonus: Shawn Cao, Columns](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-cao-columns/): Shawn noticed, through his time at larger companies like Pinterest and Microsoft, that the path to get data insights and analytics leans heavily on engineering, and takes a long time. He thought, there must be a way to make an easy, quick tool to enable people outside of engineering to do this themselves. So he built the Canva for Data. - [E11: Lauren Long, Ampersand](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-lauren-long-ampersand/): Lauren was a key developer at Firebase, and post that, she started thinking about her past experiences and what areas could be improved - and she landed on integrations. Once she met her now co-founder, they realized they both were passionate about solving this problem. - [Bonus: P. Scott Bening, Monosol & Author](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-p-scott-bening-monosol-author/): Many years ago, Scott joined a small division of a company in 1989. Scott took the company to new heights, developing and selling a material that you probably use every day - the film that wraps Tide Pods. Since retired from the company, he is advising other companies, and helping entrepreneurs through his book, titled Formulating Solutions. - [Bonus: Matt Martin, Clockwise](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-martin-clockwise/): Matt considers himself a productivity nerd, and is always looking for ways to improve his workflow. At a prior role, he was focusing on individual optimization to schedules. And what he realized, is that time is not an individual problem - but a team problem to be solved. - [E10: Ido Shamun, Daily Dev](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-ido-shamun-daily-dev/): Ido and his co-founders started out building a side project, building a tool to help themselves keep track of what's going on in the industry. After they built a quick tool to aggregate information, they thought that maybe other developers would be interested in this solution. - [The Closer: Toys R Us](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-closer-toys-r-us/): The Closer, from the team at Project Brazen, hosted by financial journalist Aimee Keane, focuses on pulling out the high octane emotion and exponential stakes that underscore todays biggest acquisition or investment headlines. - [Bonus: Andy Wilson, Logikcull](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andy-wilson-logikcull/): Previously, Andy worked for a company that printed email for legal teams - like truck loads of email. He decided to startup a business to digitize this process, using servers in his dining room. Eventually, he moved to the cloud, and started using AI. - [Bonus: Dr. Eamonn Keogh, FarmSense](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dr-eamonn-keogh-farmsense/): A perk of Dr. Keogh's job as a professor, he gets to play with toys (in his words). He picked up a science toy one day and decided to see if he could pick up sound from plant insects. When it worked, he decided to take it to the next level. - [Bonus: Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-srini-srinivasan-aerospike/): After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. - [E9: Lilac Bar David, Lili](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-lilac-bar-david-lili/): Lilac and her co-founders started to think about business owners, and all of the things they had to manually, and in disconnected, non-optimal ways. They wanted to build a banking solution that was tailored towards these users - starting with freelancers. - [Bonus: Prasad Kawthekar, Dashworks](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-prasad-kawthekar-dashworks/): There was a time in his previous role that he was searching for info related to his role. After 7 email threads and 8 weeks passing, he finally located the document. This experience blew him away, and seeded the problem he now seeks to solve. - [Bonus: Kwindla Kramer, Daily](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kwindla-kramer-daily-video-dev-tools/): After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. - [E8: Gilad Uziely, Sequence](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-gilad-uziely-sequence/): Recently, Gilad and his team built a product called Lance (you might remember his co-founder Oona from Season 5). This was a Neo-bank for the self employed, which was built on the idea of stacks. When they figured out they needed to pivot, they moved towards focusing on financial routing. - [Bonus: Nooshin Alibhai & Eric Klimuk, Supportbench](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nooshin-alibhai-eric-klimuk-supportbench-customer-service/): Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the world - [Bonus: Matt Swalley & Hikari Senju, Omneky](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-swalley-hikari-senju-omneky/): In one of his earliest ventures, Hikari was leading marketing efforts across multiple digital channels. He saw an opportunity to use generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize how content is generated, and how well it performs. At the same time, Matt was researching great folks building companies around data - and found Hikari. - [E7: Jason Boehmig, Ironclad](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-jason-boehmig-ironclad/): Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that. - [Bonus: Adam Judelson, NetworkNerd](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-judelson-networknerd/): When Adam was a Palantir, he was building great relationships with his colleagues. Then he realized that the relationships he had in his life before had moved on, or changed in natural ways. He started to wonder if there was a way to build something easy, to store information about people and prompt you to checkin with important people. - [Bonus: Vlad Matsiiako, Infisical](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vlad-matsiiako-infisical/): Vlad and his co-founder were previously working on other startup projects. And one of the problems they encountered on a regular basis was secrets management. After talking to like minded industry folks, they figured out that this was a MUCH bigger problem, and needed to be solved. - [E6: Bryce Crawford, Meow](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-bryce-crawford-meow-treasury-management/): Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management. - [Bonus: Shai Ber & Elad Ben-Israel, Monada & Winglang](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shai-ber-elad-ben-israel-monada-winglang/): About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language. - [Bonus: Andrew Louder, Louder Co](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-louder-louder-co/): About 6 years ago, Andrew decided to jump out and be on his own, with the hope of making a bigger impact than what he was experiencing. He went the solo consultant right for a while, bringing big firm experience to the table and trying things out. Fast forward to now, he and his team are at the forefront of utilizing AI to help you grow your business. - [E5: Nikita Federov, Qase](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-nikita-federov-qase/): While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it. - [No Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of Nvidia](https://codestory.co/podcast/no-priors-jensen-huang-founder-ceo-of-nvidia/): Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - [Bonus: George Novik, Zerocoder](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-george-novik-zerocoder/): A few years ago, George was hired to build a marketplace for his friends company. Fast forward, he and his team are on a mission to simplify software production, and provide access to vetted, no code developers. - [Bonus: Rickard Hansson, Weavy](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rickard-hansson-weavy/): In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. - [E4: Andy Skipper, CTO Craft](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-andy-skipper-cto-craft/): In the past, Andy was a consulting CTO, going into companies to coach leaders or temporarily fill in for leaders who had left. What he realized was that these leaders would be doing just fine, if they had mentorship and/or coaching available from seasoned veterans. So Andy branched off - and started doing just that. - [Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-egil-osthus-unleash/): In a past role, Egil's co-founder (and brother, FYI) was looking for a tool that would help him release code into the wild, in a rapid - yet safe - manner. He couldn't find anything to meet his high standards - so he built his own. When the open source version started to get a lot of attention, Egil joined his brother to bring the solution to the enterprise. - [Bonus: Aviram Hassan, MetalBear & mirrord](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aviram-hassan-metalbear-mirrord/): Given their background, Aviram and his co-founder wanted to build a product based company. In their last company, they didn't really have a developer environment, as it was hard to maintain and didn't represent real data in the production environment. They started thinking about how they could solve this sort of problem. - [E3: Shem Magnezi, Wilco](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-shem-magnezi-wilco/): Throughout their time in the industry, Shem and his co-founders saw a big gap in the industry - between theoretical knowledge and what is actually done on the job in a company. They wanted to set out and build something to bridge that gap - an immersive experience, that not only prepares engineers... but takes them on a quest. - [Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-puneet-gupta-amberflo/): The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. - [Bonus: Glauber Costa, Turso](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-glauber-costa-turso/): Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. - [E2: Sefi Genis, Firefly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-sefi-genis-firefly/): Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. - [Bonus: Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/): When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. - [Bonus: Ronald Richardson, Fleetbase](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ronald-richardson-fleetbase/): Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry. - [E1: Sargun Kaur, Byteboard](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sargun-kaur-byteboard/): When Sargun was applying at Google, she went through their normal engineering interview process - IE five whiteboard sessions back to back. After getting hired at Google, she struggled with the industry standard for interview questions, via algorithmic riddles, that didn't mirror the actual job. These types of interviews weren't only not fair, but left many great candidates out in the cold. - [Season 8 Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-8-trailer/): What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? - [From Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World](https://codestory.co/podcast/from-tools-and-weapons-microsoft-brad-smith-feed-drop/): Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - [Bonus: Rene Morkos, ALICE Technologies](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rene-morkos-alice-technologies/): Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. - [Bonus: Valentin Vasilyev, Fingerprint.com](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-valentin-vasilyev-fingerprint-com-device-identity/): Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. - [E30: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-sam-lambert-planetscale/): Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across Vitess, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability. - [Bonus: Ruben Izmailyan, Quiltt](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruben-izmailyan-quiltt/): In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets. And this abstraction started to gain traction. - [The New Notification Stack for Developers - Drew Youngwerth](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-drew-youngwerth/): Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - [E29: Manik Suri & Lucas Tepman, Therma](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-manik-suri-lucas-tepman-therma/): Manik and Lucas stumbled into the problem they are solving today. A decade ago, Manik wanted to solve big public problems. He saw opportunities in the food industry, and created a software solution to replace the clipboard. What they figured out was most people were checking temperatures, and did need a digital clipboard - the needed the process automated. - [Bonus: Tapan Pattnayak, Addverb](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tapan-pattnayak-addverb/): While growing up in India, Tapan was contacted by his good friend in the states to join his company. At first he was hesitant, but he came to a point in his life where he felt he needed to do something different - something that was high energy, open, and impactful to the rest of the world. - [The New Notification Stack for Developers - Maria Irizarry](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-maria-irizarry/): Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - [E28: Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-sean-stavropoulos-boulevard/): Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon. - [Bonus: Ashley Cline, Ice Cream Social](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ashley-cline-ice-cream-social/): Through her other company, Ticketsocket, Ashley began interviewing her clients about how she could help them get more money out of their marketing budgets. She began to pursue trying to figure out how to gamify registration, to incentivize people to want to bring their friends and family to events. - [The New Notification Stack for Developers - Shreya Gupta](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-shreya-gupta/): Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - [E27: Mathias Nestler, AccessOwl](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-mathias-nestler-accessowl/): Coming from a regulated industry, Mathias wanted to build something to help him keep track and document who has access to what, which is a huge time sync and security risk. One day, he had one of his fellow CTO's ask him if he knew of a tool that could do this... and he started thinking, "Maybe I should just build it?". - [Bonus: Evan Powell & Sam Clemens, Reprise](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-evan-powell-sam-clemens-reprise/): Evan, Sam, and their other co-founder, experienced a recurring problem with sales demos at their prior companies - with sales reps deleting material from production environments, or internal teams spending lots of time maintaining separate demo environments. They thought there had to be a better way. - [The New Notification Stack for Developers - Seth Carney & Ben Link](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-seth-ben/): Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - [E26: Liam Patterson, Bidnamic](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-liam-patterson-bidnamic/): Liam came to be hooked on Google Shopping and started using off the shelf tech to manage the campaigns. They found them to be lacking, and eventually built their own - and it became their competitive advantage. - [Bonus: Roya Kachooei, Walletafai](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-roya-kachooei-walletafai-savings-app/): In 2017, Roya wanted to start saving for a house downpayment. She discovered that it was really difficult to save up the money, and started looking into apps that would help her. When the only thing she could find to really help was Excel, she decided to step out and do something about it. - [E25: Matt Butcher, Fermyon](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-matt-butcher-fermyon/): Matt and his team started to explore the things they couldn't do with their current tooling, and landed on the power of WebAssembly. In attempting to speed up the startup time of servers and containers, along side the rising popularity of server-less, he and his team stumbled onto something, during a post offsite dinner. - [The New Notification Stack for Developers - Mike Miller](https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-mike-miller/): Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - [GrowthMode: ON - Jesse Rubenfeld, FinOptimal](https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-jesse-rubenfeld-finoptimal/): GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - [Bonus: Chelsey Roney, Proxi](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-chelsey-roney-proxi/): During the first Halloween during COVID, Chelsey and her co-founders experienced the need for mappable addresses, in organizing Seattle trick or treating. What was built for that holiday got media attention, and their crew decided to build it right, apply to an accelerator, and bring their solution to the world. - [GrowthMode: ON - Arun Sivashankaran, FunnelEnvy](https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-arun-sivashankaran-funnelenvy/): GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - [E24: Ethan Song, RareCircles](https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-ethan-song-rarecircles/): After the successes of his prior company, Ethan started to explore web3 as a technology, and a product offering. He noticed that most people were focusing on visual assets, but he wanted to create a tool that allows companies to depend their engagement - and revenue - with their customers. - [Bonus: Faisal Bhutto, Calian](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-faisal-bhutto-calian/): Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity. - [GrowthMode: ON - Lee Gilley, Docmo](https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-lee-gilley-docmo/): GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - [E23: Navid Alipour, AI Med Global](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-navid-alipour-ai-med-global/): Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well. - [Bonus: Joe De Pinto, Haste Arcade](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-joe-de-pinto-haste-arcade-leaderboard-sdk/): In January 2021, Joe and his co-founder are sitting in their office, frustrated that no one was getting what Bitcoin - that is BSV, not BTC - was originally created for. They asked themselves, what could we build to illustrate the utility of blockchain? - [GrowthMode: ON - Zach Fragapane, GrowthMatch](https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-zach-fragapane-growthmatch/): GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - [E22: Paul McCarthy, SnapFix](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-paul-mccarthy-snapfix/): Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos. - [Bonus: Kyle Tut, Piñata](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-tut-pinata/): Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world. - [E21: Nanxi Liu, Blaze.tech](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-nanxi-liu-blaze-tech/): At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build. - [Bonus: Alex Embiricos, Remotion](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-embiricos-remotion/): After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together. - [Bonus: Sydney Davis, Nixcode](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sydney-davis-nixcode/): When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience. - [E20: Tanmai Gopal, Hasura](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-tanmai-gopal-hasura-graph-ql/): Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that. - [E19: Ken Babcock, Tango](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-ken-babcock-tango/): Back in 2019, he and his current co-founders met each other at Harvard Business School. After digging into team performance, they started asking questions around the barriers to increasing team performance, specifically in replicating high performers. The dialed it into process replication, and started down the road to build a tool to make this not only possible... but easy. - [Whats New with Materialize - Arjun Narayan, CEO](https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-materialize-arjun-narayan-ceo/): Arjun is returning to the podcast since his prior appearance to give me major updates on the company and the product. As a reminder Materialize is a fast, distributed SQL database, based on streaming internals, which allows you to have data consistency, scalability and low latency. - [Whats New with Pulumi - Joe Duffy, Co-Founder & CEO](https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-pulumi-joe-duffy/): Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. - [Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arjun-bhatnagar-cloaked-replay/): Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. - [Bonus: Derek Osgood, Ignition (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-derek-osgood-ignition-replay/): At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. - [Bonus: Raj Bains, Prophecy (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-raj-bains-prophecy-replay/): Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. - [Bonus: Ian Small, Evernote (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-ian-small-evernote-replay/): Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. - [Bonus: Jeremy Wood, OpenStore](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jeremy-wood-openstore/): Jeremy was really into the craft builder community, which also led him to be interested in eCommerce. He observed Shopify grow as a marketplace, that made things so easy to launch a store. What he figured out was that there was a need for these store owners to offload and sell their store. - [Bonus: Max Lukichev, Telmai](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-lukichev-telmai/): After spending decades in the enterprise data space, Max experienced first hand the struggles around data anomaly detection. He constantly lived in escalation mode, and saw first hand that traditional rules and static dashboard based solutions were failing today's data needs. He set out to be part of the solution. - [E18: Hadi Radwan, Asteya](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-hadi-radwan-asteya-income-insurance/): Hadi and his team took a hard look at the the market, and realized that 1 out of 4 people are disabled in their career due to an unforeseen circumstance. Strikingly, 50% of folks are living paycheck to paycheck, and don't even know disability insurance existed. They decided to build a product based on technology that fills this gap. - [Bonus: Nick Ippolito & Rowan Findlay, Squarekicker](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nick-ippolito-rowan-findlay-squarekicker/): During a few days off, Rowan decided to tinker with an idea and build a tool to enable custom Squarespace site tooling. When he came back, he immediately showed off what he had built to Nick and his wife – who immediately saw the value, and the future, in the product. - [Bonus: Casey Kipfer, Justifi](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-casey-kipfer-justifi/): Through their collective knowledge, Casey and his team have found that customers have a need for a solid in house expertise to support a payments ecosystem. And, technically speaking, customers need an orchestration layer to abstract multiple partners and services behind the scenes. - [E17: Nora Jones, Jeli.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-nora-jones-jeli-io/): Through her time at other companies, Nora realized that the industry spends little time looking back on our past mistakes. She figured out that there was a solid market for people wanting to understand their incidents better, and started building something on the side, which eventually became her focus. - [Bonus: Alex Svinov, Insquad](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-svinov-insquad/): For the last several years, Alex had a huge problem finding qualified developers for his startup. Alongside of this, resources were thin in the early days, and he was losing recruiting bids to larger companies. He thought - hiring developers shouldn't be this hard... maybe he should look somewhere different. - [Return to Komodor - Andrey Pohkilko](https://codestory.co/podcast/return-to-komodor-andrey-pohkilko/): Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. - [E16: Gabriel Isserlis, Tutti](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-gabriel-isserlis-tutti/): When Gabriel combined his technical knowledge with his experience in the creative industries, he started to see numerous opportunities to automate manual steps in these processes. He decided to set out and build these tools for people in the creative industry. - [Bonus: Nathan Yap, SupportZebra](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nathan-yap-supportzebra-customer-support-team/): Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams. - [Bonus: Satish Jayanthi, Coalesce](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-satish-jayanthi-coalesce-io/): Prior to his current venture, Satish was building data warehouses for different businesses and firms in the industry. He saw first hand how hard it was to bring a bunch of data sources all together, and have them be compatible in a single source. He decided to set out and solve the problem, by bringing a modern approach to the space, paired with automations. - [E15: Jeff Grass, Hungry Marketplace](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-jeff-grass-hungry-marketplace/): Jeff's current venture started out as a tech-enabled platform for office and event catering, which connected their users to incredible chef entrepreneurs. Fast forward, they are now a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery services, that includes much, much more. - [Bonus: Rob Moore, Churnkey](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-moore-churnkey/): Rob previously built a product called Waave. When their customer acquisition couldn't keep up with churn, they started building tools to help them figure out what was going on. They focused on a cancellation flow, and spent 6 months perfecting a tool that helped them fix their churn problem. - [Bonus: Juan Soberanis, Beacon](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-juan-soberanis-beacon/): Juan has been working with startups for quite some time. At one point in his career, he became a contractor doing mobile development. Through a number of contracts with a specific investor, Juan found himself as the CTO of a startup, pitching an idea for what his current venture would become. - [E14: Olga Stern, Tangy Market](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-olga-stern-tangy-market/): Olga's co-founder has a PhD in financial flows, specifically for the music industry. She decided to pursue the democratization of music rights, and creating a new assets for anyone to invest in. Olga joined her, and starting building out what would become their mobile app. - [Nick Donofrio - If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes](https://codestory.co/podcast/nick-donofrio-if-nothing-changes-nothing-changes/): Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. - [Bonus: Michael Zuercher, Prismatic](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michael-zuercher-prismatic/): In his prior company, Michael built numerous amount of productized integrations across his platform and thousands of customers. No matter their state of growth, these integrations were always a significant challenge. After selling the company in 2018, he decided to build the thing he wished he had back then. - [E13: Krish Ramineni, Fireflies.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-krish-ramineni-fireflies-ai-metrics-meetings/): Krish went through meetings like we all do - conducting a meeting with expensive team members, and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had, and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings. - [Bonus: Shawn Ramirez, Mystery](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-ramirez-mystery/): Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights - [Bonus: Shaheeb Roshan, ThreeFlow](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaheeb-roshan-threeflow/): Collectively, Shaheed and his co-founders had 10 years of experience supporting the employee benefits insurance space. On a regular basis, they observed the manual creation, editing and lack observability in the processes - aka, the lack of modern tooling to support the industry. They made the decision and committed to changing the face of the industry. - [E12: Roi Ravhon, Finout](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-roi-ravhon-finout/): In his previous role at Logz.io, Roi and his team spent large sums of money for cloud providers and services. The finance team quickly got wind of these costs, and started asking questions, appropriately. Roi found out that he didn't have answers to the questions, and there wasn't tooling out there that helped him. - [Bonus: Mike Malone, Smallstep](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-malone-smallstep/): Mike's career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem. - [Bonus: Kateryna Sytnyk, Fract & CTO Doctor](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kateryna-sytnyk-fract-cto-doctor/): For her prior startup, Kateryna utilized her background in applied math, combined with her co-founder's experience in the space, to create a way to optimize territory creation - for franchises, sales teams, etc. and predict revenue for said territories. When she moved on from that gig, she started a new thing - one that would enable women founders to build technical solutions. - [E11: Benjamin Wilms, Steadybit](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-benjamin-wilms-steadybit/): As Ben learned about the tools on the market, he realized that to get the tool in production, it required him to understand all the codebases test coverage, without knowledge of SRE. He released on open source project, and his approach got picked up by big name enterprises. - [Bonus: John Rush, Mars X](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-rush-mars-x/): While running his prior startup, John wanted to figure out a way to create a system that allowed him to get reuse out of the work he was building. What he ended up building was an ecosystem, for solution builders and developers, to merge the worlds of low code and no code. - [Bonus: Tom Medema, Bubbles](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tom-medema-bubbles/): Prior to his current venture, Tom was the CTO at a startup and found himself having to hire people fast, while maintaining that the people he hired were a good fit for the company. Hiring at their current geo only was not going to work, so they had to look remote - and he quickly felt the pains of ineffective tools and methods for doing so. - [E10: Raj Bains, Prophecy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-raj-bains-prophecy/): Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. - [Bonus: Derek Osgood, Ignition](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-derek-osgood-ignition/): At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. - [Bonus: Justin Clegg, Allset](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-justin-clegg-allset/): Justin had a pivotal experience with a handyman helping him at his home. When it came time to pay this person, he was unable to do so because the handyman didn't accept forms of payment Justin had available to him. He decided to build something to fix this, and onboarded said handyman, as his first merchant customer. - [E9: William Falcon, Lightning AI](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-william-falcon-lightning-ai/): Prior to joining Facebook, Will open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix. - [Bonus: Conor Carmody, Furthr Festival](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-conor-carmody-furthr-festival/): Conor joined his current organization is helping to build the Ireland entrepreneur and startup culture. With the arrival of big tech companies helping to accelerate that, his group is ensuring that entrepreneurs are being strategic in forming their businesses, meeting the right people, raising money, and... building community. - [Bonus: Mark Stouse, Proof Analytics](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mark-stouse-proof-analytics/): As a communications and marketing leader, Mark was frustrated with the lack of recognition for his marketing teams to the bottom line. In addition, he solved major analytics problems at his prior companies, but had massive budgets to do so. He saw that software and automation was the way forward. - [Bonus: Jake Vacovec, Flycode](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jake-vacovec-flycode/): Jake noticed that capacity for engineering resources was scarce across the board, while the demand for experimentation in product was very high. He sought to fix the problem, by creating no code edits - for your code itself. - [E8: Waseem Daher, Pilot](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-waseem-daher-pilot/): Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. Inevitably, with every business they started, they found the back office type processes were important to have each time, but not the area of expertise for the founders - and much less, not the focus of said business. So, they built the service they wished they had in prior ventures. - [Bonus: Ryan Buick, Canvas](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-buick-canvas/): Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport. They were so early on the team, that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to grow new skills in data analytics just to service his job needs. - [Bonus: Ashleigh Wilson, Auditmate](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ashleigh-wilson-auditmate/): At a prior company, Ashleigh did a research profit that surfaced to her how much the industry was focused solely on profits, and not the people they were serving. She left her company, and had a moment where she envisioned how she would change the industry, and shift the power back to the customer. - [E7: Alexandre Omeyer, Stepsize](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-alexandre-omeyer-stepsize/): Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But.. in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner. - [Bonus: Ruslan K, Filmustage](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruslan-k-filmustage/): Ruslan started his current venture in 2019, with his university friend who is a film maker. While his co-founder was stuck int the US, he dove deeper into the film making process. They noticed that the processes used in film making were not innovated... IE ripe for disruption. - [Bonus: Max Koziolek, Spectrm](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-koziolek-spectrm/): In the past, Max noticed that he was getting a ton of good content from his friends on the chat apps he used. He paired up with his co-founder to explore fixing journalism, and distribute valuable content to users... through WhatsApp. - [E6: Jon Darbyshire, SmartSuite](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-jon-darbyshire-smartsuite/): After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, Jon sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. - [Bonus: Andrew Zhou, Kona](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-zhou-kona-slack-mental-check-in/): Andrew and his co-founders were inspired to build something around workforce management. The knew something needed to change, but wasn't sure where to start. After building solutions and pivoting, they landed on their current venture, around mental health check ins. - [E5: Vicki Duben, Viewst](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-vicki-duben-viewst/): As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. - [HarperDB Update - Jaxon Repp, Head of Product](https://codestory.co/podcast/harperdb-update-jaxon-repp-head-of-product/): Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He has founded 3 tech startups, along with consulting on multiple iOT and digital transform initiatives. - [E4: Yuliia Tkachova, Masthead Data](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-yuliia-tkachova-masthead-data/): As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. - [Bonus: Dan Lorenc, Chainguard](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-lorenc-chainguard/): While Dan was at Google, the well known Solarwinds attack happened, illustrating the gaps and holes in the software supply chain space. Given he had experience in this space, paired with the Biden Administration's executive order to secure this space, led Dan and his co-founders to give this startup a try. - [Bonus: Luca Rossi, Refactoring](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luca-rossi-refactoring/): During the 8 years he was an engineering leader, Luca started writing about his experiences and the things he had learned along the way. People started to love it, and his venture started to gain subscribers and traction - so much so, that he stepped out to do it full-time. - [Bonus: Josh Lewis, Sensible](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-lewis-sensible/): At his last company, Josh experienced a recurring problem in spades, where account managers were spending large amounts of time with data entry of standardized forms and information. When he looked for the Twilio for PDF's, he couldn't find a tool to solve his problem. - [Bonus: Andrew Hoag, Teampay](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-hoag-teampay/): Andrew remembers a time during his career, where if he would have purchased a piece of software, he would have been fired. As the market has shifted today, there is more need for everyone to be apart of the software procurement process - but the tooling is still stuck in the wrong era. - [E3: Stephany LaPierre, Tealbook](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-stephany-lapierre-tealbook/): While progressing through her career, Stephany had an idea around enhanced supplier data that she couldn’t shake. After a small maternal break to have her 3rd daughter, she stepped back into the startup ring to build a platform around dynamic supplier data. - [Bonus: Nat Robinson, Trustworthy](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nat-robinson-trustworthy/): While working at Microsoft, post the acquisition of his prior company, he started attempting to solve a problem for himself - around storing legal documents. What he discovered was that families were struggling with an overload of information, and how to keep it readily available and organized. - [Bonus: Dan Draper, CipherStash](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-draper-cipherstash/): Five years ago, Dan got the idea of his current venture while he was the CTO at Expert360. During his time there, he was approached by his clients as they demanded proof of how his organization was protecting their data. He was never fully satisfied with the answers they gave the clients. He desired bridge the worlds between encrypted data, and queryable information. - [E2: Marie Ng, Llama Life](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-marie-ng-llama-life/): While she was learning how to code for the third time, she changed the learning method to working on an actual project. After she completed an early version of a to do list, she got great feedback from her following on Twitter. Though she didn’t plan to turn it into a business, people started following and supporting the project. - [Bonus: Aaron Upright, Zenhub](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aaron-upright-zenhub/): In the past, Aaron and his team noticed the gap between developers and product folks, as developers were working in Github while Product Managers were working in, and reporting on, project software. They took a step back, and decided to create something to solve this problem and match the tool to their ethos. - [Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arjun-bhatnagar-cloaked/): Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. - [E1: Ian Small, Evernote](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-ian-small-evernote/): Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. - [Season 7 Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-7-trailer/): Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. - [Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alexander-deeb-classhook-replay/): One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - [Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-newman-pyrl-replay/): Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. - [Bonus: Harshil Parikh, Tromzo](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-harshil-parikh-tromzo/): Through their experiences, Harshil and his co-founder found that it was difficult to make a cyber security program successful. After running through the same challenges again and again, they decided to step out and build a solution to streamline security and the development process. - [Bonus: Gavin Mendel-Gleason, TerminusDB](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-gavin-mendel-gleason-terminusdb/): At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems. - [Bonus: Jennifer Smith, Scribe](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jennifer-smith-scribe/): As a management consultant, Jennifer did a lot of work, observing the tricks and tribal knowledge contained in the workers themselves. After frequently documenting these practices, she thought there had to be a way to just capture their knowledge work instantly with a tool. - [E30: Liam Gerada, Krepling](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-liam-gerada-krepling/): Liam and his brother were merchants, building their own eCommerce store around 5-6 years ago. From that perspective, they saw very early on that there was a movement towards a headless platform. They weren't developers at the time, which most merchants aren't, and they struggled - and felt there must be a better way. - [Microsoft Careers with Girish & Junior!](https://codestory.co/podcast/microsoft-careers-with-girish-junior/): Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Microsoft employees at different stages in their career. One seasoned veteran at the company, and one up-and-coming engineer, who share how Microsoft has expanded their career horizons and provided many different opportunities for growth and experience. - [Bonus: Addison Higham, StreamNative](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-addison-higham-streamnative/): The makers of Apache Pulsar, an open source project, decided to build a cloud-native event streaming platform. Early on in the venture, Addison joined his team as a Chief Architect, in order to enable enterprises to easily access data as real-time event streams. - [Tutelage of Treehouse - Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer](https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-graham-morby-sr-software-engineer/): Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool. - [E29: Irina Bednova, Cordless](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-irina-bednova-cordless/): Irina and her co-founder led teams at Monzo, specifically in operations. What they noticed was the proliferation of chat tools for customer service - but, that telephony was largely ignored. Once they validated the problem, they set out to build a product in this space. - [Bonus: Andre Ferraz, Incognia](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andre-ferraz-incognia/): Twelve years ago, Andre had the amazing idea to create a unique identity for end users, based on their location data. The market wasn't in need of this solution at the time, but after academically exploring the solution, they recognized that GPS alone would not be enough. - [Bonus: Robert Cooke, 3Forge](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-robert-cooke-3forge/): As he started validating a new idea, Robert visited a number of top tier banks and looked for consistency in the problem they were facing. He found a starting point to build out a data platform, to enable his three pillars of data delivery. - [Tutelage of Treehouse - Daniel McElroy, WV Coding Club](https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-daniel-mcelroy-wv-coding-club/): Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been helping young people thrive for a number of years, in many different facets, and has started a number of businesses. - [E28: Tyson Kunosvsky, Autocloud](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-tyson-kunosvsky-autocloud/): In 2015, Tyson started another company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud. - [Bonus: Saksham Sharda, Outgrow](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-saksham-sharda-outgrow/): The founders of Saksham's current venture started out building an estimator for what it would take to build an app. This estimator became very popular, and they figured they should build a platform to enable others to make their own. - [Bonus: Mike Cruz, Protégé](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-cruz-protege/): In 2011, Mike & his co-founder has witnessed the proliferation of bootcamps for practical entry and exposure to the tech industry. Given their own backgrounds in struggling to plug into the music and startup scenes, they though they could replicate this type of model and help people be discovered. - [Tutelage of Treehouse - Dustin Usey, Treehouse](https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-dustin-usey-treehouse/): Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. - [E27: Gina Bianchini, Mighty Networks](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-gina-bianchini-mighty-networks-community/): Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives. - [Bonus: Omer Rosenbaum, Swimm](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-omer-rosenbaum-swimm/): Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken… and they wanted to fix it. - [Bonus: Andreas Creten, madewithlove](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andreas-creten-made-with-love/): In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion – taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO’s, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies. - [Tutelage of Treehouse - Cynthia Kao, Operation Code](https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-cynthia-kao-operation-code/): Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. - [E26: Aria Hahn, Pocketed](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-aria-hahn-pocketed/): Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar. - [Bonus: Chakri Devarakonda, Tavant](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-chakri-devarakonda-tavant/): Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality. - [Bonus: Ben Turner, Verituity](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ben-turner-verituity/): Ben was apart of a company called Network Solutions, and when they started that company, there wasn't the concept of a payment gateway. To make a solution work, you had many technical hurdles that existed. Two years ago, Ben started looking into how you solve this problem. - [Tutelage of Treehouse - Jason Gilmore, Treehouse](https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-jason-gilmore-treehouse/): Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. Formerly, he was a principal at Xenon, along with a startup advisor. He has spend many years as an engineer, consultant, and conference leader, along with making significant content contributions to prominent tech sites and writing several books on programming. - [E25: Tom Hacohen, Svix](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-tom-hacohen-svix-enterprise-webhooks-service/): When a friend asked Tom a question about webhooks, he dug deeper into the problem and realized that for her solution, she just wanted an easy way to send hooks from her service. After she agreed to pay him to build it, along with several others, he found the validation to step into building a platform. - [Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mark-porter-mongodb/): Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO – and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions. - [Bonus: Maria Meier, Phantasma Labs](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-maria-meier-phantasma-labs/): In her words, the way she started her current venture is kind of unusual. Formerly a backend engineer, she got restless and figured she was as intelligent as other founders she was observing. Through an accelerator, she met her co-founder and built learning models to illustrate how pedestrians act in traffic. - [Notifications North Star - Stephanie Griffith, Email & SMS Expert](https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-stephanie-griffith-marketing-expert/): Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. She is a startup founder, and has been involved with big names like Drip, Thinkful, Bed Bath & Beyond and more. She is also the host of the Conversational Commerce podcast. - [E24: Matt Young, UserVoice](https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-matt-young-uservoice/): In 2015, Matt joined his current venture as the VP of Engineering. At the time he was hired, the company was trying to press into the enterprise space, and in order to do that, the company needed some organization and some process put into place. - [Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tyler-rohrer-remotely/): With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. - [Bonus: Andrew Salvadore, Coinrule](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-salvadore-coinrule-cryto-trading-automated/): Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule. He and his boys live half an hour from the forest, so - [Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier](https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-troy-goode-courier/): Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4. - [E23: Franzi Low, Localyze](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-franzi-low-localyze/): When COVID hit the world, and the topic of global mobility was pushed into view. Franzi, along with her co-founders, used to live abroad, and experienced the lack of support when moving to a new area and settling in. They wanted to come up with a solution to help people during this relocation process. - [Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaunak-roy-yellowdig/): Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community. - [Notifications North Star - Vatasha White, Courier](https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-vatasha-white-courier-engineer/): Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previoulsy, she built software at Lacework, LaunchDarkly and GE Digital. She is a graduate of Smith College in 2015. - [E22: Matt Provo, Stormforge](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-matt-provo-stormforge/): While building a platform surrounding HVAC software, Matt and his team ran into some challenges around the diversity of their implementations. When they lifted & shifted to Kubernetes, they unlocked the problem around resource scaling that their current solution targets today. - [Bonus: Temilola Adebayo, HumanSquad](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-temilola-adebayo-humansquad/): Temilola and her co-founder set out to create tools to not only make the immigration process easier, but to provide immigrants with the tools and people to support them through the process. - [Bonus: Christine Spang, Nylas](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-christine-spang-nylas/): Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email. - [Notifications North Star - Patrick Malatack, Matrix Partners](https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-patrick-malatack-matrix-partners/): Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investment firm. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Twilio, leading product and launching messaging. He also spent 4 years at Microsoft, managing the MS Project program. - [E21: Douwe Maan, Meltano](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-douwe-maan-meltano/): Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, - [Bonus: Jon Dahl, Mux](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jon-dahl-mux-video-api-stream-real-time/): While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served as the catalyst for him to pursue building the product that he wished he could have bought while dev'ing this project. - [Notifications North Star - Eric Koslow, Lattice](https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-eric-koslow-lattice/): Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prior to Lattice, he spent time engineering at TeeSpring, and now he is building a new venture called VStream. - [E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-izzy-azeri-mabl-test-automation-saas/): Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC. - [Bonus: George Georgallides, Basis Health](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-george-georgallides-basis-health/): George has been in the health tech space for some time. When he started working on a pace maker, he interviewed surgeons who were working on patient with metabolic illnesses. Seeing these illnesses, which are lifestyle driven, was very formative for his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle. - [Bonus: Savarth Misra, ContractPodAI](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-savarth-misra-contractpodai/): In his prior profession as a lawyer, Savarth thoroughly understood how contracts were done. He also noticed how little tech adoption was present, which directly impacted the effectiveness of contract management in general. He figured it was only a matter of time before this industry - his industry, was disrupted by tech. - [E19: Kirk Marple, Unstruk Data](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-kirk-marple-unstruk-data/): After selling his prior company, which was heavy in the broadcast media space, Kirk ended up at General Motors. He started to learn about media data, and the value of getting the media data into computer vision algorithms. Five years later, he realized that no one had created a platform to do this yet... and he got started building it, on nights and weekends, first for podcast discovery. - [Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit.dev](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-beier-cai-commit-dev/): After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He was puzzled to see great talent leaving the startup eco-system, and he wanted to fix it, through a private, professional network - [Bonus: Patrick Bryant, CODE + TRUST](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-patrick-bryant-code-trust/): Prior to his current ventures formation, Patrick and the other three partners had two software products and other companies they were building. Between them all, there were two dev teams... and in the interest of making a bigger impact in their space, they decided to join forces, and form one team. - [E18: Or Weis, Permit.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-or-weis-permit-io/): Or quickly found himself annoyed with having to build and rebuild permission sets, or authorization, into every solution he made. Since he couldn't find someone doing it, he decided to create a permissions solution... for the last time. - [Bonus: Stephanie Florio, Swob](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-stephanie-florio-swob/): Stephanie didn't know what sort of business she wanted to start. That was until her brother got frustrated with looking for a job, and together, they figured out there must be another way. They did some research, and used their knowledge of popular dating apps, to create a simple, swipe-able platform. - [E17: Girish Redekar, Sprinto](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-girish-redekar-sprinto/): In his prior startup, he went through the painstaking process of becoming SOC2 certified. This experience stuck with him - so much so, that when he and his co-founder ventured out to start something new, they decided to create something to make this easier. - [Bonus: Austin Parker, Lightstep](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-austin-parker-lightstep-observability-devrel/): Austin Parker has been at Lightstep for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts. - [Bonus: Stephen Mathai-Davis, Q.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-stephen-mathai-davis-q-ai-forbes-quant-trading/): Along his journey, Stephen realized that his friends didn't have access to the same money management tools and strategies that institutional investors had. He became inspired to offer these types of investment tools to the average person. - [E16: Jimmy Jacobson, Stake.rent](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-jimmy-jacobson-stake-rent/): Post graduation, the job Jimmy had lined up got cancelled. Last minute, he joined some alumni slack channels and sent a cold message to his now co-founder. He found himself fascinated by the idea of giving cash back to people for paying their rent. - [Bonus: Lars Grønnegaard, Dreamdata](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lars-gronnegaard-dreamdata/): Prior to his current venture, Lars was primarily a product guy. And in running product, he cared deeply about the impact that strategic business moves made on the business. He also saw that claiming revenue was less empirical, creating human error and bias. - [Bonus: Jack Naglieri, Panther Labs](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jack-naglieri-panther-labs/): Jack was working as an incident responder previously, and during that time, he figured out that AI based models for breach detection don't work as well as intuitive humans, as often times there isn't enough signal for them. Along with using antiquated sets of data, he decided that there must be a way to leverage the cloud and build a solution to solve the pain points within this process. - [E15: Itiel Schwartz, Komodor](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-itiel-schwartz-komodor-kubernetes/): In spending a lot of time in the infrastructure world, he found out that in the world of DevOps troubleshooting, there is a lot of chaos to sift through. He thought it would be amazing to build a tool to impact Kubernetes, and the entire infra ecosystem. - [Bonus: Todd Larsen, Tech Leaders](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-todd-larsen-tech-leaders/): Having gained fantastic experience in advertising space, at Groupon, and then at Digit, he learned how to execute on longer term initiatives, but balanced with fast delivery on top of a strong foundation. All of this experience was hard fought, and as he started consulting, he thought... how can I scale myself? - [Bonus: Marin Smiljanic, Omnisearch](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-marin-smiljanic-omnisearch/): During his Amazon years, Marin was hitting a few problems on a regular basis, having to sift through dense training content on a daily basis. And the training format was all over the map – video, audio, text, etc. After brainstorming with his now cofounder, they decided to build an MVP, starting with an API. - [Bonus: Aaron Bromberg, StimScience](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aaron-bromberg-stimscience/): Aaron put together a dream team of Neuro scientists to execute a sleep study lab for 3 years. After that time, what they realized was that with a short brain stimulation session before bedtime, they can drastically improve the time it takes to go to sleep, and the entire sleep time itself. - [E14: Joe Pettersson, Banked](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-joe-pettersson-banked/): In January 2020, Joe joined his current venture prior to raising a seed round. Having gotten regulated in the UK, they were ready to deploy the first product and find their market fit. And in doing so, he went about optimizing team, process, and built a platform strategically ready for change - in the payment space. - [Bonus: Dan Langevin, Vericred](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-langevin-vericred/): Dan and his co-founder started out building credentialing software, a sort of deep background check on Doctors. In creating a way to scrape & pull in accepted insurance, they recognized a broader need for data to be more fluid in the space. It became obvious that a company needed to solve this problem for the space. - [Bonus: Roy Ng, Bond](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-roy-ng-bond-banking-as-a-service/): Roy connected with his a college friend, and now co-founder, to discuss his experience at SoFi. What they realized was that developers are having to build the "plumbing" of financial products over and over again, because there isn't a developer platform to enable them to focus on their end products. - [E13: Alexander Luksidadi, Rose Rocket](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-alexander-luksidadi-rose-rocket/): Alexander and his co-founder attempted to build a business in the freight and logistics space, which ultimately failed. But they saw a lot more opportunity in the space, and set some goals for themselves to get funding, or get into Y Combinator. They started by building strictly broker software. - [Bonus: Liran Haimovitch, Rookout](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-liran-haimovitch-rookout/): Just over 5 years ago, Liran and his co-founder realized that everytime you need to change the way you observe or log your application, you have to fully release that application. They applied their cyber security way of thinking, and built a platform to enable the instant change to loging and observability. - [Bonus: Perry Zheng, Cash Flow Portal](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-perry-zheng-cash-flow-portal/): Once he had a few single family dwellings in his portfolio, he decided to syndicate a deal for a multi family complex. In doing this, he quickly realized how complicated the process was to get this done. He decided to apply his tech knowledge and create something to solve his problem. - [E12: Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-bobby-gruenewald-youversion-bible-app/): In spite of being on staff at a church, Bobby found himself not reading the bible regularly. While standing in the security line in the airport, he thought up an idea to use technology to help him read the Bible more, and grow spiritually. - [Bonus: Brandy & Ryan, Kitcaster](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brandy-ryan-kitcaster/): In their prior roles, Brandy had pitched a client to Ryan for his podcast. As Ryan describes it, she's a great networker and "instigator". When they both had the itch to do a new project, they looked to podcasting. And after some initial validation, they confirmed that they had stumbled upon a need. - [Mentorcam March - Josh Campbell](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-josh-campbell/): Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rose. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis wellness company Dosist, Josh has founded, funded, built, and exited multiple startups in the consumer packaged goods space. - [E11: Hywel Carver, SkillerWhale](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-hywel-carver-skillerwhale/): Hywel and his co-founders dreamed about a way to distill down the distinct learning moments for you, leading you to the point of inception for skills and wisdom. Their passion for this topic led them to build a way to develop developers, in an incremental, personalized way. - [Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-egan-kintaba/): Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy. - [Bonus: Dr. Gordon Jones, Thrivacy](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dr-gordon-jones-thrivacy/): While teaching at the university, Dr. Jones came across a student’s idea to provide security around her identify. In addition to that, he had recently gone through a lengthy background check process, which required the re-verification of several bits of information. He decided to solve both of the problems, by creating a solution using the blockchain. - [Mentorcam March - Edvard Engeseath](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-edvard-engeseath/): Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of a tele-health startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make prescription birth control more accessible. - [E10: Tommy Yionoulis, OpsAnalitica](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-tommy-yionoulis-opsanalitica/): Tommy worked his way up and through the Quiznos organization, specifically landing in ops services. When Quiznos took a turn for the worst, he was tasked with figuring out audit reporting. Through his time there, and through some consulting, he created a solution that got the attention of Which Wich... and validated that the market wanted his solution. - [Bonus: Verl Allen, Claravine](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-verl-allen-claravine/): During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions. He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not doing this down to the data level. - [Bonus: What's Your Problem? with Jacob Goldstein](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-whats-your-problem-with-jacob-goldstein/): In this preview, Jacob talks with Keenan Wyrobek, the co-founder of a drone company called Zipline. The company has been building and deploying drones in Rwanda and Ghana for years. Now they're trying to solve a surprisingly hard problem: How do they make drone delivery work in the United States? - [Mentorcam March - Benjamin Balazs](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-benjamin-balazs/): Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati. - [E9: Panos Siozos, LearnWorlds](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-panos-siozos-learnworlds/): During their post graduate studies, Panos and his co-founders built many products in the learning space, as they were crafty and could implement the things they were imagining. During their time, they shared the passion to create products that impacted the masses, and enabled them to learn better. - [Bonus: Barak Schoster, Bridgecrew](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-barak-schoster-bridgecrew/): Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. The question he was hired to answer was - how do we combine infrastructure with software? - [Mentorcam March - Max Samuel](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-max-samuel/): Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He formerly worked at Thiel Capital, Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse. A graduate of Yale, Penn Law School and Wharton, Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the VC industry. - [E8: Ev Kontsevoy, Teleport](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-ev-kontsevoy-teleport/): Prior to his current venture, Ev created Mailgun - one of the top transactional email platforms out there - which he eventually sold to Rackspace. During his time scaling Mailgun, and working for Rackspace, he started to feel the pain of logging into multiple cloud services - so much so, that he decided to consolidate these connections into a single platform. - [Bonus: Prabhjot Singh, Pyze](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-prabhjot-singh-pyze/): He started out his current venture, he started out in the B2C space. When they weren’t seeing the user growth they needed, they pivoted their capabilities fit the enterprise, over the average Joe consumer… with the mission of making enterprises successful. In doing so, they realized that it wasn’t just the application – it was the process. - [Mentorcam March - Rune Hauge](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-rune-hauge/): Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator. - [E7: Brian Vallelunga, Doppler](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-brian-vallelunga-doppler/): After taking a trip to reset, Brian's mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need. - [Bonus: Raghav R S, Animaker](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-raghav-r-s-animaker/): One day, Raghav found himself fed up with the lack of tools out there, when it came to videos, animations, etc. He got so fed up that he'd decided to build something to solve his problem... and for 14 million others. - [Mentorcam March!](https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march/): Because we appreciate our listeners so much, we are declaring that March is Mentorcam March on the Code Story podcast. Along side our regular release schedule, each Wednesday, we are going to be interviewing some of the top mentors on the platform, about the topics you know, you love, and you'd love to know more about. - [E6: John Myers, Gretel.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-john-myers-gretel-ai/): Post acquisition of his first startup, John stared working on a bunch of projects, one of them requiring him to aggregate a large amount of data and anonymize it. This took a lot of work, and there wasn't anything out on the market that provided this type of functionality. - [Bonus: Jim Fagan, Global Cloud Xchange](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jim-fagan-global-cloud-exchange/): Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. - [Code Story on Goodpods!](https://codestory.co/podcast/code-story-on-goodpods/): Thats right, you can download Goodpods today, and listen to the Code Story podcast right there! In fact, my ask is this... please go pick out your favorite episode of the podcast on the app, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. - [E5: Blake Garrett, Aceable](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-blake-garrett-aceable/): Blake pitched an idea to some investor friends of his - which, ultimately turned down his idea. However, they saw potential within the focal areas of his ideas, and gave him some advice on how to proceed. Once he nailed down markets of required learning, that could be translated to a mobile experience - he was able to finally take off. - [Bonus: Michel Tricot, Airbyte](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michel-tricot-airbyte/): In his prior role, Michel was a Director of Engineering and Head of Integration at LiveRamp, where he and his team were managing thousands of connectors, responsible for moving massive amounts of data everyday. His big realization was that every company needs to have a way to move data, and to do it in a dead simple way. - [Bonus: Vedran Cindrić, Treblle](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vedran-cindric-treblle/): When business was booming, Vedran and his team built a tool to help them keep track of all the API's they were supporting. After putting it down several times, they finally figured out how to scale it properly and decided to finish building it... and share it with the world. - [E4: Mike Boufford, Greenhouse](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-mike-boufford-greenhouse/): When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better. - [Bonus: Lindsay Tjepkema, Casted](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lindsay-tjepkema-casted/): Lindsay has been a B2B marketer for over 15 years. While working in the space, she wanted a platform to help her maintain, manage, and make the most of audio and video content made for her company. When she looked around for a solution, she couldn't find one. So of course - she and her co-founders decided to build their own. - [Bonus: Rob Carpenter, Valyant](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-carpenter-valyant/): Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. - [E3: Matt Pierce, Immediate](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-matt-pierce-immediate/): After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client’s feedback was that it didn’t solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress – on demand pay. - [Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-newman-pyrl/): Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. - [Bonus: Matt Cowell, Quanthub](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-cowell-quanthub/): In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved. - [E2: Trevor Marshall, Current](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-trevor-marshall-current/): When his now co-founder left Morgan Stanley, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy. - [Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alexander-deeb-classhook/): One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - [Bonus: Reed McGinley-Stempel, Stytch](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-reed-mcginley-stempel-stytch/): Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. They found that the biggest problem to be solved was the combination of security issues with passwords, and the low conversion rate of sign up / sign in forms requiring passwords. They wanted to fix this. - [E1: Stephen Blum, Pubnub](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-stephen-blum-pubnub/): In their inception, Stephen and his co-founder were trying to solve a problem... by simply creating a button to order a taxi. In the process of building that, they figured out they needed tech to allow more than one party to participate. And their product vision clicked. - [Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-guillermo-rauch-vercel-next-js-replay/): Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. - [Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adrian-tobey-groundhogg-replay/): Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. - [Season 6 Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-6-trailer/): Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. - [Season 5 Sign Off](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-5-sign-off/): This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. - [Bonus: Shelby Stephens, Growth Match](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shelby-stephens-growth-match/): Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and crippled their progress at the time. They pivoted the product a bit, to be a sort of eCommerce like site for freelancers to offer services. While they let their Jolly pivot grow, he and his co-founder started building a new product... one which allows startup experts to offer their knowledge and experience - in a fractional, part time manner. - [E30: Adam Wiggins, Muse](https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-adam-wiggins-muse-app/): Post Heroku's acquisition by Salesforce, he found himself thinking about the future of computing, and started a research lab called Ink & Switch. The area they landed on was computing interfaces, and usage around screen touch. After a few prototypes, they landed on a solid combination of desktop precision with touch screen mobility. - [Bonus: Lydia Davies, Teemates](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lydia-davies-teemates/): Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, - [E29: Nick Clayton, Savitude](https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-nick-clayton-savitude/): Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these - [Bonus: Marco Palladino, Kong](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-marco-palladino-kong/): Marco and his co-founder came to San Francisco 10 years ago, to build an API marketplace. Over time, they amassed 300,000 developers, consuming and publishing API's. Eventually, the figured out the business model wasn't working... so they open sourced the platform. - [E28: Oona Rokyta, Lance](https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-oona-rokyta-lance/): As a freelancer, and a part of a community of freelancers, Oona found that it was difficult to understand cash flow with variable income. Through interactions with accountants or financial systems, she saw that most systems or professionals were backwards looking. She though, well what does it look like moving forward? What does it look like to bring on additional client? - [Bonus: Ari Jacoby, Deduce](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ari-jacoby-deduce/): Ari spent a lot of time around identity, specifically in ad tech and mar tech. He figured out that data was common currency in that world, but not in other spaces. Having built large identity graphs, he recognized there was an opportunity to do it again in cyber risk and fraud. - [Bonus: Ben Dowling, IPInfo](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ben-dowling-ipinfo/): Ben was working on a bunch of different side projects in 2013. The process to get IP Info was manual, tedious, and filled with headaches across projects. After he felt this pain point multiple times, he decided to build a solution to solve it... not knowing that he would quickly start getting millions of requests in a short time. - [Compiler Recast - What is the recipe for burnout?](https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-what-is-the-recipe-for-burnout/): Hey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year! For today, I'm sharing yet another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. - [E27: Max Stoiber, GraphCDN](https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-max-stoiber-graphcdn/): Prior to his current venture, Max has had some great success in the open source world, and building a chat tool called Spectrum – which was a platform for community chat. Eventually, Github acquired the product, and opened a whole new set of problems around architecting a large scale, real time system. Through a difficult period of learning and service outages, he learned and figured out a better way to reduce traffic up to 95% with edge caching. - [Bonus: Darshan Mehta, iResearch](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-darshan-mehta-iresearch/): Darshan is also an author, and just recently released his book called "Getting to Aha". The tagline harps on the belief that today's insights become tomorrow's facts. One of the things Darshan found throughout his career was that most people want to figure out why people buy your products. Most people are comfortable with surveys, but its difficult to get to the "why" that way, and focus groups help with that. Traditionally, doing a focus group has been difficult, expensive, and concentrated to geo areas. Darshan set out to build a tool to change this for the market. - [Bonus: Ilan Peleg, Lightrun](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ilan-peleg-lightrun/): Ilan and his co-founder were developers in many different types of companies – startups, enterprises, etc. It seemed to them that it was easy to debut and troubleshoot applications in development, but found it very difficult to observe applications in production. They realized that most developers were not equipped with the right tooling to troubleshoot and understand live applications in the wild. - [E26: Bruno Demuro, Armor Bionics](https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-bruno-demuro-armor-bionics/): Earlier in Bruno’s life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor’s had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable. - [Bonus: Kyle Bernhardy, HarperDB](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-bernhardy-harperdb/): While working for a large data aggregation company, Kyle worked through a number of data availability, reliability, and infrastructure around massive data processing. Internally, he thought there must be a better way. - [Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cherish-santoshi-sawo-labs/): Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. - [E25: Bobby Ross, Fire Hydrant](https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-bobby-ross-fire-hydrant/): Eventually, Bobby was an on call engineer – either by accident or intentionally – because he always wanted to help solve the problem. At one point, he set out to bridge bootcamp grads into the real world of software through a video series. As it turns out, the product he was building during the series was much more interesting – and desired – than the videos themselves. - [Bonus: Luke Hoban, Pulumi](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luke-hoban-pulumi/): Post Microsoft, Luke went work for Amazon on the cloud, specifically EC2. The thing he had in the back of his head for many years was how to bring the programming model into the cloud space. He eventually left Amazon, and set out to combine his love of designing programming languages, with the movement and excitement of the cloud. - [E24: Thejo Kote, Airbase](https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-thejo-kote-airbase/): Prior to his current venture, Thejo co-founded Automatic, connecting cards to the internet. This eventually sold to SiriusXM for several million dollars. Looking into another problem, he saw that the way people spend money lacked true visibility and connectivity between systems. He asked some questions, got some feedback, and set out to capitalize on the opportunity to build a better solution. - [Bonus: Shinji Kim, Select Star](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shinji-kim-select-star/): At Alkamai, Shinji worked with large enterprises and saw that there was a problem around data discovery, and that it was growing in the middle market, as more companies migrated to the cloud. She decided to build an automated way for users to discovery and understand their data. - [Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adrian-tobey-groundhogg/): Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. - [Bonus: Brandon White, File Finder](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brandon-white-file-finder/): The genesis of Brandon's' current venture started with his wife, who manages a family office. At one point, she was switching accountants, which required the transfer of a massive amount of documents... the bulk of which was in email. He thought that there had to be a better way to find these documents, across accounts in the cloud. - [Compiler Recast - Why Should You Write Technical Documentation?](https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-why-should-you-write-technical-documentation/): In my experience, the need for technical documentation goes way beyond the boundaries of open source. Within the walls of a business, the need to share technical documentation around product architecture, entity relationships, DevOps workflow and even product strategy are absolutely critical in ensuring that everyone is on the same p age to move forward. - [E23: Ulf Schwekendiek, Centered.app](https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-ulf-schwekendiek-centered-app/): Ulf enjoys building software that invokes an emotion from its user. While he was at Postmates, he got really interested in the way people work, specifically around flow states. He studied the Pomodoro method, and its associated 25 minute cycle. This became the first building block into creating his current venture. - [Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-guillermo-rauch-vercel-next-js/): Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. - [Bonus: David Ciccarelli, Voices.com](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-ciccarelli-voices-com/): Growing up, David loved experimenting with sound - playing piano, tuning into radio stations, and tinkering with an old record player. He discovered there was an audio engineering program at school, and set out with the goal of starting a small project recording studio. He met his now wife and co-founder through their first voice recording project... which then, began to be advertised and attract more and more talent. - [E22: Josh Dzielak, Orbit](https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-josh-dzielak-orbit/): At a prior company as a developer advocate, Josh started using the Orbit model. He compared the model to being like the funnel for sales, except the Orbit model applies to community. After he left the company, he joined his now co-founder, using the Orbit model in a consulting context. Then, the aha moment occurred - what if we built a product to facilitate this? - [Bonus: Matt Dixon, Code Program](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-dixon-code-program/): Matt has been in tech industry for nearly 21 years, and started Front Range Systems, building software for bidding customers. He found that post difficult projects, he started to figure out that the best way to improve a project was to improve the team - the entire team, as a whole. - [Bonus: Oleg Fridman, Verb Data](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-oleg-fridman-verb-data/): Prior to their current venture, Oleg and his co-founder, Dave, ran an agency focusing on high fidelity prototyping. After doing many projects, they figured out that the process of creating dashboards for a product was a mostly the same, but took a ton of time to prepare the data, extract data, and display it. They both figured out that they could create a solution to make this process simpler. - [Bonus: Phill Lawson-Shanks, Aligned](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-phill-lawson-shanks-aligned/): In 2013, the founders of Phil's current company saw the way the data center industry was going. They saw that the energy consumption around DC's was going to be astronomical. They started building some incredibly innovative things in this area, and got Phil's attention. Three years ago, he joined the team. - [E21: Laura Butler, Uplift](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-laura-butler-uplift/): When she decided to simplify her life and sell her house, Laura went through the process of buying a Condo.. and interacting with the HOA. She realized that the process was a bit arcane, and getting the details up front was near impossible. Her and her co-founder, who happens to also be her mother, set out to bring value to the buyers in the process, with the goal to eventually positively impact all stakeholders. - [Bonus: Anthony Castrio, Indie Worldwide](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anthony-castrio-indie-worldwide/): Before he built his current project, every time he would move to a new city, Anthony would try to start a local indie hackers meetup. He started one in Boston and DC, and a few other places - but every time he moved, he lost his friend group. In order to stay connected with his friends, he decided to take his groups virtual. And it started to grow from there. - [Bonus: Leon Kuperman, CAST.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leon-kuperman-cast-ai/): At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. - [Compiler Recast - Do we want a world without technical debt?](https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-do-we-want-a-world-without-technical-debt/): This was a great discussion on technical debt. Have a listen to Episode 4, titled "Do we want a world without technical debt." Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. - [E20: Nate Joens, Structurely](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-nate-joens-structurely/): In college, Nate was very interested and connected to the real estate industry, as urban planning works closely with realtors. He figured out that lead follow up was a huge pain point for realtors, which peaked his interest. And led him to build some tech to solve the problem. - [Bonus: Ryan Johnson, CallRail](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-johnson-callrail/): Ryan joined the his current company many years ago, and was charged to build a team to expand the companies call tracking functionality… to essentially, make it omni channel, with form, source and message tracking. - [Bonus: Kordel France, Seekar Technologies](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kordel-france-seekar-technologies/): Way back in college, Kordel started building a codebase around computer vision and detection. He started adding to it over time, made it quite impressive, and figured out a way to monetize the platform. However, coming from the defense industry, he and his co-founder understood the apprehension around the use of AI commercially. They set out to change that. - [Bonus: Philippe Kwiatkowski, Ubico](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-philippe-kwiatkowski-ubico/): During the days when he was involved in the accelerator, Phil started noticing that many founder problems were centered around distribution - or how to get their products in front of customers. He decided to build a better cold email tool, one that solved these problems. And it worked. - [E19: Joshua Wohle, Mindstone](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-joshua-wohle-mindstone/): After many self learning adventures in his life, Joshua set out to create a product that would allow people to go through self directed learning online, but in specific learning pathways... and allow them to learn faster in the process. Self taught developer? Be able to prove you went through the appropriate material that you acquired the skills necessary. - [Bonus: Mahmoud Abdelkader, Very Good Security (VGS)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mahmoud-abdelkader-very-good-security-vgs/): Post his exit from Balanced, Mahmoud began listening to customer needs. What he heard people say was that they really wanted everything that he built in his former startup, minus the payments. Companies wanted the heavy lifting of data security taken off their plate, so they could focus on building their differentiated products. - [Bonus: Sergei Egorov, AtomicJar](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sergei-egorov-atomicjar/): Through a chance discovery in Docker's eco-system, Sergei discovered an open source test container library, and realized that they approach he was taking to test containers was out there in the wild. He was invited to be a co-maintainer to the open source library, which would eventually become their current Company today. - [E18: Tigran Nazaryan, 10Web](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-tigran-nazaryan-10web/): Eventually, Tigran and his business partners decided that they could do more than plugins... by hosting and automating the entire ecosystem. He saw great potential that this type of opportunity could grow big. This is the creation story of 10Web. - [Bonus: John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-kodumal-launchdarkly/): Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags. - [Bonus: Brian Singer, Nobl9](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brian-singer-nobl9-slo/): Brian's prior company was called Orbiterra, which he eventually sold it to Google in 2016. He spent the first year at Google, migrating the product off of AWS, on to GCP. Once this was done, it was inquired of him about what the SLO's were for the product. This led to the spark of his current venture. - [E17: LaKeisha Turner, AlgoPear](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-lakeisha-turner-algopear/): A bit a go, LaKeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated, algorithmic trading and portfolio management. This is the creation story of AlgoPear. - [Bonus: Lyric Jain, Logically](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lyric-jain-logically/): In 2015, Lyric unfortunately lost his Grandmother, to what he states as health misinformation from forwards. This combined, with the Brexit happenings, the US elections, and general world happenings, he started to see first hand the trend, that behavior was being influenced by online activity. - [Compiler Recast - Should Managers Code?](https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-should-managers-code/): Have a listen to Episode 1 "Should Managers Code?" from the Compiler podcast. Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. - [E16: Veena Somareddy, Neuro Rehab VR](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-veena-somareddy-neuro-rehab-vr/): While she was working on her PhD for medical simulation and training, Veena was contacted by her now co-founder. He let her know that he wanted to add virtual reality to his clinic. She thought wow, this is an amazing opportunity, to make the therapy experience better for patients. - [Bonus: Adam Robinson, Retention.com (Formerly GetEmails)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-robinson-getemails/): Adam and his brother took anonymous ID verification and ran with it inside of their email marketing tool. After some time, they realized email marketing is a tough space to compete in… so they switched to an area they were intrigued by, and had already built something to work with. - [Bonus: Paraag Sarva, Rhino](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-paraag-sarva-rhino/): As a renter and landlord, Paraag intimately felt the pains on both sides of the equation, when it comes to security deposits. Rather than people stuffing large amounts of cash into a system that doesn't help either side, he knew there was a better way to help renters... and landlords. - [E15: Matt Schwartz, Afresh](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-matt-schwartz-afresh/): Matt's current venture started by researching the food industry, specifically the world of produce. Post this, Matt and his team realized that this part of the food world was ripe for disruption. - [Bonus: Cody Candee, Bounce](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cody-candee-bounce/): In 2014, Cody was working in San Francisco and planned to have some drinks with his friends. One of them had to go all the way home to drop off some luggage, before heading to happy hour. He took the ideas he wrote down that night, and in 2017, he set out to solve this complex problem… by just getting started. - [Bonus: Andrew Childs, Shortcut (Formerly Clubhouse)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-childs-shortcut-formerly-clubhouse/): At a prior startup, the opinionated nature of project tools his team was using started to get in the way of their productivity... not to mention, it was not possible to get a birds eye view of direction, progress, etc. across multiple projects. - [E14: Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-derrick-reimer-savvycal/): After collecting dust in his idea notebook, in the list of markets which he knew well, Derrick decided to venture forward to make a better calendar scheduling work tool... based on his anxiety using this type of product, and his desire to level up the status quo. - [Bonus: Greg Ratner, Troops](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-greg-ratner-troops-ai/): After feeling the pain of having to log into a myriad of tools day to day to get their jobs done, Greg and his co-founders decided to build a connected application, to drive revenue communications. - [E13: Andrew Butt, Enable](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-andrew-butt-enable/): In flying school, Andrew met his co-founder growing a distribution company. They discovered a problem first hand, around trading agreements and incentives between companies. So much so, that they found a need in the industry and set off to build a product to solve the problem. - [Bonus: Rahul Sidhu, Spidr Tech](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rahul-sidhu-spidr-tech/): In 2015, within the Techstars program in New York, Rahul and his co-founders were running out of cash, unable to deliver on what they were intending. After some helpful words from a friendly former Chief, he and his team decided to keep it simple, and attempt to help police departments solve the "customer service" problem. - [E12: Chris Wexler, Krunam](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-chris-wexler-krunam/): All along his career, Chris was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. - [Bonus: Brendan Wood, Passiv](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brendan-wood-passiv/): One day, Brendan found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. - [E11: Alexander Alimovs, Automations.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-alexander-alimovs-automations-io/): In the past, Alexander held several senior positions with companies having small tech teams. During these times, he would quickly spot inefficiencies in processes - a manual step here, a spot of friction there, etc. He decided to build a product to enable non-engineers to automate processes. - [Bonus: Colin Chartier, Webapp.io (Formerly Layer CI)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-colin-chartier-webapp-io-formerly-layer-ci/): In his prior startup, Colin found that he and his team were very sensitive to breaking changes, as it was critical to deliver information in a timely manner. So much so, that his customers would churn if anything broke in the critical chain. He created something to fill this gap at his prior venture, which he was offering up to friends and colleagues via open source. - [E10: Slater Victoroff, Indico](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-slater-victoroff-indico/): Slater and his co-founders fell in love with the technology centered around intelligent process automation, which enables organizations to automate processes involving structured, semi-structured and unstructured document formats. Since 2014, they have been at the forefront of innovation in enterprise AI. - [Bonus: Jody Shapiro, Productiv](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jody-shapiro-productiv/): After spending some time researching, Jody figured out that everyone has more SaaS than ever before, and companies were having a hard time managing their portfolios. He thought there must be a way to solve this problem, and solve it driven by data. - [Bonus: Ken Gavranovic, Unqork](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ken-gavranovic-unqork/): Ken got excited about three things that attracted him to his new role, which was purposeful culture, a world changing goal, and the size of an opportunity in front of him. It was these three things that brought him to the company. - [E9: Valerie Coffman, Swayable](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-valerie-coffman-swayable/): Valerie and her co-founder started their current venture by exploring why people resist believing scientifically backed, factual information. She wanted to figure out which messages and stories were more effective at communicating these true facts. - [Bonus: Jay Haynes, THRV](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jay-haynes-thrv/): Throughout his career, time at Microsoft, schooling, startup life, etc. - Jay found out that no one really had a secret sauce to innovation. He started evaluating new ways to do it, and came across the Jobs to Be Done theory, which became the foundation to what he has built today. - [E8: Marko Anastasov, Semaphore](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-marko-anastasov-semaphore/): While building applications under the guise of his web development agency, Rendered Text, Marko and his fellow builders saw a need to have a way of automating processes of building, testing and integrating... and doing so fast. - [Bonus: Josh Millet, Criteria](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-millet-criteria/): 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. - [E7: Kristen Buchanan, Edify](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-kristen-buchanan-edify/): 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: Angel Munoz, Beacon](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-angel-munoz-beacon/): 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](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-braden-stenning-raven/): Through some projects he was working on, and networking in the tech space of Ottawa, Braden was introduced to his Co-founder, Martin Cloake. Together, the combined ideas around machine telemetry and the next level of insight into continuous improvement. - [Bonus: Meha Agrawal, Silk & Sonder](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-meha-agrawal-silk-and-sonder/): 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](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-kirt-debique-syncfloor/): 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](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaun-cooley-mapped/): 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](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-hazel-savage-musiio/): 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](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-real-world-ai/): 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. - [E3: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-alex-yurkowski-clickup/): As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. - [Bonus: Eric Futoran, Embrace.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eric-futoran-embrace-io/): During his past successes at Scopely, one of the largest game builders in the world, he realized in the early innings of mobile that there was no mobile first data source, enabling businesses to capture all mobile session data... and more. - [E2: Miriam Schwab, Strattic](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-miriam-schwab-strattic/): As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. - [Bonus: Timur Mamedov, VEED.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-timur-mamedov-veed-io/): Timur started attending hackathons as much as he could, and he met his co-founder Saba, who helped him learn how to make money contracting. One day, they got fed up with the complexity of video editing software... and decided to disrupt it. - [E1: Abhinav Asthana, Postman](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-abhinav-asthana-postman/): In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had to use never helped him develop efficiently. He thought - what would make the better? - [Bonus: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sophy-lee-hopskipdrive-replay/): 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. - [Season 5 Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-5-trailer/): Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determining feature importance, building teams - and scaling, or fighting scale, as you grow. Our guest list continues to impress, with appearances from Abhinav Asthana of Postman, Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal, Hazel Savage of Musiio... and so many more. - [Bonus: Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorp (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mitchell-hashimoto-hashicorp-replay/): Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. - [Season 4 Sign Off](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-4-sign-off/): This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. - [Bonus: The Inventive Journey](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-the-inventive-journey/): RECAST: Try to surround yourself with people who believe in you. So in that same example that I mentioned, that was my biggest mistake and biggest learning. My wife was absolutely amazing. She was a rock and, she was picking me up off the ground when I was in the corner crying and rocking back and forth when the project was going south. - [E21: Ofer Shaked, SCADAFence](https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-ofer-shaked-scadafence/): When Ofer was 24 years old, he had become very familiar with cyber security during his time in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. He and his co-founder had a unique understanding, and as such advantage, to bring value to the industrial cyber security world. - [Bonus: Aggie Growth Hacks](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aggie-growth-hacks/): RECAST: Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. We appreciate Noah for dropping his wisdom on this week’s episode, and we encourage you to check out his podcast, Code Story! Thanks and Gig ‘em! - [E20: Paul Biggar, Dark](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-paul-biggar-dark/): In a past venture, Paul was the founder of CircleCI, the very popular continuous integration tool for engineering teams. Building on his successes here, he started to look at how difficult it was to deploy code, to do infrastructure, to write code, how teams interact, and many other friction points for the SDLC. He set out to remove the complexities of how we build apps today - [Bonus: Erik Chelstad, Observa](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-chelstad-observa/): In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information. - [E19: Daniel Gallancy, Atakama](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-daniel-gallancy-atakama/): Ultimately, Daniel realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it. - [Bonus: Erik Fogg, ProdPerfect](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-fogg-prodperfect/): Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. - [E18: Lior Sion, Bringg](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-lior-sion-bringg/): Lior realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. - [Bonus: Justin Mitchell, Yac](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-justin-mitchell-yac/): Justin noticed over the years of working remote that the accepted culture of getting stuff done was to have meetings all day. He and his team started thinking about how to increase the amount of communication that happened during the day, without increasing the number of meetings. - [E17: Matt Debergalis, Apollo GraphQL](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-matt-debergalis-apollo-graphql/): Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. - [Bonus: Dave MacLeod, ThoughtExchange](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dave-macleod-thoughtexchange/): Along his consulting route, Dave picked up some facilitation techniques to figure out what was important within the diverse groups of people he was working with. He got hooked up with some people building software to solve a similar problem. - [E16: Meetesh Karia, The Zebra](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-meetesh-karia-the-zebra/): In January 2013, he was approached to create and own the technology and team around a product that allowed people to compare insurance providers - from scratch. Meetesh made the decision to onboard and started the journey to build the Zebra. - [Bonus: Jason Riedel, Aspireship](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-riedel-aspireship-saas/): Starting as a nights and weekends side project, Jason and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity. - [E15: Beerud Sheth, Gupshup](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-beerud-sheth-gupshup/): Twelve or so years ago, Beerud noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be? - [Bonus: Greg Schier, Insomnia](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-greg-schier-insomnia-client/): While Greg was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem. - [E14: Bryon Jacob, data.world](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-bryon-jacob-data-world/): Bryon and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated. - [Bonus: The Yield by Yieldstreet](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-the-yield-podcast-by-yieldstreet-bonus/): The evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology. - [E13: Troy Goode, Courier](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-troy-goode-courier-courier/): Troy has worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. - [Bonus: Rens ter Weijde, KIMO](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rens-ter-weijde-kimo/): When he attempted to break into the space, Rens had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. - [E12: Richard Barkley, Cloudsnap](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-richard-barkley-cloudsnap/): After working for Dell, Richard grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this? - [Bonus: Cameron Moreau, Gozova](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cameron-moreau-gozova/): When he was a sophomore in college, Cameron ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items. - [E11: Arjun Narayan, Materialize](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-arjun-narayan-materialize/): As he was as grad student doing his PHD, Arjun came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. - [E10: Steve Caldwell, Mandolin](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-steve-caldwell-mandolin/): As the COVID pandemic decimated live music events, Steve was caught in a related riff. He found himself networking for his next gig, and while doing so, started to chat with his now co-founders about a new opportunity... where musicians could interact with fans in new ways. - [E9: Matt Fornaciari, Gremlin](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-matt-fornaciari-gremlin/): While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - Matt Fornaciari was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. - [Bonus: Richard Mensah, EllisX](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-richard-mensah-ellisx/): Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. - [E8: Brendan & Matt, Fig](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-brendan-matt-fig/): After applying to Y Combinator, Brendan & Matt were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. - [Bonus: Jeff Meisner, Sector 5 Digital](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jeff-meisner-sector-5-digital-s5d/): Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development side. - [E7: Dan Robinson, Heap](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-dan-robinson-heap/): Dan Robinson went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very different.. and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. - [E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorp](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-mitchell-hashimoto-hashicorp/): Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. - [Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-natalie-nagele-wildbit/): Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. - [E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img.ly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-daniel-hauschildt-img-ly/): In 2008, Daniel's current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. - [E4: Hrishi Dixit, Yieldstreet](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-hrishi-dixit-yieldstreet/): Towards the end of his time in San Fran, Hrishi 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. - [E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-davit-buniatyan-activeloop/): 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. - [E2: Charlie & Chinmay, RidePanda](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-charlie-chinmay-ridepanda/): 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. - [Bonus: Tech Talks Daily](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tech-talks-daily/): 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. - [E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sophy-lee-hopskipdrive/): 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: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-wathan-tailwind-replay/): 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. - [Bonus: Leah Culver, Breaker (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leah-culver-breaker-replay/): Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. - [Bonus: Interview on The Entrepreneurial Coder](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-the-entrepreneurial-coder/): Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. - [Bonus: Interview on Develomentor](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-develomentor/): Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. - [E20: Aaron White, Blissfully](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-aaron-white-blissfully/): When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, Aaron White noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. When it started to spread like wildfire, he figured out this was more than a leadgen tool.This is the creation story of Blissfully. - [E19: Joe Howard, WP Buffs](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-joe-howard-wp-buffs/): Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows). Likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out. - [E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-charity-majors-honeycomb-io/): Several years ago, Charity Majors was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. - [Bonus: Joe + Tony, Mythic Markets](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-joe-mahavuthivanij-tony-tran-mythic-markets/): Joe Mahavuthivanij is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that. - [E17: Jeff Bermant, Cocoon MyDataRewards](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jeff-bermant-cocoon-mydatarewards/): When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. - [Bonus: Rob Joseph, ReadItToMe](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-joseph-readittome/): Prior to freelance development, Rob Joseph worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him. - [E16: Ron Rock, Microshare](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-ron-rock-microshare/): When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. - [E15: Ward Sandler, MemberSpace](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-ward-sandler-memberspace/): Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the same fraternity. He's married now, living in Pennsylvania, and is really into healthy living - fitness, nutrition, getting enough sleep - and recently, started to learn jui jitsu, which he describes as a bunch of if - then - else statements.He also supports and volunteers for organizations that help the wrongfully incarcerated, such as the innocence project and defy - helping these individuals learn to start businesses when they are paroled. Both he and his co-founder were working for a company, selling tax software to enterprises. Post its acquisition to Thomson Reuters, they left and started building small scale projects... finding a niche creating Squarespace sites.When working on these projects, people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do this, especially on the Squarespace forums. After reading through the comments, Ward realized that there was a huge opportunity to build a tool to solve this problem.This is the creation story of MemberSpace. - [Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUP](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brendon-beebe-foreup/): The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew. - [E14: Tim Specht, Dubsmash](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-tim-specht-dubsmash/): In 2014, Tim and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. - [Bonus: Interview on SimplyPHP](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-simplyphp/): In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development. - [E13: Dean McPherson, Paperform](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-dean-mcpherson-paperform/): In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. - [E12: Seth Mattox, Apex Hosting](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-seth-mattox-apex-hosting/): Combined with his desire to game forever, Seth and his partners approached the gaming community applying real estate concepts with digital hosting. He and his partners started a Minecraft hosting company, with the best support in the industry. - [Bonus: Christopher Brown, Zabo](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-christopher-brown-zabo/): When Ethereum came out, Christopher Brown was hooked - and found inspiration in the historical marker that cryptocurrency was making. In getting involved, He found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was building what in the space - and he could only imagine how hard it was for outsiders to keep up. - [E11: Mike Kadin, RedCircle](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-mike-kadin-redcircle/): Mike Kadin started hacking on a side project on nights and weekends, learning the Go programming language, and creating a unique way to stitch together podcast episodes. - [E10: Nick Patrick, Radar](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-nick-patrick-radar/): Nick was working at Handy, which is an on demand services platform. There, he and his colleagues were tasked to build a map system, with real time , transparent location info about the service technician. He realized that this was a difficult problem to solve - [Bonus: Interview on The Ops Show](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-the-ops-show/): In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories he’s heard. - [E9: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-adam-wathan-tailwind-css/): While live-streaming some coding, Adam Wathan was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage - to the tune of millions of downloads a month. - [Bonus: Interview on WPMRR](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-wpmrr/): Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs. - [E8: Jane Portman, Userlist](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-jane-portman-userlist/): A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging. - [Bonus: Tony Chan, Cloudforecast](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tony-chan-cloudforecast/): Tony Chan and his co-founders had experiences at prior ventures where it took a long time to report on cloud cost trends, and to know what you forgot to turn off in your infrastructure. - [E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-kimeshan-naidoo-unibuddy/): Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. - [Bonus: Interview on Coffee and Coding](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-coffee-and-coding/): Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. - [E6: Elias Torres, Drift](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-elias-torres-drift/): Elias Torres set out to build a revenue acceleration platform, and did so quickly, given that this was the 4th company he and his co-founder built. - [Bonus: Peter Voss, AIGO](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-peter-voss-aigo/): Not too long ago, Peter Voss found himself struck by how "dumb" software is, or better put, how narrow. So his mission for the last 25 years has been to make software smarter. - [E5: Dan Burcaw, Nami ML](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-dan-burcaw-nami-ml/): Dan Burcaw found out that there weren't many app millionaires in existence - so, he and his co-founder set out to build a better way to sell subscriptions inside app experiences, not only by abstracting the tech bits, but by using machine learning to prompt users at just the right time. - [Bonus: Interview on Mentoring Developers](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-mentoring-developers/): I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below. - [E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-yoshi-yokokawa-alpaca/): Yoshi Yokokawa quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API. - [Bonus: Shawn Frayne, Looking Glass Factory](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-frayne-looking-glass-factory/): Shawn Frayne decided to pursue this dream, and eventually cycled back to the inspiration from back to the future - the hologram. This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory. - [E3: Mark Hendriks, Wild Ventures](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-mark-hendriks-wild-ventures/): Five years ago, Mark started a side project, building a weather app that combined up to date weather with his wife's beautiful landscape illustrations. Shortly after - Apple started promoting their apps, and their business started to take off. Today, they have ventured into nature based mindfulness apps, through their company known as Wild Ventures. - [E2: Dave Zohrob, Chartable](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-dave-zohrob-chartable/): Dave Zohrob has been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood. After considering a few different avenues, including yet another podcast app, they decided to focus on podcast analytics - some might say the app annie for podcasting. This is the creation story of Chartable. - [Bonus: Andrew Smith, Outrider](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-smith-outrider/): Andrew Smith has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental technologies. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually.. in the US alone... his perspective was solidified. This is the creation story of Outrider. - [E1: Cole Raven, Podchaser](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-cole-raven-podchaser/): Cole Raven and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery. - [Season 3 - Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/season-3-trailer/): Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. - [Bonus: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma (Replay)](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-graciano-credit-karma-replay/): Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. - [Bonus: InnovaBuzz Podcast](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-innovabuzz-podcast/): Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about: How to have your team OWN and run your projects, getting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it and how to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a while. - [E20: Daniel Gebler, Picnic](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-daniel-gebler-picnic/): A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors - though he loves to go out in the trees with his friends when he can. After leading R&D at Fredhopper, he took several years to do research on large scale systems. Coming out of his research in 2015, he joined Picnic - the online supermarket delivering groceries directly to your home, free of charge. - [E19: Denis Lunev, DepositFix](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-denis-lunev-depositfix/): Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that didn't quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration consulting he saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot, so he set out to build DepositFix - a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world's most used CRM. - [Bonus: Meet the Podcasters](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-meet-the-podcasters-james-deeney/): A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all. - [E18: Mubashar Iqbal, Pod Hunt](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-mubashar-iqbal-pod-hunt/): Mubashar Iqbal, AKA Mubs, has always been a maker. Having built 85 side projects, he is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. On a train ride home, he started to build pod hunt, a place for podcast lovers to submit and vote on new episodes, solving discovery around episodes over entire podcast shows. - [E17: Dominik Obermaier, HiveMQ](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-dominik-obermaier-hivemq/): Growing up in a small rural city in Germany, Dominic Obermaier was not exposed too much when it comes to computers. After studying computer science in college, he was hooked. A frequent reader of ancient philosophy, he likes to hang out with friends and play board games, specifically long-lasting games such as Arkham horror. Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ. - [E16: Kyle Campbell, CTO.ai](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-kyle-campbell-cto-ai/): Kyle Campbell is a native Canadian and high school dropout growing up in Nova Scotia. He's been working with technology since he was eight years old. Learning computers, building websites, and even starting an online record label. A husband and a dad, he loves the outdoors, camping and motorbikes, and frequently hits the trails with a group of tight-knit campers. After moving into entrepreneurship post-high school, he worked his way up through the ranks of several companies in the Vancouver area, and founded his own companies along the way, one of which got acquired by Zillow. Post that Kyle started to consider the current complexity of the infrastructure and DevOps landscape, Cloud, Kubernetes containers, et cetera. So he set out with the mission to make DevOps successful, easy to use, and bring developer tools to where development happens by enabling developer shortcuts. - [Bonus: Podcast Junkies](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-podcast-junkies-harry-duran/): Recently, I had the pleasure of guesting on Harry Duran's Podcast Junkies. In this episode, we talked about technology startups, communication skills and formatting podcasts for length, production and promos. I was able to share my insights on entrepreneurship and how my podcasting skills have transferred over to Veryable, my startup company. Enjoy the episode. - [E15: Desi McAdam, Nanno](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-desi-mcadam-nanno/): A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science, and loves to roller skate - and may have participated in roller derby a time or 2. Fast forward several years, she and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno - an on-demand platform for connecting parents to vetted, quality sitters.... when & where they need them. - [E14: Rob Moore, Floom](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-rob-moore-floom/): A Maryland native, Rob Moore quickly found himself in the UK studying game theory and behavioral economics. A lover of travel, he has been able to live the digital nomad life and see a number of amazing places. Post-graduation he started doing data visualization work for several different companies. He noticed the difficulty of going from a core product to a sellable SaS platform. Internalizing dry principles and learning the pains of smaller product value delivery, he built Floom to be the startup as a service tool, enabling small SaS businesses away quickly to productize their products. - [Bonus: Andrew Overton, Saga](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-overton-saga/): Andrew Overton is a finance grad from Howard University. He spent 3 years after graduation, in investment banking. After a while, he desired to work in tech and joined Graphiq in Santa Barbara to learn the ropes. During that time, he obtained his masters in CS from Johns Hopkins, and fulfilled his life long dream of working for Apple - specifically, on Apple Music data pipelines. Married to his wife Jessica, he is a family centered dude, looking up to both his brother and parents. And outside of tech, he loves to read and practice Ju Jitsu to blow off steam and practice thinking a few moves ahead. During his career, he had the idea of saving his own family's story somehow, but drug his feet on the idea. In 2019, he committed to making progress and validated the idea - in fact, it was at this point where he connected with his co-founder, Amelia Lin, and set off to create a robust product to capture stories from your loved ones - through an easy interface, all in one place, and saved in audio format. It's like getting a personal podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories. This is the creation story of Saga. - [E13: Adrienne Bolger, BlocHealth](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-adrienne-bolger-blochealth/): Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and tinkered in robotics and medical devices. Eventually, she founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state. - [E12: Jack Rhysider, Darknet Diaries](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-jack-rhysider-darknet-diaries/): Jack Rhysider is a veteran of the security world. He likes to explore, rather it be through street cycling, empty buildings, alleyways - or just getting outdoors. He grew up with conspiracy theories, but found himself drawn more to a truthful scandal over the former. Having watched some of the biggest events in history come and go - dot.com bubble, bitcoin boom, etc. - he felt the increasing presence of an entrepreneurial itch. In the early days, he created some blogs and websites, using some well known web tech, and cultivated a love of podcasting and storytelling. Not able to find the right podcast in the info sec arena, he decided to give it a shot on his own. Fast forward to today, his podcast - Darknet Diaries - is one of the most well known podcasts available, topping the charts with its weekly release of hacking true stories. - [E11: Jason Tan, Sift](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-jason-tan-sift/): Jason Tan started his love of tech back in middle school, when his Dad showed in the wonders 0f connectivity through dial up internet. After taking some beginner programming classes in high school, and graduating with a CS degree from the University of Washington, he found himself drawn to crating powerful abstractions within software, to produce outcomes for users. Though previously a hardcore video gamer - playing such well known games like Diablo 2 & 3, he has since moved on to dabble in freestyle rapping & singing. And in 2006 post college, he worked for startups in Seattle, like Zillow and Optify. Finally, in 2011, he moved to San Francisco to start his current company and go through Y Combinator. Through some discovery, he figured out that a large area ripe for innovation and disruption was fraud. He then set out to build Sift, a product to power digital trust and safety, empowering companies to unlock revenue without risk. - [E10: Steven Naimark, Ziptility](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-steven-naimark-ziptility/): Steven Naimark started out his professional career as a clarinet performer. Through his passion for performing, he grew not only as a musician, but as a person, finding joy in the discipline required for his craft. After not enjoying the teaching aspect of music, he began looking for something different, to help separate him from music... to provide clarity. Along the way, he fell in love with web development and made a universe change to do it full time. Eventually, he started building a solution to totally modernize the water utility space, called Ziptility - a platform providing asset, task and inventory management for water utilities. - [E9: Thane Brimhall, Seek](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-thane-brimhall-seek/): Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions - tech and gaming - he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek. - [E8: Erin Karam, Dina (Formerly Prepared Health)](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-erin-karam-dina-formerly-prepared-health/): Erin Karam was a kid interested in everything. She played music, she was into sports, and... into computers and programming. She continues to have well rounded interests today, running marathons, coaching her kids sports teams and teaching them to play music. Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something.. and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Prepared Health (Now Dina!), after latching on the story and vision of the company. She set positively impact the world - by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and home health professionals. - [E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-ryan-graciano-credit-karma/): Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. - [E6: Dennis Cail, Zirtue](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-dennis-cail-zirtue/): Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Dennis Cail has been involved in the tech world since he started in the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he obtained his CS degree and an MBA in Finance. A family man and father, he realized he was having limited success in getting money returned to him, that he lent to friends and family. Ten years later, he set out to solve that problem, to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. This solution became known as Zirtue - [E5: Matt Senter, Lolli](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-matt-senter-lolli/): Matt Senter grew up on a small farm in rural North Carolina, dreaming of being a game programmer. A Dad, a husband and musician, he keeps extra busy besides being a startup founder. After selling his prior company CosmicCart, he and his co-founder wanted to make it easier for people to get into cryptocurrency. Having experience with products like Ebates, they decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online... except the rewards are given in bitcoin. - [E4: George Deglin, OneSignal](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-george-deglin-onesignal/): Growing up in the bay area, George Deglin has always been in the middle of the Silicon Valley action. Having both parents being engineers, he was influenced to study Computer Science at Berkley. During that team, he co-founded a startup in the education space. After building this company up, he parted ways to start his next venture. This next venture led to the discovery of the vision for OneSignal - the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. - [E3: Wil Schroter, Startups.com](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-wil-schroter-startups-com/): Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built startups.com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process - and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform - [E2: Zach Moreno, Squadcast.fm](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-zach-moreno-squadcast-fm/): Zach Moreno is quite the renaissance man, being an artist, designer, author, developer... and a loving husband. He has interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of DevTools and as a big believer in AngularJS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language. After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording... so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast - the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations. - [E1: Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-courtland-allen-indie-hackers/): Courtland Allen grew up totally opposite of his twin brother, Channing, but influenced by him nevertheless. His family was rooted in entrepreneurship, and as such, Courtland was heavily inspired to build and run his own thing. After going through Y Combinator and trying out different startups, he landed on the idea for Indie Hackers - and it checked all the boxes for what he wanted to work on. He spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online. - [Season 2 - Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/e0-season-2-trailer/): Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We've taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products... their stories. - [Bonus: Milestone Hackers](https://codestory.co/podcast/interview-on-milestone-hackers/): A few weeks ago, I sat down with Paolo on the Milestone Hackers podcast, and had a great chat about startup life, co-founding partners, balancing family & startup life and how to avoid fear. Enjoy todays bonus episode on the Milestone Hackers podcast. - [Bonus: Product Journey](https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-product-journey/): I had the opportunity to chat with Noah and Ben on the Product Journey podcast. Every week they get together and talk about building online businesses, what's been going on and where they struggling at the moment. On the show, we talked about the startup I co-founded, Veryable, which is a marketplace of on-demand labor for manufacturing and warehouse work. We talked through the early days of Veryable and what it looked like to reach product/market fit. We also talked through execution and asked for my advice on how to execute well. - [E20: Brandon Hilkert, Bark](https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-brandon-hilkert-bark/): Early in his career, Brandon Hilkart shifted from a mechanical engineering focus to tech support for a school district. Through his exposure to IT operations, he drifted towards software and becoming acquainted with building startup solutions. While considering the purpose, legacy and impact of his work, he was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. This conversation ultimately led to the start of a simple, yet sophisticated internet safety solution for parents and kids... called Bark. - [E19: Chris Slowe, Reddit](https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-chris-slowe-reddit/): A tech and science minded individual, Chris Slowe has spent 9 years with Reddit. Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a Dad and likes to work with his hands in the machine shop. When he put roots into the product as the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Fast forward many years, Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information. - [E18: Bill Eager, Nomad Health](https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-bill-eager-nomad-health/): For Bill Eager, his interest in tech paralleled his desire to play music. After attending music school, he became disillusioned with music as a day job and pursued tech - still moonlighting as a performing musician. As he pursued a role with a startup, he was introduced to the founders of Nomad Health - and instantly connected with the idea. He jumped on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads. - [Throwback: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr](https://codestory.co/podcast/throwback-jonathan-perichon-checkr/): Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. - [Throwback: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy](https://codestory.co/podcast/throwback-rylan-barnes-shopsavvy/): When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. - [E17: Blake Miller, Homebase](https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-blake-miller-homebase/): Coming from a supportive, entrepreneurial home, Blake Miller was introduced to the internet at a very young age - building websites for friends, and flipping digital businesses the same way people flip houses. Outside of tech, he is a competitive barbecuer, with a team of long time friends who create award winning BBQ. Highly involved in the Kansas City Smart City initiative, he created an award winning iOT solution around smarter living experience for tenants and more profitable infrastructure for building owners and managers. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase. - [E16: Aalok Shah, EnergyFunders](https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-aalok-shah-energyfunders/): Tech has always been a part of Aalok Shah's life. His father and mother influenced his tech interests and biomedical education. After working in nuclear medicine and supporting the special needs community, he found himself always drifting back towards tech and software development, hacking together websites and doing web consulting. Several years later, he was onboarded by the founders of EnergyFunders - a platform for investing in Oil & Gas - to help improve their technology feature set. The business took off, and they found themselves in need of a full time CTO - and Aalok was the best fit. - [E15: Omri Mor, Routable](https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-omri-mor-routable/): Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri More learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up… over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of problems they encountered in processing payments to their third parties - so many problems that they were both required to build their own. After taking some time validate a solution in the market, Omri set out to build Routable - a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platform. - [E14: Dennis Steele, Podium](https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-dennis-steele-podium/): Along with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp - called DevMountain - to enable him with practical dev skills. He took the base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform. - [E13: Ben Milne, Dwolla](https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-ben-milne-dwolla/): Ben Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for a good while. His second startup started as a consumer product that you downloaded to move money between banks... without using credit cards or paying hefty fees. What he discovered was the thing they were best at was payment processing infrastructure... So he changed his business to focus on being a high performing, white label solution for enabling others to process ACH payments - and started phase two of his company, known as Dwolla. - [E12: Bernard Worthy, Loan Well](https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-bernard-worthy-loanwell/): Bernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through some research and discovery, he figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks . He set out to solve this problem - to bring all of these systems under one piece of software to make the loan origination process more efficient. This solution would eventually be called Loan Well. - [E11: Eric Sharp, Degreed](https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-eric-sharp-degreed/): Eric Sharp grew up with a unique background. With vivid memories of growing up in poverty, he recalls being distinctly inspired towards education when his mother went back to school to be a teacher. She instilled in him curiosity and a desire to learn, which made a big difference in changing his life trajectory. Using this passion, he and his co-founders were motivated to build the vision for a SaaS learning platform called Degreed - enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. - [E10: Shelby Stephens, Jolly](https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-shelby-stephens-jolly/): Growing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He was brought up appreciating science and art, and studied engineering in College. After working for NASA, he decided to venture out onto his own, pursuing a new venture with his friend, doing video production work for hire. Fast forward 15 years, he and his co-founder are serving the production and project worker space by building Jolly - a social and professional network, designed for gig workers, providing reputation portability, connection opportunities and a marketplace to find work. - [E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik](https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-andy-abbott-heretik/): Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach… learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences - from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale. - [E8: Jon Buda, Transistor.fm](https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-jon-buda-transistor/): Building on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single.. and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor.fm. - [E7: Jonathan Campos, Alto](https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-jonathan-campos-alto/): After getting his masters, Jonathan Campos found himself working with clients, listening to their pain points, and creating software to meet those needs. He worked his way through a handful of startups and agencies, before landing at Bottle Rocket as the chief architect, growing their web and backend practice. Not too long after, a former boss reached out about an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience, focusing on simple billing, safety and control over the experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto. - [E6: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr](https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-jonathan-perichon-checkr/): Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. - [E5: Alvaro Sabido, Caribu](https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-alvaro-sabido-caribu/): When Alvaro Sabido saw a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book - and what would eventually be called Caribu. - [E4: Sean Washington, Design Kollective](https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-sean-washington-design-kollective/): Sean Washington is the CTO of Design Kollective, and the Co-Host of Does Not Compute - a popular podcast on the Spec.fm network, about the lives and workflows of modern web developers. - [E3: Leah Culver, Breaker](https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-leah-culver-breaker-episode/): Podcasts are a great thing - the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing for Leah Culver. So she built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most. - [E2: Tanner Hearne, Musicbed](https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-tanner-hearne-musicbed/): A gap used to exist in the world of music licensing. The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house developer - with the job and goal to take the product to new heights. - [E1: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy](https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-rylan-barnes-shopsavvy/): When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. - [Season 1 - Trailer](https://codestory.co/podcast/e0-code-story-trailer-episode/): The process of building a product can take many twists and turns, based on the path that is chosen. How do you get started? What tools do you use? And how do you build your product roadmap? There will be mistakes and issues along the way, how is your team going to respond? How do you build a team? And not just any team... a team that gets the vision, that follows your lead. What is the vision, and what does the future look like? 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We have spoken to some of the most amazing and brilliant tech builders and visionaries on the planet. Check out some of our guest testimonials listed below. Noah did a great job guiding me through the whole process. Telling Noah more about the creation of Dubsmash ended up being more natural than I had expected it to be & I love how well-produced the final product turned out to be. 10/10 would be on again! Tim SpechtCTO, Co-Founder, Dubsmash. com Working with Noah was a fun and easy process. He was very clear about what to expect before, during, and after the interview. Noah is an excellent interviewer and put me at ease immediately with his demeanor. Thanks for an enjoyable conversation, Noah! Sophy LeeCTO, HopSkipDrive Noah is a curious, thoughtful, introspective host who does his research and brings lots of expertise to the subject matter. Our session felt like kicking back over beers with a friend to catch up (with an editor afterwards). 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He thinks about the listener's takeaways with every question while crafting a captivating story! Cole RavenCRO, Co-Founder, Podchaser I really enjoyed being on Codestory with Noah who made the entire process of recording and releasing so easy. Talking with Noah was so natural, even though we've never met it seemed like we had been friends forever. Blake MillerCEO, Co-Founder, Homebase. ai Noah was a great host to talk with. It was a fun and laid back conversation, and by the time we even started the recording, I felt comfortable talking with him. I was really impressed by how well his team put the podcast together. As a fellow CTO, I can definitely recommend Noah and Code Story. Aalok ShahCTO, EnergyFunders What really stood out was the production quality of our episode. He really took the time to highlight and curate the best parts of the interview to showcase our story in a super engaging way! Ward SandlerCEO, Co-Founder, Memberspace What I enjoyed most about Code... --- > Code Story is a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. - Published: 2018-11-12 - Modified: 2025-05-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/ A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! BonusS10 The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Your Reality Check May 2, 2025 Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Sponsored by: Protegrity A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! BonusS10 Bonus: Erik Braund, Katmai Tech May 1, 2025 Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren’t doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. Sponsored by: Mailtrap, Speakeasy, SnapTrade, QA Wolf A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! S10 E30: Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Uniqode April 29, 2025 Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. Sponsored by: Mailtrap, Speakeasy, SnapTrade, QA Wolf A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! BonusS10 Bonus: Shai Horovitz, Jit. io April 24, 2025 The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. Sponsored by: Mailtrap, Speakeasy, SnapTrade, QA Wolf A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! BonusS10 The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier? April 23, 2025 Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Sponsored by: Protegrity A podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Rate the podcast! Shop our store! S10 E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle April 22, 2025 Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform... --- - Published: 2018-11-12 - Modified: 2023-09-05 - URL: https://codestory.co/about-code-story-podcast/ Their tech.  Their products... Their stories. In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. On the show, we interview tech visionaries, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry, and build & lead a team that has your back. Code Story is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses.   Who is this show for?   This show is for those who are curious about the human story of the worlds most disruptive builders. If you wonder how these leaders and visionaries coped with making product trade offs in the early days - this show is for you. If you find yourself wondering how someone solved a certain problem, or even what sort of problems existed for those people - you will gain valuable info from listening. If you find yourself asking the question, "How did they create that amazing team? " - this show is for you. If you are curious how products scale to support millions of users - you will find out this and more on this show.     What will you get out of listening?   You will hear the ups and downs, the wins and the losses, the successes and mistakes... in building products. On the show, we dig into the critical moments and the stories that you won't read about on Crunchbase, Tech Crunch or Forbes - the gotcha moments that were massive turning points or pivotal moments from the builders POV themselves.   What can you expect... Weekly episodes, 30-45 minutes long. 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April 23, 2025 S10 E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle April 22, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: David Young, Federated Computer April 17, 2025 BonusS10 The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Are Your Systems Smarter Than a Threat Actor? April 16, 2025 S10 E28: Kavitta Ghai, Nectir April 15, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Darko Fabijan, Semaphore April 10, 2025 BonusS10 The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – Fortifying Your Data Defenses April 9, 2025 S10 E27: Gino Ferrand, Tecla. io April 8, 2025 S10 E26: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 2) April 3, 2025 BonusS10 The Gene Simmons of Data Protection – KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): A Data Security Dilemma April 2, 2025 S10 E26: Ivan & Nick, Archetype AI (Part 1) April 1, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Quinn Li O’Shea, Braid March 27, 2025 S10 E25: Alberto Simon, Masterworks March 25, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Don Gossen, Nevermined March 20, 2025 S10 E24: Shmuel Kliger, Causely March 18, 2025 BonusS10 Podcasthon 2025 & the American Cancer Society March 17, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Tyler Wells, Braingrid March 13, 2025 S10 E23: Anthony Eden, DNSimple March 11, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Andrew Lau, Jellyfish March 6, 2025 S10 E22: Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments March 4, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Josh Ho, Referral Rock February 27, 2025 S10 E21: Austin Vance, Focused. io February 25, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Jason Schappert, Moola February 20, 2025 S10 E20: Tameem Hourani, RapDev February 18, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Shahar Azulay, Groundcover February 13, 2025 BonusS10 Minting Unicorns – Blockchain, AI and Dubai, with Imad Gharazeddine, CEO of Mamo February 12, 2025 S10 E19: Simmi Singh, Hook Music February 11, 2025 BonusS10 Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov,... --- --- ## Posts - Published: 2023-07-31 - Modified: 2023-08-01 - URL: https://codestory.co/beyond-bots-the-real-impact-of-ai-on-financial-services/ - Categories: Newsletter Recently, we released a new series entitled Beyond Bots: the REAL Impact of AI on Financial Services, sponsored by our good friends at Ntropy, In this series, we hear from the founders of Ntropy, along with some of their heaviest hitting companies, about how data, learning models, and the proper use of AI, is turning the industry on its head. In the market today, the term "AI" is thrown around like a baseball on a baseball field. Similar to what happened when blockchain/web3 was introduced, everyone is attempting to show that they are using some sort of AI mechanism in their solution... OR, alternatively, they are building their solution on top of popular AI solutions, like the tools from Open AI, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. Although these solutions and businesses are filled with hype, they are failing to find the most interesting - and useful solutions for AI to solve for our world. One such area is financial services. This includes the other buzz word that is thrown around today - fintech - but so much more. Recently, we released a new series entitled Beyond Bots: the REAL Impact of AI on Financial Services, sponsored by our good friends at Ntropy, In this series, we hear from the founders of Ntropy, along with some of their heaviest hitting companies, about how data, learning models, and the proper use of AI, is turning the industry on its head. Check out our conversations below! Nare Vardanyan is the CEO and Co-founder of Ntropy. In this episode, we chat about the definition of a language model, large and small, and what is needed to train these sorts of models. In doing so, we visited topics around the cost of training models, latency as being a key factor in the process, and the future of LLM's at it relates to Ntropy and their product offerings. Click here to visit the episode page. Ilia Zintchenko is the CTO & Co-founder of Ntropy. In this conversation, we dig deeper into what makes up Ntropy's LLM stack, and how they came about deciding on it. We dig into optimization around reliability, predictive vs generative learning, good vs bad data sources, and system costs around all of this learning. Click here to visit the episode page. Bryce Crawford is the CTO & Co-founder of Meow. Meow is utilizing Ntropy to enrich their customers transactions, and has an insiders view into fintech, the "software layer" on top of finance, and how AI is going to impact fintech and financial services moving forward. Click here to visit the episode page. Daniel Jordan is a dual Data Science & Product Manager at Wayflyer. He and the company are paving the way for financial success for eCommerce businesses, and are utilizing Ntropy in their back office, as part of their platform to assess risk, provide funding, and build a faster, easier solution for their customers. Click here to visit the episode page. --- - Published: 2023-05-22 - Modified: 2023-05-25 - URL: https://codestory.co/1000000-downloads-thank-you/ - Categories: Newsletter A little over 4 years ago, we started this journey to bring tech stories to the masses. But not just technology stories - IE how I built this with that tool... We were looking for the human side of building technology and founding startups. We wanted to have the "How I Built This" for the technology side of the house, and bring out the stories that you only hear over coffee with the founder or builder themselves - the stories you don't hear in the headlines, about building MVP's, tradeoffs, roadmaps, teams - and mistakes. We are beyond excited to have gotten to this point, and to be honest - have to pinch ourselves a little. And we couldn't have done it without our faithful listeners, amazing guests, and incredible sponsors. Big time thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. --- - Published: 2022-09-07 - Modified: 2022-09-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/automate-purchasing-stay-in-control/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Teampay. Are you tired of complex finance operations and disconnected accounting systems? Do you loathe the lack of visibility into your businesses spend, across the board? What if you could automate policies, integrate systems, and enable full visibility for your Finance team?You can... with Teampay. This message is sponsored by Teampay. Are you tired of complex finance operations and disconnected accounting systems? Do you loathe the lack of visibility into your businesses spend, across the board? What if you could automate policies, integrate systems, and enable full visibility for your Finance team? You can... with Teampay. Bonus: Andrew Hoag, Teampay — codestory. co We started Teampay with a really simple premise: It's one place for anyone to buy anything regardless of how they’re paying. Teampay is the first purchasing software built for modern, technology-enabled businesses. Teampay's products make it possible for companies to request, approve and track expenditures in real-time. Approve purchases before they happen — www. teampay. co Control your spend and eliminate surprises with automated, policy-enforcing purchase workflows that collect approvals before a single dollar is spent. Deliver an effortless employee experience — www. teampay. co It’s so intuitive, they actually want to use it. Teampay integrates with your team's chat tools and gets employees what they need, when they need it—promoting easy adoption company-wide. Automate your routine work — www. teampay. co Put more of your brain power into driving business decisions. Let the software issue secure payment methods, reconcile purchases, create on-demand reports and handle your repetitive work for you. Maximize productivity company-wide — www. teampay. co Centralize all purchasing processes in one place. Minimize confusion and miscommunication. Make spending straightforward and seamless. Track your spend in real time — www. teampay. co Drive company impact by making up-to-the-minute analytics accessible to everyone. Deliver transparent, accurate reporting, any day of the month. With all of these features, you no longer have to worry about red tape or awkward conversations with employees about missed deadlines, expense reports or out-of-policy spend; strengthening relationships with vendors, employees and management teams. Integrate with what you already use Connect Teampay with the tools you and your teams already use throughout the spend process—and manage everything from one place. Key categories of integrations include accounting systems, HRIS, Identity Management, and Banking & Credit. Interested in learning more? Reach out to the team over at Teampay, by requesting a demo of their platform today. --- - Published: 2022-09-02 - Modified: 2022-09-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-august-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter So you may have noticed that I missed the July newsletter. Whoops! Out of town and out of commission, but August came and went just as fast. We ended a season, started another, and brought on some fantastic guests. Enjoy. So you may have noticed that I missed the July newsletter. Whoops! Out of town and out of commission, but August came and went just as fast. We ended a season, started another, and brought on some fantastic guests. Enjoy. Season 7 Trailer — codestory. co Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. 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Bonus: Aaron Upright, Zenhub — codestory. co In the past, Aaron and his team noticed the gap between developers and product folks, as developers were working in Github while Product Managers were working in, and reporting on, project software. They took a step back, and decided to create something to solve this problem and match the tool to their ethos. Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked — codestory. co Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. E1: Ian Small, Evernote — codestory. co Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these... --- - Published: 2022-08-24 - Modified: 2022-09-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/one-click-instant-privacy-cloaked/ - Categories: Newsletter This episode is sponsored by Cloaked.In a world of online solutions, your personal information is frequently asked for in setting up accounts, or configuring your profiles. What if you didn't have to give them your personal information?Well, now you don't have to... with Cloaked. This episode is sponsored by Cloaked. In a world of online solutions, your personal information is frequently asked for in setting up accounts, or configuring your profiles. What if you didn't have to give them your personal information? Well, now you don't have to... with Cloaked. Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked — codestory. co Arjun decided to build a solution that ensured that your personal data didn't need to be shared on the internet. Cloaked eliminates the pressure you feel when asked to share personal info online and in-person. Every time you need to share personal info, Cloaked lets you instantly generate real working phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords. Their mission is to bring humanity to the internet, and they believe that as individuals, our privacy deserves respect. Cloaked data will always be yours. Each individual’s data is separated and secured on personalized, encrypted databases. Forwarding, Muting & Pairing Messages can live in Cloaked or your inbox - you decide. Auto-mute people and companies. Your unique info can be paired, and not used by others. Creating accounts never felt so good. — www. cloaked. app There's nothing for you to remember. Cloaked makes logins and access to all your secure accounts and messages, easy. We go beyond a password manager. Available for iOS, Android & Chrome Store — www. cloaked. app Cloaked works in-person, too. Whether you're meeting someone new or joining a rewards program, instantly share new numbers and emails. Explore freely online. — www. cloaked. app Look for the cloaked icon in any form field to know you can generate cloaked information. Easy access to your info. — www. cloaked. app Use the web dashboard to view messages, adjust settings, and prioritize contact controls. Actively in Beta! Sign up on their website for the waitlist and gain early access perks to their product. --- - Published: 2022-07-27 - Modified: 2022-08-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/this-is-epic-2/ - Categories: Newsletter TL;DR; - Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Recently, we became acquainted with a fantastic new product for daily audio listens. It's called Jam, and it is the easiest way to follow and listen to short form audio on the go.And, guess what - Code Story is on there too. That's right, you can get the best clips of the Code Story podcast right here.The Easy way to signup... and the only way :) Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM).Are there other steps? Nope.Sign up for Jam.ai today! TL;DR; - Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Recently, we became acquainted with a fantastic new product for daily audio listens. It's called Jam, and it is the easiest way to follow and listen to short form audio on the go. And, guess what - Code Story is on there too. That's right, you can get the best clips of the Code Story podcast right here. The Easy way to signup... and the only way :) Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Are there other steps? Nope. Sign up for Jam. ai today! --- - Published: 2022-07-26 - Modified: 2022-08-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/this-is-epic/ - Categories: Newsletter TL;DR; - Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Recently, we became acquainted with a fantastic new product for daily audio listens. It's called Jam, and it is the easiest way to follow and listen to short form audio on the go.And, guess what - Code Story is on there too. That's right, you can get the best clips of the Code Story podcast right here. The Easy way to signup... and the only way :) Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM).Are there other steps? Nope. Sign up for Jam.ai today! TL;DR; - Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Recently, we became acquainted with a fantastic new product for daily audio listens. It's called Jam, and it is the easiest way to follow and listen to short form audio on the go. And, guess what - Code Story is on there too. That's right, you can get the best clips of the Code Story podcast right here. The Easy way to signup... and the only way :) Sign up by texting CODE STORY to 552266 (JJAAMM). Are there other steps? Nope. Sign up for Jam. ai today! --- - Published: 2022-07-22 - Modified: 2022-07-22 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-june-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter June was NUTS... and July much more. Summer busy-ness leads to delays in podcast newsletter. Enjoy the episodes. June was NUTS... and July much more. Summer busy-ness leads to delays in podcast newsletter. Enjoy the episodes. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up full stack preview environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes Bonus: Maria Meier, Phantasma Labs — codestory. co In her words, the way she started her current venture is kind of unusual. Formerly a backend engineer, she got restless and figured she was as intelligent as other founders she was observing. Through an accelerator, she met her co-founder and built learning models to illustrate how pedestrians act in traffic. Notifications North Star - Stephanie Griffith, Email & SMS Expert — codestory. co Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. She is a startup founder, and has been involved with big names like Drip, Thinkful, Bed Bath & Beyond and more. She is also the host of the Conversational Commerce podcast. E24: Matt Young, UserVoice — codestory. co In 2015, Matt joined his current venture as the VP of Engineering. At the time he was hired, the company was trying to press into the enterprise space, and in order to do that, the company needed some organization and some process put into place. Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely — codestory. co With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. 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He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story... --- - Published: 2022-07-19 - Modified: 2022-07-21 - URL: https://codestory.co/revolutionizing-payouts-verituity/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Verituity.Verituity is transforming the world of payouts by making first-time and on-time verified payouts and intelligent payment choice an industry standard.The two-year-old fintech works with Fortune 500 banks and insurance companies to modernize payouts, lower cost, mitigate risk, introduce choice, and increase satisfaction for the payer and the payee.  This message is sponsored by Verituity. Verituity is transforming the world of payouts by making first-time and on-time verified payouts and intelligent payment choice an industry standard. The two-year-old fintech works with Fortune 500 banks and insurance companies to modernize payouts, lower cost, mitigate risk, introduce choice, and increase satisfaction for the payer and the payee. Verituity’s all-in-one, cloud-based verified payouts platform automates and simplifies payee engagement, provides payout choice, and handles everything for payers like compliance, all while reducing risk and cost. Their white-labeled platform is built to revolutionize payouts through: Holistic Verification™ Analyzes and validates all aspects of a transaction and its relationships. Intelligent Pay-by-Anything Automatically offers the payee the right payment type based on the payer’s preferences, payment threshold, and policies. Currently supporting ACH, wire, RTP®, push-to-card, virtual card, prepaid card, Zelle®, Paypal, check, and crypto. Connect-by-Anything Verituity ingests and transforms multiple file formats into a digital payment instruction. Just send your check file and Verituity will handle the rest. Payers connect via Open API, SFTP, web interface or bank treasury platform and can send batch files, individual records (payouts), or a data stream. Handle Everything Provides end-to-end policy-driven automation of verification, payment choice, payout processing, and reconciliation. Additionally, Verituity handles PII and PCI collection, management, and compliance President & CEO, Ben Turner Interview: Ben Turner, Verituity — codestory. co Ben Turner founded Verituity with the goal of modernizing digital payouts and enabling first-time and on-time verified payouts with intelligent pay-by-anything. CEO Ben Turner founded Verituity with the goal of making first-time and on-time verified payouts and intelligent pay-by-anything an industry standard. He believes that having the right people beside you can make all the difference. At Verituity, Ben has built a culture that encourages people to collaborate and feel connected to the business. His advice to other entrepreneurs just starting out is to go out and talk to your potential customers, learn what their problems are, and then make sure your product offers a valuable and viable solution. Learn More Today! Get started with Verituity today, by learning more about their solutions and the industries they support. --- - Published: 2022-07-15 - Modified: 2022-07-21 - URL: https://codestory.co/documentation-platform-built-for-engineers/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Swimm. Let’s face it, most documentation systems are broken, leading to incomplete, outdated, and hard to find docs. As a result, scaling your product or your team takes enormous effort.Swimm aims to change all that. This newsletter is sponsored by Swimm. Let’s face it, most documentation systems are broken, leading to incomplete, outdated, and hard to find docs. As a result, scaling your product or your team takes enormous effort. Swimm aims to change all that. Bonus: Omer Rosenbaum, Swimm — codestory. co Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken... and they wanted to fix it. Swimm—built for and designed by developers—is on a mission to change the way developers share knowledge. Swimm's platform can be set-up in minutes and gives engineering teams usable, discoverable, and auto-synced documentation. All without interrupting their regular workflow. With Swimm, developers can: Create new, cope-coupled, auto-synced docs in just a few seconds — swimm. io With Swimm, it’s incredibly easy to get started with documentation. Developers have access to code-walkthroughs and docs from PRs, code snippets, and templates. Plus, Swimm's code-coupled editor is language agnostic. Keep docs synced to the codebase seamlessly with Live Snippets — swimm. io Swimm docs are never out-of-date, even when your codebase changes. Developers can use our GitHub integration and auto-sync algorithm to keep docs up-to-date as the code evolves, even through refactoring and reorganization. When docs are out-of-date, Swimm keeps you notified. (Note: currently Swimm supports GitHub only). Access docs in the IDE, the moment they’re needed. No more context switching. — swimm. io Swimm doesn’t interrupt the developer's flow. With VS Code and JetBrains integrations, developers can access docs the moment they need them, right in their IDE. Plus, Swimm docs are in Markdown! Developers can also use Swimm to search the entire codebase with ease. Make onboarding and knowledge sharing a breeze — swimm. io Swimm makes onboarding, standardizing your documentation, and centralizing know-how easy and painless for your team. All teammates benefit from Swimm Playlists, which are collections of code-coupled docs and external links. New hires use them to dive right in and make onboarding a breeze; more seasoned team members rely on them to tackle a code refactor or work on a part of the code base they’re less familiar with. Join the Swimm Team on Slack! Join the Swimm Team on Slack! We’re excited to chat with our beta users to share best practices, answer questions, and share product updates. --- - Published: 2022-06-24 - Modified: 2022-06-28 - URL: https://codestory.co/the-industrys-first-hyper-converged-console/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Remotely Inc.Are you a SysAdmin who's found yourself trying to support your enterprise's end users, but unable to do so remotely, in a quick and effective way? Are you tired of looking at RMM systems that have a poorly designed UI/UX?Well... you're in luck. TLDR - Get started today! This message is sponsored by Remotely Inc. Are you a SysAdmin who's found yourself trying to support your enterprise's end users, but unable to do so remotely, in a quick and effective way? Are you tired of looking at RMM systems that have a poorly designed UI/UX? Well... you're in luck. TLDR - Get started today! Remotely is a remote monitoring, management, and security platform that can assess, detect, and remediate vulnerabilities from a unified dashboard. The solution helps remote enterprise teams to monitor, manage, and protect distributed users. Remotely RMM is remote monitoring, management, and security platform that can assess, detect, and remediate distributed users from a unified dashboard through their security scoring and direct integration with MS Azure. Remote Management & Monitoring — www. remotelyrmm. com Remotely RMM is remote monitoring and management software that helps system administrators monitor their organization. Security Scoring & Assessments — www. remotelyrmm. com Remotely product provides security posture focused solution to supporting edge devices. MS Azure-native & Cloud-nested — www. remotelyrmm. com Remotely RMM is an azure native remote monitoring and management system that is easily installed with azure services. And that's not all... Remotely includes the greatest hits collection of IT's favorite tools, allowing SysAdmin's to deliver productivity no matter how, when, and where your end users work. Ample Resources for your Team New to RMM? Get an introduction from the company, walking you through all things related to remote management & monitoring. You can find tons of resources on Remotely's website. For instance, check out their Methodology Solution Brief, or take their totally free Security Risk Calculator. Finally, hear from their team members on the industry at large, and how Remotely is equipping and enabling the remote SysAdmin. Checkout the one below, reporting on end user challenges. About the Founder In the summer of 2021, CEO Tyler Rohrer founded Remotely. Tyler's vision was to create a solution that helps the modern enterprise workforce to provide network security and visibility to IT Administrators. Being a thought leader in the industry, Tyler identified that there wasn't an Azure-native solution on the market. Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely — codestory. co With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. Get Started Today Ready to see Remotely RMM in action? Book your personalized demo today. --- - Published: 2022-06-07 - Modified: 2022-06-07 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-may-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter May is done... entering into summertime fun! At least for kids out of school. We all still have to work :mad-emoji:. So, here are our May episodes for your enjoyment. May is done... entering into summertime fun! At least for kids out of school. We all still have to work :mad-emoji:. So, here are our May episodes for your enjoyment. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up full stack preview environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl — codestory. co Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC. Bonus: George Georgallides, Basis Health — codestory. co George has been in the health tech space for some time. When he started working on a pace maker, he interviewed surgeons who were working on patient with metabolic illnesses. Seeing these illnesses, which are lifestyle driven, was very formative for his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle. Bonus: Savarth Misra, ContractPodAI — codestory. co In his prior profession as a lawyer, Savarth thoroughly understood how contracts were done. He also noticed how little tech adoption was present, which directly impacted the effectiveness of contract management in general. He figured it was only a matter of time before this industry - his industry, was disrupted by tech. E19: Kirk Marple, Unstruk Data — codestory. co After selling his prior company, which was heavy in the broadcast media space, Kirk ended up at General Motors. He started to learn about media data, and the value of getting the media data into computer vision algorithms. Five years later, he realized that no one had created a platform to do this yet... and he got started building it, on nights and weekends, first for podcast discovery. Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit. dev — codestory. co After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He... --- - Published: 2022-05-05 - Modified: 2022-05-05 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-april-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter Now it's time for the April showers! And this newsletter will be showering you with amazing episodes of the Code Story podcast. Enjoy. Now it's time for the April showers! And this newsletter will be showering you with amazing episodes of the Code Story podcast. Enjoy. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up full stack preview environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes E13: Alexander Luksidadi, Rose Rocket — codestory. co Alexander and his co-founder attempted to build a business in the freight and logistics space, which ultimately failed. But they saw a lot more opportunity in the space, and set some goals for themselves to get funding, or get into Y Combinator. They started by building strictly broker software. Bonus: Liran Haimovitch, Rookout — codestory. co Just over 5 years ago, Liran and his co-founder realized that everytime you need to change the way you observe or log your application, you have to fully release that application. They applied their cyber security way of thinking, and built a platform to enable the instant change to loging and observability. Bonus: Roy Ng, Bond — codestory. co Roy connected with his a college friend, and now co-founder, to discuss his experience at SoFi. What they realized was that developers are having to build the "plumbing" of financial products over and over again, because there isn't a developer platform to enable them to focus on their end products. Bonus: Dan Langevin, Vericred — codestory. co Dan and his co-founder started out building credentialing software, a sort of deep background check on Doctors. In creating a way to scrape & pull in accepted insurance, they recognized a broader need for data to be more fluid in the space. It became obvious that a company needed to solve this problem for the space. E14: Joe Pettersson, Banked — codestory. co In January 2020, Joe joined his current venture prior to raising a seed round. Having gotten regulated in the UK, they were ready to deploy the first product and find their market fit. And in doing so, he went about optimizing team, process, and built a platform strategically ready for change - in the payment space. Bonus: Aaron Bromberg, StimScience — codestory. co Aaron put... --- - Published: 2022-05-03 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/most-destructive-ransomware-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by our friends at Anomali. Download their Cybersecurity Insights Report for 2022. In recent years, no cyberattack payload has been more destructive to business and government organizations than ransomware. And to be clear, this is not new... the earliest variants of ransomware were developed in the late 1980s. This type of malware made a resurgence in 2019 with high profile attacks made on state and local government. This newsletter is sponsored by our friends at Anomali. Download their Cybersecurity Insights Report for 2022. In recent years, no cyberattack payload has been more destructive to business and government organizations than ransomware. And to be clear, this is not new... the earliest variants of ransomware were developed in the late 1980s. This type of malware made a resurgence in 2019 with high profile attacks made on state and local government. The Impact of these Attacks The global impact of these attacks was quantified in Anomali's recently published Cybersecurity Insights Report 2022 that included a Harris Poll survey of security professionals with analysis by the Anomali Threat Research team. In this report, the company found that: 52% of organizations were hit by ransomware attacks in the last three years 39% of victims paid a ransom to regain control of their data and systems. Solving for ransomware requires a continuous global approach to detection that is rooted in intelligence. Let’s take one of the most notorious spates of ransomware attacks that leveraged three types of malware, Emotet, TrickBot and Ryuk to expertly extort over $61 million dollars from businesses in 2020 according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations. To remind readers, Emotet infiltrates an organization, spreading from the primary infected endpoint to other endpoint victims spreading TrickBot which establishes a command-and-control (C2) connection allowing the attacker to assess the victim and then spread Ryuk payload which delivers the ransomware. Anomali delivers a cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) solution via The Anomali Platform, that drives detection, prioritization, and analysis, taking security from intelligence to detection in seconds. Companies use Anomali to enhance threat visibility, automate threat processing and detection, and accelerate threat investigation, response, and remediation ultimately helping organizations to detect and respond to ransomware at all stages of the attack. So, what is a CISO to do? Have Global Situational Awareness — www. anomali. com Even before an organization is hit, a CISO needs to have the global situational awareness to understand the prevalence of these threats in the wild and the impact of these threat actors on their industry and geography. Using the Anomali Platform dashboards, security professionals have the information they need to assess the threat of attack. Stop Initial Access — www. anomali. com Using a cloud native XDR solution like the Anomali Platform Cloud XDR, organizations can detect Emotet’s initial access attempt through techniques like spear phishing by correlating the organizations messaging security telemetry together with all globally identified malicious links. Stop the Attack — www. anomali. com Using a precision detection from Anomali Platform Cloud XDR, organizations can detect Emotet in their environment with the first infected endpoint and then subsequently automatically updates endpoint security policies to block future threats. Stop the Communication — www. anomali. com Using the Anomali Platform machine learning Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) capability, analysts can quickly identify suspicious command and control connections associated with Emotet and its variants. With key integrations to over 80 security control tools, analysts can... --- - Published: 2022-04-25 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/what-impacts-your-revenue-find-out-with-dreamdata/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Dreamdata.Have you ever struggled to gain a holistic understanding of what impact different teams in your organization, have on revenue? Lars, Ole, and Steffen struggled with the same... so they built Dreamdata. This newsletter is sponsored by Dreamdata. Have you ever struggled to gain a holistic understanding of what impact different teams in your organization, have on revenue? Lars, Ole, and Steffen struggled with the same... so they built Dreamdata. Dreamdata is a B2B Revenue Attribution and Analytics platform that helps B2B go-to-market teams build, repeat and scale success. By connecting data from across the go-to-market tech stack, Dreamdata is able to track every session by every user of every account; giving Marketers unprecedented clarity over the customer journey. Revenue Analytics — dreamdata. io Dreamdata enables go-to-market teams to understand where your deals are coming from. Their Revenue Analytics gives unprecedented insights into the metrics behind your channels, campaigns and segments across the pipeline. Performance Attribution — dreamdata. io With Dreamdata you can measure and analyse performance across all your revenue-generating activities with our Performance feature. Maximise effectiveness, improve ROI, and scale success. Attribute revenue back to your paid channels with the attribution models that best meet your business needs. Customer Journeys — dreamdata. io From first touch to the last, every touch matters. Dreamdata’s Journeys feature reveals the complete picture of each customer journey in real-time. Sort through interactive company profiles and visualized customer journey timelines to reveal every detail of the accounts in your pipeline. Find, compare and understand your deals instantly. Drill down on each contact's individual journey through the dashboard’s intuitive search and timeline Content Analytics — dreamdata. io Dreamdata's Content Analytics stops the guesswork and shows you whether your content is turning views into leads, prospects and new business. Measure your content's influence on pipeline. Identify your best performing pages. Attribute revenue to your content. Understand ROI of SEO efforts Sort traffic by visitors, contacts and accounts. --- - Published: 2022-04-21 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/introducing-the-future-of-sleep/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by StimScience.Founders and startup leaders will be the first to admit that they have struggled with sleep at some point in their career. It can easily turn into a vicious cycle: sleepless nights lead to moody and unproductive days, which lead to more stress and insomnia. StimScience's CEO, Aaron Bromberg, is sleeping great, even though his company has all the early stage startup challenges you'd expect. This message is sponsored by StimScience. Founders and startup leaders will be the first to admit that they have struggled with sleep at some point in their career. It can easily turn into a vicious cycle: sleepless nights lead to moody and unproductive days, which lead to more stress and insomnia. StimScience's CEO, Aaron Bromberg, is sleeping great, even though his company has all the early stage startup challenges you'd expect. StimScience's product, the Somnee electronic headband, uses personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to directly improve sleep. Aaron, along with many of the company's pilot users, has seen a life-changing improvement to the quality and duration of their sleep since they started using Somnee at bedtime. Somnee - First Electronic Sleep Aid Headband — trysomnee. com Sign up using the link in this email for a chance to get $100 off your purchase of Somnee as part of our early bird special! What is Somnee? Somnee is the first wearable electronic sleep aid to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve sleep quality and health. Somnee uses a closed-loop algorithm to read a person’s brain activity and mimic their unique brain patterns to improve their sleep at a neurological level, based on their specific sleep issue. Does it actually improve sleep? In a 1,500+ night at-home trial, 70-75% of users who tested the device saw improvement in their sleep. More specifically, the stim session improved sleep onset by 14 minutes and increased sleep duration by 38 minutes. For a typical adult sleeper, that is equivalent to cutting the time it takes to fall asleep in half, and decreasing the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than a third. Somnee - First Electronic Sleep Aid Headband — trysomnee. com Sign up using the link in this email if you are interested in becoming a Somnee beta tester! Somnee doesn't just track sleep, it directly improves it. The Somnee by StimScience uses personalized neuromodulation, meaning it measures a person’s individual sleep patterns, and then creates a unique stim session designed to best help that person sleep better. Some people have trouble falling asleep while others fall asleep quickly, only to wake in the middle of the night. Somnee can detect those different patterns and adjust the stim session accordingly. And as a person’s sleep patterns evolve over time; in reaction to travel or a child’s changing sleep patterns; or between weekends and weekdays; Somnee will continuously adjust stim sessions to optimize sleep. When will Somnee be available? StimScience is making Somnee available for pre-order in a few weeks so stay tuned. Pre-orders will be shipped to customers in Q3 of this year. This first-of-its-kind product has the chance to put an end to sleeping-related issues for people of all ages and circumstances, and we want to make sure you have the opportunity to try it out. Interview with StimScience CEO — codestory. co Check out the Code Story interview, with the CEO of StimScience, Aaron Bromberg, discussing how StimScience is attempting... --- - Published: 2022-04-18 - Modified: 2022-06-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/meet-the-email-delivery-service-that-people-actually-like-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Postmark.Email infrastructure isn’t the most exciting thing — setting it up is no Friday night at your local disco—but it sure plays a crucial role in most applications: If your account confirmations and password reset emails don’t reach the inbox, your users get stuck, support queues get flooded, and your team tears their hair out while trying to figure out what in the is going on.With Postmark, a reliable email delivery service with a rock-solid API, these nightmares are a thing of the past. This message is sponsored by Postmark. Email infrastructure isn’t the most exciting thing — setting it up is no Friday night at your local disco—but it sure plays a crucial role in most applications: If your account confirmations and password reset emails don’t reach the inbox, your users get stuck, support queues get flooded, and your team tears their hair out while trying to figure out what in the is going on. With Postmark, a reliable email delivery service with a rock-solid API, these nightmares are a thing of the past. Here's why people love Postmark Email delivery that you can rely on — postmarkapp. com Postmark's entire business revolves around never losing a single email and ensuring that your emails arrive quickly—not eventually. Promo & transactional emails never mix — postmarkapp. com To protect the deliverability of your crucial transactional emails, and ensure they arrive fast, Postmark routes promotional messages through a parallel but separate sending infrastructure. Great support, as a standard — postmarkapp. com It’s not just their email delivery that’s fast and reliable... Postmark's knowledgeable customer success team is here for you should you need them (and they never make you pay extra for premium support. ) Feature rich platform and tooling — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Provider comparison & customer stories Using another provider today? Postmark stacks up well against the most well-known competitors today. Clear pricing, exceptional deliverability, and world class support—at no extra cost. Since 2010, Postmark has delivered billions of emails for companies of all sizes—1Password, Asana, Podia, and DriveWealth to name a few. Check out their posted customer stories here. Proudly bootstrapped by people who care Postmark is built by the team at Wildbit, a small people-first company. They’re profitable and privately owned, and believe in building great products and a sustainable business that puts people over profits. Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit — codestory. co Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. --- - Published: 2022-04-08 - Modified: 2022-04-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-march-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter April showers bring May flowers... but we're here to talk about March. Check out all of the AMAZING guests we had in March, along with our exclusive interviews with the great folks over at Mentorcam! April showers bring May flowers... but we're here to talk about March. Check out all of the AMAZING guests we had in March, along with our exclusive interviews with the great folks over at Mentorcam! Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! 1:1 advice from otherwise inaccessible mentors | Mentorcam — mentor. cam Schedule a free 15-minute mentor matching call. Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up full stack preview environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes Bonus: Brandy & Ryan, Kitcaster — codestory. co In their prior roles, Brandy had pitched a client to Ryan for his podcast. As Ryan describes it, she's a great networker and "instigator". When they both had the itch to do a new project, they looked to podcasting. And after some initial validation, they confirmed that they had stumbled upon a need. Mentorcam March - Josh Campbell — codestory. co Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rose. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis wellness company Dosist, Josh has founded, funded, built, and exited multiple startups in the consumer packaged goods space. E11: Hywel Carver, SkillerWhale — codestory. co Hywel and his co-founders dreamed about a way to distill down the distinct learning moments for you, leading you to the point of inception for skills and wisdom. Their passion for this topic led them to build a way to develop developers, in an incremental, personalized way. Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba — codestory. co Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy. Bonus: Dr. Gordon Jones, Thrivacy — codestory. co While teaching at the university, Dr. Jones came across a student’s idea to provide security around her identify. In addition to that, he had recently gone through a lengthy background check process, which required the re-verification of several bits of information. He decided to solve... --- - Published: 2022-04-07 - Modified: 2022-04-07 - URL: https://codestory.co/mentorcam-march-highlights-takeaways/ - Categories: Newsletter Now that Mentorcam March has come to a close, I wanted to highlight the fantastic mentors we interviewed on the podcast. Each of my conversations with a mentor produced fantastic insights into the topic of the episode, whether it be VC's, product, angel investing, and branding. See the episodes themselves, plus my main takeaways from each conversation. Make sure you use the promo code CODESTORY, for 20% your first session. Topic: Funding your Startup Noah's Main Takeaway: Do your homework first, and make your list of potential investors before you start reaching out. Create your strategy ahead of time, and execute - don't blindly reach out. Topic: How VC's See Your Startup Noah's Main Takeaway: The first thing VC's look for in a startup is the strength of the team - this can be industry expertise, complimentary founders, and/or a good working relationship between the people. And... do these founders have a "secret" that others don't know. Topic: All Things Product Noah's Main Takeaway: What is a great MVP? It's not necessarily about numbers. It's about people responding to your product, giving feedback and being excited about using it. Topic: Angel Investing Noah's Main Takeaway: When getting in early through angel investing, the diligence process is very different. Often VC's do much more diligence in their process, while angels are investing before much of that information exists. Topic: Brand Building Noah's Main Takeaway: A brand is all the touch points of a product. As such, you may be able to build a brand around a product, but if the product itself is krap, it won't work. --- - Published: 2022-04-05 - Modified: 2022-04-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/most-destructive-ransomware/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by our friends at Anomali. Download their Cybersecurity Insights Report for 2022. In recent years, no cyberattack payload has been more destructive to business and government organizations than ransomware. And to be clear, this is not new... the earliest variants of ransomware were developed in the late 1980s. This type of malware made a resurgence in 2019 with high profile attacks made on state and local government. This newsletter is sponsored by our friends at Anomali. Download their Cybersecurity Insights Report for 2022. In recent years, no cyberattack payload has been more destructive to business and government organizations than ransomware. And to be clear, this is not new... the earliest variants of ransomware were developed in the late 1980s. This type of malware made a resurgence in 2019 with high profile attacks made on state and local government. The Impact of these Attacks The global impact of these attacks was quantified in Anomali's recently published Cybersecurity Insights Report 2022 that included a Harris Poll survey of security professionals with analysis by the Anomali Threat Research team. In this report, the company found that: 52% of organizations were hit by ransomware attacks in the last three years 39% of victims paid a ransom to regain control of their data and systems. Solving for ransomware requires a continuous global approach to detection that is rooted in intelligence. Let’s take one of the most notorious spates of ransomware attacks that leveraged three types of malware, Emotet, TrickBot and Ryuk to expertly extort over $61 million dollars from businesses in 2020 according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations. To remind readers, Emotet infiltrates an organization, spreading from the primary infected endpoint to other endpoint victims spreading TrickBot which establishes a command-and-control (C2) connection allowing the attacker to assess the victim and then spread Ryuk payload which delivers the ransomware. Anomali delivers a cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) solution via The Anomali Platform, that drives detection, prioritization, and analysis, taking security from intelligence to detection in seconds. Companies use Anomali to enhance threat visibility, automate threat processing and detection, and accelerate threat investigation, response, and remediation ultimately helping organizations to detect and respond to ransomware at all stages of the attack. So, what is a CISO to do? Have Global Situational Awareness — www. anomali. com Even before an organization is hit, a CISO needs to have the global situational awareness to understand the prevalence of these threats in the wild and the impact of these threat actors on their industry and geography. Using the Anomali Platform dashboards, security professionals have the information they need to assess the threat of attack. Stop Initial Access — www. anomali. com Using a cloud native XDR solution like the Anomali Platform Cloud XDR, organizations can detect Emotet’s initial access attempt through techniques like spear phishing by correlating the organizations messaging security telemetry together with all globally identified malicious links. Stop the Attack — www. anomali. com Using a precision detection from Anomali Platform Cloud XDR, organizations can detect Emotet in their environment with the first infected endpoint and then subsequently automatically updates endpoint security policies to block future threats. Stop the Communication — www. anomali. com Using the Anomali Platform machine learning Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) capability, analysts can quickly identify suspicious command and control connections associated with Emotet and its variants. With key integrations to over 80 security control tools, analysts can... --- - Published: 2022-03-29 - Modified: 2022-03-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/400k-downloads/ - Categories: Newsletter We've hit 400k all time downloads!! Thank you!!To celebrate... we are offering a free Code Story T-shirt to the first 20 people who send an email to podcast@codestory.co, subject line "I want the t-shirt!". Or.. just respond to this email directly! We've hit 400k all time downloads! ! Thank you! ! To celebrate... we are offering a free Code Story T-shirt to the first 20 people who send an email to podcast@codestory. co, subject line "I want the t-shirt! ". Or. . just respond to this email directly! It feels like it was not that long ago when we celebrated 200 episodes, along with 200k downloads. In a short time, Code Story has gained a lot of traction, cranking out great conversations with amazing builders, surfacing the human stories around platform creation. And... we are just getting started. 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Email infrastructure isn’t the most exciting thing — setting it up is no Friday night at your local disco—but it sure plays a crucial role in most applications: If your account confirmations and password reset emails don’t reach the inbox, your users get stuck, support queues get flooded, and your team tears their hair out while trying to figure out what in the is going on. With Postmark, a reliable email delivery service with a rock-solid API, these nightmares are a thing of the past. Here's why people love Postmark Email delivery that you can rely on — postmarkapp. com Postmark's entire business revolves around never losing a single email and ensuring that your emails arrive quickly—not eventually. Promo & transactional emails never mix — postmarkapp. com To protect the deliverability of your crucial transactional emails, and ensure they arrive fast, Postmark routes promotional messages through a parallel but separate sending infrastructure. Great support, as a standard — postmarkapp. com It’s not just their email delivery that’s fast and reliable... Postmark's knowledgeable customer success team is here for you should you need them (and they never make you pay extra for premium support. ) Feature rich platform and tooling — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Provider comparison & customer stories Using another provider today? Postmark stacks up well against the most well-known competitors today. Clear pricing, exceptional deliverability, and world class support—at no extra cost. Since 2010, Postmark has delivered billions of emails for companies of all sizes—1Password, Asana, Podia, and DriveWealth to name a few. Check out their posted customer stories here. Proudly bootstrapped by people who care Postmark is built by the team at Wildbit, a small people-first company. They’re profitable and privately owned, and believe in building great products and a sustainable business that puts people over profits. Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit — codestory. co Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. --- - Published: 2022-03-07 - Modified: 2022-03-07 - URL: https://codestory.co/check-out-our-swag/ - Categories: Newsletter Did you know Code Story sells t-shirts? And not just that, but all kinds of stuff, at our Teepublic store! You can find shirts, hoodies, stickers, cases, coffee mugs and much, much more! Currently, we have 4 designs, with our Flip the Script Designs being the most popular. Check the store out here, or some of the highlighted items below! Did you know Code Story sells t-shirts? And not just that, but all kinds of stuff, at our Teepublic store! You can find shirts, hoodies, stickers, cases, coffee mugs and much, much more! Currently, we have 4 designs, with our Flip the Script Designs being the most popular. Check the store out here, or some of the highlighted items below! Main LogoHoodie — www. teepublic. com Shop Simple Logo startup-founder hoodies designed by codestory as well as other startup-founder merchandise at TeePublic. Flip the Script T-Shirt — www. teepublic. com Shop Flip the Script startup t-shirts designed by codestory as well as other startup merchandise at TeePublic. Simple Logo Sticker — www. teepublic. com Shop Simple Logo startup-founder stickers designed by codestory as well as other startup-founder merchandise at TeePublic. Flip the Script Notebook — www. teepublic. com Shop Flip the Script startup notebooks designed by codestory as well as other startup merchandise at TeePublic. And This Concludes Another Chapter... — www. teepublic. com Shop And This Concludes Another Chapter... podcast t-shirts designed by codestory as well as other podcast merchandise at TeePublic. --- - Published: 2022-03-03 - Modified: 2022-03-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-february-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter Happy late Valentines Day from Code Story! To go with your oversized, stuffed teddy bear and box of chocolates, we have some tasty treats lined up for you from our February episodes. Happy late Valentines Day from Code Story! To go with your oversized, stuffed teddy bear and box of chocolates, we have some tasty treats lined up for you from our February episodes. Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up fully migrated environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes E3: Matt Pierce, Immediate — codestory. co After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client’s feedback was that it didn’t solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress – on demand pay. Bonus: Rob Carpenter, Valyant — codestory. co Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. Bonus: Lindsay Tjepkema, Casted — codestory. co Lindsay has been a B2B marketer for over 15 years. While working in the space, she wanted a platform to help her maintain, manage, and make the most of audio and video content made for her company. When she looked around for a solution, she couldn't find one. So of course - she and her co-founders decided to build their own. E4: Mike Boufford, Greenhouse — codestory. co When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better. Bonus: Vedran Cindrić, Treblle — codestory. co When business was booming, Vedran... --- - Published: 2022-02-17 - Modified: 2022-02-28 - URL: https://codestory.co/easiest-most-secure-way-to-access-infrastructure/ - Categories: Newsletter As a developer, do you ever find yourself bouncing between environments, between the layers of computing resources, all with different trust and authentication models? The complexity of these excessive configuration slows you down and is prone to human error - which results in poor security.That's where Teleport comes in. As a developer, do you ever find yourself bouncing between environments, between the layers of computing resources, all with different trust and authentication models? The complexity of these excessive configuration slows you down and is prone to human error - which results in poor security. That's where Teleport comes in. Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure. The open-source Teleport Access Plane consolidates connectivity, authentication, authorization, and audit into a single platform. By consolidating all aspects of infrastructure access, Teleport reduces attack surface area, cuts operational overhead, easily enforces compliance, and improves engineering productivity. Teleport Connect — goteleport. com Teleport Connect provides secure infrastructure access for people and machines with a single identity-aware, multi-protocol access proxy. Our zero-trust access solution unifies access to infrastructure without relying on VPNs. Teleport Authorize — goteleport. com Teleport Authorize gives a unique identity to all your employees and machines. This identity is synchronized across your entire infrastructure footprint for fine-grained, role-based access controls that are automatically applied to your assets. With Teleport, exceeding the most stringent compliance objectives is a breeze. Teleport Authenticate — goteleport. com Teleport Authenticate integrates with your corporate identity provider to deliver instant identity-based access to all your infrastructure making onboarding and off-boarding simple. Get seamless access to infrastructure using short-lived certificates for all protocols instead of relying on static credentials. Teleport Audit — goteleport. com Teleport Audit records interactive sessions, filesystem changes, data transfers, command executions and other security events across all environments into a structured audit log, making it easy to see what’s happening and who is responsible. Why Teleport? Security software done right gets out of the way, improving productivity while protecting critical infrastructure. The key is simplicity. Easy-to-use software is essential to first-class security because it reduces the risk of a human error. Teleport embodies the principle of simplicity in everything that we do. This is why the fastest growing, most innovative companies choose Teleport. Want to learn more? What to learn more? Check out their docs today. Ready to get started? Give Teleport a try today - in the cloud, hosted yourself, or open source - at goteleport. com. Or, download the community edition. --- - Published: 2022-02-16 - Modified: 2022-02-28 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-is-on-goodpods/ - Categories: Newsletter TL;DR; - Please download the Goodpods app, pick out your favorite episode of the Code Story podcast, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. Do you ever find yourself about to put your earbuds on, or jump in the car, but don't really know which podcast to listen to. And you really wish someone would give you a recommendation? You're in luck. Goodpods has all that for you! TL;DR; - Please download the Goodpods app, pick out your favorite episode of the Code Story podcast, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. Do you ever find yourself about to put your earbuds on, or jump in the car, but don't really know which podcast to listen to. And you really wish someone would give you a recommendation? You're in luck. Goodpods has all that for you! Just like you can get with books or music, you can now get with podcasts. On the Goodpods app, you can get recommendations from experts you admire, or friends you trust... or even better, you can be the one making the recommendation, and sharing your favorite episodes or shows with your friends. Its chock full of other features too, around chatting, following hosts, bookmarking episodes for later, and much more. Find Code Story on Goodpods! Guess what? Code Story is on Goodpods too! Thats right, you can download Goodpods today, and listen to the Code Story podcast right there. In fact, my ask is this... please go pick out your favorite episode of the podcast on Goodpods, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. Go to codestory. co/goodpods on your phone to download the app, follow the podcast, and recommend your favorite episode. --- - Published: 2022-02-02 - Modified: 2022-02-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-january-2022/ - Categories: Newsletter Welcome to 2022! We made it. This year is going to be epic, I can feel it. In January, we finished up Season 5, shared a few of your favorite episodes again from the Season, and fired up Season 6! With a new set of interviews and a fantastic set of sponsors, this is season is definitely going to be a TBOY (phrase stolen from Robinhood Snacks). Welcome to 2022! We made it. This year is going to be epic, I can feel it. In January, we finished up Season 5, shared a few of your favorite episodes again from the Season, and fired up Season 6! With a new set of interviews and a fantastic set of sponsors, this is season is definitely going to be a TBOY (phrase stolen from Robinhood Snacks). Special Thanks to Our Sponsors! Immediate - Lower Financial Stress — joinimmediate. com Immediate is a financial health app that allows simple transfers of earned but unpaid wages directly into an account of your choice. Orbit: Mission Control for your Community — orbit. love Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, the community experience platform. Try Orbit for free! Stytch - User infrastructure + passwordless authentication — stytch. com Onboard and engage users with our passwordless authentication APIs and SDKs. Postmark - Say goodbye to your email deliverability nightmares — postmarkapp. com With Postmark, you can stop worrying if your emails made it to the inbox, and get back to focusing on what matters—building great products. Verb Data - No-code data dashboards — verbdata. com No-code data infrastructure and dashboards for SaaS. Save hours of engineering time. webapp. io - fully migrated environments! — webapp. io webapp. io sets up fully migrated environments in seconds. We work with Docker Compose, Rails, NodeJS, and more! Episodes Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl — codestory. co Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. Bonus: Matt Cowell, Quanthub — codestory. co In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved. E2: Trevor Marshall, Current — codestory. co When his now co-founder left Morgan Stanley, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy. Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook — codestory. co One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? Bonus: Reed McGinley-Stempel, Stytch — codestory. co Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. They found that the... --- - Published: 2022-01-06 - Modified: 2022-01-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-december-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of Code Story's subscribers, listeners, and friends! Check out the December episodes for your listening pleasure. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of Code Story's subscribers, listeners, and friends! Check out the December episodes for your listening pleasure. 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. 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Episodes Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs — codestory. co Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. Bonus: Kyle Bernhardy, HarperDB — codestory. co While working for a large data aggregation company, Kyle worked through a number of data availability, reliability, and infrastructure around massive data processing. Internally, he thought there must be a better way. E26: Bruno Demuro, Armor Bionics — codestory. co Earlier in Bruno’s life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor’s had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable. Bonus: Ilan Peleg, Lightrun — codestory. co Ilan and his co-founder were developers in many different types of companies – startups, enterprises, etc. It seemed to them that it was easy to debut and troubleshoot applications in development, but found it very difficult to observe applications in production. They realized that most developers were not equipped with the right tooling to troubleshoot and understand live applications in the wild. Bonus: Darshan Mehta, iResearch — codestory. co Darshan is also an author, and just recently released his book called "Getting to Aha". The tagline harps on the belief that today's insights become tomorrow's facts. One of the... --- - Published: 2022-01-05 - Modified: 2022-01-05 - URL: https://codestory.co/simplify-login-increase-revenue-4/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs — codestory. co Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. SAWO is the only user-authentication tool that your developers would crave for. Their APIs are fast, reliable, integrate onto any platform, and speak many languages. What’s more? See your bounce rates come down by up to 30%! Biometric Authentication — sawolabs. com Your security is literally in your hands. No frontend code customization needed. Improves Bounce Rate — sawolabs. com Swift and secure login process to improve customer onboarding by 54%. Decrease bounce rates with efficient customer onboarding. User Convenience — sawolabs. com Quick and comfortable UI. Fast, seamless, and hassle-free. What more do your customers need? Data Autonomy — sawolabs. com Your data is end-to-end encrypted, throughout the entire process. Secure your users data and trust. Multi-Platform Support — sawolabs. com Easy integration and support with all popular web, cloud, VPN, remote access gateway and more. Six minute integration onto your platform. SAWO Community SAWO Labs has a community of 20,000 users (and growing! ), including developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more! There has been 2000+ products build using SAWO Labs. Have a question about the product? Check out their documentation, or join their Discord and ask the question directly to the community. With SAWO, the time to integrate authentication into your application is 6 minutes. Yes, you read that right. So what are you waiting for? Get started using SAWO today. --- - Published: 2021-12-15 - Modified: 2021-12-16 - URL: https://codestory.co/cultivate-optimize-develop-enhance-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Front Range Systems.Every effective team leader wants to ensure their team is great. But how do they do it? The talent and skill of an organization can get you some of the way, but what is needed to make a good team great? Introducing the CODE Program, created by the Founder of Front Range Systems. This newsletter is sponsored by Front Range Systems. Every effective team leader wants to ensure their team is great. But how do they do it? The talent and skill of an organization can get you some of the way, but what is needed to make a good team great? Introducing the CODE Program, created by the Founder of Front Range Systems. CODE is a professional team elevation program that changes mindsets, increases productivity, and creates better effective team members. We take a deep dive on the values and principles that are foundational to success in any process and/or framework. Six Months of Team Enhancement — codeprogram. io Habits take time to form- It takes practice, repetition, reminding, as well as an association of colleagues that are supportive and striving to do the same for continued growth and success. Professional Curriculum & Coaches — codeprogram. io All of the curriculum was created by industry professionals, with combined over 30 years of experience, who have worked with teams firsthand and understand how to form, lead, educate and instill new habits. Personalized One on One & Team Coaching — codeprogram. io You and your team will have customized company coaching sessions. All business information is confidential and sessions are created to help your team optimize what’s needed for them to succeed. Unlimited Digital Access To Your Coach — codeprogram. io Your team can access their individual coaches through email correspondence. Your coach will respond within one business day. Weekly Action Items — codeprogram. io Every week video calls will take place to help elevate your team’s skill sets, mindsets and performance with recommended character based lessons and action items. Why do we need this? Some in the software industry have asked if Scrum is enough. While Scrum is a great framework that we use on all of our projects, there is still more we can do. The CODE Program sits on top of Scrum, helps each member of the team contribute more effectively, and helps the team as a whole work more like a single unit. So what are you waiting for? Get started today, and instill growth cultures in your workplace, and help your team reach their full potential. About Front Range Systems At Front Range Systems, our purpose is to help businesses update outdated software and implement customized systems that ease the workload and promote customer engagement. We save time, ensure accuracy, limit frustrations, and guarantee quality service as well as effectiveness and efficiency with your systems. Our priority is making quality software for your business to enable longevity and add a competitive edge against those in your industry. We customize your systems to provide you with the tools that your business needs and the tools to fulfill the needs of your customers. About the Owner - Matt Dixon Over his career, Matt Dixon has been a part of many teams. Some good, some bad, and some in the middle. Intelligence or skill was never a factor in why a team... --- - Published: 2021-12-13 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://codestory.co/simplify-login-increase-revenue-3/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs — codestory. co Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. SAWO is the only user-authentication tool that your developers would crave for. Their APIs are fast, reliable, integrate onto any platform, and speak many languages. What’s more? See your bounce rates come down by up to 30%! Biometric Authentication — sawolabs. com Your security is literally in your hands. No frontend code customization needed. Improves Bounce Rate — sawolabs. com Swift and secure login process to improve customer onboarding by 54%. Decrease bounce rates with efficient customer onboarding. User Convenience — sawolabs. com Quick and comfortable UI. Fast, seamless, and hassle-free. What more do your customers need? Data Autonomy — sawolabs. com Your data is end-to-end encrypted, throughout the entire process. Secure your users data and trust. Multi-Platform Support — sawolabs. com Easy integration and support with all popular web, cloud, VPN, remote access gateway and more. Six minute integration onto your platform. SAWO Community SAWO Labs has a community of 20,000 users (and growing! ), including developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more! There has been 2000+ products build using SAWO Labs. Have a question about the product? Check out their documentation, or join their Discord and ask the question directly to the community. With SAWO, the time to integrate authentication into your application is 6 minutes. Yes, you read that right. So what are you waiting for? Get started using SAWO today. --- - Published: 2021-12-12 - Modified: 2021-12-12 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-november-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Happy Thanksgiving for those that celebrated (late of course)! We are super thankful for our fantastic guests, growing subscribers, and incredible supporters. Happy Thanksgiving for those that celebrated (late of course)! We are super thankful for our fantastic guests, growing subscribers, and incredible supporters. 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 E21: Laura Butler, Uplift — codestory. co When she decided to simplify her life and sell her house, Laura went through the process of buying a Condo. . and interacting with the HOA. She realized that the process was a bit arcane, and getting the details up front was near impossible. Her and her co-founder, who happens to also be her mother, set out to bring value to the buyers in the process, with the goal to eventually positively impact all stakeholders. Bonus: Phill Lawson-Shanks, Aligned — codestory. co In 2013, the founders of Phil's current company saw the way the data center industry was going. They saw that the energy consumption around DC's was going to be astronomical. They started building some incredibly innovative things in this area, and got Phil's attention. Three years ago, he joined the team. Bonus: Oleg Fridman, Verb Data — codestory. co Prior to their current venture, Oleg and his co-founder, Dave, ran an agency focusing on high fidelity prototyping. After doing many projects, they figured out that the process of creating dashboards for a product was a mostly the same, but took a ton of time to prepare the data, extract data, and display it. They both figured out that they could create a solution to make this process simpler. Bonus: Matt Dixon, Code Program — codestory. co Matt has been in tech industry for nearly 21 years, and started Front Range Systems, building software for bidding customers. He found that post difficult projects, he started to figure out that the best way to improve a project was to improve the team - the entire team, as a... --- - Published: 2021-12-08 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://codestory.co/compiler-demystifying-the-tech-industry-one-question-at-a-time-4/ - Categories: Newsletter I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about.Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about. Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? Introducing Compiler - the latest original show from Red Hat, the creators of Command Line Heroes. Latest Episodes E9: How Are Tech Hubs Changing? — www. redhat. com Tech hubs have been epicenters for creativity and collaboration. But there’s change in the air—for cities, companies, and the communities around them. E8: Why Should You Write Technical Documentation? — www. redhat. com How is writing technical documentation a win-win-win? This episode explores who benefits from updated technical documentation. Spoiler alert: It’s everyone. About the Show Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. Compiler unravels industry topics, trends, and the things you’ve always wanted to know about tech, through interviews with the people who know it best. On the show, you will hear a chorus of perspectives from the diverse communities behind the code. Compiler brings together a curious team of Red Hatters to tackle big questions in tech like, What is technical debt? What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And, do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? About the Hosts Angela Andrews and Brent Simoneaux may come from different backgrounds. But together, they delve into discussions with an unshakeable curiosity. About Red Hat For 25 years, Red Hat has been bringing open source technologies to the enterprise. From the operating system to containers, we believe in building better technology together–and celebrating the unsung heroes who are remaking our world from the command line up. Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise — www. redhat. com Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. --- - Published: 2021-12-07 - Modified: 2021-12-13 - URL: https://codestory.co/200-episodes/ - Categories: Newsletter We released our 200th episode today! Big thank you to our listeners, our guests, and are friends. This has been a fun journey and Lord willing, we are just getting started! Checkout our memory lane of episodes, listed below. Also, don't forget to leave us a rating & review. And... if you feel so inclined, support us on Patreon for just $5 bucks a month. We released our 200th episode today! Big thank you to our listeners, our guests, and are friends. This has been a fun journey and Lord willing, we are just getting started! Checkout our memory lane of episodes, listed below. Also, don't forget to leave us a rating & review. And... if you feel so inclined, support us on Patreon for just $5 bucks a month. Fun Episode Milestones #200 – Bruno Demuro, Armor Bionics — codestory. co Though his mother's surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor’s had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this to be unacceptable. #1 Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy — codestory. co When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. Industry Juggernauts Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next. js — codestory. co Guillermo decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. Bonus: John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly — codestory. co Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags. Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS — codestory. co While live-streaming some coding, Adam Wathan was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage - to the tune of millions of downloads a month. Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorp — codestory. co Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. Matt Debergalis, Apollo GraphQL — codestory. co Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. --- - Published: 2021-12-06 - Modified: 2021-12-07 - URL: https://codestory.co/save-20-weeks-of-engineering-time/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Verb Data.Verb solves the real pain points of building end-user dashboards and reports so you can focus on your business while providing great data experiences to your users. Check out below how Bid Ops uses Verb to build new revenue streams and give customers access to data in a fraction of the time. This newsletter is sponsored by Verb Data. Verb solves the real pain points of building end-user dashboards and reports so you can focus on your business while providing great data experiences to your users. Check out below how Bid Ops uses Verb to build new revenue streams and give customers access to data in a fraction of the time. When we met Bid Ops they had already designed most of their ideal dashboards and done user interviews to get feedback on their solutions. They felt great about their solutions. Unfortunately, they were not able to slot the time to build the infrastructure required to manage aggregate-level dashboards. They estimated the work would take at least 20 weeks of engineering time. After learning about Verb they decided to try it out and see if they could solve their engineering delays with the platform. Bid Ops first set out to create the dashboards that they designed using Verb. They connected their data, built a model, then designed their dashboard to match what their design team created in Figma. Their engineering team helped connect the data and set up an initial model but their product managers and data analysts were able to build from that initial model to create even more dashboards. They realized they could do more with Verb than just create product dashboards. They saw that they could start getting their customer data before they were even customers to show the value that Bid Ops could provide. Their demos became more powerful because potential customers could see their own data in Bid Ops during demos. This helps them understand the insights that they will have once using the platform and it only takes a few minutes for Bid Ops to set these product dashboards - well worth the effort to close some killer deals. So... what are you waiting for? If you want to get a new dashboard up and running in a few days or replace an existing, slow dashboard you can get started now - you don’t need to talk to a sales rep, just sign up for the free plan or start a 30 day free trial. --- - Published: 2021-12-01 - Modified: 2021-12-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/simplify-login-increase-revenue-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs — codestory. co Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. SAWO is the only user-authentication tool that your developers would crave for. Their APIs are fast, reliable, integrate onto any platform, and speak many languages. What’s more? See your bounce rates come down by up to 30%! Biometric Authentication — sawolabs. com Your security is literally in your hands. No frontend code customization needed. Improves Bounce Rate — sawolabs. com Swift and secure login process to improve customer onboarding by 54%. Decrease bounce rates with efficient customer onboarding. User Convenience — sawolabs. com Quick and comfortable UI. Fast, seamless, and hassle-free. What more do your customers need? Data Autonomy — sawolabs. com Your data is end-to-end encrypted, throughout the entire process. Secure your users data and trust. Multi-Platform Support — sawolabs. com Easy integration and support with all popular web, cloud, VPN, remote access gateway and more. Six minute integration onto your platform. SAWO Community SAWO Labs has a community of 20,000 users (and growing! ), including developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more! There has been 2000+ products build using SAWO Labs. Have a question about the product? Check out their documentation, or join their Discord and ask the question directly to the community. With SAWO, the time to integrate authentication into your application is 6 minutes. Yes, you read that right. So what are you waiting for? Get started using SAWO today. --- - Published: 2021-11-29 - Modified: 2021-11-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/cultivate-optimize-develop-enhance/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Front Range Systems.Every effective team leader wants to ensure their team is great. But how do they do it? The talent and skill of an organization can get you some of the way, but what is needed to make a good team great? Introducing the CODE Program, created by the Founder of Front Range Systems. This newsletter is sponsored by Front Range Systems. Every effective team leader wants to ensure their team is great. But how do they do it? The talent and skill of an organization can get you some of the way, but what is needed to make a good team great? Introducing the CODE Program, created by the Founder of Front Range Systems. CODE is a professional team elevation program that changes mindsets, increases productivity, and creates better effective team members. We take a deep dive on the values and principles that are foundational to success in any process and/or framework.   Six Months of Team Enhancement — codeprogram. io Habits take time to form- It takes practice, repetition, reminding, as well as an association of colleagues that are supportive and striving to do the same for continued growth and success. Professional Curriculum & Coaches — codeprogram. io All of the curriculum was created by industry professionals, with combined over 30 years of experience, who have worked with teams firsthand and understand how to form, lead, educate and instill new habits. Personalized One on One & Team Coaching — codeprogram. io You and your team will have customized company coaching sessions. All business information is confidential and sessions are created to help your team optimize what’s needed for them to succeed. Unlimited Digital Access To Your Coach — codeprogram. io Your team can access their individual coaches through email correspondence. Your coach will respond within one business day. Weekly Action Items — codeprogram. io Every week video calls will take place to help elevate your team’s skill sets, mindsets and performance with recommended character based lessons and action items.   Why do we need this? Some in the software industry have asked if Scrum is enough. While Scrum is a great framework that we use on all of our projects, there is still more we can do. The CODE Program sits on top of Scrum, helps each member of the team contribute more effectively, and helps the team as a whole work more like a single unit. So what are you waiting for? Get started today, and instill growth cultures in your workplace, and help your team reach their full potential. About Front Range Systems At Front Range Systems, our purpose is to help businesses update outdated software and implement customized systems that ease the workload and promote customer engagement. We save time, ensure accuracy, limit frustrations, and guarantee quality service as well as effectiveness and efficiency with your systems. Our priority is making quality software for your business to enable longevity and add a competitive edge against those in your industry. We customize your systems to provide you with the tools that your business needs and the tools to fulfill the needs of your customers. About the Owner - Matt Dixon Over his career, Matt Dixon has been a part of many teams. Some good, some bad, and some in the middle. Intelligence or skill was never a factor in why a team... --- - Published: 2021-11-23 - Modified: 2021-11-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/dashboards-are-hard-verb-makes-them-easy/ - Categories: Newsletter This newsletter is sponsored by Verb. Data experiences are hard. The founders of Verb, Dave and Oleg, know this intimately, after having built dozens of dashboards for prior SaaS clients. The commons threads? Dashboards need to be high quality, easy to create, and simple. That's when they created Verb. This newsletter is sponsored by Verb. Data experiences are hard. The founders of Verb, Dave and Oleg, know this intimately, after having built dozens of dashboards for prior SaaS clients. The commons threads? Dashboards need to be high quality, easy to create, and simple. That's when they created Verb. Verb speeds up the initial dashboard building process and limits the ongoing maintenance required so that development teams can stay focused on their core product - best of all, Verb fits into your SDLC process. Verb works with SaaS teams and digital agencies with Multi-tenant environments to provide their end-users with amazing data experiences, like dashboards, reports, and alerts. If you want to get a new dashboard up and running in a few days or replace an existing, slow dashboard you can get started now - you don’t need to talk to a sales rep, just sign up for the free plan or start a 30 day free trial. Why Verb? Data Ingestion — www. verbdata. com Create a pipeline from your product database engines to Verb’s curated and segmented data lake. Ingestion methods are set granularly to control the frequency of syncs. Data Modeling and Transformation — www. verbdata. com Verb uses your schema to connect and model data across structured and unstructured data sources. Create data views and calculated columns using a no-code transformation editor. Experiences — www. verbdata. com Build dashboard, reports, REST APIs, and alerts. With Verb’s no-code experience builder, you can manage design themes, filters, and create end-user customization options. Embed — www. verbdata. com Embed the Verb SDK with a code snippet where you want your experience to show. Using Active Authentication, Verb will segment data using row-level security so that end-users only have access to their own data. --- - Published: 2021-11-19 - Modified: 2021-11-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/simplify-login-increase-revenue/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. This message is sponsored by SAWO Labs. Developers spend days, implementing user authentication into their products. Not only does it take a long time to build... and build again later, you have to make sure your platform, and your user's data, is secure. You have to get it right, and get it right quick. What if there were a better way? Meet SAWO. SAWO is the only user-authentication tool that your developers would crave for. Their APIs are fast, reliable, integrate onto any platform, and speak many languages. What’s more? See your bounce rates come down by up to 30%! Biometric Authentication — sawolabs. com Your security is literally in your hands. No frontend code customization needed. Improves Bounce Rate — sawolabs. com Swift and secure login process to improve customer onboarding by 54%. Decrease bounce rates with efficient customer onboarding. User Convenience — sawolabs. com Quick and comfortable UI. Fast, seamless, and hassle-free. What more do your customers need? Data Autonomy — sawolabs. com Your data is end-to-end encrypted, throughout the entire process. Secure your users data and trust. Multi-Platform Support — sawolabs. com Easy integration and support with all popular web, cloud, VPN, remote access gateway and more. Six minute integration onto your platform. SAWO Community SAWO Labs has a community of 20,000 users (and growing! ), including developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more! There has been 2000+ products build using SAWO Labs. Have a question about the product? Check out their documentation, or join their Discord and ask the question directly to the community. With SAWO, the time to integrate authentication into your application is 6 minutes. Yes, you read that right. So what are you waiting for? Get started using SAWO today. --- - Published: 2021-11-16 - Modified: 2021-11-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/bonus-episode-guillermo-rauch-next-js-vercel/ - Categories: Newsletter Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Guillermo Rauch, the Founder & CEO of Vercel, and the mind behind Next.js. In the interview, we got to dig into why he created Next.js, along with Vercel, so that the developer experience and their execution could efficient as possible. Enjoy. Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Guillermo Rauch, the Founder & CEO of Vercel, and the mind behind Next. js. In the interview, we got to dig into why he created Next. js, along with Vercel, so that the developer experience and their execution could efficient as possible. Enjoy. Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next. js — codestory. co Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. 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. --- - Published: 2021-11-10 - Modified: 2021-11-10 - URL: https://codestory.co/compiler-demystifying-the-tech-industry-one-question-at-a-time-3/ - Categories: Newsletter I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about.Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about. Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? Introducing Compiler - the latest original show from Red Hat, the creators of Command Line Heroes. Latest Episodes Compiler: Should Managers Code? — link. chtbl. com Becoming a manager can be a huge milestone. But it may have a downside. We ask: Should managers code? It’s an old question that doesn’t have a clear answer. Introducing Compiler — link. chtbl. com Technology can be bold. But it can also be complicated. We break down the big questions about tech and the tech industry in our new original podcast About the Show Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. Compiler unravels industry topics, trends, and the things you’ve always wanted to know about tech, through interviews with the people who know it best. On the show, you will hear a chorus of perspectives from the diverse communities behind the code. Compiler brings together a curious team of Red Hatters to tackle big questions in tech like, What is technical debt? What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And, do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? About the Hosts Angela Andrews and Brent Simoneaux may come from different backgrounds. But together, they delve into discussions with an unshakeable curiosity. About Red Hat For 25 years, Red Hat has been bringing open source technologies to the enterprise. From the operating system to containers, we believe in building better technology together–and celebrating the unsung heroes who are remaking our world from the command line up. Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise — www. redhat. com Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. --- - Published: 2021-11-05 - Modified: 2021-11-05 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-october-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Happy Halloween (late of course)! Many tricks and many treats in this months set of interviews. Have a listen, share with a friend, and don't forget to leave us a review! Happy Halloween (late of course)! Many tricks and many treats in this months set of interviews. Have a listen, share with a friend, and don't forget to leave us a review! 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 Bonus: Anthony Castrio, Indie Worldwide — codestory. co Before he built his current project, every time he would move to a new city, Anthony would try to start a local indie hackers meetup. He started one in Boston and DC, and a few other places - but every time he moved, he lost his friend group. In order to stay connected with his friends, he decided to take his groups virtual. And it started to grow from there. Bonus: Leon Kuperman, CAST. ai — codestory. co At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. Compiler Recast - Do we want a world without technical debt? — codestory. co This was a great discussion on technical debt. Have a listen to Episode 4, titled "Do we want a world without technical debt. " Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. E20: Nate Joens, Structurely — codestory. co In college, Nate was very interested and connected to the real estate industry, as urban planning works closely with realtors. He figured out that lead follow up was a huge pain point for realtors, which peaked his interest. And led him to build some tech to solve the problem. Bonus: Ryan Johnson, CallRail — codestory. co Ryan joined... --- - Published: 2021-10-29 - Modified: 2021-11-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/cut-your-cloud-costs-by-50-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by CAST AI.According to some studies out there, 30-40% of cloud budgets are wasted. Managing your cloud bill is a tough task, where visibility is difficult to obtain, and the more complex your infrastructure becomes, the harder it is to stay on top of the cost. That's where CAST AI comes in. This message is sponsored by CAST AI. According to some studies out there, 30-40% of cloud budgets are wasted. Managing your cloud bill is a tough task, where visibility is difficult to obtain, and the more complex your infrastructure becomes, the harder it is to stay on top of the cost. That's where CAST AI comes in. Listen to the founder! Bonus: Leon Kuperman, CAST. ai — codestory. co At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. CAST AI brings automated cloud optimization to the world of Kubernetes. It's the one platform that cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and guarantees business continuity by preventing downtime. Optimize Cloud Costs — cast. ai Cut your expenses by automating instance selection and rightsizing, bin packing pods, and use of spot instances with automatic interruption handling. Use spot instances that offer 70-90% discounts Get the most cost-effective instance types Generate detailed cost reports to forecast expenses Automate DevOps Tasks — cast. ai Focus on the high-level challenges and leave the repetitive details like VMs, networks, and storage to us. Automate with Terraform, work in CLI or via the API. Avoid repetitive low level tasks Automate infrastructure lifecycle management Get instance services for in-cluster observability Achieve Business Continuity — cast. ai CAST AI builds an active-active infrastructure spanning multiple clouds or regions. Guarantee business continuity and keep your reputation without the cost increase. The platform adopts the active-active approach to Disaster Recovery Achieved through custom multi-cloud networking layer Trusted by the Biggest Names Perfect for companies large and small. CAST AI doesn’t require additional engineers to do the work. You start saving as soon as you turn it on. Get Started NOW So what are you waiting for? With a no downside proposition, CAST AI is a winner for your cloud infrastructure. Book a demo, and get started cutting your bill in half today. --- - Published: 2021-10-27 - Modified: 2021-11-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/learnworlds-cloud-lms-for-all-your-needs-4/ - Categories: Newsletter Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online?Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds.com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial.  Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online? Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. LearnWorlds makes it easy to create, host and sell beautiful online courses that have an impact. The tool offers engaging learning experiences that go beyond traditional learning management systems. LearnWorlds is an intuitive, lightweight, eCommerce-ready LMS, packed with advanced features to sell online courses, educate customers, or train employees. Why LearnWorlds? With LearnWorlds' intuitive platform and a wealth of resources to educate yourself, you're only a few steps away from building a thriving online business in the booming knowledge economy. Fully customizable 24/7 Unlimited Support 30 Days Free Trial No Credit Card Required Want to see how easy it is? Check out this video below! Get Started NOW! It's easy to get started right away, building your eLearning Website with LearnWorlds. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. More Helpful Resources --- - Published: 2021-10-15 - Modified: 2021-10-15 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-september-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter September was STACKED with great guests, fantastic tech, and of course the best Code Stories. Take a look at the episodes dropped last month. September was STACKED with great guests, fantastic tech, and of course the best Code Stories. Take a look at the episodes dropped last month. 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 Bonus: Lyric Jain, Logically — codestory. co In 2015, Lyric unfortunately lost his Grandmother, to what he states as health misinformation from forwards. This combined, with the Brexit happenings, the US elections, and general world happenings, he started to see first hand the trend, that behavior was being influenced by online activity. Compiler Recast - Should Managers Code? — codestory. co Have a listen to Episode 1 "Should Managers Code? " from the Compiler podcast. Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. E16: Veena Somareddy, Neuro Rehab VR — codestory. co While she was working on her PhD for medical simulation and training, Veena was contacted by her now co-founder. He let her know that he wanted to add virtual reality to his clinic. She thought wow, this is an amazing opportunity, to make the therapy experience better for patients. Bonus: Adam Robinson, GetEmails — codestory. co Adam and his brother took anonymous ID verification and ran with it inside of their email marketing tool. After some time, they realized email marketing is a tough space to compete in... so they switched to an area they were intrigued by, and had already built something to work with. Bonus: Paraag Sarva, Rhino — codestory. co As a renter and landlord, Paraag intimately felt the pains on both sides of the equation, when it comes to security deposits. Rather than people stuffing large amounts of cash into a system that doesn't help either side, he knew there was a better way to help renters... and landlords. E15:... --- - Published: 2021-10-13 - Modified: 2021-10-15 - URL: https://codestory.co/learnworlds-cloud-lms-for-all-your-needs-3/ - Categories: Newsletter Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online?Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds.com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial.  Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online? Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. LearnWorlds makes it easy to create, host and sell beautiful online courses that have an impact. The tool offers engaging learning experiences that go beyond traditional learning management systems. LearnWorlds is an intuitive, lightweight, eCommerce-ready LMS, packed with advanced features to sell online courses, educate customers, or train employees. Why LearnWorlds? With LearnWorlds' intuitive platform and a wealth of resources to educate yourself, you're only a few steps away from building a thriving online business in the booming knowledge economy. Fully customizable 24/7 Unlimited Support 30 Days Free Trial No Credit Card Required Want to see how easy it is? Check out this video below! Get Started NOW! It's easy to get started right away, building your eLearning Website with LearnWorlds. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. More Helpful Resources --- - Published: 2021-10-12 - Modified: 2021-10-15 - URL: https://codestory.co/cut-your-cloud-costs-by-50/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by CAST AI.According to some studies out there, 30-40% of cloud budgets are wasted. Managing your cloud bill is a tough task, where visibility is difficult to obtain, and the more complex your infrastructure becomes, the harder it is to stay on top of the cost. That's where CAST AI comes in. This message is sponsored by CAST AI. According to some studies out there, 30-40% of cloud budgets are wasted. Managing your cloud bill is a tough task, where visibility is difficult to obtain, and the more complex your infrastructure becomes, the harder it is to stay on top of the cost. That's where CAST AI comes in. CAST AI brings automated cloud optimization to the world of Kubernetes. It's the one platform that cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and guarantees business continuity by preventing downtime. Optimize Cloud Costs — cast. ai Cut your expenses by automating instance selection and rightsizing, bin packing pods, and use of spot instances with automatic interruption handling. Use spot instances that offer 70-90% discounts Get the most cost-effective instance types Generate detailed cost reports to forecast expenses Automate DevOps Tasks — cast. ai Focus on the high-level challenges and leave the repetitive details like VMs, networks, and storage to us. Automate with Terraform, work in CLI or via the API. Avoid repetitive low level tasks Automate infrastructure lifecycle management Get instance services for in-cluster observability Achieve Business Continuity — cast. ai CAST AI builds an active-active infrastructure spanning multiple clouds or regions. Guarantee business continuity and keep your reputation without the cost increase. The platform adopts the active-active approach to Disaster Recovery Achieved through custom multi-cloud networking layer Trusted by the Biggest Names Perfect for companies large and small. CAST AI doesn’t require additional engineers to do the work. You start saving as soon as you turn it on. Get Started NOW So what are you waiting for? With a no downside proposition, CAST AI is a winner for your cloud infrastructure. Book a demo, and get started cutting your bill in half today. --- - Published: 2021-10-06 - Modified: 2021-10-15 - URL: https://codestory.co/compiler-demystifying-the-tech-industry-one-question-at-a-time-2/ - Categories: Newsletter I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about.Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm excited about. Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? Introducing Compiler - the latest original show from Red Hat, the creators of Command Line Heroes. Latest Episodes Compiler: Should Managers Code? — link. chtbl. com Becoming a manager can be a huge milestone. But it may have a downside. We ask: Should managers code? It’s an old question that doesn’t have a clear answer. Introducing Compiler — link. chtbl. com Technology can be bold. But it can also be complicated. We break down the big questions about tech and the tech industry in our new original podcast About the Show Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. Compiler unravels industry topics, trends, and the things you’ve always wanted to know about tech, through interviews with the people who know it best. On the show, you will hear a chorus of perspectives from the diverse communities behind the code. Compiler brings together a curious team of Red Hatters to tackle big questions in tech like, What is technical debt? What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And, do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? About the Hosts Angela Andrews and Brent Simoneaux may come from different backgrounds. But together, they delve into discussions with an unshakeable curiosity. About Red Hat For 25 years, Red Hat has been bringing open source technologies to the enterprise. From the operating system to containers, we believe in building better technology together–and celebrating the unsung heroes who are remaking our world from the command line up. Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise — www. redhat. com Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. --- - Published: 2021-09-29 - Modified: 2021-10-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/shortcut-formerly-clubhouse-io-2/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Shortcut. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management?Thats where Shortcut comes in.TL;DR - Give Shortcut a try by clicking here. This message is sponsored by Shortcut. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management? Thats where Shortcut comes in. TL;DR - Give Shortcut a try by clicking here. Code Story Interview with the Co-founder! Bonus: Andrew Childs, Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse. io) — codestory. co At a prior startup, the opinionated nature of project tools his team was using started to get in the way of their productivity... not to mention, it was not possible to get a birds eye view of direction, progress, etc. across multiple projects. During a hack day project, Andrew built a way to aggregate their tool into one single view. It was then that it clicked, and he and his co-founder thought maybe they were on to something. Shortcut helps modern software teams work collaboratively and ship quickly. They are project management, without all the management. Features you will LOVE! Plan — thld. co Easily zoom in and out between Stories, Iterations, and quarterly Roadmaps; useful context is never more than a click away. Build — thld. co Manage all your work with Workflows and Kanban boards that can be customized to the needs of the Teams and people using them. Collaborate — thld. co Teams, Epics, Milestones, and Roadmaps bring people from across the company together to accomplish larger goals and initiatives. Measure — thld. co Use burndown charts, time in workflow state graphs, cycle and lead time charts, and other reports to keep an eye on how well projects are managed. Experiment — thld. co Use all our newest, fastest, and shiniest project managing features before anyone else does. Fully Integrated & Integrate-able From Github to Slack, Shortcut offers integrations with tools you love, tools you like, and tools you may even feel kinda meh about. Plus, you can write your own integrations with their API. Connect Shortcut with your favorite apps and tools. Automate the tedious part of your process so you can focus on what’s important – building great software. Learn more about their Integrations. So... what are you waiting for? Shortcut is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting. Delight the scrum gods and give them a try. Project Management for Software Teams - Shortcut — thld. co The intuitive and powerful project management platform loved by software teams of all sizes. Try it free and start building better software, together. --- - Published: 2021-09-22 - Modified: 2021-09-23 - URL: https://codestory.co/learnworlds-cloud-lms-for-all-your-needs-2/ - Categories: Newsletter Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online?Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds.com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial.  Hello Listeners! Did you know that creating an income online or adding a new revenue stream to your business has never been easier? Have you ever considered taking your knowledge, skills and expertise and converting it into a course that you can sell online? Introducing LearnWorlds! TL;DR... Join over 2 million people who access learning anytime, anywhere, on any device. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. LearnWorlds makes it easy to create, host and sell beautiful online courses that have an impact. The tool offers engaging learning experiences that go beyond traditional learning management systems. LearnWorlds is an intuitive, lightweight, eCommerce-ready LMS, packed with advanced features to sell online courses, educate customers, or train employees. Why LearnWorlds? With LearnWorlds' intuitive platform and a wealth of resources to educate yourself, you're only a few steps away from building a thriving online business in the booming knowledge economy. Fully customizable 24/7 Unlimited Support 30 Days Free Trial No Credit Card Required Want to see how easy it is? Check out this video below! Get Started NOW! It's easy to get started right away, building your eLearning Website with LearnWorlds. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. More Helpful Resources --- - Published: 2021-09-15 - Modified: 2024-09-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/shortcut-formerly-clubhouse-io/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Shortcut. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management?Thats where Shortcut comes in.TL;DR - Give Shortcut a try by clicking here. This message is sponsored by Shortcut. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management? Thats where Shortcut comes in. TL;DR - Give Shortcut a try by clicking here. Code Story Interview with the Co-founder! Bonus: Andrew Childs, Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse. io) — codestory. co During a hack day project, Andrew built a way to aggregate their tool into one single view. It was then that it clicked, and he and his co-founder thought maybe they were on to something. Shortcut helps modern software teams work collaboratively and ship quickly. They are project management, without all the management. Features you will LOVE! Plan — thld. co Easily zoom in and out between Stories, Iterations, and quarterly Roadmaps; useful context is never more than a click away. Build — thld. co Manage all your work with Workflows and Kanban boards that can be customized to the needs of the Teams and people using them. Collaborate — thld. co Teams, Epics, Milestones, and Roadmaps bring people from across the company together to accomplish larger goals and initiatives. Measure — thld. co Use burndown charts, time in workflow state graphs, cycle and lead time charts, and other reports to keep an eye on how well projects are managed. Experiment — thld. co Use all our newest, fastest, and shiniest project managing features before anyone else does. Fully Integrated & Integrate-able From Github to Slack, Shortcut offers integrations with tools you love, tools you like, and tools you may even feel kinda meh about. Plus, you can write your own integrations with their API. Connect Shortcut with your favorite apps and tools. Automate the tedious part of your process so you can focus on what’s important – building great software. Learn more about their Integrations. So... what are you waiting for? Shortcut is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting. Delight the scrum gods and give them a try. Project Management for Software Teams - Shortcut — thld. co The intuitive and powerful project management platform loved by software teams of all sizes. Try it free and start building better software, together. --- - Published: 2021-09-14 - Modified: 2021-09-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/where-to-invest-100k-according-to-the-experts/ - Categories: Newsletter This message is sponsored by Masterworks. Today, investors face a dilemma. The global pandemic has completely disrupted markets. The S&P 500 is currently trading near its highest valuation levels since the dot-com crash of 2000. And treasury rates are near 0.Finding promising investments is harder than ever.Recently, Bloomberg asked investment experts where they’d personally invest $100,000 right now.And, They overwhelmingly recommended alternatives, like contemporary art. This message is sponsored by Masterworks. Today, investors face a dilemma. The global pandemic has completely disrupted markets. The S&P 500 is currently trading near its highest valuation levels since the dot-com crash of 2000. And treasury rates are near 0. Finding promising investments is harder than ever. Recently, Bloomberg asked investment experts where they’d personally invest $100,000 right now. And, They overwhelmingly recommended alternatives, like contemporary art. After all, the “0. 1% of the 0. 1%” have placed their bets on art for centuries. From the Rockefellers to today’s wealthiest titans—Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Eric Schmidt all actively collect art. In fact, 61% of high net worth collectors allocate 10–50% of their overall portfolios to it. But despite the boom, very few actually know how to invest in this high performing asset class. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, and there are significant differences between investing in art and investing in stocks, bonds and other asset classes, see important disclosures. Contemporary Art prices have outperformed S&P 500 returns by 174% from 1995–2020. That’s especially impressive when you consider the epic 20-year bull run we’ve just seen. So, how can you add this resilient and lucrative investment to your portfolio? Normally, you would need tens, or even hundreds, of millions to build a properly diversified portfolio of art. But we’ve found a little-known... but incredibly smart way... for everyday people to invest in contemporary art at a fraction of the typical purchase point. 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See important disclosures: mw-art. co/x. --- - Published: 2021-09-08 - Modified: 2021-09-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/compiler-demystifying-the-tech-industry-one-question-at-a-time/ - Categories: Newsletter This messages is sponsored by the Compiler podcast. I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm super excited about... Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? This messages is sponsored by the Compiler podcast. I wanted to let you in on a new podcast I'm super excited about... Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. How do we unravel industry shifts, and better understand new ideas? Introducing Compiler - the latest original show from Red Hat, the creators of Command Line Heroes. Latest Episodes Compiler: Should Managers Code? — link. chtbl. com Becoming a manager can be a huge milestone. But it may have a downside. We ask: Should managers code? It’s an old question that doesn’t have a clear answer. Introducing Compiler — link. chtbl. com Technology can be bold. But it can also be complicated. We break down the big questions about tech and the tech industry in our new original podcast About the Show Technology can be big, bold, bizarre, and complicated. Compiler unravels industry topics, trends, and the things you’ve always wanted to know about tech, through interviews with the people who know it best. On the show, you will hear a chorus of perspectives from the diverse communities behind the code. Compiler brings together a curious team of Red Hatters to tackle big questions in tech like, What is technical debt? What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And, do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? About the Hosts Angela Andrews and Brent Simoneaux may come from different backgrounds. But together, they delve into discussions with an unshakeable curiosity. About Red Hat For 25 years, Red Hat has been bringing open source technologies to the enterprise. From the operating system to containers, we believe in building better technology together–and celebrating the unsung heroes who are remaking our world from the command line up. Red Hat - We make open source technologies for the enterprise — www. redhat. com Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. --- - Published: 2021-09-06 - Modified: 2021-09-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-august-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Happy Labor Day! Summer ended with a HUGE slate of guests, with incredible stories. Check out the links below to learn more about our fantastic sponsors, amazing episodes, and podcasts we love. Enjoy! Happy Labor Day! Summer ended with a HUGE slate of guests, with incredible 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 E12: Chris Wexler, Krunam — codestory. co All along his career, Chris was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. Bonus: Brendan Wood, Passiv — codestory. co One day, Brendan found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. E11: Alexander Alimovs, Automations. io — codestory. co In the past, Alexander held several senior positions with companies having small tech teams. During these times, he would quickly spot inefficiencies in processes - a manual step here, a spot of friction there, etc. He decided to build a product to enable non-engineers to automate processes. Bonus: Colin Chartier, Webapp. io — codestory. co In his prior startup, Colin found that he and his team were very sensitive to breaking changes, as it was critical to deliver information in a timely manner. So much so, that his customers would churn if anything broke in the critical chain. He created something to fill this gap at his prior... --- - Published: 2021-09-02 - Modified: 2021-09-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/cto-ai-devops-as-a-service/ - Categories: Newsletter I'm excited to tell you more about one of our Season 5 sponsors.The team at CTO.ai have crafted the platform toolchain to enable developer operations at scale. Some teams are staffed up to take these tools and run them right away.Some aren't.CTO.ai solves this problem as well, through their managed services solution, coined DevOps as a Service. I'm excited to tell you more about one of our Season 5 sponsors. The team at CTO. ai have crafted the platform toolchain to enable developer operations at scale. Some teams are staffed up to take these tools and run them right away. Some aren't. CTO. ai solves this problem as well, through their managed services solution, coined DevOps as a Service. 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Check out this video below! Get Started NOW! It's easy to get started right away, building your eLearning Website with LearnWorlds. Go to https://trylearnworlds. com/codestory to start your 30-day FREE trial. More Helpful Resources --- - Published: 2021-08-27 - Modified: 2021-08-30 - URL: https://codestory.co/clubhouse-io-soon-to-be-shortcut-2/ - Categories: Newsletter Sponsored by Clubhouse.io (soon to be shortcut). I wanted to tell you guys about a tool I recently stumbled upon.In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management?Thats where Clubhouse comes in. Project management... without the management. TL;DR - Give Clubhouse a try by clicking here. Sponsored by Clubhouse. io (soon to be shortcut). I wanted to tell you guys about a tool I recently stumbled upon. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management? Thats where Clubhouse comes in. Project management... without the management. TL;DR - Give Clubhouse a try by clicking here. Clubhouse helps modern software teams work collaboratively and ship quickly. They are project management, without all the management. Features you will LOVE! Plan — thld. co Easily zoom in and out between Stories, Iterations, and quarterly Roadmaps; useful context is never more than a click away. Build — thld. co Manage all your work with Workflows and Kanban boards that can be customized to the needs of the Teams and people using them. Collaborate — thld. co Teams, Epics, Milestones, and Roadmaps bring people from across the company together to accomplish larger goals and initiatives. Measure — thld. co Use burndown charts, time in workflow state graphs, cycle and lead time charts, and other reports to keep an eye on how well projects are managed. Experiment — thld. co Use all our newest, fastest, and shiniest project managing features before anyone else does, with Clubhouse Labs. Fully Integrated & Integrate-able From Github to Slack, Clubhouse offers integrations with tools you love, tools you like, and tools you may even feel kinda meh about. Plus, you can write your own integrations with their API. Connect Clubhouse with your favorite apps and tools. Automate the tedious part of your process so you can focus on what’s important – building great software. Learn more about their Integrations. So... what are you waiting for? Clubhouse is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting. Delight the scrum gods and give them a try. Project Management for Software Teams - Clubhouse — thld. co The intuitive and powerful project management platform loved by software teams of all sizes. Try it free and start building better software, together. --- - Published: 2021-08-18 - Modified: 2021-08-21 - URL: https://codestory.co/clubhouse-io-soon-to-be-shortcut/ - Categories: Newsletter Project management... without the management. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management?Thats where Clubhouse comes in.TL;DR - Give Clubhouse a try by clicking here. Project management... without the management. In the world of software today, shipping quickly is the name of the game... but that doesn't mean you can cut corners. You have to plan, build, and measure success within your delivery. So how do you focus on the software, and not on the project management? Thats where Clubhouse comes in. TL;DR - Give Clubhouse a try by clicking here. Clubhouse helps modern software teams work collaboratively and ship quickly. They are project management, without all the management. Features you will LOVE! Plan — thld. co Easily zoom in and out between Stories, Iterations, and quarterly Roadmaps; useful context is never more than a click away. Build — thld. co Manage all your work with Workflows and Kanban boards that can be customized to the needs of the Teams and people using them. Collaborate — thld. co Teams, Epics, Milestones, and Roadmaps bring people from across the company together to accomplish larger goals and initiatives. Measure — thld. co Use burndown charts, time in workflow state graphs, cycle and lead time charts, and other reports to keep an eye on how well projects are managed. Experiment — thld. co Use all our newest, fastest, and shiniest project managing features before anyone else does, with Clubhouse Labs. Fully Integrated & Integrate-able From Github to Slack, Clubhouse offers integrations with tools you love, tools you like, and tools you may even feel kinda meh about. Plus, you can write your own integrations with their API. Connect Clubhouse with your favorite apps and tools. Automate the tedious part of your process so you can focus on what’s important – building great software. Learn more about their Integrations. So... what are you waiting for? Clubhouse is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting. Delight the scrum gods and give them a try. Project Management for Software Teams - Clubhouse — thld. co The intuitive and powerful project management platform loved by software teams of all sizes. Try it free and start building better software, together. --- - Published: 2021-08-03 - Modified: 2021-08-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-july-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter 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! 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... --- - Published: 2021-07-09 - Modified: 2021-07-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-june-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Season 5 is underway! We have some great episodes in June, interviewing founders from Postman, Clickup, Stratic and many more. Big thanks to our sponsors! Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the email, to check out some of our favorite podcast friends. Season 5 is underway! We have some great episodes in June, interviewing founders from Postman, Clickup, Stratic and many more. Big thanks to our sponsors! Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the email, to check out some of our favorite podcast friends. Special thanks to our Season 5 Sponsors! Multi-Channel Notification API & Platform | Courier — 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. 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. 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. 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. Cloudways | Managed Cloud Hosting Platform — www. cloudways. com 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 E3: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp — codestory. co As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. Bonus: Eric Futoran, Embrace. io — codestory. co During his past successes at Scopely, one of the largest game builders in the world, he realized in the early innings of mobile that there was no mobile first data source, enabling businesses to capture all mobile session data... and more. E2: Miriam Schwab, Strattic — codestory. co As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. Bonus: Timur Mamedov, VEED. io — codestory. co Timur started attending hackathons as much as he could, and he met his co-founder Saba, who helped him learn how to make money contracting. One day, they got fed up with the complexity of video editing software... and decided to disrupt it. E1: Abhinav Asthana, Postman — codestory. co In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had... --- - Published: 2021-06-17 - Modified: 2021-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/correction-i-want-to-let-you-in-on-a-little-secret-with-working-links/ - Categories: Newsletter THE LINKS HAVE BEEN FIXED: Yesterday's email had broken links... they are now fixed, please enjoy! I found this amazing podcast recently, that I'm very excited to share with you. Its called Secret Leaders... its the podcast for UK entrepreneurs and beyond. Hosted by Dan Murray-Serter, Secret Leaders has raw conversations with founders, business leaders and investors, so you can learn how to build a business from the best. THE LINKS HAVE BEEN FIXED: Yesterday's email had broken links... they are now fixed, please enjoy! I found this amazing podcast recently, that I'm very excited to share with you. Its called Secret Leaders... its the podcast for UK entrepreneurs and beyond. Hosted by Dan Murray-Serter, Secret Leaders has raw conversations with founders, business leaders and investors, so you can learn how to build a business from the best. So whats all the fuss about? I'm glad you asked. Daniel digs into the stories of successful businesses from the founders themselves, but not just the successes... he digs into the back stories, the drivers, the "why", and beyond. One of my favorite episodes is E41, featuring Martha Lane Fox who founded Lastminute. com. Outside the fun tidbits about her love of Karaoke, she has some very interesting stories around the successes of lastminute. com, along with her views on not letting work define you. Another episode to mention is E94, an awesome interview with Harry Hurst of pipe. Harry went from living on government benefits to living the American Dream, and has been a hustling entrepreneur since he was a little boy. Prior to Pipe, he founded Skurt, which was acquired by fair. com. Highlighted Episodes Episode 41: Lastminute. com – meet Martha Lane Fox, the Baroness of tech who refuses to let her past define her future — — link. chtbl. com Martha Lane Fox is a digital entrepreneur who is not only passionate about the world of tech, but Chancellor of the Open University, a philanthropist and a public servant to boot. Martha can be thanked for making our everyday lives easier, as well as the lives of children, and even prisoners. Martha... Episode 94: From living on benefits to the American dream with pipe Co-Founder Harry Hurst — — link. chtbl. com “I was a young kid with a family on government benefits living off £600 a month. I was surrounded by people that could afford private school. And from a naive child's perspective, they seemed to have everything that I didn't have when I went home to my reality. But I think that was the formation of --- - Published: 2021-06-16 - Modified: 2021-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/i-want-to-let-you-in-on-a-little-secret/ - Categories: Newsletter I found this amazing podcast recently, that I'm very excited to share with you. Its called Secret Leaders... its the podcast for UK entrepreneurs and beyond. Hosted by Dan Murray-Serter, Secret Leaders has raw conversations with founders, business leaders and investors, so you can learn how to build a business from the best. I found this amazing podcast recently, that I'm very excited to share with you. Its called Secret Leaders... its the podcast for UK entrepreneurs and beyond. Hosted by Dan Murray-Serter, Secret Leaders has raw conversations with founders, business leaders and investors, so you can learn how to build a business from the best. So whats all the fuss about? I'm glad you asked. Daniel digs into the stories of successful businesses from the founders themselves, but not just the successes... he digs into the back stories, the drivers, the "why", and beyond. One of my favorite episodes is E41, featuring Martha Lane Fox who founded Lastminute. com. Outside the fun tidbits about her love of Karaoke, she has some very interesting stories around the successes of lastminute. com, along with her views on not letting work define you. Another episode to mention is E94, an awesome interview with Harry Hurst of pipe. Harry went from living on government benefits to living the American Dream, and has been a hustling entrepreneur since he was a little boy. Prior to Pipe, he founded Skurt, which was acquired by fair. com. Highlighted Episodes Episode 41: Lastminute. com – meet Martha Lane Fox, the Baroness of tech who refuses to let her past define her future — — link. chtbl. com Martha Lane Fox is a digital entrepreneur who is not only passionate about the world of tech, but Chancellor of the Open University, a philanthropist and a public servant to boot. Martha can be thanked for making our everyday lives easier, as well as the lives of children, and even prisoners. Martha... Episode 94: From living on benefits to the American dream with pipe Co-Founder Harry Hurst — — link. chtbl. com “I was a young kid with a family on government benefits living off £600 a month. I was surrounded by people that could afford private school. And from a naive child's perspective, they seemed to have everything that I didn't have when I went home to my reality. But I think that was the formation of --- - Published: 2021-06-08 - Modified: 2021-06-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/season-5-starting-june-15th/ - Categories: Newsletter Howdy folks - we are launching Season 5 of the Code Story podcast on June 15th. Kicking off the Season will be an interview with one of my favorite tool builders, Abhinav Asthana of Postman. Make sure you subscribe today! Howdy folks - we are launching Season 5 of the Code Story podcast on June 15th. Kicking off the Season will be an interview with one of my favorite tool builders, Abhinav Asthana of Postman. Make sure you subscribe today! If you haven't subscribed, make sure to do so on your favorite podcast catcher today! If you have subscribed, make sure to forward this message to a friend, or click here to listen to the Season 5 trailer! Season 5 Sponsors A big thank you to our Season 5 sponsors, listed below. Courier - Multi-Channel Notification API & Platform — 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. 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. --- - Published: 2021-06-03 - Modified: 2021-06-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-may-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter As Season 4 comes to a close, we are reflecting on amazing conversations with builders, and amazing partnerships with many sponsors. Please enjoy the episodes below! As Season 4 comes to a close, we are reflecting on amazing conversations with builders, and amazing partnerships with many sponsors. Please enjoy the episodes below! Episodes Code Story – E18: Lior Sion, Bringg — codestory. co Lior realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. Code Story – Bonus: Erik Fogg, ProdPerfect — codestory. co Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. Code Story – E19: Daniel Gallancy, Atakama — codestory. co Ultimately, Daniel realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it. Code Story – Bonus: Erik Chelstad, Observa — codestory. co In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information. Code Story – E20: Paul Biggar, Dark — codestory. co In a past venture, Paul was the founder of CircleCI, the very popular continuous integration tool for engineering teams. Building on his successes here, he started to look at how difficult it was to deploy code, to do infrastructure, to write code, how teams interact, and many other friction points for the SDLC. He set out to remove the complexities of how we build apps today Code Story – Bonus: Aggie Growth Hacks — codestory. co RECAST: Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. We appreciate Noah for dropping his wisdom on this week’s episode, and we encourage you to check out his podcast, Code Story! Thanks and Gig ‘em! Code Story – E21: Ofer Shaked, SCADAFence — codestory. co When Ofer was 24 years old, he had become very familiar with cyber security during his time in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. He and his co-founder had a unique understanding, and as such advantage, to bring value to the industrial cyber security world. Sponsors McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship | TAMU — mays. tamu. edu Through a combination of entrepreneurial-focused curricular and experiential opportunities, the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship seeks to... --- - Published: 2021-06-01 - Modified: 2021-06-07 - URL: https://codestory.co/quill-podcast-awards-finalist/ - Categories: Newsletter I just wanted to take a minute and thank all of you listeners who took the time to support the show and nominate Code Story for the Quill Podcast Awards. We are honored to be a finalist in the Best Tech Podcast category! Judging for the winners will be completed by June 11th, so stay tuned! ...and thank you again for listening. Get Code Story SWAGSupport the show on PatreonRate and Review the Podcast I just wanted to take a minute and thank all of you listeners who took the time to support the show and nominate Code Story for the Quill Podcast Awards. We are honored to be a finalist in the Best Tech Podcast category! Judging for the winners will be completed by June 11th, so stay tuned! ... and thank you again for listening. Get Code Story SWAG Support the show on Patreon Rate and Review the Podcast Quill Podcast Awards Finalists — www. quillpodcasting. com Quill is excited to share the final nominees for the Quill Podcast Awards 2021! Discover the full list of podcasters and podcast companies that have made it to the finals. --- - Published: 2021-05-20 - Modified: 2021-05-24 - URL: https://codestory.co/quill-podcast-awards-vote-for-the-code-story-podcast/ - Categories: Newsletter Code Story has been nominated for the Quill Podcast Awards! This is the first year for these awards, where Quill places top podcasts and brands in various categories. The podcasts nominated are recognized for their production innovation and hard work! Deadline for voting is May 26th, 2021! Code Story has been nominated for the Quill Podcast Awards! This is the first year for these awards, where Quill places top podcasts and brands in various categories. The podcasts nominated are recognized for their production innovation and hard work! Deadline for voting is May 26th, 2021! Please support the podcast by casting your vote for Code Story in one or all of the following: Best Tech Podcast Best Business Podcast People's Choice Award For all other categories, make sure you input your favorite podcasts in those other areas! Some of our favorites are listed below for your consideration. Shows that Code Story Endorses! Aggie Growth Hacks — www. aggiegrowthhacks. com Aggie Growth Hacks is the podcast sponsored by the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M that is dedicated to highlighting fast-growing Aggie entrepreneurs, learning how they overcame growth challenges with creative growth hacks, and connect them with other entrepreneurs in the Aggie Network. Manufacturing Happy Hour — manufacturinghappyhour. com Making Manufacturing Current, Cool, & Approachable. Hosted by Chris Luecke. How I Built This w/ 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/ Robinhood Snacks — snacks. robinhood. com Your Daily Dose of Financial News, with Nick and Jack. Small Things Often - Gottman Institute — www. gottman. com Welcome to Small Things Often, a podcast from The Gottman Institute. Between Two Mics — between2mics. simplecast. com Podcasting is actively being defined. Between Two Mics: The Remote Recording Podcast is talking with the people who are defining it. In this podcast, we're exploring challenges, opportunities, and new ideas that push the limits of what’s possible in podcasting. Darknet Diaries — darknetdiaries. com A podcast featuring true stories from the dark side of the Internet. Quill Podcast Awards — www. quillpodcasting. com The Quill Podcast Awards are featuring the best and brightest podcasts, producers, and podcast companies in the business. Vote for your favorite shows and brands this spring! --- - Published: 2021-05-17 - Modified: 2021-05-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/veryable-needs-your-help/ - Categories: Newsletter My team at Veryable has been entered into the Awwwards competition, and need your help getting our rating up as high as we can before the end of the day May 19th! Voting literally takes about 2 minutes, and it is a huge help and honor to the team! Please take a second to access this link, or click the banner below. Thank you so much for your support! My team at Veryable has been entered into the Awwwards competition, and need your help getting our rating up as high as we can before the end of the day May 19th! Voting literally takes about 2 minutes, and it is a huge help and honor to the team! Please take a second to access this link, or click the banner below. Thank you so much for your support! Veryable Business Portal - Awwwards Nominee — www. awwwards. com Veryable is the on-demand marketplace for mfg, logistics and warehousing labor. Our flexible labor solution connects businesses with high-quality workers... --- - Published: 2021-05-06 - Modified: 2021-05-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-april-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter April showers bring... great episodes? We think so. Enjoy April showers bring... great episodes? We think so. Enjoy Episodes Bonus: Justin Mitchell, Yac — codestory. co Justin noticed over the years of working remote that the accepted culture of getting stuff done was to have meetings all day. He and his team started thinking about how to increase the amount of communication that happened during the day, without increasing the number of meetings. E17: Matt Debergalis, Apollo GraphQL — codestory. co Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. Bonus: Dave MacLeod, ThoughtExchange — codestory. co Along his consulting route, Dave picked up some facilitation techniques to figure out what was important within the diverse groups of people he was working with. He got hooked up with some people building software to solve a similar problem. E16: Meetesh Karia, The Zebra — codestory. co In January 2013, he was approached to create and own the technology and team around a product that allowed people to compare insurance providers - from scratch. Meetesh made the decision to onboard and started the journey to build the Zebra. Bonus: Jason Riedel, Aspireship — codestory. co Starting as a nights and weekends side project, Jason and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity. E15: Beerud Sheth, Gupshup — codestory. co Twelve or so years ago, Beerud noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be? Bonus: Greg Schier, Insomnia — codestory. co While Greg was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem. E14: Bryon Jacob, data. world — codestory. co Bryon and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated. Bonus: The Yield by Yieldstreet — codestory. co The evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution... --- - Published: 2021-04-22 - Modified: 2021-05-10 - URL: https://codestory.co/correction-no-music-feed-is-free/ - Categories: Newsletter We sent out an email yesterday, stating that our podcast feed, which does not include a music bed in the episodes, was available for our patreons.This was a mistake. The feed without music will be FREE.My apologies for any confusion or offense made by the prior email, it was 100% unintentional. If you'd like to access this feed, please reach out to the team directly by replying to this email or contacting us at podcast@codestory.co. We sent out an email yesterday, stating that our podcast feed, which does not include a music bed in the episodes, was available for our patreons. This was a mistake. The feed without music will be FREE. My apologies for any confusion or offense made by the prior email, it was 100% unintentional. If you'd like to access this feed, please reach out to the team directly by replying to this email or contacting us at podcast@codestory. co. --- > Join the Future of SaaS for the SaaS Metrics Summit on April 21st - the first content-led summit dedicated to data-driven strategies, growth and measuring success - Published: 2021-04-19 - Modified: 2021-04-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/this-week-future-of-saas-metrics-summit/ - Categories: Newsletter Join the Future of SaaS for the SaaS Metrics Summit on April 21st - the first content-led summit dedicated to data-driven strategies, growth and measuring success! Join the Future of SaaS for the SaaS Metrics Summit on April 21st - the first content-led summit dedicated to data-driven strategies, growth and measuring success. TL;DR; - Grab your pass https://metrics. futureofsaas. io/tickets/? utm_source=code-story-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saas-metrics-summit&utm_content=media-partner You’ll hear from: Wistia - Director, Growth & Media Userpilot - Head of Marketing Papercup - Growth Zendesk - Sr Director, Product Management OpenView - Director, Growth Team Proposify - Co-Founder and CEO Toast - Senior Director, Business Intelligence McAfee - Director, Customer Success ... plus loads more to be announced. Newsletter/social media followers subscribers get 20% off an Access All Areas pass, just use CODE20 at checkout Grab your pass https://metrics. futureofsaas. io/tickets/? utm_source=code-story-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saas-metrics-summit&utm_content=media-partner --- - Published: 2021-04-02 - Modified: 2021-04-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-march-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter We had a great lineup of founders and builders in March, along with a fantastic slate of Sponsors. Please enjoy! We had a great lineup of founders and builders in March, along with a fantastic slate of Sponsors. Please enjoy! Episodes E13: Troy Goode, Courier — codestory. co Troy has worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. Bonus: Rens ter Weijde, KIMO — codestory. co When he attempted to break into the space, Rens had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. E12: Richard Barkley, Cloudsnap — codestory. co After working for Dell, Richard grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this? Bonus: Cameron Moreau, Gozova — codestory. co When he was a sophomore in college, Cameron ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items. E11: Arjun Narayan, Materialize — codestory. co As he was as grad student doing his PHD, Arjun came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. E10: Steve Caldwell, Mandolin — codestory. co As the COVID pandemic decimated live music events, Steve was caught in a related riff. He found himself networking for his next gig, and while doing so, started to chat with his now co-founders about a new opportunity... where musicians could interact with fans in new ways. E9: Matt Fornaciari, Gremlin — codestory. co While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - Matt Fornaciari was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. 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PBX System by VirtualPBX: Customize Your Business Phone Plan — www. virtualpbx. com Whether you're a business of one, or a thousand-employee enterprise, VirtualPBX offers a PBX system for businesses of... --- - Published: 2021-03-08 - Modified: 2021-03-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/international-womens-day/ - Categories: Newsletter To celebrate international women's day, we want to give a shout out to the women in tech, who have been on the podcast to tell the creation stories of their products, teams and companies. Want to see all of these on our site? Check out this tag post: https://codestory.co/tag/women-in-tech/While we got you, don't forget to review & rate the show, along with pickup the latest gear from the Code Story shop. Interested in supporting the show financially for free gear?? Check us out on Patreon, for just $5 bucks a month. To celebrate international women's day, we want to give a shout out to the women in tech, who have been on the podcast to tell the creation stories of their products, teams and companies. Want to see all of these on our site? Check out this tag post: https://codestory. co/tag/women-in-tech/ While we got you, don't forget to review & rate the show, along with pickup the latest gear from the Code Story shop. Interested in supporting the show financially for free gear? ? Check us out on Patreon, for just $5 bucks a month. Episodes Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit — codestory. co Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. S4 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. S3 E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb. io — codestory. co Several years ago, Charity Majors was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. S3 E8: Jane Portman, Userlist — codestory. co A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging. S2 E15: Desi McAdam, Nanno — codestory. co A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science, and loves to roller skate - and may have participated in roller derby a time or 2. Fast forward several years, she and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno - an on-demand platform for connecting parents to vetted, quality sitters... . when & where they need them. S2 E13: Adrienne Bolger, BlocHealth — codestory. co Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and... --- - Published: 2021-03-05 - Modified: 2021-03-05 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-february-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter Though down in Texas we were fighting to survive the extreme weather changes, power outages, and water treatment issues - we still managed to release some amazing conversations with builders. Enjoy :) Though down in Texas we were fighting to survive the extreme weather changes, power outages, and water treatment issues - we still managed to release some amazing conversations with builders. Enjoy :) Episodes E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img. ly — codestory. co In 2008, Daniel's current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit — codestory. co Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorp — codestory. co Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. E7: Dan Robinson, Heap — codestory. co Dan Robinson went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very different. . and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. Bonus: Jeff Meisner, Sector 5 Digital — codestory. co Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development side. E8: Brendan & Matt, Fig — codestory. co After applying to Y Combinator, Brendan & Matt were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. Bonus: Richard Mensah, EllisX — codestory. co Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. Sponsors Unidragon Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles and Maps — unidragon. com Buy wooden jigsaw puzzles for kids, toddlers and adults. Order best puzzles online with worldwide free delivery. (Original) Native American "WYLD Art Gallery" from Austin Texas — wyld. gallery One of the very few true Native American art galleries with tribes from across America based out of Austin... --- - Published: 2021-03-02 - Modified: 2021-03-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/celebrating-over-100-episodes/ - Categories: Newsletter So we missed something... 5 episodes ago we hit the 100 episode mark. That is a HUGE milestone in the podcast world because pod-fade is a real thing and happens on a regular basis. So... we are gonna celebrate like the friend that sends you a birthday card AFTER your actual birthday... (I've done that before). So we missed something... 5 episodes ago we hit the 100 episode mark. That is a HUGE milestone in the podcast world because pod-fade is a real thing and happens on a regular basis. So... we are gonna celebrate like the friend that sends you a birthday card AFTER your actual birthday... (I've done that before). To Our Listeners... We couldn't be more grateful to our listeners, for tuning in each week - sometimes twice a week - to hear great human stories from the builders themselves, about what they went through to bring a new idea to life. To Our Guests... You've done the work, and built the thing. Your stories are incredible, and we are honored to be a small part of sharing them with the world. Episode 105 (Season 4, Episode 9) The latest episode of Code Story ran today, with Matt Forniciari of Gremlin. Episode 105... or Season 4, Episode 9. Please enjoy. Code Story – E9: Matt Fornaciari, Gremlin — codestory. co While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - Matt Fornaciari was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. Sponsors Hi, we’re Wildbit. We believe that businesses are designed to support human beings. — wildbit. com We’re the team behind Postmark, Beanstalk, DMARC Digests, and People-First Jobs. Wildbit is self-funded, profitable, and has been working remotely since 2000. ContentBot - AI Assistant for Copywriters and Marketers — contentbot. ai ContentBot is the perfect assistant for copywriters and markers. Overcome writer's block and create high quality content with ContentBot. ai. --- - Published: 2021-03-01 - Modified: 2021-03-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/saas-company-worth-800m/ - Categories: Newsletter TL;DR;Register for Nathan Latka's webinar, covering the latest official repoert of 100 private SaaS valuations from 2021 (plus the excel file).https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2316139307040/WN_H72e0nkGToiV37AAYb-fQg TL;DR; Register for Nathan Latka's webinar, covering the latest official repoert of 100 private SaaS valuations from 2021 (plus the excel file). https://us02web. zoom. us/webinar/register/2316139307040/WN_H72e0nkGToiV37AAYb-fQg This valuation data is eye-popping. Imagine you’re arguing with a buyer, your board, or an investor about your valuation. What gives you the most leverage? Comps. Other recent deals. There has never been a central database of private valuations focused on SaaS. My friend Nathan Latka is changing all that with his new report. Official SaaS Valuation Report (100+ examples) You can get any valuation you want under one condition: You have to have comps to back it up. An investor, buyer, or friend won't listen to what you think you're worth. But if you can say: "I just pulled comps and here's what they say" Your leverage increases. The webinar on March 4th is about getting you leverage. You'll get 100+ examples like these: Typeform raised $35m at a $300m valuation in 2017 with $20m in revenue. They passed $48m in revenue last week topping $800m valuation. 16. 6x multiple. GetRoute raised $50k on a SAFE with $4m cap this year with $128k in revenue. 31x multiple. Recreation management software Amilia hit $8m and valuation of $100m last month. 12. 5x multiple. How To Get 20x Multiple or Higher Why does one company with $5m in revenue get a 2x multiple, while another company at $5m gets a 20x? Companies valued at 20x+ are focused on 3 metrics: Growth: Optimizely raised at a $600m valuation in 2019 with $110m in revenue (5x multiple) with yoy growth of 7%. The faster growing Greenhouse. io got an $820m valuation on $86m in revenue (10x multiple) with yoy growth of 20% yoy. Growth will always matter and should be managed if playing the valuation game. Net Revenue Retention: Gong’s net revenue retention is 150% compared to QuickOrder’s 131%. Gong recently commanded a 37x multiple compared to QuickOrders 7x. Growing net dollar retention is key factor in valuation growth. Speed of payback: Founder that get paid back fast are smarter capital allocators. They avoid dilution because they have no cash gap. They don’t have to wait to recover CAC. Amilia has a 14 month payback and is raising at a 13x multiple. OnCallHealth has a 6 month payback and is valued at a 20x multiple. Figure out how to get your cash back faster. The holy grail of high growth, 140%+ net dollar retention, and sub 6 month payback period puts your startup in the top tier. You should command a valuation in the 20x+ range. 500 of Us Are Getting Together for SaaS Valuations Webinar Nathan upgraded his zoom plan (hit max last time) to 500 live. Will hit that quickly. Register today to get your spot (and registration bonuses): When: March 4th at 11am PST Where: This link What to expect: 500+ founders hanging out learning from each other (and lots of data) The energy on Latka’s last webinar was intense. Top CEO’s jumping in sharing... --- - Published: 2021-02-11 - Modified: 2021-03-04 - URL: https://codestory.co/s4-e6-mitchell-hashimoto-hashicorp/ - Categories: Newsletter On the latest episode of Code Story, we interviewed Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder & CTO of HashiCorp - builders of Vagrant, Terraform, and many others. Listen in as we discuss the early days of cloud infrastructure, a unique way to build a team, and working through mistakes in building this world class company. ** Support the podcast on Patreon, and get free gear! ** On the latest episode of Code Story, we interviewed Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder & CTO of HashiCorp - builders of Vagrant, Terraform, and many others. Listen in as we discuss the early days of cloud infrastructure, a unique way to build a team, and working through mistakes in building this world class company. ** Support the podcast on Patreon, and get free gear! ** Code Story – E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, Hashicorp — codestory. co Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. Sponsors Hi, we’re Wildbit. We believe that businesses are designed to support human beings. — wildbit. com We’re the team behind Postmark, Beanstalk, DMARC Digests, and People-First Jobs. Wildbit is self-funded, profitable, and has been working remotely since 2000. Unidragon Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles and Maps — unidragon. com Buy wooden jigsaw puzzles for kids, toddlers and adults. Order best puzzles online with worldwide free delivery. Attract new podcast listeners with the power of content — www. podcastbloggers. com Transform your podcast episodes into SEO-optimized blog posts to grow your audience. Get the best strategies for podcast promotion. --- - Published: 2021-02-08 - Modified: 2021-02-10 - URL: https://codestory.co/saas-growth-summit-this-week/ - Categories: Newsletter The SaaS Growth Summit is in 2 days! Make sure to checkout the link below, get your tickets, and get ready for the great lineup of speakers, including Nathan Latka, Rand Fishkin, Asia Matos Orangio and many more! Tickets to the summit are free! Yep, thats right... free. So there's really no reason not to go. Be sure to get registered to reserve your spot! The SaaS Growth Summit is in 2 days! Make sure to checkout the link below, get your tickets, and get ready for the great lineup of speakers, including Nathan Latka, Rand Fishkin, Asia Matos Orangio and many more! Tickets to the summit are free! Yep, thats right... free. So there's really no reason not to go. Be sure to get registered to reserve your spot! SaaS Growth Summit by User. com — saassummit. user. com Automating Your SaaS Growth, An unparalleled lineup of SaaS industry leaders have come to share their secrets.  They will present actionable insights, data-driven knowledge, and innovative ideas --- - Published: 2021-02-02 - Modified: 2021-02-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-january-2021/ - Categories: Newsletter 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! 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. Sponsors Shape & Foster — www. shapeandfoster. com Lifestyle is expressed in both work and leisure behavior patterns and (on an individual basis) in activities, attitudes, interests, thoughts, values, allocation of income and well-being. Our mission will be to assist your personal development. Whether this is via enhancing your knowledge through our six experts or simply providing a community for shared experience. Six Experts in One Hub! Wing Cell Phone Service A Cell Phone Service You'll Never Have To Overpay Again Joining is easy. We do it all for you. The best coverage on the nation’s top network. The leading podcast influencer marketplace. Connecting unique voices to unique brands for native advertising. Marketplace connecting podcasters... --- - Published: 2021-01-06 - Modified: 2021-01-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/blockchain-crypto-related-episodes/ - Categories: Related Episodes - Tags: alt coin, bitcoin, blockchain, coin, crypto, cryptocurrency, ethereum When you read the headlines about cryptocurrency, you mostly hear about the price of Bitcoin skyrocketing (or falling), whats going on with Coinbase, the latest scandal of an obscure exchange getting hacked, and things like that. What you don’t hear about is the amazing technology and community of people creating this world of interconnected nodes and networks to process transactions in a decentralized, effective, secure manner. Enjoy our episodes on the blockchain! Crypto is more than just Bitcoin and Coinbase. When you read the headlines about cryptocurrency, you mostly hear about the price of Bitcoin skyrocketing (or falling), whats going on with Coinbase, the latest scandal of an obscure exchange getting hacked, and things like that. What you don't hear about is the amazing technology and community of people creating this world of interconnected nodes and networks to process transactions in a decentralized, effective, secure manner. Enjoy our episodes on the blockchain! Click Here to Signup for Lolli & Earn Bitcoin Rewards --- - Published: 2021-01-06 - Modified: 2021-01-06 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcasting-technology-related-episodes/ - Categories: Related Episodes - Tags: apps, host, hosting, mics, podcast, podcast tech, recording, Tech When we started Code Story in 2019, I had no idea about the podcasting world and what went it to it. Though it is not rocket science, there are a number of things that are required…. a good mic, headphones, a quiet room – and of course, good podcast technology, specifically partners around hosting, publishing, streaming, discovery, etc. Enjoy our podcast related episodes, from the great tech visionaries in the space. Behind a good podcast... is good podcast tech. When we started Code Story in 2019, I had no idea about the podcasting world and what went it to it. Though it is not rocket science, there are a number of things that are required... . a good mic, headphones, a quiet room - and of course, good podcast technology, specifically partners around hosting, publishing, streaming, discovery, etc. Enjoy our podcast related episodes, from the great tech visionaries in the space. Click Here to Signup for Squadcast Click Here to Signup for RedCircle Click Here to Signup for Transistor. fm Click Here to Signup for Transistor. fm Click Here to Signup for Podchaser --- - Published: 2021-01-04 - Modified: 2021-01-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-december-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, december, founder, newsletter, startup As we bring the 2020 year to a close, and start in on 2021, we are grateful for all our listeners and your support this year. Season 4 starts the first week in January, on the 5th! Stay tuned, and Happy New Year! As we bring the 2020 year to a close, and start in on 2021, we are grateful for all our listeners and your support this year. Season 4 starts the first week in January, on the 5th! Stay tuned, and Happy New Year! Episodes Bonus: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS (Replay) — 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. Bonus: Leah Culver, Breaker (Replay) — codestory. co Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. Bonus: The Entrepreneurial Coder — codestory. co Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. Bonus: Develomentor — codestory. co Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. E20: Aaron White, Blissfully — codestory. co When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, Aaron White noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. When it started to spread like wildfire, he figured out this was more than a leadgen tool. This is the creation story of Blissfully. --- > We can all agree that 2020 was a whirlwind year. Some ups, some downs, and some required ability and flexibility from the tech visionaries we interviewed. We took the Top 5 episodes for 2020, based on your listens, and listed them here. - Published: 2020-12-29 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/top-5-podcast-episodes-of-2020/ - Categories: Top 5 - Tags: announcement, best episode, bonus, credit karma, css, lolli, microservices, top 5 We can all agree that 2020 was a whirlwind year. Some ups, some downs, and some required ability and flexibility from the tech visionaries we interviewed. We took the Top 5 episodes for 2020, based on your listens, and listed them here. The results are in! This year has been a whirlwind to say the least. Some ups, some downs, but all and all, some great stories from our tech visionaries - of resilience, of pivots, team bonding, and architectural decisions. We've ranked the episodes of 2020 by plays - IE, your favorite episodes. So please, enjoy. The top episodes for 2020 are ... --- > In Season 3 of the Code Story podcast, we interviewed Seth Mattox, co-founder and CEO of Apex Hosting. Within this episode, which was episode 12, we uncovered the innovative bits around how Seth and his friends never wanted to stop gaming... so much so, that they build a successful business around Minecraft hosting. And not just any hosting company, but a hosting company with the best support in town.We thought it was so great, we decided to make it super easy for those looking for Minecraft Hosting to signup using the link below. Enjoy this great product and company!Click here to signup for Apex Minecraft Hosting. - Published: 2020-12-21 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/apex-minecraft-hosting-signup-here/ - Categories: Announcement - Tags: apex, ceo, founder, game, gamer, games, gaming, hosting, minecraft, servers, seth mattox In Season 3 of the Code Story podcast, we interviewed Seth Mattox, co-founder and CEO of Apex Hosting. Within this episode, which was episode 12, we uncovered the innovative bits around how Seth and his friends never wanted to stop gaming... so much so, that they build a successful business around Minecraft hosting. And not just any hosting company, but a hosting company with the best support in town. We thought it was so great, we decided to make it super easy for those looking for Minecraft Hosting to signup using the link below. Enjoy this great product and company! Click here to signup for Apex Minecraft Hosting. Click Here to Signup for Apex Hosting In Season 3 of the Code Story podcast, we interviewed Seth Mattox, co-founder and CEO of Apex Hosting. Within this episode, which was episode 12, we uncovered the innovative bits around how Seth and his friends never wanted to stop gaming... so much so, that they build a successful business around Minecraft hosting. And not just any hosting company, but a hosting company with the best support in town. We thought it was so great, we decided to make it super easy for those looking for Minecraft Hosting to signup using the link below. Enjoy this great product and company! Click Here to Signup for Apex Hosting --- - Published: 2020-12-11 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/try-saga-this-holiday-season/ - Categories: Announcement, Newsletter - Tags: andrew overton, announcement, co-founder, feed, private, saga, san francisco, stories Previously, we interviewed Andrew Overton on the Code Story podcast, about his startup - Saga. I wanted to give a shout out to the company, and tell you about their amazing product! This holiday season, grow closer to your family even while apart with Saga, a voice-based app for families to save family memories that just launched earlier this year during COVID.  Previously, we interviewed Andrew Overton on the Code Story podcast, about his startup - Saga. I wanted to give a shout out to the company, and tell you about their amazing product! This holiday season, grow closer to your family even while apart with Saga, a voice-based app for families to save family memories that just launched earlier this year during COVID. Saga is free and easy to use, even for your least tech-savvy relatives. All you need to do is sign up and choose the people you want to invite to participate. We then send question prompts like "What's the biggest trouble you got into as a kid? " to your relatives, who only need to dial a phone number. Your family records their answers, and the recordings are saved and shared privately with just your group. It’s like getting a personal podcast of your family's memories. Saga is free to download on iOS, and has released a special edition holiday question pack in collaboration with AARP, for far-flung families during COVID to stay close and grow closer during the holidays. Saga is proud to have been featured in publications including USA Today, NBC and, Forbes. “Chose to listen to my mom's stories instead of Netflix. And wow. I’m learning so many things I never knew before. Thank you. ” — Lisa M. , daughter Get started by downloading the app free in the App Store: https://apps. apple. com/gh/app/saga-save-family-memories/id1504305671 Links Saga | Save family memories in their voice — trysaga. com Grow closer and connect with the people who mean the most to you. Capture their voices forever. Code Story – Bonus: Andrew Overton, Saga — codestory. co During his career, Andrew Overton had the idea of saving his own family's story somehow, but drug his feet on the idea. In 2019, he committed to making progress and validated the idea - in fact, it was at this point where he connected with his co-founder, Amelia Lin, and set off to create a robust product to capture stories from your loved ones - through an easy interface, all in one place, and saved in audio format. It's like getting a personal podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories. This is the creation story of Saga. --- > The nominations are in for the MicroConf SaaS Podcast Awards! Code Story was nominated for Best Episode, featuring Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma from Season 2. Click the link below to vote for Code Story, and the other amazing podcasts, hosts, and shows listed! - Published: 2020-12-08 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/vote-code-story-best-episode/ - Categories: Announcement, Newsletter - Tags: announcement, best episode, competition, credit karma, episode, founder, microservices, nomination, ryan graciano, upvote, vote The nominations are in for the MicroConf SaaS Podcast Awards! Code Story was nominated for Best Episode, featuring Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma from Season 2. Click the link below to vote for Code Story, and the other amazing podcasts, hosts, and shows listed! The nominations are in for the MicroConf SaaS Podcast Awards! Code Story was nominated for Best Episode, featuring Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma from Season 2. Click the link below to vote for Code Story, and the other amazing podcasts, hosts, and shows listed! https://microconf. com/latest/saas-podcast-award-nominees Vote for the SaaS Podcast Awards — MicroConf - The Most Trusted Community for Non-Venture Track SaaS Founders — microconf. com The nominations are in for the SaaS Podcast Awards. We want to thank the whole community for nominating their favorite podcasts and stories from SaaS focused shows. Code Story – E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma — codestory. co Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. --- - Published: 2020-12-02 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-november-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, november, startup Throughout the election month, the fall, and Thanksgiving holiday month, we had some great guests, great sponsors, and great stories told about disruptive tech. Enjoy! Throughout the election month, the fall, and Thanksgiving holiday month, we had some great guests, great sponsors, and great stories told about disruptive tech. Enjoy! Episodes E16: Ron Rock, Microshare — codestory. co When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. Bonus: Rob Joseph, ReadItToMe — codestory. co Prior to freelance development, Rob Joseph worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him. E17: Jeff Bermant, MyDataRewards — codestory. co When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. Bonus: Joe + Tony, Mythic Markets — codestory. co Joe Mahavuthivanij is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that. E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb. io — codestory. co Several years ago, Charity Majors was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. E19: Joe Howard, WP Buffs — codestory. co Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows). Likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out. Sponsors Free Lunch Coffee — www. freelunchcoffee. com We are in the business to end child hunger. 1 bag of our coffee... --- - Published: 2020-11-03 - Modified: 2020-11-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-october-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, october, startup Welcome to the October review for Code Story! I hope everyone who participated had a safe and fun Halloween - and didn't rot their teeth with too much candy. Below is our October episodes, with a few bonus zingers thrown in there. Please enjoy! OH - and don't forget to join our Slack community! Welcome to the October review for Code Story! I hope everyone who participated had a safe and fun Halloween - and didn't rot their teeth with too much candy. Below is our October episodes, with a few bonus zingers thrown in there. Please enjoy! OH - and don't forget to join our Slack community! Episodes Code Story – E15: Ward Sandler, MemberSpace — codestory. co When working on Squarespace projects, Ward Sandler discovered that people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do this, especially on the Squarespace forums. After reading through the comments, Ward realized that there was a huge opportunity to build a tool to solve this problem. This is the creation story of MemberSpace. Code Story – Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUP — codestory. co The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew. Code Story – E14: Tim Specht, Dubsmash — codestory. co In 2014, Tim and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. Code Story – Bonus: Interview on SimplyPHP — codestory. co In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development. Code Story – E13: Dean McPherson, Paperform — codestory. co In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. Code Story – E12: Seth Mattox, Apex Hosting — codestory. co Combined with his desire to game forever, Seth and his partners approached the gaming community applying real estate concepts with digital hosting. He and his partners started a Minecraft hosting company, with the best support in the industry. Code Story – Bonus: Christopher Brown, Zabo — codestory. co When Ethereum came out, Christopher Brown found inspiration in the historical marker that crypto was making. Getting involved, he found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was building what in the space - and could only imagine how hard it was for outsiders to keep up. Sponsors Cloud Training That Drives Digital Transformation - Cloud Academy — cloudacademy. com Accelerate progress up the cloud... --- - Published: 2020-10-01 - Modified: 2020-11-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-september-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, september, startup It was another great month, full of amazing conversations with tech leaders, and working with great people. Want to help the show a ton? Leave us a rating/review on your favorite podcast platform, or support us financially over at Patreon.New GearWe released some new SWAG designs in September, so make sure you head over to our store to check out the new designs. Slack Community!Interested in joining a thriving community of podcast listeners, startup folks, builders, tinker-ers, and curious people? Join our new Code Story slack community today. It was another great month, full of amazing conversations with tech leaders, and working with great people. Want to help the show a ton? Leave us a rating/review on your favorite podcast platform, or support us financially over at Patreon. New Gear We released some new SWAG designs in September, so make sure you head over to our store to check out the new designs. Slack Community! Interested in joining a thriving community of podcast listeners, startup folks, builders, tinker-ers, and curious people? Join our new Code Story slack community today. Episodes Code Story – E11: Mike Kadin, RedCircle — codestory. co Mike Kadin started hacking on a side project on nights and weekends, learning the Go programming language, and creating a unique way to stitch together podcast episodes. S3 E10: Nick Patrick, Radar — codestory. co Nick Patrick has had his hands in tech for most of his life. He's been dabbling in computer programming and hardware from an early age. During college, he veered away from a focus in Biology toward computer science and his love for building things. S3 Bonus: Interview on The Ops Show — codestory. co In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories he's heard. S3 E9: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS — 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. S3 Bonus: Interview on WPRRR — codestory. co Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs. S3 E8: Jane Portman, Userlist — codestory. co Originally from Russia, Jane Portman gained experience as a creative director for an agency. She has been involved in tech as a designer for 16 years, occupying different design jobs. In fact, product work and design is her hobby! S3 Bonus: Tony Chan, Cloudforecast — codestory. co Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Chan grew up in the Southside, a blue collar neighborhood. He was heavily influenced by hid Dad, who was a first generation immigrant, barely knew English, but started a restaurant. Tony took orders and took orders as a kid, sitting on a milk crate. S3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy — codestory. co Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. Sponsors Hauniv. com | Discover Promising Companies — hauniv. com Want to discover promising companies? Get a monthly email newsletter of the most promising... --- - Published: 2020-09-22 - Modified: 2020-11-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/new-swag-design-get-yours-today/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: cto, gear, hoodie, host, mask, podcast, shirt, sticker, support, swag Hello Code Story community! I wanted to let you know about an exciting new t-shirt design we just released, keying in on one of our hosts key tagline during the interview. \"Let's flip the script, just a little bit...\"The new shirt is on sale for 2 more days, so make sure and get yours as soon as possible! Not interested in a t-shirt, but love the design? Check out the other products for this specific design at our store. We sell shirts, hoodies, mugs, t-shirts, masks, and much much more. Hello Code Story community! I wanted to let you know about an exciting new t-shirt design we just released, keying in on one of our hosts key tagline during the interview. "Let's flip the script, just a little bit... " The new shirt is on sale for 2 more days, so make sure and get yours as soon as possible! Not interested in a t-shirt, but love the design? Check out the other products for this specific design at our store. We sell shirts, hoodies, mugs, t-shirts, masks, and much much more. Flip the Script - T-Shirt — www. teepublic. com Let's flip the script, just a little bit... tell me about a mistake you made. Each episode of the podcast we talk about a mistake that the builders made, and how they and their team responded to it. Flip the Script - Hoodie — www. teepublic. com Let's flip the script, just a little bit... tell me about a mistake you made. Each episode of the podcast we talk about a mistake that the builders made, and how they and their team responded to it. Flip the Script - Sticker — www. teepublic. com Let's flip the script, just a little bit... tell me about a mistake you made. Each episode of the podcast we talk about a mistake that the builders made, and how they and their team responded to it. Flip the Script - Mask — www. teepublic. com Let's flip the script, just a little bit... tell me about a mistake you made. Each episode of the podcast we talk about a mistake that the builders made, and how they and their team responded to it. --- - Published: 2020-09-10 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-podcast-a-few-cool-announcements/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: announcement, bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Howdy listeners!Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you haven't done so, please have a listen to the show on our website, or on your favorite podcast player. Here are a few quick links to the most popular ones.Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyPocket CastsBreaker...and any others we forgot to mention here!NEW SLACK COMMUNITYAlso - we just opened up a Code Story slack community, for guests and listeners to be able to interact about show content, AMA's, technical guidance, and much more. Make sure to click the join link above, or below.BRINGING BACK PATREONWe've brought back our Patreon account, and look forward to YOUR support! We've got T-Shirts, stickers and much more to send you, if you can help us by donating $5 - $10 bucks a month! Also, for Season 4, you get exclusive, BONUS content, only through the Patreon page.And as always... Thanks for listening! :) Howdy listeners! Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. If you haven't done so, please have a listen to the show on our website, or on your favorite podcast player. Here are a few quick links to the most popular ones. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Pocket Casts Breaker ... and any others we forgot to mention here! NEW SLACK COMMUNITY Also - we just opened up a Code Story slack community, for guests and listeners to be able to interact about show content, AMA's, technical guidance, and much more. Make sure to click the join link above, or below. BRINGING BACK PATREON We've brought back our Patreon account, and look forward to YOUR support! We've got T-Shirts, stickers and much more to send you, if you can help us by donating $5 - $10 bucks a month! Also, for Season 4, you get exclusive, BONUS content, only through the Patreon page. And as always... Thanks for listening! :) BRAND NEW - Join Our Slack Community! Code Story Community on Slack! — codestorycommunity. slack. com We just opened up a Code Story slack community, for guests and listeners to be able to interact about show content, AMA's, technical guidance, and much more. Make sure to click the join link above, or below. Browse All Episodes Episodes Page — codestory. co Browse all episodes of the show, from seasons 2 through 3, and all bonus content released. Support the Show Monthly Support for Code Story | Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Leave us a Rating & Review! | Rate this Podcast — ratethispodcast. com Leaving us a review and rating helps others discover the podcast, and enjoy it just as much as you are! Get your Code Story gear! | TeePublic — www. teepublic. com The winter is coming... you need to stock up on a Code Story hoodie, blanket or coffee mug, to hold your warm drink by the fire! --- - Published: 2020-09-01 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-august-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: august, bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup August was a whirlwind month for the podcast, featuring amazing guests, bonus episodes, and world class stories you come to expect with the pod. Also, big time thank you to our listeners for the Podcast Awards nomination! We have our fingers crossed that on International Podcast Day, we will bring home the award for This Week in Technology! Enjoy the latest tidbits below, and feel free to reply directly to this email with questions, guest suggestions, or anything else. August was a whirlwind month for the podcast, featuring amazing guests, bonus episodes, and world class stories you come to expect with the pod. Also, big time thank you to our listeners for the Podcast Awards nomination! We have our fingers crossed that on International Podcast Day, we will bring home the award for This Week in Technology! Enjoy the latest tidbits below, and feel free to reply directly to this email with questions, guest suggestions, or anything else. Support the Show! Buy Code Story Gear! — www. teepublic. com Make sure and order your Code Story shirt, coffee mug, hoodie sticker - or mask! Then. . make sure to show it off to the world. Rate the Podcast! — ratethispodcast. com Leave us a note on your preferred platform, and let others know what you love about the show. It helps get us discovered! Financially donate to the Podcast! — www. patreon. com Become a patron of Code Story today: Read ample posts and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Episodes Code Story – E3: Mark Hendriks, Wild Ventures — codestory. coFive years ago, Mark started a side project, building a weather app that combined up to date weather with his wife's beautiful landscape illustrations. Shortly after - Apple started promoting their apps, and their business started to take off. Today, they have ventured into nature based mindfulness apps, through their company known as Wild Ventures. Code Story – Bonus: Shawn Frayne, Looking Glass Factory — codestory. coShawn Frayne decided to pursue this dream, and eventually cycled back to the inspiration from back to the future - the hologram. This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory. Code Story – E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca — codestory. coYoshi Yokokawa quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API. Code Story – Bonus: Interview on Mentoring Developers — codestory. coI recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below. Code Story – E5: Dan Burcaw, Nami ML — codestory. coDan Burcaw found out that there weren't many app millionaires in existence - so, he and his co-founder set out to build a better way to sell subscriptions inside app experiences, not only by abstracting the tech bits, but by using machine learning to prompt users at just the right time. Code Story – Bonus: Peter Voss, AIGO — codestory. coNot too long ago, Peter Voss found himself struck by how \"dumb\" software is, or better put, how narrow. So his mission for the last 25 years has been to make... --- - Published: 2020-08-13 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-july-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Welcome to the July issue of the Code Story Review! We had a stellar month of interviews, finishing up some bonus content in Season 2 and starting in on Season 3. Also, thanks to our listener support, we were nominated for the Podcast Awards, and made the final slate! Big time thank you! Welcome to the July issue of the Code Story Review! We had a stellar month of interviews, finishing up some bonus content in Season 2 and starting in on Season 3. Also, thanks to our listener support, we were nominated for the Podcast Awards, and made the final slate! Big time thank you! Support the Show Leave us a rating! Or... . — ratethispodcast. com Ratings really help let others know about our show. Please take a minute to leave us a review on your platform of choice... . Buy some Code Story gear! Or... . — www. teepublic. com We have the coolest gear around! Ok - we are biased, but we would love to see Code Story gear all around the world - coffee mugs, t-shirts - even masks! ... Support the show financially on Patreon! — www. patreon. com For just $5-$10 bucks a month, you would be making a huge difference. If you are so inclined, please consider supporting the show financially. Code Story – E2: Dave Zohrob, Chartable — codestory. coDave Zohrob has been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood. After considering a few different avenues, including yet another podcast app, they decided to focus on podcast analytics - some might say the app annie for podcasting. This is the creation story of Chartable. Code Story – Bonus: Andrew Smith, Outrider — codestory. coAndrew Smith has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental technologies. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually. . in the US alone... his perspective was solidified. This is the creation story of Outrider. Code Story – E1: Cole Raven, Podchaser — codestory. coCole Raven and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery. Code Story – Season 3 - Trailer — codestory. coComing soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. Code Story – REPLAY - E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma — codestory. coEarly on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had... --- - Published: 2020-07-29 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast-awards-vote-for-code-story/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hey guys! There are only 2 more days left to vote for Code Story on the Podcast Awards! It would really mean a lot if you could take 2 minutes, visit the link below, and vote for Code Story for Technology and Peoples Choice. This really helps the word get out about the show. Thanks so much for the support! Hey guys! There are only 2 more days left to vote for Code Story on the Podcast Awards! It would really mean a lot if you could take 2 minutes, visit the link below, and vote for Code Story for Technology and Peoples Choice. This really helps the word get out about the show. Thanks so much for the support! Podcast Awards - The People's Choice — www. podcastawards. com The People's Choice Podcast Awards established in 2005 an annual event to honor the best podcasts in the podcasting space. 12th Annual Event Underway. --- - Published: 2020-07-13 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-support-the-show/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hey listeners! First off, thank you for listening, subscribing and all out ensuring that the show stays alive. Without you, the podcast would not be worth much. I'm writing today to ask for your continued support, in the following ways. If you haven't, please consider donating to the show financially, on a recurring basis. It helps us cover editing expenses, grow our team, and continue producing great content for you. https://codestory.co/supportIf you haven't done so, please leave a rating for us on your favorite platform. Apple Podcasts would be great, but any rating you leave helps others find the show. https://codestory.co/rateAnd finally, if you haven't done so yet, make sure you grab your favorite Code Story gear! https://codestory.co/storeSeason 3 is coming soon, targeted to release July 21st. Stay tuned! Hey listeners! First off, thank you for listening, subscribing and all out ensuring that the show stays alive. Without you, the podcast would not be worth much. I'm writing today to ask for your continued support, in the following ways. If you haven't, please consider donating to the show financially, on a recurring basis. It helps us cover editing expenses, grow our team, and continue producing great content for you. https://codestory. co/support If you haven't done so, please leave a rating for us on your favorite platform. Apple Podcasts would be great, but any rating you leave helps others find the show. https://codestory. co/rate And finally, if you haven't done so yet, make sure you grab your favorite Code Story gear! https://codestory. co/store Season 3 is coming soon, targeted to release July 21st. Stay tuned! Code Story - Donations — app. redcircle. com Donate to the Code Story Podcast, either one time or on a recurring basis, to ensure the show lives on. Code Story - Store — www. teepublic. com Grab your Code Story gear now! T-shirts, hoodies, coffee mugs, stickers, and masks! Code Story - Rate This Podcast — ratethispodcast. com Click this link to leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, and many other platforms. It helps so much! --- - Published: 2020-07-09 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-june-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Here is your June review for the Code Story podcast! We've had some great guests on the show this month, telling the product creation stories of some amazing tech. Got a suggestion for the show? Want to see a particular guest on the show? Reply directly to this email, and start a conversation with us. Here is your June review for the Code Story podcast! We've had some great guests on the show this month, telling the product creation stories of some amazing tech. Got a suggestion for the show? Want to see a particular guest on the show? Reply directly to this email, and start a conversation with us. Episodes E20: Daniel Gebler, Picnic — codestory. co A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. E19: Denis Lunev, DepositFix — codestory. co While doing integration consulting, Denis Lunev saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot - So he set out to build DepositFix - a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world's most used CRM. E18: Mubashar Iqbal, Pod Hunt — codestory. co Having built 85 side projects, Mubs is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. E17: Dominik Obermaier, HiveMQ — codestory. co Dominik Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ. Sponsors Now more than ever, children need your help to survive and thrive — www. savethechildren. orgSave the Children is a leading humanitarian organization for children. We’ve changed the lives of over 1 billion children in the U. S. and around the world. Let's make something awesome together – Atomicchild — atomicchild. comAtomicchild is an artist-run brand located in Ft. Collins, Colorado. RIMS - Overview — www. rims. org As the preeminent organization dedicated to promoting the profession of risk management, RIMS, the risk management society®, is a global not-for-profit organization representing more than 3,500 industrial, service, nonprofit, charitable and government entities throughout the world. Deliver stellar experiences to everyone — calibreapp. comTry the world’s best performance companion for free. Monitor and fix your performance. Receive powerful reports in your email and GitHub Pull Requests. 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We are doubling up on this newsletter, as we skipped April during the craziness of the pandemic. This issue is chock full of great episodes, amazing sponsors, and some great bonus episodes. Enjoy :) Good morning! We are doubling up on this newsletter, as we skipped April during the craziness of the pandemic. This issue is chock full of great episodes, amazing sponsors, and some great bonus episodes. Enjoy :) Sponsors Save the Children — www. savethechildren. orgSave the Children is a leading humanitarian organization for children. We’ve changed the lives of over 1 billion children in the U. S. and around the world. Atomic Child — www. atomicchild. comIllustration | Stickers | Hats | Patches and more RIMS - The Risk Management Society — www. rims. org RIMS, the risk management society®, is a global not-for-profit organization representing more than 3,500 industrial, service, nonprofit, charitable and government entities throughout the world. Calibre - Deliver stellar experiences to everyone — calibreapp. comTry the world’s best performance companion for free. Monitor and fix your performance. Receive powerful reports in your email and GitHub Pull Requests. Ladder – Supplements for Higher Performance — ladder. sportLadder is a nutrition supplement brand helping you achieve your goals with clean, premium supplements, including protein, pre-workout, and superfood greens. Collard - Be the engr. manager your team deserves — www. collard. app Being a good engineering manager is hard. Collard helps you to answer all those questions, and much more! Kernl. us | WordPress Plugin and Theme Updates — kernl. us Easy automatic updates for your premium WordPress plugins. Tresta - Your Phone System in the Cloud — www. tresta. com Experience a better way to do business phone for startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. Payoff. com - Financial Wellness & Literacy — www. payoff. comGo Beyond Money with Payoff and lower stress, understand habits, improve financial wellness, and eliminate credit card balances with a personal loan. Saga | Record a loved one's life story on audio — trysaga. comCapture your loved one's life story on audio. CloudForecast: ‍AWS Cost Monitoring — cloudforecast. ioCloudForecast is a cloud cost management tool that helps your team eliminate wasted cost on AWS with an easy to understand reports delivered to your team directly. Get control of your AWS budget without significant engineering time & resources. Simple Texting - Text Message Marketing — try. simpletexting. comNo. 1 SMS Marketing Platfotm for your Business Enterprise SMS & Developer API for Businesses of All Sizes. 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In this episode, we talked about technology startups,... --- - Published: 2020-04-03 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-march-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup To put it simply, March was a tumultuous month - with the COVID pandemic, massive layoffs, market turbulence, and shelter in place restrictions. A lot of people are working from home, which is a great time to catch up on some great podcasts. In the past month, we had some great interviews released, with George Deglin of OneSignal, Matt Senter of Lolli, Dennis Cail of Zirtue, Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma, and Erin Karam of Dina (formerly PreparedHealth). To put it simply, March was a tumultuous month - with the COVID pandemic, massive layoffs, market turbulence, and shelter in place restrictions. A lot of people are working from home, which is a great time to catch up on some great podcasts. In the past month, we had some great interviews released, with George Deglin of OneSignal, Matt Senter of Lolli, Dennis Cail of Zirtue, Ryan Graciano of Credit Karma, and Erin Karam of Dina (formerly PreparedHealth). Sponsors ClipGain makes every podcast sound awesome, in one click. — clipgain. ioMake your podcast, YouTube video, or voice-over stand out with 1-click audio engineering by ClipGain. io - Noise reduction, auto-master, sonic consistency and more. Thryve Gut Health - Personalized Probiotics & Microbiome Testing – Thryve - Gut Health Program — www. thryveinside. comThryve is the world's first Gut Health program that includes both Personalized Probiotics & Microbiome Testing. Your Phone System in the Cloud — www. tresta. com Experience a better way to do business phone for startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. Join our global network of over 10,000 members across more than 60 countries — www. rims. org The risk management society®, is a global not-for-profit organization representing more than 3,500 entities throughout the world. Dwolla ACH Transfer API — developers. dwolla. comDeveloper docs for our RESTful API for ACH transfers. March Episodes E4: George Deglin, OneSignal — codestory. co After building his first company, George Deglin parted ways to start his next venture, which led to the vision for OneSignal - the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. E5: Matt Senter, Lolli — codestory. co Having experience with products like Ebates, Matt Senter and his co-founder decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online... except the rewards are given in bitcoin. E6: Dennis Cail, Zirtue — codestory. co Ten years after having the idea, Dennis Cail set out to solve that problem, to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. This solution became known as Zirtue E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma — codestory. co After a few years of growth at IBM, Ryan Graciano met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. E8: Erin Karam, Dina — codestory. co Five years ago, Erin Karam jumped onboard to build Dina (formerly PreparedHealth). She set out to positively impact the world - by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and home health professionals. Support the Show! Code Story is creating Podcasts | Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 32 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Buy Some Code Story gear! — www. teepublic. com Get the latest Code Story gear - t-shirts, coffee mugs, posters... --- - Published: 2020-03-06 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-february-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup In February, we officially launched Season 2 of the podcast, kicking it off by interviewing Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers. We quickly followed this up with hard hitting chats with Zach Moreno of Squadcast, and Wil Schroter of Startups.com. Please make sure you subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify or your favorite podcasting app. Enjoy! In February, we officially launched Season 2 of the podcast, kicking it off by interviewing Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers. We quickly followed this up with hard hitting chats with Zach Moreno of Squadcast, and Wil Schroter of Startups. com. Please make sure you subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify or your favorite podcasting app. Enjoy! Support Code Story Support the Pod, $5 / Month! — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 29 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Leave us a review! — ratethispodcast. com Reviews help others learn about the podcast! Please take a moment leave us a rating and review on your favorite podcasting platform. Get your Code Story Merchandise! — www. teepublic. com Want to support the show? Buy a Code Story shirt or item, post a picture on social media and take Code Story! February Episodes E1: Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers — codestory. coCourtland Allen grew up totally opposite of his twin brother, Channing, but influenced by him nevertheless. His family was rooted in entrepreneurship, and as such, Courtland was heavily inspired to build and run his own thing. After going through Y Combinator and trying out different startups, he landed on the idea for Indie Hackers - and it checked all the boxes for what he wanted to work on. He spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online. E2: Zach Moreno, Squadcast. fm — codestory. coZach Moreno is quite the renaissance man, being an artist, designer, author, developer... and a loving husband. He has interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of DevTools and as a big believer in AngularJS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language. After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording... so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast - the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations. E3: Wil Schroter, Startups. com — codestory. coStartup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built startups. com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process - and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform Words from our Sponsors Marketplace for Podcast Sponsorships and Endorsements — podcorn. comConnecting podcasters to brands for native sponsorships that resonate and engage listeners across audio platforms. Virtually Pod Summit 2020 — Virtually — www. tryvirtually. comA... --- - Published: 2020-02-07 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-january-2020/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup ANNOUNCEMENT: Season 2 of the podcast launches on Tuesday! Make sure to subscribe on the podcasting app of your choice. Listen to the trailer here! NOTE: we are changing the episode release day from Monday to Tuesday. January was a great month, wrapping up Season 1 and including some bonus episodes of interviews from our friends on other podcasts. We interview Bill Eager of Nomad Health, Chris Slowe of Reddit (heard of it?) and Brandon Hilkert of Bark.us. Enjoy! ANNOUNCEMENT: Season 2 of the podcast launches on Tuesday! Make sure to subscribe on the podcasting app of your choice. Listen to the trailer here! NOTE: we are changing the episode release day from Monday to Tuesday. January was a great month, wrapping up Season 1 and including some bonus episodes of interviews from our friends on other podcasts. We interview Bill Eager of Nomad Health, Chris Slowe of Reddit (heard of it? ) and Brandon Hilkert of Bark. us. Enjoy! E18: Bill Eager, Nomad Health — codestory. coFor Bill Eager, his interest in tech paralleled his desire to play music. After attending music school, he became disillusioned with music as a day job and pursued tech - still moonlighting as a performing musician. As he pursued a role with a startup, he was introduced to the founders of Nomad Health - and instantly connected with the idea. He jumped on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads. E19: Chris Slowe, Reddit — codestory. coA tech and science minded individual, Chris Slowe has spent 9 years with Reddit. Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a Dad and likes to work with his hands in the machine shop. When he put roots into the product as the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Fast forward many years, Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information. E20: Brandon Hilkert, Bark — codestory. co Early in his career, Brandon Hilkert shifted from a mechanical engineering focus to tech support for a school district. Through his exposure to IT operations, he drifted towards software and becoming acquainted with building startup solutions. While considering the purpose, legacy and impact of his work, he was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. This conversation ultimately led to the start of a simple, yet sophisticated internet safety solution for parents and kids... called Bark. Bonus Episodes Season 2 - Trailer — codestory. coNext week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We've taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products... their stories. Interview on Product Journey — codestory. coI had the opportunity to chat with Noah and Ben on the Product Journey podcast. Every week they get together and talk about building online businesses, what's been going on and where they struggling at the moment. On the show, we talked about the startup I co-founded, Veryable, which is a marketplace of on-demand labor for manufacturing and warehouse work. We talked through the early days of Veryable and what it looked like to reach product/market fit. We... --- - Published: 2020-01-03 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-december-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Howdy! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story, the last one reflecting on and wrapping up 2019. In December, we released 3 new amazing episodes, and threw back to 2 of your favorites. Have a listen below! Its been an incredible first year launching Code Story. In January, we will be finishing up Season 1 and prepping to launch Season 2! Howdy! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story, the last one reflecting on and wrapping up 2019. In December, we released 3 new amazing episodes, and threw back to 2 of your favorites. Have a listen below! Its been an incredible first year launching Code Story. In January, we will be finishing up Season 1 and prepping to launch Season 2! Support the Show! Shirts, Stickers, Mugs & More! — www. teepublic. com Get your Code Story gear today, shipped right to your door - for you, your friends, your loved ones or even people you don't know! :) Buy us a Coffee on Patreon! — www. patreon. com Become a patron of Code Story today: Read 19 posts and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Episodes E15: Omri Mor, Routable — codestory. co Omri set out to build Routable - a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platform. E16: Aalok Shah, EnergyFunders — codestory. co Aalok Shah was onboarded by the founders of EnergyFunders, to help improve their technology feature set. The business took off, and they found themselves in need of a full time CTO - and Aalok was the best fit. E17: Blake Miller, Homebase — codestory. co Blake Miller created an award winning iOT solution around smarter living experience for tenants and more profitable infrastructure for building owners and managers. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase. Throwback: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy — codestory. coWhen Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. Throwback: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr — codestory. co Jonathan Perichon and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers... and much more. Sponsors Dwolla ACH Transers — developers. dwolla. com Simple and powerful API for ACH transfers. Developer docs for our RESTful API. Marketplace for Podcast Sponsorships and Endorsements — podcorn. comConnecting podcasters to brands for native sponsorships that resonate and engage listeners across audio platforms. --- > In 2019, we had big things happen... like starting a podcast :) The interviews we had within this year were amazing, full of learnings, stories, mistakes, and moments of great learning and pride. We've ranked these episodes, based on your favorites... and your downloads. Enjoy! - Published: 2019-12-29 - Modified: 2020-12-29 - URL: https://codestory.co/top-5-podcast-episodes-of-2019/ - Categories: Top 5 In 2019, we had big things happen... like starting a podcast :) The interviews we had within this year were amazing, full of learnings, stories, mistakes, and moments of great learning and pride. We've ranked these episodes, based on your favorites... and your downloads. Enjoy! The results are in! In 2019, we had big things happen... like starting a podcast :) The interviews we had within this year were amazing, full of learnings, stories, mistakes, and moments of great learning and pride. We've ranked these episodes, based on your favorites... and your downloads. Enjoy! The top episodes for 2019 are ... --- - Published: 2019-12-06 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-november-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In November, we went LIVE with releasing 1 episode a week! This month, we interviewed Eric Sharp of Degreed, Bernard Worthy of LoanWell, Ben Milne of Dwolla, and Omri Mor of Routable. Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In November, we went LIVE with releasing 1 episode a week! This month, we interviewed Eric Sharp of Degreed, Bernard Worthy of LoanWell, Ben Milne of Dwolla, and Omri Mor of Routable. Podcast Episodes Code Story – E11: Eric Sharp, Degreed — codestory. coEric Sharp grew up with a unique background. With vivid memories of growing up in poverty, he recalls being distinctly inspired towards education when his mother went back to school to be a teacher. She instilled in him curiosity and a desire to learn, which made a big difference in changing his life trajectory. Using this passion, he and his co-founders were motivated to build the vision for a SaaS learning platform called Degreed - enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. Code Story – E12: Bernard Worthy, Loan Well — codestory. coBernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through some research and discovery, he figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks . He set out to solve this problem - to bring all of these systems under one piece of software to make the loan origination process more efficient. This solution would eventually be called Loan Well. Code Story – E13: Ben Milne, Dwolla — codestory. coBen Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for a good while. His second startup started as a consumer product that you downloaded to move money between banks... without using credit cards or paying hefty fees. What he discovered was the thing they were best at was payment processing infrastructure... So he changed his business to focus on being a high performing, white label solution for enabling others to process ACH payments - and started phase two of his company, known as Dwolla. Code Story – E14: Dennis Steele, Podium — codestory. coAlong with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp - called DevMountain - to enable him with practical dev skills. He took the base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform. Press Support the Show! Code Story is creating Podcasts | Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 9 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Sponsors Dwolla — www. dwolla. comDwolla’s ACH API makes it easy to integrate bank transfers.... --- - Published: 2019-11-14 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-october-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In October, we released episodes with Andy Abbott and Shelby Stephens. Hello! Welcome to the monthly review of Code Story. In October, we released episodes with Andy Abbott and Shelby Stephens. Support Code Story Code Story is creating Podcasts | Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 9 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Podcast Episodes Code Story E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik — share. transistor. fmAndy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach... learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences - from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. Along with this, he built an active and successful Microsoft developer community in Chicago. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale. Code Story E10: Shelby Stephens, Jolly — share. transistor. fmGrowing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He was brought up appreciating science and art, and studied engineering in College. After working for NASA, he decided to venture out onto his own, pursuing a new venture with his friend, doing video production work for hire. Fast forward 15 years, he and his co-founder are serving the production and project worker space by building Jolly - a social and professional network, designed for gig workers, providing reputation portability, connection opportunities and a marketplace to find work. Press E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik - Pod Hunt — podhunt. app Andy Abbott of Heretik joins Code Story to share his journey. E10: Shelby Stephens, Jolly - Pod Hunt — podhunt. app Shelby Stephens of Jolly joins Code Story to share his journey. Product Hunt Code Story - Their tech Their products Their stories — www. producthunt. com Check us out on Product Hunt and help us out by upvoting the podcast! Sponsors Hackbright Academy — hackbrightacademy. com We’re proudly the leading engineering school for women in the Bay Area with 700+ graduates at tech companies that include Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb. We were founded with the mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career. DevMountain — devmountain. comFull-time and part-time classes in coding and design offered in Provo, Salt Lake City, Dallas and Phoenix. Free housing provided for all immersive students. Dwolla — www. dwolla. comDwolla’s ACH API makes it easy to integrate bank transfers. Facilitate ACH payments, or verify customer and bank account information within your platform. Want to be on the podcast? Are you a tech founder or visionary? Have you created a product, and brought it from nothing to something? Are you able... --- - Published: 2019-10-11 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-september-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In September, we released episodes with Jonathan Campos and Jon Buda. Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In September, we released episodes with Jonathan Campos and Jon Buda. Support Code Story Code Story is creating Podcasts | Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 9 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Podcast Episodes Code Story E8: Jon Buda, Transistor. fm — share. transistor. fmBuilding on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single. . and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor. fm. Code Story E7: Jonathan Campos, Alto — share. transistor. fmAfter getting his masters, Jonathan Campos found himself working with clients, listening to their pain points, and creating software to meet those needs. He worked his way through a handful of startups and agencies, before landing at Bottle Rocket as the chief architect, growing their web and backend practice. Not too long after, a former boss reached out about an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience, focusing on simple billing, safety and control over the experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto. Press E7: Jonathan Campos, Alto - Pod Hunt — podhunt. app Our episode with Jonathan Campos was featured on Pod Hunt. E8: Jon Buda, Transistor. fm - Pod Hunt — podhunt. app Pod Hunt also featured our episode with Jon Buda. Be sure to check them out! Product Hunt Code Story - Their tech Their products Their stories — www. producthunt. com Check us out on Product Hunt and help us out by upvoting the podcast! Sponsors Hackbright Academy — hackbrightacademy. com We’re proudly the leading engineering school for women in the Bay Area with 700+ graduates at tech companies that include Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb. We were founded with the mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career. DevMountain — devmountain. comFull-time and part-time classes in coding and design offered in Provo, Salt Lake City, Dallas and Phoenix. Free housing provided for all immersive students. Want to be on the podcast? Are you a tech founder or visionary? Have you created a product, and brought it from nothing to something? Are you able to tell the creation story of your business, from a CTO perspective? If you have a story to tell and this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Reach out at podcast@codestory. co. Follow us on socials! Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn --- - Published: 2019-09-30 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-international-podcast-day/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup It's International Podcast Day! The celebration is a great opportunity to connect with fellow podcasters, podcast listeners, podcast enthusiasts, and leaders in the podcasting industry. Help spread the word by telling your friends, sharing the celebration on your podcasts and social media feeds, and using #InternationalPodcastDay. It's International Podcast Day! The celebration is a great opportunity to connect with fellow podcasters, podcast listeners, podcast enthusiasts, and leaders in the podcasting industry. Help spread the word by telling your friends, sharing the celebration on your podcasts and social media feeds, and using #InternationalPodcastDay. #InternationalPodcastDay Get involved with International Podcast Day Getting involved with International Podcast Day can be as easy as sending out a tweet about your favorite show. Here are some tips straight from the official website. Use #InternationalPodcastDay to engage with others worldwide talking about the event Explain to someone what a podcast is and get them hooked! Share your favorite podcast with someone... Code Story? Send feedback to your favorite podcasters and thank them! Provide a rating & review on Apple Podcasts or other platforms Be sure to check out the website for even more ways to participate! Our Latest Episode Code Story | E8: Jon Buda, Transistor. fm — share. transistor. fmBuilding on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single. . and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor. fm. --- - Published: 2019-09-05 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-august-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In August, we released episodes with Alvaro Sabido and Jonathan Perichon. Hello! Welcome to the second monthly review of Code Story. In August, we released episodes with Alvaro Sabido and Jonathan Perichon. Support Code Story Code Story on Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 3 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Podcast Episodes Code Story – E6: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr — codestory. co Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers... and much more. Code Story – E5: Alvaro Sabido, Caribu — codestory. coWhen Alvaro Sabido saw a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book - and what would eventually be called Caribu. Press Code Story: A Podcast Platform Where Entrepreneurs share their Real Stories — www. techpluto. comEntrepreneurship is an unforgiving journey where the learning curve is too steep and the need for motivation is simply insistable. Noah Labhart’s actions and efforts led to the fruition of Code Story, an exclusive podcast platform that brings in-depth interviews of startup tech leaders. Leah Culver, Breaker - Pod Hunt — podhunt. app Check us out and vote for us on Pod Hunt! 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Have you created a product, and brought it from nothing to something? Are you able to tell the creation story of your business, from a CTO perspective? If you have a story to tell and this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Reach out at podcast@codestory. co. Follow us on socials! Instagram | Twitter... --- - Published: 2019-08-05 - Modified: 2020-11-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/code-story-review-july-2019/ - Categories: Newsletter - Tags: bonus, cto, founder, newsletter, startup Hello! Welcome to the first monthly review of Code Story. In July, we released episodes with Leah Culver and Sean Washington. Hello! Welcome to the first monthly review of Code Story. In July, we released episodes with Leah Culver and Sean Washington. Support Code Story Code Story on Patreon — www. patreon. comBecome a patron of Code Story today: Read 3 posts by Code Story and get access to exclusive content and experiences on the world’s largest membership platform for artists and creators. Podcast Episodes Code Story – E3: Leah Culver, Breaker — codestory. coPodcasts are a great thing - the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing for Leah Culver. So she built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most. Code Story – E4: Sean Washington, Design Kollective — codestory. coSean Washington is the CTO of Design Kollective, and the Co-Host of Does Not Compute - a popular podcast on the Spec. fm network, about the lives and workflows of modern web developers. Press Inside Podcasting (Jul 17th, 2019) Shout out to Skye Pilsbury for featuring our episode with Leah Culver. Podcasts are getting shorter — podnews. net Thanks to Podnews for the mention in their July 16th update! Code Story - Startup Buffer Startup Buffer kindly promoted Code Story on their blog. Product Hunt Code Story - Their tech Their products Their stories — www. producthunt. com Check us out on Product Hunt and help us out by upvoting the podcast! Sponsors Hackbright Academy — hackbrightacademy. com We’re proudly the leading engineering school for women in the Bay Area with 700+ graduates at tech companies that include Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb. We were founded with the mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career. DevMountain — devmountain. comFull-time and part-time classes in coding and design offered in Provo, Salt Lake City, Dallas and Phoenix. Free housing provided for all immersive students. Want to be on the podcast? Are you a tech founder or visionary? Have you created a product, and brought it from nothing to something? Are you able to tell the creation story of your business, from a CTO perspective? If you have a story to tell and this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Reach out at podcast@codestory. co. Follow us on socials! Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn --- --- ## Episode > At his prior startup, Gaurav and his team were working in the healthcare space. They became learners of go-to market strategies, how to do sales, and how to do marketing. They enjoyed it so much that they grew to want to start their next company in that space. - Published: 2025-07-10 - Modified: 2025-07-10 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-gaurav-bhattacharya-jeeva-ai/ - Tags: agents, ai, ceo, founder, interaction, leads, social - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 At his prior startup, Gaurav and his team were working in the healthcare space. They became learners of go-to market strategies, how to do sales, and how to do marketing. They enjoyed it so much that they grew to want to start their next company in that space. Gaurav Bhattacharya grew up in New Delhi, in a blue collar family. He lost his Dad early in his life. He took influence from his older brother and his love for programming, getting hooked on C/C++. He loves building things, including video games, of which he built his first one at the age of 12. In High School, he pursued a startup idea that led him to skip college, and eventually exit. Outside of tech, he lives in San Francisco and continues his love for gaming. He also enjoys watching live sports - the Dodgers, Lakers and Warriors. At his prior startup, Gaurav and his team were working in the healthcare space. They became learners of go-to market strategies, how to do sales, and how to do marketing. They enjoyed it so much that they grew to want to start their next company in that space. This is the creation story of Jeeva AI. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchMailtrap. TECH Domains (https://get. tech/codestory)Linkshttps://www. jeeva. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/bhattacharyagaurav/ --- > Artem spent several years building a Core AI stack at Replica. What he noticed was that people really enjoyed connecting with their digital friends - and, he noticed the limitations of this experience. He aimed to correct that limitation, in starting a new venture focused on broader empathetic AI. - Published: 2025-07-08 - Modified: 2025-07-08 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-artem-rodichev-ex-human/ - Tags: agents, ai, ceo, companions, empathy, founder, groups - Podcasts: S11 Artem spent several years building a Core AI stack at Replica. What he noticed was that people really enjoyed connecting with their digital friends - and, he noticed the limitations of this experience. He aimed to correct that limitation, in starting a new venture focused on broader empathetic AI. Artem Rodichev was born and raised in Kazakhstan, surrounded by the mountains. He loves hiking, and pretty much all outdoor activities. He jokes that he was raised by computers, as he was always playing games, trying to learn hacking, and more. He has always be interested in stories, in particular science fiction. He read a lot of books and watched movies, being fascinated with plots around empathetic AI like Blade Runner and Joy. These movies sparked his motivation to move forward to bringing this world to life. Artem spent several years building a Core AI stack at Replica. What he noticed was that people really enjoyed connecting with their digital friends - and, he noticed the limitations of this experience. He aimed to correct that limitation, in starting a new venture focused on boarder empathetic AI. This is the creation story of Ex-Human. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchMailtrap. TECH Domains (https://get. tech/codestory)Linkshttps://exh. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/art-rodichev/ --- > Keren and her co-founders felt similar pains in the industry, all from different angles. No matter how good their ideas were, no matter the initiative, there is always a long process in software dev to bring it to life. This was especially true for non technical founders. They wanted a way to bring their ideas straight to production, without having to wait on the full life cycle. - Published: 2025-07-03 - Modified: 2025-07-03 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-keren-fanan-myop/ - Tags: ai, cd, ci, cicd, dynamic, founder, ui - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Keren and her co-founders felt similar pains in the industry, all from different angles. No matter how good their ideas were, no matter the initiative, there is always a long process in software dev to bring it to life. This was especially true for non technical founders. They wanted a way to bring their ideas straight to production, without having to wait on the full life cycle. Keren Fanan doesn't come from a tech based family, yet has worked in tech for the last 15 years. She's not a developer herself, but has always been drawn to software in general, as in her words, software runs the world. She studied Industrial Engineering, but quickly moved into product roles, working for AT&T, Gett and Moon Active in the past. Deep down, she always wanted to found a company of her own. Outside of tech, she lives near Tel Aviv in Israel, and has lived there her whole life. Her and her 3 kids like to travel, go camping, and be in nature as much as possible. Keren and her co-founders felt similar pains in the industry, all from different angles. No matter how good their ideas were, no matter the initiative, there is always a long process in software dev to bring it to life. This was especially true for non technical founders. They wanted a way to bring their ideas straight to production, without having to wait on the full life cycle. This is the creation story of MyOp. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchMailtrap. TECH Domains (https://get. tech/codestory)Linkshttps://www. myop. dev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/keren-fanan/ --- > Prior to his current role, Michael was the Chief Product Officer at Dribbble. After he left that company and dabbled in some other ventures, he was approached about a CEO role at a well known darling company in Minneapolis. - Published: 2025-07-01 - Modified: 2025-07-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-michael-sacca-leadpages/ - Tags: ad, ceo, culture, landing pages, leader, scale, tech debt - Podcasts: S11 Prior to his current role, Michael was the Chief Product Officer at Dribbble. After he left that company and dabbled in some other ventures, he was approached about a CEO role at a well known darling company in Minneapolis. Michael Sacca didn't start out coding - he started out as a musician. In college, he studied music business and wanted to go into that world. Eventually, he figured out that people didn't care that you had a music business degree, and he ended up waiting tables for a few years. After watching his roommate write software and get paid well to do it, he decided to learn to code himself. Outside of tech, he lives in Vancouver with his wife and 2 kids, coaching soccer and flag football. He mentioned it can be a pain to go out to eat with him cause he has celiac, and avoids gluten. Prior to his current role, Michael was the Chief Product Officer at Dribbble. After he left that company and dabbled in some other ventures, he was approached about a CEO role at a well known darling company in Minneapolis. This is Michael's creation story at Leadpages. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchMailtrap. TECH Domains (https://get. tech/codestory)Linkshttps://www. leadpages. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/michaelsacca/ --- > In 2012, a company was formed around bridging the gap between imagination and creation, through video, apps, and studio grade tools. Ofir recently celebrated 10 years with the company, and came in with the title "Neural Networks" guy. - Published: 2025-06-26 - Modified: 2025-06-26 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ofir-bibi-lightricks/ - Tags: apps, content, creator, editing, model, phone, research, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 In 2012, a company was formed around bridging the gap between imagination and creation, through video, apps, and studio grade tools. Ofir recently celebrated 10 years with the company, and came in with the title "Neural Networks" guy. Ofir Bibi grew up in Jerusalem, and is where he is today because of his love for photography. He has always been a tinkerer, taking apart of radios and such, and was drawn to the early days of training neural networks and computational photography. He spent a number of years in academia, but eventually was drawn outside of that world. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 boys who play sports. His family is surrounded by nature, so they enjoy biking and walking as much as they can. In 2012, a company was formed around bridging the gap between imagination and creation, through video, apps, and studio grade tools. Ofir recently celebrated 10 years with the company, and came in with the title "Neural Networks" guy. This is Ofir's creation story of Lightricks. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://www. lightricks. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ofirbb/ --- > Austin acknowledges that though we all love the internet, it's actually not very good... for high performant systems. And though companies are trying to build dedicated networks in the world, there hasn't been one created for blockchain - IE, not centralized around single party. - Published: 2025-06-24 - Modified: 2025-06-24 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-austin-federa-doublezero/ - Tags: blockchain, co-founder, decentralized, founder, network, speed - Podcasts: S11 Austin acknowledges that though we all love the internet, it's actually not very good... for high performant systems. And though companies are trying to build dedicated networks in the world, there hasn't been one created for blockchain - IE, not centralized around single party. Austin Federa has a non-traditional path into the blockchain world. In college, he studied political & environmental science, and economics. Interestingly enough, those studies map a lot to the blockchain first principles. He was seriously looking to do his PhD, but fell out of love with that space, and joined NPR as a journalist for a while. Then, of course, he got bit by the startup bug. Outside of tech, he enjoys living in Brooklyn, photography, and engaging in some form of learning at all times. He enjoys reading, mention the Children of Time series, as though it was fiction, it had a lot of interwoven psychology and communal themes. Austin acknowledges that though we all love the internet, it's actually not very good... for high performant systems. And though companies are trying to build dedicated networks in the world, there hasn't been one created for blockchain - IE, not centralized around single party. This is the creation story of DoubleZero. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://doublezero. xyz/https://www. linkedin. com/in/austin-federa/ --- > Being a multi-time CEO, Tim has some experience around starting companies. He interviewed many cybersecurity leaders, asking about identity and why vulnerabilities around it was still a problem. During a Liverpool game, he downloaded a powerpoint template and put together a pitch to build a company and solve this problem. - Published: 2025-06-19 - Modified: 2025-06-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tim-eades-anetac/ - Tags: ceo, cybersecurity, founder, identity, vulnerability - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Being a multi-time CEO, Tim has some experience around starting companies. He interviewed many cybersecurity leaders, asking about identity and why vulnerabilities around it was still a problem. During a Liverpool game, he downloaded a powerpoint template and put together a pitch to build a company and solve this problem. Tim Eades grew up poor, but forced himself into college. He is a 4 time CEO, an investor, and on the boards of several different companies - but more interestingly, he is an old punk. He saw the Sex Pistols live back in the day, which he mentioned had great sound quality. He's been married for 25 years, and is on the board of a charity that his wife runs. That charity delivery 20,000 birthday cakes to underprivileged children a year. Being a multi-time CEO, Tim has some experience around starting companies. He interviewed many cybersecurity leaders, asking about identity and why vulnerabilities around it was still a problem. During a Liverpool game, he downloaded a powerpoint template and put together a pitch to build a company and solve this problem. This is the creation story of Anetac. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://anetac. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/tieades/ --- > A few years ago, Brooke and her now co-founder observed that people were viewing AI as this end-all-be-all solution. But what quickly happened was that the data needed to make AI effective was not in quite the same state. - Published: 2025-06-17 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-brooke-hartley-moy-infactory-ai/ - Tags: ai, data, data prep, trust, trustworthy - Podcasts: S11 A few years ago, Brooke and her now co-founder observed that people were viewing AI as this end-all-be-all solution. But what quickly happened was that the data needed to make AI effective was not in quite the same state. Brooke Hartley May lives in Oakland, California, on the East Bay, claiming to get more sunshine than her neighbors in San Francisco. She was a history major in college, which makes her path to technology a bit different. She still enjoys writing and reading in long form to this day. Outside of tech, she is married with a 4 year old son - and a pug. She enjoys life as a parent, startup founder, but was sad that the Oakland A's left Oakland, amongst other teams. A few years ago, Brooke and her now co-founder observed that people were viewing AI as this end-all-be-all solution. But what quickly happened was that the data needed to make AI effective was not in quite the same state. This is the creation story of Infactory. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://infactory. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/abhartley/ --- > Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. - Published: 2025-06-12 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-yaroslav-sergiy-railsware-part-2/ - Tags: aggregation, analytics, megaphone, podcast, technical founder, youtube - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just about writing code - but he has arrived there these days. He is the father of 4 daughters, 2 of which are artists and a couple who are digging into their entrepreneurial roots with running their own lemonade stand. He lives in Los Angeles, and has learned to be a better person through pushing himself as a founder. Sergiy Korolov also started coding when he was young, though 4 years later than Yaroslav. He went to a technical university, and as his career in leadership grew, the number of lines of code he contributed to decreased. He is located in Poland, and loves to snowboard in the winter, and bike in the summer. He has 3 kids, and recently started teaching coding to his oldest son. Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. This is the creation story of Railsware. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://railsware. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ylazor/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sergiykorolov/ --- > Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. - Published: 2025-06-11 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-yaroslav-sergiy-railsware-part-1/ - Tags: aggregation, analytics, megaphone, podcast, technical founder, youtube - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. Yaroslav Lazor started writing code when he was 10 years old. It took him a while to understand that making a difference in the world wasn't just about writing code - but he has arrived there these days. He is the father of 4 daughters, 2 of which are artists and a couple who are digging into their entrepreneurial roots with running their own lemonade stand. He lives in Los Angeles, and has learned to be a better person through pushing himself as a founder. Sergiy Korolov also started coding when he was young, though 4 years later than Yaroslav. He went to a technical university, and as his career in leadership grew, the number of lines of code he contributed to decreased. He is located in Poland, and loves to snowboard in the winter, and bike in the summer. He has 3 kids, and recently started teaching coding to his oldest son. Yaroslav & Sergiy were building software for clients, the typical Ukrainian software route. Over time, they realized that building their own products was the best way to make an impact - so much so, that they decided to start building their own. This is the creation story of Railsware. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://railsware. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ylazor/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sergiykorolov/ --- > Rob's has a track record of successfully building platforms - IE figuring out how to do things once instead of multiple times. His current company was growing through acquisitions, and Rob was brought on to unify these and create a converged platform for what the company had to offer. - Published: 2025-06-10 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-rob-duffy-healthedge/ - Tags: acquisition, combination, leadership, platform, products - Podcasts: S11 Rob's has a track record of successfully building platforms - IE figuring out how to do things once instead of multiple times. His current company was growing through acquisitions, and Rob was brought on to unify these and create a converged platform for what the company had to offer. Rob Duffy lives in New York with his family. He moved to the states to go work for a small online bookstore that we know today as Amazon. He's married with 2 kids, and enjoys to cook. But, his main passion is flying, as he has is pilots license and enjoys flying small planes. He recalls training on a simulator with a rendering of the Seattle space needle, which he got to fly next to in the real world once he got his license. He admits his wife has a love/hate relationship with his flying - IE she prefers when the flight is over. Rob's has a track record of successfully building platforms - IE figuring out how to do things once instead of multiple times. His current company was growing through acquisitions, and Rob was brought on to unify these and create a converged platform for what the company had to offer. This is Rob's creation story at HealthEdge. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://healthedge. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/platformduffy/ --- > Many years ago, Emmanuel noticed that there were a lot of people searching for technical founders, and using services to find technical founders. He thought this to be wrong, as many people have product ideas and just need a product to help them build it... so, he created something just for them. - Published: 2025-06-06 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-emmanuel-straschnov-bubble/ - Tags: ai, app builder, cloud, hosting, no code, site builder - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Many years ago, Emmanuel noticed that there were a lot of people searching for technical founders, and using services to find technical founders. He thought this to be wrong, as many people have product ideas and just need a product to help them build it... so, he created something just for them. Emmanuel Straschnov grew up in rural France, which is interestingly enough where he started doing computer stuff (he mentioned there wasn't much else to do in the 90's). He grew up sailing, as he lived next to the shore in Normandy. He never really thought he would end up coding, but after obtaining his MBA, he ended up doing just that. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 children. He mentions that most of his hobby time is devoted to them, but on occasion, he likes to travel, continue sailing, and to sing. Many years ago, Emmanuel noticed that there were a lot of people searching for technical founders, and using services to find technical founders. He thought this to be wrong, as many people have product ideas and just need a product to help them build it... so, he created something just for them. This is the creation story of Bubble. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://bubble. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/straschnov/ --- > Toward the end of 2022, Clayton and his co-founder, Michael, re-connected on starting something new. Given Michael had extensive industry knowledge in the podcast world, Clayton and he combined their super powers to take on the multi-platform nature of podcasting. - Published: 2025-06-05 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-clayton-gentry-podstock/ - Tags: aggregation, analytics, megaphone, podcast, technical founder, youtube - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Toward the end of 2022, Clayton and his co-founder, Michael, re-connected on starting something new. Given Michael had extensive industry knowledge in the podcast world, Clayton and he combined their super powers to take on the multi-platform nature of podcasting. Clayton Gentry has been digitally oriented his whole life. When he was younger, he was into photography and making videos with his friends and for school - either highlight videos for school events or promotional videos for businesses. He's always liked making things look good on a screen, and was attracted to the art of it - which, he attributes to his mother's genes. These days, he lives in Brooklyn, plays guitar, and likes to run in Prospect Park near his home. Toward the end of 2022, Clayton and his co-founder, Michael, re-connected on starting something new. Given Michael had extensive industry knowledge in the podcast world, Clayton and he combined their super powers to take on the multi-platform nature of podcasting. This is the creation story of Podstock. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://podstock. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/clayton-gentry-6492588a/ --- > Previously, David was working at a fintech company. While he was there, he and his friends were observing the trends around AI - and they wanted to get more involved. So they got together and built something over the weekend... and eventually decided to advance AI through research. - Published: 2025-06-04 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-asamu-nesla/ - Tags: ai, product building, research, white paper, writing - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Previously, David was working at a fintech company. While he was there, he and his friends were observing the trends around AI - and they wanted to get more involved. So they got together and built something over the weekend... and eventually decided to advance AI through research. David Asamu grew up in Nigeria and got into technology early, through serving his community. He attended University, and continued his community efforts there, and was introduced to the joys of Python programming. Outside of tech, he spends time with his significant other and family. He enjoys soccer, whether it is watching over playing. When asked about food, he mentioned loving Nigerian delicacies, such as Jollof rice. Previously, David was working at a fintech company. While he was there, he and his friends were observing the trends around AI - and they wanted to get more involved. So they got together and built something over the weekend... and eventually decided to advance AI through research. This is the creation story of Nesla. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://nesla. co/https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-asamu/ --- > Seven years ago, Kero was in school, and he wanted to build a solid search experience, but not just a general search - one that indexed your data, and allowed you to have a "Google" just for your info. After winning a school hackathon, Kero and his mates wanted to take it to the next level. - Published: 2025-06-03 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-clement-kero-renault-meilisearch/ - Tags: data, founder, hackathon, index, like google, search - Podcasts: S11 Seven years ago, Kero was in school, and he wanted to build a solid search experience, but not just a general search - one that indexed your data, and allowed you to have a "Google" just for your info. After winning a school hackathon, Kero and his mates wanted to take it to the next level. Clément "Kero" Renault wanted to be an architect when he was younger. During that time, he also learned about computers and built his first website - and he never stopped building. Funny story, he lost that first website cause it wasn't on Git. Outside of his professional life, he likes to draw, craft and to cook. He also enjoys video games, and mentioned Hidden Reign was his favorite game of all time, alongside the likes of Cyberpunk. Seven years ago, Kero was in school, and he wanted to build a solid search experience, but not just a general search - one that indexed your data, and allowed you to have a "Google" just for your info. After winning a school hackathon, Kero and his mates wanted to take it to the next level. This is the creation story of Meilisearch. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://www. meilisearch. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/kerollmops/ --- > Arnab took a sabbatical from work, and on this journey, he realized that he liked deep work and interacting with customers directly - as opposed to high level strategy and planning. He met with his now co-founder in 2022, walking then Seattle lake front, and realized what podcast junkies they both were - and they decided to build something for it. - Published: 2025-05-29 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arnab-deka-metacast/ - Tags: jump to, listen, podcast, technical founder, transcript - Podcasts: Bonus, S11 Arnab took a sabbatical from work, and on this journey, he realized that he liked deep work and interacting with customers directly - as opposed to high level strategy and planning. He met with his now co-founder in 2022, walking then Seattle lake front, and realized what podcast junkies they both were - and they decided to build something for it. Arnab Deka lives in Vancouver and loves the Pacific Northwest. He was never formally educated in computer science or software engineering - in fact, while he was studying civil engineering, he fell in love with building things and eventually, building software. Outside of tech, he is a family man and loves to sup with them and his dog. He also enjoys astronomy, and is known to attend a star party or 2, with his telescope in hand. Arnab took a sabbatical from work, and on this journey, he realized that he liked deep work and interacting with customers directly - as opposed to high level strategy and planning. He met with his now co-founder in 2022, walking then Seattle lake front, and realized what podcast junkies they both were - and they decided to build something for it. This is the creation story of Metacast. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://metacast. app/https://www. linkedin. com/in/or9ob/ --- > Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets. - Published: 2025-05-27 - Modified: 2025-06-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-rob-woollen-sigma-computing/ - Tags: enterprise, excel, founder, large datasets - Podcasts: S11 Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets. Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has been programming for a long time, since the early days on his Apple 2E (yes, the green screen one). Outside of tech, he is married with 3 boys, all teenagers. He also has a 1 year old golden retriever, and spends a lot of time ensuring he lives his best life. In addition to this, he and his wife enjoy hiking around the Marin area, as they have the best hiking trials. Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets. This is the creation story of Sigma Computing. SponsorsPaddle. comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearchLinkshttps://www. sigmacomputing. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/rwoollen/ --- > Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren’t doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. - Published: 2025-05-01 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-braund-katmai-tech/ - Tags: builder, camera, founder, remote, virtual, work - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren’t doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. Erik Braund was born and raised in Alaska. Growing up, he played competitive hockey and built computers for his Dad's company and eventually others. He grew up with a gameboy, an electric guitar, and a love for Nirvana. He eventually upgraded his setup to a computer - which led him to setup a recording studio. He was internet obsessed from a young age, partially because it was the door to a bigger world outside of Alaska. He played in bands, started a recording studio, which eventually turned into a production company in NYC and LA, delivering AV projects for numerous clients. Erik was running his production company when COVID hit. Given people weren't doing in person projects, he started consulting and opening up his mind on how to do these types of projects remotely. He started to see a new problem, where video conferencing was not solving high connection, collaborative work. This is the creation story of Katmai. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://katmaitech. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/erik-braund/ --- > Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. - Published: 2025-04-29 - Modified: 2025-05-01 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-ravi-pratap-maddimsetty-uniqode/ - Tags: builder, connection, entreprenuer, founder, platform, qr code, reading - Podcasts: S10 Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty lives in Bangalore with his family. Early on, he joined startups where his friends worked, in order to get to know the landscape of how they functioned. He fell in love with the tech, team and early innings of building a business - so much so, that he eventually started his own. He has been an entrepreneur for 15 years - or in the woods, as he says. But outside of tech, he's married with 2 girls. He loves spending time with his family, playing tennis, being outdoors or skiing. Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes. This is the creation story of Uniqode. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. uniqode. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ravipratapm/ --- > The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. - Published: 2025-04-24 - Modified: 2025-04-25 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shai-horovitz-jit-io/ - Tags: ai, automated, ceo, product, security, shift left - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. Shai Horovitz grew up on a farm in Israel, 1. 5 hours north of Tel Aviv. He was drafted into the army, in a unit that focused on technology - and in 2013, he moved to the states and joined a startup. And - he loved it, eventually leading the team in building the business in Japan. Outside of tech, he loves to travel with his family and 3 kids. He is also a self proclaimed foodie, and enjoys sports - spending 11 years in Boston rooting on the Celtics. The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge. This is the creation story of Jit. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. jit. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/shai-horovitz-855a3a49/ --- > Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - Published: 2025-04-23 - Modified: 2025-04-23 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-are-you-ready-for-the-genai-data-frontier/ - Tags: attackers, bad actors, data, encryption, protection, security, the gene simmons of data protection - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS Method Today, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics. Episode Title: Are You Ready For the GenAI Data Frontier? Exploring GenAI Security In this episode, we talk with Anthony Cammarano, CTO & VP of Engineering, as he breaks down and simplifies GenAI for companies struggling in the new frontier. There is a flood of unstructured data pouring into workflows - thanks to GenAI - and traditional security methods aren't prepared to cover this expanded attack surface. The good news is that companies already have what they need to fix this, and it's a simple mindset shift. Questions What are some of the most common misconceptions or trends about GenAI, as it relates to data protection and privacy, that organizations face today? What are the primary business challenges facing the adoption of GenAI today? How do modern GenAI systems create data security vulnerabilities and what are the potential risks? What is crucial in the implementation of GenAI-security solutions, and how can it accelerate AI adoption? Can you provide examples of how attackers are targeting data during its use and the importance of securing this data? What are some best practices for robust data governance and how can organizations stay ahead in the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape? Links https://www. protegrity. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/ac56/ --- > Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform was some function around invoicing - which started him on his journey of product creation. - Published: 2025-04-22 - Modified: 2025-04-22 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-lucas-lovell-paddle/ - Podcasts: S10 Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform was some function around invoicing - which started him on his journey of product creation. Lucas Lovell grew up in Adelaide, Australia, before eventually landing where resides now, in London. He studied law, but he eventually decided that he didn't want to become a lawyer. During his time in law school, he and his crew built an app - and he was hooked on the wild ride that tech is. Prior to London, he spent 4 years in Paris, and indeed loves to travel. He also enjoys skiing, and when asked about snowboarding, he said he tried - but eventually reverted back. Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform was some function around invoicing - which started him on his journey of product creation. This is Lucas' creation story at Paddle. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. paddle. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/lucaslovell/ --- > David noticed that that problem with SaaS today is that it's expensive, and adds up as you compile solutions. Right alongside that, open source software is free - but requires more setup and maintenance to keep it up and running. He decided that there must be a better way to purchase software, while getting the best price on a bundle of solutions. - Published: 2025-04-17 - Modified: 2025-04-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-young-federated-computer/ - Tags: builder, founder, replacement, save money, smb, software, suite - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 David noticed that that problem with SaaS today is that it's expensive, and adds up as you compile solutions. Right alongside that, open source software is free - but requires more setup and maintenance to keep it up and running. He decided that there must be a better way to purchase software, while getting the best price on a bundle of solutions. David Young spent many years in California, but lives in Colorado Springs now. He mentioned that things outside of work are very important to him, as they are the soil from which he brings fruit to bear in his work. He's married and loving living in the Rockies. He and his wife love to ski hike and camp - but most interesting, they are both endurance athletes. They run marathons, bike rides, and triathlons - in fact, David himself has run 10, which includes a 2. 4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, then a marathon - all in succession. All in one day. David noticed that that problem with SaaS today is that it's expensive, and adds up as you compile solutions. Right alongside that, open source software is free - but requires more setup and maintenance to keep it up and running. He decided that there must be a better way to purchase software, while getting the best price on a bundle of solutions. This is the creation story of Federated Computer. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. federated. computer/https://www. linkedin. com/in/davidpaulyoung/ --- > Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - Published: 2025-04-16 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-are-your-systems-smarter-than-a-threat-actor/ - Tags: attackers, bad actors, data, encryption, protection, security, the gene simmons of data protection - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics. Episode Title: Are You Smarter Than a Threat Actor? Maybe Your Current Methods Are ObsoleteIn today's episode, we are talking with Eve Rajca, Senior Solutions Engineer, as she dives into the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity. As threat actors become more sophisticated, its critical to reassess and simplify security strategies. She will explore outdated methods, which can leave your data vulnerable, and discuss the importance of adopting straightforward security methods. QuestionsWhat are some common signs that an organization's current cybersecurity methods might be outdated? How have threat actors evolved in their tactics over the past few years? Can you explain the concept of "security through simplicity" and why it's important? How can organizations balance the need for robust security with the need for simplicity? What role does employee training play in maintaining effective data security? Linkshttps://www. protegrity. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/iwonarajca/ --- > Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school. - Published: 2025-04-15 - Modified: 2025-04-16 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-kavitta-ghai-nectir/ - Tags: ai, better, classroom, founder, neurodivergent, university - Podcasts: S10 Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school. Kavitta Ghai realized at an early age that she thought different than everyone else. She grew up neurodivergent, with autism and ADHD but was a lucky kid, having parents that helped her see the silver lining in her learning challenges, making sure she had outlets in extracurricular activities. She is a creative person always looking to build something that doesn't exist. In her off time, she enjoys turning off all the tech, learning a new language, and reconnecting with the real, analog world. Kavitta and her co-founder found themselves frustrated with the classroom in college. For paying such an exorbitant amount of money, they were confused why the educational classroom was so ineffective. It came to a head - to the point, where Kavitta was going to change it or drop out of school. This is the creation story of Nectir. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. nectir. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/kavittaghai/ --- > In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own. - Published: 2025-04-10 - Modified: 2025-04-10 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-darko-fabijan-semaphore/ - Tags: ci/cd, cloud, continuous, development, founder, open source, software - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own. Darko Fabijan is originally from Serbia, and splits his time between their and the US. He got is first computer in 1994, and eventually started tinkering and playing with Linus. He went to university in 2003, and then started a company with a college friend, which was a rails consultancy. Outside of tech, he is married, with 2 kids - ages 3 and 9. The older one is into athletics, and the younger one is more into art. He enjoys spending time in nature with his family, and got into trail running a few years ago - recently running a 64km trail. He enjoys business books because he likes to see how other people "did it", when it comes to their successes and failures. In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own. This is the creation story of Semaphore. SponsorsMailtrapSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://semaphore. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/darkofabijan/ --- > Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - Published: 2025-04-09 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-fortifying-your-data-defenses/ - Tags: attackers, bad actors, data, encryption, protection, security, the gene simmons of data protection - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we releasing another episode from our new series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are releasing another episode from our series, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics. Episode Title: Fortifying Your Data Defenses: The Conversation that Should have Happened Yesterday with Clyde WilliamsonIn this episode, we will be talking with Clyde Williamson, Senior Product Security Architect. Clyde is going to help us see how we've created a broken systems - and it's OK, we are willing to take the necessary steps to fix it. Business face immense pressure to safeguard data, ensure compliance, follow regulation, and make data easily available when needed. This is the conversation we should have heard yesterday, when it comes to our data. QuestionsWhy is consumer privacy more critical than ever in today's digital world, and what role do businesses play in protecting and consuming data? How that concern translates to regulatory requirements and changes for businesses. What does it mean to “future-proof” consumer data in terms of regulatory compliance, and why should businesses care? How can businesses effectively balance the need for data accessibility with the need to protect consumer privacy? What role does data de-identification play in helping businesses secure sensitive data while minimizing risk, and what are the tangible benefits? What are some common pitfalls businesses face when implementing privacy measures, and how can they avoid them? Can you provide an example of a company that improved consumer trust by adopting stronger data protection strategies? What are some emerging technologies in data protection and cybersecurity that are making, or will make, a significant impact? Can you share any real-world examples of data breaches that could have been prevented with better security practices? Linkshttps://www. protegrity. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/clyde-williamson-6211192/ --- > Gino attend the University of San Diego, and was really into startups. He was building mobile games for the iPhone in 2012, while living back in Peru for a short time. He hired a few engineers from back home, and this started him on the journey of understanding the great talent in South America. - Published: 2025-04-08 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-gino-ferrand-tecla-io/ - Tags: ai, developers, founder, near shore, remote, sourcing - Podcasts: S10 Gino attend the University of San Diego, and was really into startups. He was building mobile games for the iPhone in 2012, while living back in Peru for a short time. He hired a few engineers from back home, and this started him on the journey of understanding the great talent in South America. Gino Ferrand is originally from Peru, and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old. Now, he lives in Seattle, and is enjoying all that the Northwest has to offer. He's very much into sports, specifically soccer, and plays in an indoor league with a great community. He loves to travel, and gets to often with the world he does. And when it comes to food, he is very evangelistic about Peruvian food, and encourages people to try every chance he gets. Gino attend the University of San Diego, and was really into startups. He was building mobile games for the iPhone in 2012, while living back in Peru for a short time. He hired a few engineers from back home, and this started him on the journey of understanding the great talent in South America. This is the creation story of Tecla. SponsorsMailtrapTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. tecla. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ginoferrand/ --- > Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. - Published: 2025-04-03 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-ivan-nick-archetype-ai-part-2/ - Tags: ai, founder, iiot, iot, learning, machine learning, sensors, toolkit - Podcasts: S10 Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. Ivan Poupyrev grew up in the Soviet Union, studying rocket science. He moved to the US in 2013 to pursue the early days of VR. He has worked at Disney and Google, and has been focused on merging the physical and digital world for many years. Prior to this latest revolution, Ivan was one of the skeptics towards the idea of AI. But at Google, he was convinced by one of his now co-founders, the value in this tech. Nick Gillian has been working in real time Machine learning for nearly 2 decades - but path here was a bit different. His background is in music and audio engineering - think the math behind amps, studios, mixers, etc. During his masters studies, he fell in love with sensors, and participated in early development and advancement of this tech alongside machine learning. He built a toolkit, which eventually got the attention of Ivan. Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. This is the creation story of Archetype AI. SponsorsMailtrapPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. archetypeai. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ivan-poupyrev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nick-gillian-b27b1094/ --- > Today, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. - Published: 2025-04-02 - Modified: 2025-04-02 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-gene-simmons-of-data-protection-kiss-keep-it-simple-stupid-a-data-security-dilemma/ - Tags: attackers, bad actors, data, encryption, protection, security, the gene simmons of data protection - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. The Gene Simmons of Data Protection: Protegrity's KISS MethodToday, we are kicking off a new series on the podcast, entitled The Gene Simmons of Data Protection - the KISS Method, brought to you by none other than Protegrity. Protegrity is AI-powered data security for data consumption, offering fine grain data protection solutions, so you can enable your data security, compliance, sharing and analytics. Episode Title: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid): A Data Security Dilemma with James RiceIn this episode, we are talking with James Rice, VP at Protegrity. He is going to help us strip away the nonsense, when it comes to securing data, and help us understand why we don't need a fortress... just a kill switch. While companies throw billions at firewalls, AI driven threat detection, and fortress like defenses - attackers still find their way in. James reminds us to keep it simple, with Protegrity's KISS Method which stands for Keep It Simple Stupid - and how when data is useless to attackers, breaches become mere inconveniences instead of existential threats. Questions:What exactly is the KISS method, and how does it apply to cybersecurity? Why are traditional cybersecurity approaches failing to stop breaches? What are some of the biggest myths about security that lead businesses to waste money on ineffective defenses? How do encryption, tokenization, and de-identification work together to make stolen data useless? Can you share an example where a company’s focus on complex security backfired, and how a simpler approach could have helped? What’s the biggest pushback you hear from companies hesitant to adopt a simpler, data-first security model? If a company wanted to implement the KISS method tomorrow, what are the first three steps they should take? Linkshttps://www. protegrity. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jamesrice1/ --- > Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. - Published: 2025-04-01 - Modified: 2025-04-09 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-ivan-nick-archetype-ai-part-1/ - Tags: ai, founder, iiot, iot, learning, machine learning, sensors, toolkit - Podcasts: S10 Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. Ivan Poupyrev grew up in the Soviet Union, studying rocket science. He moved to the US in 2013 to pursue the early days of VR. He has worked at Disney and Google, and has been focused on merging the physical and digital world for many years. Prior to this latest revolution, Ivan was one of the skeptics towards the idea of AI. But at Google, he was convinced by one of his now co-founders, the value in this tech. Nick Gillian has been working in real time Machine learning for nearly 2 decades - but path here was a bit different. His background is in music and audio engineering - think the math behind amps, studios, mixers, etc. During his masters studies, he fell in love with sensors, and participated in early development and advancement of this tech alongside machine learning. He built a toolkit, which eventually got the attention of Ivan. Ivan was working at Google, and one of his team members began utilizing the toolkit built by Nick. Upon discovering this, Ivan reached out to Nick to see if he wanted to join the top secret team - and eventually, Nick convinced Ivan of the power of machine learning and AI. This is the creation story of Archetype AI. SponsorsMailtrapPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. archetypeai. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ivan-poupyrev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nick-gillian-b27b1094/ --- > Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something. - Published: 2025-03-27 - Modified: 2025-03-27 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-quinn-li-oshea-braid/ - Tags: connection, employees, founder, games, hr tech, slack, team, teammates - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something. Quinn Li started into tech well before college. In High School, she was into fashion and would take pictures of herself and her friends. She wanted to share these pictures, and found her way to Squarespace - which ultimately, led her getting into HTML and CSS - and the rest is history. Outside of tech, she plays a lot of tennis, and teaches Aerial. I had to ask what this was, and she explained it was the art form that you see in the circus, when people are climbing the sheets in the air, acrobatically. Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something. This is the creation story of Braid. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. trybraid. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/qloshea/ --- > Alberto and his co-founders had worked in the startup world for quite some time. They noticed the trends of platforms leading the charge on portfolio management, without advisors, alongside the democratization of investments in things like real estate, crypto, etc. They decided to move forward in removing the opaqueness from investment in art. - Published: 2025-03-25 - Modified: 2025-03-25 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-alberto-simon-masterworks/ - Tags: art, democratization, fractionalized, investments, platform - Podcasts: S10 Alberto and his co-founders had worked in the startup world for quite some time. They noticed the trends of platforms leading the charge on portfolio management, without advisors, alongside the democratization of investments in things like real estate, crypto, etc. They decided to move forward in removing the opaqueness from investment in art. Alberto Simon is an immigrant from Mexico, moving to Florida with his small family when he was very young. At a young age, he got interested in computers, through gaming and building his own computers. In college, he briefly studied mechanical engineering, but quickly switched over to MIS. Post that, he joined an adtech startup, caught hold of the rocket, and built the professional skills he still utilizes today. Outside of tech, he enjoys dancing, specifically salsa and machata, and participates in CrossFit. For both things, he enjoys the challenge, working hard towards goals, and seeing progress. Alberto and his co-founders had worked in the startup world for quite some time. They noticed the trends of platforms leading the charge on portfolio management, without advisors, alongside the democratization of investments in things like real estate, crypto, etc. They decided to move forward in removing the opaqueness from investment in art. This is the creation story of Masterworks. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. masterworks. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/albertosimon --- > In 2016, Don caught the crypto bug, but not from the speculative component. He was fascinated with the providential integrity that is found in the blockchain. This culminated with 20 years of experience in deep tech, and led him down the path of AI agent payments. - Published: 2025-03-20 - Modified: 2025-03-20 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-don-gossen-nevermined/ - Tags: agent, ai, ai agent, crypto, cto, founder, payments, transactions - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In 2016, Don caught the crypto bug, but not from the speculative component. He was fascinated with the providential integrity that is found in the blockchain. This culminated with 20 years of experience in deep tech, and led him down the path of AI agent payments. Don Gossen is Canadian, but at this point, in name only. He lives in Portugal with his wife and 2 daughters. He grew up all over the world, and his career has afforded him to travel the globe. He's been in the machine learning space for 20 years, but spent his early days in statistical modeling - which was fun to setup, but boring to operate. For fun, he enjoys traveling and skiing, in particular off trail - and anywhere in Japan during the winter. In 2016, Don caught the crypto bug, but not from the speculative component. He was fascinated with the providential integrity that is found in the blockchain. This culminated with 20 years of experience in deep tech, and led him down the path of AI agent payments. This is the creation story of Nevermined. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://nevermined. app/https://www. linkedin. com/in/donald-gossen-40ab96/ --- > When his past venture winded down, Schmuel found himself at the center of an idea that was the culmination of all his years in technology. To build something that could not only process large amounts of observability data - but could make sense of it, and take appropriate action. - Published: 2025-03-18 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-shmuel-kliger-causely/ - Tags: action, ai, founder, observability, root cause - Podcasts: S10 When his past venture winded down, Schmuel found himself at the center of an idea that was the culmination of all his years in technology. To build something that could not only process large amounts of observability data - but could make sense of it, and take appropriate action. Shmuel Kliger is a self proclaimed old man. He was born in Israel, and served in the army for 6 years. It was in the army where he obtained his passion for the space, from which he got his bachelors, masters and eventually, his PhD. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 kids and 2 grandchildren. He met his wife during grad school, and they now live in New York. When asked what he did for fun, he laughed and said that he enjoyed living in the "best city in the world", with everything at his fingertips. When his past venture winded down, Schmuel found himself at the center of an idea that was the culmination of all his years in technology. To build something that could not only process large amounts of observability data - but could make sense of it, and take appropriate action. This is the creation story of Causely. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. causely. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/shmuel-kliger-1a91963/ --- > Today is going to be a special episode, a bit out of the ordinary to our normal programming. I'm participating in Podcasthon, which gives Code Story the opportunity to dedicate one episode to a charity of choice. Hundreds of podcasts are participating in this, releasing their episodes simultaneously in a coordinate effort, with the goal of creating a massive and international wave of inspiring audio content. - Published: 2025-03-17 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/podcasthon-2025-the-american-cancer-society/ - Tags: american, american cancer society, bonus, cancer, charity, cure, podcasthon, society - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today is going to be a special episode, a bit out of the ordinary to our normal programming. I'm participating in Podcasthon, which gives Code Story the opportunity to dedicate one episode to a charity of choice. Hundreds of podcasts are participating in this, releasing their episodes simultaneously in a coordinate effort, with the goal of creating a massive and international wave of inspiring audio content. Hello Listeners. Today is going to be a special episode, a bit out of the ordinary to our normal programming. I'm participating in Podcasthon, which gives Code Story the opportunity to dedicate one episode to a charity of choice. Hundreds of podcasts are participating in this, releasing their episodes simultaneously in a coordinate effort, with the goal of creating a massive and international wave of inspiring audio content. Whats the point? The point is to raise awareness for a huge number of charities worldwide. Now, onto which charity I've chosen to support. The charity I've chosen is the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society is the leading cancer-fighting organization. They have a vision to end cancer as we know it - for everyone. They are working to improve the lives of people with cancer, and their families, through several different facets - advocacy, research and patient support. They want to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat and survive cancer. Cancer affects 1 in 3 people in the United States. Chances are that you or someone you know has been affected by cancer. Cancer is more than just a disease, and has two main types. The cause of cancer because of changes to our genes, due to our genetics, lifestyle habits, or being exposed to cancer-causing agents. Personally, I've lost many friends and family to cancer. An uncle when I was very young, my mother in law prior to marrying her daughter, and many friend's parents as I was growing up. There is a misunderstanding that cancer can't be cured. This depends on the type and stage of a person's cancer. Some cancers are more likely to be cured than others, but each type is treated differently. Often times cancer goes into remission, when the cancer is responding to treatment or is under control - though most times the cancer still remains. These are just a few tidbits about cancer. The American Cancer Society is fighting cancer through research into cures and support for existing patients in their family. This not for profit organization, and is enabled to do its work through donations, grants and other sources. If you feel led to help fight cancer and support patients, go to the cancer. org website and click Donate. You can even give in Honor & Memorial of someone who's life has been impacted by cancer. If you want to learn more, go to cancer. org. That C A N C E R. org. Big thanks to the American Cancer Society for the work they do, and to Podcasthon, for coordinated this effort for charity. And thanks again for listening. SponsorsPodcasthonLinkshttps://www. cancer. org/ --- > At the sunset of his prior company, Tyler and his co-founders started digging into the AI Code Editor, Cursor, and how the agent side of things could increase the power and speed of coding. Through the shutdown, they decided to start something new. - Published: 2025-03-13 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tyler-wells-braingrid-episode/ - Tags: agent, ai, ai agent, coding, cto, cursor, founder - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 At the sunset of his prior company, Tyler and his co-founders started digging into the AI Code Editor, Cursor, and how the agent side of things could increase the power and speed of coding. Through the shutdown, they decided to start something new. Tyler Wells lives outside of Austin, TX. He moved there 4 years ago, but spent most of this time in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Outside of tech, he is married with a family. His 3 kids are heavily involved in sports and extracurricular activities, which keeps them all pretty busy. But, when he has time, he is into cooking. He thinks of it as a nerdy endeavor, eating at a fancy restaurant and going home to try to recreate the dish. At the sunset of his prior company, Tyler and his co-founders started digging into the AI Code Editor, Cursor, and how the agent side of things could increase the power and speed of coding. Through the shutdown, they decided to start something new. This is the creation story of Braingrid. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. braingrid. ai/https://propeldata. comhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/tylerswells/ --- > In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple. - Published: 2025-03-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-anthony-eden-dnsimple/ - Tags: builder, dns, domain register, founder, godaddy, Tech - Podcasts: S10 In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple. Anthony Eden is a gray beard in terms of internet time, being around when Netscape was released. He was studying music at the University of Miami, and decided to build a website to show off his music and other peoples work - and was hooked. Outside of tech, he grew up surfing, living in Hawaii, France and now Florida. He enjoys writing software for fun - when he has time - and playing board games with this kids - when they are around. In the past, Anthony was coming off of a failed startup. At the time, he was using a different vendor to manage domains and DNS - which he did not like at all. He decided to go forward and build a better solution, and one that is - you guessed it - simple. This is the creation story of DNSimple. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://dnsimple. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/aeden/ --- > Andrew met his current co-founders in 1999. Recently, they re-connected, recalling the successes and camaraderie they had during their startup days. They recalled that the act of leading engineering teams is hard - and they wanted to build something that makes that easier. - Published: 2025-03-06 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-lau-jellyfish/ - Tags: cto, engineering, founder, leaders, management, r&d, startup, throughput - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Andrew met his current co-founders in 1999. Recently, they re-connected, recalling the successes and camaraderie they had during their startup days. They recalled that the act of leading engineering teams is hard - and they wanted to build something that makes that easier. Andrew Lau is located in Boston now, but is a California native. He grew up in Oakland, and calls himself the odd duck who went west instead of east, like most people. He went to the north east for school, and stayed to be apart of the startup world, interestingly enough with his current co-founders. Outside of tech, he's married to an AP Calculus teacher, and has two daughters. He enjoys cooking and making new cuisine with his kids. Fun fact, he is a certified barbecue judge in Kansas City, and has come to Texas a time or two to tour the Texas Monthly list. Andrew met his current co-founders in 1999. Recently, they re-connected, recalling the successes and camaraderie they had during their startup days. They recalled that the act of leading engineering teams is hard - and they wanted to build something that makes that easier. This is the creation story of Jellyfish. SponsorsPropelAuthTeclaSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://jellyfish. co/https://www. linkedin. com/in/amlau/ --- > When Ayush met his now co-founder, they started to think through businesses and how much goes into setting up payments, taxes, etc. They started to dream about building this layer of payments, to enable builders to send and receive global payments easily, so they can focus on their core competencies. - Published: 2025-03-04 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-ayush-agarwal-dodo-payments/ - Tags: compliance, cpto, cross border, founder, global, payments, product, taxes - Podcasts: S10 When Ayush met his now co-founder, they started to think through businesses and how much goes into setting up payments, taxes, etc. They started to dream about building this layer of payments, to enable builders to send and receive global payments easily, so they can focus on their core competencies. Ayush Agarwal is a techy trying to code his way out of things. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science, but more importantly, he discovered entrepreneurship in college, inspired by his successful classmates. He spent years gathering experience in different startup verticals, including fintech. But outside of tech, he loves to play badminton, cricket, and hangout with friends. He is also big into Chess, which he mentioned enjoying Chess. com, as well as our recent interview with their CTO, Josh Levine. When Ayush met his now co-founder, they started to think through businesses and how much goes into setting up payments, taxes, etc. They started to dream about building this layer of payments, to enable builders to send and receive global payments easily, so they can focus on their core competencies. This is the creation story of Dodo Payments. Sponsors PropelAuth Tecla Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://dodopayments. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/aagarwal1012/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Josh had a SaaS product he attempted to launch that didn't work out. While he was getting his car worked on at a dealership, he noticed patrons being referred to salesmen in real time - and he started to think, who manages this sort of thing for other businesses? - Published: 2025-02-27 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-ho-referral-rock/ - Tags: attribution, ceo, founder, referee, referral, saas, tracking - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Prior to his current venture, Josh had a SaaS product he attempted to launch that didn't work out. While he was getting his car worked on at a dealership, he noticed patrons being referred to salesmen in real time - and he started to think, who manages this sort of thing for other businesses? Josh Ho was into tech at a young age. In high school, which was around the time of bulletin boards and AOL online, he had to code a way to connect windows to the internet using TCP/IP. Outside of tech, he is married with a family. He notes that because he is in tech, people perceive him to be younger in age. He plays handball, and has been into the sport since he was younger. Prior to his current venture, Josh had a SaaS product he attempted to launch that didn't work out. While he was getting his car worked on at a dealership, he noticed patrons being referred to salesmen in real time - and he started to think, who manages this sort of thing for other businesses? This is the creation story of Referral Rock. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://referralrock. com/ https://mojoho. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/joshuajho/ --- > Austin had several experiences with consulting firms, where they operated under traditional "land and expand" models. IE, increasing the footprint of their teams. He felt passionate about building a services company that was designed to deprecate itself - starting with the wide world of DevOps. - Published: 2025-02-25 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-austin-vance-focused-io/ - Tags: agency, consulting, development, devops, services - Podcasts: S10 Austin had several experiences with consulting firms, where they operated under traditional "land and expand" models. IE, increasing the footprint of their teams. He felt passionate about building a services company that was designed to deprecate itself - starting with the wide world of DevOps. Austin Vance grew up in Oklahoma, but takes residence outside of Denver, Colorado now. He is a father of 3 boys, who are also 3 in under - so he's quite busy. He loves woodworking, and teaching his oldest son how to ski. When it comes to food, he loves all of it in general - but has been drawn to asian fusion lately. And he enjoys reading business books, and sci fi - of which, Blade Runner was mentioned number one. Austin had several experiences with consulting firms, where they operated under traditional "land and expand" models. IE, increasing the footprint of their teams. He felt passionate about building a services company that was designed to deprecate itself - starting with the wide world of DevOps. This is the creation story of Focused. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://focused. io/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/austinbv/ --- > For 16 years, Jason grew and ran a business in aviation. After a successful exit, he and his wife Magda were considering what to do next. She quickly remembered all of the things Jason did behind the scenes to setup their personal finances for success, in the midst of a chaotic startup life. - Published: 2025-02-20 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-schappert-moo-la-moola/ - Tags: app, finances, fintech, founder, investment, retirement - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 For 16 years, Jason grew and ran a business in aviation. After a successful exit, he and his wife Magda were considering what to do next. She quickly remembered all of the things Jason did behind the scenes to setup their personal finances for success, in the midst of a chaotic startup life. Jason Schappert grew up in an entrepreneurial family. His Mom and Dad were always working together, and never had jobs. Jason's first job was working for his parents pest control company, where he crafted his understanding of what success looked like. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids, and is very into all of their sports. Fun fact, his kids enjoy doing their homeschooling in the office with their Dad, listening to calls and asking big questions - so business is actually what they do for fun. For 16 years, Jason grew and ran a business in aviation. After a successful exit, he and his wife Magda were considering what to do next. She quickly remembered all of the things Jason did behind the scenes to setup their personal finances for success, in the midst of a chaotic startup life. This is the creation story of Moola. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://moo. la/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/jasonschappert/ --- > In the past, Tameem had been burned by consulting firms. He saw a gap in the industry, and when he left his prior role at Wayfair, he wanted to become a trusted, transparent technology partner - the one that he had longed for in his previous roles. - Published: 2025-02-18 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-tameem-hourani-rapdev/ - Tags: consulltant, datadog, deployments, migrations, servicenow, services, Tech - Podcasts: S10 In the past, Tameem had been burned by consulting firms. He saw a gap in the industry, and when he left his prior role at Wayfair, he wanted to become a trusted, transparent technology partner - the one that he had longed for in his previous roles. Tameem Hourani was born in the Middle East, on a small island. He came to the states, Boston specifically, for school in 2006. He planned on 4 years of engineering, which turned into 19 years of life. He became a citizen of the US during COVID, and spent many years of his career at Wayfair, which he throughly enjoyed. But outside of tech, he is a new father and spends a lot of time with his newborn. He loves being in the ocean, scuba diving, kite surfing and along side that, collecting vintage watches. In the past, Tameem had been burned by consulting firms. He saw a gap in the industry, and when he left his prior role at Wayfair, he wanted to become a trusted, transparent technology partner - the one that he had longed for in his previous roles. This is the creation story of RapDev. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. rapdev. io/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/tameem-hourani/ --- > Shahar and his co-founder are veterans when it comes to using observability platforms for their systems. They wanted to build a platform that balanced the needs of the system, with a lower cost of a fully functional platform. - Published: 2025-02-13 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shahar-azulay-groundcover/ - Tags: cost, devops, founder, infrastructure, observability, velocity - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Shahar and his co-founder are veterans when it comes to using observability platforms for their systems. They wanted to build a platform that balanced the needs of the system, with a lower cost of a fully functional platform. Shahar Azulay has had many opportunities to get into tech throughout his life. He started digging into cyber security when he was 17 years old, where he learned the basics of deep tech that he still utilizes to this day. He's a startup guy, and has had the opportunity to be the first employee many times over. Outside of tech, he's married with 3 boys and a dog. He lives in the country side, and loves to spend time in nature and cook, as he was a semi professional chef at one point. Shahar and his co-founder are veterans when it comes to using observability platforms for their systems. They wanted to build a platform that balanced the needs of the system, with a lower cost of a fully functional platform. This is the creation story of Groundcover. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. groundcover. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4 --- > In this episode, we are excited to speak with Imad Gharzeddine, the visionary CEO and Co-Founder of Mamo, a pioneering fintech platform simplifying payments and empowering businesses in the MENA region. - Published: 2025-02-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-imad-gharazeddine/ - Tags: agi, ai, blockchain, dubai, llm, minting unicorns, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In this episode, we are excited to speak with Imad Gharzeddine, the visionary CEO and Co-Founder of Mamo, a pioneering fintech platform simplifying payments and empowering businesses in the MENA region. Today, we are releasing the final episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. In this episode, we are excited to speak with Imad Gharzeddine, the visionary CEO and Co-Founder of Mamo, a pioneering fintech platform simplifying payments and empowering businesses in the MENA region. Questions: Tell us and our audience a little bit about yourself and the journey that led you to founding Mamo. What is Mamo, and what specific problem are you solving in the fintech space? Mamo is often described as a company simplifying payments for businesses and individuals in the region. What inspired this mission, and how has the journey been so far? What fundamental principles guided the creation of the product, and how has it evolved over time? Why did you choose Dubai as the base for Mamo? What advantages does the city offer to startups in the fintech space? What opportunities have you capitalized on that you believe are unique to Dubai or the MENA region? Mamo is known for promoting financial inclusion. How do your products and services cater to underserved communities in the region? " How does Mamo incorporate cutting-edge technologies, like AI or blockchain, into its offerings to stay ahead of the curve? As a leader, what’s your approach to building a strong and innovative team at Mamo? What lessons have you learned as a CEO scaling a fintech startup in such a competitive and rapidly evolving market? With Dubai emerging as a fintech hub, where do you see the industry heading in the next decade? What advice would you give to fintech startups or entrepreneurs looking to expand into Dubai or the broader MENA region? Links https://www. linkedin. com/in/imadgharazeddine/ https://www. mamopay. com/ https://blockchaincenter. ae/ https://dubaiaicampus. com/ https://www. difc. ae/ https://www. investindubai. gov. ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agenda --- > While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board. - Published: 2025-02-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-simmi-singh-hook-music/ - Tags: app, expression, founder, product, remixes, sharing, social - Podcasts: S10 While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board. Simmi Singh grew up in Australia, when her parents migrated from India. She studied law and finance at university, and then went into investment banking during some tumultuous times. Eventually, she got interested in tech, and worked for teams at Intuit, Saavn, and Spotify, during the times of the Anchor acquisition and launching features around video podcasts. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids. She loves to travel, watch movies, and to do craft projects, as building is a key theme in her life. While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board. This is the creation story of Hook Music. SponsorsRapyd CloudSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://hookmusic. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/singhsimmi/ --- > Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways. - Published: 2025-02-06 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nikita-shamgunov-neon/ - Tags: caching, database, open source, postgres, sql - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways. Nikita Shamgunov is a native of Russia, coming to the US for grad school in 2005. Eventually he worked at Microsoft on the SQL Server product. A fun fact - Nikita quit business school on the first day, and decided to join Facebook and find his future co-founder. All of this worked out, and he and his co-founder built SingleStore, which is one of the highest valued companies at YC. Outside of tech, he was a semi-professional athlete in Ping Pong, achieving the status of Top 10 in Washington State back when he was at Microsoft. Nikita completed his "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways. This is the creation story of Neon. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://neon. tech/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/nikitashamgunov/ --- > For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region. - Published: 2025-02-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-dubai-mohammad-albalooshi-difc-innovation-hub/ - Tags: agi, ai, blockchain, dubai, llm, minting unicorns, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region. Today, we are releasing another episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. For today’s episode, we are speaking with Mohammad Albalooshi, CEO of the DIFC Innovation Hub, a driving force behind Dubai’s innovation ecosystem and a key player in empowering startups and scaleups across the MEASA region. Questions: Tell me and my audience a little bit about you. What is the DIFC Innovation Hub, and what role does it play in driving innovation in Dubai and the broader region? How did it come to be, and what vision does it fulfill? Can you tell us more about the Dubai AI Campus? What is its mission, and how does it support the development of AI-driven innovation? So I’m an entrepreneur looking to build the next big thing in fintech — how does the DIFC Innovation Hub support startups and scaleups in this space? Can you share some examples of companies that have benefited from your ecosystem? Dubai is positioning itself as a global hub for fintech and innovation. How does the DIFC contribute to making this vision a reality? Is it necessary for entrepreneurs to be physically located in Dubai or the MEASA region to join the DIFC Innovation Hub and its programs, or can global innovators participate from anywhere in the world? What are the Dubai AI License and the DIFC License? How do these frameworks support entrepreneurs and businesses within the innovation ecosystem? How is DIFC planning to expand its role in the innovation ecosystem over the next 5-10 years? What new programs or initiatives can we expect to see from the DIFC Innovation Hub to attract global talent and businesses? What advice would you give to startups and entrepreneurs, particularly those from outside the UAE, who are considering Dubai as a base for their operations? Links https://www. linkedin. com/in/mohammad-alblooshi-2499b54a/ https://blockchaincenter. ae/ https://dubaiaicampus. com/ https://www. difc. ae/ https://www. investindubai. gov. ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agenda --- > Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process. - Published: 2025-02-04 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-cory-odaniel-massdriver/ - Tags: devops, engineering, founder, platform, platform engineering - Podcasts: S10 Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process. Cory O'Daniel has had an interesting path to technology, growing his career in a number of cloud architect roles at Ripple, DealScience and The RealReal. He has rich experience in DevOps, the cloud and platform engineering. But outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, living in Southern California. He loves driving (and destroying) RC cars - like the ones that go 65-70 miles per hour. He jumps them off a lot of ramps, his highest jump behind 20 feet upwards... which of course, he landed. Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process. This is the creation story of Massdriver. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. massdriver. cloud/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/coryodaniel --- > Last summer, Torrey built a platform that allowed you to build out voice agents. After doing so, he realized that there wasn't a good way to do this through a UI, and he realized this was an obvious thing that needed to be built. He decided to leave his prior company to pursue this vision - which headed towards the Zapier for call center agents. - Published: 2025-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-torrey-leonard-thoughtly/ - Tags: agents, ai, call center, founder, generative, routing - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Last summer, Torrey built a platform that allowed you to build out voice agents. After doing so, he realized that there wasn't a good way to do this through a UI, and he realized this was an obvious thing that needed to be built. He decided to leave his prior company to pursue this vision - which headed towards the Zapier for call center agents. Torrey Leonard lived in Maryland prior to moving to New York City. In 7th grade, his claim to fame was building the world's largest Minecraft server in the world. In early high school, he had over a million users, made 6 figures, and was fueled by open source software that still runs on most Minecraft servers today. Outside of tech and gaming, he loves to play pickleball and really enjoys skiing - though he confesses that in New York, it's harder to do these hobbies, financially and logistically. Last summer, Torrey built a platform that allowed you to build out voice agents. After doing so, he realized that there wasn't a good way to do this through a UI, and he realized this was an obvious thing that needed to be built. He decided to leave his prior company to pursue this vision - which headed towards the Zapier for call center agents. This is the creation story of Thoughtly. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://thought. ly/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/torrey-leonard/ --- > Today, we are speaking with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI for the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism. Dr. Marwan. He is going to help walk us through how Dubai is creating a foundational hub for AI, Blockchain, and the intersection of both. - Published: 2025-01-29 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-dr-marwan-al-zarouni/ - Tags: agi, ai, blockchain, dubai, llm, minting unicorns, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we are speaking with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI for the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism. Dr. Marwan. He is going to help walk us through how Dubai is creating a foundational hub for AI, Blockchain, and the intersection of both. Today, we are releasing another episode in our series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. Today, we are speaking with Dr. Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of AI for the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism. Dr. Marwan. He is going to help walk us through how Dubai is creating a foundational hub for AI, Blockchain, and the intersection of both. Questions: Tell me and my audience a little bit about you. You are CEO of AI for the DET. What does that entail? What are you driving in this position, leading your department? It feels like blockchain is still trying to find its place in the mainstream, i. e. , utility, security or currency, while AI is settling in some - where are both of these areas going? While AI is a major focus, Dubai has also exceedingly been adopting blockchain. How do you see these two technologies interacting in various sectors, especially since you're also the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Centre. How is Dubai addressing ethical challenges in AI adoption, especially in areas like data privacy and transparency? AI is rapidly evolving globally, but how do you see Dubai positioning itself as a leader in the AI space? What’s your outlook for the city’s AI ecosystem in the next 5-10 years, and how are you working towards it today? What is Dubai doing to attract promising and leading AI and blockchain companies to Dubai? What does the city offer companies in this space from a competitive advantage standpoint? Links http://marwan. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/drmarwan/ https://blockchaincenter. ae/ https://dubaiaicampus. com/ https://www. difc. ae/ https://www. investindubai. gov. ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agenda --- > Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST - dynamic application security testing. - Published: 2025-01-28 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-joni-klippert-stackhawk/ - Tags: api, founder, pentest, security, startup - Podcasts: S10 Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST - dynamic application security testing. Joni Klippert has spent many years in startups. Post getting her MBA, she built her early career in Boulder, CO, and became very technical learning new technologies throughout the businesses she worked for, liked VictorOps and Splunk. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 dogs. Her favorite thing to do is travel with her husband to visit Michelin star restaurants. One of her favorites was called Azuermendi in Spain, as it was not only delicious, but an immersive experience. Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST - dynamic application security testing. This is the creation story of Stackhawk. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. stackhawk. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/joniklippert/ --- > When he went off to college, Eric had with him picture books. He noticed that there were key words next to each person, which indicated their interests. He thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we can use this information to connect people within school? - Published: 2025-01-23 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eric-leebow-freezecrowd/ - Tags: break the ice, connections, facebook, interests, pictures, social media - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 When he went off to college, Eric had with him picture books. He noticed that there were key words next to each person, which indicated their interests. He thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we can use this information to connect people within school? Eric Leebow was born in New Jersey, and bounced around a few states growing up. He has always been a gadget and tech enthusiast, growing up curious. At a young age, he could be found drawing, creating new things, and tinkering with headsets. Outside of tech, he is into juggling, playing and watching basketball. He's based in New York, and has been a vegetarian since he was a kid. When he went off to college, Eric had with him picture books. He noticed that there were key words next to each person, which indicated their interests. He thought, wouldn't it be interesting if we can use this information to connect people within school? This is the creation story of FreezeCrowd. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. freezecrowd. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/ericleebow/ --- > In the past, Mihri's experienced problems with her team, as far as measuring and optimizing productivity. This was related to the different number of tools used, along with the lack of a unified view of these tools. She and her co-founder clicked on this problem, and decided to build a solution. - Published: 2025-01-21 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-mihri-minaz-beams/ - Tags: calendar, founder, meetings, optimization, productivity, saas, work - Podcasts: S10 In the past, Mihri's experienced problems with her team, as far as measuring and optimizing productivity. This was related to the different number of tools used, along with the lack of a unified view of these tools. She and her co-founder clicked on this problem, and decided to build a solution. Mihri Minaz is originally from Turkey, and has 4 siblings in different industries. Being good at math and problem solving, he was drawn go study computer engineering, and eventually was in the industry for a while before starting her current venture. Upon reflection, she feels it was supernatural for her to live in Turkey, be a woman, and end up in software. Eventually, she moved to Berlin and continued to be a unique case in the industry. Outside of tech, she enjoys watching art movies and shows, like Turin Horse or Fargo. She is learning piano, but travels so much for work, she has picked up DJ'ing, cause she can't bring a piano with her. In the past, Mihri's experienced problems with her team, as far as measuring and optimizing productivity. This was related to the different number of tools used, along with the lack of a unified view of these tools. She and her co-founder clicked on this problem, and decided to build a solution. This is the creation story of Beams. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://usebeams. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/mihriminaz/ --- > Ten years ago, Wes started in on the Wordpress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn't perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites. - Published: 2025-01-20 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-wes-tatters-rapyd-cloud/ - Tags: buddy boss, components, dynamic, founder, hosting, managing director, rapid, wordpress - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Ten years ago, Wes started in on the Wordpress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn't perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites. Wes Tatters has had a crazy, diverse career history. He is been in IT for around 40 years, and started in the days before the internet. He has had two paths - multimedia and information technology, of which both merged early in his career. He has been writing books since the early days of the internet. But outside of tech, he is married with kids, and in their downtime, they enjoy being together and sharing the world with one another. Ten years ago, Wes started in on the Wordpress space. He immediately saw that most experiences utilized shared hosting, and he also had customers wanting to build community environments. The problem was most hosting providers didn't perform well enough to support the components needed for these types of sites. This is the creation story of Rapyd Cloud. SponsorsRapyd CloudSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://rapyd. cloud/https://www. linkedin. com/in/westatters/ --- > Thomas was introduced to his current venture through an early investor in the company. He met with the co-founder, Spenser, and sparks flew. There was a great fit and chemistry between them, and he was invited on board to push the company forward to new heights. - Published: 2025-01-16 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-thomas-hansen-amplitude/ - Tags: author, billing, consulting, hourly, pricing, teaching, value based - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Thomas was introduced to his current venture through an early investor in the company. He met with the co-founder, Spenser, and sparks flew. There was a great fit and chemistry between them, and he was invited on board to push the company forward to new heights. Thomas Hansen was born and raised in Denmark. He's also lived in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and then Seattle. He is married to his wife Ingrid, with 3 older kids. His real passion is wind surfing, which he started when he was 14 years old. He even engaged in the support at the semi professional level as a teenager. His favorite spot is in Maui, which includes all the wind surfing options you could want. He also spends an hour in the gym every morning to start the day with endorphins. Thomas was introduced to his current venture through an early investor in the company. He met with the co-founder, Spenser, and sparks flew. There was a great fit and chemistry between them, and he was invited on board to push the company forward to new heights. This is Thomas's creation story at Amplitude. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://amplitude. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/thomasneergaardhansen/ --- > Though the AI space is crowded today, Anand and his team have been working in the space since 2016. They observed the need to modernize legacy software and digitally transform organizations. They wanted to utilize an intelligent approach to this, and started down the path of building a large dataset, building software to learn from it, and use that to modernize software. - Published: 2025-01-15 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anand-kulkarni-crowdbotics/ - Tags: ai, bots, legacy apps, legacy code, modernization, transformation - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Though the AI space is crowded today, Anand and his team have been working in the space since 2016. They observed the need to modernize legacy software and digitally transform organizations. They wanted to utilize an intelligent approach to this, and started down the path of building a large dataset, building software to learn from it, and use that to modernize software. Anand Kulkarni started his career in the dark ages of AI, as a Computer Science researcher at UC Berkeley. He published papers on human intelligence inside of software products, and eventually founded LeadGenius, which was AI for sales and was supported by Andreessen Horowitz and Sam Altman. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and used to be an avid rock climber. He also loves to eat tofu, and has been picking up a lot more science fiction lately. Though the AI space is crowded today, Anand and his team have been working in the space since 2016. They observed the need to modernize legacy software and digitally transform organizations. They wanted to utilize an intelligent approach to this, and started down the path of building a large dataset, building software to learn from it, and use that to modernize software. This is the creation story of Crowdbotics. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://crowdbotics. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/anandpkulkarni/ --- > In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring. - Published: 2025-01-14 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-hannes-lenke-checkly/ - Tags: founder, monitoring, monitoring as code, synthetic - Podcasts: S10 In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring. Hannes Lenke was born in East Germany. He started tinkering with computers at an early age, and became interested in making games at the age of 10. Once the browsers came out, he quickly dove into the world of web development. He also has a background in trading stocks, which he started when he was 14, along with software development consulting for enterprise. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 daughters. He lives in a small town close to Berlin, and enjoys running, rowing, and cooking out on his grill. In 2010, Hannes founded a startup centered around testing. Post exit, he noticed that more and more businesses were using end to end testing... AND, the world was changing toward devops and observability. He decided that a new tool needed to be made along the lines of synthetic monitoring. This is the creation story of Checkly. Sponsors Rapyd Cloud Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. checklyhq. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/hanneslenke/ --- > At his prior company, Jonathan was leading teams to build software. He wanted to hire senior engineers, but was told junior engineers would better fit the budget. He couldn't figure out why, but then it dawned on him - hourly billing a junior created more margin. He wanted to pivot away from hourly billing as a company and went solo to figure out how to do this. Once he did, he never looked back. - Published: 2024-12-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jonathan-stark-consultant-teacher-author/ - Tags: author, billing, consulting, hourly, pricing, teaching, value based - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 At his prior company, Jonathan was leading teams to build software. He wanted to hire senior engineers, but was told junior engineers would better fit the budget. He couldn't figure out why, but then it dawned on him - hourly billing a junior created more margin. He wanted to pivot away from hourly billing as a company and went solo to figure out how to do this. Once he did, he never looked back. Jonathan Stark is based in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended the Berkeley College or Music, with a dual major in song writing. He ended up going back to computers to make ends meet while he was gigging - and he figured out he really enjoyed watching people use the software he built. Outside of tech and professional life, he's married with 2 kids and 2 dogs. He is an avid martial artist, as are his kids, and got his 2nd degree black belt at age 53. At his prior company, Jonathan was leading teams to build software. He wanted to hire senior engineers, but was told junior engineers would better fit the budget. He couldn't figure out why, but then it dawned on him - hourly billing a junior created more margin. He wanted to pivot away from hourly billing as a company and went solo to figure out how to do this. Once he did, he never looked back. This is the creation story of Jonathan Stark and Ditching Hourly. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://jonathanstark. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/jonathanstark/ --- > Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board 6-7 months later, and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products. - Published: 2024-12-17 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-eric-muller-presence/ - Tags: agency, ciso, development, digital, partner, security, vp of engineering - Podcasts: S10 Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board 6-7 months later, and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products. Eric Müller lives in San Francisco, and explored many different paths before landing in tech. He looked into architecture, photography, but ultimately, he settled into the creativity, building and planning aspects of building software. Outside of tech, he's married with one kid, and a great tradeoff with his wife - he does all the cooking, while she does the cleaning. He still loves photography, and takes pictures regularly with his Olympus OM-1. Eleven years ago, Eric joined his current venture as a consultant, taking on projects and delivering value. He was brought on board 6-7 months later, and started down the path where he would lead the engineering and security arms of your partner in creating digital products. This is Eric's creation story at Presence. SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://presencepg. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ericmullersf/ --- > Right after he graduated from University, Andrey saw a fantastic level of talent in developing countries. At the same time, he noticed the amount of profitable opportunity in the United States - and decided to build a business that joined the two. - Published: 2024-12-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrey-kudievskiy-distillery/ - Tags: agency, ai, ceo, founder, services, software development - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Right after he graduated from University, Andrey saw a fantastic level of talent in developing countries. At the same time, he noticed the amount of profitable opportunity in the United States - and decided to build a business that joined the two. Andrey Kudievskiy has always been fascinated by technology, and when asked about himself, he identifies as an entrepreneur. He has been a software engineer, database developer, administrator and then jumped accidentally into management. Outside of his professional life, he is marred with two daughters. He enjoys running long distance. He has officially run 5 marathons, and unofficially, he has joined many more along the way. Right after he graduated from University, Andrey saw a fantastic level of talent in developing countries. At the same time, he noticed the amount of profitable opportunity in the United States - and decided to build a business that joined the two. This is the creation story of Distillery. Sponsors PropelAuth Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://distillery. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/akudievskiy/ --- > Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global - Published: 2024-12-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-dubai-sonia-gokhale-venturesouq/ - Tags: agi, ai, blockchain, dubai, llm, minting unicorns, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. In today’s episode, we are speaking with Sonia Gokhale, Co-founder at VentureSouq, to understand how venture capital is thriving within all that Dubai has to offer. Questions: Tell me and my audience a little bit about you. What is VentureSouq? What is your thesis as a venture fund? Why focus on Fintech and ClimateTech? How would you describe the tech and startup environment in Dubai? You are a MENA based venture fund, what drove you to start here? Is this where you are physically based as well? Dubai is increasingly being seen as a global fintech and ClimateTech hub. Can you explain how Dubai's startup ecosystem supports these sectors, and what advantages this offers for US-based investors looking to expand into the MENA region? How does the DIFC, the AI Campus or the Blockchain center contributing to success of the startups you invest in? What percentage of your portfolio is based in MENA? Can you give me an example or tell me a story of success coming out of VentureSouq? How did VentureSouq fuel that success? What advice would you give to the U. S. -based startups considering Dubai for expansion? Links https://www. venturesouq. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/sonia-seth-gokhale-b0906014/ https://blockchaincenter. ae/ https://dubaiaicampus. com/ https://www. difc. ae/ https://www. investindubai. gov. ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agenda --- > In 2011, Josh joined an amazing online game website, when they started supporting his favorite game variant. Ten years later, he researched this company and their technology to see how it worked. He applied for one of the jobs, got rejected, but then quickly got a call from the CEO, who liked his application. - Published: 2024-12-10 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-josh-levine-chess-com/ - Tags: builder, chess, cloud, cto, distributed systems, hardware, scoring, software - Podcasts: S10 In 2011, Josh joined an amazing online game website, when they started supporting his favorite game variant. Ten years later, he researched this company and their technology to see how it worked. He applied for one of the jobs, got rejected, but then quickly got a call from the CEO, who liked his application. Josh Levine lives in Brooklyn, NY. He started programming when he was 6 years old, when his Dad brought home an Apple 2. He realized that though there wasn't enough legos in the world to support his creativity, he could get enough RAM. Growing up, he had a deep relationship with chess, setting up his own chess program. In fact, he states that he learned everything he knows about programming - by programming chess. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids. He loves karaoke, and is a musician, with his music online under the name Heavy Pennies. In 2011, Josh joined an amazing online game website, when they started supporting his favorite game variant. Ten years later, he researched this company and their technology to see how it worked. He applied for one of the jobs, got rejected, but then quickly got a call from the CEO, who liked his application. This is Josh's creation story at Chess. com. Sponsors PropelAuth Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. chess. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/levinester/ --- > As part of running an team, Daniel had to create a platform engineering squad to support the development process. What nagged him about this was that he felt like he was recreating the wheel, having done this many times before. He figured someone should solve these problem by building products to make cloud dev delightful. - Published: 2024-12-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-daniel-loreto-jetify/ - Tags: ai, at, automated, founder, native, test coverage, testing - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 As part of running an team, Daniel had to create a platform engineering squad to support the development process. What nagged him about this was that he felt like he was recreating the wheel, having done this many times before. He figured someone should solve these problem by building products to make cloud dev delightful. Daniel Loreto grew up in Venezuela, but moved around a lot and lived in 6 different countries. He is married with 2 kids, ages 8 and 5, which keeps him busy. Being based out of Austin, TX, he and his family like to spend time outdoors, on Lake Austin and Lake Travis. When it comes to food, he enjoys good sushi and eating healthy. And nowadays, he sticks to nonfiction reading, in order to learn something. As part of running an team, Daniel had to create a platform engineering squad to support the development process. What nagged him about this was that he felt like he was recreating the wheel, having done this many times before. He figured someone should solve these problem by building products to make cloud dev delightful. This is the creation story of Jetify. Sponsors PropelAuth Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. jetify. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/danielloreto/ --- > In this episode, we are speaking with Raakin Iqbal (aka Rock N Roll), CEO & Co-founder of Nucleus AI. Raakin is not only going to tell us about how Nucleus is building pre-AGI, but also how the ecosystem in Dubai is supporting their growth and success. - Published: 2024-12-04 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/minting-unicorns-blockchain-ai-and-dubai-raakin-iqbal-nucleus-ai/ - Tags: agi, ai, blockchain, dubai, llm, minting unicorns, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In this episode, we are speaking with Raakin Iqbal (aka Rock N Roll), CEO & Co-founder of Nucleus AI. Raakin is not only going to tell us about how Nucleus is building pre-AGI, but also how the ecosystem in Dubai is supporting their growth and success. Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled Minting Unicorns - Blockchain, AI and Dubai, sponsored by the City of Dubai. Dubai is the new global center of gravity, connecting the world in a way few places can. As a hub for trade, tourism, innovation, and finance, Dubai offers the ideal environment for startups and scale-ups to thrive. Entrepreneurs find a home here, whether in health-tech, fintech, AI, or renewable energy, supported by SME-focused programs that empower high-potential companies to scale globally. From flexible regulations to tax incentives, world-class infrastructure to access to global investors managing $1 trillion, Dubai understands what businesses need to scale fast. In this episode, we are speaking with Raakin Iqbal (aka Rock N Roll), CEO & Co-founder of Nucleus AI. Raakin is not only going to tell us about how Nucleus is building pre-AGI, but also how the ecosystem in Dubai is supporting their growth and success. Questions: What is Nucleus AI? What do you do? Nucleus AI is often described as a Pre-AGI platform. Could you explain how this sets you apart from other AI solutions currently available in the market? I am interested in how your system manages to "comprehend operational intricacies" instead of simply automating tasks. How does your company’s approach to advanced AI strategies align with organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind? Can you name some proof-of-concepts to illustrate to this end? What is the difference between Generative AI and AGI in your view, and why is Nucleus AI focusing on AGI? Talk to us about the biggest challenges and opportunities in the development of AGI, and how is Nucleus AI approaching them? Could you share some concrete examples of how your platform has enhanced efficiency for enterprises and government bodies within Dubai? Dr. Marwan of the Dubai Blockchain Center spoke about the convergence of blockchain and AI. How do you foresee this synergy advancing within Dubai and potentially on a global scale? What role do you see Nucleus AI playing in the broader AI and blockchain ecosystem of Dubai? How does Nucleus AI play a role as a possible use case using advanced AI for H. H. Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum's 0 Bureaucracy Government Vision? How would you describe Dubai’s ecosystem for artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation and product development? With Dubai’s advanced AI initiatives like the AI Campus and other licensing programs- how has Nucleus AI benefited from this environment esp. in your pursuit of AGI? What advice would you give to the U. S. -based AI startups considering Dubai for expansion? Links https://www. besocial. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/raakiniqbal/ https://blockchaincenter. ae/ https://dubaiaicampus. com/ https://www. difc. ae/ https://www. investindubai. gov. ae/en/why-dubai/d33-agenda --- > At the time of the log4j, Nick found himself troubled by the fact that people did not know if exploits were included in their software. He spent months diving deep into this issue and talking with people in the industry, and eventually he connected with a prior colleague, working on this very concept. - Published: 2024-12-03 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-nick-mistry-lineaje/ - Tags: advisor, blind, builder, cryptography, encryption - Podcasts: S10 At the time of the log4j, Nick found himself troubled by the fact that people did not know if exploits were included in their software. He spent months diving deep into this issue and talking with people in the industry, and eventually he connected with a prior colleague, working on this very concept. Nick Mistry lives in the suburbs of Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. He has always been fascinated by cyber security, but most of all, its intersection with emerging technology. Outside of tech, he enjoys reading about human nature, through biographies of past leaders. He highly recommends the book Founding Brothers, which highlights the start of the US. He also enjoys spending time with his family outdoors, especially during the fall in the Northeast. Around the time of the log4j exploit, Nick found himself troubled by the fact that people did not know if these exploits were included in their software. He spent months diving deep into this issue and talking with people in the industry, and eventually he connected with a prior colleague, working on this very concept. This is the creation story of Lineaje. Sponsors PropelAuth Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. lineaje. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/nickmistry/ --- > At his previous company, Jon observed a failure in systems that required his customers to fall back to manual systems. The pain of this situation led him and his current co-founders to have a strong desire - to make sure something like this never happened again. - Published: 2024-11-21 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jon-perl-qa-wolf/ - Tags: ai, at, automated, founder, native, test coverage, testing - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 At his previous company, Jon observed a failure in systems that required his customers to fall back to manual systems. The pain of this situation led him and his current co-founders to have a strong desire - to make sure something like this never happened again. Jon Perl is originally from Virgina, growing up on a computer. Mom is an architect and Dad is an electrical engineer. Jon picked up programming at his first job, when he automated a companies manifest creation. He has been passionate about programming ever since. Now, he lives in Seattle with his wife, young family, and dog. He enjoys all that Seattle offers, including the touristy stuff, and finding places for his daughter to pick up leaves. At his previous company, Jon observed a failure in systems that required his customers to fall back to manual processes. The pain of this situation led him and his current co-founders to have a strong desire - to make sure something like this never happened again. This is the creation story of QA Wolf. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. qawolf. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/perljon/ --- > Very early on, Nigel got involved with one of his current ventures. As an advisor, he stated to spend more and more time with the company, supporting it through its many iterations in building next level encryption for application builders - and doing so through open source. - Published: 2024-11-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-nigel-smart-zama/ - Tags: advisor, blind, builder, cryptography, encryption - Podcasts: S10 Very early on, Nigel got involved with one of his current ventures. As an advisor, he stated to spend more and more time with the company, supporting it through its many iterations in building next level encryption for application builders - and doing so through open source. Nigel Smart is from Britain, but currently lives in Belgium. He has a PhD in mathematics, but headed into the world of cryptography early on. He has started a few companies in the past, both of which have successfully exited, one to Coinbase. But outside of technology, he loves to cycle and attend concerts. When asked about food, he said he loves all food - as long as it doesn't include eggplant. Very early on, Nigel got involved with one of his current ventures. As an advisor, he stated to spend more and more time with the company, supporting it through its many iterations in building next level encryption for application builders - and doing so through open source. This is the creation story of Zama. SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. zama. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nigel-smart-3196b85/ --- > Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. - Published: 2024-11-14 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michael-louis-cerebrium/ - Tags: ai, applications, cloud, cto, machine learning, optimization, serverless - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. Michael Louis grew up in South Africa, spending the first 25 years of his life there. From a young age, and being surrounded by an entrepreneurial family, he was always curious. He got into robotics and coding early, and stayed competitive and active as he grew up. Outside of tech, he loves to play squash, workout in CrossFit, run, and do anything where he has an opponent. Also, per South Africa culture, he enjoys spending time with friends at any social event involving drinking. Michael built a successful eCommerce company, where you could order different items from stores and have them delivered. Because the margins in eCommerce are low, he and his team wanted to figure out how they could optimize their operation using machine learning. The tools out there weren't ideal, and the process was hard - but they did revolutionize their operation. Post exit, he decided to build a solution that made this optimization process easier. This is the creation story of Cerebrium. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. cerebrium. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/michael-louis-94104a113/ --- > Pablo built a company called Kaleidos, which aids in the creation of software solutions. They hold a core belief that there should be a close connection between designers and developers. What they found in the tooling to support these disciplines is that they weren't built to embrace this concept. So, they decided to incubate a product, and make it open source. - Published: 2024-11-13 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pablo-ruiz-muzquiz-penpot/ - Tags: design, design to code, designer, engineer, figma, founder, open source, sketch - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Pablo built a company called Kaleidos, which aids in the creation of software solutions. They hold a core belief that there should be a close connection between designers and developers. What they found in the tooling to support these disciplines is that they weren't built to embrace this concept. So, they decided to incubate a product, and make it open source. Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz has a background in physics and computer science. At some point, he decided to ditch the science and pursue open source, which is what got him started on his 20 year passion for tech. Outside of tech, he longs to feel like a useful member of society and engages in extracurricular projects to support this. He also is into traditional archery - IE wood bow and arrows - and finds joy in connecting with the old way of doing things. He also enjoys gardening and reading, of which, fantasy is one of his favorite genres. Pablo built a company called Kaleidos, which aids in the creation of software solutions. They hold a core belief that there should be a close connection between designers and developers. What they found in the tooling to support these disciplines is that they weren't built to embrace this concept. So, they decided to incubate a product, and make it open source. This is the creation story of Penpot. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://penpot. app/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/pruizmuzquiz/ https://elenya. net/ https://kaleidos. net/ --- > William and his co-founder met in a coffee shop in London. As they were chatting about prior projects, they figure out there was a lot of overlap in the things they were interested in. Eventually, they returned and built some solutions together - and off the back of a prior wishlist project, they decided to make an online shopping cart to end all others. - Published: 2024-11-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-william-neill-basket/ - Tags: cart, ceo, ecommerce, online, shopping, wishlist - Podcasts: S10 William and his co-founder met in a coffee shop in London. As they were chatting about prior projects, they figure out there was a lot of overlap in the things they were interested in. Eventually, they returned and built some solutions together - and off the back of a prior wishlist project, they decided to make an online shopping cart to end all others. William Neill had an interesting childhood in New Zealand, rooted in being an entrepreneur. As a kid, he helped write business plans with his parents, or build makery stuff for projects. Living this type of childhood, combined with the creativity of music, it started a lifelong trend of building businesses and products. Rooted in his love for being an entrepreneur, he has always longed for a flexible life, to keep him present for his young family, and to allow for the option to travel. He loves spending time with his kids on the beach, and exploring the country as a family. William and his co-founder met in a coffee shop in London. As they were chatting about prior projects, they figure out there was a lot of overlap in the things they were interested in. Eventually, they returned and built some solutions together - and off the back of a prior wishlist project, they decided to make an online shopping cart to end all others. This is the creation story of Basket. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. trybasket. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/willneill/ --- > Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. - Published: 2024-11-07 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rohith-varanasi-block-party/ - Tags: Developer, exercise, founder, friends, game, health, stickers - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood, playing videos games and sports from a young age. He wanted to learn how to build a video game, and upon googling it, decided he should build a website first. At that point. . he was hooked on coding. He got into jailbreaking the playstation and writing real code to mod games. Eventually, he got into hackathons and ended up building a web browser based on SMS called Cosmos - which went viral. Outside of tech, he is into paddle, loves going to the gym, and hanging with his girlfriend and their 1 year old cat. Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability. This is the creation story of Block Party. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://blockparty. game https://www. linkedin. com/in/brohith/ --- > Jason and his co-founder, Ben, were having a beer, coming out of their prior startup life. Over the beer, Ben was sharing some stories about tight warehouse space and product distribution. They started to ask the question - how can you add flexibility to warehousing? They decided to set out and build something to create this solution. - Published: 2024-11-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-jason-harbert-flowspace/ - Tags: cto, ecommerce, founder, on demand, supply chain, warehouse, y combinator - Podcasts: S10 Jason and his co-founder, Ben, were having a beer, coming out of their prior startup life. Over the beer, Ben was sharing some stories about tight warehouse space and product distribution. They started to ask the question - how can you add flexibility to warehousing? They decided to set out and build something to create this solution. Jason Harbert grew up in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. He got into video games, which led him into programming... which led him to Linux and internet security and joining the hacking club. He studied computer science at the University of Cincinnati, but left his senior year to hit the startup scene in the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he lives in Ohio, and is married with a 13 month old son. He loves to travel, and spend time with his family, trying new restaurants. Jason and his co-founder, Ben, were having a beer, coming out of their prior startup life. Over the beer, Ben was sharing some stories about tight warehouse space and product distribution. They started to ask the question - how can you add flexibility to warehousing? They decided to set out and build something to create this solution. This is the creation story of Flowspace. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://flow. space/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/jason-harbert/ --- > Today’s episode is titled A Portal to the Beyond: Securing Gen AI and other Third-Party APIs in Your Applications, with Allison Averill. Developers are building exciting new features with Gen AI, often leveraging 3rd party APIs. Doing this isn’t new, but are these integrations secure? - Published: 2024-10-30 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-a-portal-to-the-beyond/ - Tags: ai, api, attacker, generative ai, haunted house of apis, product, security, threats - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today’s episode is titled A Portal to the Beyond: Securing Gen AI and other Third-Party APIs in Your Applications, with Allison Averill. Developers are building exciting new features with Gen AI, often leveraging 3rd party APIs. Doing this isn’t new, but are these integrations secure? The Haunted House of API's Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness month, in our series entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers. A Portal to the Beyond: Securing Gen AI and other Third-Party APIs in Your Applications Today’s episode is titled A Portal to the Beyond: Securing Gen AI and other Third-Party APIs in Your Applications, with Allison Averill. Developers are building exciting new features with Gen AI, often leveraging 3rd party APIs. Doing this isn’t new, but are these integrations secure? These APIs open a portal to the beyond – and introduce supply chain risk to your applications. Allison is a Generative AI and product management expert at Traceable, and she will explore the risks lurking in generative AI and other 3rd party APIs, sharing best practices for securing these integrations, so you can ensure they don’t become the stuff of security horror stories. How are application developers leveraging 3rd party APIs today, and how is the landscape changing? How do third-party APIs introduce risks to applications and what are some common mistakes organizations make when integrating with third party APIs? How are generative AI APIs different from other third party APIs? What unique risks do they introduce? Have you encountered any 'nightmare' scenarios where an insecure third-party API caused a security incident? What best practices should organizations follow to ensure secure integrations? How can organizations balance the need for innovation with the necessity of maintaining strict security controls when working with external partners? Sponsors Traceable Links https://www. traceable. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/allisonaverill/ --- > Today’s episode is titled Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security, with Adam Arellano. API security threats often go unnoticed, hiding like ghosts in your infrastructure. Bots, sophisticated fraud attempts, account takeovers and attackers disguising themselves within legit traffic… these all pose risk to your organization, and can bypass traditional security measures. - Published: 2024-10-29 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-phantom-threats-with-adam-arellano/ - Tags: api, attacker, cybersecurity, haunted house of apis, hidden, leader, phantom, product, security, threats - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today’s episode is titled Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security, with Adam Arellano. API security threats often go unnoticed, hiding like ghosts in your infrastructure. Bots, sophisticated fraud attempts, account takeovers and attackers disguising themselves within legit traffic… these all pose risk to your organization, and can bypass traditional security measures. The Haunted House of API's Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness month, in our series entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers. Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security Today’s episode is titled Phantom Threats: The Ghosts Haunting Your API Security, with Adam Arellano. API security threats often go unnoticed, hiding like ghosts in your infrastructure. Bots, sophisticated fraud attempts, account takeovers and attackers disguising themselves within legit traffic... these all pose risk to your organization, and can bypass traditional security measures, wreaking havoc without detection – until it’s too late. Adam is a tech advisor, Global CISO at Traceable, and will guide listeners through the world of phantom threats haunting API security. What are "phantom threats" in the context of API security, and how do they go undetected? Can you explain how advanced botnets and fraud attempts exploit APIs while blending into legitimate traffic? Do you have a real-world example of a phantom threat that caused significant damage to an organization? What makes detecting these phantom threats so challenging, and why do traditional security measures often fail? What are the best strategies or technologies organizations can adopt to detect and eliminate these hidden threats before they cause harm? Sponsors Traceable Links https://www. traceable. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/adamrossarellano/ --- > In his prior years, Shashwat noticed that developers spend a large amount of time securing business assets in the cloud. He dreamt of a world where this was just an abstraction layer on top of the cloud, making it easier for developers to complete the task. - Published: 2024-10-28 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-shashwat-sehgal-p0-security/ - Tags: abstraction, assets, ceo, cloud, complicated, cto, founder, security - Podcasts: S10 In his prior years, Shashwat noticed that developers spend a large amount of time securing business assets in the cloud. He dreamt of a world where this was just an abstraction layer on top of the cloud, making it easier for developers to complete the task. Shashwat Sehgal has been in the tech industry broadly for 15 years. He started out as an engineer, but eventually, worked his way towards product and the business side. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with his family. He's into sports, loves to play tennis, but admits he hasn't played pickle ball yet because the courts are always booked. He also enjoys reading, in particular historical narratives or autobiographies. In his prior years, Shashwat noticed that developers spend a large amount of time securing business assets in the cloud. He dreamt of a world where this was just an abstraction layer on top of the cloud, making it easier for developers to complete the task. This is the creation story of P0 Security. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://p0. dev/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/shashwatsehgal/ --- > Today’s episode is titled The Haunted Web: Navigating API Sprawl and Creepy Crawlers, with Traceable’s Chief Security Officer, Richard Bird. As organizations scale and evolve, so does the complexity of their APIs. API sprawl, the uncontrolled expansion of APIs, creates a tangled web where vulnerabilities linger in the shadows. - Published: 2024-10-24 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-the-haunted-web-of-apis/ - Tags: api, attacker, crawl, cso, exploit, haunted house of apis, hidden apis, security, sprawl - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today’s episode is titled The Haunted Web: Navigating API Sprawl and Creepy Crawlers, with Traceable’s Chief Security Officer, Richard Bird. As organizations scale and evolve, so does the complexity of their APIs. API sprawl, the uncontrolled expansion of APIs, creates a tangled web where vulnerabilities linger in the shadows. The Haunted House of API's Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness month, in our series entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers. The Haunted Web: Navigating API Sprawl and Creepy Crawlers Today’s episode is titled The Haunted Web: Navigating API Sprawl and Creepy Crawlers, with Traceable’s Chief Security Officer, Richard Bird. As organizations scale and evolve, so does the complexity of their APIs. API sprawl, the uncontrolled expansion of APIs, creates a tangled web where vulnerabilities linger in the shadows. These unseen APIs become “creepy crawlers” of your digital infrastructure, creeping through your systems and posing security risks. Richard will discuss how unmanaged and undocumented APIs contribute to blind spots in security, the risks they create for organizations and the best strategies for securing a sprawling ecosystem. Discussion questions: Can you explain what we mean by "unknown APIs" and the different types, like shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented? Why do these APIs often go unnoticed, and how do they become security risks? What makes these APIs such an attractive target for attackers, and can you share an example of how one has been exploited? How can organizations begin to uncover these hidden APIs, and what tools or strategies are effective in doing so? In your experience, what are some common mistakes organizations make that lead to these unknown APIs being created or overlooked? Sponsors Traceable Links https://www. traceable. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/rbird/ https://richardbird. com/ --- > Our episode today is titled The Dark Corners of APIs: Uncovering Unknown API’s lurking in the shadows, where we speak with Katie Paxton-Fear. APIs are the gateway to your digital infrastructure, but hidden deep in the recesses of your system are unknown APIs – shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented API’s. Each of these present a unique threat to your organization and can be exploited by hackers. - Published: 2024-10-23 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-dark-corners-of-apis/ - Tags: api, attacker, autonomy, exploit, haunted house of apis, hidden apis, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Our episode today is titled The Dark Corners of APIs: Uncovering Unknown API’s lurking in the shadows, where we speak with Katie Paxton-Fear. APIs are the gateway to your digital infrastructure, but hidden deep in the recesses of your system are unknown APIs – shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented API’s. Each of these present a unique threat to your organization and can be exploited by hackers. The Haunted House of API's Today, we are releasing another episode for Cybersecurity Awareness month, in our series entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers. The Dark Corners of APIs: Uncovering Unknown APIs Lurking in the Shadows Our episode today is titled The Dark Corners of APIs: Uncovering Unknown API’s lurking in the shadows, where we speak with Katie Paxton-Fear. APIs are the gateway to your digital infrastructure, but hidden deep in the recesses of your system are unknown APIs – shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented API’s. Each of these present a unique threat to your organization and can be exploited by hackers. Katie is an API hacker and researcher, and today, she will take us on a journey through the API graveyards, where hidden APIs lurk, waiting to be exploited – sharing real life examples of how these API’s have been attacked, and best practices for ensuring they don’t become your companies next security nightmare. Discussion questions: Can you explain what we mean by "unknown APIs" and the different types, like shadow, rogue, zombie, and undocumented? Why do these APIs often go unnoticed, and how do they become security risks? What makes these APIs such an attractive target for attackers, and can you share an example of how one has been exploited? How can organizations begin to uncover these hidden APIs, and what tools or strategies are effective in doing so? In your experience, what are some common mistakes organizations make that lead to these unknown APIs being created or overlooked? Sponsors Traceable Links https://www. traceable. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/katiepf/ https://insiderphd. dev/ Katie's YouTube Channel --- > In today’s episode, we will be talking with Jayesh Ahire, an expert in API testing and OWASP, will guide us through the "brew" of common vulnerabilities that haunt API ecosystems, focusing on the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. He’ll share how organizations can use API security testing to spot and neutralize these vulnerabilities before they become major exploits. By emphasizing proactive security measures, Jayesh will offer insights into creating a strong API testing framework that keeps malicious actors at bay. - Published: 2024-10-22 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-haunted-house-of-apis-the-witchs-brew-with-jayesh-ahire/ - Tags: api, attacker, cybersecurity, haunted house of apis, leader, product, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In today’s episode, we will be talking with Jayesh Ahire, an expert in API testing and OWASP, will guide us through the "brew" of common vulnerabilities that haunt API ecosystems, focusing on the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. He’ll share how organizations can use API security testing to spot and neutralize these vulnerabilities before they become major exploits. By emphasizing proactive security measures, Jayesh will offer insights into creating a strong API testing framework that keeps malicious actors at bay. The Haunted House of API's Today, we are kicking off an amazing series for Cybersecurity Awareness month, entitled the Haunted House of API’s, sponsored by our friends at Traceable AI. In this series, we are building awareness around API’s, their security risks – and what you can do about it. Traceable AI is building One Platform to secure every API, so you can discover, protect, and test all your API's with contextual API security, enabling organizations to minimize risk and maximize the value API's bring to their customers. The Witch’s Brew: Stirring Up OWASP Vulnerabilities and API Testing In today’s episode, we will be talking with Jayesh Ahire, an expert in API testing and OWASP, will guide us through the "brew" of common vulnerabilities that haunt API ecosystems, focusing on the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. He’ll share how organizations can use API security testing to spot and neutralize these vulnerabilities before they become major exploits. By emphasizing proactive security measures, Jayesh will offer insights into creating a strong API testing framework that keeps malicious actors at bay. Discussion questions: What are some of the most common vulnerabilities in APIs that align with the OWASP Top 10, and why are they so dangerous? Why is API security testing crucial for detecting these vulnerabilities early, and how does it differ from traditional security testing? Can you share an example of how an overlooked API vulnerability led to a significant security breach? How can organizations create an effective API testing framework that addresses these vulnerabilities? What tools or methods do you recommend for continuously testing APIs and ensuring they remain secure as they evolve? Sponsors Traceable Links https://www. traceable. ai/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/jayesh-ahire/ https://owasp. org/ --- > As I mentioned, six years ago Elkhan joined a company that wanted to be more than a software development shop. He and the founder of the company wanted to build a company that did more than throw bodies at a problem - but actually because a long term partner to their clients. - Published: 2024-10-17 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-elkhan-shabanov-digicode/ - Tags: agency, americas, development, expertise, services, software, talent - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 As I mentioned, six years ago Elkhan joined a company that wanted to be more than a software development shop. He and the founder of the company wanted to build a company that did more than throw bodies at a problem - but actually because a long term partner to their clients. Elkhan Shabanov was born in the Soviet Union, and started out in the tech world. He eventually left tech to try some other types of businesses, but eventually returned. He has done a few early stage startups in the past, in particular in the 3d printing space before it was cool. Six years ago, he joined his current venture. Outside of tech, he enjoys traveling, and is in a competition with his daughter to see how many countries he can visit. When he reads, he prefers to go back to the books he has read and enjoyed before, and being in Texas, he is a big fan of grilling out on his big green egg. As I mentioned, six years ago Elkhan joined a company that wanted to be more than a software development shop. He and the founder of the company wanted to build a company that did more than throw bodies at a problem - but actually because a long term partner to their clients. This is the creation story of Digicode. Sponsors Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. mydigicode. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/elkhanshabanov/ --- > In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution. - Published: 2024-10-15 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-vishal-agarwal-checkmate/ - Tags: ceo, founder, integration, mobile, ordering, pos, scraping, tablet - Podcasts: S10 In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution. Vishal Agarwal was born in India, and did his schooling in Darjeeling. He noted that this city exports some of the best tea in the world! Prior to his current venture, he was the chief marketing officer for Choxi. Outside of tech, he is an avid tennis lover and follows cricket and basketball closely. Though, he admits, now that he has a 2. 5 year old child, his time is mostly dedicated to him. In attempting to solve the problem of "splitting the check", Vishal discovered that restaurants had a real problem with having multiple tablets for the many order and delivery services - like GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. When he saw this problem proliferate, he validated that people were willing to pay for a solution. This is the creation story of Checkmate. SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. itsacheckmate. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/vishalagarwal82/ --- > Previously, Heiki spent time working for a VC, eventually building a product in a completely different domain. After personally realizing that he didn't want to be known for the product he was building, he pivoted towards building something that impacted him personally as an immigrant. - Published: 2024-10-10 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-heiki-riesenkampf-commonbase/ - Tags: founder, native, pivot, translation, voice - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Previously, Heiki spent time working for a VC, eventually building a product in a completely different domain. After personally realizing that he didn't want to be known for the product he was building, he pivoted towards building something that impacted him personally as an immigrant. Heiki Riesenkampf is from a tiny country called Estonia, later studying computer science in London and doing his post grad in Zurich. He has been into machine learning since before all of the hype it has now. Outside of technology, he dreams of being a macroeconomist, and spends a ton of time reading about the topic. He lives in New York now, and frequently takes in the architecture, fashion and local art scene. Previously, Heiki spent time working for a VC, eventually building a product in a completely different domain. After personally realizing that he didn't want to be known for the product he was building, he pivoted towards building something that impacted him personally as an immigrant. This is the creation story of Commonbase. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://commonbase. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/heikir --- > After selling his past company to Symantec, he stayed on to help existing and future companies. What he realized was that people were still mis-using their identities. He observed this behavior, and decided to take identity to the next level. - Published: 2024-10-08 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-guy-guzner-savvy-security/ - Tags: ceo, cross platform, founder, identity, saas, security - Podcasts: S10 After selling his past company to Symantec, he stayed on to help existing and future companies. What he realized was that people were still mis-using their identities. He observed this behavior, and decided to take identity to the next level. Guy Guzner first computer when he was 5, which was a Commodore 64, where he learned to program in BASIC. As a teed, get started getting into the internet, back with dialup and a modem. He startec hacking into places where he shouldn't be, and eventually got into trouble - but now, he has flipped that for good and works to protect systems now. Outside of tech, he plays tennis, and likes to ski. He also plays guitar, jamming Led Zeppling and 80's / 90's rock. After selling his past company to Symantec, he stayed on to help existing and future companies. What he realized was that people were still mis-using their identities. He observed this behavior, and decided to take identity to the next level. This is the creation story of Savvy Security. SponsorsP0 SecuritySpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://www. savvy. security/https://www. linkedin. com/in/guyguzner/ --- > Eight years ago, Rob and his partners started a company called Density, allowing businesses to count the number of people in a room. After growing that business, Rob realized that he wanted to get back to building things. And, after working with early businesses, he found his passion in being founders for hire. - Published: 2024-10-03 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-graziolo-bread/ - Tags: agency, building, for, founders, hire, methodology, product, services - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Eight years ago, Rob and his partners started a company called Density, allowing businesses to count the number of people in a room. After growing that business, Rob realized that he wanted to get back to building things. And, after working with early businesses, he found his passion in being founders for hire. Rob Grazioli started his life in Brooklyn NY, but moved to Italy for his Dad's job, and lived there from age 5 to 13. He ended up moving back to the states for High School and College, and finds that it's difficult to separate tech and work from his life. Outside of tech, he enjoys exercising, and has always been an athlete, most recently picking up basketball. He really loves to make things, learn how things work, and to munch on Oreos. Eight years ago, Rob and his partners started a company called Density, allowing businesses to count the number of people in a room. After growing that business, Rob realized that he wanted to get back to building things. And, after working with early businesses, he found his passion in being founders for hire. This is the creation story of Bread. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://www. madebybread. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/robert-j-grazioli/ --- > Sebastian realized that the manual processes for a trader are overwhelming, along with making it difficult to be consistent. And alongside this, he saw the cycle of manual traders returning the money they made to the market - sort of like "the house always wins" in casinos. He wanted to build something close the gap for these traders, and solve this problem. - Published: 2024-10-01 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-sebastian-raffaele-minotaur-trading-systems/ - Tags: automated, crypto, founder, house, optimize, trading - Podcasts: S10 Sebastian realized that the manual processes for a trader are overwhelming, along with making it difficult to be consistent. And alongside this, he saw the cycle of manual traders returning the money they made to the market - sort of like "the house always wins" in casinos. He wanted to build something close the gap for these traders, and solve this problem. Sebastian Raffaele grew up in a small, working class family in Australia. He had a crazy life, growing up in social housing, having to find his way. He found inspiration from his family members, who always pushed him to follow his passions. He left high school early, and jumped straight away into the work force. In 2014 he was introduced to crypto, and got hooked. Outside of tech and finance, he has always been into the creative spaces, specifically music. He likes to spend time with his fiancé, likes trying new foods, and tries to surround himself with high quality people. Sebastian realized that the manual processes for a trader are overwhelming, along with making it difficult to be consistent. And alongside this, he saw the cycle of manual traders returning the money they made to the market - sort of like "the house always wins" in casinos. He wanted to build something close the gap for these traders, and solve this problem. This is the creation story of Minotaur Trading Systems. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf SnapTrade Links https://minotaurtradingsystems. com/ --- > Brendan and his team were running into the problems surrounding integrations into brokers. People started to reach out to his team to ask if they could use the integrations... and they started ideating about making this its own product. - Published: 2024-09-24 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-brendan-wood-snaptrade/ - Tags: authentication, broker, ceo, founder, investing, login, plaid, trading - Podcasts: S10 Brendan and his team were running into the problems surrounding integrations into brokers. People started to reach out to his team to ask if they could use the integrations... and they started ideating about making this its own product. In August of 2021, we interviewed Brendan Wood on the podcast to tell the creation story of Passiv. After the recording, the company decided to pivot into a new market, focusing on solving their biggest pain point for other platforms. They were running into the problems surrounding integrations into brokers. In fact, they were spending 80% of engineering time on integrations. People started to reach out to his team to ask if they could use the integrations... and they started ideating about making this its own product. This is the creation story of SnapTrade. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf Links https://snaptrade. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/brendancalebwood/ https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-brendan-wood-passiv/ --- > Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember our episode with Stephanie Florio in Season 6 over 2 years ago, where she clued us in on the creation story of the company. Today, I'm speaking with her co-founder and brother, Alex, to hear the update on Swob and what the team has been up to since then. - Published: 2024-09-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-swob-founder-alex-florio/ - Tags: app, founder, jobs, online, scaling, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember our episode with Stephanie Florio in Season 6 over 2 years ago, where she clued us in on the creation story of the company. Today, I'm speaking with her co-founder and brother, Alex, to hear the update on Swob and what the team has been up to since then. Hello listeners. Today, I have an awesome follow episode from our friends at Swob. You may remember our episode with Stephanie Florio in Season 6 over 2 years ago, where she clued us in on the creation story of the company. Today, I'm speaking with her co-founder and brother, Alex, to hear the update on Swob and what the team has been up to since then. Have a listen now It's very cool to hear the successful update with Swob, adding over 7 million jobs to the platform, scaling for businesses and candidates, and ensuring they have the right team in place to carry out the vision. If you would like to learn more about Swob, go to swobapp. com. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf Links https://www. swobapp. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexanderflorio/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/stephanie-florio-51397765/ https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-stephanie-florio-swob/ --- > Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. - Published: 2024-09-17 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-kevin-hurley-lightspark/ - Tags: bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, cto, founder, lightning, payments - Podcasts: S10 Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering, and funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade. Outside of tech, he spends his free time with his fiancé, planning for the wedding, and visiting Manhattan beach for a good walk . Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast. This is the creation story of Lightspark. Sponsors P0 Security Speakeasy QA Wolf Links https://www. lightspark. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/kevin-p-hurley/ --- > Today, I have an incredible follow episode from our friends at Turso. You may remember our episode with Glauber Costa in Season 8, where he told us the creation story of the platform. Today, I'm speaking with his co-founder, Pekka, to hear the update on Turso and what the team has been building over the past year. - Published: 2024-09-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/turso-update-with-pekka-enberg/ - Tags: device, edge, mobile, network, return, turso, vector - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 Today, I have an incredible follow episode from our friends at Turso. You may remember our episode with Glauber Costa in Season 8, where he told us the creation story of the platform. Today, I'm speaking with his co-founder, Pekka, to hear the update on Turso and what the team has been building over the past year. Hello listeners. Today, I have an incredible follow episode from our friends at Turso. You may remember our episode with Glauber Costa in Season 8, where he told us the creation story of the platform. Today, I'm speaking with his co-founder, Pekka, to hear the update on Turso and what the team has been building over the past year. Now with Turso, you can not only have embedded replicas on your device or browser, with multi-tenancy and syncing to Turbo's edge network - but now the tool powers vector search from on the device itself, leading to natively server less, low latency sql lite production loads. Turso continues to push the envelope with their product, and expanding use cases for developers. If you would like to learn more about Turso, go to turso. tech. If you'd like to learn more specifically about vector search, go to turso. tech/vector. Sponsors Speakeasy Links https://turso. tech/ https://turso. tech/vector https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-glauber-costa-turso/ https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-dor-laor-scylladb/ --- > Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? - Published: 2024-09-10 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-matt-van-itallie-sema/ - Tags: assessment, ceo, code, founder, improvements, learning, quality, status - Podcasts: S10 Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as data. He is a proud Boy Scout, making it of course to Eagle Scout and beyond. After being a management consultant, he found his way to ed tech, and fell in love with improving code. Outside of technology, he is married with 3 amazing kids. He likes to run, play ultimate frisbee, and has a wicked cool collection of minor league baseball hats. Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? This is the creation story of Sema. SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://www. semasoftware. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/mvi/ --- > In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. - Published: 2024-09-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anurag-goel-render/ - Tags: abstract, ceo, founder, kubernetes, setup - Podcasts: Bonus, S10 In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe, as the 8th employee, before eventually moving on and launching his current venture. Outside of tech, he is married, living in San Francisco. He likes to read science fiction, especially prior to bedtime. He also enjoys eating Thai food on the regular, though he mentioned he could eat pizza every day. Post leaving Stripe, Anurag decided to work on an ambitious problem, and he started doing this by building a bunch of stuff in many different domains. After noticing a common problem in building out Kubernetes, he decided to start a new business to abstract these problems, and allow builders to focus on the differentiating factors to their solutions. This is the creation story of Render. SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://render. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/anuragoel/ --- > In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. - Published: 2024-09-03 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sagar-batchu-speakeasy/ - Tags: api, ceo, deployment, development, documentation, founder, market, testing - Podcasts: S10 In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. Sagar Batchu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade. He has always been interested in how things work, and majored in Physic at his University. Towards the end of his studies, he crammed in a ton of CS classes and fell in love with the craft. He's worked on firmware, enterprise software, and eventually went to LiveRamp, building new experiences for them. Outside of tech, he loves pickleball, enjoys growing coffee and loves readying about historical events. In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. This is the creation story of Speakeasy. SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://www. speakeasy. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sagar-batchu-981b3738/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Prince started Workbench while his co-founders created an agency, which was more like an operations company in a box. When they started working together, they realized there was a large opportunity to combine forces and simplify quality control. - Published: 2024-08-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e35-prince-ghosh-factored-quailty/ - Tags: agency, founder, quality, supply chain, Tech, workbench - Podcasts: S9 Prior to his current venture, Prince started Workbench while his co-founders created an agency, which was more like an operations company in a box. When they started working together, they realized there was a large opportunity to combine forces and simplify quality control. Prince Ghosh was born in Bangalore, India, and moved around a lot during his life - to the US, then to Europe, then back to the US. But he spent his formative years in Princeton, New Jersey. He majored in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, as he wanted to build planes and engines. Eventually, he fell out of love with building planes, and because obsessed with supply chain tech. Outside of tech, he is a tennis player, occasional basketball player, and is an avid reader. He is enthusiastic about tech, the economy, and of course, the supply chain. Prior to his current venture, Prince started Workbench while his co-founders created an agency, which was more like an operations company in a box. When they started working together, they realized there was a large opportunity to combine forces and simplify quality control. This is the creation story of Factored Quality. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. factoredquality. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/princeghosh/ --- > While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC - Published: 2024-07-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e34-anish-dhar-cortex/ - Tags: catalogue, ceo, Developer, founder, internal, microservices, tool - Podcasts: S9 While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC Anish Dhar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded by technology, being in the Bay Area and having his Dad as a software engineer. His earliest exposure to tech was hacking his Wii - and at that point he was hooked. He eventually joined Uber and experienced many of the problems he is solving today. Outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and playing piano. He loves making music and attending shows to hear other artists, in particular EDM. While he was at Uber, Anish noticed that the company was a prime example of microservices gone wrong. Developers were going outside of standards building services, not documenting them properly. He realized that every company he talked to had the problem of service cataloguing, and he felt confident to apply to take the challenge on and apply to YC. This is the creation story of Cortex. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. cortex. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/anishdhar/ --- > After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. - Published: 2024-07-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e33-rick-caccia-witnessai/ - Tags: ai, employee, enablement, enterprise, founder, startup, tooling, usage - Podcasts: S9 After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him and his wife, they have worked in 13 different startups - so you could say they have a startup family through and through. Outside of tech, he is a cyclist in a bike club, and enjoys spending time with his family. After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. This is the creation story of WitnessAI. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://witness. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/rcaccia/ --- > Shalin found himself frustrated with working for others, which drove him into entrepreneurship. When he came across his current venture, he invested in the firm, became a part of it, and eventually, became the last co-founder, in a company administrating funds with cutting edge technology. - Published: 2024-07-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e32-shalin-madan-formidium/ - Tags: co-founder, CRO, fund, investment, investor, management, revenue, services - Podcasts: S9 Shalin found himself frustrated with working for others, which drove him into entrepreneurship. When he came across his current venture, he invested in the firm, became a part of it, and eventually, became the last co-founder, in a company administrating funds with cutting edge technology. Shalin Madan immigrated to the US when he was 6 years old. He spent 20 years in the financial markets, of which he got into when he was a teenager. HIs first and best memory of the industry is when Netspace IPO's, and the stock went up 300% in the first day. Outside of finance and tech, he enjoys cooking, frequents the gym, and loves to travel. He's also a learner, studying philosophy, relationships, and of course, the macro economy. Shalin found himself frustrated with working for others, which drove him into entrepreneurship. When he came across his current venture, he invested in the firm, became a part of it, and eventually, became the last co-founder, in a company administrating funds with cutting edge technology. This is the creation story of Formidium. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://formidium. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/shalin-madan-caia-b00239/ --- > Konrad worked at Uber, working on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and quickly realize how quickly configuration bloat appears in the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags. - Published: 2024-07-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e31-konrad-niemiec-lekko/ - Tags: co-founder, configuration, cto, dynamic, feature flags, platform - Podcasts: S9 Konrad worked at Uber, working on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and quickly realize how quickly configuration bloat appears in the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags. Konrad Niemiec lives in San Francisco. He is very close to his family, of which his parents are polish immigrants. He started coding when he was 11, while working for his Dad. His core values are curiosity and community, which drives a lot of what he does outside of tech. He likes to learn things, and his current hobby set includes surfing and spike ball, of which he is working on perfecting his spin serve. Konrad worked at Uber, on the self driving team. After a few years, he wanted to be less of a cog in the machine and joined a small startup. He introduced a feature flagging platform, and realized how quickly configuration bloat appeared on the platform. He also realized how dynamic configuration could take the platform beyond the limits of feature flags. This is the creation story of Lekko. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. lekko. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/konrad-niemiec/ --- > Jason has been a podcaster for many years, interviewing founders and creators of new startup and tech solutions. When COVID hit, he was struck with how difficult it was to connect with individuals via audio call. He validated an idea he had, and combining his ambition and a little bit of boredom, he got a crew building a solution. - Published: 2024-07-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-hill-owwlll-app/ - Tags: audio, call, ceo, converastion, founder, marketplace, phone - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Jason has been a podcaster for many years, interviewing founders and creators of new startup and tech solutions. When COVID hit, he was struck with how difficult it was to connect with individuals via audio call. He validated an idea he had, and combining his ambition and a little bit of boredom, he got a crew building a solution. Jason Hill was born and raised in New York, and post college, went back to New York and joined the financial services - though, he was always into technology. Eventually, he moved to South Florida because every time he was in New York, he couldn't wait to leave. He enjoys playing poker, pickleball, and spending time with his two kids. Jason has been a podcaster for many years, interviewing founders and creators of new startup and tech solutions. When COVID hit, he was struck with how difficult it was to connect with individuals via audio call. He validated an idea he had, and combining his ambition and a little bit of boredom, he got a crew building a solution. This is the creation story of Owwlll App. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://owwll. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/thejasonrhill/ --- > Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control. - Published: 2024-06-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-adam-jacob-system-initiative/ - Tags: co-founder, constuction, cto, expenses, money, payments, receipts - Podcasts: S9 Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control. Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin based. He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80's hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of which your host is very familiar. He also loves cats, and at one point, had a bengal, which is a cross between a tiger and a domestic cat. Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control. This is the creation story of System Initiative. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. systeminit. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/adamjacob/ --- > After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond. - Published: 2024-06-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-berkay-atatop-maestra/ - Tags: as code, cloud, founder, iac, infrastructure, infrastructure as code, scaling - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond. Berkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but enable him to live a nomadic life. He split his college time in Turkey and America, and while he was stateside, he discovered hackathons - which is the origin spot for his current venture. Outside of tech, he played water polo for 10 years, and enjoys playing the guitar. He finds inspiration in bands like Pearl Jam, who is coming to Europe soon, which Berkay is excited about. After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond. This is the creation story of Maestra. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://maestra. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/batatop/ --- > In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy – and that people weren’t willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it. - Published: 2024-06-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-umaimah-khan-opal-security/ - Tags: co-founder, constuction, cto, expenses, money, payments, receipts - Podcasts: S9 In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy – and that people weren’t willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it. Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups and tech. She is a curious person, with many hobbies and interests. In fact, she loves to cook and was a chef at two different Michelin star restaurants. She also likes to garden, growing food and also interesting plants. In the past, UK found herself drawn towards real world problems in real time. What she found herself noticing was that access management was incredibly messy - and that people weren't willing to look behind the curtain to fix the problem. After she noticed that this problem kept surfacing , and decided to solve it. This is the creation story of Opal Security. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://opal. dev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/umaimah-k-b7466a249/ --- > David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses. - Published: 2024-06-11 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-david-cauthron-outpave/ - Tags: co-founder, constuction, cto, expenses, money, payments, receipts - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses. David Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at Texas Instruments - who makes a whole lot more than calculators - serving in numerous roles in IT, the latter being e-commerce. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and really enjoys spending time with his family - going to Disney, biking and running. In addition to this, he plays Minecraft with the kids, and attending gymnastics meets and Boy Scout campouts. David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if he was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses. This is the creation story of Outpave. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. outpave. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-cauthron-15806a8/ --- > Omry and his cofounder used to work together at a prior big company in Israel. They encountered problems scaling environments efficiently and fast. Back then though - there was no cloud, it was just getting started. When they started building something internally to solve this, they encountered infrastructure as a code - and the game changed. - Published: 2024-06-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-omry-hay-env0/ - Tags: as code, cloud, founder, iac, infrastructure, infrastructure as code, scaling - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Omry and his cofounder used to work together at a prior big company in Israel. They encountered problems scaling environments efficiently and fast. Back then though - there was no cloud, it was just getting started. When they started building something internally to solve this, they encountered infrastructure as a code - and the game changed. Omry Hay is 41 years old, married, with 3 young kids. He has lived his whole life in Israel. Unlike many founders in Israel tech, he did not serve his military service in a technology group, but as a commanding officer in the infantry. Outside of tech, he is passionate about all things sports, and loves to follow Liverpool FC. Mostly, he enjoys chilling out, catching a movie or listening to music. Omry and his cofounder used to work together at a prior big company in Israel. They encountered problems scaling environments efficiently and fast. Back then though - there was no cloud, it was just getting started. When they started building something internally to solve this, they encountered infrastructure as a code - and the game changed. This is the creation story env0. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. env0. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/omryhay/ --- > Prior to 2020, Neil and his team was attempting to build tooling around understanding the data around events. After a while, they realized that no matter what was done on top of an event store, you couldn't realize value without storing all events. So they pivoted, and focused on fixing the data store problem first. - Published: 2024-06-04 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-neil-patel-axiom/ - Tags: ceo, data, events, founder, store, tooling, value - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Prior to 2020, Neil and his team was attempting to build tooling around understanding the data around events. After a while, they realized that no matter what was done on top of an event store, you couldn't realize value without storing all events. So they pivoted, and focused on fixing the data store problem first. Neil Patel has always been a hacker - electronics boards, radios, etc. - being interested in how things work, mechanically or digitally. He learned hard work at his Father's convenience store, while also reading every computer magazine on the rack. He is a pharmacologist by study, but landed in tech cause he is passionate about it. Outside of tech, he loves architecture and design. He also loves to read, in particular sci fi, and enjoys eating Gujarati food, which is purely vegetarian food with tons of flavors. Prior to 2020, Neil and his team was attempting to build tooling around understanding the data around events. After a while, they realized that no matter what was done on top of an event store, you couldn't realize value without storing all events. So they pivoted, and focused on fixing the data store problem first. This is the creation story of Axiom. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://axiom. co/https://www. linkedin. com/in/njpatel/ --- > For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time. - Published: 2024-05-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-sanjay-nagaraj-traceable-ai/ - Tags: ai, api, automated, detection, endpoint, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time. Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty and integrity and his mother heavily influenced his growth as an individual. Though he spends most of his time in tech, anytime outside of work is dedicated to time with family, where he gets to see the world through his wife and kids - along with fueling his passion for singing and following his favorite sports team. For Sanjay, one thing that was clear to him was that application builders exposing APIs, you are responsible for making sure those API's are secure. Prior to his current venture, he and his co-founder built AppDynamics, and they saw the growth of API's first hand. As such, businesses were looking for products to help understand API's and protect them - in real time. This is the creation story of Traceable. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://traceable. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sanjaynagaraj/ --- > Nic started his first payments business a decade ago, which lived under the shadow of the bank. After many years of negotiation, he convinced the powers that be to let his company become its own payment processor. And after 3 years, he built a giant MVP to build the Square for grown-ups - Published: 2024-05-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nic-beique-helcim/ - Tags: ach, ceo, credit card, founder, in person, online, payments, processing, square - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Nic started his first payments business a decade ago, which lived under the shadow of the bank. After many years of negotiation, he convinced the powers that be to let his company become its own payment processor. And after 3 years, he built a giant MVP to build the Square for grown-ups Nic Beique was born in Odessa, Texas, but moved when he was very young to Montreal. Later in his teens, he moved to Alberta, which he describes as the "Denver of Canada". He loves his work, and spends most of his time thinking about how to expand his new venture - but outside of this, he lives in a beautiful city, with tons of hiking, skiing and snowboarding. He also enjoys a lego set here and there, keeping close to his building roots. Nic started his first payments business a decade ago, which lived under the shadow of the bank. After many years of negotiation, he convinced the powers that be to let his company become its own payment processor. And after 3 years, he built a giant MVP to build the Square for grown-upsThis is the creation story of Helcim. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. helcim. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nicbeique/ --- > At Instacart, JJ started to build a tool for infrastructure monitoring. When he realized that building it was cumbersome, and nothing existed in the market, he decided to take one of the companies best SRE and start a company, building this very product. - Published: 2024-05-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-jj-tang-rootly/ - Tags: bot, founder, incident, integrated, pagerduty, response, slack, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 At Instacart, JJ started to build a tool for infrastructure monitoring. When he realized that building it was cumbersome, and nothing existed in the market, he decided to take one of the companies best SRE and start a company, building this very product. JJ Tang grew up in mainland China, though eventually he came to the US for University and stayed. He found a job, started working and eventually, moved to Canada, as the entrepreneur ecosystem was quite friendly. He has worked for companies like Instacart, IBM and Cisco, gaining vast experience in a myriad of roles. But outside of tech, he is engaged to be married in 2025, and is big into road cycling. In addition, he has a dog named Nova, which his current venture centers their merch design around. At Instacart, JJ started to build a tool for infrastructure monitoring. When he realized that building it was cumbersome, and nothing existed in the market, he decided to take one of the companies best SRE and start a company, building this very product. This is the creation story of Rootly. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://rootly. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jjrichardtang/ --- > Alex was working with a large dataset in ad tech. After this startup did well, he was hooked, he went on to build a computing framework, which eventually sold to Alkamai. During his time at that company, he started playing with squeezing every bit of compute out of hardware - and decided to combine this in order to optimize storage. - Published: 2024-05-15 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-alex-gallego-redpanda-data/ - Tags: alternative, cost effective, data, efficient, founder, kafka, streaming - Podcasts: S9 Alex was working with a large dataset in ad tech. After this startup did well, he was hooked, he went on to build a computing framework, which eventually sold to Alkamai. During his time at that company, he started playing with squeezing every bit of compute out of hardware - and decided to combine this in order to optimize storage. Alex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, he would help his Uncle re-build dirt bike engines, and was the kid that would take apart his friend's computer when they weren't looking. Once he arrived in the US, his Dad got a computer, which started his love for tech and cryptography. Outside of tech, he is married with three boys, so his time is consumed with being present with his boys, to which he stated he loves being a Dad. Beyond that, he enjoys mentally reseting by doing mountain biking and road cycling. Alex was working with a large dataset in ad tech. After this startup did well, he was hooked, he went on to build a computing framework, which eventually sold to Alkamai. During his time at that company, he started playing with squeezing every bit of compute out of hardware - and decided to combine this in order to optimize storage. This is the creation story of Redpanda. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://redpanda. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexandergallego/ --- > In the past, Adam realized that there were not great tools out there for QA testing. He noticed a lot of people were using Excel and Word, along with manual testing through the industry. Given his experience as a project manager and architect, he saw an opportunity in the market - and set out to build a solution. - Published: 2024-05-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-sandman-inflectra/ - Tags: cto, file, founder, linux, research, speed, system - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 In the past, Adam realized that there were not great tools out there for QA testing. He noticed a lot of people were using Excel and Word, along with manual testing through the industry. Given his experience as a project manager and architect, he saw an opportunity in the market - and set out to build a solution. Adam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, because he had a fascination and desire to understand how things in the world worked. It was during this time that he ended up falling in love with tech, and has been in the industry ever since. Outside of tech, he is married with older children. He mentioned he was a scout master in the past, which he really enjoyed how the Scouts were led by the Scouts themselves. In the past, Adam realized that there were not great tools out there for QA testing. He noticed a lot of people were using Excel and Word, along with manual testing through the industry. Given his experience as a project manager and architect, he saw an opportunity in the market - and set out to build a solution. This is the creation story of Inflectra. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. inflectra. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/adamsandman/ --- > A few years ago, Vlad acquired a number of businesses in the payment space. Having spent many years in the payment space, he decided it was time to be a founder and create something in the payment space with a twist - specifically, for the "reseller community". - Published: 2024-05-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-vlad-sadovskiy-netevia/ - Tags: acquisition, ceo, founder, gig workers, payments, workforce - Podcasts: S9 A few years ago, Vlad acquired a number of businesses in the payment space. Having spent many years in the payment space, he decided it was time to be a founder and create something in the payment space with a twist - specifically, for the "reseller community". Vlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been in the payments space for 30+ years, so he knows a thing or two about the space. But outside of this and tech, he is a cancer survivor, and ex professional chess player. He mentions that along with ping pong, he still plays chess as a hobby - and sometimes, to help resolve arguments with his wife. A few years ago, Vlad acquired a number of businesses in the payment space. Having spent many years in the payment space, he decided it was time to be a founder and create something in the payment space with a twist - specifically, for the "reseller community". This is the creation story of Netevia. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. netevia. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/vladsadovskiy/ --- > Being in the space for a long time, Sasha has been witnessing what he describes as the drop in the value of currency, by manipulation. He wanted to see decentralized, smart contracts create a smart economy - as part of a new internet. - Published: 2024-05-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sasha-mitchell-bel2/ - Tags: cto, file, founder, linux, research, speed, system - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Being in the space for a long time, Sasha has been witnessing what he describes as the drop in the value of currency, by manipulation. He wanted to see decentralized, smart contracts create a smart economy - as part of a new internet. Sasha Mitchell living in Bangkok, Thailand, but grew up in London. He stared in the creative industries, as one side of his family are architects and the other side are musicians. This inspired him to study music production, which allowed him to enjoy the intersection of tech and creativity. During his time in film tech, he discovered the blockchain and started his journey into this industry. Outside of tech, he enjoys snowboarding, skateboarding, and of course - music and film. Being in the space for a long time, Sasha has been witnessing what he describes as the drop in the value of currency, by manipulation. He wanted to see decentralized, smart contracts create a smart economy - as part of a new internet. This is the creation story of BeL2. SponsorsPermitCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://bel2. org/https://elastos. info/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sashmitchell/ --- > Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI. - Published: 2024-04-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-roman-sevast-awesomic/ - Tags: ai, businesses, design, marketplace, project mgmt, tasks - Podcasts: S9 Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI. Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have the money to do so. So he started to learn software engineering to make a little money - and his tech career started. Outside of tech, he loves to play a myriad of different video games, and enjoys DJ'ing - either for himself or for his friends. He tends to play techno or house music, but has thrown in some classical music from time to time. Eight years ago, Roman met his co-founder Stacy on Tinder. After dating for several years, she showed him some buggy apps she had tried to create, and Roman stepped into help. After a few failed startup attempts, they set out to build a space where companies meet design talent - within the same day - and have these designer's projects managed with AI. This is the creation story of Awesomic. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. awesomic. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/roman-sevast/ --- > Bjorn started a PhD program, and was part of a large project with the goal to build a distributed version of Linux. Within this program, he met his now co-founder, and they were responsible for a package within that project, surrounding data management. Little did they know that their exciting part of the project would later turn into a separate distributed file system. - Published: 2024-04-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-bjorn-kolbeck-quobyte/ - Tags: cto, file, founder, linux, research, speed, system - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Bjorn started a PhD program, and was part of a large project with the goal to build a distributed version of Linux. Within this program, he met his now co-founder, and they were responsible for a package within that project, surrounding data management. Little did they know that their exciting part of the project would later turn into a separate distributed file system. When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech? ". He has made his hobby into his job, being exposed to his first computer at 11 and dreaming of being a programer. Outside of tech, he is a father of 2 kids. He loves going to the gym and traveling, which he mentioned was a luxury at his current venture. For personal travel, he loved visiting Costa Rica, as the people are friendly, the country is beautiful - and it's safe. Björn started a PhD program, and was part of a large project with the goal to build a distributed version of Linux. Within this program, he met his now co-founder, and they were responsible for a package within that project, surrounding data management. Little did they know that their exciting part of the project would later turn into a separate distributed file system. This is the creation story of Quobyte. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. quobyte. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/bjorn-kolbeck-37925033/ --- > Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. - Published: 2024-04-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-matt-hocking-wellsaid-labs/ - Tags: ai, ceo, design, founder, jingles, learning, startup, voice - Podcasts: S9 Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, which led him to New York and the startup community. He is a multi founder, which led him to his current venture. Outside of tech and startups, he is a family man, and loves to spend time with his kids - which he calls his startup outside of his startup. He enjoys building and drawing with his son, and doing the best he can to support his young daughter in becoming a princess one day. In 2018, Matt met his co-founder when joining AI2. While he was working on deep learning projects, Matt was working on a user centered, voice based experience in healthcare. When they put both things together, they figured out they could really help people and save hours of studio time by generating voiceovers with AI. This is the creation story of WellSaid Labs. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://wellsaidlabs. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/mhocking/ --- > Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. - Published: 2024-04-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tech-update-rene-morkos-alice-technologies/ - Tags: ai, construction, onboarding, optineering, oracle, project - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. Welcome back listeners. Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. If you recall our conversation with Rene from Season 7, April 6th 2023, he and his team are building algorithms to disrupt the construction industry, through project optioneering and construction optmization. Today, he returns to the show to update us on Alice Pro and Alice Core, their latest innovation to the sector, which boasts a 100X reduction in setup time. Listen in now. In any industry, if you can build something that reduces setup time 100X - you have achieved something great. Rene and his team are changing the game, when it comes to project optioneering, bringing the solution into the backyard of the construction industry, while making it faster and easier to manage your scheduling. You can learn more about Alice Tecnnologies, Alice Pro, and Alice Core - by visiting https://www. alicetechnologies. com/. And thanks again for listening. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. alicetechnologies. com/ --- > Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. - Published: 2024-04-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-michael-hummel-establish/ - Tags: accelerator, ceo, founder, pr, recognition, startup - Podcasts: S9 Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. Michael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His background dis in marketing, and prior to his current venture, he was running a lead gen marketing firm. Outside of his professional life, he is married, living in Puerto Rico, and has a miniature husky. He has picked up spearfishing - which sounds wicked fun. When I asked what was the biggest fish he caught, he laughed - and mentioned that he sticks to the reefs and the smaller fish. Starting out, Michael founded his current venture focused on PR - IE public relations - and they did this because it was aligned with his background. Fast forward, his company is aiding startups raise capital, by focusing on three key pillars. This is the creation story of Establish. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://establishpr. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/michael-hummel-696258b7/ --- > Through his time in the military, Alon was exposed to the difficulties of managing cloud cost. Alongside his 15 years in cybersecurity, and writing his book on the topic, he figured out that a focus on efficiency could help businesses with their cloud costs - starting with a minimum integrate-able product. - Published: 2024-04-11 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alon-arvatz-pointfive-author-or-battle-for-your-computer/ - Tags: aws, cloud, costs, efficiency, founder, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Through his time in the military, Alon was exposed to the difficulties of managing cloud cost. Alongside his 15 years in cybersecurity, and writing his book on the topic, he figured out that a focus on efficiency could help businesses with their cloud costs - starting with a minimum integrate-able product. Alon Arvatz has been in tech for a long time. Fun fact, he loved technology but hated computer science. After getting introduced to the industry by his father, he discovered that tech is not just computer science - which was a big relief. He is the author of a book called The Battle for your Computer, which highlights Israel and the growth of the global cybersecurity industry. Outside of tech and cybersecurity, he is married with 4 kids, and highlights that all things in life - family, startup, etc. - is a partnership between he and his wife. Their family is a big fan of history, and looks to learn the stories of the places they visit. Through his time in the military, Alon was exposed to the difficulties of managing cloud cost. Alongside his 15 years in cybersecurity, and writing his book on the topic, he figured out that a focus on efficiency could help businesses with their cloud costs - starting with a minimum integrate-able product. This is the creation story of Pointfive. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://pointfive. co/https://www. linkedin. com/in/alon-arvatz/https://www. amazon. com/Battle-Your-Computer-Cyber-Security-Industry/dp/1394174152 --- > Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good. - Published: 2024-04-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-linus-hakansson-gravitee/ - Tags: api, change management, cto, endpoint, field, keys, lifecycle, version - Podcasts: S9 Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good. Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family man, with a 2. 5 year old son, and enjoys spending time with them and raising is kid. Outside of that, he enjoys soccer, sports, and cooking Italian food. In fact, recently he bought a pizza oven and started making his own dough and pie. Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good. This is Linus' creation story at Gravitee. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. gravitee. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/linushakansson/ --- > Erin and Jesus are stationed in Denver, Colorado. During the pandemic, they were hanging out at the back yard picnic table, with wine and smokes. They were ideating over building a digital strip mall, to help local businesses build their platforms. Eventually, they started up a platform engineering company and when Lionsgate called, their pandemic picnic table idea started to grow. - Published: 2024-04-04 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erin-jesus-msquared/ - Tags: builders, cloud, consultancy, media, music, product, punks, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Erin and Jesus are stationed in Denver, Colorado. During the pandemic, they were hanging out at the back yard picnic table, with wine and smokes. They were ideating over building a digital strip mall, to help local businesses build their platforms. Eventually, they started up a platform engineering company and when Lionsgate called, their pandemic picnic table idea started to grow. Erin Marie has been in tech for 20 years. Prior to tech, she was a history major but became more passionate about building websites and technology. She went from web developer to programmer analyst to cloud engineering, and met her current business partner at Boeing. Outside of tech, she is into amateur photography, capturing landscapes and portraits. She is also passionate about passion and film, with her favorite grind core film titled "They call her one eye". Jesus Maria comes from the Caribbean, and enjoys beaches and being near the water. When he is not coding or coming up with crazy tech ideas, he describes the amount of heavy metal he listens to as obscene. He has 6 guitars, all tuned differently, and loves to take breaks from his tech and throw down a new riff. He's also passionate about art, and into doing illustrations. He shares the same favorite film as Erin Marie. Erin and Jesus are stationed in Denver, Colorado. During the pandemic, they were hanging out at the back yard picnic table, with wine and smokes. They were ideating over building a digital strip mall, to help local businesses build their platforms. Eventually, they started up a platform engineering company and when Lionsgate called, their pandemic picnic table idea started to grow. This is the creation story of MSquared. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://msquaredtc. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/erin-braconnier-87958531/https://www. linkedin. com/in/xuxogarcia/ --- > In 2013, Jai's current CEO saw a huge opportunity for the millions of heavy freight vehicles on the road. He built an app to track service hours, around the time that Jai joined - but, they didn't plan on stopping there. - Published: 2024-04-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-jai-ranganathan-motive/ - Tags: fleet, gps, hardware, product, safety, software, tracking - Podcasts: S9 In 2013, Jai's current CEO saw a huge opportunity for the millions of heavy freight vehicles on the road. He built an app to track service hours, around the time that Jai joined - but, they didn't plan on stopping there. Jai Ranganathan is a typically middle aged man, living in Austin, TX with a couple of kids and a Tesla. He moved to the US when he was 17, to attend the University of Texas. Post that, he spent 25 years in California at different tech businesses. Outside of tech, he enjoys doing activities with his daughters, rock climbing, and playing sports. In 2013, Jai's current CEO saw a huge opportunity for the millions of heavy freight vehicles on the road. He built an app to track service hours, around the time that Jai joined - but, they didn't plan on stopping there. This is the creation story of Motive. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://gomotive. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jairamranganathan/ --- > Amy was researching women who had become though leaders, and stumbled upon the work that Whitney was doing. They started out doing a small project together in 2015, and discovered that not only do they like working together, their strengths complimented each other - which led to the forming of a partnership. - Published: 2024-03-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-amy-whitney-disruption-advisors/ - Tags: author, change, founders, growth, individual, partners, people, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Amy was researching women who had become though leaders, and stumbled upon the work that Whitney was doing. They started out doing a small project together in 2015, and discovered that not only do they like working together, their strengths complimented each other - which led to the forming of a partnership. Whitney Johnson graduated college with a degree in Music, minoring in English. Of course, she needed a job, and became the secretary to a broker on Wall Street. After taking business courses at night and building confidence from a boss who believed in her, she moved into picking stocks. In 2005, she had an "aha! " moment leading her towards entrepreneurship, and starting a fund with Clayton Christensen, author of the Innovators Dilemma. She's the author of the many books, including Disrupt Yourself, which you can find a link in the show notes. Outside of these things, she is married, loves to play tennis, and enjoys a good Korean drama. Amy Humble grew up in a rural part of Colorado called Rifle. Her mother was a principal, her father was a psychologist, and she studied political science during undergrad, while working in the Senate. She explored how to develop young people, and has always been rooted in her desire to develop people. In the past, she worked with Jim Collins - the author of Good to Great, who baptized and indoctrinated her into leadership development. Outside of her professional life, she is married with a young family. She enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, and playing in the water. Amy was researching women who had become though leaders, and stumbled upon the work that Whitney was doing. They started out doing a small project together in 2015, and discovered that not only do they like working together, their strengths complimented each other - which led to the forming of a partnership. This is the creation story of Disruption Advisors. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://thedisruptionadvisors. comhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/amy-humble-6570a311/https://www. linkedin. com/in/whitneyjohnson/https://www. amazon. com/Disrupt-Yourself-New-Introduction-Relentless/dp/1633698785/ref=asc_df_1633698785/ --- > Jake figured out that 85% of developers want their content through video, over documentation or other means of info comms. He believes that developers are building the world around us - and the world is underperforming in how those people are supported. He decided to change this, and set out to build docs and guidance learnings into one video content platform. - Published: 2024-03-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jake-ward-data-protocol/ - Tags: builders, founder, lessons, online, teaching, training, video - Podcasts: S9 Jake figured out that 85% of developers want their content through video, over documentation or other means of info comms. He believes that developers are building the world around us - and the world is underperforming in how those people are supported. He decided to change this, and set out to build docs and guidance learnings into one video content platform. Jake Ward originally from a small town in Maine, and claims to be running away from the snow by living in South Carolina now. He worked in politics for a while - in the House, the Senate, and Public Affairs before starting the Application Developers Alliance. That spurred on the next chapter of his life. Outside of tech, he has 3 kids and enjoys golf. He loves to cook and spend time with his kids, playing basketball or exploring life sciences. He also mentioned that every 5 years, he tends to buy another house, have another kid, and start a new business. Jake figured out that 85% of developers want their content through video, over documentation or other means of info comms. He believes that developers are building the world around us - and the world is underperforming in how those people are supported. He decided to change this, and set out to build docs and guidance learnings into one video content platform. This is the creation story of Data Protocol. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://dataprotocol. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jacobmward/https://developersalliance. org/ --- > For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around these problems, specifically into the medical supply chain, and discovered a whole list of things needing to be addressed to support medical professionals in their buying. - Published: 2024-03-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luka-yancopolis-grapevine/ - Tags: ceo, devices, doctors, founder, medical, nurses, suppliers, supplies - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around these problems, specifically into the medical supply chain, and discovered a whole list of things needing to be addressed to support medical professionals in their buying. Luka Yancopoulos lives in New York City, and believes whole heartedly in doing well by doing good. He grew up in the early 2000's, where the focal point was environmentalism and doing good in the world. He is an active botanist, and though there isn't much "soil to toil" in NYC, he spends his weekends filling the planter boxes with plants, on his block and around the neighborhood. For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around these problems, specifically into the medical supply chain, and discovered a whole list of things needing to be addressed to support medical professionals in their buying. This is the creation story of Grapevine. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://go-grapevine. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/luk%C3%A1-yancopoulos-50051a1a8/ --- > James and his co-founder were friends and colleagues before their current venture. They had an idea around building a small version of API authentication. After building and releasing this version, they wanted to see how people received it. They were overwhelmed with the response, and figured they should push harder on this to be a company. - Published: 2024-03-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-james-perkins-unkey/ - Tags: api, auth, authentication, fast, middleware, open source, throttling - Podcasts: S9 James and his co-founder were friends and colleagues before their current venture. They had an idea around building a small version of API authentication. After building and releasing this version, they wanted to see how people received it. They were overwhelmed with the response, and figured they should push harder on this to be a company. James Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 years. He had planned to be a special education teacher prior to switching to technology. He's worked in pre-seed startups all the way to big corporations. But outside of tech, he has a wide variety of hobbies - in particular, running and training for half marathons. This process requires about 6 weeks of training, primarily mental training over physical. James and his co-founder were friends and colleagues before their current venture. They had an idea around building a small version of API authentication. After building and releasing this version, they wanted to see how people received it. They were overwhelmed with the response, and figured they should push harder on this to be a company. This is the creation story of Unkey. SponsorsPorkbun: Use the link codestory. co/porkbun and get a . dev, . app, or . foo domain name for only $5! CacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://unkey. dev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/james-perkins-268992a4/ --- > A few months ago, Zach was introduced to the founders of his current company, through the executive coaching and consulting he does. They all had great conversation around approaches to DevOps and what the future of the industry is - so much so, that he decided to join the team and lead the conversation. - Published: 2024-03-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-zach-goldberg-gruntwork-the-startup-ctos-handbook/ - Tags: author, cto, devops, industry, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 A few months ago, Zach was introduced to the founders of his current company, through the executive coaching and consulting he does. They all had great conversation around approaches to DevOps and what the future of the industry is - so much so, that he decided to join the team and lead the conversation. Zach Goldberg was sent to computer camp when he was 12 years old. An interesting part of the story is that the prior year, he went to sports camp - and it didn't go so well. At the camp, he fell in love with tech, and eventually became a counselor. He finds the most joy and impact at the intersection of business and technology. Outside of tech, he is married, and a private pilot in California. He also admits to being a total geek, getting very excited about installing a solar panel on his roof (up to code of course, and with the permission of his wife). A few months ago, Zach was introduced to the founders of his current company, through the executive coaching and consulting he does. They all had great conversation around approaches to DevOps and what the future of the industry is - so much so, that he decided to join the team and lead the conversation. This is Zach's creation story at Gruntwork. SponsorsEmailTooltesterCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://gruntwork. ioThe Startup CTO's Handbookhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/zachgoldberg/https://zachgoldberg. com/ --- > In past projects, Saravana encountered the need to build a knowledge base for a different product - and one that had the flexibility to serve his unique needs. After he couldn't find it, he encourage his team to build something during a hackathon - which validated the product idea, and led him to want to take this further. - Published: 2024-03-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-saravana-kumar-document360/ - Tags: articles, ceo, documents, founder, KB, knowledge base, zendesk - Podcasts: S9 In past projects, Saravana encountered the need to build a knowledge base for a different product - and one that had the flexibility to serve his unique needs. After he couldn't find it, he encourage his team to build something during a hackathon - which validated the product idea, and led him to want to take this further. Saravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badminton, and is very into high quality cars. One of his favorite things to do is to engage in interesting conversations on social media, which there are ample opportunities to do. Outside of Indian food, he enjoys Chinese and Mexican, of which all three he cited having good options in London. In past projects, Saravana encountered the need to build a knowledge base for a different product - and one that had the flexibility to serve his unique needs. After he couldn't find it, he encourage his team to build something during a hackathon - which validated the product idea, and led him to want to take this further. This is the creation story of Document360. SponsorsEmailTooltesterCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://document360. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/saravanamv/ --- > Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether stable-coin and the first every NFT platform, now known as Baton. Throughout his tenure in this space, he has learned that you - the user - is the most valuable asset in the world. And in learning that, he wanted to pursue building the standard of internet identify. - Published: 2024-03-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-craig-sellars-self/ - Tags: blockchain, ceo, founder, genome, id, identity - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether stable-coin and the first every NFT platform, now known as Baton. Throughout his tenure in this space, he has learned that you - the user - is the most valuable asset in the world. And in learning that, he wanted to pursue building the standard of internet identify. Craig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He went to Georgia Tech to get his degree, and after spending many years in industry, he jumped into the blockchain in 2013. Outside of tech, he used to do competitive, 4 way formation sky diving. He mentioned this was like synchronized swimming - but in the air. Nowadays, he enjoys long road trips into the sunset. Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether stable-coin and the first ever NFT platform, now known as Vatom. com. Throughout his tenure in this space, he has learned that you – the user – are the most valuable asset in the world. . And in learning that, he wanted to pursue building the standard of internet identity. This is the creation story of Self. SponsorsEmailTooltesterCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. selfid. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/craigcsellars/ --- > Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs? - Published: 2024-03-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-mike-bifulco-craftwork/ - Tags: automation, co-founder, cto, doordash, marketplace, painting - Podcasts: S9 Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs? Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshman CS classs. Coming out of school, he applied to 300 entry level jobs, interviewed for 15 of them, received offers for 3 - and turned them all down to start his own company. Outside of tech, he is into road cycling and enjoys the ritual, science and community around making - and enjoying - a good cup of coffee or espresso. He's also a musician, adding to the growing list of successful tech entrepreneurs who also are talented musicians. Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs? This is the creation story of Craftwork. SponsorsEmailTooltesterCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://craftwork. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/mbifulco/ --- > In the past, David had built CSV imports into websites many, many times - even back to the site he built for his Dad at 12 years old. After being presented the need to build it again, he asked the question... when does it make sense to build this as a product, and launch a company? - Published: 2024-02-27 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-david-boskovic-flatfile/ - Tags: ceo, csv, embed, file, flat, founder, import - Podcasts: S9 In the past, David had built CSV imports into websites many, many times - even back to the site he built for his Dad at 12 years old. After being presented the need to build it again, he asked the question... when does it make sense to build this as a product, and launch a company? David Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building technology. However, when he was 12 years old, he built a website for his Dad. And after he built and rebuilt it several times, he was hooked on technology. Outside of tech and software, he enjoys playing poker with friends, gambling, and working on his new house. When asked what his favorite type of food, he said it is always something that he hasn't tried before - cause it's always better when you haven't had it yet. In the past, David had built CSV imports into websites many, many times - even back to the site he built for his Dad at 12 years old. After being presented the need to build it again, he asked the question... when does it make sense to build this as a product, and launch a company? This is the creation story of Flatfile. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://flatfile. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/dboskovic/ --- > In the 90's, Debbie was helping businesses get on the web, strategizing with them around how to deploy their website and build an online presence. Fast forward many years, she has shifted into doing work and leading projects, centered around customer experience online. - Published: 2024-02-22 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-debbie-levitt-delta-cx/ - Tags: consultant, customer, cxo, experience, founder, project - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 In the 90's, Debbie was helping businesses get on the web, strategizing with them around how to deploy their website and build an online presence. Fast forward many years, she has shifted into doing work and leading projects, centered around customer experience online. Debbie Levitt is an American living in Italy, with her Italian husband, and their 5 dogs. Many years ago, she obtained a degree in Music, but now focuses on customer experience online - of which, she has been called the Mary Poppins of Customer Experience. Outside of this, she and her husband bought a used camper and quickly became camper people. Her favorite place to take their camper to is Laces, Italy - but she noted that of her 5 dogs, zero of them are allowed in the camper. In the 90's, Debbie was helping businesses get on the web, strategizing with them around how to deploy their website and build an online presence. Fast forward many years, she has shifted into doing work and leading projects, centered around customer experience online. This is the creation story of Delta CX. Sponsors CacheFly ClearQuery Kiteworks Links https://deltacx. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/debbielevitt/ --- > In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build it to what it is today. Fast forward to today, Wix has collected infrastructure and application partners, allowing them to offer these integrations to Wix users. What they figured out next was that people wanted it done for them, turn key, without having to learn how to spin up a server. - Published: 2024-02-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-yoav-abrahami-velo-by-wix/ - Tags: architect, brother, founding engineer, no code, online, serverless, website - Podcasts: S9 In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build it to what it is today. Fast forward to today, Wix has collected infrastructure and application partners, allowing them to offer these integrations to Wix users. What they figured out next was that people wanted it done for them, turn key, without having to learn how to spin up a server. Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He studied High Energy Physics in college, and today, he finds similarities in how you solve problems in building products and physic. Outside of tech, he is the father of 2 children, and enjoys hiking and mountain biking in the diverse climates and terrains that Israel has to offer. In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build it to what it is today. Fast forward to today, Wix has collected infrastructure and application partners, allowing them to offer these integrations to Wix users. What they figured out next was that people wanted it done for them, turn key, without having to learn how to spin up a server. This is the creation story of Velo by Wix. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. wix. com/velohttps://www. wix. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/yoavabrahami/ --- > In the past, Shauli noticed that the world was not actually ready for Kubernetes. The adoption curve proved to them that businesses had different problems outside of security. After spending 2 years of discovery and intimately learning Kubernetes, they spent 2 weeks to change the game in security - using open source. - Published: 2024-02-15 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shauli-rozen-armo-security/ - Tags: ceo, context, founder, kubernetes, open source, optimization, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S9 In the past, Shauli noticed that the world was not actually ready for Kubernetes. The adoption curve proved to them that businesses had different problems outside of security. After spending 2 years of discovery and intimately learning Kubernetes, they spent 2 weeks to change the game in security - using open source. Shauli Rozen grew up in Israel, and besides a 5 year stint stateside, he has spent his whole life there. He is married with 3 boys, and is 45 years old. Shauli loves the beach, and the ocean, spending time surfing, scuba diving and free diving. Free diving peaked my interest, and he described it as diving with fins without scuba gear, holding your breath. He has made it 26m deep, which requires him to hold his breath for 60 seconds. In the past, Shauli noticed that the world was not actually ready for Kubernetes. The adoption curve proved to them that businesses had different problems outside of security. After spending 2 years of discovery and intimately learning Kubernetes, they spent 2 weeks to change the game in security - using open source. This is the creation story of ARMO Security. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. armosec. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/shaulirozen/ --- > Srikar started working with hospitals in many different capacities to understand how things worked. This gave them a lot of perspective on how to help them best - administrators, doctors, nurses, etc. Once they learned how to serve them best, they pivoted to building software solutions to help them lower cost. - Published: 2024-02-13 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-srikar-sam-yeruva-pycube/ - Tags: asset, ceo, founder, hospitals, management, service, tracking - Podcasts: S9 Srikar started working with hospitals in many different capacities to understand how things worked. This gave them a lot of perspective on how to help them best - administrators, doctors, nurses, etc. Once they learned how to serve them best, they pivoted to building software solutions to help them lower cost. Srikar Sam Yeruva comes from an immigrant family from India. He had a humble background, which shaped his path forward and how he approaches life with hunger. He comes from a family of engineers, and his current venture is his 3rd startup. He loves learning, believing whole heartedly in constant learning. In fact, he mentioned that education was nothing but exposure, which I found insightful. He believes in being a person that tries to understand things, and people, without judgement. Srikar started working with hospitals in many different capacities to understand how things worked. This gave them a lot of perspective on how to help them best - administrators, doctors, nurses, etc. Once they learned how to serve them best, they pivoted to building software solutions to help them lower cost. This is the creation story of Pycube. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. pycube. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/srikar-sam-yeruva-8437184a/ --- > In 2014, David took a sabbatical from his Corporate job. He started to dig into 3d printing, and ended up meeting the founder of Polymer. They started talking about why the industry hadn't accomplished much of the things they had hoped, and they realized that software was generally, the answer. - Published: 2024-02-08 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-hartmann-helio-additive/ - Tags: 3d printing, additive, ceo, founder, manufacturing - Podcasts: S9 In 2014, David took a sabbatical from his Corporate job. He started to dig into 3d printing, and ended up meeting the founder of Polymer. They started talking about why the industry hadn't accomplished much of the things they had hoped, and they realized that software was generally, the answer. David Hartmann is a German born New Zealander, where he still lives today. His first job was to spend 17 years at Bayer, getting deep in the materials world, which triggered his passion for 3d printing. Outside of tech, he is raising 2 kids in New Zealand, which he notes is a great place to do so. He also travels a lot, which he loves, and mentioned that traditional cooking for New Zealand is something that doesn't happen often, and his cooking with hot stones under the earth. In 2014, David took a sabbatical from his Corporate job. He started to dig into 3d printing, and ended up meeting the founder of Polymer. They started talking about why the industry hadn't accomplished much of the things they had hoped, and they realized that software was generally, the answer. This is the creation story of Helio Additive. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://www. helioadditive. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-hartmann-725a2b16/ --- > Dennis is a self proclaimed impatient person, and a mediocre developer - which drives his building of solutions. In context of a company, there is a lot of information that exists in the context of a company, which is necessary to know when getting familiar with a codebase. When you can't find that info, you are essentially... well, blocked. So, Dennis decided to help people solve that problem. - Published: 2024-02-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-dennis-pilarinos-unblocked/ - Tags: blocked, buddy build, ceo, codebase, company, founder, info, information - Podcasts: S9 Dennis is a self proclaimed impatient person, and a mediocre developer - which drives his building of solutions. In context of a company, there is a lot of information that exists in the context of a company, which is necessary to know when getting familiar with a codebase. When you can't find that info, you are essentially... well, blocked. So, Dennis decided to help people solve that problem. Dennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how things were put together - and as such, he would take them apart and try to reassemble them. He grew up in Canada, and is currently based in Vancouver. He is professional driven by tech curiosity and attention to detail. Previously, he founded and sold BuddyBuild, which went from inception to acquisition within 3 years. Outside of tech, he has his private pilots license, which allows him to fly a lot and take his mind off startup life. Dennis is a self proclaimed impatient person, and a mediocre developer - which drives his building of solutions. In context of a company, there is a lot of information that exists in the context of a company, which is necessary to know when getting familiar with a codebase. When you can't find that info, you are essentially... well, blocked. So, Dennis decided to help people solve that problem. This is the creation story of Unblocked. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://getunblocked. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/dennispi/ --- > Eight years ago, Ruslan bought into the company KRIT, becoming a co-owner. KRIT builds software products for large enterprises, in the heavy energy and metallurgy plants. He and his team wanted to create a product that brought safety to the forefront each employees mind. - Published: 2024-02-01 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruslan-zaripov-riskhunter-by-krit/ - Tags: ceo, co-owner, large scale, plants, risk, safety, solutions - Podcasts: S9 Eight years ago, Ruslan bought into the company KRIT, becoming a co-owner. KRIT builds software products for large enterprises, in the heavy energy and metallurgy plants. He and his team wanted to create a product that brought safety to the forefront each employees mind. Ruslan Zaripov has been interested in computers since the early days. He started his career as a database developer, and eventually became a project manager. Essentially, he has been serving in information technology his whole life. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids and a dog. In the winter, he enjoys cross country skiing, and tries to keep a work life balance. Eight years ago, Ruslan bought into the company KRIT, becoming a co-owner. KRIT builds software products for large enterprises, in the heavy energy and metallurgy plants. He and his team wanted to create a product that brought safety to the forefront each employees mind. This is the creation story of RiskHunter, built by the team at KRIT. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://krit. global/solutions/riskhunter/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ruslanzaripov-7619/ --- > Erik has a background in training, while being a working engineer. He continuously took on side gigs, where he would need to have a junior engineer join him - and he couldn't find them. He decided to build a program that created this engineers for him, and was affirmed when he found a competitor doing the same thing. - Published: 2024-01-31 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-gross-the-tech-academy/ - Tags: bootcamp, founder, learning, navy, practical, teaching, Tech - Podcasts: S9 Erik has a background in training, while being a working engineer. He continuously took on side gigs, where he would need to have a junior engineer join him - and he couldn't find them. He decided to build a program that created this engineers for him, and was affirmed when he found a competitor doing the same thing. Erik Gross had an odd journey into tech. He grew up in the redwoods of California, off the grid with no running water in a tee pee. However, there was a pivotal moment in his life when his Dad brought home an old school computer, and taught him about the internals, hardware, binary, and removed all mystery from computers. He had a career in the Navy as a nuclear reactor operator, and gained a lot from the training methods of the Navy. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and recently moved to Louisiana. He enjoys cigars, and tasting whiskey on occasion. Erik has a background in training, while being a working engineer. He continuously took on side gigs, where he would need to have a junior engineer join him - and he couldn't find them. He decided to build a program that created this engineers for him, and was affirmed when he found a competitor doing the same thing. This is the creation story of The Tech Academy. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. learncodinganywhere. comhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/yourcareerarchitect/ --- > Ryo and his co-founder have both been in networking for a very long time. They notice that the internet was going to make this part of the industry - IE networking - invisible. They decided to encore some of the prior work to create connectivity as code. - Published: 2024-01-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-ryo-koyama-remote-it/ - Tags: as code, ceo, co-founder, connectivity, connectivity as code, networking - Podcasts: S9 Ryo and his co-founder have both been in networking for a very long time. They notice that the internet was going to make this part of the industry - IE networking - invisible. They decided to encore some of the prior work to create connectivity as code. Ryo Koyama never thought he would be in technology. In the past, and in current days, he is very much into art, photography and woodworking. However, as he says it, he did was a good Asian son does and got a fluid dynamics degree. Eventually, he went on to be a product manager for graphics cards and has been in tech since. He has two adult daughters, and at one point, coached high school basketball in Palo Alto. Ryo and his co-founder have both been in networking for a very long time. They notice that the internet was going to make this part of the industry - IE networking - invisible. They decided to encore some of the prior work to create connectivity as code. This is the creation story of Remote. it. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. remote. it/https://www. linkedin. com/in/koyama/ --- > In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was being used to track electricity monitoring. What he realized was that an open source version of management software didn't exist. He happened to be looking for a project at the time, and thought "this should only take a couple of months". - Published: 2024-01-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-roger-light-cedalo/ - Tags: co-founder, communication, devices, iot, mqtt, open source - Podcasts: S9 In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was being used to track electricity monitoring. What he realized was that an open source version of management software didn't exist. He happened to be looking for a project at the time, and thought "this should only take a couple of months". Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in parallel, he worked on hobby projects that eventually led him to a new venture. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 young boys and a dog - so he mentioned things get a little loud and crazy at home. He loves spicy food, but has been enjoying the visit to the local carvery lately. In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was being used to track electricity monitoring. What he realized was that an open source version of management software didn't exist. He happened to be looking for a project at the time, and thought "this should only take a couple of months". This is the creation story of Cedalo. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://cedalo. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/roger-light-aba81919/ --- > While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar with today, and replace them with 3D graphical instructions. The idea was conceived, but to really bring it to life, he and his co-founder needed to take it outside the 4 walls. - Published: 2024-01-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nate-henderson-bilt/ - Tags: 3d, ceo, enablement, founder, help, instructions, worker - Podcasts: S9 While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar with today, and replace them with 3D graphical instructions. The idea was conceived, but to really bring it to life, he and his co-founder needed to take it outside the 4 walls. Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and as such, they love to travel internationally. They are married with 3 college age kids, two at BYU and one on a church mission in Chile. His hobbies center around his family, but on his own, he loves to scuba dive, hike and stay physically fit. While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar with today, and replace them with 3D graphical instructions. The idea was conceived, but to really bring it to life, he and his co-founder needed to take it outside the 4 walls. This is the creation story of BILT. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://biltapp. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nathan-henderson-12234b/ --- > In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. - Published: 2024-01-17 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-craig-mcluckie-stacklok/ - Tags: kubernetes, open source, security, software, softwqare, supply chain - Podcasts: S9 In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE building technology - but... it didn't work. So he is now back into building tech. Outside of tech, he is father to four children - two younger, two older - and enjoys spending time outside with them, hiking and building things. When he comes to food, he mentioned that there is no type of food he doesn't like - as long as it is well prepared and made with love. Craig has been passionate about the supply chain security space for a long time. And in the past, he had built several open source projects - one being Kubernetes. He found himself intrigued at the intersection of these worlds, and wanted to build a solution, enabling developers to secure their open source. This is the creation story of Stacklok. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://stacklok. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/craigmcluckie/ --- > Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to get their work done. He and his team started to ask the right questions, around why don't we build something to collect the signals from these tools, and present information to help drive velocity, alignment, and well-being. - Published: 2024-01-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-naomi-chopra-hatica/ - Tags: analytics, Developer, integration, slack, tools, velocity - Podcasts: S9 Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to get their work done. He and his team started to ask the right questions, around why don't we build something to collect the signals from these tools, and present information to help drive velocity, alignment, and well-being. Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, including Uber, but eventually left to start his own thing. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and loves to play tennis, which he has been playing since he was young. He mostly plays doubles because there are more people and less courts these days. Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to get their work done. He and his team started to ask the right questions, around why don't we build something to collect the signals from these tools, and present information to help drive velocity, alignment, and well-being. This is the creation story of Hatica. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. hatica. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/naomichopra/ --- > Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it. - Published: 2024-01-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-melissa-pancoast-the-beans/ - Tags: accounting, caring, financial, founder, literacy, money, professionals, teacher - Podcasts: S9 Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it. Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge part of her life from middle school through grad school, and she is hoping to get back into it soon. She's married, and runs outside as much as possible. In fact, she has completed several half and full marathons, including the Boston Marathon. Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it. This is the creation story of The Beans. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://join-thebeans. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/mgpancoast/ --- > In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. - Published: 2024-01-04 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jonathan-norris-devcycle-taplytics/ - Tags: ab testing, co-founder, cto, feature, feature flags, flags, integration - Podcasts: S9 In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. Jonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has participated in the First Robotics competition, which got him into mechanical engineering, building robots, and leading teams to world championships. He still actively volunteers and mentors people in the program today. Outside of tech, he is a new Dad, and stays quite busy parenting his kid, when he's not riding an eBike to work. In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinator and formed Taplytics. After doing this for nearly 10 years, what his team noticed was the most passionate users were developers using feature flagging over the core offering of the product. So - they decided to spin out a new brand, to focus on just that. This is the creation story of DevCycle. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://devcycle. com/https://taplytics. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jonathantnorris/ --- > Gilad has known his current founding team for many, many years, and their last product was bought by Palo Alto Networks. When looking at what was the next big problem to solve, they dug into authentication and figured out - that this was still a major problem in the ecosystem, for developers and from the standpoint of cybersecurity. - Published: 2024-01-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-gilad-shriki-descope/ - Tags: authentication, authorization, co-founder, drag drop, founder, security - Podcasts: S9 Gilad has known his current founding team for many, many years, and their last product was bought by Palo Alto Networks. When looking at what was the next big problem to solve, they dug into authentication and figured out - that this was still a major problem in the ecosystem, for developers and from the standpoint of cybersecurity. Gilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a passion of his, and he loves to explore new places in the winter, mentioning that Whistler was his most recent favorite. He started digging tech very early, and his hobbies center around it as well. He loves building things in home automation, like building micro controllers that detect temperature or relay that turn the lights on and off. Gilad has known his current founding team for many, many years, and their last product was bought by Palo Alto Networks. When looking at what was the next big problem to solve, they dug into authentication and figured out - that this was still a major problem in the ecosystem, for developers and from the standpoint of cybersecurity. This is the creation story of Descope. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. descope. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/gshriki/ --- > One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - Published: 2023-12-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-alexander-deeb-classhook/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, content, education, engagement, media, self taught - Podcasts: Bonus, S6, S9 One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well in school on order to obtain better opportunities. Along side of that, he is interested in equitable opportunities, which is a big driver for him in his professional ventures. He is passionate about helping learn about new opportunities. He grew up in Long Island, NY - so of course, he loves pizza. He frequents the local pizza house, which in his opinion is Stellas'. He gets 2 slices of regular cheese, with a coke - which is the only time he drinks soda. One day, he and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? This is the creation story of Classhook. LinksWebsite: https://www. classhook. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexanderdeeb/ --- > In the past, Sahil was a client of his current venture. In leading ER Express, he saw great value in a tool to predict conversion. He liked it so much, that after he sold his company and moved on, he wanted to join the team - and take it to the next level. - Published: 2023-12-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sahil-patel-spiralyze/ - Tags: ab, ab testing, ceo, conversion, prediction, scraping - Podcasts: S9 In the past, Sahil was a client of his current venture. In leading ER Express, he saw great value in a tool to predict conversion. He liked it so much, that after he sold his company and moved on, he wanted to join the team - and take it to the next level. Sahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, and in 2011, started a company called ER Express, which centered around patient scheduling. After building the company, he sold it for a successful outcome for him, for his team, and for the buyer. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 daughters, and loves to play music and play soccer. He plays guitar in a rush cover band called the Atlanta Rush Hour, and used to play soccer competitively. In the past, Sahil was a client of his current venture. In leading ER Express, he saw great value in a tool to predict conversion. He liked it so much, that after he sold his company and moved on, he wanted to join the team - and take it to the next level. This is the creation story of Spiralyze. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. spiralyze. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/sahilanamipatel --- > Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance. - Published: 2023-12-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ariel-irena-healthbird/ - Tags: co-founder, founder, insurance, left, married, right, swipe - Podcasts: S9 Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance. Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family members before he could drive. He continued his career later, in finance, then consumer product goods, then healthcare insurance. He loves to build things, and has started 13 - 15 businesses in his lifetime. Outside of tech, he is an avid drummer, and has been playing since he was 10 years old. Irena Tigranyan was born in Armenia, and moved to the US in 2014. She never dreamed of being a founder, cause in the world she was raised in, youalways worked for someone else. She has diverse professional experience in retail and operations, but outside of work, she likes to explore, kayaking, tennis and being outdoors. Fun fact - Ariel and Irena are married, IE partners in life and in business. They Met on Bumble, live in Miami, and invested their "wedding money" to found a company. Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance. This is the creation story of Healthbird. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. healthbird. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/arieldominguez/https://www. linkedin. com/in/irena-t-419739101/ --- > Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD. - Published: 2023-12-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-ayal-regev-redefine-dev/ - Tags: cto, fintech, flow, funds, infrastructure, low code, no code, payments - Podcasts: S9 Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD. Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Prior to his current venture, he was in tech for 10 years, doing consulting in cybersecurity, healthcare, and gaming. Being a gamer for a long time, he enjoyed the technical challenges in brining a game to market. Outside of tech, he likes to write raps - and forecasts that he will perform them one day. He also likes to do rock climbing and play board games with friends. Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD. This is the creation story of Redefine. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. redefine. dev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ayal-regev/ --- > For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that would make this process easier, and he couldn't find it. He wanted to fix this, and provide something for his fellow "not" alien's. - Published: 2023-12-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leonardo-shapiro-not-alien/ - Tags: ceo, country, creator, eligibility, founder, immigration, international - Podcasts: S9 For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that would make this process easier, and he couldn't find it. He wanted to fix this, and provide something for his fellow "not" alien's. Leonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the US. He is an outdoorsy person, and loves to walk and hike. And in fact, he used to be a scuba diving instructor in college, and he loves to spend time in spaces like the underwater. He's also a foodie, and loves coffee and wine. For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that would make this process easier, and he couldn't find it. He wanted to fix this, and provide something for his fellow "not" alien's. This is the creation story of Not Alien. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://notalien. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/leonardoshapiro/ --- > Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own. - Published: 2023-12-13 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-blake-burch-shipyard/ - Tags: cto, data, founder, movement, transfer, warehouse - Podcasts: S9 Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own. Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music professor, specifically in percussion. But eventually, he moved over to the tech world. But, outside of tech, he plays board games, in the strategy realm, and named one that I hadn't heard of called Terra Mystica. Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own. This is the creation story of Shipyard. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. shipyardapp. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/blakeburch/ --- > In the past, Reinis and his co-founders noticed that no one was approaching embedded finance in Indonesia. At the same time, he was seeing other companies be successful at this very thing in the US and other countries, and they started to realize the magnitude of the opportunity. - Published: 2023-12-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-reinis-simanovskis-finfra/ - Tags: cto, fintech, flow, funds, infrastructure, low code, no code, payments - Podcasts: S9 In the past, Reinis and his co-founders noticed that no one was approaching embedded finance in Indonesia. At the same time, he was seeing other companies be successful at this very thing in the US and other countries, and they started to realize the magnitude of the opportunity. Reinis Simanovskis was born in Latvia. He comes from a family of exact sciences - physic, math, tech, etc. - which gave him a clear path of where to go professionally. He started coding classes in middle school, but quit to purse road cycling, of which he was very successful. He still rides today, nearly 200-300 kilometers per ride. He has worked in London, Africa, and eventually landed in Jakarta - and aligned with his travels, he is an adventurous foodie. In the past, Reinis and his co-founders noticed that no one was approaching embedded finance in Indonesia. At the same time, he was seeing other companies be successful at this very thing in the US and other countries, and they started to realize the magnitude of the opportunity. This is the creation story of Finfra. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. finfra. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/simanovskis/ --- > Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup. - Published: 2023-12-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-raven-jiang-arc/ - Tags: cto, financial, fintech, founder, infrastructure, payments, payroll - Podcasts: S9 Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup. Raven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fiction, and liked the idea of working with technology. He plays multiplayer video games, which helped to shape how he viewed technology and the advancements in that ecosystem. He enjoys Japanese food, and in fact, traveled to Japan regularly while living in Singapore. Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup. This is the creation story of Arc. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. arc. tech/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ravenjiang/ --- > Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for network observability. - Published: 2023-12-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-avi-freedman-kentik/ - Tags: appliances, ceo, devices, founder, networking, observability - Podcasts: S9 Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for network observability. Avi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years, and likes to play Pot Limit Omaha (which is Poker) and to Taekwondo to keep his body healthy. Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for just that. This is the creation story of Kentik. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. kentik. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/avifreedman/ --- > Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own. - Published: 2023-12-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-juan-barroso-salsa-payroll/ - Tags: cto, Developer, fintech, founder, infrastructure, payroll, stripe - Podcasts: S9 Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own. Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mother was a seamstress. Neither went to University, but they made sure to push Juan to attend university and focus hard on his studies. It was during University that he fell in love with programming. Outside of tech, he likes to try new things, and doesn't stick with one hobby for too long (other than traveling). Right now, he is into mountain biking and snowboarding. Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own. This is the creation story of Salsa. SponsorsDrataCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. salsa. dev/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jmbarroso/ --- > As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science. - Published: 2023-11-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-fabiana-clemente-ydata/ - Tags: access, cdo, data science, Developer, founder, platform, streamline - Podcasts: S9 As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science. Fabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, having a creative mind. She finds great joy and relaxation in water color painting, while also spending time with her family over fantastic Portuguese dinners. Outside of this, she enjoys traveling, learning about other cultures and cuisines across the world. As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science. This is the creation story of YData. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://ydata. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/fabiana-clemente/ --- > Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off. - Published: 2023-11-29 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-carberry-coder/ - Tags: cloud, cto, enterprise, environment, founder, programming - Podcasts: S9 Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off. Kyle Carberry grew up in a very small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was always into tech, but mainly the pirating side of things on his dial up internet connection. He got into pogromming when he got is first Xbox, and started modding it - followed by Minecraft servers and building tools for the internet. Outside of tech, he just moved to New York and prefers the hustle and bustle over the small town quiet. Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off. This is the creation story of Coder. com. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://coder. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/kylecarbs/ --- > While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN. - Published: 2023-11-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-matt-levine-cachefly/ - Tags: cdn, content, delivery, founder, network, streaming - Podcasts: S9 While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN. Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And during that time, he started to dig into computers, and became hooked. He started several businesses in High School, and later founded eFront. Outside of tech, he is married with a couple of kids, and likes top lay golf. While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN. This is the creation story of CacheFly. SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryLinkshttps://www. cachefly. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/exile2k/ --- > What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? - Published: 2023-11-24 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-9-trailer/ - Tags: 8, builders, founders, ideas, season, teams, trailer - Podcasts: S9, Trailer What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product? ... how to recover from critical mistakes... ... how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? What if there was a show where you could hear those stories? SponsorsCacheFlyClearQuery --- > The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. - Published: 2023-11-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-puneet-gupta-amberflo/ - Tags: api, billing, ceo, cloud, founder, meter, saas, usage - Podcasts: S8 The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching prominent cloud solutions, and has a track record for success there. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 boys, living in the Bay Area with his extended family. He is into motorcycles, and is falling in love with reading again. The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. This is the creation story of Amberflo. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://www. amberflo. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/puneetguptausa/ --- > Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. - Published: 2023-11-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-glauber-costa-turso/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, computing, cto, data, development, edge, local, sql, sqlite - Podcasts: S8 Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was hard, and we joked that he playing zone defense now over man to man. AS of this recording, he had already seen the Mario movie 3 times with his kids, and enjoys playing video games with them. But, his game to play is Civilizations, which he is highly addicted to. Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. This is the creation story of Turso. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinkshttps://chiselstrike. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/glommer/ --- > Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. - Published: 2023-11-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-sefi-genis-firefly/ - Tags: cloud, co-founder, cto, devops, light, multi cloud, observability - Podcasts: S8 Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family. Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. This is the creation story of Firefly. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://www. gofirefly. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sefi-genis-90282185https://www. momtestbook. com/ --- > When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. - Published: 2023-11-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/replay-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, google, hr tech, interview, pre-onsite, women in tech - Podcasts: S8 When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience it much differently than the hardship it was. Her upbringing was very community driven, focused on caring for others. Eventually, she went to work for the United Nations, in her words, so she could save the world - though eventually she was disillusioned by how slow things moved. It was at this point, where she shifted over to tech. Outside of tech, she used to love reading, but now that she has a child, she sticks to audiobooks. And, she thoroughly enjoys art, specifically, 20th century Russian-Jewish artists. When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. This is the creation story of Ntropy. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://ntropy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/narevardanyan/ --- > Twelve years ago, the founders of Alex's current venture noticed that the demand for freelancers was growing in the market. They also noticed that very few time tracking solutions existed, and they wanted to tackle this niche. Later, Alex joined the crew to take the product to the next level, as CTO. - Published: 2023-11-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-yarotsky-hubstaff/ - Tags: cto, freelancers, productivity, software, time tracking - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Twelve years ago, the founders of Alex's current venture noticed that the demand for freelancers was growing in the market. They also noticed that very few time tracking solutions existed, and they wanted to tackle this niche. Later, Alex joined the crew to take the product to the next level, as CTO. Alex Yarotsky got into tech as a little kid. In fact, he remembers watching the movie Toy Story, and wanting to learn how to build the tech that drove its creation. He got into University, but eventually, dropped out, and went the standard Eastern European software route, by joining a consultancy. Post that, he joined his first tech startup, and hasn't looked back since. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 fat cats. He and his wife enjoy MMA, and traveling. Twelve years ago, the founders of Alex's current venture noticed that the demand for freelancers was growing in the market. They also noticed that very few time tracking solutions existed, and they wanted to tackle this niche. Later, Alex joined the crew to take the product to the next level, as CTO. This is the creation story of Hubstaff. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://hubstaff. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ayarotsky/ --- > At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem. - Published: 2023-11-08 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pato-echague-split-io/ - Tags: cto, feature, feature flags, flag, founder, launch, product, push - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem. Pato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boca Juniors. He also admits to being influenced by the Messi effect as well, liking Barcelona and now the States. He is a father of 2 young kids - who also play soccer - so there are a lot of nets and practice tools in his backyard. At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem. This is the creation story of Split. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. split. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/patricioechague/ --- > After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process. - Published: 2023-11-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-moti-rafalin-vfunction/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, founder, modernization, payback, tech debt, tracking - Podcasts: S8 After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process. Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of which are in college. His family and he lives in the Bay Area, and he likes to play tennis and travel. In fact, he has been to over 65 countries in his life, and has lived in 2 continents. After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process. This is the creation story of vFunction. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://vfunction. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mrafalin/ --- > In 2022, Shaun set out to accomplish a new goal. He put together the financial resources to acquire an organization, with the goal of transforming it into a premier services company - by leading and growing people to the next level. - Published: 2023-11-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaun-ritchie-nclouds/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, founder, owner, services - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In 2022, Shaun set out to accomplish a new goal. He put together the financial resources to acquire an organization, with the goal of transforming it into a premier services company - by leading and growing people to the next level. Shaun Ritchie has lived in Salt Lake City for 20 plus years. He grew up in Phoenix, but decided it was too hot to live there. He started his first company 20 years ago, and has had some major successes, selling later ventures to WeWork. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 kids. He loves the mountains and outdoors, enjoying snowboarding, skiing, and hiking. In 2022, Shaun set out to accomplish a new goal. He put together the financial resources to acquire an organization, with the goal of transforming it into a premier services company - by leading and growing people to the next level. This is Shaun's creation story at nClouds. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. nclouds. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shaunritchie/ --- > Arunabh was on a very important call, and his excel sheet was crashing. He looked left and right, and couldn't find anything to support what he needed. He found some co-foudners, and built the solution he wished he had for the industry. - Published: 2023-11-01 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arunabh-dastidar-realsage/ - Tags: data, founder, insights, real estate, revenue - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Arunabh was on a very important call, and his excel sheet was crashing. He looked left and right, and couldn't find anything to support what he needed. He found some co-foudners, and built the solution he wished he had for the industry. Arunabh Dastidar has a background in engineering, starting his coding years in his teens. In fact, he was building and selling web products even prior to college. He spends most of his free time thinking about tech and startups, but when he is not, he plays acoustic guitar and attends music festivals. He enjoys traveling and trying food across the world, mentioning that Tokyo ruined Sushi for him. Arunabh was on a very important call, and his excel sheet was crashing. He looked left and right, and couldn't find anything to support what he needed. He found some co-founders, and built the solution he wished he had for the industry. This is the creation story of RealSage. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://realsage. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arunabhadastidar/ --- > In 2014, Zach was working at Facebook. During that time, a team member wanted to build a platform where they could know what was going on with all of their assorted machines. They ne eded a way to ask questions without writing code, and more quickly get answers about their community of devices. - Published: 2023-10-31 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-zach-wasserman-fleet/ - Tags: cto, devices, endpoint, founder, management, mdm - Podcasts: S8 In 2014, Zach was working at Facebook. During that time, a team member wanted to build a platform where they could know what was going on with all of their assorted machines. They ne eded a way to ask questions without writing code, and more quickly get answers about their community of devices. Zach Wasserman lives near Vancouver, but grew up a child of the 90's in Berkeley, California. The . COM boom was happening around him, so he found himself fascinated with this era in tech, with little understanding of the details. He was a skater kid, riding around the Bay Area, typically on a short board over long board. Nowadays, he is more into the outdoors, as a mountain biker, rock climber and back country skier. He enjoys the vast selection of Chinese food at his home near Vancouver. In 2014, Zach was working at Facebook. During that time, a team member wanted to build a platform where they could know what was going on with all of their assorted machines. They ne eded a way to ask questions without writing code, and more quickly get answers about their community of devices. This is the creation story of Fleet. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://fleetdm. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/zacharywasserman/ --- > Steven was working on a VR project in the past, and a component required some web development. What he immediately noticed was that although Unity Game Engine development was visual, but web development required you to build visually in the realm of code. He started to wonder if there was a way to bring this sort of thing to web dev. - Published: 2023-10-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-steven-schkolne-mightymeld/ - Tags: founder, idea, react, unity, visual, web development - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Steven was working on a VR project in the past, and a component required some web development. What he immediately noticed was that although Unity Game Engine development was visual, but web development required you to build visually in the realm of code. He started to wonder if there was a way to bring this sort of thing to web dev. Steven Schkolne has a standard tech story. He was good at math, and loved computers - so, he got into programming. What sets him apart in the industry though, is his passion for design, art and creativity. He is a self taught designer, but really jams when his right and left brains are firing at the same time. Outside of tech, he is married and enjoys gaming and digging into YouTube. Steven was working on a VR project in the past, and a component required some web development. What he immediately noticed was that although Unity Game Engine development was visual, but web development required you to build visually in the realm of code. He started to wonder if there was a way to bring this sort of thing to web dev. This is the creation story of MightyMeld. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. mightymeld. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/schkolne/ --- > In 2013, a group of professors and business people noticed that early stage companies in Syracuse were required to move to NYC - primarily because there was lack of capital and access to talent. A year later, Somak and his team stepped out to solve this problem in New York regions... and beyond. - Published: 2023-10-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-somak-chattopadhyay-armory-square-ventures/ - Tags: funding, ignored, investment, new york, startups, unreached, vc - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In 2013, a group of professors and business people noticed that early stage companies in Syracuse were required to move to NYC - primarily because there was lack of capital and access to talent. A year later, Somak and his team stepped out to solve this problem in New York regions... and beyond. Somak Chattopadhyay lives 30 minutes outside of Syracuse, NY, where he enjoys the great outdoors vibe of the area. He studied engineering at MIT, but spent the bulk of his career in investing. He has been in venture capital for nearly 18 years, spending time at Edison and Tribeca. Outside of tech, he is married and passionate about food and music. He's actually a classically trained violinist, and enjoys cooking or consuming Tandoor cuisine. In 2013, a group of professors and business people noticed that early stage companies in Syracuse were required to move to NYC - primarily because there was lack of capital and access to talent. A year later, Somak and his team stepped out to solve this problem in New York regions... and beyond. This is the creation story of Armory Square Ventures. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. armorysv. comLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/somak-chattopadhyay-7662a/ --- > During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually, at Uber, he launched an open source library that eventually would become the basis of his current venture. - Published: 2023-10-24 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-maxim-fateev-temporal/ - Tags: error, execution, founder, library, open source, reliable - Podcasts: S8 During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually, at Uber, he launched an open source library that eventually would become the basis of his current venture. Maxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. In the late 90's, he moved to the US, eventually landing in Seattle, which loves. He's been married for 27 years, with 3 boys, and loves to hike, play ice hockey, and snowboard. He mentioned there were a number of choices, but he prefers Whistler in Canada, when he can make the 5 hour drive. During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually, at Uber, he launched an open source library that eventually would become the basis of his current venture. This is the creation story of Temporal. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://temporal. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/fateev/ --- > Going back several years, Ibrahim started a consultancy in 2005 or so, and mentions working on successful products in the area of mortgage banking. In 2008, the financial meltdown happened, and all of their customers (save 1) went out of business. After struggling for while, they decided take a foundational utility they had built and bridge the gap to 2.0 of their business. - Published: 2023-10-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ibrahim-jay-astera-leaders/ - Tags: ai, centralized, communication, Developer, founder, paradigm, project management - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Going back several years, Ibrahim started a consultancy in 2005 or so, and mentions working on successful products in the area of mortgage banking. In 2008, the financial meltdown happened, and all of their customers (save 1) went out of business. After struggling for while, they decided take a foundational utility they had built and bridge the gap to 2.0 of their business. Ibrahim Surani grew up in Pakistan, dropped out of high school and in his words, stumbled around for a while. Eventually, he stumbled onto an IBM mainframe, taught himself to code, and has been in tech ever since. He moved to the states in 1988 and has been here ever since. Outside of tech, he is an avid hiker, and enjoys a good fantasy read, like Lord of the Rings. Jay Mishra studied mathematics and computer science. He started out at his current venture right out of college, post his masters program. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of two boys who love sports. He enjoys playing chess and golf, and likes to hike and travel. His favorite book is the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Going back several years, Ibrahim started a consultancy in 2005 or so, and mentions working on successful products in the area of mortgage banking. In 2008, the financial meltdown happened, and all of their customers (save 1) went out of business. After struggling for while, they decided take a foundational utility they had built and bridge the gap to 2. 0 of their business. This is the creation story of Astera. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. astera. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ibrahimsurani/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jaymishra/ --- > Through his career, Jason gained great experience in the gig economy, through his time at Uber and other ventures in Latin America. He saw many shifts run the market through his time, and throughout the pandemic, and he saw that people were looking to maximize the productivity of the workforce they currently had. - Published: 2023-10-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-radisson-movo/ - Tags: ceo, enabling, founder, front, front line, line, w2, workers - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Through his career, Jason gained great experience in the gig economy, through his time at Uber and other ventures in Latin America. He saw many shifts run the market through his time, and throughout the pandemic, and he saw that people were looking to maximize the productivity of the workforce they currently had. Jason Radisson had a tough childhood, being born to a 16 year old single mom. He grew up on a rural place, and his journey required him to work jobs to get ahead and figure the world out at a young age. He was always interested in math and sports, which led him down the path to study economics and applied mathematics, eventually working for McKinsey. Today, he is married with small kids, and enjoys an active, outdoor life, specifically participating in distance sports (IE biking or running). Through his career, Jason gained great experience in the gig economy, through his time at Uber and other ventures in Latin America. He saw many shifts run the market through his time, and throughout the pandemic, and he saw that people were looking to maximize the productivity of the workforce they currently had. This is the creation story of Movo. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://movo. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jason-radisson/ --- > Valeriy had some past experience in recruitment, having had run his own agency. He found great reward in placing people, but eventually wanted to build a solution for the process. After he met his co-founder, they both decided to attack the creation of a new kind of recruiting tool. - Published: 2023-10-17 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-valeriy-bykanov-prodigy/ - Tags: agency, ai, Developer, founder, member, placement, recruiting, team - Podcasts: S8 Valeriy had some past experience in recruitment, having had run his own agency. He found great reward in placing people, but eventually wanted to build a solution for the process. After he met his co-founder, they both decided to attack the creation of a new kind of recruiting tool. Valeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing this for some time, he wanted to expand his horizons and moved to Berlin to join a startup. Outside of tech, he is married, and loves to be active outdoors - hiking, snowboarding and cycling. In fact, one of his favorite things to do is listen to a podcast or audiobook while hitting a biking trail. Valeriy had some past experience in recruitment, having had run his own agency. He found great reward in placing people, but eventually wanted to build a solution for the process. After he met his co-founder, they both decided to attack the creation of a new kind of recruiting tool. This is the creation story of Prodigy. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://prodi. gg/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/valeriybykanov/ --- > Massoud held a strong desire to find a solution to the complex communication problem between people and systems. He decided to approach this with deep AI integration, smart objects, and an object messaging model. And in doing so, he put AI in project management, and discovered the next development paradigm. - Published: 2023-10-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-massoud-alibakhsh-omadeus/ - Tags: ai, centralized, communication, Developer, founder, paradigm, project management - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Massoud held a strong desire to find a solution to the complex communication problem between people and systems. He decided to approach this with deep AI integration, smart objects, and an object messaging model. And in doing so, he put AI in project management, and discovered the next development paradigm. Massoud Alibakhsh was born in Iran, but grew up in the states. He has always been curious about machines, computers, robots - and as such, studied electrical engineering and computer science. He built his career on hardware and software, and witnessed all the tech changes throughout the past decades - from mainframes to GUI's to pcs to distributed systems to the cloud. Outside of tech, he used to be a competitive soccer player, but after he hurt his knees, he switched to swimming daily. He swears by intermittent fasting, but makes sure to carry walnuts and dates on him when he travels. Massoud held a strong desire to find a solution to the complex communication problem between people and systems. He decided to approach this with deep AI integration, smart objects, and an object messaging model. And in doing so, he put AI in project management, and discovered the next development paradigm. This is the creation story of Omadeus. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://omadeus. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/massoud-alibakhsh-7b139753/ --- > In the past, Josh and his current co-founder started to discuss employment engagement. They also noticed that sharing information across a large company was, well - inefficient, with many points of failure. On the side, they started building something that would improve both of these areas together. - Published: 2023-10-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-josh-purvis-assembly/ - Tags: ai, ceo, engagement, founder, information, sharing - Podcasts: S8 In the past, Josh and his current co-founder started to discuss employment engagement. They also noticed that sharing information across a large company was, well - inefficient, with many points of failure. On the side, they started building something that would improve both of these areas together. Josh Purvis grew up in Missouri, on a lake in the Ozarks. He spent most of his time outdoors, and became a professional wakeboarder. Eventually, an injury took him out of the circuit and he went to entertainment school. During his time there, he and his roommate built a website - and he has been into tech ever since. Outside of tech, he reads a ton, owning about 400-500 books, and enjoys street tacos, wings, and a good plate of pasta. In the past, Josh and his current co-founder started to discuss employment engagement. They also noticed that sharing information across a large company was, well - inefficient, with many points of failure. On the side, they started building something that would improve both of these areas together. This is the creation story of Assembly. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. joinassembly. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joshuapurvis/ --- > Within his last startup, Max discovered that deploying configuration rules on Salesforce was clunky and took a long time to do so, even for a seasoned engineers. Eventually, he decided to build a tool to focus on this process alone. - Published: 2023-10-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-rudman-prodly/ - Tags: ceo, data management, founder, integration, projects, salesforce - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Within his last startup, Max discovered that deploying configuration rules on Salesforce was clunky and took a long time to do so, even for a seasoned engineers. Eventually, he decided to build a tool to focus on this process alone. Max Rudman grew up in Soviet, Moscow - then moved from Russia when he was 16 years old. He spent his early years programming and exploring engineering, and it just continued on as he got older. He got the entrepreneurial bug in early 2000's when he was hired at a marketplace . COM startup. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids. He loves to travel and considers himself a foodie, stating that his favorite restaurants were in the wine country and in Spain. Within his last startup, Max discovered that deploying configuration rules on Salesforce was clunky and took a long time to do so, even for a seasoned engineer. Eventually, he decided to build a tool to focus on this process alone. This is the creation story of Prodly. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://prodly. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/maxrudman/ --- > In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1.0 conception. - Published: 2023-10-04 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kaj-pedersen-astrumu/ - Tags: ceo, data management, founder, integration, projects, salesforce - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1.0 conception. Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has had tons of exposure to cultures and countries, which he is fond of. Outside of tech, he married with a family, and loves climbing, being a proclaimed mountaineer. When he isn't climbing he likes to read a broad array of books, and scuba dive - of which, he mentioned Fiji was the coolest dive. In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1. 0 conception. This is the creation story of AstrumU. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://astrumu. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kajpedersen/ --- > In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure. - Published: 2023-10-03 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-andrew-colombi-tonic/ - Tags: ceo, compliance, data, fake, founder, mirror, production - Podcasts: S8 In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure. Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After digging into the internal configuration to delay the load of peripherals, he was hooked on computers and eventually, coding. Outside of tech, he is picking back up learning piano, and really enjoys biking. He mentioned he just got a new gravel bike, which is a street bike with a front suspension. In the past, Andrew frequently worked with data that was private, with other users not having access. So, he had to create fake data, for multiple different projects. When he tried to do this, it took him much longer than anticipated, and it was incredibly valuable for multiple uses (stress testing and demos to name a few). This was key to eventually building a real tool for this, and starting a new adventure. This is the creation story of Tonic. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. tonic. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrew-colombi-9a52aa5/ --- > Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted! - Published: 2023-09-29 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/dev-interrupted-assembling-nurturing-engineering-teams/ - Tags: career, dev interrupted, engineering, journey, podcast, recast, teams - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted! Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted! Check out the original post here:https://linearb. io/dev-interrupted/podcast/career-journey-3-assembling-and-nurturing-engineering-teams --- > Max is the creator of Homebrew, the widely used package manager which is probably installed on your computer right now. After the success of the tool, he wanted to figure out a way to continue to bring value to open source, and power digital money in the web3 space. - Published: 2023-09-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-howell-tea/ - Tags: brew, command line, cross platform, founder, package, package manager, tea - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Max is the creator of Homebrew, the widely used package manager which is probably installed on your computer right now. After the success of the tool, he wanted to figure out a way to continue to bring value to open source, and power digital money in the web3 space. Max Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't cool, so he studied chemistry and started out a job in that industry. After he mastered his work environment within 3 months, he was disenchanted with the career path, and decided to stop going to work. Post installing Linux on his home computer, he started coding - and fell in love with it. Outside of tech, he is married with a young son. He enjoys a good beer, cooking a steak, and seeing how new everything is interpreted through his son's eyes. Max is the creator of Homebrew, the widely used package manager which is probably installed on your computer right now. After the success of the tool, he wanted to figure out a way to continue to bring value to open source, and power digital money in the web3 space. This is the creation story of Tea. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://tea. xyz/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mxcl/ --- > After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version. - Published: 2023-09-27 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shirshanka-das-acryl-data/ - Tags: ceo, data, data stack, data warehouse, founder, fragmented, metadata, pipeline - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version. Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with 2 kids, he's an accomplished Indian vocalist, and has a passion for swimming, which he states is his therapy. After spending over a decade at LinkedIn, Shirshanka had led the teams supporting all things data. He created a unified approach to data discovery, governance, and observability - while he was at the company. He open sourced the product, called DataHub, and eventually created a managed version. This is the creation story of Acryl Data. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. acryldata. io/Website: https://datahubproject. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shirshankadas/ --- > Jon observed the maturation of AI, in the creation of tooling like ChatGPT and generative AI. He envisioned building an application to extend the progression of natural language processing to enable work productivity. - Published: 2023-09-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-jon-ricketts-writerly/ - Tags: ai, ceo, content, founder, generation, productivity - Podcasts: S8 Jon observed the maturation of AI, in the creation of tooling like ChatGPT and generative AI. He envisioned building an application to extend the progression of natural language processing to enable work productivity. Jon Ricketts lives in Knoxville, TN with his wife and kids. He notes that he has had an unconventional route to being a tech startup founder. He has an MBA and JD, but knew during law school he didn't want to practice. Throughout his career, he has continually fallen in love with building. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time on the beach, staying physically fit, golfing, and working on his private pilots license. Jon observed the maturation of AI, in the creation of tooling like ChatGPT and generative AI. He envisioned building an application to extend the progression of natural language processing to enable work productivity. This is the creation story of Writerly. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://writerly. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jon-ricketts-639187267/ --- > In the past, Tim played the role of the middle man between the data and those who needed answers from the data. Like a good engineer, he always automated the repeat things he was asked to do. He asked his co-founder one day... wouldn't it be nice if we could just get out of the way? - Published: 2023-09-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tim-tutt-clearquery/ - Tags: analytics, creator, development, night, query, reporting, shift, sql - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In the past, Tim played the role of the middle man between the data and those who needed answers from the data. Like a good engineer, he always automated the repeat things he was asked to do. He asked his co-founder one day... wouldn't it be nice if we could just get out of the way? Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different schools in the 1st grade. He learned how to make friends and fit in quickly. Outside of tech, he loves the marvel cinematic universe, from which he states that Tony Spark is his spirit animal. He also loves to play poker, which he got into during college. He actually got to play in a smaller event within the World Series of poker this past year. In the past, Tim played the role of the middle man between the data and those who needed answers from the data. Like a good engineer, he always automated the repeat things he was asked to do. He asked his co-founder one day... wouldn't it be nice if we could just get out of the way? This is the creation story of ClearQuery. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. clearquery. io/Website: https://www. nightshiftdevelopment. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/timtutt/ --- > Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it. - Published: 2023-09-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alfredo-ramirez-vyopta/ - Tags: analytics, ceo, co-founder, collaboration, digital, microsoft, slack, teams, zoom - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it. Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an Apple 2 computer, which started him on his software development journey. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and loves spending time outdoors with them - hiking, water sports, snow skiing and shooting trap. All of these things allow him to relax, recharge and clear his head. Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it. This is the creation story of Vyopta. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. vyopta. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alfredo-ramirez-7131175/ --- > Will and his co-founder observed first hand the explosion of visual content. At the same time, artificial intelligence had reached a mature state, such that you could use it to learn from unstructured data. They set out to build the next big thing, specifically in context of unstructured visual data. - Published: 2023-09-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-will-gaviria-coactive-ai/ - Tags: ai, analysis, content, cto, data, founder, image, machine learning, video - Podcasts: S8 Will and his co-founder observed first hand the explosion of visual content. At the same time, artificial intelligence had reached a mature state, such that you could use it to learn from unstructured data. They set out to build the next big thing, specifically in context of unstructured visual data. Will Gaviria was born and raised in Columbia, immigrating to Florida at 11 years old. His family seta off in a single bedroom together, and worked hard for their life and successes. He got a full ride to MIT, and funny enough, he had to convince his mother that it was a legit school. Through all of his studies, he got to see the rise of AI and focused on neo-morphic computing. Outside of tech, he is married with a cat named Chipotle. He lives in the Bay Area, and loves playing Magic the Gathering and doing Crossfit. Will and his co-founder observed first hand the explosion of visual content. At the same time, artificial intelligence had reached a mature state, such that you could use it to learn from unstructured data. They set out to build the next big thing, specifically in context of unstructured visual data. This is the creation story of Coactive. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://coactive. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/williamgaviria/ --- > Andrew was part of a private equity group, which acquired BackBox in late 2021. He stepped in as CEO, maintaining the technology team in Israel and bringing the GTM team to the US. Taking over a fantastic product, Andrew set his sights on growing the company. - Published: 2023-09-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-kahl-backbox/ - Tags: automation, backup, ceo, connection, devices, network, router, switches - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Andrew was part of a private equity group, which acquired BackBox in late 2021. He stepped in as CEO, maintaining the technology team in Israel and bringing the GTM team to the US. Taking over a fantastic product, Andrew set his sights on growing the company. Andrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, when he came across a job ad for Compaq. He's been in tech ever since, all around the building of things. Outside of tech, he is marred with 2 daughters - one of which he just sent to college, and one in high school. Along side of that, they have 3 overly energetic German shepherds. Andrew was part of a private equity group, which acquired BackBox in late 2021. He stepped in as CEO, maintaining the technology team in Israel and bringing the GTM team to the US. Taking over a fantastic product, Andrew set his sights on growing the company. This is the creation story of BackBox. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://backbox. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrewkahl/ --- > Pete was one of the founding team members of React, and his cofounder, Nick, was one of the creators of GraphQL. Post Facebook, they wanted to figure out what was next, and wanted to build something impactful. After interviewing some folks, he realized that managing data and data pipelines was a challenge that needed to be solved. - Published: 2023-09-13 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-pete-hunt-dagster/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, co-founder, data, elemental, multi source, open source, pipelines - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Pete was one of the founding team members of React, and his cofounder, Nick, was one of the creators of GraphQL. Post Facebook, they wanted to figure out what was next, and wanted to build something impactful. After interviewing some folks, he realized that managing data and data pipelines was a challenge that needed to be solved. Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m butterfly. He has a 2 year old daughter, and loves to play guitar in his cover band. Pete was one of the founding team members of React, and his friend and colleague, Nick, was one of the creators of GraphQL. Post Facebook, they wanted to figure out what was next, and wanted to build something impactful. After interviewing some folks, he realized that managing data and data pipelines was a challenge that needed to be solved. This is the creation story of Dagster. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://dagster. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/pwhunt/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Eric was running a large division at Oracle, surrounding identity. He saw that most cloud customers were utilizing multiple clouds, but most tooling didn't allow for those cloud identities to play nice together. He saw this opportunity sitting in plain sight, and decided to step out and attack it. - Published: 2023-09-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-eric-olden-strata-identity/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, co-founder, enterprise, identity, multi cloud - Podcasts: S8 Prior to his current venture, Eric was running a large division at Oracle, surrounding identity. He saw that most cloud customers were utilizing multiple clouds, but most tooling didn't allow for those cloud identities to play nice together. He saw this opportunity sitting in plain sight, and decided to step out and attack it. Eric Olden grew up in the Bay Area, as one of the few local natives, but enjoys the mountains of Colorado now, outside of Boulder. He and his family love to ski, mountain bike, and even visit the reservoir to do some surfing. Outside of these things, he is passionate ab out landscape architecture, and does it for fun on the side. Prior to his current venture, Eric was running a large division at Oracle, surrounding identity. He saw that most cloud customers were utilizing multiple clouds, but most tooling didn't allow for those cloud identities to play nice together. He saw this opportunity sitting in plain sight, and decided to step out and attack it. This is the creation story of Strata. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. strata. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/boughtnotsold/ --- > A year and a half ago, Barak and his childhood friends shared the personal struggle of learning how to code online. What they noticed was that the current solutions didn't offer helpful ways to practice building real world projects. So they built their own. - Published: 2023-09-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-barak-glanz-coddy-tech/ - Tags: co-founder, coding, coo, Developer, learning, practice, projects - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 A year and a half ago, Barak and his childhood friends shared the personal struggle of learning how to code online. What they noticed was that the current solutions didn't offer helpful ways to practice building real world projects. So they built their own. Barak Glanz is 26 years old, and has done quite a few things in his life. He served in the Israeli Navy prior to jumping into the professional world. He worked for Meta as a student, and has has a few impressive startup failures in different sectors. Outside of tech, he is a rock climber, weight lifter, and likes to play chess. He mentioned that he beat someone in 10 moves before, but attributed it to mistakes of his competitor. A year and a half ago, Barak and his childhood friends shared the personal struggle of learning how to code online. What they noticed was that the current solutions didn't offer helpful ways to practice building real world projects. So they built their own. This is the creation story of Coddy. tech. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://coddy. tech/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/barak-glanz --- > Dave spent some time in college admissions in the past. And, as his kids grew up, he started to look into the process again. He found that when visiting a school in person, there wasn't solution that utilized preferences of the graduates, helping them identify patterns to help match them to their perfect school. - Published: 2023-09-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-hurwitt-troove/ - Tags: ceo, college, fit, founder, saas, search, student - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Dave spent some time in college admissions in the past. And, as his kids grew up, he started to look into the process again. He found that when visiting a school in person, there wasn't solution that utilized preferences of the graduates, helping them identify patterns to help match them to their perfect school. David Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their journey out of the nest into college was a driver behind starting his current venture. Outside of current venture, he is an avid photographer and really enjoys taking pictures, but ensuring there is people in them - cause, he states it's just better that way. Dave spent some time in college admissions in the past. And, as his kids grew up, he started to look into the process again. He found that when visiting a school in person, there wasn't solution that utilized preferences of the graduates, helping them identify patterns to help match them to their perfect school. This is the creation story of Troove. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. troove. me/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/davehurwitt --- > Jared has spent a lot of time in the eCommerce world, serving numerous different roles. What he noticed is that with evolution of eCommerce companies, it is difficult for them to develop a system of record early on. Jared wanted to change all that, and take on the juggernauts head on. - Published: 2023-09-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-jared-ward-luminous/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, ecommerce, founder, inventory, saas, supply chain - Podcasts: S8 Jared has spent a lot of time in the eCommerce world, serving numerous different roles. What he noticed is that with evolution of eCommerce companies, it is difficult for them to develop a system of record early on. Jared wanted to change all that, and take on the juggernauts head on. Jared Ward grew up in a sporty family, participating in wrestling and football. His background is in supply chain and eCommerce, but outside of this and tech, he is a family man and loves spending time with his kids. With his 7 year old son, he is sharing his love of Zelda, and with his 3 year old daughter, he enjoys taking her to the park and the occasional tickle fight. For himself, he enjoys watching MMA, running marathons, and getting outside to hike. Jared has spent a lot of time in the eCommerce world, serving numerous different roles. What he noticed is that with evolution of eCommerce companies, it is difficult for them to develop a system of record early on. Jared wanted to change all that, and take on the juggernauts head on. This is the creation story of Luminous. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. joinluminous. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jared-ward-bb96a115b/ --- > Vikram noticed that content marketing has shifted from text to images to videos. In a prior organization, they only had 1 person who was trained to create videos, though the demand for assets was high. After attempting to learn tools to make these videos, he wanted to find a better way to generate this type of content. - Published: 2023-08-31 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vikram-chalana-pictory/ - Tags: ads, advertising, ai, automatic, ceo, creation, founder, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Vikram noticed that content marketing has shifted from text to images to videos. In a prior organization, they only had 1 person who was trained to create videos, though the demand for assets was high. After attempting to learn tools to make these videos, he wanted to find a better way to generate this type of content. Vikram Chalana grew up in India, but has been in Seattle over 30 years. He graduated from the University of Washington, and actually met his wife in college. In fact, his kids now go to the same school, so his whole family are Huskies. Outside of tech, he loves anything outdoors - skiing, biking, and kayaking. In fact, at the recording of this episode, he just got back from climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Vikram noticed that content marketing has shifted from text to images to videos. In a prior organization, they only had 1 person who was trained to create videos, though the demand for assets was high. After attempting to learn tools to make these videos, he wanted to find a better way to generate this type of content. This is the creation story of Pictory. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://pictory. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/vikramchalana/ --- > Dor and his co-founder met long ago at another startup. Post acquisition, they listed ideas of what to start building next. They decided to build an operating system like to Linux, and noticed that databases still didn't run faster within their system. They decided to tackle distributed NoSQL databases instead. - Published: 2023-08-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dor-laor-scylladb/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, database, distributed - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Dor and his co-founder met long ago at another startup. Post acquisition, they listed ideas of what to start building next. They decided to build an operating system like to Linux, and noticed that databases still didn't run faster within their system. They decided to tackle distributed NoSQL databases instead. Dor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of tech, he is married with two teenage kids, and enjoys extreme sports. At the time, he does snowboarding and mountain biking, mentioning that the best place to mountain bike was a ski resort in France. He would love to do surfing, but hasn't found the time to hit the waves around Israel. Dor and his co-founder met long ago at another startup. Post acquisition, they listed ideas of what to start building next. They decided to build an operating system like to Linux, and noticed that databases still didn't run faster within their system. They decided to tackle distributed NoSQL databases instead. This is the creation story of ScyllaDB. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. scylladb. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dor-laor/ --- > Artem and his co-founder have years of experience in digital transformation. With the latest innovations in AI proving useful, they decided to make digesting, and utilizing, information from meetings easier - using said AI. - Published: 2023-08-29 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-artem-koren-sembly-ai/ - Tags: ai, assistant, ceo, chatgpt, co-founder, conference, meeting, online, video - Podcasts: S8 Artem and his co-founder have years of experience in digital transformation. With the latest innovations in AI proving useful, they decided to make digesting, and utilizing, information from meetings easier - using said AI. Artem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web applications in High School. Post school at Columbia, he started working at . COM businesses, but found himself dis-enchanted with the state of AI. Outside of tech, he loves chess, attending running club, Jui Jitsu, and cosmology - the study of space, black holes, and things like that. Artem and his co-founder have years of experience in digital transformation. With the latest innovations in AI proving useful, they decided to make digesting, and utilizing, information from meetings easier - using said AI. This is the creation story of Sembly AI. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. sembly. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/akoren --- > Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - Published: 2023-08-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/from-tools-and-weapons-putting-ai-in-the-hands-of-people/ - Tags: feed drop, microsoft, tools, weapons - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. Hello Listeners. This week, we're sharing another episode of the Tools and Weapons podcast, brought to you by our friends at Microsoft. Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott, believes that for AI to benefit everyone, humans must be at the center of its development. His philosophy was shaped by his rural Virginia roots, where he belonged to a hardworking community that used creativity, perseverance, and curiosity to support each other and tackle practical challenges. In this episode, you'll hear about how a culture grounded in human values can lead to safer products, how AI can increase access to critical services like education and medicine, and what Chopin’s G Minor Ballade can teach us about AI and human connection. You can find more Tools and Weapons at codestory. co/toolsandweapons. LinksWebsite: codestory. co/toolsandweapons --- > Adam found himself inundated with messages and emails, all surrounding the workflow of reviewing and approving documentation. Keying off what Github accomplished for developers, he wanted to became a centralized, beautiful place, for business users to collaborate on documents. - Published: 2023-08-24 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-nathan-almanac/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, collaboration, documents, github, online, users - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Adam found himself inundated with messages and emails, all surrounding the workflow of reviewing and approving documentation. Keying off what Github accomplished for developers, he wanted to became a centralized, beautiful place, for business users to collaborate on documents. Adam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in his blood. He has always been interested in complex systems, working in the government and in the airline industry. Outside of tech, he is a big skier, cyclist and works out every day. He's also a big reader, and reads 60-70 books a year. Adam found himself inundated with messages and emails, all surrounding the workflow of reviewing and approving documentation. Keying off what Github accomplished for developers, he wanted to became a centralized, beautiful place, for business users to collaborate on documents. This is the creation story of Almanac. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://almanac. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adampnathan/ --- > In the past, Idan sold two companies, one of which to Microsoft. At Microsoft, he felt the challenge and the pain of talking to risk management and security folks, begging them to integrate their tooling into the development process - which slowed down delivery. After spending so much time on non-value add activities, he decided to set out and optimize this process. - Published: 2023-08-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-idan-plotnik-apiiro/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, delivery, founder, remediation, risk, software - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In the past, Idan sold two companies, one of which to Microsoft. At Microsoft, he felt the challenge and the pain of talking to risk management and security folks, begging them to integrate their tooling into the development process - which slowed down delivery. After spending so much time on non-value add activities, he decided to set out and optimize this process. Idan Plotnik is a half Russian and half Moroccan, which mainly shows up in the way he cooks. First and foremost though, he is a geek, having worked in computer security from his early days. Outside of tech, he is married to a professional surfer, so he and his wife surf Israel's waves regularly. He is a dad as well, and stays busy putting together lego sets, or cooking delicious fish dishes, in traditional moroccan style. In the past, Idan sold two companies, one of which to Microsoft. At Microsoft, he felt the challenge and the pain of talking to risk management and security folks, begging them to integrate their tooling into the development process - which slowed down delivery. After spending so much time on non-value add activities, he decided to set out and optimize this process. This is the creation story of Apiiro. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://apiiro. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/idanplotnik/ --- > When Yann was a CTO of a group of restaurants, he was pursued by the accounting department, to ensure he was validating invoices. Though he tried to build a system for this, it wasn't enough to alleviate the pain of the problem. Eventually, he set out to build the right solution to solve this. - Published: 2023-08-22 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-yann-ravel-sibillot-flowie/ - Tags: cash flow, ceo, confirmation, cto, founder, invoice, validation - Podcasts: S8 When Yann was a CTO of a group of restaurants, he was pursued by the accounting department, to ensure he was validating invoices. Though he tried to build a system for this, it wasn't enough to alleviate the pain of the problem. Eventually, he set out to build the right solution to solve this. Yann Ravel-Sibillot lives in France, and has a lot of hobbies. Ones that he mentioned was kayaking and rock climbing, which he has been doing for more than 10 years. He is passionate about AI, and built his first robot 15 years ago. Outside of tech, he is happily married and really enjoys Italian food. When I asked him what I should do when I come to France, he mentioned trying all the different food genres, regionally across the country. When Yann was a CTO of a group of restaurants, he was pursued by the accounting department, to ensure he was validating invoices. Though he tried to build a system for this, it wasn't enough to alleviate the pain of the problem. Eventually, he set out to build the right solution to solve this. This is the creation story of Flowie. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. get-flowie. com/enLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/yannravelsibillot/ --- > Prior to her current startup, Danielle had to execute financial workflows manually - cause back then, when she was at Fundbox, software for these workflows didn't exist. Her and her co-founder clicked over the idea to build the software that she wished she had. - Published: 2023-08-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-danielle-shaul-nilus/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, financial, fintech, founder, women in tech, workflows - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Prior to her current startup, Danielle had to execute financial workflows manually - cause back then, when she was at Fundbox, software for these workflows didn't exist. Her and her co-founder clicked over the idea to build the software that she wished she had. Danielle Shaul was born and raised in Tel Aviv, as an only child with a dog she dearly loved. She has always been passionate about building and creating things, often assembling and disassembling things in her home. She loves to travel, and spent many years in Asia, Europe and in the US. Outside of tech, she likes ceramics and reading - specifically, biohacking, mindset books, or learning to become a better leader. When asked her favorite food, she says her Mom's - who can cook anything well. Prior to her current startup, Danielle had to build home grown solutions for financial workflows - cause back then, when she was at Fundbox, software for these workflows didn't exist. Her and her co-founder clicked over the idea to build the software that she wished she had. This is the creation story of Nilus. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. nilus. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/danielle-shaul-735b1b92/ --- > One day, Dan was watching some videos online. He had a thought, a desire, a want - to play the video like it was a game. And eventually, this idea turned into a business, which he started with his co-founder Caroline. - Published: 2023-08-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-caroline-overplay/ - Tags: founder, gaming, mobile, sdk, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 One day, Dan was watching some videos online. He had a thought, a desire, a want - to play the video like it was a game. And eventually, this idea turned into a business, which he started with his co-founder Caroline. Caroline Strzalka is a Philadelphia native, born and raised. She is a first generation American, and is grateful to be in a place where she can run her own company. Her parents are from Argentina, with a Polish heritage - so she pointed out that they speak a lot of languages in her home. Outside of tech, she loves to hike and be in the trees. And, she calls herself the MacGyver of the kitchen, meaning she can take anything from the fridge and make a stellar meal out of it. Dan Projansky is a country boy, only moving to NYC when he was 11 years old. He is a father of a 14 year old, whom he adores, and is an avid mountain biker and motorcyclist. In fact, he has owned over 50 different motorcycles across different brands over the years. Originally, he attended to school for film, but after working at Sesame Street, he started to work in computers and development - and that is where he met Caroline. One day, Dan was watching some videos online. He had a thought, a desire, a want - to play the video like it was a game. And eventually, this idea turned into a business, which he started with his co-founder Caroline. This is the creation story of Overplay. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://overplay. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/carolinestrzalka/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dan-projansky/ --- > Prior to COVID and during lockdowns, Ritukar started ideating about the autonomous delivery for an industry that was overlooked for automation. They started to created robots to service the industry, and did so - from their guest rooms. - Published: 2023-08-15 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-ritukar-vijay-ottonomy/ - Tags: autonomous, ceo, co-founder, delivery, final mile, founder, robots - Podcasts: S8 Prior to COVID and during lockdowns, Ritukar started ideating about the autonomous delivery for an industry that was overlooked for automation. They started to created robots to service the industry, and did so - from their guest rooms. Ritukar Vijay has been in tech for around 16 years. He has always been fascinated with new things above and beyond the normal day to day grind. During his studies, he was interested in robotics - which he describes as the culmination of computer and physical sciences. Outside of tech, he is married with a 6 year old son. He mentioned that his son is inquisitive, and is requesting robot features from home, preparing to build his first robot in the future. Prior to COVID and during lockdowns, Ritukar started ideating about the autonomous delivery for an industry that was overlooked for automation. They started to created robots to service the industry, and did so - from their guest rooms. This is the creation story of Ottonomy. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://ottonomy. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ritukarvijay/ --- > At his previous company, Mike was the CTO of a DevOps consultancy company. He realized that they would see the same problem over and over again in regulated environments - businesses needed a process to follow to ensure changes were tracked, and they could in turn, "keep the receipts" for proof of changes. - Published: 2023-08-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-long-kosli/ - Tags: audit, change management, changes, co-founder, devops, founder, regulation, tracking - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 At his previous company, Mike was the CTO of a DevOps consultancy company. He realized that they would see the same problem over and over again in regulated environments - businesses needed a process to follow to ensure changes were tracked, and they could in turn, "keep the receipts" for proof of changes. Mike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he worked in England, then Norway, then China... and now back to Norway. Early on his career, he worked in the Oil & Gas building larger robots for the industry. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with his family and taking long walks in the forest with his dog. At his previous company, Mike was the CTO of a DevOps consultancy company. He realized that they would see the same problem over and over again in regulated environments - businesses needed a process to follow to ensure changes were tracked, and they could in turn, "keep the receipts" for proof of changes. This is the creation story of Kosli. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. kosli. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mikelongoslo/ --- > In his previous company, Suman built solutions around augmenting the human experience for blind people. Moving forward, he wanted to expand this to allow people to use AI to create long term memory, personally for you and your loved ones. - Published: 2023-08-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-suman-kanuganti-personal-ai/ - Tags: ai, ceo, chatgpt, founder, personal, recreation - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 In his previous company, Suman built solutions around augmenting the human experience for blind people. Moving forward, he wanted to expand this to allow people to use AI to create long term memory, personally for you and your loved ones. Suman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human oriented person - one who wants to elevate the experience of people. Outside of tech, he enjoys playing volleyball and is a foodie with his wife. They enjoy yellow tail sashimi and modern Mexican fusion, but at home, they enjoy remixing cuisines with different spices. In his previous company, Suman built solutions around augmenting the human experience for blind people. Moving forward, he wanted to expand this to allow people to use AI to create long term memory, personally for you and your loved ones. This is the creation story of Personal AI. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: http://www. personal. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kanugantisuman/ --- > Jay and his team were doing consulting, prior to launching their current startup. During COVID, law firms were going through significant digital transformation, and didn't know what to do with all of their data. Wanting to scale their consultancy, they wanted to find a better way to provide analysis at scale. - Published: 2023-08-08 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jay-sarmaz-truve-ai/ - Tags: analytics, cases, co-founder, data, founder, law, lawyer, practice - Podcasts: S8 Jay and his team were doing consulting, prior to launching their current startup. During COVID, law firms were going through significant digital transformation, and didn't know what to do with all of their data. Wanting to scale their consultancy, they wanted to find a better way to provide analysis at scale. Jay Sarmaz studied operations research in college, which he describes as the science of solving problems and maximizing value with limited resources. His studies led him to learn computer science to utilize in solving this problems, and eventually, he got his PhD from Georgia Tech. He is driven by curiosity to solve big problems, but outside of tech, he is a soccer fan, plays musical instruments, and spends time with his wife and 5 year old son. Jay and his team were doing consulting, prior to launching their current startup. During COVID, law firms were going through significant digital transformation, and didn't know what to do with all of their data. Wanting to scale their consultancy, they wanted to find a better way to provide analysis at scale. This is the creation story of Truve. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://truve. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jaysarmaz/ --- > Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams. - Published: 2023-08-03 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-reza-farahani-wfhomie/ - Tags: co-founder, engagement, founder, mental, platform, remote, slack, wfh - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams. Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he thought was the coolest job in the world. He graduated from Waterloo, and became a data scientist - but eventually moved towards entrepreneurship. Outside of tech, he lives in Ontario and loves to rock climb and boulder. He enjoys the community aspect of the sport, and has access to gyms and outdoor boulders where he lives. He also passionate about food, enjoying Greek and Turkish food in Greek Town where he lives. Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams. This is the creation story of WFHomie. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. wfhomie. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/reza-farahani-/ --- > Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on. - Published: 2023-08-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-bovee-conductorone/ - Tags: access, cloud, governance, identify, online, provisioning - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on. Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can be found shuttling kids to soccer or dance practices in his spare time. During COVID, he was able to pickup guitar, using YouTube to teach himself. His family got him a super nice Taylor acoustic that he plays on today. Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on. This is the creation story of ConductorOne. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. conductorone. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexbovee/ --- > In his last role, Job was in charge of marketing and growth, of an integrations platform in healthcare tech. He dreamt of a way to enable developers and users of this platform to easy understand and implement their system. Once he met up with his co-founder, who was passionate about solving the same thing, they set out to solve this problem. - Published: 2023-08-01 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-job-rietbergen-alphadoc/ - Tags: builder, co-founder, cto, documents, guides, help, startups, tutorials - Podcasts: S8 In his last role, Job was in charge of marketing and growth, of an integrations platform in healthcare tech. He dreamt of a way to enable developers and users of this platform to easy understand and implement their system. Once he met up with his co-founder, who was passionate about solving the same thing, they set out to solve this problem. Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things - art, photography, product and technology, to name a few. He finds its an odd trait to create art and be in tech, as there are not a lot of people who lead from a designers mind. He has been supporting early stage startups for the last 13 years. Outside of tech, he loves to do anything boarding, and mentioned he loves to snowboard in Austria every year. In his last role, Job was in charge of marketing and growth, of an integrations platform in healthcare tech. He dreamt of a way to enable developers and users of this platform to easy understand and implement their system. Once he met up with his co-founder, who was passionate about solving the same thing, they set out to solve this problem. This is the creation story of Alphadoc. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://alphadoc. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/developer-experience/ --- > Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - Published: 2023-07-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-daniel-jordan-wayflyer/ - Tags: ai, beyondbots, data, generative ai, language models, learning, llm, ntropy, stack - Podcasts: Bonus, S7, S8 Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy. com. Guest: Daniel Jordan, Product & Data at WayflyerQuestions:Tell me and the audience what Wayflyer is. How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play? You mention on your website that you exist to provide funding and insights, essentially helping eCommerce companies grow faster and achieve their potential. Why focus on eCommerce? Is the “software layer” - IE fintech - on top of finance going to make this better? How? Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you using these approaches within Wayflyer? How? How do you prioritize what is important to your eCommerce business customers? What matters to your customers... . do eCommerce businesses expect the funding process to be easy and like magic? What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be? LinksWebsite: https://www. ntropy. com/Website: https://www. wayflyer. com/ --- > From his experience in the industry and in the market, David saw a gap for small and medium size organizations to have a system to run financial businesses on. He and his team set forth to build the next generation, broker dealer platform - one that is better than they could build themselves, and better than what the large institutions have. - Published: 2023-07-27 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-frank-stonehaven/ - Tags: advice, capital, ceo, fintech, founder, global, investment, markets - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 From his experience in the industry and in the market, David saw a gap for small and medium size organizations to have a system to run financial businesses on. He and his team set forth to build the next generation, broker dealer platform - one that is better than they could build themselves, and better than what the large institutions have. David Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love it today. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and did investment banking in San Francisco, before starting his own firm. Outside of tech, he has two kids and by the time this episode releases, he will be a married man! His family loves to ski, especially his son, who races down the mountain competitively. From his experience in the industry and in the market, David saw a gap for small and medium size organizations to have a system to run financial businesses on. He and his team set forth to build the next generation, broker dealer platform - one that is better than they could build themselves, and better than what the large institutions have. This is the creation story of Stonehaven. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://stonehaven-llc. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/david-frank-cfa-68897a5/ --- > Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage. - Published: 2023-07-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-walker-piton-labs/ - Tags: agency, builder, ceo, founder, inception, product, startup, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage. Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating with a computer science degree, and working as a software engineer. Along the way, he fell in love with entrepreneurship, and dove into the startup world. Outside of tech, he is an avid rock climber, hiker, and loves super spicy food as a vegetarian. Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage. This is the creation story of Piton Labs. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://pitonlabs. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/maxwellwalkerwindrush/ --- > Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity. - Published: 2023-07-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-alex-louisy-upflow/ - Tags: ar, ceo, co-founder, collections, lending, on time, revenue, smb - Podcasts: S8 Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity. Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and eventually, he stepped into the possibilities in this world. Outside of tech, he is married with two kids, and enjoys being outside, gardening, and hiking through the forest outside of his small house. Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity. This is the creation story of Upflow. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://upflow. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexlouisy/ --- > Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - Published: 2023-07-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-bryce-crawford-meow/ - Tags: ai, beyondbots, data, generative ai, language models, learning, llm, ntropy, stack - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy. com. Guest: Bryce Crawford, CTO & Co-founder at MeowQuestions:Remind the audience what Meow does. How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play? Last we talked about passing on revenue to customers in banking. It’s hard given the tight margins. How is Meow thinking about that today? Is the “software layer” on top of finance going to make this better? How? Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you seeing any use cases? Or, are you working on an in-house solutions? There are many new decisions you have to make as a CTO. How does you prioritize around what will make a difference in the market? What matters to your customers... . are people expecting finance to be magical or simply reliable? What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be in your eyes? LinksWebsite: https://www. ntropy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bryce-crawford-32164466/https://codestory. co/podcast/e6-bryce-crawford-meow-treasury-management/ --- > Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work. - Published: 2023-07-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matthew-oriordan-ably/ - Tags: builder, ceo, co-founder, collaboration, communication, Developer, founder, real time, tooling - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work. Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft brought him to the UK, where he saw more opportunity. Outside of tech, he likes adrenaline sports. He was a competitively skydiver, participating in free style routines, free-fly and vertical formation. He pointed out that it's a great way to clear your head, cause you can't think about anything else when you're skydiving. Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work. This is the creation story of Ably. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://ably. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattoriordan/ --- > Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people. - Published: 2023-07-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ali-nichols-getaway/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, entreprenuer, market, opportunity, priced, real estate - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people. Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and is pretty stoked to have achieved that. Outside of tech, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, hiking, golfing or boating. In fact, when she and her significant other were living in San Fransisco, they boat a sailboat and were obsessed with the craft. But now that the live in Miami, they've switched over to power boating, to better enjoy all that Florida water has to offer. Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people. This is the creation story of Getaway. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. getaway. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alicnichols/ --- > Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains. - Published: 2023-07-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-dan-lines-linearb/ - Tags: analytics, co-founder, coo, engineering, leader, metrics, okr - Podcasts: S8 Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains. Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers on the side, or creating an early sports streaming platform, before streaming was a thing. Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains. This is the creation story of LinearB. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://linearb. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dan-lines/ --- > Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - Published: 2023-07-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-ilia-zintchenko-ntropy-cto/ - Tags: ai, beyondbots, data, generative ai, language models, learning, llm, ntropy, stack - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy. com. Guest: Ilia Zintchenko, CTO & Co-founder of NtropyQuestions:We talked with Nare about Ntropy and LLM's. But let's dig in more... . what is your LLM stack? How did you choose it, what were the considerations? What are the system costs in doing this? How do you optimize on reliability - what sort of lever are you pulling to ensure reliability? 'How are you thinking about predictive vs generative learning? You guys have been using small and large LM's since the beginning - why is this significant? What data sources have you been using, and are there some that are better than others? 'Have you had to scrub these data sources in any way to prep them for your LM? What is the major benefit that Ntropy is providing by using LLM? What would you go back and change if you could? LinksWebsite: https://www. ntropy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/iliazintchenko/ --- > Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem. - Published: 2023-07-13 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-einat-sitbon-ifocus-health/ - Tags: adhd, cto, eye tracking, focus, founder, test, vision - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem. Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computational Biology. This field also introduced her to computation in general, and programming. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids, and loves to hike. Her and her family share a love of fiction and fantasy books, and made mention her love of NK Jemision and JRR Tolkien. Einat's and her sister are very close, and at one point, her sister mentioned that her son was ADHD. They found it difficult to understand how there wasn't a tool to help measure the concentration of a person with this diagnosis. They both started digging into how to solve this problem. This is the creation story of iFocus Health. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://ifocustest. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%A6-einat-sitbon-b70a7b/ --- > When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust. - Published: 2023-07-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sharekh-shaikh-cleverx/ - Tags: ceo, founder, market, marketplace, participants, research - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust. Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals and pets, more than people, and followed his father around as he travelled for work. He is big into motorbikes and reading philosophy, specifically stoics, and tends to read the older books over newer podcast or material. He's also trying to learn piano, but admits he's struggling in that arena. When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust. This is the creation story of CleverX. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://cleverx. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sharekh-shaikh-4591874/ --- > Recently, Colleen and her co-founder did a pivot of their previous offering, which was a package to solve reporting problems by embed them into your application. They are now focused on a SaaS tool, to provide this functionality for you. - Published: 2023-07-11 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-colleen-schnettler-helloquery/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, embedding, problems, reporting, saas - Podcasts: S8 Recently, Colleen and her co-founder did a pivot of their previous offering, which was a package to solve reporting problems by embed them into your application. They are now focused on a SaaS tool, to provide this functionality for you. Colleen Schnettler was a stay at home Mom for many years, taking care of her 3 children. When she was looking to return to work, she was looking for remote - and it seemed that programming was the best avenue. She taught herself rails development, with the goal of starting her own company. Outside of tech, she spends time with her family outdoors, and claims she is a meat and potatoes kinda gal, with some bark thins for desert. Recently, Colleen and her co-founder did a pivot of their previous offering, which was a package to solve reporting problems by embed them into your application. They are now focused on a SaaS tool, to provide this functionality for you. This is the creation story of HelloQuery. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://helloquery. com/Website: https://hammerstone. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/colleen-schnettler/ --- > Together with some colleagues from Stanford, Eduardo felt the pains of planning research projects. This process contained several processes that could have been automated through software. So, they decided to set out and build an enterprise solution for R&D projects. - Published: 2023-07-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eduardo-abeliuk-teselagen/ - Tags: biotechnology, builder, ceo, development, founder, operating system, r&d, research - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Together with some colleagues from Stanford, Eduardo felt the pains of planning research projects. This process contained several processes that could have been automated through software. So, they decided to set out and build an enterprise solution for R&D projects. Eduardo Abeliuk is originally from Santiago, Chile, where he spent the first few decades of his life. From early days, he had a deep curiosity to understand the world around him, which led him to study physics and electrical engineering. Post school, he joined an MIT startup, prior to obtaining his PhD from Stanford. Outside of tech, he likes to read books about longetivit, and listen to the Lex Friedman podcast. He also walks for at least an hour a day, and enjoys hiking, biking and time with family and friends. Together with some colleagues from Stanford, Eduardo felt the pains of planning research projects. This process contained several processes that could have been automated through software. So, they decided to set out and build an enterprise solution for R&D projects. This is the creation story of Teselegen. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://teselagen. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/eduardoabeliuk/ --- > Today we are kicking off a new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. - Published: 2023-07-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/beyond-bots-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/ - Tags: ai, beyondbots, data, language models, learning, llm, ntropy - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Today we are kicking off a new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy. com. Guest: Naré Vardanyan, CEO & Co-founder of NtropyQuestions:Tell me what a large language model is. Is there any difference between this and deep learning models? What is the difference between language models and LLM's? What sort of data sets were your models pre-trained on? How long does that take? How does the cost of training these models factor into your offering? Can you talk about latency as a key factor in this process? You've told me Ntropy has been doing this since the beginning, but give me a little more - how does this fit into Ntropy's approach? What is in the future for Ntropy in this space, specifically as it relates to LLM's and financial services? LinksWebsite: https://www. ntropy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/narevardanyan/ --- > For several years, Adriaan was a freelancer. Each time he built an application for his clients, he did the usual song and dance with Google Analytics - he copy and pasted the script. This didn't feel right, and his girlfriend prompted him to build his own... so he did. - Published: 2023-07-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adriaan-van-rossum-simple-analytics/ - Tags: analytics, builder, competitor, data privacy, founder, google analytics, secure, security, simple - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 For several years, Adriaan was a freelancer. Each time he built an application for his clients, he did the usual song and dance with Google Analytics - he copy and pasted the script. This didn't feel right, and his girlfriend prompted him to build his own... so he did. Adriaan van Rossum is a tech guy even at home. He likes to tinker with home automation, like turning on the lights - which his girlfriend doesn't like the home automation experiments at times. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing, and travels around the world. He really enjoyed Thailand, specifically the food there, as he is a vegetarian. For several years, Adriaan was a freelancer. Each time he built an application for his clients, he did the usual song and dance with Google Analytics - he copy and pasted the script. This didn't feel right, and his girlfriend prompted him to build his own... so he did. This is the creation story of Simple Analytics. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. simpleanalytics. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adriaanvanrossum/ --- > Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it. - Published: 2023-07-05 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-stephanie-mertz-eisen/ - Tags: accounts, closure, co-founder, cto, dormant, escheatment, redeem - Podcasts: S8 Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it. Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tech, she loves to garden, grow her own vegetables, and build things out of wood. She also has as beehive, which she claimed was a fantastic way to observe the natural creative process - and decompress from a screen. Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it. This is the creation story of Eisen. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. witheisen. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/stephmertz/ --- > Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below. - Published: 2023-06-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-fredrik-bjork-grafbase-api-layer/ - Tags: api, ceo, co-founder, developers, founder, layer - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below. Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also playing video games, of course). Post graduating from RIT, he has been involved in many startups, like Avatars United and The Real Real. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of two kids and likes to run - specifically marathons. Beyond that, he likes wind surfing and wing foil. Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below. This is the creation story of Grafbase. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://grafbase. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/fbjork/ --- > Jaclyn is a self proclaimed terrible interviewer, which never gave her the best foot forward when looking for jobs. When her co-founder and she wanted to solve a problem in the space of hiring, they wanted to enable people to have access to more opportunities, and get noticed better for your first job. - Published: 2023-06-29 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jaclyn-ling-hatchways/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, enable, interview, interviewer, opportunities - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Jaclyn is a self proclaimed terrible interviewer, which never gave her the best foot forward when looking for jobs. When her co-founder and she wanted to solve a problem in the space of hiring, they wanted to enable people to have access to more opportunities, and get noticed better for your first job. Jaclyn Ling is a super competitive person, and has been her entire life. Whether it's board games with her family, or playing sports in her younger years, she wants to win. She still plays sports today, and watches basketball, specifically the Miami Heat or Toronto Raptors. Outside of that, she is a low key person, enjoying taking walks, hanging at the local coffee shop, and thrift shopping. Jaclyn is a self proclaimed terrible interviewer, which never gave her the best foot forward when looking for jobs. When her co-founder and she wanted to solve a problem in the space of hiring, they wanted to enable people to have access to more opportunities, and get noticed better for your first job. This is the creation story of Hatchways. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://hatchways. ioLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jaclynling --- > Shawn noticed, through his time at larger companies like Pinterest and Microsoft, that the path to get data insights and analytics leans heavily on engineering, and takes a long time. He thought, there must be a way to make an easy, quick tool to enable people outside of engineering to do this themselves. So he built the Canva for Data. - Published: 2023-06-28 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-cao-columns/ - Tags: analytics, canva, data, database, engineering, founder - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Shawn noticed, through his time at larger companies like Pinterest and Microsoft, that the path to get data insights and analytics leans heavily on engineering, and takes a long time. He thought, there must be a way to make an easy, quick tool to enable people outside of engineering to do this themselves. So he built the Canva for Data. Shawn Cao lives in Kirkland, just outside of Seattle. He immigrated to the US, and is married with 4 kids. He loves to hike and play soccer with his children, and even though Seattle can be rainy and cloudy for half the year, he admits that the summers are fantastic for being outside. He also admits he stops by Starbucks occasionally, but couldn't confirm if it tastes better at the home store in Seattle. Shawn noticed, through his time at larger companies like Pinterest and Microsoft, that the path to get data insights and analytics leans heavily on engineering, and takes a long time. He thought, there must be a way to make an easy, quick tool to enable people outside of engineering to do this themselves. So he built the Canva for Data. This is the creation story of Columns. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://columns. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/caoxhua/ --- > Lauren was a key developer at Firebase, and post that, she started thinking about her past experiences and what areas could be improved - and she landed on integrations. Once she met her now co-founder, they realized they both were passionate about solving this problem. - Published: 2023-06-27 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-lauren-long-ampersand/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, embedded, firebase, integrations - Podcasts: S8 Lauren was a key developer at Firebase, and post that, she started thinking about her past experiences and what areas could be improved - and she landed on integrations. Once she met her now co-founder, they realized they both were passionate about solving this problem. Lauren Long was originally born and raised in China, and moved to Canada when she was 10. She had to learn English for the first time, which taught her how to embrace hard things and challenges. She attended University in Canada, and started her first company there called BoxIt. Outside of tech, she is an outdoors person - post moving from China, where she was more of a city girl. She loves to hike, rock climb, and do yoga. She also loves to cook, and claimed she learned to cook a whole duck once, creating 5 meals from all the parts. Lauren was a key developer at Firebase, and post that, she started thinking about her past experiences and what areas could be improved - and she landed on integrations. Once she met her now co-founder, they realized they both were passionate about solving this problem. This is the creation story of Ampersand. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. withampersand. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/laurenzlong/ --- > Many years ago, Scott joined a small division of a company in 1989. Scott took the company to new heights, developing and selling a material that you probably use every day - the film that wraps Tide Pods. Since retired from the company, he is advising other companies, and helping entrepreneurs through his book, titled Formulating Solutions. - Published: 2023-06-22 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-p-scott-bening-monosol-author/ - Tags: author, ceo, entreprenuer, leader, pods, relationship, soluble material, tide - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Many years ago, Scott joined a small division of a company in 1989. Scott took the company to new heights, developing and selling a material that you probably use every day - the film that wraps Tide Pods. Since retired from the company, he is advising other companies, and helping entrepreneurs through his book, titled Formulating Solutions. P. Scott Bening is a 63 year old kid at heart who grew up in Buffalo, NY. He got a degree in chemistry and went into the plastics industry. Outside of his profession, he is super active - playing drums in a rock band, racing GT race cars competitively, kayaking, hiking and golfing. He has been married for 35 years, with 2 older children. Many years ago, Scott joined a small division of a company in 1989. Scott took the company to new heights, developing and selling a material that you probably use every day - the film that wraps Tide Pods. Since retired from the company, he is advising other companies, and helping entrepreneurs through his book, titled Formulating Solutions. This is Scott's creation story of Monosol. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. monosol. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/p-scott-bening-a8225b14/https://www. formulatingsolutionsbook. com/ --- > Matt considers himself a productivity nerd, and is always looking for ways to improve his workflow. At a prior role, he was focusing on individual optimization to schedules. And what he realized, is that time is not an individual problem - but a team problem to be solved. - Published: 2023-06-21 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-martin-clockwise/ - Tags: calendar, ceo, co-founder, founder, productivity, schedules, team, workflow - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Matt considers himself a productivity nerd, and is always looking for ways to improve his workflow. At a prior role, he was focusing on individual optimization to schedules. And what he realized, is that time is not an individual problem - but a team problem to be solved. Matt Martin has always been a computer nerd, even way back in Elementary School, learning to use a Mac and learning Hypercard. In Middle School, he discovered the internet and programming in HTML - and he was hooked. That said, he didn't grow up around tech folks and eventually got into public policy and went to law school. After being a litigator for a while, he decided to ditch the law industry, move to the Bay Area and get into tech. Outside of tech, he is married with 2. 5 year old twin girls. They live in downtown San Francisco, and they love to go on bike rides together. Matt considers himself a productivity nerd, and is always looking for ways to improve his workflow. At a prior role, he was focusing on individual optimization to schedules. And what he realized, is that time is not an individual problem - but a team problem to be solved. This is the creation story of Clockwise. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. getclockwise. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/voxmatt/ --- > Ido and his co-founders started out building a side project, building a tool to help themselves keep track of what's going on in the industry. After they built a quick tool to aggregate information, they thought that maybe other developers would be interested in this solution. - Published: 2023-06-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-ido-shamun-daily-dev/ - Tags: career, co-founder, community, Developer, mentorship, network - Podcasts: S8 Ido and his co-founders started out building a side project, building a tool to help themselves keep track of what's going on in the industry. After they built a quick tool to aggregate information, they thought that maybe other developers would be interested in this solution. Ido Shamunn cut his teeth on the C programming language, while studying Applied Mathematics. He was unsure while studying if he should go Computer Science, but he mentioned that his Applied Math degree helped him understand better what goes on behind the scenes. He's happily married, and enjoys playing music, since way back in Junior High with the keyboard. He has since moved into guitar, and eventually into the drums and heavier music. Ido and his co-founders started out building a side project, building a tool to help themselves keep track of what's going on in the industry. After they built a quick tool to aggregate information, they thought that maybe other developers would be interested in this solution. This is the creation story of Daily Dev. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://daily. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ido-shamun-aa8628a3/ --- > The Closer, from the team at Project Brazen, hosted by financial journalist Aimee Keane, focuses on pulling out the high octane emotion and exponential stakes that underscore todays biggest acquisition or investment headlines. - Published: 2023-06-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-closer-toys-r-us/ - Tags: acquisitions, bankruptcy, feed drop, investments - Podcasts: S7, S8 The Closer, from the team at Project Brazen, hosted by financial journalist Aimee Keane, focuses on pulling out the high octane emotion and exponential stakes that underscore todays biggest acquisition or investment headlines. I have another special episode of the Code Story podcast today, where I'm sharing another great podcast I've just been made aware of. It's called The Closer, from the team at Project Brazen, hosted by financial journalist Aimee Keane. The show focuses on pulling out the high octane emotion and exponential stakes that underscore todays biggest acquisition or investment headlines. In the episode I'm sharing today, the host takes you inside the final days of Toys R Us with Lauren Hirsch, the reporter who first revealed the iconic company's impending bankruptcy. You can expect to hear juicy tidbits around what drove the company out of business. Check out The Closer, and subscribe today, on your favorite podcast catcher. And thanks again for listening. LinksApple: https://podcasts. apple. com/us/podcast/the-closer/id1668774101Spotify: https://open. spotify. com/show/7jQPWgY7Yk6J13dN3day4H? si=fa80c4d6c2644dc5 --- > Previously, Andy worked for a company that printed email for legal teams - like truck loads of email. He decided to startup a business to digitize this process, using servers in his dining room. Eventually, he moved to the cloud, and started using AI. - Published: 2023-06-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andy-wilson-logikcull/ - Tags: ceo, data, data forensics, discovery, ediscovery, founder, legal, legal hold - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 Previously, Andy worked for a company that printed email for legal teams - like truck loads of email. He decided to startup a business to digitize this process, using servers in his dining room. Eventually, he moved to the cloud, and started using AI. Andy Wilson lives in Central Oregon, which he claims is an adult playground. He loves to ski, hike, and enjoy all outdoor recreation available to him. His favorite food is a medium-rare steak, which I gotta say is an excellent choice. He got his tech degree in the 90's, and fell into the world of legal tech. Previously, Andy worked for a company that printed email for legal teams - like truck loads of email. He decided to startup a business to digitize this process, using servers in his dining room. Eventually, he moved to the cloud, and started using AI. This is the creation story of Logikcull. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. logikcull. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andylogik --- > A perk of Dr. Keogh's job as a professor, he gets to play with toys (in his words). He picked up a science toy one day and decided to see if he could pick up sound from plant insects. When it worked, he decided to take it to the next level. - Published: 2023-06-15 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dr-eamonn-keogh-farmsense/ - Tags: bugs, farm, farming, founder, laser, light, listen, research - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 A perk of Dr. Keogh's job as a professor, he gets to play with toys (in his words). He picked up a science toy one day and decided to see if he could pick up sound from plant insects. When it worked, he decided to take it to the next level. Dr. Eamonn Keogh is a globally renowned expert in data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval. He is pioneering the field of computational entomology. Outside of tech, he is originally from Dublin, Ireland, but came to California in the 80's. He misses his family in Ireland, but he loves the cuisine in California, specifically Mexican food. I made sure to invite him to Texas though, cause we have great Mexican food. A perk of Dr. Keogh's job as a professor, he gets to play with toys (in his words). He picked up a science toy one day and decided to see if he could pick up sound from plant insects. When it worked, he decided to take it to the next level. This is the creation story of FarmSense. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. farmsense. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/eamonn-keogh-96ab25143/ --- > After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. - Published: 2023-06-14 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-srini-srinivasan-aerospike/ - Tags: cto, data, database, enterprise, founder, platform - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. Srini Srinivasan grew up in India, during a time when you could go do whatever you wanted during the summer. So he explored and experienced many things, tech and non-tech. He was very into sports and competition, and wanted to be a cricket super star. He didn't start coding until he went off to college, and interestingly enough, there were many startups formed from his class. In the early days, he really loved the Assembly language (which I can attest is not the norm! ). Srini was working in a company focused on mobile and adtech related work. During this time, he discovered that all database tech existing were lacking. He and his co-founder decided that they were the right pair to build a better system. This is the creation story of Aerospike. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://aerospike. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/drvsrini/ --- > Lilac and her co-founders started to think about business owners, and all of the things they had to manually, and in disconnected, non-optimal ways. They wanted to build a banking solution that was tailored towards these users - starting with freelancers. - Published: 2023-06-13 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-lilac-bar-david-lili/ - Tags: banking, business, ceo, founder, freelancers, women in tech - Podcasts: S8 Lilac and her co-founders started to think about business owners, and all of the things they had to manually, and in disconnected, non-optimal ways. They wanted to build a banking solution that was tailored towards these users - starting with freelancers. Lilac Bar David has been in the banking and payments space for over 20 years. Previously, she was the Co-founder & CEO of Pepper, a banking system focused on millennials and young adults. Outside of tech, she has 3 kids, and enjoys everything to do with the sea - paddle boarding, swimming, etc. She enjoys paddle boarding because it helps her to clear her head. And when it comes to food, she is a fan of Thai, and claims that New York has the best Thai food - outside of Thailand, of course. Lilac and her co-founders started to think about business owners, and all of the things they had to manually, and in disconnected, non-optimal ways. They wanted to build a banking solution that was tailored towards these users - starting with freelancers. This is the creation story of Lili. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://lili. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lilachbardavid/ --- > There was a time in his previous role that he was searching for info related to his role. After 7 email threads and 8 weeks passing, he finally located the document. This experience blew him away, and seeded the problem he now seeks to solve. - Published: 2023-06-08 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-prasad-kawthekar-dashworks/ - Tags: ai, chatgpt, documents, founder, internal, search - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 There was a time in his previous role that he was searching for info related to his role. After 7 email threads and 8 weeks passing, he finally located the document. This experience blew him away, and seeded the problem he now seeks to solve. Prasad Kawthekar grew up in India, and eventually came stateside to school in Wisconsin. He took a java coding class, and was immediately hooked - which led to him pursuing computer science, focusing on artificial intelligence. He met his tribe during school, and stayed on for further academic experiences. Outside of tech, he lives in the Bay Area and enjoys being outside in nature. There was a time in his previous role that he was searching for info related to his role. After 7 email threads and 8 weeks passing, he finally located the document. This experience blew him away, and seeded the problem he now seeks to solve. This is the creation story of Dashworks. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. dashworks. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/prasadkawthekar/ --- > After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. - Published: 2023-06-07 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kwindla-kramer-daily-video-dev-tools/ - Tags: ads, advertising, ai, artificial intelligene, business, founder, optimized - Podcasts: Bonus, S8 After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. Kwindla Kramer has always been interested in building things, and his parents gave him lots of opportunity. He spent his early days learning to program on the Commodore 64, and playing old games like Loadrunner. He was super interested in the internet while in College, and in 1996, he got the opportunity to be apart of the MIT Media lab. Outside of tech, he is a quasi vegan, and enjoys the foggy beach living on the western edge of San Francisco. After exiting his last startup, Kwin took some time to figure out what he wanted to do next. During that time, he just started coding on projects, and came across WebRTC, which allowed real time communication for the web. This tech catalyzed a tipping point in his mind, and led him to build video experiments on top of it. This is the creation story of Daily. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://daily. coLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kwkramer/ --- > Recently, Gilad and his team built a product called Lance (you might remember his co-founder Oona from Season 5). This was a Neo-bank for the self employed, which was built on the idea of stacks. When they figured out they needed to pivot, they moved towards focusing on financial routing. - Published: 2023-06-06 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-gilad-uziely-sequence/ - Tags: accounts, banking, financial, fintech, founder, routing - Podcasts: S8 Recently, Gilad and his team built a product called Lance (you might remember his co-founder Oona from Season 5). This was a Neo-bank for the self employed, which was built on the idea of stacks. When they figured out they needed to pivot, they moved towards focusing on financial routing. Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different podcast. He has always been an entrepreneur, along with his wife. They have built 2 small hotels in Italy, where his wife is from. Outside of tech and these things, he lives by the beach in Tel Aviv, and loves to surf. Recently, Gilad and his team built a product called Lance (you might remember his co-founder Oona from Season 5). This was a Neo-bank for the self employed, which was built on the idea of stacks. When they figured out they needed to pivot, they moved towards focusing on financial routing. This is the creation story of Sequence. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. getsequence. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/giladuziely --- > Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the world - Published: 2023-06-01 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nooshin-alibhai-eric-klimuk-supportbench-customer-service/ - Tags: ceo, cto, customers, founders, support, team - Podcasts: S8 Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the world Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is actually where she met her co-founder Eric. Eric Klimuk has also been in entrepreneurial roles throughout his life, starting companies early on in his life. Eventually, he dove into enterprise customer support, which led him to his current venture today. He attributes his love for salsa dancing as a major part of his professional successes, and has danced on ESPN. Both Nooshin and Eric enjoy spending time with family and friends, to help decompress from startup life. Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the worldThis is the creation story of SupportBench. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. supportbench. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nooshin-alibhai-2a0795177/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ericklimuk/ --- > In one of his earliest ventures, Hikari was leading marketing efforts across multiple digital channels. He saw an opportunity to use generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize how content is generated, and how well it performs. At the same time, Matt was researching great folks building companies around data - and found Hikari. - Published: 2023-05-31 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-swalley-hikari-senju-omneky/ - Tags: ads, advertising, ai, artificial intelligene, business, founder, optimized - Podcasts: S8 In one of his earliest ventures, Hikari was leading marketing efforts across multiple digital channels. He saw an opportunity to use generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize how content is generated, and how well it performs. At the same time, Matt was researching great folks building companies around data - and found Hikari. Hikari Senju grew up in Westchester, NY, and was exposed to tech early on, as his family worked at IBM. His Dad is also a painter, so he has been driven through the intersection of art and tech. He studied Computer Science at Harvard, and was cross registered at MIT. It was at MIT that his passions united, and he knew that his life goals would be aligned between art and technology. He started his first couple of businesses while still in college,Matt Swalley graduated from Indiana University business school, and was influenced by his Dad and Mom, who were both business people. Post school, he joined a leadership development program at AT&T, and led sales teams in several different locations. Post getting his MBA, he got deep into data to analyze the big trends in the business world. In one of his earliest ventures, Hikari was leading marketing efforts across multiple digital channels. He saw an opportunity to use generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize how content is generated, and how well it performs. At the same time, Matt was researching great folks building companies around data - and found Hikari. This is the creation story of Omneky. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. omneky. comLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/matt-swalley-59249533/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hikari-senju-63780199/ --- > Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that. - Published: 2023-05-30 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-jason-boehmig-ironclad/ - Tags: ceo, cms, content, contract, founder, legal, management, signature - Podcasts: S8 Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that. Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecting on what was unique about this moment in time, he decided it was tech's influence - and he wanted to be a part of it. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, and enjoys music, specifically collecting vinyl records and listening (they do sound better). Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that. This is the creation story of Ironclad. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://ironcladapp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jboehmig --- > When Adam was a Palantir, he was building great relationships with his colleagues. Then he realized that the relationships he had in his life before had moved on, or changed in natural ways. He started to wonder if there was a way to build something easy, to store information about people and prompt you to checkin with important people. - Published: 2023-05-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-judelson-networknerd/ - Tags: app, business cards, contacts, founder, mobile, network, save - Podcasts: S8 When Adam was a Palantir, he was building great relationships with his colleagues. Then he realized that the relationships he had in his life before had moved on, or changed in natural ways. He started to wonder if there was a way to build something easy, to store information about people and prompt you to checkin with important people. Day to day, Adam Judelson is obsessed with complex problem sets in the product world. This has resulted in him getting more and more excited about simple, but powerful, productivity tools. He comes from Silicon Valley, joining Palantir Technologies in the early days, followed up by some VC backed startups. Outside of tech, he spends a lot of his free time with his kids, riding bikes and polishing up his Dad joke trophies. He also does ocean swimming, and loves the challenge to get out past the waves. When Adam was a Palantir, he was building great relationships with his colleagues. Then he realized that the relationships he had in his life before had moved on, or changed in natural ways. He started to wonder if there was a way to build something easy, to store information about people and prompt you to checkin with important people. This is the creation story of NetworkNerd. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. networknerd. app/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adam-judelson-25441583/ --- > Vlad and his co-founder were previously working on other startup projects. And one of the problems they encountered on a regular basis was secrets management. After talking to like minded industry folks, they figured out that this was a MUCH bigger problem, and needed to be solved. - Published: 2023-05-24 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vlad-matsiiako-infisical/ - Tags: environments, founder, open source, secrets - Podcasts: S8 Vlad and his co-founder were previously working on other startup projects. And one of the problems they encountered on a regular basis was secrets management. After talking to like minded industry folks, they figured out that this was a MUCH bigger problem, and needed to be solved. Vlad Matsiiako was born in the Ukraine, but moved to the Netherlands to study his undergrad. He was one of the first data scientists at Bunq. He eventually got his Masters at Cornell, and actually worked at Figma, around the time of their acquisition - which he mentioned was super exciting. Outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and traveling, especially to Europe, meeting people and hearing their stories... and of course trying the food. His favorite place to go has been Portugal. Vlad and his co-founder were previously working on other startup projects. And one of the problems they encountered on a regular basis was secrets management. After talking to like minded industry folks, they figured out that this was a MUCH bigger problem, and needed to be solved. This is the creation story of Infisical. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://infisical. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/vmatsiiako/ --- > Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management. - Published: 2023-05-23 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-bryce-crawford-meow-treasury-management/ - Tags: banking, bills, cto, fintech, founder, interest rate, treasury - Podcasts: S8 Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management. Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his Dad's role in tech sales, he thought the industry looked like a good way to make money. He's worked for Capital One, Gemini and Facebook, specifically on Instagram shops. Outside of work - he keeps on coding, while trying to exercise, stay in shape, and travel when time permits. Fun fact - he claims to have an addiction to Indian food, and tends to eat at the same restaurant 2-3 times a week. Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management. This is the creation story of Meow. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://meow. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bryce-crawford-32164466/ --- > About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language. - Published: 2023-05-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shai-ber-elad-ben-israel-monada-winglang/ - Tags: amazon, cdk, cloud, co-founder, expression, founder, language, sdk - Podcasts: S8 About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language. Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech consumes a large amount of his life - and he likes it that way. Elad Ben-Israel is also from Tel Aviv, and is 43 years old - and he jokingly claims that he is the responsible adult in the company. Outside of tech, he enjoys attending burning man, and making sure he gets his workout in,About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language. This is the creation story of Monada and Winglang. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://monada. co/Website: https://www. winglang. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shai-ber-245b1226/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hackingonstuff/ --- > About 6 years ago, Andrew decided to jump out and be on his own, with the hope of making a bigger impact than what he was experiencing. He went the solo consultant right for a while, bringing big firm experience to the table and trying things out. Fast forward to now, he and his team are at the forefront of utilizing AI to help you grow your business. - Published: 2023-05-17 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-louder-louder-co/ - Tags: ai, ceo, consultancy, efficiency, founder, operations, profits - Podcasts: S8 About 6 years ago, Andrew decided to jump out and be on his own, with the hope of making a bigger impact than what he was experiencing. He went the solo consultant right for a while, bringing big firm experience to the table and trying things out. Fast forward to now, he and his team are at the forefront of utilizing AI to help you grow your business. Andrew Louder grew up west of Houston, TX, in a town called Katy. He got into tech during his web mastery class in High School. He's a business graduate from Texas A&M University, and he got a taste of what life would be like as an entrepreneur when he founded a social group of Latin American students. Outside of tech, he lives in Dallas, married with 3 kids, and is enjoying all that life has to offer in that space. About 6 years ago, Andrew decided to jump out and be on his own, with the hope of making a bigger impact than what he was experiencing. He went the solo consultant right for a while, bringing big firm experience to the table and trying things out. Fast forward to now, he and his team are at the forefront of utilizing AI to help you grow your business. This is the creation story of Louder Co. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. louderco. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrewlouder/ --- > While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it. - Published: 2023-05-16 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-nikita-federov-qase/ - Tags: builder, ceo, cto, Developer, founder, manual, suite, test, testing - Podcasts: S8 While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it. Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doing it for 7 years. Eventually, he moved into leadership and management of engineering teams. Outside of tech, he into his side projects and playing video games, of which is favorite is the game Dark Souls. While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it. This is the creation story of Qase. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://qase. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nifedorov/ --- > Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - Published: 2023-05-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/no-priors-jensen-huang-founder-ceo-of-nvidia/ - Tags: feed drop, microsoft, tools, weapons - Podcasts: S7, S8 Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. This week, we’re sharing something special: The No Priors podcast. No Priors is your guide to the AI revolution. At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo ask the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders the biggest questions - people like Cristobal Valenzuela, Founder/CEO RunwayML and Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft. They ask questions like: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art research? In this episode, Jensen Huang, legendary founder/CEO of Nvidia talks about how Nvidia is powering AI models, their latest chips, how he runs Nvidia, and the AI applications he's most excited about. You can find No Priors wherever you get your podcasts. And, thanks again for listening. LinksApple: https://podcasts. apple. com/us/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/id1668002688Spotify: https://open. spotify. com/show/0O65xhqvGVhpgdIrrdlEYk --- > A few years ago, George was hired to build a marketplace for his friends company. Fast forward, he and his team are on a mission to simplify software production, and provide access to vetted, no code developers. - Published: 2023-05-11 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-george-novik-zerocoder/ - Tags: builder, ceo, founder, low code, marketplace, no code - Podcasts: S8 A few years ago, George was hired to build a marketplace for his friends company. Fast forward, he and his team are on a mission to simplify software production, and provide access to vetted, no code developers. George Novik's life is his work, so it's strange for him to think of life outside of his startup. But outside of tech, his hobbies include swimming, surfing, and computer games. He loves to surf at the United Emirate States. He is uncertain of the wave sizes there, as the variance is high. A few years ago, George was hired to build a marketplace for his friends company. Fast forward, he and his team are on a mission to simplify software production, and provide access to vetted, no code developers. This is the creation story of Zerocoder. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://zerocoder. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nov3k/ --- > In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. - Published: 2023-05-10 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rickard-hansson-weavy/ - Tags: api, ceo, chat, co-founder, collaboration, developers, third party, vendor - Podcasts: S8 In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building things and distributing it - IE building for others. He built his first commercial product at 15, which was a CRM built in Pascal. Outside of tech, he is a father of 3 and is a movie buff in his spare time. His favorite movie is a story about a tree diver, called Le Grand Blue or "The Big Blue". In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. He and his team decided to create the tooling to help them better compete. This is the creation story of Weavy. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. weavy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rickardh/ --- > In the past, Andy was a consulting CTO, going into companies to coach leaders or temporarily fill in for leaders who had left. What he realized was that these leaders would be doing just fine, if they had mentorship and/or coaching available from seasoned veterans. So Andy branched off - and started doing just that. - Published: 2023-05-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-andy-skipper-cto-craft/ - Tags: coach, coaching, cto, executive, founder, leadership, manager, technology manager - Podcasts: S8 In the past, Andy was a consulting CTO, going into companies to coach leaders or temporarily fill in for leaders who had left. What he realized was that these leaders would be doing just fine, if they had mentorship and/or coaching available from seasoned veterans. So Andy branched off - and started doing just that. Andy Skipper currently resides in Belfast, Ireland, though he is from London originally. He's been knee deep in tech since he was 12 years old, as a hobby programmer. He left college early to start his first software development agency, prior to joining the startup world during the . com era. He loves tech, but loves people as well - which lead him into his current venture. Outside of tech, he is a bedroom guitarist, an amateur photographer, and a Dad - which means he plays a log of Minecraft and Roblox. In the past, Andy was a consulting CTO, going into companies to coach leaders or temporarily fill in for leaders who had left. What he realized was that these leaders would be doing just fine, if they had mentorship and/or coaching available from seasoned veterans. So Andy branched off - and started doing just that. This is the creation story of CTO Craft. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://ctocraft. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andyskipper/ --- > In a past role, Egil's co-founder (and brother, FYI) was looking for a tool that would help him release code into the wild, in a rapid - yet safe - manner. He couldn't find anything to meet his high standards - so he built his own. When the open source version started to get a lot of attention, Egil joined his brother to bring the solution to the enterprise. - Published: 2023-05-04 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-egil-osthus-unleash/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, enterprise, feature flags, free, open source, repo - Podcasts: S8 In a past role, Egil's co-founder (and brother, FYI) was looking for a tool that would help him release code into the wild, in a rapid - yet safe - manner. He couldn't find anything to meet his high standards - so he built his own. When the open source version started to get a lot of attention, Egil joined his brother to bring the solution to the enterprise. Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he loves to run outdoors, through the woods and on the streets. He has not done a full marathon yet, but dreams of doing the New York marathon someday. He's a family man, married, with 2 boys - none of which like to run with him, but they all enjoy being active and hiking. In a past role, Egil's co-founder (and brother, FYI) was looking for a tool that would help him release code into the wild, in a rapid - yet safe - manner. He couldn't find anything to meet his high standards - so he built his own. When the open source version started to get a lot of attention, Egil joined his brother to bring the solution to the enterprise. This is the creation story of Unleash. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. getunleash. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/egilconr/ --- > Given their background, Aviram and his co-founder wanted to build a product based company. In their last company, they didn't really have a developer environment, as it was hard to maintain and didn't represent real data in the production environment. They started thinking about how they could solve this sort of problem. - Published: 2023-05-03 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aviram-hassan-metalbear-mirrord/ - Tags: cloud, co-founder, connected, cto, development, local, staging - Podcasts: S8 Given their background, Aviram and his co-founder wanted to build a product based company. In their last company, they didn't really have a developer environment, as it was hard to maintain and didn't represent real data in the production environment. They started thinking about how they could solve this sort of problem. Aviram Hassan started hacking his way into stuff at a young age, primarily from online multiplayer games. The first game was a fan based game for Pokemon, when he was 8 years old, which was helpful for him to learn English. He served in the Israeli military, prior to become a startup solution architect and backend developer. Outside of tech, he is a family man with a 6 month old, born around the same time as his startup. He also really enjoys coffee, but he admits, he is not obsessive or overly enthusiastic about it. Given their background, Aviram and his co-founder wanted to build a product based company. In their last company, they didn't really have a developer environment, as it was hard to maintain and didn't represent real data in the production environment. They started thinking about how they could solve this sort of problem. This is the creation story of Metalbear, and mirrord. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://metalbear. co/, https://mirrord. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/aviram-hassan/ --- > Throughout their time in the industry, Shem and his co-founders saw a big gap in the industry - between theoretical knowledge and what is actually done on the job in a company. They wanted to set out and build something to bridge that gap - an immersive experience, that not only prepares engineers... but takes them on a quest. - Published: 2023-05-02 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-shem-magnezi-wilco/ - Tags: challenge, cto, gamification, gamify, onboarding, training, tutorial - Podcasts: S8 Throughout their time in the industry, Shem and his co-founders saw a big gap in the industry - between theoretical knowledge and what is actually done on the job in a company. They wanted to set out and build something to bridge that gap - an immersive experience, that not only prepares engineers... but takes them on a quest. Shem Magnezi is from Tel Aviv, and started his software engineering career when he was in high school. It wasn't really professional, just hacking some stuff together, which is the way he learned the typical starting tools like HTML, Javascript, and the like. Post college, he served in the Israeli Military, in intelligence, and then moved into startups, then bigger companies like Facebook, and then - into his current venture. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 kids, and he loves to play and watch football (or soccer for us stateside). Throughout their time in the industry, Shem and his co-founders saw a big gap in the industry - between theoretical knowledge and what is actually done on the job in a company. They wanted to set out and build something to bridge that gap - an immersive experience, that not only prepares engineers... but takes them on a quest. This is the creation story of Wilco. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www. trywilco. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shem-magnezi-45490424/ --- > The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. - Published: 2023-04-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-puneet-gupta-amberflo/ - Tags: api, billing, ceo, cloud, founder, meter, saas, usage - Podcasts: S8 The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching prominent cloud solutions, and has a track record for success there. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 boys, living in the Bay Area with his extended family. He is into motorcycles, and is falling in love with reading again. The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models. This is the creation story of Amberflo. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://www. amberflo. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/puneetguptausa/ --- > Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. - Published: 2023-04-26 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-glauber-costa-turso/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, computing, cto, data, development, edge, local, sql, sqlite - Podcasts: S8 Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was hard, and we joked that he playing zone defense now over man to man. AS of this recording, he had already seen the Mario movie 3 times with his kids, and enjoys playing video games with them. But, his game to play is Civilizations, which he is highly addicted to. Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite. This is the creation story of Turso. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinkshttps://chiselstrike. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/glommer/ --- > Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. - Published: 2023-04-25 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-sefi-genis-firefly/ - Tags: cloud, co-founder, cto, devops, light, multi cloud, observability - Podcasts: S8 Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family. Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale. This is the creation story of Firefly. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://www. gofirefly. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sefi-genis-90282185https://www. momtestbook. com/ --- > When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. - Published: 2023-04-20 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nare-vardanyan-ntropy/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, google, hr tech, interview, pre-onsite, women in tech - Podcasts: S8 When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience it much differently than the hardship it was. Her upbringing was very community driven, focused on caring for others. Eventually, she went to work for the United Nations, in her words, so she could save the world - though eventually she was disillusioned by how slow things moved. It was at this point, where she shifted over to tech. Outside of tech, she used to love reading, but now that she has a child, she sticks to audiobooks. And, she thoroughly enjoys art, specifically, 20th century Russian-Jewish artists. When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data. This is the creation story of Ntropy. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://ntropy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/narevardanyan/ --- > Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry. - Published: 2023-04-19 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ronald-richardson-fleetbase/ - Tags: api, co-founder, cto, distribution, foundation, logistics, operating system - Podcasts: S8 Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry. Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest influence has been his parents. He mentioned his Mom introduced him to a personal website builder, which kicked off his learning into HTML, PHP and JavaScript. Outside of tech, he has a passion for traveling, and is big into horror games and movies. One of his favorite horror games is Amnesia, and movie is Insidious. He actually built an app to have an ongoing curated playlist for his fans. Ron previously co-founded a startup in the eCommerce space, focusing on fulfillment in Asia. While he was building the backend for this solution, he noticed there weren't any developer tools for logistics and supply chain. He built an API solution and SDK to help implement common design features for this industry. This is the creation story of Fleetbase. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://www. fleetbase. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ronald-a-richardson/https://apps. apple. com/us/app/horror-movie-night/id1613495460 --- > When Sargun was applying at Google, she went through their normal engineering interview process - IE five whiteboard sessions back to back. After getting hired at Google, she struggled with the industry standard for interview questions, via algorithmic riddles, that didn't mirror the actual job. These types of interviews weren't only not fair, but left many great candidates out in the cold. - Published: 2023-04-18 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sargun-kaur-byteboard/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, google, hr tech, interview, pre-onsite, women in tech - Podcasts: S8 When Sargun was applying at Google, she went through their normal engineering interview process - IE five whiteboard sessions back to back. After getting hired at Google, she struggled with the industry standard for interview questions, via algorithmic riddles, that didn't mirror the actual job. These types of interviews weren't only not fair, but left many great candidates out in the cold. Before Sargun Kaur got into tech, she was anti-wanting to be in tech. Her Dad was an engineer, and she thought the work he did was super boring. She pursued journalism, marine biology, and found her self changing interests a lot as she got bored. Now, she came over to the dark side, and jokes that she is no longer interesting because she is so immersed in what she does. Outside of tech, she loves to travel, building community, and hosting. This boils down to loving bringing people together through multiple means. And finally, she jokes that she is a mediocre instagram poet, enjoying writing semi-deep posts on the platform. When Sargun was applying at Google, she went through their normal engineering interview process - IE five whiteboard sessions back to back. After getting hired at Google, she struggled with the industry standard for interview questions, via algorithmic riddles, that didn't mirror the actual job. These types of interviews weren't only not fair, but left many great candidates out in the cold. This is the creation story of Byteboard. SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoLinksWebsite: https://byteboard. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sargunkaur/ --- > What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? - Published: 2023-04-12 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-8-trailer/ - Tags: 8, builders, founders, ideas, season, teams, trailer - Podcasts: S8, Trailer What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?...how to recover from critical mistakes......how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product? ... how to recover from critical mistakes... ... how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? What if there was a show where you could hear those stories? SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTurso --- > Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. - Published: 2023-04-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/from-tools-and-weapons-microsoft-brad-smith-feed-drop/ - Tags: feed drop, microsoft, tools, weapons - Podcasts: S7 Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society. This episode’s guest is Strive Masiyiwa, a pioneer of Africa’s telecoms industry and influential global tech tycoon. He and Brad discuss Strive’s work to ensure that all 1. 3 billion+ Africans get access to digital infrastructure, close the digital skills gap, and invest in the continent’s young entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions for healthcare and food insecurity. Follow or subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith wherever you get your podcasts. LinksWebsite: https://news. microsoft. com/tools-and-weapons-podcast/ --- > Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. - Published: 2023-04-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rene-morkos-alice-technologies/ - Tags: construction, costs, estimates, founder, project, projection, what if - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. Rene Morkos is a builder. When he was younger, his Dad told him that he could study anything he wanted, as long as it wasn't Civil Engineering. So... that is exactly what he did. He has built amazing things all over the world, and also, obtained his PhD at Stanford. Outside of technology, he likes to alternate hobbies, and has currently settled into Mountaineering, after spending some time doing Kite Surfing. Rene was in Afghanistan working on a project, trying to repair the runway that had been struck by RPG's. He was struck by how hard it was to find the optimal way to do a simple project. While he was studying his PhD, he also noticed that constructions sites were under utilized... so he and his team invented a simple algorithm that knew how to build. This is the reaction story of Alice Technologies. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://alicetechnologies. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/renemorkos/ --- > Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. - Published: 2023-04-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-valentin-vasilyev-fingerprint-com-device-identity/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, device, founder, identity, javascript, open source, pro - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. Valentin Vasilyev has always been interested in the open source world. His Github account was created way back in 2008 when they started. He always dreamt about contributing to Ruby on Rails, since he developed with it in the past. Outside of tech, he loves cycling - road and mountain, and enjoys good coffee and online shooting games. He's married with 2 kids, and loves living in the midwest, specifically Chicago. Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. This is the creation story of Fingerprint. com. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://fingerprint. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/valentin-vasilyev/ --- > Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across Vitess, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability. - Published: 2023-04-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-sam-lambert-planetscale/ - Tags: ceo, database, github, kubernetes, scalability, vites, youtube - Podcasts: S7 Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across Vitess, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability. Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds software to be a creative, playful process, and sees people trying to build that away from the process. He feels very lucky to building something that provides fruit and solves problems. Outside of tech, he is married with a 4 year old, and is into cooking and art. I asked about NFT's, given his tech background, but he's not super into that form of art at this time. Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across Vitess, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability. This is the creation story of PlanetScale. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://planetscale. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/isamlambert/ --- > In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets. And this abstraction started to gain traction. - Published: 2023-03-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruben-izmailyan-quiltt/ - Tags: ceo, data, financial, fintech, founder, infrastructure - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets. And this abstraction started to gain traction. Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually attending school at Brown in Rhode Island. He's an avid BBQer, which fits perfectly now that he is living in Texas with his young family. However, he let me know that he even was into this style of cooking when he was living in Brooklyn - against the wishes of his landlord at the time. In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets. And this abstraction started to gain traction. This is the creation story of Quiltt. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. quiltt. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rubenizmailyan/ --- > Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - Published: 2023-03-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-drew-youngwerth/ - Tags: builder, courier, cto, founder, newnotificationstack, yc, ycombinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier. comGuest: Drew Youngwerth, Software Manager at CourierLinksWebsite: https://courier. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/drew-youngwerth/ --- > Manik and Lucas stumbled into the problem they are solving today. A decade ago, Manik wanted to solve big public problems. He saw opportunities in the food industry, and created a software solution to replace the clipboard. What they figured out was most people were checking temperatures, and did need a digital clipboard - the needed the process automated. - Published: 2023-03-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-manik-suri-lucas-tepman-therma/ - Tags: alerts, automation, carbon, climate, emmission, reduction, refridgeration, sensors - Podcasts: S7 Manik and Lucas stumbled into the problem they are solving today. A decade ago, Manik wanted to solve big public problems. He saw opportunities in the food industry, and created a software solution to replace the clipboard. What they figured out was most people were checking temperatures, and did need a digital clipboard - the needed the process automated. Manik Suri calls himself a jack of all trades. He went about his career doing lots of different things, and figured out most of what he didn't want to do. He started out an academic, then went into private equity investment, then did a spin in Government, then went to law school - and finally, landed in the tech world. He grew up in Fresno, and ended up back in Cali, specifically in the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he is married with a young family, and a dog named Espresso. Lucas Tepman was originally born in Argentina, and came to the US around 5 years ago. He started out his career in public affairs and politics, working at an NGO and promoting the acceleration of sustainability. He came to study at UC Berkeley as a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, and eventually he explored solutions via high impact venture capital. This is where he met Manik. Manik and Lucas stumbled into the problem they are solving today. A decade ago, Manik wanted to solve big public problems. He saw opportunities in the food industry, and created a software solution to replace the clipboard. What they figured out was most people were checking temperatures, and did need a digital clipboard - the needed the process automated. This is the creation story of Therma. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. hellotherma. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/maniksuri/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lucas-tepman-0474783b/ --- > While growing up in India, Tapan was contacted by his good friend in the states to join his company. At first he was hesitant, but he came to a point in his life where he felt he needed to do something different - something that was high energy, open, and impactful to the rest of the world. - Published: 2023-03-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tapan-pattnayak-addverb/ - Tags: architect, distribution, robotics, robots, supply chain, warehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 While growing up in India, Tapan was contacted by his good friend in the states to join his company. At first he was hesitant, but he came to a point in his life where he felt he needed to do something different - something that was high energy, open, and impactful to the rest of the world. Tapan Pattnayak life revolves around technology - his friends, professional colleagues, etc. and even his wife is an engineer, who he met at a company he was working at. He's passionate about making kids fall in love with science, and inspire a generation of young people to roll up their sleeves and dig into hardware. He believes that engineering is taught from the passion of other engineers. Outside of tech, he used to play sports, specifically cricket. When time limited the play of cricket, he started reading philosophy and history, with the goal of predicting what is happening in macro or societal trends. While growing up in India, Tapan was contacted by his good friend in the states to join his company. At first he was hesitant, but he came to a point in his life where he felt he needed to do something different - something that was high energy, open, and impactful to the rest of the world. This is Tapan's creation story at Addverb. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://addverb. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tapanpattnayak/ --- > Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - Published: 2023-03-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-maria-irizarry/ - Tags: builder, courier, cto, founder, newnotificationstack, yc, ycombinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier. comGuest: Maria Irizarry, Technical Lead Manager at CourierLinksWebsite: https://courier. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mairizar/ --- > Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon. - Published: 2023-03-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-sean-stavropoulos-boulevard/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, platform, salon, schedule - Podcasts: S7 Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon. Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio, breaking his friends computers along the way. He studied aerospace engineering in college, but enjoyed tech and pogromming way more and joined the LA development community 12 years ago. Outside of tech, he plays beach volleyball, hikes, and enjoys little vacations here and there. Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon. This is the creation story of Boulevard. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. joinblvd. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/seanstavropoulos/ --- > Through her other company, Ticketsocket, Ashley began interviewing her clients about how she could help them get more money out of their marketing budgets. She began to pursue trying to figure out how to gamify registration, to incentivize people to want to bring their friends and family to events. - Published: 2023-03-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ashley-cline-ice-cream-social/ - Tags: events, founder, friends, influencer, marketing, sharing, social - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Through her other company, Ticketsocket, Ashley began interviewing her clients about how she could help them get more money out of their marketing budgets. She began to pursue trying to figure out how to gamify registration, to incentivize people to want to bring their friends and family to events. Ashley Cline was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. Her big dreams and aspirations led her to move to California and start her career in tech and marketing. She has always really enjoyed meeting people through direct networking. She has 2 kids, and she loves to get outside and enjoy all that sunny Cali offers. Through her other company, Ticketsocket, Ashley began interviewing her clients about how she could help them get more money out of their marketing budgets. She began to pursue trying to figure out how to gamify registration, to incentivize people to want to bring their friends and family to events. This is the creation story of Ice Cream Social. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://icecreamsocial. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ashcline/ --- > Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - Published: 2023-03-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-shreya-gupta/ - Tags: builder, courier, cto, founder, newnotificationstack, yc, ycombinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier. comGuest: Shreya Gupta, Developer Advocate at CourierLinksWebsite: https://courier. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shreya-gupta-60a2b4168/ --- > Coming from a regulated industry, Mathias wanted to build something to help him keep track and document who has access to what, which is a huge time sync and security risk. One day, he had one of his fellow CTO's ask him if he knew of a tool that could do this... and he started thinking, "Maybe I should just build it?". - Published: 2023-03-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-mathias-nestler-accessowl/ - Tags: access, audit, co-founder, cto, provisioning, saas - Podcasts: S7 Coming from a regulated industry, Mathias wanted to build something to help him keep track and document who has access to what, which is a huge time sync and security risk. One day, he had one of his fellow CTO's ask him if he knew of a tool that could do this... and he started thinking, "Maybe I should just build it?". Mathias Nestler has co-founded several startups in his career, in the insure-tech and fintech spaces. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing and diving. He claims that the calmness under the water is the best way to unwind from tech life. His favorite place he's dived before was in Thailand, where he observed his first seahorse. He often takes the train to Switzerland to see his significant other, and they like to cook at home together. Coming from a regulated industry, Mathias wanted to build something to help him keep track and document who has access to what, which is a huge time sync and security risk. One day, he had one of his fellow CTO's ask him if he knew of a tool that could do this... and he started thinking, "Maybe I should just build it? ". This is the creation story of AccessOwl. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. accessowl. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mathias-nestler-a8436044/ --- > Evan, Sam, and their other co-founder, experienced a recurring problem with sales demos at their prior companies - with sales reps deleting material from production environments, or internal teams spending lots of time maintaining separate demo environments. They thought there had to be a better way. - Published: 2023-03-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-evan-powell-sam-clemens-reprise/ - Tags: ceo, changeable, co-founder, coo, demo, fast, founder, sales - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Evan, Sam, and their other co-founder, experienced a recurring problem with sales demos at their prior companies - with sales reps deleting material from production environments, or internal teams spending lots of time maintaining separate demo environments. They thought there had to be a better way. Evan Powell had a career mostly in sales, which started in college within his acapella group. His group recorded tracks for the well known show Glee, and Evan had to manage and negotiate contracts with Fox. Outside of professional ventures, he still continues his singing and plays Dungeons and Dragons with his friends. Sam Clemens came up on the opposite side of the house, on the build side. He was a product manager at Hubspot and Upwork, and co-founder at InsightSquared. He also teaches at business school, and gets his hands dirty on the weekends, helping his wife with her commercial farm by driving the tractor and wielding a chainsaw. Evan, Sam, and their other co-founder, experienced a recurring problem with sales demos at their prior companies - with sales reps deleting material from production environments, or internal teams spending lots of time maintaining separate demo environments. They thought there had to be a better way. This is the creation story of Reprise. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. reprise. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/evanwapowell/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sclemens/ --- > Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - Published: 2023-03-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-seth-ben/ - Tags: builder, courier, cto, founder, newnotificationstack, segment, twilio, yc, ycombinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier. com. Guest: Seth Carney, CTO at Courier and Ben Link, DevRel at Twilio SegmentLinksWebsite: https://courier. com/codestoryWebsite: Twilio SegmentLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sethcarney/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/benjamindlink/ --- > Liam came to be hooked on Google Shopping and started using off the shelf tech to manage the campaigns. They found them to be lacking, and eventually built their own - and it became their competitive advantage. - Published: 2023-03-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-liam-patterson-bidnamic/ - Tags: ceo, ecommerce, founder, google, optimization, shopping - Podcasts: S7 Liam came to be hooked on Google Shopping and started using off the shelf tech to manage the campaigns. They found them to be lacking, and eventually built their own - and it became their competitive advantage. Liam Patterson has been an entrepreneur since the early days of his life. He was the kid that was selling sweets at school, undercutting the local store. He journeyed into e-commerce as he got older, continuing his entrepreneurial journey. Outside of tech, he is a runner and is into fencing. Recently, he completed his first marathon, after training for about a year. In regards to fencing, he started when he was a kid, and did it all the way through college - which is actually where he met his now co-founder. Liam's prior business was a print on-demand company, which allowed locally printing and shipping. As they scaled that business, they came to be hooked on Google Shopping and started using off the shelf tech to manage the campaigns. They found them to be lacking, and eventually built their own - and it became their competitive advantage. This is the creation story of Bidnamic. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. bidnamic. com/en-us/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/liam-patterson/ --- > In 2017, Roya wanted to start saving for a house downpayment. She discovered that it was really difficult to save up the money, and started looking into apps that would help her. When the only thing she could find to really help was Excel, she decided to step out and do something about it. - Published: 2023-03-03 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-roya-kachooei-walletafai-savings-app/ - Tags: budgeting, co-founder, finance, founder, purchases, savings - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 In 2017, Roya wanted to start saving for a house downpayment. She discovered that it was really difficult to save up the money, and started looking into apps that would help her. When the only thing she could find to really help was Excel, she decided to step out and do something about it. Roya Kachooei came to Canada 9 years ago, with the aim to pursue her masters in the US. When her funding fell through, she stayed in Canada and started working. When she was younger, her mother used to speak to her about making a difference in the world around her, and as such, she always dreamed about being an entrepreneur. In 2017, Roya wanted to start saving for a house downpayment. She discovered that it was really difficult to save up the money, and started looking into apps that would help her. When the only thing she could find to really help was Excel, she decided to step out and do something about it. This is the creation story of Walletifai. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://walletifai. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/roya-kachooei/ --- > Matt and his team started to explore the things they couldn't do with their current tooling, and landed on the power of WebAssembly. In attempting to speed up the startup time of servers and containers, along side the rising popularity of server-less, he and his team stumbled onto something, during a post offsite dinner. - Published: 2023-03-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-matt-butcher-fermyon/ - Tags: app in seconds, ceo, cloud, cloud computing, devops, founder, microsoft, web assembly - Podcasts: S7 Matt and his team started to explore the things they couldn't do with their current tooling, and landed on the power of WebAssembly. In attempting to speed up the startup time of servers and containers, along side the rising popularity of server-less, he and his team stumbled onto something, during a post offsite dinner. Matt Butcher was always intending to be a philosopher in the early days. His Dad informed him at some point he would need to get a job though. After he interviewed at a local utility company, he was thrust into learning the World Wide Web. He continued programming his way through college, getting his PhD in philosophy, but eventually moved solely into tech. He has contributed to multiple open source projects, and was one of the original creators of Helm. Outside of tech, he's a coffee snob, with more coffee tooling in his kitchen than plates or silverware. Matt and his team started to explore the things they couldn't do with their current tooling, and landed on the power of WebAssembly. In attempting to speed up the startup time of servers and containers, along side the rising popularity of server-less, he and his team stumbled onto something, during a post offsite dinner. This is the creation story of Fermyon. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. fermyon. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattbutcher/ --- > Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com - Published: 2023-03-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/the-new-notification-stack-for-developers-mike-miller/ - Tags: courier, Developer, mobile, newnotificationstack, product, sdk - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier.com Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off another special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story podcast, Courier. As a reminder, Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect. Check out their product to learn more at Courier. comGuest: Mike Miller, Lead Mobile SDK Engineer at CourierLinksWebsite: https://courier. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/killamikemilla/ --- > GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - Published: 2023-02-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-jesse-rubenfeld-finoptimal/ - Tags: fractional, growth, growthmatch, growthmodeon, industry, packages, teams, thought leader - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. You can learn more by checking out their website, GrowthMatch. com. Guest: Jesse Rubenfeld, Founder of FinOptimalLinksWebsite: https://www. growthmatch. com/codestory/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jesserubenfeld/ --- > During the first Halloween during COVID, Chelsey and her co-founders experienced the need for mappable addresses, in organizing Seattle trick or treating. What was built for that holiday got media attention, and their crew decided to build it right, apply to an accelerator, and bring their solution to the world. - Published: 2023-02-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-chelsey-roney-proxi/ - Tags: co-founder, founder, interactive, location, maps, operations, startup, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 During the first Halloween during COVID, Chelsey and her co-founders experienced the need for mappable addresses, in organizing Seattle trick or treating. What was built for that holiday got media attention, and their crew decided to build it right, apply to an accelerator, and bring their solution to the world. Chelsey Roney graduated from Texas A&M in 2011 (whoop! ). She is passionate about building businesses, as her current venture is her 3rd startup. But prior to her entrepreneurial adventures, she worked for Microsoft and Boeing, gaining incredible big industry experience. Outside of tech, she has a busy home life, being married, and a Mom of 2 young kids. Her family has a number of furry friends at their house, including a husky and a few cats. During the first Halloween during COVID, Chelsey and her co-founders experienced the need for mappable addresses, in organizing Seattle trick or treating. What was built for that holiday got media attention, and their crew decided to build it right, apply to an accelerator, and bring their solution to the world. This is the creation story of Proxi. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. proxi. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/chelseyroney/ --- > GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - Published: 2023-02-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-arun-sivashankaran-funnelenvy/ - Tags: fractional, growth, growthmatch, growthmodeon, industry, packages, teams, thought leader - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. You can learn more by checking out their website, GrowthMatch. com. Guest: Arun Sivashankaran, Founder at FunnelEnvy LinksWebsite: https://www. growthmatch. com/codestory/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arunsivashankaran/ --- > After the successes of his prior company, Ethan started to explore web3 as a technology, and a product offering. He noticed that most people were focusing on visual assets, but he wanted to create a tool that allows companies to depend their engagement - and revenue - with their customers. - Published: 2023-02-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-ethan-song-rarecircles/ - Tags: bitcoin, brands, crypto, engagement, nft, web3 - Podcasts: S7 After the successes of his prior company, Ethan started to explore web3 as a technology, and a product offering. He noticed that most people were focusing on visual assets, but he wanted to create a tool that allows companies to depend their engagement - and revenue - with their customers. Ethan Song is a boarder through and through - enjoying snowboarding, surfing, etc. and doing it as often as he can. He loves to read, and has moved more into non-fiction over fiction as he has gotten older. Prior to his current venture, he co-founded Frank & Oak, a successful thoughtful and ethical apparel and e-commerce company. After the successes of his prior company, Ethan started to explore web3 as a technology, and a product offering. He noticed that most people were focusing on visual assets, but he wanted to create a tool that allows companies to depend their engagement - and revenue - with their customers. This is the creation story of RareCircles. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. rarecircles. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ethansong/ --- > Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity. - Published: 2023-02-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-faisal-bhutto-calian/ - Tags: consultant, cyber, cybersecurity, it, program, security, vp - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity. Faisal Bhutto is a family man, and the proud father of 2 girls and a boy. He is based out of Houston, and enjoys the outdoors - hunting, sports, and working on his off-road rig. When discussing sports, the mentioned he was lucky enough to go see the World Cup recently. And when I asked about hunting, we yammered on about white tail and pheasant, as your host is an avid hunter too. Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity. This is Faisal's creation story at Calian. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. calian. com/itcs/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/fbhutto/ --- > GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - Published: 2023-02-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-lee-gilley-docmo/ - Tags: fractional, growth, growthmatch, growthmodeon, industry, packages, teams, thought leader - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. You can learn more by checking out their website, GrowthMatch. com. Guest: Lee Gilley, Founder of Docmo Links Website: https://www. growthmatch. com/codestory/ LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lgilley/ --- > Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well. - Published: 2023-02-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-navid-alipour-ai-med-global/ - Tags: cancer, ceo, data, early detection, founder, heart disease, image processing, medtech - Podcasts: S7 Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well. Navid Alipour has spent many years in the world of medicine and AI, supporting and admiring doctors. He jokes that his wife and he are the black sheep of the family... because they aren't actual doctors. He's the co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, as well as serving on the board of multiple San Diego based companies. Outside of his professional ventures, he enjoys watching movies with his wife and kids. Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well. This is the creation story of AI Med Global. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://aimedglobal. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/navid-alipour-a295777/ --- > In January 2021, Joe and his co-founder are sitting in their office, frustrated that no one was getting what Bitcoin - that is BSV, not BTC - was originally created for. They asked themselves, what could we build to illustrate the utility of blockchain? - Published: 2023-02-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-joe-de-pinto-haste-arcade-leaderboard-sdk/ - Tags: bitcoin, blockchain, bsv, btc, ceo, crypto, leaderboard, rewards - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 In January 2021, Joe and his co-founder are sitting in their office, frustrated that no one was getting what Bitcoin - that is BSV, not BTC - was originally created for. They asked themselves, what could we build to illustrate the utility of blockchain? Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, and was drafted to play professional baseball in the minors for the White Sox. He's always had an active lifestyle, and now lives at the beach and surfs regularly. In 2015, he and his current co-founder started a company called Barpay, which makes it easier to get drinks at busy bars. In January 2021, Joe and his co-founder are sitting in their office, frustrated that no one was getting what Bitcoin - that is BSV, not BTC - was originally created for. They asked themselves, what could we build to illustrate the utility of blockchain? This is the creation story of Haste Arcade. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. hastearcade. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joe-de-pinto/ --- > GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. - Published: 2023-02-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/growthmode-on-zach-fragapane-growthmatch/ - Tags: fractional, growth, growthmatch, growthmodeon, industry, packages, teams, thought leader - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off a special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled Growth Mode: On! , sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. You can learn more by checking out their website, GrowthMatch. com. Guest: Zach Fragapane, CEO of GrowthMatchLinksWebsite: https://www. growthmatch. com/codestory/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/zachry-fragapane/https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-shelby-stephens-growth-match/ --- > Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos. - Published: 2023-02-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-paul-mccarthy-snapfix/ - Tags: app, ceo, founder, maintenance, real estate, whatsapp, work order - Podcasts: S7 Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos. Paul McCarthy grew up in Cork, Ireland, and went to school there. He lives around the corner from the sea, and likes to dip in now again - literally, swim in the ocean. He calls it a great shock to the system, but ensured that I know he doesn't spend a full hour in the water. Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos. This is the creation story of SnapFix. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://snapfix. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/paulmccarthyireland --- > Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world. - Published: 2023-02-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-tut-pinata/ - Tags: blockchain, ceo, crypto, files, nft, storage - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world. Kyle Tut started out his life wanting to be a car mechanic. His Mom affirmed his aspirations, but gave him the advice to make sure he owned the mechanic shop. He's taken interesting paths through the auto world, marketing, and eventually, into the tech world. Outside of tech, he is originally from North Dakota but now lives in Nebraska, and enjoys the practicality of the way people think in the Midwest. Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world. This is the creation story of Piñata. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. pinata. cloud/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kyletut/ --- > At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build. - Published: 2023-01-31 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-nanxi-liu-blaze-tech/ - Tags: ceo, connected, digital, empower, founder, no code, tv - Podcasts: S7 At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build. Nanxi Liu is from Colorado, and went to school at UC Berkeley. In college, she immediately started her entrepreneurial journey by starting a bio tech company, and then eventually starting tech companies. She built and sold a company called Enplug, which was the #1 open digital signage software company. Outside of tech, she has kept a full life as well - producing TV shows - them winning an Emmy, snowboarding, and playing piano & cello. At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build. This is the creation story of Blaze. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. blaze. tech/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nanxi/ --- > After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together. - Published: 2023-01-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-embiricos-remotion/ - Tags: ceo, founder, mobile apps, no code, product development - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together. Alex Embiricos comes from an interesting background, having grown up all over the place - between Asia, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. He came to the states for college, and found his way into software after a stint in Aerospace. Ultimately, he found himself interested in the intersection between business and building technology. During his career, he spent a lot of time working at Dropbox, followed up by starting a company with his friends. Outside of tech, he loves to play Badminton, and when asked what his favorite food was, well... it is his Mom's food. After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together. This is the creation story of Remotion. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://remotion. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/embirico/ --- > When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience. - Published: 2023-01-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sydney-davis-nixcode/ - Tags: ceo, founder, mobile apps, no code, product development, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience. Sydney Davis really enjoys art. She enjoys immersive exhibits and loves to paint. She's a Mom, and digs spending time with her son and traveling to different exhibits. She loves the intersection between elemental art, digital art, and art from repurposed elements. She introduced me to a new term for immersive exhibits - selfie museums, which I hadn't heard before. When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience. This is the creation story of Nixcode. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://nixcodeapps. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/iamsydneydavis/ --- > Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that. - Published: 2023-01-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-tanmai-gopal-hasura-graph-ql/ - Tags: 10x, api, authentication, authorization, cloud, data model, faster - Podcasts: S7 Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that. Tanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research work was getting exposure, so he expedited his jump into industry, which help solidify the foundation for his current venture. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, hikes and travels. For the readers, he highly recommends N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane-Anders and Namoi Novak. Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that. This is the creation story of Hasura. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://hasura. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tanmaig/ --- > Back in 2019, he and his current co-founders met each other at Harvard Business School. After digging into team performance, they started asking questions around the barriers to increasing team performance, specifically in replicating high performers. The dialed it into process replication, and started down the road to build a tool to make this not only possible... but easy. - Published: 2023-01-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-ken-babcock-tango/ - Tags: ceo, extension, founder, online, quick, tutorials - Podcasts: S7 Back in 2019, he and his current co-founders met each other at Harvard Business School. After digging into team performance, they started asking questions around the barriers to increasing team performance, specifically in replicating high performers. The dialed it into process replication, and started down the road to build a tool to make this not only possible... but easy. Ken Babcock grew up outside of Buffalo, and as such. . is a big Bills fan. He attended Cornell, and has spent time in NYC, San Francisco and now Chicago. He's a family man, with an 11 month old, and loves to ski. His favorite mountain was Tahoe, specifically Palisades, where he mentioned spending many hours on the slopes. He mentions that his busy life of a startup and family life is a dangerous cocktail, but one that is worth drinking. Back in 2019, he and his current co-founders met each other at Harvard Business School. After digging into team performance, they started asking questions around the barriers to increasing team performance, specifically in replicating high performers. The dialed it into process replication, and started down the road to build a tool to make this not only possible... but easy. This is the creation story of Tango. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. tango. us/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kenbabcock/ --- > Arjun is returning to the podcast since his prior appearance to give me major updates on the company and the product. As a reminder Materialize is a fast, distributed SQL database, based on streaming internals, which allows you to have data consistency, scalability and low latency. - Published: 2023-01-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-materialize-arjun-narayan-ceo/ - Tags: cloud, database, kafka, low latency, multi-database, saas, streaming - Podcasts: S7 Arjun is returning to the podcast since his prior appearance to give me major updates on the company and the product. As a reminder Materialize is a fast, distributed SQL database, based on streaming internals, which allows you to have data consistency, scalability and low latency. Hello again listeners! Today I have yet another special return episode for you. I'm speaking with Arjun Narayan, Co-founder & CEO of Materialize. He told us the creation story of the product and company in Season 4, Episode 11, which I would encourage you to go back and listen to. Similar to yesterday's episode, Arjun is returning to the podcast since his prior appearance to give me major updates on the company and the product. As a reminder Materialize is a fast, distributed SQL database, based on streaming internals, which allows you to have data consistency, scalability and low latency. You can learn more about the product at materialize. com. Thats M A T E R I A L I Z E. comSponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://materialize. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arjunravinarayan/https://codestory. co/podcast/e11-arjun-narayan-materialize/ --- > Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. - Published: 2023-01-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/whats-new-with-pulumi-joe-duffy/ - Tags: deployments, Developer, infrastructure, infrastructure as code, kubernetes, open source, team - Podcasts: S7 Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. Hello Listeners! We have a treat for today's episode. On the show, I'll be interviewing Joe, the Co-founder & CEO of Pulumi, to get an update on all that has gone on within the company. As a reminder, Pulumi is Infrastructure as Code technology, that allows you as an engineer, developer, architect - to deliver infrastructure with high velocity and scale, through software engineering. You can learn more about their product, and get started quick, at pulumi. com. Thats P U L U M I. com. Sponsors Airbyte Doppler Host. io IPInfo mabl SupportZebra Links Website: https://www. pulumi. com/ LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joejduffy/ https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-luke-hoban-pulumi/ --- > Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. - Published: 2023-01-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arjun-bhatnagar-cloaked-replay/ - Tags: account, ceo, co-founder, credentials, data, founder, masking, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his current business. He loves to read, write, and play tennis in his spare time, along with playing music. In fact, playing music was a large part of his life, starting out playing the trumpet. In general, he is passionate about creating, and was inspired early on by the Inkheart series of books. Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. This is the creation story of Cloaked. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. cloaked. app/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arjunbhatnagar/ --- > At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. - Published: 2023-01-03 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-derek-osgood-ignition-replay/ - Tags: ceo, founder, go to market, gtm, marketing, martech, product launch - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other companies, large and small, in product and marketing roles. Some of the companies he worked for included Playstation, Rippling and BBVA. Outside of his profession, he loves to travel the world, and is a huge fantasy story nut. It's worth noting that we geeked out on fantasy novels for a good 10 minutes, as your host is a fantasy nut as well. At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. This is the creation story of Ignition. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. haveignition. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/derekosgood3/ --- > Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. - Published: 2022-12-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-raj-bains-prophecy-replay/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, data, data engineering, founder, low code, no code - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved around quite a bit when he was a kid, and his family dabbled in a number of different trades. After doing an internship in France and then, completing his undergrad, he moved stateside and has called many different states home. In fact, in those states, he got involved in outdoors activities, like kayaking, mountain biking, and the like. Also, he plays a lot of games, specifically on his phone, which makes his fingers hurt. Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. This is the creation story of Prophecy. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. prophecy. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/raj-bains-b837a46/ --- > Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. - Published: 2022-12-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-ian-small-evernote-replay/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, ecommerce, founder, headless, no code, online, store - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade on a homework assignment, bought the manual, and became an expert on the machine. Outside of tech, he likes to do home renovation. As he says it, when there is a power tool in your hand, that could potentially cut your arm off, you tend to focus on it. Ian joined Evernote in 2018, to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. This is his creation story, at Evernote. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://evernote. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/iansmall/ --- > Jeremy was really into the craft builder community, which also led him to be interested in eCommerce. He observed Shopify grow as a marketplace, that made things so easy to launch a store. What he figured out was that there was a need for these store owners to offload and sell their store. - Published: 2022-12-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jeremy-wood-openstore/ - Tags: builder, business, co-founder, marketplace, offers, sell, shopify - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Jeremy was really into the craft builder community, which also led him to be interested in eCommerce. He observed Shopify grow as a marketplace, that made things so easy to launch a store. What he figured out was that there was a need for these store owners to offload and sell their store. Jeremy Wood grew up in Portland, and has been heavily influenced by that upbringing. He enjoyed really strong maker communities, supporting local craft artists to thrive and build their business. He moved to the Bay Area for school, and was surrounding by optimism, tech focus, and sheer intelligence. I was under the impression that Portland was beautiful all year round, but Jeremy clued me in that 3 months out of the year, it's a drizzly, soggy mess. As I mentioned, Jeremy was really into the craft builder community, which also led him to be interested in eCommerce. He observed Shopify grow as a marketplace, that made things so easy to launch a store. What he figured out was that there was a need for these store owners to offload and sell their store. This is the creation story of Openstore. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://open. store/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jemdwood/ --- > After spending decades in the enterprise data space, Max experienced first hand the struggles around data anomaly detection. He constantly lived in escalation mode, and saw first hand that traditional rules and static dashboard based solutions were failing today's data needs. He set out to be part of the solution. - Published: 2022-12-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-lukichev-telmai/ - Tags: anamoly, co-founder, cto, data, data warehouses, detection, observability, streams - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 After spending decades in the enterprise data space, Max experienced first hand the struggles around data anomaly detection. He constantly lived in escalation mode, and saw first hand that traditional rules and static dashboard based solutions were failing today's data needs. He set out to be part of the solution. Max Lukichev is a deeply technical guy, which means his hobbies have been related to tech since the early days. He is a PhD in computer science, and has always been interested in building things. In fact, and his words, he has been building drones since back before they were cool. Overall, he likes to figure out how things work. Outside of tech, he is a family man, and make sure that his kids have all kinds of STEM tools. After spending decades in the enterprise data space, Max experienced first hand the struggles around data anomaly detection. He constantly lived in escalation mode, and saw first hand that traditional rules and static dashboard based solutions were failing today's data needs. He set out to be part of the solution. This is the creation story of Telmai. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. telm. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/maximlukichev/ --- > Hadi and his team took a hard look at the the market, and realized that 1 out of 4 people are disabled in their career due to an unforeseen circumstance. Strikingly, 50% of folks are living paycheck to paycheck, and don't even know disability insurance existed. They decided to build a product based on technology that fills this gap. - Published: 2022-12-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-hadi-radwan-asteya-income-insurance/ - Tags: ceo, disability, founder, income, insurance, paycheck, protection - Podcasts: S7 Hadi and his team took a hard look at the the market, and realized that 1 out of 4 people are disabled in their career due to an unforeseen circumstance. Strikingly, 50% of folks are living paycheck to paycheck, and don't even know disability insurance existed. They decided to build a product based on technology that fills this gap. Hadi Radwan is an amateur biohacker, which was a new term for me, and means trying to DIY your own biology. He is a family man, and enjoys playing fantasy sports. He's also a podcaster, and regularly interviews founders on his podcast, the First 100, to learn how those people obtained their first 100 customers. When it comes to family, he just had a newborn, so most of his time is devoted to that. Hadi and his team took a hard look at the the market, and realized that 1 out of 4 people are disabled in their career due to an unforeseen circumstance. Strikingly, 50% of folks are living paycheck to paycheck, and don't even know disability insurance existed. They decided to build a product based on technology that fills this gap. This is the creation story of Asteya. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. asteya. world/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hadiradwan/ --- > During a few days off, Rowan decided to tinker with an idea and build a tool to enable custom Squarespace site tooling. When he came back, he immediately showed off what he had built to Nick and his wife – who immediately saw the value, and the future, in the product. - Published: 2022-12-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nick-ippolito-rowan-findlay-squarekicker/ - Tags: animations, co-founder, css, custom, frontend, no code, squarespace, websites - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 During a few days off, Rowan decided to tinker with an idea and build a tool to enable custom Squarespace site tooling. When he came back, he immediately showed off what he had built to Nick and his wife – who immediately saw the value, and the future, in the product. Nick Ippolito has been involved with youth work for many years, and stumbled into web design and taught himself how to code. He's been married for 15 years, and he and his wife have 3 children - along with a budding startup the run together. They enjoy mounting biking in New Zealand and all things tech. For Rowan Findlay, tech has always been his blood, with his family members working in the industry. In his younger years, he was into technical legos, and used to mod Xbox for pocket money. He has spent a lot of time in tourism, and has done a lot of freelance work, building sites for your local technicians. During a few days off, Rowan decided to tinker with an idea and build a tool to enable custom Squarespace site tooling. When he came back, he immediately showed off what he had built to Nick and his wife - who immediately saw the value, and the future, in the product. This is the creation story of Squarekicker. cSponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. squarekicker. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nick-ippolito/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rowan-findlay-88b8a876/ --- > Through their collective knowledge, Casey and his team have found that customers have a need for a solid in house expertise to support a payments ecosystem. And, technically speaking, customers need an orchestration layer to abstract multiple partners and services behind the scenes. - Published: 2022-12-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-casey-kipfer-justifi/ - Tags: co-founder, embedded, fintech, in house, payments, revenue - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Through their collective knowledge, Casey and his team have found that customers have a need for a solid in house expertise to support a payments ecosystem. And, technically speaking, customers need an orchestration layer to abstract multiple partners and services behind the scenes. Casey Kipfer is a family man. He's married with 3 kids, and there is a lot of excitement and noise at his house - which is says is wonderful. He enjoys golfing and fishing, and tries to spend as much time outside as possible, including spending time with his brother paying some hockey in the winter. They also worked together for around 12 year at a prior venture of his brothers. Through their collective knowledge, Casey and his team have found that customers have a need for a solid in house expertise to support a payments ecosystem. And, technically speaking, customers need an orchestration layer to abstract multiple partners and services behind the scenes. This is the creation story of Justifi. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. justifi. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/casey-kipfer/ --- > Through her time at other companies, Nora realized that the industry spends little time looking back on our past mistakes. She figured out that there was a solid market for people wanting to understand their incidents better, and started building something on the side, which eventually became her focus. - Published: 2022-12-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-nora-jones-jeli-io/ - Tags: ceo, founder, issues, leader, monitoring, resolution, Tech, women in tech - Podcasts: S7 Through her time at other companies, Nora realized that the industry spends little time looking back on our past mistakes. She figured out that there was a solid market for people wanting to understand their incidents better, and started building something on the side, which eventually became her focus. Nora Jones has been in tech her entire career. She originally thought she was going to get into hardware, but was always focused on reliability and safety. She has quite the track record, in regards to companies she has worked for - Jet. com, Netflix, and Slack. She lives in Denver, and likes to get outside and do dangerous activities (post studying the risk of course). She loves to ski, and really digs Telluride and Steamboat when she can make the drive. Through her time at other companies, Nora realized that the industry spends little time looking back on our past mistakes. She figured out that there was a solid market for people wanting to understand their incidents better, and started building something on the side, which eventually became her focus. This is the creation story of Jeli. io. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. jeli. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/norajones1/ --- > For the last several years, Alex had a huge problem finding qualified developers for his startup. Alongside of this, resources were thin in the early days, and he was losing recruiting bids to larger companies. He thought - hiring developers shouldn't be this hard... maybe he should look somewhere different. - Published: 2022-12-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alex-svinov-insquad/ - Tags: ceo, developers, founder, hr tech, recruiting, remote, senior - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 For the last several years, Alex had a huge problem finding qualified developers for his startup. Alongside of this, resources were thin in the early days, and he was losing recruiting bids to larger companies. He thought - hiring developers shouldn't be this hard... maybe he should look somewhere different. Alex Svinov has very few things to talk about outside of the business world. He likes to jog, play tennis, and has a family with three kids at home. He likes to travel with his family and try new things, which he admits is complicated with the kids. Personally, he is driven each day to create something new. When it comes to food, his favorite is curry chicken, which according to him, he could eat every day. For the last several years, Alex had a huge problem finding qualified developers for his startup. Alongside of this, resources were thin in the early days, and he was losing recruiting bids to larger companies. He thought - hiring developers shouldn't be this hard... maybe he should look somewhere different. This is the creation story of Insquad. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://insquad. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alex-svinov/ --- > Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. - Published: 2022-12-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/return-to-komodor-andrey-pohkilko/ - Tags: Developer, kubernetes, open source, team - Podcasts: S7 Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. You might remember in Season 6, episode 15, I interviewed Itiel, the Co-founder of Komodor. Today I have a special episode of the Code Story podcast, bringing back our friends at Komodor. I'm chatting with their Open Source Dev Leader, Andrey Pokhilko, about the latest initiatives at the company, including some exciting tooling around Helm and further advances in Kubernetes troubleshooting and expertise. As a reminder, Komodor enables development teams to monitor their entire Kubernetes stack, identify issues, uncover root causes and get the context needed to troubleshoot their orchestration efficiently and independently. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://komodor. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andreypohilko/ --- > When Gabriel combined his technical knowledge with his experience in the creative industries, he started to see numerous opportunities to automate manual steps in these processes. He decided to set out and build these tools for people in the creative industry. - Published: 2022-12-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-gabriel-isserlis-tutti/ - Tags: artist, creative industry, film making, founder, host, music, space - Podcasts: S7 When Gabriel combined his technical knowledge with his experience in the creative industries, he started to see numerous opportunities to automate manual steps in these processes. He decided to set out and build these tools for people in the creative industry. Gabriel Isserlis grew up in London with an artistic background in the creative industries. His Dad is a professional cellist, which is the instrument that he chose as a young musician. As a teen, he became highly interested in making films, and decided to give it a try. He studied film in upstate New York, and realized he liked making sci-fi films about the future. Instead of films though, he decided to go make the future, and got into tech. When Gabriel combined his technical knowledge with his experience in the creative industries, he started to see numerous opportunities to automate manual steps in these processes. He decided to set out and build these tools for people in the creative industry. This is the creation story of Tutti. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. tutti. space/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/gmisserlis/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams. - Published: 2022-12-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nathan-yap-supportzebra-customer-support-team/ - Tags: ceo, customer, customer support, founder, philipines, remote, support, teams - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams. Nathan Yap has a tight knit family, that he spends a lot of time with. So traveling and enjoying good food with his family is winning to him. Outside of that, he is enjoying the Pickleball craze, and he was heading into his first tournament at the time of this recording. He also loves to ski as well, and mentions really enjoying Crested Butte and Vail. Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams. This is the creation story of SupportZebra. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://supportzebra. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nathanyap/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Satish was building data warehouses for different businesses and firms in the industry. He saw first hand how hard it was to bring a bunch of data sources all together, and have them be compatible in a single source. He decided to set out and solve the problem, by bringing a modern approach to the space, paired with automations. - Published: 2022-11-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-satish-jayanthi-coalesce-io/ - Tags: cto, data, founder, snowflake, transformation, warehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Prior to his current venture, Satish was building data warehouses for different businesses and firms in the industry. He saw first hand how hard it was to bring a bunch of data sources all together, and have them be compatible in a single source. He decided to set out and solve the problem, by bringing a modern approach to the space, paired with automations. Satish Jayanthi was born in India, and attended school there. When he was growing up, his Mom was a teacher and his Dad was dabbling in different businesses. After he graduated, he started working for a software company, which ultimately sent him to Europe, and then eventually to the US 22 years ago. Outside of tech, he spends a lot of time with his family, his 2 kids, and he loves to play tennis and meet people doing so. As a father, he continually reminds his kids to be passionate about what they are doing, and to do so with 100% effort. Prior to his current venture, Satish was building data warehouses for different businesses and firms in the industry. He saw first hand how hard it was to bring a bunch of data sources all together, and have them be compatible in a single source. He decided to set out and solve the problem, by bringing a modern approach to the space, paired with automations. This is the creation story of Coalesce. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://coalesce. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/satish-jayanthi-32703613/ --- > Jeff's current venture started out as a tech-enabled platform for office and event catering, which connected their users to incredible chef entrepreneurs. Fast forward, they are now a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery services, that includes much, much more. - Published: 2022-11-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-jeff-grass-hungry-marketplace/ - Tags: ceo, chairman, chefs, delivery, food, founder, local, online, platform - Podcasts: S7 Jeff's current venture started out as a tech-enabled platform for office and event catering, which connected their users to incredible chef entrepreneurs. Fast forward, they are now a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery services, that includes much, much more. Jeff Grass had his career start more traditionally, as a bond underwriter, graduating from Wharton, and then being a serial entrepreneur. Outside of his business ventures, he is married with 2 kids, and used to run marathons... including one into Athens with his bare feet. When he's not running, he's spending time with his kids and their activities. Jeff's current venture started out as a tech-enabled platform for office and event catering, which connected their users to incredible chef entrepreneurs. Fast forward, they are now a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery services, that includes much, much more. This is the creation story of Hungry. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://tryhungry. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jeffgrass/ --- > Rob previously built a product called Waave. When their customer acquisition couldn't keep up with churn, they started building tools to help them figure out what was going on. They focused on a cancellation flow, and spent 6 months perfecting a tool that helped them fix their churn problem. - Published: 2022-11-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-moore-churnkey/ - Tags: cancel, churn, co-founder, cto, customer journey, founder, internal tool, saas - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Rob previously built a product called Waave. When their customer acquisition couldn't keep up with churn, they started building tools to help them figure out what was going on. They focused on a cancellation flow, and spent 6 months perfecting a tool that helped them fix their churn problem. Rob Moore was previously on the Code Story podcast back in Season 2, when he was building Floom - a marketplace built to make monetizing SaaS products easier. Three years ago, he moved to London with his now wife, as they got married a few months ago. Another update is he enjoys studying philosophy and how people think... and he tends to find good insight from Seneca. He applies a lot of his learnings to his personal life, but also to his startup ventures. Rob previously built a product called Waave. When their customer acquisition couldn't keep up with churn, they started building tools to help them figure out what was going on. They focused on a cancellation flow, and spent 6 months perfecting a tool that helped them fix their churn problem. This is the creation story of ChurnKey. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://churnkey. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rob-moore/ --- > Juan has been working with startups for quite some time. At one point in his career, he became a contractor doing mobile development. Through a number of contracts with a specific investor, Juan found himself as the CTO of a startup, pitching an idea for what his current venture would become. - Published: 2022-11-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-juan-soberanis-beacon/ - Tags: beacon, ceo, founder, location, mobile, services, tracking - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Juan has been working with startups for quite some time. At one point in his career, he became a contractor doing mobile development. Through a number of contracts with a specific investor, Juan found himself as the CTO of a startup, pitching an idea for what his current venture would become. Back in 1986, Juan Soberanis and his family got a personal computer for the house - a Commodore 128. He asked his mother if he could take it to his room, and taught himself how to program, and of course, he did some gaming on it as well. This was the genesis of his career path, which picked back up in college. Outside of tech, he has kids in their 20's, and spends a lot of his free time hiking and being outdoors. Juan has been working with startups for quite some time. At one point in his career, he became a contractor doing mobile development. Through a number of contracts with a specific investor, Juan found himself as the CTO of a startup, pitching an idea for what his current venture would become. This is the creation story of Beacon. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. beacon. site/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/juan-soberanis-4447191/ --- > Olga's co-founder has a PhD in financial flows, specifically for the music industry. She decided to pursue the democratization of music rights, and creating a new assets for anyone to invest in. Olga joined her, and starting building out what would become their mobile app. - Published: 2022-11-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-olga-stern-tangy-market/ - Tags: app, backend developer, cto, founder, investments, mobile, music, women in tech - Podcasts: S7 Olga's co-founder has a PhD in financial flows, specifically for the music industry. She decided to pursue the democratization of music rights, and creating a new assets for anyone to invest in. Olga joined her, and starting building out what would become their mobile app. Olga Stern considers herself an onion, with a lot of different layers. She loves to try out new things, which has produced a lot of different hobbies in her life - like underwater rugby, floor hockey, knitting and squash. Recently, she became a dog owner, and listens to podcasts to learn more about being a good dog parent. She splits her time 50% in Stockholm, and the other half in a small village up north, in an outdoors and skiing area. She is currently into ski touring... when you hike up the mountain, don't use a lift, and "earn your turn". Olga's co-founder has a PhD in financial flows, specifically for the music industry. She decided to pursue the democratization of music rights, and created new assets for anyone to invest in. Olga joined her, and starting building out what would become their mobile app. This is the creation story of Tangy Market. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. tangymarket. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/olga-stern-51957216 --- > Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. - Published: 2022-11-17 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/nick-donofrio-if-nothing-changes-nothing-changes/ - Tags: board, enabler, executive, generations, ibm, immigrant, mainframe, Tech, tenure - Podcasts: S7 Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. Hello listeners! Today have Nick Donorio on the show today. Nick Donorio is a second generation American. His grandparents were poor, Italian immigrants - and his family was hard working, focused on value creation. They were poor, but never thought of themselves as poor - they always had food to eat, and always sat down at the table for dinner at night. Nick spent 44 years of his life at IBM, as an electrical engineer and then as a technology leader. In 2008, he "graduated" from IBM, and now holds board seats for dozens of companies. Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. With heart and candor, Nick explains how he led IBM's global technical team to embrace market centric, focus redefining innovation and sparking worldwide collaboration. Get the book on Amazon, or learn more at nickdonofrio. com. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. nickdonofriobook. com/Book: https://www. amazon. com/If-Nothing-Changes-Donofrio-Story/dp/1544531338/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nicholas-donofrio-7588609/ --- > In his prior company, Michael built numerous amount of productized integrations across his platform and thousands of customers. No matter their state of growth, these integrations were always a significant challenge. After selling the company in 2018, he decided to build the thing he wished he had back then. - Published: 2022-11-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michael-zuercher-prismatic/ - Tags: api, ceo, connectors, founder, integrations, marketplace, platform - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 In his prior company, Michael built numerous amount of productized integrations across his platform and thousands of customers. No matter their state of growth, these integrations were always a significant challenge. After selling the company in 2018, he decided to build the thing he wished he had back then. Michael Zuercher has been in tech since he was young, starting his first company when he was 19 years old. A lot of his path to his current place is through that prior company. He is married with 3 kids, living in South Dakota, and is a pilot. Beyond these things, he is a machinist as a hobby - in fact, he created logos for his current team as they shipped their MVP. In his prior company, Michael built numerous amount of productized integrations across his platform and thousands of customers. No matter their state of growth, these integrations were always a significant challenge. After selling the company in 2018, he decided to build the thing he wished he had back then. This is the creation story of Prismatic. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://prismatic. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/michael-zuercher/ --- > Krish went through meetings like we all do - conducting a meeting with expensive team members, and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had, and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings. - Published: 2022-11-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-krish-ramineni-fireflies-ai-metrics-meetings/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, founder, google meet, meeting, metrics, online, remote, transcribe, zoom - Podcasts: S7 Krish went through meetings like we all do - conducting a meeting with expensive team members, and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had, and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings. Krish Ramineni grew up in Silicon Valley, observing tech all around him. But really excited him was the innovation happening the in the last 5 years. He used to play sports as a kid - tennis, baseball, etc. - and he was always excited about filming his games or practice, and utilizing software to analyze how he executed the craft. He brings his analytical mainframe into his current venture, and still plays some sports, lifts weights, and tracks his nutrition. Krish went through meetings like we all do - conducting a meeting with expensive team members, and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had, and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings. This is the creation story of Fireflies. ai. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://fireflies. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/krishramineni/ --- > Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights - Published: 2022-11-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-ramirez-mystery/ - Tags: data, data science, experiences, insights, metrics, remote, shared, teams, vp - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights Shawn Ramirez spent a decade as a political science professor, studying terrorism and strategic negotiations. Five years ago, she switched into tech, in order to make a positive impact, joining startups with great missions. She has created training programs, worked in AI, scaled teams, and dug into the data science world. Outside of tech, she lives in Seattle with her family, and loves all the outdoors things you can do in the Pacific Northwest. Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights. This is the creation story of Mystery. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. trymystery. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/slramz/ --- > Collectively, Shaheed and his co-founders had 10 years of experience supporting the employee benefits insurance space. On a regular basis, they observed the manual creation, editing and lack observability in the processes - aka, the lack of modern tooling to support the industry. They made the decision and committed to changing the face of the industry. - Published: 2022-11-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaheeb-roshan-threeflow/ - Tags: brokers, carriers, co-founder, cto, employee benefits, hr, insurance, modern tooling - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Collectively, Shaheed and his co-founders had 10 years of experience supporting the employee benefits insurance space. On a regular basis, they observed the manual creation, editing and lack observability in the processes - aka, the lack of modern tooling to support the industry. They made the decision and committed to changing the face of the industry. Shaheeb Roshan is a family man. He's been married 16 years and has a 10 year old daughter. It's his family that drives how he looks at the world - teaching his daughter how to swim and be safe in the water, and learning how to do new things. For example, he got into baking, which ended up into 13 cakes on his counter table (yes, I'm wondering my invite was too). The pattern for him is getting deeply interested in something, as there is always a system behind it. Collectively, Shaheed and his co-founders had 10 years of experience supporting the employee benefits insurance space. On a regular basis, they observed the manual creation, editing and lack observability in the processes - aka, the lack of modern tooling to support the industry. They made the decision and committed to changing the face of the industry. This is the creation story of ThreeFlow. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. threeflow. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shaheebroshan/ --- > In his previous role at Logz.io, Roi and his team spent large sums of money for cloud providers and services. The finance team quickly got wind of these costs, and started asking questions, appropriately. Roi found out that he didn't have answers to the questions, and there wasn't tooling out there that helped him. - Published: 2022-11-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-roi-ravhon-finout/ - Tags: architecture, cloud, cost, cost out, founder, services - Podcasts: S7 In his previous role at Logz.io, Roi and his team spent large sums of money for cloud providers and services. The finance team quickly got wind of these costs, and started asking questions, appropriately. Roi found out that he didn't have answers to the questions, and there wasn't tooling out there that helped him. Roi Ravhon path to tech started in the Israeli military, like many other founders in Israel. In fact, the very first introduction he had to computers was when he joined the services. It was a great experience, that taught him everything he knows. This is a common story with founders in the area, as I've noticed from other interviews I've done. He lives in Tel Aviv, and he is a big fan of music, sports, and running his company. In his previous role at Logz. io, Roi and his team spent large sums of money for cloud providers and services. The finance team quickly got wind of these costs, and started asking questions, appropriately. Roi found out that he didn't have answers to the questions, and there wasn't tooling out there that helped him. This is the creation story of Finout. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. finout. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/roiravhon/ --- > Mike's career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem. - Published: 2022-11-03 - Modified: 2025-04-30 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-malone-smallstep/ - Tags: authentication, ceo, certificate, co-founder, devops, devsecops, microservices, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Mike's career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem. Mike Malone is a nerd from way back (his words, not mine). In the 6th grade, he bought a Borland C book and learned how to code. Back when Napster was round, he hosted an open Nap server in his basement, and ran a few things on IRC. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a Business Information Systems degree, and worked for Accenture for a hot second... then joined a 3 person startup, and hasn't looked back since. He's married with 2 kids, and a dog - and he claims he collects hobbies, which is another way of saying he likes to try new things. Mike's career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem. This is the creation story of Smallstep. Sponsors Airbyte Doppler Host. io IPInfo mabl SupportZebra Links Website: https://smallstep. com/ LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mmalone/ --- > For her prior startup, Kateryna utilized her background in applied math, combined with her co-founder's experience in the space, to create a way to optimize territory creation - for franchises, sales teams, etc. and predict revenue for said territories. When she moved on from that gig, she started a new thing - one that would enable women founders to build technical solutions. - Published: 2022-11-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kateryna-sytnyk-fract-cto-doctor/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, doctor, founder, fractional cto, geospatial, revenue, territory, zip codes - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 For her prior startup, Kateryna utilized her background in applied math, combined with her co-founder's experience in the space, to create a way to optimize territory creation - for franchises, sales teams, etc. and predict revenue for said territories. When she moved on from that gig, she started a new thing - one that would enable women founders to build technical solutions. Kateryna Sytnyk is originally from Ukraine, but moved to the states 15 years ago after winning the green card lottery. Her background is in applied mathematics, and she grew up surrounded with logical brains - for example, her grandparent was literally a rocket scientist. When she moved to the US, she dove right into the world of entrepreneurship. Outside of tech, she travels a lot, being a digital nomad, and likes to salsa dance. She is fascinated with psychology and what drives behavior. For her prior startup, Kateryna utilized her background in applied math, combined with her co-founder's experience in the space, to create a way to optimize territory creation - for franchises, sales teams, etc. and predict revenue for said territories. When she moved on from that gig, she started a new thing - one that would enable women founders to build technical solutions. This is the creation story of Fract... and CTO Doctor. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. fract. com/Website: https://www. ctodoctor. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/katerynasytnyk/ --- > As Ben learned about the tools on the market, he realized that to get the tool in production, it required him to understand all the codebases test coverage, without knowledge of SRE. He released on open source project, and his approach got picked up by big name enterprises. - Published: 2022-11-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-benjamin-wilms-steadybit/ - Tags: auto fix, ceo, chao engineering, chaos, co-founder, founder, issues, managed, platform - Podcasts: S7 As Ben learned about the tools on the market, he realized that to get the tool in production, it required him to understand all the codebases test coverage, without knowledge of SRE. He released on open source project, and his approach got picked up by big name enterprises. Benjamin Wilms started his career in 1999 as a developer. In the little free time he has, he does mountain biking, spends time with his family, and visits the ocean a few hours away. For mountain biking, he finds that it helps him to keep life balanced away from a screen, and the ocean - well... he just likes to watch his kids play on the beach. Seven years go, Ben started getting into the topic of Chao's engineering, while working as a consultant. As he learned about the tools on the market, he realized that to get the tool in production, it required him to understand all the codebase test coverage, without knowledge of SRE. He released on open source project of his own creation, and his approach got picked up by big name enterprises. This is the creation story of Steadybit. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://steadybit. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/benjamin-wilms/ --- > While running his prior startup, John wanted to figure out a way to create a system that allowed him to get reuse out of the work he was building. What he ended up building was an ecosystem, for solution builders and developers, to merge the worlds of low code and no code. - Published: 2022-10-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-rush-mars-x/ - Tags: agency, apps, ceo, founder, low code, merge, micro apps, no code, saas - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 While running his prior startup, John wanted to figure out a way to create a system that allowed him to get reuse out of the work he was building. What he ended up building was an ecosystem, for solution builders and developers, to merge the worlds of low code and no code. John Rush has been in tech since he was a child, so its hard for him to think of a time where it wasn't a part of his life. Since 2008, he has been building apps, websites, etc. and a lot of what he was doing was client work. During this time, he noticed that a lot of his tasks were similar, repetitive, and he wanted to find ways to get repeat use out of the work he was doing. Outside of tech, he plays soccer on a semi-professional team, and is a huge part of his life. He also likes the outdoors, and even plays a little ping pong. While running his prior startup, John wanted to figure out a way to create a system that allowed him to get reuse out of the work he was building. What he ended up building was an ecosystem, for solution builders and developers, to merge the worlds of low code and no code. This is the creation story of Mars X. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. marsx. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/john-rush-l/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Tom was the CTO at a startup and found himself having to hire people fast, while maintaining that the people he hired were a good fit for the company. Hiring at their current geo only was not going to work, so they had to look remote - and he quickly felt the pains of ineffective tools and methods for doing so. - Published: 2022-10-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tom-medema-bubbles/ - Tags: async, chrome extension, collaboration, founder, remote, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Prior to his current venture, Tom was the CTO at a startup and found himself having to hire people fast, while maintaining that the people he hired were a good fit for the company. Hiring at their current geo only was not going to work, so they had to look remote - and he quickly felt the pains of ineffective tools and methods for doing so. Tom Medema is Dutch, and grew up in a small village in the Netherlands. This allowed him to explore what else was out there, which led to him living in 5 different countries. Alongside that, he loves to travel and reads a lot of fantasy novels. We had a good chat about Tolkien books, Dune, and he recommended that I check out the Cradle series. We both highly recommend the Licanus Trilogy, for anyone who is interested in their next read. Prior to his current venture, Tom was the CTO at a startup and found himself having to hire people fast, while maintaining that the people he hired were a good fit for the company. Hiring at their current geo only was not going to work, so they had to look remote - and he quickly felt the pains of ineffective tools and methods for doing so. This is the creation story of Bubbles. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. usebubbles. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tommedema/ --- > Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. - Published: 2022-10-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-raj-bains-prophecy/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, data, data engineering, founder, low code, no code - Podcasts: S7 Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved around quite a bit when he was a kid, and his family dabbled in a number of different trades. After doing an internship in France and then, completing his undergrad, he moved stateside and has called many different states home. In fact, in those states, he got involved in outdoors activities, like kayaking, mountain biking, and the like. Also, he plays a lot of games, specifically on his phone, which makes his fingers hurt. Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better. This is the creation story of Prophecy. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablSupportZebraLinksWebsite: https://www. prophecy. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/raj-bains-b837a46/ --- > At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. - Published: 2022-10-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-derek-osgood-ignition/ - Tags: ceo, founder, go to market, gtm, marketing, martech, product launch - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other companies, large and small, in product and marketing roles. Some of the companies he worked for included Playstation, Rippling and BBVA. Outside of his profession, he loves to travel the world, and is a huge fantasy story nut. It's worth noting that we geeked out on fantasy novels for a good 10 minutes, as your host is a fantasy nut as well. At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right. This is the creation story of Ignition. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. haveignition. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/derekosgood3/ --- > Justin had a pivotal experience with a handyman helping him at his home. When it came time to pay this person, he was unable to do so because the handyman didn't accept forms of payment Justin had available to him. He decided to build something to fix this, and onboarded said handyman, as his first merchant customer. - Published: 2022-10-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-justin-clegg-allset/ - Tags: automated, ceo, founder, handyman, invoicing, payments, reviews, sms, text, tradesmen - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Justin had a pivotal experience with a handyman helping him at his home. When it came time to pay this person, he was unable to do so because the handyman didn't accept forms of payment Justin had available to him. He decided to build something to fix this, and onboarded said handyman, as his first merchant customer. Justin Clegg grew up all around the world, living in countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico City and Brazil. He spent 2 years on mission in Africa, and 5 years in India as well. Through these experiences, he has learned empathy, gratitude, and how to be a better listener, which helps him in his business ventures. He is multi-lingual, and interestingly, he mentioned that selling religion helped him to be better at sales. Outside of tech, he digs the mountains and playing sports, specifically tennis and indoor soccer. Justin had a pivotal experience with a handyman helping him at his home. When it came time to pay this person, he was unable to do so because the handyman didn't accept forms of payment Justin had available to him. He decided to build something to fix this, and onboarded said handyman, as his first merchant customer. This is the creation story of Allset. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. tryallset. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/justindclegg/ --- > Prior to joining Facebook, Will open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix. - Published: 2022-10-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-william-falcon-lightning-ai/ - Tags: ai, builder, ceo, deployment, fast, founder, models, shopify - Podcasts: S7 Prior to joining Facebook, Will open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix. Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He is originally from South America, and moved to the US when he was a teenager. Later in life, he went through Navy Seal training and served the country for 6 years, doing primarily special reconnaissance. After leaving the military, he taught himself how to code and "fell into" the world of AI. He finds the dynamic of uncertainty in the military translates over to the tech startup world. Outside of tech, he likes to try random things, but digs surfing, swimming, and doing art. In his undergrad program, Will created a toolset to help you scale code within the deep learning, AI world. Prior to joining Facebook, he open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix. This is the creation story of Lightning AI. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://lightning. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/wfalcon/https://www. williamfalcon. com/ --- > Conor joined his current organization is helping to build the Ireland entrepreneur and startup culture. With the arrival of big tech companies helping to accelerate that, his group is ensuring that entrepreneurs are being strategic in forming their businesses, meeting the right people, raising money, and... building community. - Published: 2022-10-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-conor-carmody-furthr-festival/ - Tags: community, consulting, festival, fundraising, Ireland, seed, Tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Conor joined his current organization is helping to build the Ireland entrepreneur and startup culture. With the arrival of big tech companies helping to accelerate that, his group is ensuring that entrepreneurs are being strategic in forming their businesses, meeting the right people, raising money, and... building community. Conor Carmody lives just outside of Dublin with his wife and has 3 lads - aka boys. Professionally, he worked in Eastern Europe around the time of the Berlin Wall, through some dramatic change in society. He learned a ton about setting up businesses in a society that was rebuilding itself. Today, he does a lot of advising and consulting around establishing and growing a business. Outside of his current venture, he likes to garden - and claims he is the guy that counts down the minutes until he can cut the grass again. Conor joined his current organization is helping to build the Ireland entrepreneur and startup culture. With the arrival of big tech companies helping to accelerate that, his group is ensuring that entrepreneurs are being strategic in forming their businesses, meeting the right people, raising money, and... building community. This is the creation story of the Furthr Festival. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://furthr. ie/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/conorcarmody --- > As a communications and marketing leader, Mark was frustrated with the lack of recognition for his marketing teams to the bottom line. In addition, he solved major analytics problems at his prior companies, but had massive budgets to do so. He saw that software and automation was the way forward. - Published: 2022-10-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mark-stouse-proof-analytics/ - Tags: analytics, attribution, ceo, chairman, founder, mmm, mrm, revenue - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 As a communications and marketing leader, Mark was frustrated with the lack of recognition for his marketing teams to the bottom line. In addition, he solved major analytics problems at his prior companies, but had massive budgets to do so. He saw that software and automation was the way forward. Mark Stouse was a CCO and CMO in large companies like Honeywell Aerospace. He claims that he is not a data scientist, but can play one on TV. He got to a high degree of organizational maturity, and could understand and speak to the needs of a data scientist. If he wasn't pursuing his current venture, he would likely be a history professor, as he is seriously passionate about 15th century innovation and the pre renaissance era. He is also a parent of 2 teenage boys, so outside of tech and history, he spends time doing what they want to do. As a communications and marketing leader, Mark was frustrated with the lack of recognition for his marketing teams to the bottom line. In addition, he solved major analytics problems at his prior companies, but had massive budgets to do so. He saw that software and automation was the way forward. This is the creation story of Proof Analytics. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. proofanalytics. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/markstouse/ --- > Jake noticed that capacity for engineering resources was scarce across the board, while the demand for experimentation in product was very high. He sought to fix the problem, by creating no code edits - for your code itself. - Published: 2022-10-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jake-vacovec-flycode/ - Tags: ceo, founder, github, integration, product - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Jake noticed that capacity for engineering resources was scarce across the board, while the demand for experimentation in product was very high. He sought to fix the problem, by creating no code edits - for your code itself. Jake Vacovec started his career in sales, and eventually moved into the product world. He loves to cook, and finds it relaxing, and a good way to unwind from startup world. Primarily, he loves to cook steaks and likes to integrate chemistry into cooking, which aligns with the recipes he likes. Also, he loves to mountain ski, starting out when he was a 1 year old (he was the kid on the leash, he says). Jake noticed that capacity for engineering resources was scarce across the board, while the demand for experimentation in product was very high. He sought to fix the problem, by creating no code edits - for your code itself. This is the creation story of Flycode. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. flycode. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jake-p-vacovec-28417869/ --- > Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. Inevitably, with every business they started, they found the back office type processes were important to have each time, but not the area of expertise for the founders - and much less, not the focus of said business. So, they built the service they wished they had in prior ventures. - Published: 2022-10-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-waseem-daher-pilot/ - Tags: accounting, back office, ceo, co-founder, services - Podcasts: S7 Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. Inevitably, with every business they started, they found the back office type processes were important to have each time, but not the area of expertise for the founders - and much less, not the focus of said business. So, they built the service they wished they had in prior ventures. Waseem Daher had two immigrant parents from Lebanon. He was born in the states, after the migrated to the states in the 80's. With his relatives around him, he saw that it was possible to run your own business, and do it well. His love for computer science really culminated when he went to MIT to complete is undergraduate studies, where he actually met his current co-founders. He is married with a 2 year old - so all additional time he has outside of work is spent with his young family. Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. Inevitably, with every business they started, they found the back office type processes were important to have each time, but not the area of expertise for the founders - and much less, not the focus of said business. So, they built the service they wished they had in prior ventures. This is the creation story of Pilot. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://pilot. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/wdaher/ --- > Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport. They were so early on the team, that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to grow new skills in data analytics just to service his job needs. - Published: 2022-10-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-buick-canvas/ - Tags: analysis, ceo, co-founder, data, founder, no code, nocode, spreadsheet - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport. They were so early on the team, that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to grow new skills in data analytics just to service his job needs. Ryan Buick grew up in San Francisco - in the actual city itself. He went to school in Oregon, but quickly back to the area. He is a very proud owner of a COVID dog - IE, he got the dog during COVID - and enjoys biking and just hanging out. He named the dog Jerry, in order to make his Dad and his Grateful Dead loving family laugh. Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport. They were so early on the team, that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to grow new skills in data analytics just to service his job needs. This got him thinking about other folks, and what sort of tool could support a spreadsheet interface on top of data sources. This is the creation story of Canvas. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://canvasapp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ryanjbuick/ --- > At a prior company, Ashleigh did a research profit that surfaced to her how much the industry was focused solely on profits, and not the people they were serving. She left her company, and had a moment where she envisioned how she would change the industry, and shift the power back to the customer. - Published: 2022-10-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ashleigh-wilson-auditmate/ - Tags: audit, contracts, elevator, founder, profits, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 At a prior company, Ashleigh did a research profit that surfaced to her how much the industry was focused solely on profits, and not the people they were serving. She left her company, and had a moment where she envisioned how she would change the industry, and shift the power back to the customer. Ashleigh Wilson is a self proclaimed elevator baby, being raised in the elevator industry. She grew up with an interesting mix of entrepreneurial spirit, along side blue collar influence. Outside of her current venture, she likes to reach books and is very into fashion. For books, she likes self help, spiritual type books, like Brene Brown or Glennon Doyle. At a prior company, Ashleigh did a research profit that surfaced to her how much the industry was focused solely on profits, and not the people they were serving. She left her company, and had a moment where she envisioned how she would change the industry, and shift the power back to the customer. This is the creation story of Auditmate. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://auditmate. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ashleigh-wilson-she-her-01131285/ --- > Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But.. in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner. - Published: 2022-10-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-alexandre-omeyer-stepsize/ - Tags: analyze, bugs, co-founder, code, data, Developer, todos - Podcasts: S7 Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But.. in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner. Alex Omeyer is undercover French ,despite his thick British accent. He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management, he spent most of his time doing show jumping - in other wides, riding horses to jump over obstacles. He moved over to the UK to join his brother, finish his Masters, and get cracking on what they were going to build together. Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But. . in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner. This is the creation story of Stepsize. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. stepsize. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alex-omeyer-060a0175 --- > Ruslan started his current venture in 2019, with his university friend who is a film maker. While his co-founder was stuck int the US, he dove deeper into the film making process. They noticed that the processes used in film making were not innovated... IE ripe for disruption. - Published: 2022-09-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ruslan-k-filmustage/ - Tags: cto, films, founder, movie, movies, script - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Ruslan started his current venture in 2019, with his university friend who is a film maker. While his co-founder was stuck int the US, he dove deeper into the film making process. They noticed that the processes used in film making were not innovated... IE ripe for disruption. Ruslan K has been doing software development for over 10 years. He's gone from mobile development to automation and AI most recently, working with neural networks. He is a huge horror movie fan - with his favorite being the original Thing movie - and has always been looking for an intersection of tech and movie making. He's also a musician, and is into rockabilly and psycho-billy. Ruslan started his current venture in 2019, with his university friend who is a film maker. While his co-founder was stuck int the US, he dove deeper into the film making process. They noticed that the processes used in film making were not innovated... IE ripe for disruption. This is the creation story of Filmustage. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://filmustage. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ruslan-khamidullin-136831a1/ --- > In the past, Max noticed that he was getting a ton of good content from his friends on the chat apps he used. He paired up with his co-founder to explore fixing journalism, and distribute valuable content to users... through WhatsApp. - Published: 2022-09-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-max-koziolek-spectrm/ - Tags: co-founder, converastions, direct messages, dms, founder, marketing, one on one, whatsapp - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 In the past, Max noticed that he was getting a ton of good content from his friends on the chat apps he used. He paired up with his co-founder to explore fixing journalism, and distribute valuable content to users... through WhatsApp. Max Koziolek comes from a simple background. His single mother raised he and his twin brother, outside of Berlin, with no connection to technology. When he was introduced to tech, he was really only interested as far as the games he could play. He was into sports, martial arts, and even politics, believe it or not. He studied law, and realized that as the world was changing to be wrapped around tech, he came back to the industry. Now a days, he is back into martial arts, and he notices - and supports - the trend of tech and martial arts being correlated. In the past, Max noticed that he was getting a ton of good content from his friends on the chat apps he used. He paired up with his co-founder to explore fixing journalism, and distribute valuable content to users... through WhatsApp. This is the creation story of Spectrm. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://spectrm. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/maxkoziolek/ --- > After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, Jon sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. - Published: 2022-09-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-jon-darbyshire-smartsuite/ - Tags: ceo, founder, no code, one tool, platform, process - Podcasts: S7 After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, Jon sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. Jon Darbyshire is joined at the hip with his wife, in life and in business. They have been doing business together for 22 years, along with having 2 older kids, out in the world doing their own thing. He loves to do anything outside, and claims to be at Newport beach almost every day. After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, he sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. He started to think there must be a way to have one operating system for all of these tools. This is the creation story of SmartSuite. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. smartsuite. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jondarbyshire/ --- > Andrew and his co-founders were inspired to build something around workforce management. The knew something needed to change, but wasn't sure where to start. After building solutions and pivoting, they landed on their current venture, around mental health check ins. - Published: 2022-09-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-zhou-kona-slack-mental-check-in/ - Tags: authenticity, checkin, cto, founder, mental health, slack - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 Andrew and his co-founders were inspired to build something around workforce management. The knew something needed to change, but wasn't sure where to start. After building solutions and pivoting, they landed on their current venture, around mental health check ins. Andrew Zhou grew up in the Bay Area, which he claims was a great place to grow up in. However, he noticed that it was sort of in authentic - as in, no one really did things for themselves. Eventually, he dropped out of college to build something based on authenticity. Outside of tech, he highly values authenticity, has been doing art for more than a decade, and he loves to ski and rock climb as well. In regards to art, he actually finds it challenging to be creative in an artistic way, because his creative brain is mixed with being highly analytical. Andrew and his co-founders were inspired to build something around workforce management. The knew something needed to change, but wasn't sure where to start. After building solutions and pivoting, they landed on their current venture, around mental health check ins. This is the creation story of Kona. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://heykona. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrew-zh/ --- > As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. - Published: 2022-09-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-vicki-duben-viewst/ - Tags: advertising, art work, banners, ceo, co-founder, marketing, martech, online ads, women in tech - Podcasts: S7 As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. Vicki Duben's background is actually in physics and applied mathematics. Prior to graduation, she was a professional tennis player, having played since she was 4 years old. She loves science, and though it was going to be her future - but post graduation, she joined a hedge fund while waiting to start on her PhD. She found great joy at the trading desk of the hedge fund, which is how she quit science, and eventually to venture and entrepreneurship. Outside of tech, she still plays tennis and likes to ski. Prior to her current venture, Vicki and her team had built a tool around creating rich media ads. During the peak seasons for advertisements, she noticed her team having to reject requests, due to the fact that they couldn't digest the project with their limited capacity. And, there was no tool out there to support digital display ads. This is the creation story of Viewst. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://viewst. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/victoriaduben/ --- > Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He has founded 3 tech startups, along with consulting on multiple iOT and digital transform initiatives. - Published: 2022-09-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/harperdb-update-jaxon-repp-head-of-product/ - Tags: data, database, edge, machine learning, processing, product, speed - Podcasts: S7 Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He has founded 3 tech startups, along with consulting on multiple iOT and digital transform initiatives. Today's episodeGuest: Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He has founded 3 tech startups, along with consulting on multiple iOT and digital transform initiatives. Questions:How did you get involved with HarperDB? You lead the charge on product, so what problem did you set out to solve with the product? What is the best use case for HarperDB? Wait a minute... you're claiming that HarperDB is the fastest, most connected data platform in the world. Tell me why that is? How have you built your roadmap? How are you balancing customer feedback with the future vision of the company? How far has the product come since the early days? Why are you focused on areas like Edge Computing & Machine Learning? Lastly, tell me about your upcoming 4. 0 release - what can we expect to see? SponsorsHarperDBRelated Content:https://codestory. co/podcast/bonus-kyle-bernhardy-harperdb/ --- > As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. - Published: 2022-09-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-yuliia-tkachova-masthead-data/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, data, founder, issues, no code, validation, women in tech - Podcasts: S7 As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. Yuliia Tkachova grew up in the Ukraine, but lives in Canada now. She has a family with 2 kids, and a masters in statistics. And, she acknowledges that the war with Russia has been difficult to deal with, thinking of her friends and family back home. On the lighter side, she notes that she loves Depeche Mode and Red Hot Chili Peppers, whom she has seen many times in concert. She recalls the 2010 concert in Kyiv with Depeche Mode was a moment that she cherishes. As a data product manager, Yuliia was called out, even during the early days of her job, that her customers were going to churn - due to some erroneous data downstream. After fixing this problem, she saw the landscape of data quality issues that were likely to occur with her customers, and wanted to do something about it. This is the creation story of Masthead Data. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://mastheadata. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/yuliia-tkachova/ --- > While Dan was at Google, the well known Solarwinds attack happened, illustrating the gaps and holes in the software supply chain space. Given he had experience in this space, paired with the Biden Administration's executive order to secure this space, led Dan and his co-founders to give this startup a try. - Published: 2022-09-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-lorenc-chainguard/ - Tags: ceo, ci/cd, delivery, founder, security, software, supply chain - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 While Dan was at Google, the well known Solarwinds attack happened, illustrating the gaps and holes in the software supply chain space. Given he had experience in this space, paired with the Biden Administration's executive order to secure this space, led Dan and his co-founders to give this startup a try. Dan Lorenc got into tech in a roundabout way. Most of his time in school was dedicated to the study of Mechanical Engineering, building in the world of atoms in machine shops and with 3d printers. He learned how to program through Matlab, and he got hooked. He lives in Austin, enjoys taking in the live music scene, and likes to get outdoors - when it's not 108 degrees, like it was when we did this recording. While Dan was at Google, the well known Solarwinds attack happened, illustrating the gaps and holes in the software supply chain space. Given he had experience in this space, paired with the Biden Administration's executive order to secure this space, led Dan and his co-founders to give this startup a try. This is the creation story of Chainguard. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. chainguard. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/danlorenc/ --- > During the 8 years he was an engineering leader, Luca started writing about his experiences and the things he had learned along the way. People started to love it, and his venture started to gain subscribers and traction - so much so, that he stepped out to do it full-time. - Published: 2022-09-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luca-rossi-refactoring/ - Tags: content, engineering manager, founder, leader, newsletter, substack - Podcasts: Bonus, S7 During the 8 years he was an engineering leader, Luca started writing about his experiences and the things he had learned along the way. People started to love it, and his venture started to gain subscribers and traction - so much so, that he stepped out to do it full-time. Luca Rossi is based in Italy, and has lived there his whole life. He has studied computer science, while being a part time musician. He left his PhD program to found a startup called Wanderio, and has been working in engineering leadership roles ever since. Outside of tech, he has been playing guitar his whole life, and he calls it the most serious thing he does outside of tech. During the 8 years he was an engineering leader, Luca started writing about his experiences and the things he had learned along the way. People started to love it, and his venture started to gain subscribers and traction - so much so, that he stepped out to do it full-time. This is the creation story of Refactoring. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://refactoring. fm/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lucaronin/ --- > At his last company, Josh experienced a recurring problem in spades, where account managers were spending large amounts of time with data entry of standardized forms and information. When he looked for the Twilio for PDF's, he couldn't find a tool to solve his problem. - Published: 2022-09-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-lewis-sensible/ - Tags: api, cto, documents, founder, insurance, ocr, pdf, storage, text - Podcasts: S7 At his last company, Josh experienced a recurring problem in spades, where account managers were spending large amounts of time with data entry of standardized forms and information. When he looked for the Twilio for PDF's, he couldn't find a tool to solve his problem. Josh Lewis was fascinated by computers in the late 80's / early 90's. In the early days, he was neighborhood tech support, fixing people's computers around the block. He quickly moved into programming, but he moved off from technology in college, targeting philosophy and going to grad school. In doing research with a computer science component, he was pulled back into tech and went to work in Palo Alto. Outside of tech, he's a Dad taking care of his young family. Also, he plays competitive drafts of Magic the Gathering, along with Tennis. At his last company, Josh experienced a recurring problem in spades, where account managers were spending large amounts of time with data entry of standardized forms and information. When he looked for the Twilio for PDF's, he couldn't find a tool to solve his problem. This is the creation story of Sensible. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. sensible. so/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joshlewisml/ --- > Andrew remembers a time during his career, where if he would have purchased a piece of software, he would have been fired. As the market has shifted today, there is more need for everyone to be apart of the software procurement process - but the tooling is still stuck in the wrong era. - Published: 2022-09-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-hoag-teampay/ - Tags: ceo, control, finance, founder, management, teampay - Podcasts: S7 Andrew remembers a time during his career, where if he would have purchased a piece of software, he would have been fired. As the market has shifted today, there is more need for everyone to be apart of the software procurement process - but the tooling is still stuck in the wrong era. Andrew Hoag remembers a time before he started his own company where there were other things outside the company. What keeps him sane is spending time outdoors, kite surfing, and traveling. He's a life long nerd, and building things has been his passion for as long as he can remember. Beyond that, he's also a musician - and enjoys hiding behind a drum kit or a DJ booth. Andrew remembers a time during his career, where if he would have purchased a piece of software, he would have been fired. As the market has shifted today, there is more need for everyone to be apart of the software procurement process - but the tooling is still stuck in the wrong era. This is the creation story of Teampay. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. teampay. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrewjhoag/ --- > While progressing through her career, Stephany had an idea around enhanced supplier data that she couldn’t shake. After a small maternal break to have her 3rd daughter, she stepped back into the startup ring to build a platform around dynamic supplier data. - Published: 2022-09-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-stephany-lapierre-tealbook/ - Tags: ceo, filter, founder, online, rating, suppliers, women in tech - Podcasts: S7 While progressing through her career, Stephany had an idea around enhanced supplier data that she couldn’t shake. After a small maternal break to have her 3rd daughter, she stepped back into the startup ring to build a platform around dynamic supplier data. Stephany LaPierre is originally from Quebec, so English is her second language. She was a ski instructor in Whistler, and followed up going to university studying English. She grew up with an inspirational grandmother, who was a forced entrepreneur, involved in the community, and a fantastic mother and family member. Her Mom has a similar story, and Stephany pulls a lot of influence from both of these ladies. From many years ago, she has been starting and running businesses. While progressing through her career, Stephany had an idea around enhanced supplier data that she couldn't shake. After a small maternal break to have her 3rd daughter, she stepped back into the startup ring to build a platform around dynamic supplier data. This is the creation story of Tealbook. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. tealbook. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tealbook/ --- > While working at Microsoft, post the acquisition of his prior company, he started attempting to solve a problem for himself - around storing legal documents. What he discovered was that families were struggling with an overload of information, and how to keep it readily available and organized. - Published: 2022-09-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-nat-robinson-trustworthy/ - Tags: centralized, ceo, co-founder, encrypted, family, legal, storage - Podcasts: S7 While working at Microsoft, post the acquisition of his prior company, he started attempting to solve a problem for himself - around storing legal documents. What he discovered was that families were struggling with an overload of information, and how to keep it readily available and organized. Nat Robinson is from New Zealand, and grew up there the first half of his life. He finds that growing up in a small island nation gives him a unique perspective in the world. He currently lives in San Francisco with a young family, and loves doing water sports when he is not working - including surfing, sailing, and the opposite winter sports, snowboarding and such. He likes Santa Cruz for surfing, and typically prefers inland snowboarding. While working at Microsoft, post the acquisition of his prior company, he started attempting to solve a problem for himself - around storing legal documents. What he discovered was that families were struggling with an overload of information, and how to keep it readily available and organized. This is the creation story of Trustworthy. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. trustworthy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/natrobinson/ --- > Five years ago, Dan got the idea of his current venture while he was the CTO at Expert360. During his time there, he was approached by his clients as they demanded proof of how his organization was protecting their data. He was never fully satisfied with the answers they gave the clients. He desired bridge the worlds between encrypted data, and queryable information. - Published: 2022-09-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-draper-cipherstash/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, cryptography, database, encryption, founder, query - Podcasts: S7 Five years ago, Dan got the idea of his current venture while he was the CTO at Expert360. During his time there, he was approached by his clients as they demanded proof of how his organization was protecting their data. He was never fully satisfied with the answers they gave the clients. He desired bridge the worlds between encrypted data, and queryable information. Dan Draper is from South Australia, specifically Adelaide, but his family now lives in Sydney. Interestingly, he does not drink Fosters beer (which is not surprising), and doesn't know what a blooming' onion is. Outside of tech, he has been a life long martial artist, and continues to compete in several forms today. He finds that there is overlap between coding and martial arts, as they are very technical, require a lot of solo focus, and... jokingly, you have to be ready to take a beating. Five years ago, Dan got the idea of his current venture while he was the CTO at Expert360. During his time there, he was approached by his clients as they demanded proof of how his organization was protecting their data. He was never fully satisfied with the answers they gave the clients. He desired bridge the worlds between encrypted data, and queryable information. This is the creation story of CipherStash. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://cipherstash. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ddraper/ --- > While she was learning how to code for the third time, she changed the learning method to working on an actual project. After she completed an early version of a to do list, she got great feedback from her following on Twitter. Though she didn’t plan to turn it into a business, people started following and supporting the project. - Published: 2022-08-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-marie-ng-llama-life/ - Tags: app, ceo, co-founder, founder, mental health - Podcasts: S7 While she was learning how to code for the third time, she changed the learning method to working on an actual project. After she completed an early version of a to do list, she got great feedback from her following on Twitter. Though she didn’t plan to turn it into a business, people started following and supporting the project. Marie Ng was born in Malaysia but grew up in Australia. She has lived and worked in London and New York City, so you could say she has been all over. At one point, she decided to teach herself how to code, which led her into her current venture. She has a dog named Homer, and ensures that he maintains his celebrity status on social media. While she was learning how to code for the third time, she changed the learning method to working on an actual project. After she completed an early version of a to do list, she got great feedback from her following on Twitter. Though she didn't plan to turn it into a business, people started following and supporting the project. This is the creation story of Llama Life. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://llamalife. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/marieng1/ --- > In the past, Aaron and his team noticed the gap between developers and product folks, as developers were working in Github while Product Managers were working in, and reporting on, project software. They took a step back, and decided to create something to solve this problem and match the tool to their ethos. - Published: 2022-08-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aaron-upright-zenhub/ - Tags: ceo, chrome, Developer, founder, github, integrated, product manager, unified - Podcasts: S7 In the past, Aaron and his team noticed the gap between developers and product folks, as developers were working in Github while Product Managers were working in, and reporting on, project software. They took a step back, and decided to create something to solve this problem and match the tool to their ethos. Aaron Upright used to get a ton of energy staying up late and strategizing about his startup, but now that he is 8 years in, he gets the most energy from what he does outside of work. Living outside Vancouver, he enjoys spending quality time with family & friends, and riding mountain bikes, which he finds particularly physically and mentally stimulating. In the past, Aaron and his team noticed the gap between developers and product folks, as developers were working in Github while Product Managers were working in, and reporting on, project software. They took a step back, and decided to create something to solve this problem and match the tool to their ethos. This is the creation story of Zenhub. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. zenhub. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/aaronupright/ --- > Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. - Published: 2022-08-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-arjun-bhatnagar-cloaked/ - Tags: account, ceo, co-founder, credentials, data, founder, masking, security - Podcasts: S7 Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his current business. He loves to read, write, and play tennis in his spare time, along with playing music. In fact, playing music was a large part of his life, starting out playing the trumpet. In general, he is passionate about creating, and was inspired early on by the Inkheart series of books. Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms. This is the creation story of Cloaked. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://www. cloaked. app/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arjunbhatnagar/ --- > Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. - Published: 2022-08-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-ian-small-evernote/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, ecommerce, founder, headless, no code, online, store - Podcasts: S7 Ian joined Evernote to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade on a homework assignment, bought the manual, and became an expert on the machine. Outside of tech, he likes to do home renovation. As he says it, when there is a power tool in your hand, that could potentially cut your arm off, you tend to focus on it. Ian joined Evernote in 2018, to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. This is his creation story, at Evernote. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomablLinksWebsite: https://evernote. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/iansmall/ --- > Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. - Published: 2022-08-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-7-trailer/ - Tags: 7, builders, founders, ideas, season, teams, trailer - Podcasts: S7, Trailer Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. Hello listeners. Believe it or not, Season 6 has come to a close, and tomorrow, we are kicking off yet another Season of the Code Story podcast. With 6 seasons under our belt, we've nailed down the formula for surfacing the best, human stories, from the builders themselves... like Ian Small, CEO of Evernote, and Waseem Daher, CEO of Pilot. Tune in for this Season's kickoff episode, this Tuesday, August 23rd. And, as always, thank you for listening. SponsorsAirbyteDopplerHost. ioIPInfomabl --- > One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - Published: 2022-08-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alexander-deeb-classhook-replay/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, content, education, engagement, media, self taught - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well in school on order to obtain better opportunities. Along side of that, he is interested in equitable opportunities, which is a big driver for him in his professional ventures. He is passionate about helping learn about new opportunities. He grew up in Long Island, NY - so of course, he loves pizza. He frequents the local pizza house, which in his opinion is Stellas'. He gets 2 slices of regular cheese, with a coke - which is the only time he drinks soda. One day, he and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? This is the creation story of Classhook. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. classhook. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexanderdeeb/ --- > Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. - Published: 2022-08-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-newman-pyrl-replay/ - Tags: ceo, data, enterprises, founder, history, purchase, retailers, startup, valuable, win-win - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a bakery and were Taylors. So the entrepreneur and self starter characteristics found in Adam are deeply rooted. He's married with 4 kids, and loves to spend lots of time outdoors and living vicariously through his children's sports activities. He spends a lot of time helping his wife grow her education business, and she spends a lot of time supporting and encouraging him with his ventures. Through his life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. This is the creation story of Pyrl. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://pyrl. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/newmanadam/ --- > Through their experiences, Harshil and his co-founder found that it was difficult to make a cyber security program successful. After running through the same challenges again and again, they decided to step out and build a solution to streamline security and the development process. - Published: 2022-08-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-harshil-parikh-tromzo/ - Tags: cto, developers, founder, friction, integration, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Through their experiences, Harshil and his co-founder found that it was difficult to make a cyber security program successful. After running through the same challenges again and again, they decided to step out and build a solution to streamline security and the development process. Harshil Parikh is the father of 2 daughters, as well as the father of 2 dogs. Most of the time spent outside of work is with his family, although he does love to cook, especially experimenting with pizza. Through his life, he has realized that sleep is overrated - humans can function on very little sleep... maybe not forever, but for a few weeks at a time. Through their experiences, Harshil and his co-founder found that it was difficult to make a cyber security program successful. After running through the same challenges again and again, they decided to step out and build a solution to streamline security and the development process. This is the creation story of Tromzo. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. tromzo. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/harshil/ --- > At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems. - Published: 2022-08-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-gavin-mendel-gleason-terminusdb/ - Tags: complex, cto, data product, founder, large datasets, relation, storage - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems. When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendel-Gleason likes to program for fun. He builds stuff in his spare time, as tech dominates his life. Outside of tech though, he has 2 daughters, and his family enjoys spending time outdoors, specifically in the alps. At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems. This is the creation story of TerminusDB. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://terminusdb. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/gavinmendelgleason/ --- > As a management consultant, Jennifer did a lot of work, observing the tricks and tribal knowledge contained in the workers themselves. After frequently documenting these practices, she thought there had to be a way to just capture their knowledge work instantly with a tool. - Published: 2022-08-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jennifer-smith-scribe/ - Tags: automated, ceo, click, founder, instructions, recording, walk through, women in tech, work instructions - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 As a management consultant, Jennifer did a lot of work, observing the tricks and tribal knowledge contained in the workers themselves. After frequently documenting these practices, she thought there had to be a way to just capture their knowledge work instantly with a tool. Jennifer Smith had an abnormal path to tech. She was born in upstate New York, and was not exposed to tech or startups or building companies during her early years. Post school, she interned at Lehman Brothers but didn't enjoy the feel of the money obsessed tribe. She went into management consulting for 7 years, which eventually led her into business school. Post that, she decided to stay in Silicon Valley and eventually went into Venture. Outside of tech, she just recently had a baby and is in the throws of early parenting. As a management consultant, Jennifer did a lot of work, observing the tricks and tribal knowledge contained in the workers themselves. After frequently documenting these practices, she thought there had to be a way to just capture their knowledge work instantly with a tool. This is the creation story of Scribe. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://scribehow. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jenniferreneesmith/ --- > Liam and his brother were merchants, building their own eCommerce store around 5-6 years ago. From that perspective, they saw very early on that there was a movement towards a headless platform. They weren't developers at the time, which most merchants aren't, and they struggled - and felt there must be a better way. - Published: 2022-08-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-liam-gerada-krepling/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, ecommerce, founder, headless, no code, online, store - Podcasts: S6 Liam and his brother were merchants, building their own eCommerce store around 5-6 years ago. From that perspective, they saw very early on that there was a movement towards a headless platform. They weren't developers at the time, which most merchants aren't, and they struggled - and felt there must be a better way. Liam Gerada comes from an eCommerce background, building websites, stores, etc. He is passionate about providing people ways to find cheaper products through online commerce. Liam loves to solve problems, and finds it is hard to find a replacement hobby, now that his hobby has become his full time gig. He and his brother have worked together for years, as they do now on their current venture. They grew up in Malta, which is an amazing gem in the Mediterranean. Liam and his brother were merchants, building their own eCommerce store around 5-6 years ago. From that perspective, they saw very early on that there was a movement towards a headless platform. They weren't developers at the time, which most merchants aren't, and they struggled - and felt there must be a better way. This is the creation story of Krepling. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. krepling. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/liam-j-e-gerada-28043a122/ --- > Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Microsoft employees at different stages in their career. One seasoned veteran at the company, and one up-and-coming engineer, who share how Microsoft has expanded their career horizons and provided many different opportunities for growth and experience. - Published: 2022-08-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/microsoft-careers-with-girish-junior/ - Tags: careers, Developer, microsoft, opportunity - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Microsoft employees at different stages in their career. One seasoned veteran at the company, and one up-and-coming engineer, who share how Microsoft has expanded their career horizons and provided many different opportunities for growth and experience. Today's episode is sponsored by Microsoft! Guests: Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Microsoft employees at different stages in their career. One seasoned veteran at the company, and one up-and-coming engineer, who share how Microsoft has expanded their career horizons and provided many different opportunities for growth and experience. Questions:Junior, how long have you been working at Microsoft? How did you find out about the opportunity? What were your expectations coming out of school, regarding projects you would work on? What are you actually working on today? Are you already working with customers to solve real world problems? Girish, you've been a Microsoft for quite some time - but how did things start for you? You are overseeing teams across Computer, Networking and Storage - but have you always been in this group? What other groups did you work in? Was it hard to switch, or did you receive push back? Both of you - how has Microsoft's opportunities opened your career horizons? What have you learned that you didn't know about prior to joining the company? What is the future for you at MS? What would you say to someone considering joining the team? --- > The makers of Apache Pulsar, an open source project, decided to build a cloud-native event streaming platform. Early on in the venture, Addison joined his team as a Chief Architect, in order to enable enterprises to easily access data as real-time event streams. - Published: 2022-08-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-addison-higham-streamnative/ - Tags: apache, architect, data, open source, pulsar, stream - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 The makers of Apache Pulsar, an open source project, decided to build a cloud-native event streaming platform. Early on in the venture, Addison joined his team as a Chief Architect, in order to enable enterprises to easily access data as real-time event streams. Addison Higham is a father of 2 kids, and has been married for 12 years. His family is of the utmost importance to him, and he has been happy to be able to balance his career and personal life along his journey. As he puts it - he has been a nerd since day 1, building, fixing and playing with computers from a young age. Along with his CS interests, his family was very entrepreneurial growing up. During schooling, he joined some startups to learn the ropes of building solutions. Outside of tech, he loves to ski and be outdoors. The makers of Apache Pulsar, an open source project, decided to build a cloud-native event streaming platform. Early on in the venture, Addison joined his team as a Chief Architect, in order to enable enterprises to easily access data as real-time event streams. This is the creation story of StreamNative. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://streamnative. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/addisonj/ --- > Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool. - Published: 2022-08-03 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-graham-morby-sr-software-engineer/ - Tags: Developer, learning, senior, skill building, skills, Tutelage of Treehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool. Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool. Questions:Tell me more about the book you are working on. How did you get into programming? You've been into computers for a long time, but at some point you stepped into programming - tell me about that journey. Now that we know how you got started, tell me about your journey within development. How do you sift through the myriad of content out there and staying sharp in your field? You mentioned that you found Treehouse, you liked it and you stayed - tell me more about that. What is your perspective on how the coding/tech careers really are? Linkshttps://teamtreehouse. com/ --- > Irina and her co-founder led teams at Monzo, specifically in operations. What they noticed was the proliferation of chat tools for customer service - but, that telephony was largely ignored. Once they validated the problem, they set out to build a product in this space. - Published: 2022-08-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-irina-bednova-cordless/ - Tags: chat, co-founder, cto, customer support, integrated, phone, service, telephony, women in tech - Podcasts: S6 Irina and her co-founder led teams at Monzo, specifically in operations. What they noticed was the proliferation of chat tools for customer service - but, that telephony was largely ignored. Once they validated the problem, they set out to build a product in this space. Irina Bednova started programming when she was a kid, starting out with a smash the cockroach game written in Delphi (which is object oriented pascal). She obtained her Computer Science degree in Russia, and moved to the UK to work in a few startups, including Monzo a popular fintech product. Outside of tech, she cycles her hobbies from time to time, and has landed on gardening at the moment, along with interior design. She's mentioned she is going back to woodworking when the weather changes. Irina and her co-founder led teams at Monzo, specifically in operations. What they noticed was the proliferation of chat tools for customer service - but, that telephony was largely ignored. Once they validated the problem, they set out to build a product in this space. This is the creation story of Cordless. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://cordless. systems/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jafrog/ --- > Twelve years ago, Andre had the amazing idea to create a unique identity for end users, based on their location data. The market wasn't in need of this solution at the time, but after academically exploring the solution, they recognized that GPS alone would not be enough. - Published: 2022-07-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andre-ferraz-incognia/ - Tags: authentication, co-founder, founder, fraud, location data, privacy, private - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Twelve years ago, Andre had the amazing idea to create a unique identity for end users, based on their location data. The market wasn't in need of this solution at the time, but after academically exploring the solution, they recognized that GPS alone would not be enough. Andre Ferraz was influenced heavily by his parents, as they were both computer scientists. When he was 10 years old, his first science project was themed around computer hacking, which got a lot of surprise at the science fair. Outside of tech, he enjoys to surf on a short board several times a week and spends time with his family. Twelve years ago, Andre had the amazing idea to create a unique identity for end users, based on their location data. The market wasn't in need of this solution at the time, but after academically exploring the solution, they recognized that GPS alone would not be enough. This is the creation story of Icognia. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. incognia. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andreferraz/ --- > As he started validating a new idea, Robert visited a number of top tier banks and looked for consistency in the problem they were facing. He found a starting point to build out a data platform, to enable his three pillars of data delivery. - Published: 2022-07-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-robert-cooke-3forge/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, data, delivery, development, enterprise, pillars, rapid - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 As he started validating a new idea, Robert visited a number of top tier banks and looked for consistency in the problem they were facing. He found a starting point to build out a data platform, to enable his three pillars of data delivery. Ever since he was a little kid, Robert Cooke always had a fascination with computers. Even when he was super young, when he didn't know much about them, he was still intrigued by this magic box. At the same time, he loved legos - but found it very expensive to expand his lego set. To contrast that, he could build as big as he wanted within a computer - and he was hooked. He built video games, explored databases, and even an accounting system in his teens. As he started validating a new idea, Robert visited a number of top tier banks and looked for consistency in the problem they were facing. He found a starting point to build out a data platform, to enable his three pillars of data delivery. This is the creation story of 3Forge. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. 3forge. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/robert-cooke-a7835b69/ --- > Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been helping young people thrive for a number of years, in many different facets, and has started a number of businesses. - Published: 2022-07-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-daniel-mcelroy-wv-coding-club/ - Tags: club, coding, founder, teacher, Tutelage of Treehouse, youth - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been helping young people thrive for a number of years, in many different facets, and has started a number of businesses. Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been helping young people thrive for a number of years, in many different facets, and has started a number of businesses. Questions:What is the West Virgina Coding Club? In supporting the kids learning how to code, what sort of tooling do you use to help them thrive in learning? What makes Treehouse stand out from the other solutions out there? What sort of feedback have you gotten from your members about Treehouse? What does the future look like for, for the WV Coding Club / Treehouse partnership? Linkshttps://teamtreehouse. com/https://wvcoding. org/ --- > In 2015, Tyson started another company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud. - Published: 2022-07-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-tyson-kunosvsky-autocloud/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, co-founder, enterprise, founder, infrastructure, migration, terraform - Podcasts: S6 In 2015, Tyson started another company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud. Tyson Kunosvsky was born in South Africa, and travelled a lot as a kid. When he was a kid, he was majorly influenced by his parents, who ran the Gottman Institute. It was his parents job to take the content that the Gottmans created, and deliver their research to the world, and Tyson helped them do that by building the first version of their learning management system. Outside of tech, he loves to ride motorcycles and do rock climbing. In 2015, Tyson started a company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud. This is the creation story of Autocloud. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. autocloud. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tkunovsky/ --- > The founders of Saksham's current venture started out building an estimator for what it would take to build an app. This estimator became very popular, and they figured they should build a platform to enable others to make their own. - Published: 2022-07-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-saksham-sharda-outgrow/ - Tags: cio, founder, interactive, marketing content, martech, no code - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 The founders of Saksham's current venture started out building an estimator for what it would take to build an app. This estimator became very popular, and they figured they should build a platform to enable others to make their own. Saksham Sharda likes to make short films, or anything that is related to videos. In fact, he has narrowed that down to creating trailers, which he attributes to being in the right role in marketing. He's always active in making social media clips, and is always recording everything (even the most boring moments, in his words). The founders of Saksham's current venture started out building an estimator for what it would take to build an app. This estimator became very popular, and they figured they should build a platform to enable others to make their own. This is the creation story of Outgrow. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://outgrow. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/saksham-sharda-outgrowco/ --- > In 2011, Mike & his co-founder has witnessed the proliferation of bootcamps for practical entry and exposure to the tech industry. Given their own backgrounds in struggling to plug into the music and startup scenes, they though they could replicate this type of model and help people be discovered. - Published: 2022-07-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mike-cruz-protege/ - Tags: artist, co-founder, cto, discovery, founder, independent, music, producer - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In 2011, Mike & his co-founder has witnessed the proliferation of bootcamps for practical entry and exposure to the tech industry. Given their own backgrounds in struggling to plug into the music and startup scenes, they though they could replicate this type of model and help people be discovered. Mike Cruz grew up in Guam, near Japan. He spent 18 years before moving to the US for college. He has always been in tech - everywhere from the Discovery Channel to startups like Trunk Club, and always in building tech products. He has a young family with 2 boys, and his oldest is getting into programming from the lens of gaming. He reflects on how far games have come these days, as they were much simpler and easier to code in the past. In 2011, Mike & his co-founder has witnessed the proliferation of bootcamps for practical entry and exposure to the tech industry. Given their own backgrounds in struggling to plug into the music and startup scenes, they though they could replicate this type of model and help people be discovered. This is the creation story of Protégé. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. protege. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mdcruz/ --- > Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. - Published: 2022-07-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-dustin-usey-treehouse/ - Tags: coding, evangelist, learning, oil and gas, online, tech degree, Tutelage of Treehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Dustin Usey is a Treehouse graduate and a full time technical evangelist for Treehouse. He has pursued numerous tech degrees, after switching careers from the Oil & Gas field into technology. Questions:How did you come across Treehouse? What attracted you to it? What skills did you have professionally that helped you learn faster? How many programs did you complete on Treehouse? What was your goal? Tell me the story about how you got your job with Treehouse. What do you do for them? Linkshttps://teamtreehouse. com/ --- > Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives. - Published: 2022-07-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-gina-bianchini-mighty-networks-community/ - Tags: ceo, community, forums, founder, network, online, women in tech - Podcasts: S6 Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives. Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people were tinkerers and creators. What she learned from that experience was a deep appreciation for the interests and passions of people. When the early days of social tech happened, she fell in love with how they worked - specially around creating communities. Outside of tech, she played field hockey at Stanford and a solid career. Fun fact, you can't cross check in field hockey, which was news to me. Now a days, she loves to hike, read, and hangout with her friends, family and her husband. Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives. This is the creation story of Mighty Networks. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. mightynetworks. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ginabianchini/ --- > Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken… and they wanted to fix it. - Published: 2022-07-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-omer-rosenbaum-swimm/ - Tags: api, apis, co-founder, cto, developers, documentation, engineers - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken… and they wanted to fix it. Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel. He loves coffee, traveling, meeting new people, and learning languages (not just coding languages). In High School, he took an after school Pascal class - and he loved it. And around that time, he installed a virus on his computer, and established a new hobby for him - virus removal. As military service is obligatory, he spent several years in the Israeli military and learned a ton. Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken... and they wanted to fix it. This is the creation story of Swimm. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://swimm. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/omer-rosenbaum-034a08b9 --- > In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion – taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO’s, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies. - Published: 2022-07-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andreas-creten-made-with-love/ - Tags: agency, builder, ceo, co-founder, outsource, product, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion – taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO’s, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies. Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he was 18 years old. He is a family man, with 3 kids, which is what he spends most of his spare time. He likes to do carpentry as well, and he recently built a cabin in his garden, for him to work remotely. His bucket list item is to built a truly remote cabin in the forest someday. In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion - taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO's, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies. This is the creation story of madewithlove. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://madewithlove. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andreascreten --- > Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. - Published: 2022-07-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-cynthia-kao-operation-code/ - Tags: coding, learning, military, military service, post service, Tutelage of Treehouse, veteran, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military. Questions:What is Operation Code? In supporting our service members and spouses, what sort of tooling do you use to help them thrive in learning? What makes Treehouse stand out from the other solutions? What sort of feedback have you gotten from your members about Treehouse? What does the future look like for the organization, and for your partnership with Treehouse? Linkshttps://teamtreehouse. com/https://operationcode. org/ --- > Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar. - Published: 2022-07-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-aria-hahn-pocketed/ - Tags: application, ceo, filtering, founder, grants, money, search - Podcasts: S6 Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar. Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneurial train, though at times she says she may not have known it. She started out studying business - but hated it. She eventually went into grad school (cause she wasn't ready to work full time). By the end of grad school and a small stint in teaching, she pursued her PhD in Genomix. When she observed the folks in the dry lab pasting thousands of lines of code, she was intrigued by computer science. Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar. This is the creation story of Pocketed. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://hellopocketed. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ariahahn/ --- > Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality. - Published: 2022-07-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-chakri-devarakonda-tavant/ - Tags: bdd, director, process, qa, tdd, test driven development, testing - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality. Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security guy. That being said, he can definitely see the intersection of both. Where he used to test a lot of security devices and labs, he has shifted into the quality side of things and ensuring things work properly. He is a family oriented guy, with 2 boys nearing the end of grade school. Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality. This is his creation story at Tavant. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. tavant. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/chakridevarakonda/ --- > Ben was apart of a company called Network Solutions, and when they started that company, there wasn't the concept of a payment gateway. To make a solution work, you had many technical hurdles that existed. Two years ago, Ben started looking into how you solve this problem. - Published: 2022-07-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ben-turner-verituity/ - Tags: ach, ceo, fintech, founder, identity, payments, rtp, seamless, verification - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Ben was apart of a company called Network Solutions, and when they started that company, there wasn't the concept of a payment gateway. To make a solution work, you had many technical hurdles that existed. Two years ago, Ben started looking into how you solve this problem. Ben Turner's grandfathers were both an entrepreneur. One grandfather went to Cornell, but ended up buying a fishing boat and then eventually, a hardware store. His other grandfather started a grain elevator after WWII, followed by going into real estate. He learned to be blind to risk, which is important in starting something new. Outside of tech, he likes to do outdoor activities, like kayaking, mountain biking and trail running. Ben was apart of a company called Network Solutions, and when they started that company, there wasn't the concept of a payment gateway. To make a solution work, you had many technical hurdles that existed. Two years ago, Ben started looking into how you solve this problem. This is the creation story of Verituity. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://verituity. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/turnerb/ --- > Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. Formerly, he was a principal at Xenon, along with a startup advisor. He has spend many years as an engineer, consultant, and conference leader, along with making significant content contributions to prominent tech sites and writing several books on programming. - Published: 2022-07-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/tutelage-of-treehouse-jason-gilmore-treehouse/ - Tags: author, ceo, consulting, leader, learning, online, principal, Tutelage of Treehouse, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. Formerly, he was a principal at Xenon, along with a startup advisor. He has spend many years as an engineer, consultant, and conference leader, along with making significant content contributions to prominent tech sites and writing several books on programming. Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse! Guest: Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. He is also a principal at Xenon Partners, along with a startup advisor. He has spend many years as an engineer, consultant, and conference leader, along with making significant content contributions to prominent tech sites and writing several books on programming. Questions:How to you come to land in this position with Treehouse? What are the future plans for Treehouse? What's the strategy? How many people do you hire who have graduated from your program? Why would someone choose Treehouse over other online training providers? Linkshttps://teamtreehouse. com/ --- > When a friend asked Tom a question about webhooks, he dug deeper into the problem and realized that for her solution, she just wanted an easy way to send hooks from her service. After she agreed to pay him to build it, along with several others, he found the validation to step into building a platform. - Published: 2022-07-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-tom-hacohen-svix-enterprise-webhooks-service/ - Tags: api, async, ceo, communication, enterprise, founder, webhooks - Podcasts: S6 When a friend asked Tom a question about webhooks, he dug deeper into the problem and realized that for her solution, she just wanted an easy way to send hooks from her service. After she agreed to pay him to build it, along with several others, he found the validation to step into building a platform. For Tom Hacohen, coding started when he was 9 years old. He took after school robotics classes which required coding... and once he stepped into the programming aspect, he realized he didn't really care about robots anymore. Outside of tech, he surfs, cycles, and longboards - when the conditions are right. When asked where he likes to longboard, he prefers the roads on a sunny day for long distance long boarding in Tel Aviv. When a friend asked Tom a question about webhooks, he dug deeper into the problem and realized that for her solution, she just wanted an easy way to send hooks from her service. After she agreed to pay him to build it, along with several others, he found the validation to step into building a platform. This is the creation story of Svix. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. svix. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tomhacohen/ --- > Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO – and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions. - Published: 2022-07-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mark-porter-mongodb/ - Tags: board, cto, database, Developer, infrastructure, mongo, techie - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO – and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions. Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey for him. He got his first 4k computer in middle school, and then moved into doing programming for the Department of Education. His big learning from this was that you can use tech to do social good. He's married with 5 kids, and as he puts it, they put up with his deep tech obsession. Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO - and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions. This is Mark's story with MongoDB. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. mongodb. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/marklovestech/ --- > In her words, the way she started her current venture is kind of unusual. Formerly a backend engineer, she got restless and figured she was as intelligent as other founders she was observing. Through an accelerator, she met her co-founder and built learning models to illustrate how pedestrians act in traffic. - Published: 2022-06-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-maria-meier-phantasma-labs/ - Tags: ai, automated, co-founder, cto, founder, model, pedestrian, simulation, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In her words, the way she started her current venture is kind of unusual. Formerly a backend engineer, she got restless and figured she was as intelligent as other founders she was observing. Through an accelerator, she met her co-founder and built learning models to illustrate how pedestrians act in traffic. Maria Meieir grew up bilingual, as her Mom was from Poland and her Dad was from Germany. In her free time, she participates Olympic weight lifting (which she clarified does not mean she participates in the olympics). The difference with Olympic weight lifting is in how you do the actual lifts. She finds this is a great way to blow off steam. Outside of this, she is a bit of a foodie and loves to travel and try different restaurants. In her words, the way she started her current venture is kind of unusual. Formerly a backend engineer, she got restless and figured she was as intelligent as other founders she was observing. Through an accelerator, she met her co-founder and built learning models to illustrate how pedestrians act in traffic. This is the creation story of Phantasma Labs. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. phantasma. global/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mariameier --- > Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. She is a startup founder, and has been involved with big names like Drip, Thinkful, Bed Bath & Beyond and more. She is also the host of the Conversational Commerce podcast. - Published: 2022-06-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-stephanie-griffith-marketing-expert/ - Tags: consultant, email, marketing, notifications, notifications north star, sms, strategy, ui ux - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. She is a startup founder, and has been involved with big names like Drip, Thinkful, Bed Bath & Beyond and more. She is also the host of the Conversational Commerce podcast. Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. She is a startup founder, and has been involved with big names like Drip, Thinkful, Bath & Body Works and more. She is also the host of the Conversational Commerce podcast. Questions: What is the primary goal for someone in your role, which you mention required you to be sending millions of emails a day? So there was a viral HackerNews thread recently, titled "I only like the important notifications, not promotional ones. " What does this mean to someone who advises to send promotional messaging for a living? Should we stop sending promotional messages? In the world of messaging, what would the perfect world look like? Do we need to go to detailed preferences for all? As applications evolve and become more complex, notifications become a secondary UX layer that often lives on users devices. How do we keep users from opting out of this critical user experience? What impresses you about Courier, and how they are approaching notifications as a UX layer? Links https://www. courier. com/ https://twitter. com/QueenDTC https://podcasts. apple. com/us/podcast/conversational-commerce/id1606214549 --- > In 2015, Matt joined his current venture as the VP of Engineering. At the time he was hired, the company was trying to press into the enterprise space, and in order to do that, the company needed some organization and some process put into place. - Published: 2022-06-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-matt-young-uservoice/ - Tags: ceo, enterprise, feedback, management, process, product, product management, vp of engineering - Podcasts: S6 In 2015, Matt joined his current venture as the VP of Engineering. At the time he was hired, the company was trying to press into the enterprise space, and in order to do that, the company needed some organization and some process put into place. Matt Young claims to have been born with a tech spoon in his mouth, having his Dad work for IBM and providing early access to computers. In the 80's, he was interested in music and video games, which carried on through the rest of his life. He is very interested in the intersection of tech and how it can improve real life. Fun fact about Matt. . he loves pinball! He restores and works on the machines themselves, which combines everything he loves. Some other fun facts are that Matt was (and still is) a club DJ, and he loves to travel to ride roller coasters. In 2015, Matt joined his current venture as the VP of Engineering. At the time he was hired, the company was trying to press into the enterprise space, and in order to do that, the company needed some organization and some process put into place. This is Matt's creation story of UserVoice. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://uservoice. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattcyoung/ --- > With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. - Published: 2022-06-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tyler-rohrer-remotely/ - Tags: azure, ceo, founder, hybrid, monitor, remote, workers - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. In his words, Tyler Rohrer is best described through his spirit animal, Curious George. He likes to write and try new things. He has 3 grown children, one who is getting married. He has found that his expectations of his kids were actually met, which was welcome and surprising to them. He enjoys golf, and used to do Rally Racing, though he claims he wasn't very good at it. He had more fun building the engines, and less fun crashing the cars. With the onslaught of the pandemic and the rise of remote work, Tyler reached out to a former customer to run an idea by them. His idea was around a cloud platform to support remote users. The blunt feedback from the customer was that the idea was terrible... if the users couldn't be secured. This is the creation story of Remotely. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. remotelyrmm. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jtylerrohrer/ --- > Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule. He and his boys live half an hour from the forest, so - Published: 2022-06-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-salvadore-coinrule-cryto-trading-automated/ - Tags: blockchain, crypto, cto, ifttt, rules, trading, zapier - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule. He and his boys live half an hour from the forest, so they spent lots of time there, swimming, and jumping in muddy puddles when possible. He enjoys sports, nutrition, and personal optimization. Though he tends to lean towards reading about self improvement, he had drifted into educating himself on startups, crypto, and trading (which is important for his current venture). Andrew's founders began to realize the impact of the fact that the crypto market is a 24/7 market, and most days, they would wake up in the morning and wish they wouldn't have been asleep when crypto events occurred. They wanted to build something to do it for them - and Andrew was recruited to move the company and the product forward. This is the creation story of Coinrule. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://coinrule. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/asalvadore/ --- > Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4. - Published: 2022-06-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-troy-goode-courier/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, collaboration, communication, founder, messages, notifications north star, y combinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4. Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4. Questions:Tell me about the recent fundraise with Google Ventures. Considering the success of Courier, it seems like you are in a place where you can choose your investors. Why Google Ventures? Enhanced mobile functionality is a new focus - what is planned on the roadmap? Earlier we talked to Eric from Lattice, who mentioned notifications support 50% of their engagement. We spoke with Pat at Matrix who mentioned you being a significant piece of layer 2 infrastructure. And, we spoke to Vatasha, one of your Sr. Engineers, who spoke of how empowering the app was to use as a customer. Keep the movie playing forward - where do you see this going? How are you educating your customers on treating your notifications as a part of your user experience? Linkshttps://www. courier. com/ --- > When COVID hit the world, and the topic of global mobility was pushed into view. Franzi, along with her co-founders, used to live abroad, and experienced the lack of support when moving to a new area and settling in. They wanted to come up with a solution to help people during this relocation process. - Published: 2022-06-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-franzi-low-localyze/ - Tags: co-founder, covid, cto, hiring, introduction, remote, team, women in tech - Podcasts: S6 When COVID hit the world, and the topic of global mobility was pushed into view. Franzi, along with her co-founders, used to live abroad, and experienced the lack of support when moving to a new area and settling in. They wanted to come up with a solution to help people during this relocation process. Franzi Low doesn't have the usual CTO path. She studied economics, and was doing her PhD in econometrics, prior to her current venture, and was a teaching assistant. She loves to play sports, and can't go a day without playing some sort of sport. She is passionate about triathlons, which is something she can do with her recently injured knees. Living in Hamburg, Germany, she and her husband always enjoy hiking and being outside. When COVID hit the world, and the topic of global mobility was pushed into view. Franzi, along with her co-founders, used to live abroad, and experienced the lack of support when moving to a new area and settling in. They wanted to come up with a solution to help people during this relocation process. This is the creation story of Localyze. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. localyzeapp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/franzi-l%C3%B6w-80b8b562/ --- > Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community. - Published: 2022-06-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaunak-roy-yellowdig/ - Tags: ceo, community, daily, founder, learning, program, social - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community. Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering and eventually came to the states for his masters. Outside of running a company, he has 2 daughters and enjoys playing games and observing their patterns of learning, which applies to his current venture. Throughout his life, Shaunak has always been fascinated by learning. When looking into building his own startup, he noticed that there wasn't a learning platform built around the mechanics of social media, and community. This is the creation story of Yellowdig. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. yellowdig. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shaunak-roy-65231b/ --- > Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previoulsy, she built software at Lacework, LaunchDarkly and GE Digital. She is a graduate of Smith College in 2015. - Published: 2022-06-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-vatasha-white-courier-engineer/ - Tags: builder, data, engineer, notifications north star, retention, rules, templates, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previoulsy, she built software at Lacework, LaunchDarkly and GE Digital. She is a graduate of Smith College in 2015. Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previously, she built software at Lacework, LaunchDarkly and GE Digital. She is a graduate of Smith College in 2015. Questions:Having been a prior customer of Courier, what excited you about the solution? What is your favorite use case for the tool? So now that you work at Courier... what impact do they have that really motivates you? What are you working on now, that really excites you about the product? Linkshttps://www. courier. com/ --- > While building a platform surrounding HVAC software, Matt and his team ran into some challenges around the diversity of their implementations. When they lifted & shifted to Kubernetes, they unlocked the problem around resource scaling that their current solution targets today. - Published: 2022-06-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-matt-provo-stormforge/ - Tags: automated, ceo, founder, kubernetes, management, optimized, resource - Podcasts: S6 While building a platform surrounding HVAC software, Matt and his team ran into some challenges around the diversity of their implementations. When they lifted & shifted to Kubernetes, they unlocked the problem around resource scaling that their current solution targets today. Matt Provo has been married for 16 years and has three kids. So between the Provo household and his startup, there is never a dull moment. He is originally from the West Coast, until he came to Boston for grad school. He was influenced through his love of sports, specifically playing soccer through college. Early in life, he had the opportunity to help start a non-profit organization, based around documentary films of children in Africa. In doing so, he learned a lot about, and fell in love with, building a healthy, impactful organization. While building a platform surrounding HVAC software, Matt and his team ran into some challenges around the diversity of their implementations. When they lifted & shifted to Kubernetes, they unlocked the problem around resource scaling that their current solution targets today. This is the creation story of StormForge. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. stormforge. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mprovo/ --- > Temilola and her co-founder set out to create tools to not only make the immigration process easier, but to provide immigrants with the tools and people to support them through the process. - Published: 2022-06-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-temilola-adebayo-humansquad/ - Tags: co-founder, consultants, cto, immigration, regulation, tooling, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Temilola and her co-founder set out to create tools to not only make the immigration process easier, but to provide immigrants with the tools and people to support them through the process. Temilola Adebayo is in tech, but her background is in film production. She grew up most other life in Nigeria, but then moved to Canada. She has been producing films for 10 years, and still does. She takes large influence from her family, who happen to all be entrepreneurs. Beyond professional things, she has a 2 year old son who keeps her on her toes, and she enjoys watching films and traveling with her spouse. Temilola and her co-founder set out to create tools to not only make the immigration process easier, but to provide immigrants with the tools and people to support them through the process. This is the creation story of HumanSquad. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://humansquad. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/temilolaadebayo/ --- > Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email. - Published: 2022-06-09 - Modified: 2025-03-17 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-christine-spang-nylas/ - Tags: api, co-founder, communication, cto, email, messages, mit, omnichannel, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email. According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate New York when she was 3, and grew up there. She came from a family of engineers and entrepreneurs. After getting into an RPG game based on Lord of the Rings, she had to learn to code, run linux, and fell in love with software. In High School, she was a band geek, and was super into fantasy reading. These days she tends to focus more on hobbies that get her out and moving in the world, specifically rock climbing and plants. Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email. This is the creation story of Nylas. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. nylas. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/christinespang/ --- > Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investment firm. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Twilio, leading product and launching messaging. He also spent 4 years at Microsoft, managing the MS Project program. - Published: 2022-06-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-patrick-malatack-matrix-partners/ - Tags: early stage, investor, notifications north star, twilio, vc, venture, venture capital - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investment firm. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Twilio, leading product and launching messaging. He also spent 4 years at Microsoft, managing the MS Project program. Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investment firm. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Twilio, leading product and launching messaging. He also spent 4 years at Microsoft, managing the MS Project program. Questions:What things did you build, or attempt to build, at Twilio around the messaging problem? Why does notifications as infrastructure make sense? Tell about your perspective on Notifications being a layer of user experience. What did you see in Troy based on your experiences, to indicate he gets it? How strongly do you advise your portfolio companies to use a solution like Courier? Linkshttps://matrixpartners. com/https://www. courier. com/ --- > Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, - Published: 2022-06-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-douwe-maan-meltano/ - Podcasts: S6 Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, outside of Amsterdam. How he recharges outside of technology is traveling to new places. Prior to his current venture, he joined, as employee number 10, for Gitlab. The company is the largest all remote company, which allowed for him to be a digital nomad, which roundabout, led him to meet his wife, get married, and live in Mexico City. Since 2018, there was a team inside of Gitlab working on a project to bring the same principles and methodologies from software development, into designing and maintaining data architecture. By that time, Douwe was craving the early stage startup feel. Through some changes in Gitlab, he was tasked to lead the team of reviving the project, which eventually led to it becoming its own thing. This is the creation story of Meltano. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://meltano. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/douwem/https://douwe. me/ --- > While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served as the catalyst for him to pursue building the product that he wished he could have bought while dev'ing this project. - Published: 2022-06-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jon-dahl-mux-video-api-stream-real-time/ - Tags: api, co-founder, cto, founder, on demand, streaming, transcoding, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served as the catalyst for him to pursue building the product that he wished he could have bought while dev'ing this project. Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia, but he quickly figured out that he needed to make money as well. So he started a dev shop and taught himself to code. He is married with 2 kids in their teens, and a 21 year old cat who believe or not... is not playful. They like to read and travel, and watch shows together. While he was running his dev shop, Jon took on a project that required him to build a video transcoder. Although this was a hard problem to solve, he learned a lot and this served as the catalyst for him to pursue building the product that he wished he could have bought while dev'ing this project. This is the creation story of Mux. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. mux. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/zencoder/ --- > Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prior to Lattice, he spent time engineering at TeeSpring, and now he is building a new venture called VStream. - Published: 2022-06-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/notifications-north-star-eric-koslow-lattice/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, founder, hr, notifications north star, saas - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier. Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prior to Lattice, he spent time engineering at TeeSpring, and now he is building a new venture called VStream. Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prior to Lattice, he spent time engineering at TeeSpring, and now he is building a new venture called VStream. Questions:What impact does user communication have in the HR SaaS space? What infrastructure issues arose that caused you to look for a notification infrastructure vendor at Lattice? Tell me about your new venture Vstream, and how important will your communication strategy be? Have you experienced particular preferences from your user base, as far as how and when they are notified? How does Courier fit into your overall messaging strategy? Linkshttps://lattice. com/https://www. courier. com/ --- > Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC. - Published: 2022-05-31 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-izzy-azeri-mabl-test-automation-saas/ - Tags: automation, cto, intelligent, startup, Tech, testing - Podcasts: S6 Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC. Izzy Azeri has been in the tech industry for 20 years, starting out at places like EMC and VMWare. He's married with three kids, living in Franklin, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. He loves soccer and CrossFit, which helps him destress from his tech work. The family has a place in Maine, where they can be outside, swim, etc. - whatever they can do to keep active and stay healthy. Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC. This is the creation story of Mabl. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. mabl. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/izzyazeri/ --- > George has been in the health tech space for some time. When he started working on a pace maker, he interviewed surgeons who were working on patient with metabolic illnesses. Seeing these illnesses, which are lifestyle driven, was very formative for his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle. - Published: 2022-05-26 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-george-georgallides-basis-health/ - Tags: automation, ceo, founder, health, lifestyle, mobile - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 George has been in the health tech space for some time. When he started working on a pace maker, he interviewed surgeons who were working on patient with metabolic illnesses. Seeing these illnesses, which are lifestyle driven, was very formative for his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle. George Georgallides is originally from a small island in Europe called Cypress. He grew up there, joined the army, and competed in Track & Field and Triatholons. He came to Los Angeles in 2005 for his studies, and has been stateside ever since. He is a passionate polymath, speaking quite a few languages, and regularly takes on new challenges. In learning these languages, he finds that he is able to breakdown barriers in connecting with people. George has been in the health tech space for some time. When he started working on a pace maker, he interviewed surgeons who were working on patient with metabolic illnesses. Seeing these illnesses, which are lifestyle driven, was very formative for his mission to automate a healthy lifestyle. This is the creation story of Basis Health. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. basishealth. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/george-georgallides/ --- > In his prior profession as a lawyer, Savarth thoroughly understood how contracts were done. He also noticed how little tech adoption was present, which directly impacted the effectiveness of contract management in general. He figured it was only a matter of time before this industry - his industry, was disrupted by tech. - Published: 2022-05-25 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-savarth-misra-contractpodai/ - Tags: ceo, contract, disruption, founder, lawyer, lifecycle - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In his prior profession as a lawyer, Savarth thoroughly understood how contracts were done. He also noticed how little tech adoption was present, which directly impacted the effectiveness of contract management in general. He figured it was only a matter of time before this industry - his industry, was disrupted by tech. Savarth Misra didn't start out in tech. In fact, he was a lawyer, working as a corporate commercial lawyer in Asia and the UK. During this time, he noticed how little tech adoption was being done, and how much opportunity was available for solutions to make an impact. He is married, with 2 girls - who, in his words, keep him out of mischief. One of his daughters is totally extroverted, and coming from two introverted parents, they are still trying to figure out where she got it from. In his prior profession as a lawyer, Savarth thoroughly understood how contracts were done. He also noticed how little tech adoption was present, which directly impacted the effectiveness of contract management in general. He figured it was only a matter of time before this industry - his industry, was disrupted by tech. This is the creation story of ContractPodAI. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://contractpodai. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sarvarth-misra-69869953/ --- > After selling his prior company, which was heavy in the broadcast media space, Kirk ended up at General Motors. He started to learn about media data, and the value of getting the media data into computer vision algorithms. Five years later, he realized that no one had created a platform to do this yet... and he got started building it, on nights and weekends, first for podcast discovery. - Published: 2022-05-24 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-kirk-marple-unstruk-data/ - Tags: ceo, data, founder, pipeline, unstructured - Podcasts: S6 After selling his prior company, which was heavy in the broadcast media space, Kirk ended up at General Motors. He started to learn about media data, and the value of getting the media data into computer vision algorithms. Five years later, he realized that no one had created a platform to do this yet... and he got started building it, on nights and weekends, first for podcast discovery. Kirk Marple has been a family man for 20+ years now. His kids are older now, in their 20's, which he finds amazing. He's been in tech for most of his whole career, but when he started out professionally, he wanted to be a chef. When he was 13, he wanted to attend culinary school - but then things changed, obviously, but he still cooks often, dabbling in stir fry and barbecue. After selling his prior company, which was heavy in the broadcast media space, Kirk ended up at General Motors. He started to learn about media data, and the value of getting the media data into computer vision algorithms. Five years later, he realized that no one had created a platform to do this yet... and he got started building it, on nights and weekends, first for podcast discovery. This is the creation story of Unstruk Data. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. unstruk. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kirkmarple/ --- > After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He was puzzled to see great talent leaving the startup eco-system, and he wanted to fix it, through a private, professional network - Published: 2022-05-19 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-beier-cai-commit-dev/ - Tags: co-founder, community, cto, developers, founder, mentors, mentorship, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He was puzzled to see great talent leaving the startup eco-system, and he wanted to fix it, through a private, professional network Beier Cai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups. The third startup he worked at did pretty well, which was HootSuite. He was the first engineer writing the first line of code for the social sharing platform. Towards the latter years at the company, he fell in love with helping engineers grow their careers, and managing teams. Passionate about community, he started organizing meetup groups outside of the company. Outside of tech, he is married with two boys. He finds that being a father helps him to be a better business owner, thinking towards building something for the long term. Being based in Vancouver, he loves to ski during the winter, and be outdoors hiking and camping in the summer. After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He was puzzled to see great talent leaving the startup eco-system, and he wanted to fix it, through a private, professional network. This is the creation story of Commit. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://commit. dev/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/beiercai --- > Prior to his current ventures formation, Patrick and the other three partners had two software products and other companies they were building. Between them all, there were two dev teams... and in the interest of making a bigger impact in their space, they decided to join forces, and form one team. - Published: 2022-05-18 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-patrick-bryant-code-trust/ - Tags: agency, build, ceo, dev team, entreprenuer, partner, product, project - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Prior to his current ventures formation, Patrick and the other three partners had two software products and other companies they were building. Between them all, there were two dev teams... and in the interest of making a bigger impact in their space, they decided to join forces, and form one team. Patrick Bryant lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and splits time in Washington, DC. He loves entrepreneurship, and believes it is the number one change agent in the world. He is involved in multiple communities around the topic - Startup Grind, EO, and he founded the Harbor Entrepreneur Center. Scuba diving is the thing that takes his mind off all things though, given you are 100 feet under the water, and have to focus. He is excited to go dive with the sharks soon, and he also enjoys the beaches and being in the sunshine. Prior to his current ventures formation, Patrick and the other three partners had two software products and other companies they were building. Between them all, there were two dev teams... and in the interest of making a bigger impact in their space, they decided to join forces, and form one team. This is the creation story of Code & Trust. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://codeandtrust. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/patrickbryant/ --- > Or quickly found himself annoyed with having to build and rebuild permission sets, or authorization, into every solution he made. Since he couldn't find someone doing it, he decided to create a permissions solution... for the last time. - Published: 2022-05-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-or-weis-permit-io/ - Tags: authorization, co-founder, cto, founder, permissions, startups - Podcasts: S6 Or quickly found himself annoyed with having to build and rebuild permission sets, or authorization, into every solution he made. Since he couldn't find someone doing it, he decided to create a permissions solution... for the last time. Or Weis has been a programmer or engineer since the age of 5. He started playing with DOS commands super early in his life. He made a significant leap in his professional skills when he was joined the IDF, as a reverse engineer. Post that, he worked for a startup to build containers (before they were commonplace), followed by co-founding Rookout, a company who defined the production debugging space. You might recognize that name, as I interviewed his co-founder, Liran, on a recent episode. Outside of tech, he is married to another software engineer, and dabbles in writing science fiction. He hopes to publish one day soon. Or hopes to eventually write a book that overlaps with his professional interests as well, kind of like the Phoenix Project. While he was building his startups, Or quickly found himself annoyed with having to build and rebuild permission sets, or authorization, into every solution he made. Since he couldn't find someone doing it, he decided to create a permissions solution... for the last time. This is the creation story of Permit. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. permit. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/orweis --- > Stephanie didn't know what sort of business she wanted to start. That was until her brother got frustrated with looking for a job, and together, they figured out there must be another way. They did some research, and used their knowledge of popular dating apps, to create a simple, swipe-able platform. - Published: 2022-05-12 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-stephanie-florio-swob/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, dating, founder, hiring, jobs, retail, swipe, tinder, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Stephanie didn't know what sort of business she wanted to start. That was until her brother got frustrated with looking for a job, and together, they figured out there must be another way. They did some research, and used their knowledge of popular dating apps, to create a simple, swipe-able platform. Stephanie Florio's journey to tech started in the world of advertising. She always knew that she wanted to be an entrepreneur, but didn't really know what it was. Outside of tech, she has a young family. In fact, when recording the episode, she was near her due date for her second child. For fun, she loves to go out for dinner and hang out with her friends and family. Pasta and pizza are the favorites but she is open to trying new things. As mentioned, Stephanie didn't know what sort of business she wanted to start. That was until her brother got frustrated with looking for a job, and together, they figured out there must be another way. They did some research, and used their knowledge of popular dating apps, to create a simple, swipe-able platform. This is the creation story of Swob. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://swobapp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/stephanie-florio-51397765/ --- > In his prior startup, he went through the painstaking process of becoming SOC2 certified. This experience stuck with him - so much so, that when he and his co-founder ventured out to start something new, they decided to create something to make this easier. - Published: 2022-05-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-girish-redekar-sprinto/ - Tags: 10x, co-founder, compliance, cto, founder, iso, soc2 - Podcasts: S6 In his prior startup, he went through the painstaking process of becoming SOC2 certified. This experience stuck with him - so much so, that when he and his co-founder ventured out to start something new, they decided to create something to make this easier. If you would have told Girish Redekar while he was in college that he would eventually be writing software, he would have been shocked. His studies focused on electrical engineering, and post school, he was a hard core analyst. After some time, he and his friend decided to do the whole start up thing - they tried a bunch of ideas, and taught themselves to code. He remembers in his previous company he was the top contributor to the codebase until it was finally sold. Outside of tech, he is a movie buff - but bent towards the obscure movies that most haven't heard of... so obscure that he couldn't remember the name of the last one he saw. In his prior startup, he went through the painstaking process of becoming SOC2 certified. This experience stuck with him - so much so, that when he and his co-founder ventured out to start something new, they decided to create something to make this easier. This is the creation story of Sprinto. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://sprinto. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/girishredekar --- > Austin Parker has been at Lightstep for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts. - Published: 2022-05-05 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-austin-parker-lightstep-observability-devrel/ - Tags: cloud, developer relations, devrel, head, incident, incident response, observability - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Austin Parker has been at Lightstep for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts. Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs in BASIC and hanging out on bulletin boards. Prior to his tech career, he held many other jobs - as a short order cook, waiting tables, and taking tickets at a theater. When he stepped into this industry, he started out in test automation, followed by getting involved in open source communities, which is how he got into Developer Relations. What he likes about this arena is that DevRel is taking your companies story of a product, and making it harmonize with what everyone else is singing in the market. He has a young family, which occupies most of his time these days. But he likes to do photography, tinkering with electronics, and building model aircraft. Back in the day, he experienced the glory days of Radio Shack where you could grab electronic components on a whim. Austin Parker has been at his current company for 4 years, right after stealth mode ended. He has helped enable the company to support developers through their innovative tech stack, built by industry experts. This is Austin's creation story of Lightstep. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://lightstep. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/austinlparker/ --- > Along his journey, Stephen realized that his friends didn't have access to the same money management tools and strategies that institutional investors had. He became inspired to offer these types of investment tools to the average person. - Published: 2022-05-04 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-stephen-mathai-davis-q-ai-forbes-quant-trading/ - Tags: ai, ceo, founder, invest, investments, portfolio, quant, robo invest - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Along his journey, Stephen realized that his friends didn't have access to the same money management tools and strategies that institutional investors had. He became inspired to offer these types of investment tools to the average person. Stephen Mathai-Davis grew up in a family where he was expected to go into the buy side of Wall Street. Originally, he rebelled against this, pursuing professional kickboxing and even running his own dojo in New York. Fun fact, he has 8 black belts, and has started teaching his kids how to box. In his late 20's he came back to wall street, and experienced the 2008 crash and rebound. Along his journey, Stephen realized that his friends didn't have access to the same money management tools and strategies that institutional investors had. He became inspired to offer these types of investment tools to the average person. This is the creation story of Q. ai. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://tryq. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/stephen-mathai-davis-cfa-cqf/ --- > Post graduation, the job Jimmy had lined up got cancelled. Last minute, he joined some alumni slack channels and sent a cold message to his now co-founder. He found himself fascinated by the idea of giving cash back to people for paying their rent. - Published: 2022-05-03 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-jimmy-jacobson-stake-rent/ - Tags: bills, card, cash back, co-founder, cto, payments, rent, unit - Podcasts: S6 Post graduation, the job Jimmy had lined up got cancelled. Last minute, he joined some alumni slack channels and sent a cold message to his now co-founder. He found himself fascinated by the idea of giving cash back to people for paying their rent. Jimmy Jacobson grew up in Snoqualmie, about 45 minutes east of Seattle, Washington. He graduated from college in 2020, as the pandemic was breaking - but, directly correlated with the pandemic, he didn't actually get to walk and receive his diploma. His first job out of school was the startup he is building now. Outside of tech, he rides mountain bikes, digging the trails at Tiger Mountain or back home in Snoqualmie. Around Seattle, he likes to hang out at parks and throw the frisbee, or chilling on the beaches with a late night bonfire. Post graduation, the job Jimmy had lined up got cancelled. Last minute, he joined some alumni slack channels and sent a cold message to his now co-founder. He found himself fascinated by the idea of giving cash back to people for paying their rent. This is the creation story of Stake. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://stake. rent/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jimmy-jacobson-378563113/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Lars was primarily a product guy. And in running product, he cared deeply about the impact that strategic business moves made on the business. He also saw that claiming revenue was less empirical, creating human error and bias. - Published: 2022-04-28 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lars-gronnegaard-dreamdata/ - Tags: attribution, ceo, data, founder, insights, product, revenue, warehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Prior to his current venture, Lars was primarily a product guy. And in running product, he cared deeply about the impact that strategic business moves made on the business. He also saw that claiming revenue was less empirical, creating human error and bias. Outside of technology, Lars Grønnegaard is an avid cyclist. He stats that if you've been to Copenhagen, where his from, you would know that a lot of people do cycling. He is into road or mountain biking, along with Alpine Skiing - but he does the latter outside of Denmark, in Norway or South Austria. He is a family man, with 3 kids, and he takes his kids cycling with him. Along side of this, he likes to cook for his family. He claims he has a full life, between a startup, family, children and hobbies - and he needs no more. Prior to his current venture, Lars was primarily a product guy. And in running product, he cared deeply about the impact that strategic business moves made on the business. He also saw that claiming revenue was less empirical, creating human error and bias. After not finding a solution to solve his problem, he decided to create a platform to find out the truth around revenue data. This is the creation story of Dreamdata. Find out more about B2B Attribution here: https://dreamdata. io/b2b-attributionSponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://dreamdata. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/larsgroennegaard/ --- > Jack was working as an incident responder previously, and during that time, he figured out that AI based models for breach detection don't work as well as intuitive humans, as often times there isn't enough signal for them. Along with using antiquated sets of data, he decided that there must be a way to leverage the cloud and build a solution to solve the pain points within this process. - Published: 2022-04-27 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jack-naglieri-panther-labs/ - Tags: actor, ai, ceo, detection, founder, hacker, intruder, security, threat - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Jack was working as an incident responder previously, and during that time, he figured out that AI based models for breach detection don't work as well as intuitive humans, as often times there isn't enough signal for them. Along with using antiquated sets of data, he decided that there must be a way to leverage the cloud and build a solution to solve the pain points within this process. Jack Naglieri grew up in Ohio, but moved to Virginia when he was 10. He had a normal east coast family up-bringing, but he focused on tech early on, even as a kid. Eventually, he went to George Mason to study Cyber Security. Outside of tech, he is into cooking and fitness. He focuses a lot on making sure that his body and brain are in a good state, through exercise, meditation, sleep and healthy eating. Jack was working as an incident responder previously, and during that time, he figured out that AI based models for breach detection don't work as well as intuitive humans, as often times there isn't enough signal for them. Along with using antiquated sets of data, he decided that there must be a way to leverage the cloud and build a solution to solve the pain points within this process. This is the creation story of Panther Labs. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://panther. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jacknaglieri/ --- > In spending a lot of time in the infrastructure world, he found out that in the world of DevOps troubleshooting, there is a lot of chaos to sift through. He thought it would be amazing to build a tool to impact Kubernetes, and the entire infra ecosystem. - Published: 2022-04-26 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-itiel-schwartz-komodor-kubernetes/ - Tags: ceo, cto, founder, infrastructure, kubernetes, troubleshooting - Podcasts: S6 In spending a lot of time in the infrastructure world, he found out that in the world of DevOps troubleshooting, there is a lot of chaos to sift through. He thought it would be amazing to build a tool to impact Kubernetes, and the entire infra ecosystem. For Itiel Schwartz, it's hard to remember life before his current venture. He studied computer science and psychology in school, and during that time he started working for Ebay. He's 32 years old (he thinks), and is married with a young family. Outside of hiking and binge watching TV, he is a big fan of coffee and bakeries. In spending a lot of time in the infrastructure world, he found out that in the world of DevOps troubleshooting, there is a lot of chaos to sift through. He thought it would be amazing to build a tool to impact Kubernetes, and the entire infra ecosystem. This is the creation story of Komodor. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://komodor. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/itiel-shwartz-18542853 --- > Having gained fantastic experience in advertising space, at Groupon, and then at Digit, he learned how to execute on longer term initiatives, but balanced with fast delivery on top of a strong foundation. All of this experience was hard fought, and as he started consulting, he thought... how can I scale myself? - Published: 2022-04-22 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-todd-larsen-tech-leaders/ - Tags: agency, consulting, cto, repeatable, scaling, startups, tech leaders - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Having gained fantastic experience in advertising space, at Groupon, and then at Digit, he learned how to execute on longer term initiatives, but balanced with fast delivery on top of a strong foundation. All of this experience was hard fought, and as he started consulting, he thought... how can I scale myself? From the time he was very young, Todd Larsen was always interested in technology. However, he ended up studying audio engineering so found his way to tech through teaching himself how to code. He gained a ton of experience at companies like Groupon and Digit. co. Outside of tech, he is a father to a 5 year old daughter, and musician, which both things occupy his time outside of business. Having gained fantastic experience in advertising space, at Groupon, and then at Digit, he learned how to execute on longer term initiatives, but balanced with fast delivery on top of a strong foundation. All of this experience was hard fought, and as he started consulting, he thought... how can I scale myself? This is the creation story of Tech Leaders. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. technical-leaders. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/salesandsoftware/ --- > During his Amazon years, Marin was hitting a few problems on a regular basis, having to sift through dense training content on a daily basis. And the training format was all over the map – video, audio, text, etc. After brainstorming with his now cofounder, they decided to build an MVP, starting with an API. - Published: 2022-04-21 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-marin-smiljanic-omnisearch/ - Tags: amazon, audio, ceo, co-founder, founder, search, text, transcribe, transcription, video - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 During his Amazon years, Marin was hitting a few problems on a regular basis, having to sift through dense training content on a daily basis. And the training format was all over the map – video, audio, text, etc. After brainstorming with his now cofounder, they decided to build an MVP, starting with an API. Marin Smiljanic was born and raised in Croatia. He attended a local math school, which actually got him into tech. Post attending college, his first experiences of the industry were through internships and startup involvement. Outside of tech, he likes to hike, swim, winter sports, being outdoors, etc. - and he lives in Vancouver now, which gives him great access to all of the above. He says the main difference between Vancouver and Croatia comes down to food. Croatia contains a bit more traditional cuisine - seafood close to the water, and meat based dishes inland. During his Amazon years, Marin was hitting a few problems on a regular basis, having to sift through dense training content on a daily basis. And the training format was all over the map - video, audio, text, etc. After brainstorming with his now cofounder, they decided to build an MVP, starting with an API. This is the creation story of Omnisearch. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://omnisearch. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/marin-smiljanic --- > Aaron put together a dream team of Neuro scientists to execute a sleep study lab for 3 years. After that time, what they realized was that with a short brain stimulation session before bedtime, they can drastically improve the time it takes to go to sleep, and the entire sleep time itself. - Published: 2022-04-20 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aaron-bromberg-stimscience/ - Tags: brain, ceo, founder, hardware, rhythm, sleep, stimulation, study - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Aaron put together a dream team of Neuro scientists to execute a sleep study lab for 3 years. After that time, what they realized was that with a short brain stimulation session before bedtime, they can drastically improve the time it takes to go to sleep, and the entire sleep time itself. Aaron Bromberg is living the Dad life outside of tech. His kids are 11 and 13, so he wants to spend as much time with them before they get too cool to hangout with their parents. He likes to cook, and during the pandemic, he got really into pizza making, even to the point of calculating dough hydration ratios. Previously, he was working as a management consultant, but spending his time reading about electronics. He took that as a sign that he was more of a gadget guy, and joined Bose. Post that he, worked on the product lines at Amazon, like tablets and smart speakers. Aaron put together a dream team of Neuroscientists to execute a sleep study lab for 3 years. After that time, what they realized was that with a short brain stimulation session before bedtime, they can drastically improve the time it takes to go to sleep, and the entire sleep time itself. They charged ahead to build a product to make this happen, and do so in a personalized way. This is the creation story of StimScience, and Somnee. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. stimscience. com/Website: https://trysomnee. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/aaronbromberg/ --- > In January 2020, Joe joined his current venture prior to raising a seed round. Having gotten regulated in the UK, they were ready to deploy the first product and find their market fit. And in doing so, he went about optimizing team, process, and built a platform strategically ready for change - in the payment space. - Published: 2022-04-19 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-joe-pettersson-banked/ - Tags: baas, bank to bank, banking, cto, fintech, flexibility, regulated, rtp - Podcasts: S6 In January 2020, Joe joined his current venture prior to raising a seed round. Having gotten regulated in the UK, they were ready to deploy the first product and find their market fit. And in doing so, he went about optimizing team, process, and built a platform strategically ready for change - in the payment space. Joe Pettersson is quite the renaissance man, with many interests and ventures he is a part of. He's also had an interesting path to tech. He was originally a lawyer many years go... funny enough, because he thought that after the dot com bubble burst, he didn't think people were going to make money writing software again. He hated it though, and left the legal profession as soon as he could. He is a collector by nature, with over 100 pairs of sneakers (most of which are Jordans), and several mechanical keyboards. Along side these hobbies, he has started a few non profit organizations - one around equipping young men, and another around educating people in the digital world. Finally, he is writing a book, around scaling engineering teams, which is actually going to be given away free. It should be published in June or July of this year, 2022. Back in January 2020, Joe joined his current venture prior to raising a seed round. Having gotten regulated in the UK, they were ready to deploy the first product and find their market fit. And in doing so, he went about optimizing team, process, and built a platform strategically ready for change - in the payment space. This is the creation story of Banked. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://banked. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joe8bit/ --- > Dan and his co-founder started out building credentialing software, a sort of deep background check on Doctors. In creating a way to scrape & pull in accepted insurance, they recognized a broader need for data to be more fluid in the space. It became obvious that a company needed to solve this problem for the space. - Published: 2022-04-14 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dan-langevin-vericred/ - Tags: api, credentialing, cto, insurance, integration - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Dan and his co-founder started out building credentialing software, a sort of deep background check on Doctors. In creating a way to scrape & pull in accepted insurance, they recognized a broader need for data to be more fluid in the space. It became obvious that a company needed to solve this problem for the space. Dan Langevin grew up in Madison, CT - east of New Haven. He had a good size family, with his Dad being an engineer and Mother being a teacher. He grew up around computers, and learned how to build websites in High School. When he went to college, he didn't think he wanted to be in tech and struck out in consulting. It was during this time that he taught himself how to code, built a portfolio, and switched careers into tech. He's married, with a 2 year old and another baby on the way. So free time doesn't really exist for him. But when he can, he likes to spend time outdoors, reading and exercising. Dan and his co-founder started out building credentialing software, a sort of deep background check on Doctors. In creating a way to scrape & pull in accepted insurance, they recognized a broader need for data to be more fluid in the space. It became obvious that a company needed to solve this problem for the space. This is the creation story of Vericred. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://vericred. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dan-langevin-0636004/ --- > Roy connected with his a college friend, and now co-founder, to discuss his experience at SoFi. What they realized was that developers are having to build the "plumbing" of financial products over and over again, because there isn't a developer platform to enable them to focus on their end products. - Published: 2022-04-13 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-roy-ng-bond-banking-as-a-service/ - Tags: api, baas, banking, banking as a service, checking, co-founder, compliance, credit, savings, service - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Roy connected with his a college friend, and now co-founder, to discuss his experience at SoFi. What they realized was that developers are having to build the "plumbing" of financial products over and over again, because there isn't a developer platform to enable them to focus on their end products. Roy Ng moved to LA from Hong Kong when he was 10 years old, first with his Mother, with his Father following on a year later. His family moved to the stats to build a future for him, with education and opportunity. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, doing into finance with Goldman Sachs. He eventually made his way back to Hong Kong, to help Goldman with cool deals (like taking Baidu public). Post Goldman, he stepped into the startup world. His first startup sold to SAP, and he then went on to help Twilio grow and go public, followed by maturing the developer platform at MapBox. Roy connected with his a college friend, and now co-founder, to discuss his experience at SoFi. What they realized was that developers are having to build the "plumbing" of financial products over and over again, because there isn't a developer platform to enable them to focus on their end products. After some market validation at the Money 2020 conference, they set out to build this foundational platform. This is the creation story of Bond. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://bond. tech/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/royandrewng/ --- > Alexander and his co-founder attempted to build a business in the freight and logistics space, which ultimately failed. But they saw a lot more opportunity in the space, and set some goals for themselves to get funding, or get into Y Combinator. They started by building strictly broker software. - Published: 2022-04-12 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-alexander-luksidadi-rose-rocket/ - Tags: broker, co-founder, cto, deliver, freight, goods, logistics, tms, trucking - Podcasts: S6 Alexander and his co-founder attempted to build a business in the freight and logistics space, which ultimately failed. But they saw a lot more opportunity in the space, and set some goals for themselves to get funding, or get into Y Combinator. They started by building strictly broker software. Alexander Luksidadi came to Canada in 2002 as an immigrant, with a dream to work for IBM. However, during his time in school, he had a friend that went to San Francisco, and came back "changed", as Alexander as he put it. That same friend asked Alexander to join him in his garage, and build his startup. He started to build things around analytics and AB testing, and saw the revenue impact of his work. It was this point that startups became his life. He quickly found out the power of being a developer, but also the need to have a partner on the business side of the journey. Aside from tech, he is a musician - in fact, he got into programming because his Dad wouldn't let him become a musician. He decided to do programming, because he thought building software was going to be his way back to music. He loves blues, jazz, and recording in his studio. Alexander and his co-founder attempted to build a business in the freight and logistics space, which ultimately failed. But they saw a lot more opportunity in the space, and set some goals for themselves to get funding, or get into Y Combinator. They started by building strictly broker software. This is the creation story of Rose Rocket. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. roserocket. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/luksidadi/ --- > Just over 5 years ago, Liran and his co-founder realized that everytime you need to change the way you observe or log your application, you have to fully release that application. They applied their cyber security way of thinking, and built a platform to enable the instant change to loging and observability. - Published: 2022-04-07 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-liran-haimovitch-rookout/ - Tags: cloud, co-founder, cto, data, dynamic, founder, observability, real time - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Just over 5 years ago, Liran and his co-founder realized that everytime you need to change the way you observe or log your application, you have to fully release that application. They applied their cyber security way of thinking, and built a platform to enable the instant change to loging and observability. Liran Haimovitch is 34 years old, and recently married. He and his wife enjoy traveling and eating delicious foods together, and of course, taking care of their awesome dog. Although it has been a while, Liran loves to scuba dive, and enjoys a great whisky, scotch or fancy cocktail now and again. He has recently gotten into trying to make them at home, or seeking out the latest bar to try something new. Just over 5 years ago, Liran and his co-founder realized that every time you need to change the way you observe or log your application, you have to fully release that application. They applied their cyber security way of thinking, and built a platform to enable the instant change to logging and observability. This is the creation story of Rookout. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. rookout. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/liran-haimovitch/ --- > Once he had a few single family dwellings in his portfolio, he decided to syndicate a deal for a multi family complex. In doing this, he quickly realized how complicated the process was to get this done. He decided to apply his tech knowledge and create something to solve his problem. - Published: 2022-04-06 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-perry-zheng-cash-flow-portal/ - Tags: ceo, community, founder, introductions, investing, partial, real estate - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Once he had a few single family dwellings in his portfolio, he decided to syndicate a deal for a multi family complex. In doing this, he quickly realized how complicated the process was to get this done. He decided to apply his tech knowledge and create something to solve his problem. Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big name companies like Amazon, Twitter and Lyft. During his time at Lyft, he started tinkering with Real Estate investment, buying single family dwellings here and there. Outside of tech and real estate, he likes to travel a lot, and find the best food around. When asked what was the best restaurant he'd been to, he promptly noted that Le Bernardin in New York City was top notch. Once he had a few single family dwellings in his portfolio, he decided to syndicate a deal for a multi family complex. In doing this, he quickly realized how complicated the process was to get this done. He decided to apply his tech knowledge and create something to solve his problem. This is the creation story of Cash Flow Portal. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. cashflowportal. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/perryzheng/ --- > In spite of being on staff at a church, Bobby found himself not reading the bible regularly. While standing in the security line in the airport, he thought up an idea to use technology to help him read the Bible more, and grow spiritually. - Published: 2022-04-05 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-bobby-gruenewald-youversion-bible-app/ - Tags: app, app store, apple, bible, ceo, downloads, entreprenuer, founder, iphone, languages - Podcasts: S6 In spite of being on staff at a church, Bobby found himself not reading the bible regularly. While standing in the security line in the airport, he thought up an idea to use technology to help him read the Bible more, and grow spiritually. Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always interested in entrepreneurship. In 1995, he built a website for a car dealership for $100, and then went on to build hondaparts. com. The dealer he worked for committed to investing in his future projects right then and there. Post that, he built several companies and sold them, creating a successful track record. He has been married for 26 years, and has 4 children. His 16 year old just started driving, but he claims she is a great driver... way better than the self driving mode on his Tesla. As a hobby - or addiction, as he confesses - he is a pilot but didn't stop with his pilots license. He can fly helicopters, seas planes, jets - over the past few years, he had flown 44 different types of planes. He's found it was very therapeutic to be up in the air... a great way to clear his head of all the things that occupy his thoughts. In spite of being on staff at a church, Bobby found himself not reading the bible regularly. While standing in the security line in the airport, he thought up an idea to use technology to help him read the Bible more, and grow spiritually. This is the creation story of the YouVersion Bible App. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. youversion. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bobbygruenewald/ --- > In their prior roles, Brandy had pitched a client to Ryan for his podcast. As Ryan describes it, she's a great networker and "instigator". When they both had the itch to do a new project, they looked to podcasting. And after some initial validation, they confirmed that they had stumbled upon a need. - Published: 2022-03-31 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brandy-ryan-kitcaster/ - Tags: co-founder, founder, guest, host, marketing, placement, podcast, Tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In their prior roles, Brandy had pitched a client to Ryan for his podcast. As Ryan describes it, she's a great networker and "instigator". When they both had the itch to do a new project, they looked to podcasting. And after some initial validation, they confirmed that they had stumbled upon a need. Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes are two different folks, joined together in a unified mission. If you look up Denver guy in the dictionary, you will see a picture of Ryan, in a flannel shirt, with a dog, a truck, and speeding off to hit up his fishing spot. He's a family guy, trains in martial arts, and previously owned an agency. Brandy is not a Denver native - in fact, she grew up in Iowa on a Turkey farm... with 30,000 turkeys. She's married with three boys, and likes to get in the mountains to hike or snowboard, during the right seasons. In their prior roles, Brandy had pitched a client to Ryan for his podcast. As Ryan describes it, she's a great networker and "instigator". When they both had the itch to do a new project, they looked to podcasting. And after some initial validation, they confirmed that they had stumbled upon a need. This is the creation story of Kitcaster, the podcast booking agency. LinksWebsite: https://kitcaster. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/brandy-whalen/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/estesryan/ --- > Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rose. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis wellness company Dosist, Josh has founded, funded, built, and exited multiple startups in the consumer packaged goods space. - Published: 2022-03-30 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-josh-campbell/ - Tags: brand, ceo, executive, mentor, mentorship, packaged, product, starbucks - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rose. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis wellness company Dosist, Josh has founded, funded, built, and exited multiple startups in the consumer packaged goods space. Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Brand BuildingJosh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand Human Improvement and wine brand So Gay Rose. Formerly a Starbucks Executive and President of cannabis wellness company Dosist, Josh has founded, funded, built, and exited multiple startups in the consumer packaged goods space. He is passionate about mentoring up and coming founders and entrepreneurs. Questions:How do you start building a brand? Whats different about building a brand around an unconventional idea? How did your traditional experience contribute to your entrepreneurial backbone? What's different about packaged goods vs. digital products, when it comes to brand? Whats different about selling to retailers, vs. selling eCommerce? Book a call with Edvard by accessing the link below:https://mentor. cam/joshcampbell - Use Promo Code CODE --- > Hywel and his co-founders dreamed about a way to distill down the distinct learning moments for you, leading you to the point of inception for skills and wisdom. Their passion for this topic led them to build a way to develop developers, in an incremental, personalized way. - Published: 2022-03-29 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-hywel-carver-skillerwhale/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, coaching, england, founder, gameshow, learning, training, trivia - Podcasts: S6 Hywel and his co-founders dreamed about a way to distill down the distinct learning moments for you, leading you to the point of inception for skills and wisdom. Their passion for this topic led them to build a way to develop developers, in an incremental, personalized way. Hywel Carver has been writing code since he was 9 years old. His first language was C, which quite a language to start out in, and his first program was a "Guess the Number" program, using binary search - and of course, with an embedded Easter egg. He is married, with 2 children. Parenting has really pushed him to learn how to focus, and he regularly has to put things down to take care of other responsibilities. One of his biggest hobbies is pub quizzes, which in Britain is a big deal. In fact, he has been on a few quiz shows on TV, including Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Hywel and his co-founders dreamed about a way to distill down the distinct learning moments for you, leading you to the point of inception for skills and wisdom. Their passion for this topic led them to build a way to develop developers, in an incremental, personalized way. This is the creation story of Skiller Whale. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://skillerwhale. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hywelc/ --- > Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy. - Published: 2022-03-28 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-egan-kintaba/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, conference, founder, incident, management - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy. John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he was working at Harvard, he was watching the early days Y Combinator, and told his wife that there was a movement going on, and they should move to be a part of it. Startups weren't common then, so it was a risky move - but John found himself excited about being a part of it. Eventually they did make the move, created a file transfer company, and ended up getting acquired by Facebook. Outside of tech, he's married, with a 4 year old son. And for fun? He builds tools for himself, since he's not writing much code at his current venture. One of them is Postmortem. io, in addition to launching IR Conf for incident responders. Post Facebook, John set out to ask the question to his prior colleagues that had left, about the tools they missed the most. The tool that kept coming up in conversation was a tool to manage incidents. So he decided to build this platform, named after an ancient Japanese philosophy. This is the creation story of Kintaba. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. kintaba. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/john3gan/https://postmortem. io/https://www. irconf. io/ --- > While teaching at the university, Dr. Jones came across a student’s idea to provide security around her identify. In addition to that, he had recently gone through a lengthy background check process, which required the re-verification of several bits of information. He decided to solve both of the problems, by creating a solution using the blockchain. - Published: 2022-03-24 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dr-gordon-jones-thrivacy/ - Tags: blockchain, ceo, co-founder, credentialing, founder, identify, privacy, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 While teaching at the university, Dr. Jones came across a student’s idea to provide security around her identify. In addition to that, he had recently gone through a lengthy background check process, which required the re-verification of several bits of information. He decided to solve both of the problems, by creating a solution using the blockchain. Dr. Gordon Jones just turned 60 years old, but you wouldn't know it from his energetic, vibrant tone. He has his doctorate in Health Administration, but he got into Health Technology in 1997. He lives in South Carolina, with his wife and five adopted children. Dr. Jones and his wife adopted their first child 1 year after they were married, as they felt led by God before they were married to pursue this path. Their main family activity is watching movies together, but they love to throw the frisbee, travel, and ultimately being together doing new things. While teaching at the university, Dr. Jones came across a student's idea to provide security around her identify. In addition to that, he had recently gone through a lengthy background check process, which required the re-verification of several bits of information. He decided to solve both of the problems, by creating a solution using the blockchain. This is the creation story of Thrivacy. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. thrivacy. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/drgordonjones/ --- > Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of a tele-health startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make prescription birth control more accessible. - Published: 2022-03-23 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-edvard-engeseath/ - Tags: ceo, founder, fundraising, investing, march, mentor, mentorship, online, partner, venture capital - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of a tele-health startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make prescription birth control more accessible. Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Angel InvestingDr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of a tele-health startup Nurx, angel investor, startup advisor, and a former family physician. He founded Nurx to make prescription birth control more accessible. The company has since grown into a full-service tele-health startup in the Rx medicine delivery space. Nurx is backed by some of the world's most prestigious VVCs such as Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Y Combinator, to name a few. Questions:What exactly is angel investing? What's the financial target for angel investing? At what stage do you angel invest? Is there an equity expectation difference between angels and VC's? How do you find deals to invest in? How does someone get started? Book a call with Edvard by accessing the link below:https://mentor. cam/edvardengesaeth - Use Promo Code CODE --- > Tommy worked his way up and through the Quiznos organization, specifically landing in ops services. When Quiznos took a turn for the worst, he was tasked with figuring out audit reporting. Through his time there, and through some consulting, he created a solution that got the attention of Which Wich... and validated that the market wanted his solution. - Published: 2022-03-22 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-tommy-yionoulis-opsanalitica/ - Tags: audit, ceo, co-founder, location, multi, no code, ops, workflow - Podcasts: S6 Tommy worked his way up and through the Quiznos organization, specifically landing in ops services. When Quiznos took a turn for the worst, he was tasked with figuring out audit reporting. Through his time there, and through some consulting, he created a solution that got the attention of Which Wich... and validated that the market wanted his solution. Tommy Yionoulis has a traditional tech founder st4ry... via hotel, restaurant and standup comedy route. But in all seriousness, his Dad was literally a rocket scientist, and his Mom was a software engineer. Tommy diverted away from tech initially, and did the restaurant thing before jumping headfirst into stand up comedy, doing it for 10 years along side several hospitality businesses. When I asked him to tell me a joke, he said his jokes weren't podcast ready. After he got tired of the lifestyle, he went back to school, got his MBA, met his wife, graduate and started working for Quiznos. He's married with kids, and they live in Colorado - so he likes to cycle, paddle boarding, and being outdoors with his family. He also likes a good cigar now and then. Tommy worked his way up and through the Quiznos organization, specifically landing in ops services. When Quiznos took a turn for the worst, he was tasked with figuring out audit reporting. Through his time there, and through some consulting, he created a solution that got the attention of Which Wich... and validated that the market wanted his solution. This is the creation story of OpsAnalitica. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: http://opsanalitica. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tommyy/ --- > During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions. He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not doing this down to the data level. - Published: 2022-03-18 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-verl-allen-claravine/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, data, data integrity, integrity, merger, merging - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions. He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not doing this down to the data level. Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3 kids as a single Dad, so you can imagine that during that time, it took a large part of his focus. Outside of his profession and family, he loves to ride road bikes 3-4 hours a week, but in particular, long distance rides (to the tune of 200 miles in a single day). He is also a runner, which he finds takes less time to get a good workout in. During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions. He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not doing this down to the data level. When he found out about his current gig, the product was attempting to solve a specific use case of this problem, but was sorta falling over. This is Verl's creation story of Claravine. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. claravine. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/verl-allen-b83175/ --- > In this preview, Jacob talks with Keenan Wyrobek, the co-founder of a drone company called Zipline. The company has been building and deploying drones in Rwanda and Ghana for years. Now they're trying to solve a surprisingly hard problem: How do they make drone delivery work in the United States? - Published: 2022-03-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-whats-your-problem-with-jacob-goldstein/ - Tags: drones, goldstein, jacob, podcast, recast, share - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In this preview, Jacob talks with Keenan Wyrobek, the co-founder of a drone company called Zipline. The company has been building and deploying drones in Rwanda and Ghana for years. Now they're trying to solve a surprisingly hard problem: How do they make drone delivery work in the United States? Today, I’m excited to share with you a preview from a new podcast I’ve been enjoying and think you will, too. You may know Jacob Goldstein as the former host of the Planet Money podcast. Now, he’s hosting a new show called What’s Your Problem? It’s a show about technology and business, where visionaries talk about the future they’re trying to build – and the problems they have to solve to get there. You’ll get to know the people who are trying to figure out how to do things no one on the planet knows how to do. And, like Code Story, you’ll learn about the critical moments it takes to change an industry. In this preview, Jacob talks with Keenan Wyrobek, the co-founder of a drone company called Zipline. The company has been building and deploying drones in Rwanda and Ghana for years. Now they're trying to solve a surprisingly hard problem: How do they make drone delivery work in the United States? I hope you enjoy it. You can hear Keenan’s full story, and more episodes of What’s Your Problem? , wherever you get your podcasts. Links:https://www. pushkin. fm/news/jacob-goldstein-formerly-of-planet-money-launches-a-new-technology-podcast-with-pushkin-industries/ --- > Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati. - Published: 2022-03-16 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-benjamin-balazs/ - Tags: ceo, founder, fundraising, investing, march, mentor, mentorship, online, partner, venture capital - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati. Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: All Things ProductBio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati, enabling businesses to increase data transparency and make people's lives more efficient. Benjamin has founded 4 startups based around the idea of empowering individuals - some failed spectacularly, some are successful. Questions:What makes a solid MVP for a startup? What is technical debt and when do you pay it? How do you find product market fit? When do you factor in scalability for a solution? How much of product building is art vs. science? Book a call on Mentorcam by accessing the link below:https://mentor. cam/ - Use Promo Code CODE --- > During their post graduate studies, Panos and his co-founders built many products in the learning space, as they were crafty and could implement the things they were imagining. During their time, they shared the passion to create products that impacted the masses, and enabled them to learn better. - Published: 2022-03-15 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-panos-siozos-learnworlds/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, courses, creators, learning, online, plugin, selling - Podcasts: S6 During their post graduate studies, Panos and his co-founders built many products in the learning space, as they were crafty and could implement the things they were imagining. During their time, they shared the passion to create products that impacted the masses, and enabled them to learn better. Panos Siozos and his co-founders go back 25 years or more. They all studied Computer Science together in Greece and did their post graduate studies on educational tech. His hobbies have been on pause for the past few years, given the growth of his business, but his main passion is his family, and his 8 year old daughter. They are building a 3d printer together, and tend to create using lots and lots of legos, including lego animation. His family helps him to see the power of learning something, and recites that learning is something that no one can ever take away from you. During their post graduate studies, Panos and his co-founders built many products in the learning space, as they were crafty and could implement the things they were imagining. During their time, they shared the passion to create products that impacted the masses, and enabled them to learn better. This is the creation story of LearnWorlds. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. learnworlds. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/siozos/ --- > Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. The question he was hired to answer was - how do we combine infrastructure with software? - Published: 2022-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-barak-schoster-bridgecrew/ - Tags: bandwidth, CRO, infrastructure, innovation, internet, network - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. The question he was hired to answer was - how do we combine infrastructure with software? Barak Schoster claims he's generally a boring guy. What he does professionally, he also loves to do in his free time - which is coding. He contributes regularly to open source projects. Outside of this, he loves sea kayaking, and equates the ups and downs of the sport to software engineering. He is married with 2 sons, both under 5 years old. They are into building puzzles together and playing ball, as they are sporty kids. Barak and his wife like to visit restaurants, watch movies together, and thoroughly enjoys going to rock concerts. His favorite rock band is Guns and Roses, but his favorite concerts have been U2 and Imagine Dragons. In February 2019, Barak and his co-founders started their companies journey by asking the question - how do you secure your cloud environment? What they found was their experience with fixing these environments were similar to the market, and no solution had been created for streamlining this process, much less optimizing and automating it where possible. This is the creation story of Bridgecrew. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://bridgecrew. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/barakschoster --- > Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He formerly worked at Thiel Capital, Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse. A graduate of Yale, Penn Law School and Wharton, Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the VC industry. - Published: 2022-03-09 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-max-samuel/ - Tags: ceo, founder, fundraising, investing, march, mentor, mentorship, online, partner, venture capital - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He formerly worked at Thiel Capital, Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse. A graduate of Yale, Penn Law School and Wharton, Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the VC industry. Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: How VC's see your startupMax Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He formerly worked at Thiel Capital, Wilson Sonsini and Credit Suisse. A graduate of Yale, Penn Law School and Wharton, Max is passionate about mentoring both startup founders and people looking to break into the VC industry. Questions:What is different about early stage VC vs. just VC? How do venture capital firms evaluate startups? What's important at the early stage? What should a pitch deck include? How do you start a career in venture capital? If you were just starting again, what would you do different? Book a call with Max by accessing the link below:https://mentor. cam/maxsamuel - Use Promo Code CODE --- > Prior to his current venture, Ev created Mailgun - one of the top transactional email platforms out there - which he eventually sold to Rackspace. During his time scaling Mailgun, and working for Rackspace, he started to feel the pain of logging into multiple cloud services - so much so, that he decided to consolidate these connections into a single platform. - Published: 2022-03-08 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-ev-kontsevoy-teleport/ - Tags: access, authentication, ceo, co-founder, founder, infrastructure, open source, platform, single - Podcasts: S6 Prior to his current venture, Ev created Mailgun - one of the top transactional email platforms out there - which he eventually sold to Rackspace. During his time scaling Mailgun, and working for Rackspace, he started to feel the pain of logging into multiple cloud services - so much so, that he decided to consolidate these connections into a single platform. Ev Kontsevoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engineering parents. When he was younger, computers were relatively uncool still. But as they grew in popularity, he started to explore how to make computers do what he wanted them to do, specifically to interact with hardware. He recalls burning up a monitor once, because he was tinkering with changing the refresh rate, typing up assembly in DOS, and playing early games like Doom. Eventually, he got into infrastructure so he could serve engineers and stay close to the hardware. Fun fact about him - Ev enjoys to watch computers boot. Outside of tech, he likes to tinker with photography, but not digitally - he likes the old cameras, where you have to develop the pictures yourself. Prior to his current venture, Ev created Mailgun - one of the top transactional email platforms out there - which he eventually sold to Rackspace. During his time scaling Mailgun, and working for Rackspace, he started to feel the pain of logging into multiple cloud services - so much so, that he decided to consolidate these connections into a single platform. This is the creation story of Teleport. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://goteleport. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kontsevoy/ --- > He started out his current venture, he started out in the B2C space. When they weren’t seeing the user growth they needed, they pivoted their capabilities fit the enterprise, over the average Joe consumer… with the mission of making enterprises successful. In doing so, they realized that it wasn’t just the application – it was the process. - Published: 2022-03-03 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-prabhjot-singh-pyze/ - Tags: analytics, ceo, data, founder, mining, process, task - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 He started out his current venture, he started out in the B2C space. When they weren’t seeing the user growth they needed, they pivoted their capabilities fit the enterprise, over the average Joe consumer… with the mission of making enterprises successful. In doing so, they realized that it wasn’t just the application – it was the process. Prabhjot Singh has been in enterprise software for the last 22 years - so he has seen a thing or 2. He joined Citibank out of school, and did a leadership program there for 10 months. Post that, he progressed into the startup world... and never left. He got to be apart of early stage growth, acquisitions, and scaling businesses over a short period of time. He's married, and the father of a four year old - which he notes keeps him sane during his startup life. He mentions that a huge blessing from the pandemic has been the time he's been able to spend with his wife and daughter, working on a fully remote team. They started hiking during the pandemic, to balance the lack of activity, and of course to use all of their daughter's energy so she will sleep at night. He started out his current venture, he started out in the B2C space. When they weren't seeing the user growth they needed, they pivoted their capabilities fit the enterprise, over the average Joe consumer... with the mission of making enterprises successful. In doing so, they realized that it wasn't just the application - it was the process. This is the creation of Pyze. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. pyze. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/psinghsf/ --- > Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator. - Published: 2022-03-02 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march-rune-hauge/ - Tags: ceo, founder, fundraising, investing, march, mentor, mentorship, online, partner, venture capital - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator. Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Funding your startupFor the first installment of Mentorcam March, we chat with Rune Hauge, the Founder and CEO of Mentorcam. Rune is an expert in funding your startup, and is a multi time founder. Prior to Mentorcam, he founded three startups and had one successful exit. He has raised millions of dollars in venture capital from top tier Silicon Valley VCs and high-profile angel investors, and also took Mentorcam through Y Combinator. Questions:How do you build a fundraising strategy? What would make one investor a better fit than another? How do you identify the right investors to go after? How do you create the best Y Combinator application? How do you find seed investors? How important is the MVP in the fundraising process? Book a call with Rune by accessing the link below:https://mentor. cam/runehauge - Use Promo Code CODE --- > After taking a trip to reset, Brian's mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need. - Published: 2022-03-01 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-brian-vallelunga-doppler/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, cybersecurity, integration, keys, saas, secrets, security - Podcasts: S6 After taking a trip to reset, Brian's mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need. Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, "why can't you put a movie on your phone? ". This got Brian's mind racing, and he went home, ripped a movie into the specific format for his flip phone, and shared it immediately with his friend. Post that, he competed in science fairs, even at the state level. One of the projects, he built a craft that was lighter than a fingernail, and flew without wings or engines. Brian led a portion of the engineering team at Uber, after inserting himself as an intern into the right meetings, which awarded him interesting projects. At the same time, he was building a crypto marketplace on the side, but struggling to get it launched. After taking a trip to reset, his mind kept coming back to a problem he faced while attempting to launch the marketplace - and it was surrounding managing environment variables and secrets. And his community of developers confirmed the need. This is the creation story of Doppler. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. doppler. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/vallelungabrian/ --- > One day, Raghav found himself fed up with the lack of tools out there, when it came to videos, animations, etc. He got so fed up that he'd decided to build something to solve his problem... and for 14 million others. - Published: 2022-02-24 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-raghav-r-s-animaker/ - Tags: animation, ceo, founder, marketing, martech, promo, video, voiceover - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 One day, Raghav found himself fed up with the lack of tools out there, when it came to videos, animations, etc. He got so fed up that he'd decided to build something to solve his problem... and for 14 million others. Raghav was a product developer, starting a young age. He was creating interesting products for science exhibitions as a kid. Once, this professor asked him to do a cancer research project, which introduced him to the story of Steve Jobs and his entrepreneurial journey. He was highly influenced by this story, and still is today. In the early days, he focused more on the hardware side of computers. But, slowly over time, he was introduced to the coding side of things and found it a much more thriving ecosystem in India. Outside of tech, Raghav likes to watch movies... so much so, that he reviews movies for his friends, and tells them what to see or not see. His favorite movies of all time is Troy, but he did admit he saw Inception twice (mostly, so he could understand all of it). One day, Raghav found himself fed up with the lack of tools out there, when it came to videos, animations, etc. He got so fed up that he'd decided to build something to solve his problem... and for 14 million others. This is the creation story of Animaker. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. animaker. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rsraghavan/ --- > Because we appreciate our listeners so much, we are declaring that March is Mentorcam March on the Code Story podcast. Along side our regular release schedule, each Wednesday, we are going to be interviewing some of the top mentors on the platform, about the topics you know, you love, and you'd love to know more about. - Published: 2022-02-23 - Modified: 2022-02-22 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/mentorcam-march/ - Tags: march, mentor, mentorship, online, partner - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Because we appreciate our listeners so much, we are declaring that March is Mentorcam March on the Code Story podcast. Along side our regular release schedule, each Wednesday, we are going to be interviewing some of the top mentors on the platform, about the topics you know, you love, and you'd love to know more about. Happy Wednesday to all of you listeners. First and foremost, thank you for being just that - a faithful listener. Thank you for tuning in to the show each week, I hope you are enjoying the amazing stories from the builders, founder and leader we have on the show. As a thank you, we are doing something special in March. We are partnering with a new friend of ours, the folks over at Mentorcam. Mentorcam gives you access to high-profile advisors and experts for 1:1 advice on topics related to startups, tech and professional growth. These people are top-tier venture capitalists, founders that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, and tech industry leaders that can help you in the areas of startups, fundraising, sales, growing your career and much more. Because we appreciate our listeners so much, we are declaring that March is Mentorcam March on the Code Story podcast. Along side our regular release schedule, each Wednesday, we are going to be interviewing some of the top advisors on the platform, about the topics you know, you love, and you'd love to know more about. What do you have to hear these amazing conversations? Other than stay tuned during the month of March, I would love it if you would check out Mentorcam today, by going to codestory. co/mentorcam and browse their list of experts. Again, go to codestory. co/mentorcam, and check them out. And of course, stay tuned to the Code Story podcast each week, and especially on Wednesday's, to hear from some of the top mentors on the platform. --- > Post acquisition of his first startup, John stared working on a bunch of projects, one of them requiring him to aggregate a large amount of data and anonymize it. This took a lot of work, and there wasn't anything out on the market that provided this type of functionality. - Published: 2022-02-22 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-john-myers-gretel-ai/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, cybersecurity, data, founder, privacy, privacy engineering - Podcasts: S6 Post acquisition of his first startup, John stared working on a bunch of projects, one of them requiring him to aggregate a large amount of data and anonymize it. This took a lot of work, and there wasn't anything out on the market that provided this type of functionality. John Myers comes from a big military family. He was convinced he was going to be a pilot his whole life. When he was a junior in High School, he started doing C++ programing and he got hooked. After graduation, he got accepted to RPI in update New York, and started suiting computer science. He eventually joined the Air Force, and focused on information systems. Through an interesting turn of events, John got accepted to the NSA, while a good friend of his took his deployment spot to Iraq. This job launched him into the world of cyber security, which took him to Afghanistan doing engineering for the military. When he came back to the states, he jumped head first into the startup world. John is married, and just bought a fixer upper house with his wife. He is into exercise, likes to bike in the summer and ski in the winter. Mostly, he likes to do simple things and decompress with his friends and family. Post acquisition of his first startup, John stared working on a bunch of projects, one of them requiring him to aggregate a large amount of data and anonymize it. This took a lot of work, and there wasn't anything out on the market that provided this type of functionality. This is the creation story of Gretel. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://gretel. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/john-myers-98b07b7/ --- > Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. - Published: 2022-02-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jim-fagan-global-cloud-exchange/ - Tags: bandwidth, CRO, infrastructure, innovation, internet, network - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. Jim Fagan has had a long and winding road into the tech world. He grew up in New Jersey, and post school, started out in Finance. Slowly, through those roles, he drifted towards operations, and then eventually, towards technology. Personally, he loves to be outside, doing stuff that involves the water. He enjoys surfing, wakeboarding, skiing, you name it. Through his profession, he has travelled the world, and visited many amazing places, including spending 9 years in Hong Kong. He found great pleasure in learning the cultures - personal and business - and how to reach out across languages to make connections. Jim found himself in an opportune position, to join a company and not only bring it back to life, but to take advantage of a massive global connectivity solution, providing managed network services for over 140 multi-national companies. The question he was hired to answer was - how do we combine infrastructure with software? This is the pivot story of Global Cloud Xchange. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. globalcloudxchange. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jim-fagan-1691593/ --- > Thats right, you can download Goodpods today, and listen to the Code Story podcast right there! In fact, my ask is this... please go pick out your favorite episode of the podcast on the app, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. - Published: 2022-02-16 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/code-story-on-goodpods/ - Tags: app, download, podcast, subscribe - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Thats right, you can download Goodpods today, and listen to the Code Story podcast right there! In fact, my ask is this... please go pick out your favorite episode of the podcast on the app, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. Hey y'all, hope everyone is having an awesome day. Do you ever find yourself about to put your earbuds on, or jump in the car, but don't really know which podcast to listen to. And you REALLY wish someone would give you a recommendation? I wanted to let you in on a new, award winning podcasting app out there called Goodpods. And this app does just that. Just like you can get with books or music, you can now get with podcasts. On the Goodpods app, you can get recommendations from experts you admire, or friends you trust - or even better, you can be the one making the recommendation, and sharing your favorite episodes or shows with your friends. Its chock full of other features too, around chatting, following hosts, bookmarking episodes for later, and much more. And guess what? Code Story is on Goodpods too. Thats right, you can download Goodpods today, and listen to the Code Story podcast right there. In fact, my ask is this... please go pick out your favorite episode of the podcast on the app, and recommend it on the platform. It would be a huge help to Code Story, to Goodpods, and to your friends, of course. Go to codestory. co/goodpods on your phone to download the app, follow the podcast, and recommend your favorite episode. https://codestory. co/goodpods --- > Blake pitched an idea to some investor friends of his - which, ultimately turned down his idea. However, they saw potential within the focal areas of his ideas, and gave him some advice on how to proceed. Once he nailed down markets of required learning, that could be translated to a mobile experience - he was able to finally take off. - Published: 2022-02-15 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-blake-garrett-aceable/ - Tags: ceo, certification, digital, drivers ed, founder, online - Podcasts: S6 Blake pitched an idea to some investor friends of his - which, ultimately turned down his idea. However, they saw potential within the focal areas of his ideas, and gave him some advice on how to proceed. Once he nailed down markets of required learning, that could be translated to a mobile experience - he was able to finally take off. Blake Garrett had the good fortunate to grow up in the Bay Area. He got to observe his father and his involvement in startups. Though none of them were massive successes, his Dad would bring him around and he got to watch him bring together teams of really smart people to solve customer problems. Blake was a sports player growing up - mainly, basketball and football. He was starting quarterback in football for a while, then transitioned to playing safety. Though, he admits that his heart was still into playing offense. He's married with a 2 year old, and one more on the way. Blake decided he wanted to execute on one of his ideas. He taught himself several key areas to get himself started, and built a handful of mobile apps. Post this, he pitched an idea to some investor friends of his - which, ultimately turned down his idea. However, they saw potential within the focal areas of his ideas, and gave him some advice on how to proceed. Once he nailed down markets of required learning, that could be translated to a mobile experience - he was able to finally take off. This is the creation story of Aceable. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. aceable. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/blakegarrett/ --- > In his prior role, Michel was a Director of Engineering and Head of Integration at LiveRamp, where he and his team were managing thousands of connectors, responsible for moving massive amounts of data everyday. His big realization was that every company needs to have a way to move data, and to do it in a dead simple way. - Published: 2022-02-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-michel-tricot-airbyte/ - Tags: ceo, data, etl, founder, integration, warehouse - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In his prior role, Michel was a Director of Engineering and Head of Integration at LiveRamp, where he and his team were managing thousands of connectors, responsible for moving massive amounts of data everyday. His big realization was that every company needs to have a way to move data, and to do it in a dead simple way. Michel Tricot has been in the data space for the past 15 years. He really enjoys gathering information, and gaining insight from it. As a kid, he would gather data in analog ways, grouping together movies or internet articles in categories, and extracting info from it. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and loves a nice afternoon in the backyard cooking BBQ. He does both fire cooking, and smoking, though he admits that he not smoked a brisket yet because he doesn't want to get up in the middle of night and check the temperature. In his prior role, Michel was a Director of Engineering and Head of Integration at LiveRamp, where he and his team were managing thousands of connectors, responsible for moving massive amounts of data everyday. His big realization was that every company needs to have a way to move data, and to do it in a dead simple way. This is the creation story of Airbyte. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://airbyte. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/micheltricot/ --- > When business was booming, Vedran and his team built a tool to help them keep track of all the API's they were supporting. After putting it down several times, they finally figured out how to scale it properly and decided to finish building it... and share it with the world. - Published: 2022-02-09 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-vedran-cindric-treblle/ - Tags: agency, analytics, api, ceo, co-founder, documentation, founder, on call, support - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 When business was booming, Vedran and his team built a tool to help them keep track of all the API's they were supporting. After putting it down several times, they finally figured out how to scale it properly and decided to finish building it... and share it with the world. Vedran Cindrić grew up in a small town, in rural Croatia. As far back as he can remember, he has been tinkering with computers - messing around with DOS, and of course, gaming. From the very early days, computers became his passion. When he finishing college, he started his own successful design agency before building his current venture. He likes to watch movies and TV shows, and loves to barbecue. I learned that in Croatia they don't smoke meat as much as we do in the states, and stick mainly to pork over beef. One thing I loved that Vedran said was "the best way to eat a salad is when you are having barbecue - otherwise, you wouldn't eat a salad". When business was booming, Vedran and his team built a tool to help them keep track of all the API's they were supporting. After putting it down several times, they finally figured out how to scale it properly and decided to finish building it... and share it with the world. This is the creation story of Treblle. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://treblle. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/vedrancindric --- > When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better. - Published: 2022-02-08 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-mike-boufford-greenhouse/ - Tags: assessment, co-founder, cto, founder, hr, position, posting, recruiting - Podcasts: S6 When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better. Mike Boufford has no hobbies anymore, and for good reason... he has two 6 month old daughters and a 3 year old toddler, so its an exciting and very busy time for the family. He used to play guitar and enjoyed cooking, but now he exclusively focuses on family and work. His family loves to go to the park and taking walks around the neighborhood. Along with that, they sing songs, read stories, doing art projects and with the 3 year old, Mike does dramatic play. Recently, his daughter was Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and promptly decided that Mike was Gaston. He's not sure if that means she thinks he is arrogant or the strongest man she knows. When Mike interviewed at a large company, he expected that there would be some sort of structured process and for it to be organized. He found out it wasn't... he chatted with multiple people, who all asked him the same questions. When approached to join a team, and build something to solve these problems - it took him no time at all to figure out he could build something better. This is the creation story of Greenhouse. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. greenhouse. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/boufford/ --- > Lindsay has been a B2B marketer for over 15 years. While working in the space, she wanted a platform to help her maintain, manage, and make the most of audio and video content made for her company. When she looked around for a solution, she couldn't find one. So of course - she and her co-founders decided to build their own. - Published: 2022-02-03 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lindsay-tjepkema-casted/ - Tags: b2b, ceo, co-founder, content, distribution, founder, marketing, podcast, roi, sharing, video, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Lindsay has been a B2B marketer for over 15 years. While working in the space, she wanted a platform to help her maintain, manage, and make the most of audio and video content made for her company. When she looked around for a solution, she couldn't find one. So of course - she and her co-founders decided to build their own. Lindsay Tjepkema is married with three kids, living in Indianapolis. Her children are all boys, and she lovingly describes them more like bear cubs, that don't actually walk anywhere, they just kinda roll around and growl. They've been known to have many a family night playing Mario Kart or watching avengers movies. Lindsay has been a B2B marketer for over 15 years. While working in the space, she wanted a platform to help her maintain, manage, and make the most of audio and video content made for her company. When she looked around for a solution, she couldn't find one. So of course - she and her co-founders decided to build their own. This is the creation story of Casted. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. casted. us/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lindsaytjepkema/ --- > Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. - Published: 2022-02-02 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-carpenter-valyant/ - Tags: assess, ceo, data, industry, skills, upskill - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. Rob Carpenter was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska - and no... he can't see Russia from his back steps. He has been a long term space ship nerd, and confesses that one of the reason he got into entrepreneurship is because he wants to eventually secure a ticket to space. Currently, he lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with his young family, and really enjoys the outdoors, growing his company, and taking good care of his little ones. While his kids are young, he loves to take the kids hiking, swimming at the pool, and going to the zoo and local animal sanctuaries. Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. This is the creation story of Valyant. Sponsors Immediate Orbit Postmark Stytch Verb Data Webapp. io Links Website: https://valyant. ai/ LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rob-carpenter/ --- > After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client’s feedback was that it didn’t solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress – on demand pay. - Published: 2022-02-01 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-matt-pierce-immediate/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, daily, daily pay, employees, founder, payments - Podcasts: S6 After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client’s feedback was that it didn’t solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress – on demand pay. Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started out in healthcare tech for a decade or so. Eventually, he started down the path of being an entrepreneur. He is married with 3 daughters - 2 in third grade and one that is a 2 year old. He mentioned the entrepreneurial dilemma of picking 3 of the 5 life choices - family, business, sleep, exercise and friendships - and notes that his three are family, business, and sleep. After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client's feedback was that it didn't solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress - on demand pay. This is the creation story of Immediate. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: http://joinimmediate. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/piercmb/ --- > Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. - Published: 2022-01-28 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-newman-pyrl/ - Tags: ceo, data, enterprises, founder, history, purchase, retailers, startup, valuable, win-win - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Through Adam's life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a bakery and were Taylors. So the entrepreneur and self starter characteristics found in Adam are deeply rooted. He's married with 4 kids, and loves to spend lots of time outdoors and living vicariously through his children's sports activities. He spends a lot of time helping his wife grow her education business, and she spends a lot of time supporting and encouraging him with his ventures. Through his life experiences, including losing his Father to cancer, an idea originated in him around consumers owning their purchase data, while benefitting companies who cooperate with data privacy best practices. When a few things caught up in the world - data privacy rules, the industry, and Adam himself - he was able to step into creating a win-win solution around data. This is the creation story of Pyrl. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://pyrl. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/newmanadam/ --- > In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved. - Published: 2022-01-27 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-cowell-quanthub/ - Tags: assess, ceo, data, industry, skills, upskill - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved. Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in Chemical Engineering. So - by trade, he was clearly a chemist. However, when he joined Accenture, he started in with programming and establishing the SDLC methodology for the company. Matt is married with 2 kids, loves sports - specifically Illinois basketball - loves to play music and golf. He likes to travel with his wife to see family, and make frequent visits to their lakehouse. In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved. This is the creation story of QuantHub. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://quanthub. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattcowell/ --- > When his now co-founder left Morgan Stanley, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy. - Published: 2022-01-25 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-trevor-marshall-current/ - Tags: banking, card, co-founder, cto, easy, founder, hip - Podcasts: S6 When his now co-founder left Morgan Stanley, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy. Trevor Marshall grew up in NY, and has been living in the state his whole life. His path into technology was not a direct one. Prior to school, he was on the road to becoming a professional musician, studying at Juilliard. However, early on in his schooling, he found the same sort of joy he got from music in other areas, initially through economics and combinatorics - and he was hooked on math and computer science. Early on in life, Trevor's grandfather took him to the horse tracks, teaching him about the odds of a race. Fast forward several years post graduation from Columbia, he joined Morgan Stanley and got really excited about Bitcoin. He even went to his boss and asked if he could trade it... which he was promptly denied. However, that bold interaction solidified a match made in heaven for future working relationship. In fact, when his now co-founder left, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy. This is the creation story of Current. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://current. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/trevor-kurth-marshall/ --- > One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? - Published: 2022-01-20 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-alexander-deeb-classhook/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, content, education, engagement, media, self taught - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 One day, Alex and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well in school on order to obtain better opportunities. Along side of that, he is interested in equitable opportunities, which is a big driver for him in his professional ventures. He is passionate about helping learn about new opportunities. He grew up in Long Island, NY - so of course, he loves pizza. He frequents the local pizza house, which in his opinion is Stellas'. He gets 2 slices of regular cheese, with a coke - which is the only time he drinks soda. One day, he and his friends got together to have a business brainstorming question. One of the questions that came up was how can you make videos searchable? Also, how can you improve engagement within schools, perhaps with popular media? This is the creation story of Classhook. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. classhook. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alexanderdeeb/ --- > Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. They found that the biggest problem to be solved was the combination of security issues with passwords, and the low conversion rate of sign up / sign in forms requiring passwords. They wanted to fix this. - Published: 2022-01-19 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-reed-mcginley-stempel-stytch/ - Tags: auth, ceo, co-founder, foundation, founder, login, sign in, social - Podcasts: Bonus, S6 Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. They found that the biggest problem to be solved was the combination of security issues with passwords, and the low conversion rate of sign up / sign in forms requiring passwords. They wanted to fix this. Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn't know what he wanted to do and "stumbled" into management consulting. When I dug into how someone stumbles into this profession, he mentioned that early on he got some sage advice from his older brother about not rushing to law school because... being a lawyer isn't that fun. So, he followed some friends to Bain & Company. The more projects he was involved in, the more he got interested in technology. Candidly, one of his motivations for going in tech was the fact that his was moving out to San Francisco to support his wife through law school at Stanford. He considered continuing to do consulting with Bain, but decided tech was the best route and eventually, joined Plaid. Outside of his professional career, he is into the outdoors, loving hiking and taking his very active dog outside. He mentions that living in San Francisco makes the outdoors super accessible. Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. There, they explored how to secure bank authentication to maintain security, but also do it in such a way that reduced friction and created an amazing experience. They found that the biggest problem to be solved was the combination of security issues with passwords, and the low conversion rate of sign up / sign in forms requiring passwords. They wanted to fix this. This is the creation story of Stytch. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: http://stytch. com/codestoryLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/reed-mcginley-stempel-17362245/ --- > In their inception, Stephen and his co-founder were trying to solve a problem... by simply creating a button to order a taxi. In the process of building that, they figured out they needed tech to allow more than one party to participate. And their product vision clicked. - Published: 2022-01-18 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-stephen-blum-pubnub/ - Tags: backend, chat, co-founder, cto, founder, in app, iot, notifications, push api - Podcasts: S6 In their inception, Stephen and his co-founder were trying to solve a problem... by simply creating a button to order a taxi. In the process of building that, they figured out they needed tech to allow more than one party to participate. And their product vision clicked. Stephen Blum finds that his life outside of tech is tricky to define, given we are surrounded by tech everywhere. He was inspired to be a game developer at an early age, and he found it fun and exciting. In the gaming days, he really enjoyed the Legend of Zelda, Metroid - those adventures and the animation was fascinating to him. After a while, he found more excitement within the business world, and using technology to solve problems and profit. In fact, he finds it so much fun, that what he loves to do outside of work and business... is just chill. He likes it when there is no plans. Stephen likes to support and invest in earlier stage AI and API companies. He has 18 different companies he has invested in, and he wants to continue expanding that portfolio, and into crypto as well - specifically arbitrage through API's, which he finds particularly fun and lucrative. One of the tricks he found is to make all trades simultaneously within the same wallet. In their inception, Stephen and his co-founder were trying to solve a problem... by simply creating a button to order a taxi. In the process of building that, they figured out they needed tech to allow more than one party to participate. And their product vision clicked. This is the creation story of Pubnub. SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. ioLinksWebsite: https://www. pubnub. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/stephenlb/ --- > Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. - Published: 2022-01-13 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-guillermo-rauch-vercel-next-js-replay/ - Tags: ceo, cto, founder, frontend, javascript, next.js, react - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he feel in love with the web and the front end web system, working in the early days of AJAX, JS Animation and jQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed - because he really enjoys what is does professionally on the web . On a personal level though, he has three kiddos so he stays pretty busu. He is into fitness, and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that, he is into coffee - though I don't know many tech people who aren't into coffee. Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API's. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast - specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. This is the creation story of Next. js and Vercel. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://vercel. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/guillermo-rauch-b834b917b/https://nextjs. org/ --- > Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. - Published: 2022-01-11 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adrian-tobey-groundhogg-replay/ - Tags: ceo, crm, founder, marketing, martech, plugin, wordpress - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In high school, he was interested in computer science, and developed video games and useful UI for his school. Prior to digital marketing, his father was a jazz musician, and Adrian followed in those footsteps to play the trumpet. For University, he had two options - go to school for computer science or for music... and chose the latter. During school, he was working full time for his Dad's agency, building websites, email campaigns and such. While he was doing this, he built his first product called Form Lift, which is a Wordpress form builder for Infusion Soft. Around 3 years into school, he failed his first university course - a discrete computer science course around computer runtimes, big O notation, etc. He had invested a ton of money into the his degree already, but he started doing the math, and estimated he wouldn't complete school until 2025 because he was part time. With that in mind, he dropped out of University school, and thought - what next? He didn't want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on Wordpress. This is the creation story of Groundhogg. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. groundhogg. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adriantobey --- > Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. - Published: 2022-01-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-6-trailer/ - Tags: api, api design, ceo, chrome, chrome extension, css, cto, endpoint, founder, html, india, js - Podcasts: S6, Trailer Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stych, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. As we dive into another journey together, in fact our 6th journey together, you an expect to hear more (even more! ) amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determining feature importance, building teams - and scaling, or fighting scale, as you grow. Our guest list this Season is truly epic, with appearances from Stephen Blum of Pubnub, Matt Pierce of Immediate, Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stytch, Mike Bouffard of Greenhouse... to mention just a few. Season 6 starts on January 18th, so subscribe today to ensure you don't miss an episode. And a big shout out and thank you to our Season 6 sponsorsSponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp. io --- > This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. - Published: 2022-01-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-5-sign-off/ - Podcasts: S5 This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. This is Season 5, signing off... . Thank you for listening! Season 6 of the Code Story podcast will be starting SOON... so stay tuned. --- > Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and crippled their progress at the time. They pivoted the product a bit, to be a sort of eCommerce like site for freelancers to offer services. While they let their Jolly pivot grow, he and his co-founder started building a new product... one which allows startup experts to offer their knowledge and experience - in a fractional, part time manner. - Published: 2022-01-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shelby-stephens-growth-match/ - Tags: ceo, experts, founder, freelancer, pandemic, pivot, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and crippled their progress at the time. They pivoted the product a bit, to be a sort of eCommerce like site for freelancers to offer services. While they let their Jolly pivot grow, he and his co-founder started building a new product... one which allows startup experts to offer their knowledge and experience - in a fractional, part time manner. Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and crippled their progress at the time. They pivoted the product a bit, to be a sort of eCommerce like site for freelancers to offer services. While they let their Jolly pivot grow, he and his co-founder started building a new product... one which allows startup experts to offer their knowledge and experience - in a fractional, part time manner. This is the creation story of Growth Match. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. growthmatch. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shelbystephens/https://www. jollyhq. com/https://codestory. co/podcast/e10-shelby-stephens-jolly/ --- > Post Heroku's acquisition by Salesforce, he found himself thinking about the future of computing, and started a research lab called Ink & Switch. The area they landed on was computing interfaces, and usage around screen touch. After a few prototypes, they landed on a solid combination of desktop precision with touch screen mobility. - Published: 2022-01-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e30-adam-wiggins-muse-app/ - Tags: app, cto, founder, heroku, ipad, notepad, partner, thoughts - Podcasts: S5 Post Heroku's acquisition by Salesforce, he found himself thinking about the future of computing, and started a research lab called Ink & Switch. The area they landed on was computing interfaces, and usage around screen touch. After a few prototypes, they landed on a solid combination of desktop precision with touch screen mobility. Adam Wiggins was from California originally, but has lived in Berlin for the last decade. Earlier in his life, he did burning man art installations and was a DJ. Now, he is a middle aged family man, so he focuses on his family, his daughter, his adorable dog and his career/software projects. His partner is also an immigrant, whom he met while in Berlin. Adam loves Berlin, and in fact, loves European cities in general, for their focus on quality of life. He mentions that in the states, there is a large amount of economic freedom but some inequality and more highs and lows to speak of. The culture in Berlin specifically is full of history, culture, and a bohemian element which is very attractive to music and art. Adam is most well known for starting Heroku, which completely simplified the way developers think, interact and use infrastructure. Post its acquisition by Salesforce, he found himself thinking about the future of computing, and started a research lab called Ink & Switch. The area they landed on was computing interfaces, and usage around screen touch. After a few prototypes, they landed on something that they though was a solid combination of desktop precision with touch screen mobility. This is the creation story of Muse. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://museapp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adam-wiggins-a7623845/https://adamwiggins. com/ --- > Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, - Published: 2021-12-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lydia-davies-teemates/ - Tags: agency, ceo, co-founder, community, founder, golf, outsource, social media, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Alaska, the Middle East and now in Houston. She has always been into sports - playing, supporting, etc. When she was 16 years old, she signed on to a music label as a singer and pianist, traveling around the world to perform. When she left the music industry, she got really into technology. As she opened a performing arts academy, she ended up building her own website and app for the business. During COVID in 2020, she starting creating a framework for a golf app, for her and her husband to find people to play golf with. She wanted the app to have mechanics like a dating app, with a social aspect to see who was down to play some golf... worldwide. This is the creation story of Teemates. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://teematesgolf. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lydia-davies-57b7001/ --- > Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these - Published: 2021-12-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e29-nick-clayton-savitude/ - Tags: ai, clothing, cto, data, fashion, inclusion, ml - Podcasts: S5 Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these types of games. He is an avid Magic the Gathering player, and has been enjoying the game for over 20 years. When I asked the difference between Magic and Dungeons and Dragons, he notes that DND is a role playing game and more about telling a story, while Magic is more about strategy and mechanics. He also enjoys spending time with friends and family, and cooking a good meal with lots of flavors. Nick and his co-founders followed the data, and learned that there were a large number of people in the population have a hard time finding clothes... because clothes aren't produced in their body shape. After iterating on solutions around education and recommendation engines, they decided to move upstream into the designer's process. This is the creation story of Savitude. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. savitude. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nicholas-clayton-b6b60815/ --- > Marco and his co-founder came to San Francisco 10 years ago, to build an API marketplace. Over time, they amassed 300,000 developers, consuming and publishing API's. Eventually, the figured out the business model wasn't working... so they open sourced the platform. - Published: 2021-12-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-marco-palladino-kong/ - Tags: api, co-founder, cto, gateway, marketplace, open source - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Marco and his co-founder came to San Francisco 10 years ago, to build an API marketplace. Over time, they amassed 300,000 developers, consuming and publishing API's. Eventually, the figured out the business model wasn't working... so they open sourced the platform. Marco Palladino migrated from Italy about 10 years ago. . and brought all of his Italian hobbies with him. He loves to cook - specifically pasta, of course - and enjoys a good glass of wine. He has a family, with 1 kid and 1 on the way. He loves sports, soccer and skiing. Beyond that, he is a self taught developer, where tech has been his side hobby and passion, but turned into his full time gig. Marco and his co-founder came to San Francisco 10 years ago, to build an API marketplace. Over time, they amassed 300,000 developers, consuming and publishing API's. Eventually, the figured out the business model wasn't working... so they open sourced the platform. This is the creation story of Kong. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://konghq. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/marcopalladino/ --- > As a freelancer, and a part of a community of freelancers, Oona found that it was difficult to understand cash flow with variable income. Through interactions with accountants or financial systems, she saw that most systems or professionals were backwards looking. She though, well what does it look like moving forward? What does it look like to bring on additional client? - Published: 2021-12-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e28-oona-rokyta-lance/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, fintech, freelancer, payments, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 As a freelancer, and a part of a community of freelancers, Oona found that it was difficult to understand cash flow with variable income. Through interactions with accountants or financial systems, she saw that most systems or professionals were backwards looking. She though, well what does it look like moving forward? What does it look like to bring on additional client? Oona Rokyta is a first generation American, which you wouldn't expect from her lack of accent. Her parents are artists from the Czech Republic, who migrated to the US 6 months before she was born. Because of her parents profession, she comes from the land of not understanding business, nor tech. Her parents are role models for her - in fact, they are her personal heroes. From this inspired place, she finds her greatest motivation in life, which is to learn as much as possible and share it with others. She spends a lot of time with her boyfriend and his kids, and has even kicked off a weekly baking challenge with his daughter, creating experimental dishes. As a freelancer, and a part of a community of freelancers, Oona found that it was difficult to understand cash flow with variable income. Through interactions with accountants or financial systems, she saw that most systems or professionals were backwards looking. She though, well what does it look like moving forward? What does it look like to bring on additional client? This is the creation story of Lance. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. lance. app/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/orokyta/details/experience/ --- > Ari spent a lot of time around identity, specifically in ad tech and mar tech. He figured out that data was common currency in that world, but not in other spaces. Having built large identity graphs, he recognized there was an opportunity to do it again in cyber risk and fraud. - Published: 2021-12-17 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ari-jacoby-deduce/ - Tags: ceo, cyber, cyber security, founder, fraud, identity, Tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Ari spent a lot of time around identity, specifically in ad tech and mar tech. He figured out that data was common currency in that world, but not in other spaces. Having built large identity graphs, he recognized there was an opportunity to do it again in cyber risk and fraud. Ari Jacoby grew up in the DC Metro Area, but has lived in New York City for the last 17 years. He's married with 2 kids at home, ages 12 and 9, and he spends a lot of time outside of his business building legos, math homework, and stem projects with his kids. The biggest hit of the stem projects has been circuitry, to see something buzz or light up at the end of the exercise. He's a big fan of international travel, and enjoys a good glass of wine with his wife. Speaking of, Ari's biggest influence is his wife. As he puts it, she is the CFO (Chief Family Officer) of the Jacoby Household, and does a brilliant job of it. He likes to watch her works, and finds it motivating how much she gets done and takes care of in her infinitely more hard role than his. Ari spent a lot of time around identity, specifically in ad tech and mar tech. He figured out that data was common currency in that world, but not in other spaces. Having built large identity graphs, he recognized there was an opportunity to do it again in cyber risk and fraud. This is the creation story of Deduce. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://deduce. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arijacoby/ --- > Ben was working on a bunch of different side projects in 2013. The process to get IP Info was manual, tedious, and filled with headaches across projects. After he felt this pain point multiple times, he decided to build a solution to solve it... not knowing that he would quickly start getting millions of requests in a short time. - Published: 2021-12-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ben-dowling-ipinfo/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Ben was working on a bunch of different side projects in 2013. The process to get IP Info was manual, tedious, and filled with headaches across projects. After he felt this pain point multiple times, he decided to build a solution to solve it... not knowing that he would quickly start getting millions of requests in a short time. Ben Dowling lives in Seattle, and loves it there. He is married, and a father of three kids - ages 11, 8 and 5 - so he's a busy dude. He loves to hike, and recently took his family on a weekend trip to Mount Rainer. He loves to snowboard, and get away from the screen - though he admits, that tech is also his hobby... building side projects, apps, websites, etc. Ben was working on a bunch of different side projects in 2013. The process to get IP Info was manual, tedious, and filled with headaches across projects. After he felt this pain point multiple times, he decided to build a solution to solve it... not knowing that he would quickly start getting millions of requests in a short time. This is the creation story of IPInfo. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://ipinfo. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bendowling/ --- > Hey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year! For today, I'm sharing yet another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. - Published: 2021-12-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-what-is-the-recipe-for-burnout/ - Tags: code, compiler, Developer, manager, podcast, red hat - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Hey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year! For today, I'm sharing yet another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. Original episode: https://www. redhat. com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentationHey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New year! For today, I'm sharing yet another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. On this particular episode - which is episode 10 - the topic of burnout is chatted on. This was a great discussion, full of really good tidbits. What I really liked was how Angela, Brent and Johan break down the ingredients for burnout. In order, these are:An unending amount of workNot having healthy boundaries on your workGuilt, obligation, and never doing enoughCriticism amplifying 1-3The hosts primarily interviewed folks, and come up with this recipe from the standpoint of open source maintainers. Interestingly enough, I find that these apply to software engineers as well. I think criticism can be interchanged with pressure as well, which probably has some criticism implicit in it. However, I also find that lack of team or company direction can lead to burnout as well as an absence of mentorship. When people don't feel like they are growing, work can become stale. Perhaps it's a little bit of burnout mixed with boredom, but at any rate, it leads them to not want to work there anymore. At any rate, I really enjoyed this episode, and think you will too. Enjoy! --- > Prior to his current venture, Max has had some great success in the open source world, and building a chat tool called Spectrum – which was a platform for community chat. Eventually, Github acquired the product, and opened a whole new set of problems around architecting a large scale, real time system. Through a difficult period of learning and service outages, he learned and figured out a better way to reduce traffic up to 95% with edge caching. - Published: 2021-12-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e27-max-stoiber-graphcdn/ - Tags: co-founder, computing, edge, exit, founder, graphql, scale, startup - Podcasts: S5 Prior to his current venture, Max has had some great success in the open source world, and building a chat tool called Spectrum – which was a platform for community chat. Eventually, Github acquired the product, and opened a whole new set of problems around architecting a large scale, real time system. Through a difficult period of learning and service outages, he learned and figured out a better way to reduce traffic up to 95% with edge caching. Max Stoiber was born and raised in a small town, just outside of Vienna, Austria. From a young age, his biggest influence was his mother, who left her job to start her own business as a medical expert in the courts. It has been inspiring for Max to watch her find her place in the world, and to box through everything life threw at her. He still finds great inspiration from that today. And, very early on, he was focused on doing something on his own. When he's not staring at his computer screens, he likes to get outside and boulder with this friends. He got into the sport through other fellow geeks, and he feels that bouldering in Vienna is pretty much a nerd sport. He's also a trained skiing instructor, and really into coffee, as a certified barista. Prior to his current venture, Max has had some great success in the open source world, and building a chat tool called Spectrum - which was a platform for community chat. Eventually, Github acquired the product, and opened a whole new set of problems around architecting a large scale, real time system. Through a difficult period of learning and service outages, he learned and figured out a better way to reduce traffic up to 95% with edge caching. This is the creation story of GraphCDN. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://graphcdn. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mxstbr/The Mom Test --- > Darshan is also an author, and just recently released his book called "Getting to Aha". The tagline harps on the belief that today's insights become tomorrow's facts. One of the things Darshan found throughout his career was that most people want to figure out why people buy your products. Most people are comfortable with surveys, but its difficult to get to the "why" that way, and focus groups help with that. Traditionally, doing a focus group has been difficult, expensive, and concentrated to geo areas. Darshan set out to build a tool to change this for the market. - Published: 2021-12-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-darshan-mehta-iresearch/ - Tags: apps, ceo, focus groups, insights, market, marketing, research, surveys - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Darshan is also an author, and just recently released his book called "Getting to Aha". The tagline harps on the belief that today's insights become tomorrow's facts. One of the things Darshan found throughout his career was that most people want to figure out why people buy your products. Most people are comfortable with surveys, but its difficult to get to the "why" that way, and focus groups help with that. Traditionally, doing a focus group has been difficult, expensive, and concentrated to geo areas. Darshan set out to build a tool to change this for the market. Darshan Mehta has a degree in marketing and finance, and has typically served those disciplines. However, he has been accused of having the extra tech gene, since he was born in India. He enjoys out door activities, and is scuba diving certified. He really likes to do activities around what he is passionate about. For example, he is launching a hackathon in Bangkok called Big Mango, to help teams achieve product market fit and incubate early stage startups. And, he teaches at universities around the world, in particular around how to give presentations. He believes deeply in communicating effectively and having engaging conversations. Darshan is also an author, and just recently released his book called "Getting to Aha". The tagline harps on the belief that today's insights become tomorrow's facts. One of the things Darshan found throughout his career was that most people want to figure out why people buy your products. Most people are comfortable with surveys, but its difficult to get to the "why" that way, and focus groups help with that. Traditionally, doing a focus group has been difficult, expensive, and concentrated to geo areas. Darshan set out to build a tool to change this for the market. This is the creation story of iResearch. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. iresearch. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/darshan--mehta/https://www. connectqik. com/Getting to Aha - Book --- > Ilan and his co-founder were developers in many different types of companies – startups, enterprises, etc. It seemed to them that it was easy to debut and troubleshoot applications in development, but found it very difficult to observe applications in production. They realized that most developers were not equipped with the right tooling to troubleshoot and understand live applications in the wild. - Published: 2021-12-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ilan-peleg-lightrun/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, Developer, founder, infrastructure, observability, r&d, workflows - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Ilan and his co-founder were developers in many different types of companies – startups, enterprises, etc. It seemed to them that it was easy to debut and troubleshoot applications in development, but found it very difficult to observe applications in production. They realized that most developers were not equipped with the right tooling to troubleshoot and understand live applications in the wild. Ilan Peleg is 29 years old, and has been a long time middle distance runner. He previously ran the 800 meters, and served int he Israeli Army as a professional athlete. At the age of 21, he retired and started his tech career. He said that there are many who would correlate their Israeli service area of their professional success. He just recently got engaged. He proposed to his fiancé outside of Tel Aviv, on a cliff, in the same spot where they had their first kiss. Generally, he enjoys sports and athletics, and sees it has a positive effect on how he manages his team at Lighten. He also likes to travel, and stay educated on the topics he follows. Ilan and his co-founder were developers in many different types of companies - startups, enterprises, etc. It seemed to them that it was easy to debut and troubleshoot applications in development, but found it very difficult to observe applications in production. They realized that most developers were not equipped with the right tooling to troubleshoot and understand live applications in the wild. This is the creation story of Lighten. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://lightrun. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ilan-peleg-5a31396b --- > Earlier in Bruno’s life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor’s had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable. - Published: 2021-12-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e26-bruno-demuro-armor-bionics/ - Tags: 3d printing, ceo, founder, schematic, surgery - Podcasts: S5 Earlier in Bruno’s life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor’s had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable. Bruno Demuro is first and foremost, a father of 2 children. He says this is the single most awesome thing, and yet at the same time, the most challenging thing. He has a background in industrial engineering and design, but considers himself a generalist and a relentless problem solver (which he admits, can be hard on this wife). He loves all thing tech - hardware, software, you name it. But beyond tech, he loves working on and restoring classic cars, along with surfing on a long board. Earlier in Bruno's life, his mother had to undergo surgery to have a brain tumor removed. Though the surgery went WELL, in order to remove a tumor the size of a penny, the doctor's had to make an opening the size of a grapefruit. When Bruno asked why, the Doctor said that it was the only way they could be sure that the tumor would be accessible. Bruno found this answer to be unacceptable. This is the creation story of Armor Bionics. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. armorbionics. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/brunodemuro/ --- > While working for a large data aggregation company, Kyle worked through a number of data availability, reliability, and infrastructure around massive data processing. Internally, he thought there must be a better way. - Published: 2021-12-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kyle-bernhardy-harperdb/ - Tags: database, edge, fast, flexibility, founder, global, replica, speed, technician - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 While working for a large data aggregation company, Kyle worked through a number of data availability, reliability, and infrastructure around massive data processing. Internally, he thought there must be a better way. Kyle Bernhardy had a less than traditional path to the tech world. He has been in the industry since the late 90's, but it all started when he was growing up, attempting to program text adventures games on his Commodore 64. In High School, he started running and they became a major part of his life - so much so, he went to run for Penn State University. He settled into an exercise and sports science major, so he could stay close to the sport. Post college - he didn't know what to do with his degree. He worked in a few corporate fitness centers, but didn't enjoy what he was doing and didn't see a path for himself. During that time, he ended up getting a job in tech support. He grew in this role, in his knowledge of DB basics, SQL and supporting database reporting. Once this happened, he moved into the development world. Programming for Kyle is a creative outlet, but not for art... for problem solving. In 2010, he started working for a data center company and met his now co-founder. They would hang out and chat about what it would be like to build something together. While working for a large data aggregation company, he worked through a number of data availability, reliability, and infrastructure around massive data processing. Internally, he thought there must be a better way. This is the creation story of HarperDB. 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LinksWebsite: https://harperdb. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kylebernhardy/ --- > Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. - Published: 2021-12-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cherish-santoshi-sawo-labs/ - Tags: code, cto, founder, infrastructure, microsoft, n, terraform - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Being startup minded, Cherish set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. Cherish Santoshi started his professional career when he was just 18. He plays music, being a one man band through his guitar, bass and drum skills. He's even got a studio setup at home, and enjoys lo fi hip hop, especially when he is working. Cherish reads and watches a lot of content, specifically around theoretical thought experiments, which help. Him to think about things from a different angle. Along with this, he likes to travel... to get out, see the world, and experience new people and ways of thinking. He likes to interact with like minded developers, founders, and startup folks, which makes his current role as Head of Community a perfect fit. Being startup minded, he set out with his founding members to continue the growth of SaaS in India, and build a product specifically for then developer community, and building an auth product that furthers the password less revolution. This is the creation story of SAWO. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://sawolabs. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/cherishsantoshi/ --- > Eventually, Bobby was an on call engineer – either by accident or intentionally – because he always wanted to help solve the problem. At one point, he set out to bridge bootcamp grads into the real world of software through a video series. As it turns out, the product he was building during the series was much more interesting – and desired – than the videos themselves. - Published: 2021-11-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e25-bobby-ross-fire-hydrant/ - Tags: ceo, founder, incident, platform, reliability, service, SRE, status - Podcasts: S5 Eventually, Bobby was an on call engineer – either by accident or intentionally – because he always wanted to help solve the problem. At one point, he set out to bridge bootcamp grads into the real world of software through a video series. As it turns out, the product he was building during the series was much more interesting – and desired – than the videos themselves. Robert Ross, also known as Bobby Tables, has been into building stuff since he was 12 years old. Around that time, he Googled "how to make a website", learned from an online tutorial, and has been hooked on development ever since. He started making websites for people he knew in San Diego, which allowed him to facilitate his Xbox and Xbox Live needs. For gaming, he stuck to playing only Halo - and in fact, he already pre-ordered Halo Infinite over a year ago. But outside of gaming, he really loves to get analog - camping, being outside, and skiing. In high school he did a lot of marching band, and continued the art in drum core international after he graduated. Post competition, he started working full time with a web consultancy. Then went on to the next thing and the next, and he feels very lucky to have made the stops he made in his career, and the people he met along the way. He's grateful for his early work at an agency because it required him to move quickly, try out new things, and move on to the next project. This gave him a lot of rapid experience up front, which helped shape his skills later on. Eventually, he was an on call engineer - either by accident or intentionally - because he always wanted to help solve the problem. At one point, he set out to bridge bootcamp grads into the real world of software through a video series. As it turns out, the product he was building during the series was much more interesting - and desired - than the videos themselves. This is the creation story of FireHydrant. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://firehydrant. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bobby-tables/ --- > Post Microsoft, Luke went work for Amazon on the cloud, specifically EC2. The thing he had in the back of his head for many years was how to bring the programming model into the cloud space. He eventually left Amazon, and set out to combine his love of designing programming languages, with the movement and excitement of the cloud. - Published: 2021-11-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luke-hoban-pulumi/ - Tags: code, cto, founder, infrastructure, microsoft, n, terraform - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Post Microsoft, Luke went work for Amazon on the cloud, specifically EC2. The thing he had in the back of his head for many years was how to bring the programming model into the cloud space. He eventually left Amazon, and set out to combine his love of designing programming languages, with the movement and excitement of the cloud. Luke Hoban has been into tech and computers for many, many years. It started off when he was a kid, but sailed with him into college as he got into languages. He spent the first part of his career at Microsoft building tools, IDE's and programming languages. His take on the frame of mind required to build a language is centered around what you want it to do, combined with how it feels for the programmer to express what they want with it to do. Bottom line... it is an art, not a science, and is much more about product and user interaction design than anything. Post Microsoft, Luke went work for Amazon on the cloud, specifically EC2. The thing he had in the back of his head for many years was how to bring the programming model into the cloud space. He eventually left Amazon, and set out to combine his love of designing programming languages, with the movement and excitement of the cloud. This is the creation story of Pulumi. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. pulumi. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lukejhoban/ --- > Prior to his current venture, Thejo co-founded Automatic, connecting cards to the internet. This eventually sold to SiriusXM for several million dollars. Looking into another problem, he saw that the way people spend money lacked true visibility and connectivity between systems. He asked some questions, got some feedback, and set out to capitalize on the opportunity to build a better solution. - Published: 2021-11-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e24-thejo-kote-airbase/ - Tags: ceo, connected, engineer, finance, founder, integration, spending, Tech - Podcasts: S5 Prior to his current venture, Thejo co-founded Automatic, connecting cards to the internet. This eventually sold to SiriusXM for several million dollars. Looking into another problem, he saw that the way people spend money lacked true visibility and connectivity between systems. He asked some questions, got some feedback, and set out to capitalize on the opportunity to build a better solution. Thejo Kote grew up in Southern India. He came from an academic, intellectual family. Both of his grandfathers were authors, and in the house, they had built up a library. But not just a few books here in there... Thejo grew up in with 3500 books in his house. These were a combination of everything, but with a lot of reference and historical books. If he's honest, Thejo didn't appreciate it really until he got older - however, no one appreciated it when it was time to move. He was influenced a lot by what he was reading and watching, which he noted allowed him to learn from the experiences of others. Ultimately, his path took him down he road of tech and entrepreneurship. He's always been fascinated with how impactful tech can be on the world... you sit at home, write some code, and make an impact. Currently, he resides in San Francisco with his wife, and has been there for the last 10 years or so. Prior to his current venture, he co-founded Automatic, connecting cars to the internet. This eventually sold to SiriusXM for several million dollars. Looking into another problem, he saw that the way people spend money lacked true visibility and connectivity between systems. He asked some questions, got some feedback, and set out to capitalize on the opportunity to build a better solution. This is the creation story of Airbase. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. airbase. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/thejo/ --- > At Alkamai, Shinji worked with large enterprises and saw that there was a problem around data discovery, and that it was growing in the middle market, as more companies migrated to the cloud. She decided to build an automated way for users to discovery and understand their data. - Published: 2021-11-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shinji-kim-select-star/ - Tags: catalog, ceo, data, database, discovery, founder, warehouse, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 At Alkamai, Shinji worked with large enterprises and saw that there was a problem around data discovery, and that it was growing in the middle market, as more companies migrated to the cloud. She decided to build an automated way for users to discovery and understand their data. Shinji Kim was born in Korea. Her family moved to Canada when she was 13 years old. She likes to hang out with her friends, watch movies and likes to be outdoors, skiing, hiking or doing yoga. She recently tore her ACL, though, which has put a damper on her physical activity. While she studied at the University of Waterloo, she was able to work with many different well known companies - Facebook, Sun Microsystems and Barclays. In 2014, she started her first company called Concord Systems, focusing on distributed stream processing. This was eventually acquired by Akamai, the largest CDN network in the world. We joked about the day it went down, cause it fell like the digital world went dark. At Akamai, she worked with large enterprises and saw that there was a problem around data discovery, and that it was growing in the middle market, as more companies migrated to the cloud. She decided to build an automated way for users to discovery and understand their data. This is the creation story of Select Star. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://selectstar. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shinjikim/ --- > Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. - Published: 2021-11-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adrian-tobey-groundhogg/ - Tags: ceo, crm, founder, marketing, martech, plugin, wordpress - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Adrian dropped out of University school, and thought – what next? He didn’t want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on WordPress. Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In high school, he was interested in computer science, and developed video games and useful UI for his school. Prior to digital marketing, his father was a jazz musician, and Adrian followed in those footsteps to play the trumpet. For University, he had two options - go to school for computer science or for music... and chose the latter. During school, he was working full time for his Dad's agency, building websites, email campaigns and such. While he was doing this, he built his first product called Form Lift, which is a Wordpress form builder for Infusion Soft. Around 3 years into school, he failed his first university course - a discrete computer science course around computer runtimes, big O notation, etc. He had invested a ton of money into the his degree already, but he started doing the math, and estimated he wouldn't complete school until 2025 because he was part time. With that in mind, he dropped out of University school, and thought - what next? He didn't want to do agency work forever. He took a look at how expensive, convoluted and clunky marketing technology tools can be. He vowed to create the ultimate suite of tools, and to do it on Wordpress. This is the creation story of Groundhogg. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. groundhogg. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adriantobey --- > The genesis of Brandon's' current venture started with his wife, who manages a family office. At one point, she was switching accountants, which required the transfer of a massive amount of documents... the bulk of which was in email. He thought that there had to be a better way to find these documents, across accounts in the cloud. - Published: 2021-11-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brandon-white-file-finder/ - Tags: ceo, cloud, co-founder, files, founder, hidden, search - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 The genesis of Brandon's' current venture started with his wife, who manages a family office. At one point, she was switching accountants, which required the transfer of a massive amount of documents... the bulk of which was in email. He thought that there had to be a better way to find these documents, across accounts in the cloud. Brandon White started his career from his passion for fishing. In doing so, he wound up building the largest social networking and eCommerce site for sport fisherman. He got to travel around the world, fish all over, and do some amazing things with this company. But honestly, he got burned out on the sports and doesn't fish much anymore. He tells people today to be careful today when people are following their passion, because romanticizing a career doesn't work out for everyone. And, just because people aren't overly passionate about something - but are good at it - they should go after anyway, to help them to buy their time for their passions. The genesis of Brandon's current venture started with his wife, who manages a family office. At one point, she was switching accountants, which required the transfer of a massive amount of documents... the bulk of which was in email. He thought that there had to be a better way to find these documents, across accounts in the cloud. This is the creation story of File Finder. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://filefinder. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/brandonwhite/ --- > In my experience, the need for technical documentation goes way beyond the boundaries of open source. Within the walls of a business, the need to share technical documentation around product architecture, entity relationships, DevOps workflow and even product strategy are absolutely critical in ensuring that everyone is on the same p age to move forward. - Published: 2021-11-17 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-why-should-you-write-technical-documentation/ - Tags: code, compiler, Developer, manager, podcast, red hat - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In my experience, the need for technical documentation goes way beyond the boundaries of open source. Within the walls of a business, the need to share technical documentation around product architecture, entity relationships, DevOps workflow and even product strategy are absolutely critical in ensuring that everyone is on the same p age to move forward. Original episode: https://www. redhat. com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentationHey guys, getting close to Thanksgiving in the states. For today, I'm sharing another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. On this particular episode - which is episode 8 - the topic of technical documentation is discussed. This is a fitting topic, given that the show is brought to you by Red Hat, which is the largest open source company in the world. The use cases for technical documentation for open source software seem pretty straight forward and obvious - if a developer or user needs to download a free, open source program, they will also need the correlated documentation so they can educate themselves on how to use the program. In my experience, the need for technical documentation goes way beyond the boundaries of open source. Within the walls of a business, the need to share technical documentation around product architecture, entity relationships, DevOps workflow and even product strategy are absolutely critical in ensuring that everyone is on the same p age to move forward. At the root, both types of technical documentation have the same goal - to inform the reader on how things should work. This episode was a great discussion on the topic, and I hope you enjoy Episode 8 of the Compiler podcast. --- > Ulf enjoys building software that invokes an emotion from its user. While he was at Postmates, he got really interested in the way people work, specifically around flow states. He studied the Pomodoro method, and its associated 25 minute cycle. This became the first building block into creating his current venture. - Published: 2021-11-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e23-ulf-schwekendiek-centered-app/ - Tags: ceo, flow state, founder, music, pomodoro - Podcasts: S5 Ulf enjoys building software that invokes an emotion from its user. While he was at Postmates, he got really interested in the way people work, specifically around flow states. He studied the Pomodoro method, and its associated 25 minute cycle. This became the first building block into creating his current venture. Ulf Schwekendiek was brought up in Germany, but spent most of his life in the US. He speaks German with an American accent, and English with a German accent... so he claims to not speak any language properly anymore. Personally, he loves to para glide (not para sail, different thing). In fact, he is a tandem instructor. In this particular activity, you inflate a giant parachute and jump off of a mountain or cliff. From there, you use drafts or thermals to stay in the air, and can drift for around 100 miles sometimes. Ulf finds this super beautiful, relaxing, and a great way to get into a flow state. Ulf's background is two fold - engineering and UX. He has worked on many popular proudest, and with well known startups in the past. He was an iOS engineer at Siri, before it was bought by Apple. He started up a company and ended up selling it to Groupon... and ended up doing a couple more companies with the Groupon founder, one being Descript which it still going strong today. Finally, he spent some time at Postmates. He enjoys building software that invokes an emotion from its user. While he was at Postmates, he got really interested in the way people work, specifically around flow states. He studied the Pomodoro method, and its associated 25 minute cycle. This became the first building block into creating his current venture. This is the creation story of Centered. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. centered. app/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sulfme/ --- > Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. - Published: 2021-11-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-guillermo-rauch-vercel-next-js/ - Tags: ceo, cto, founder, frontend, javascript, next.js, react - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API’s. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast – specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he feel in love with the web and the front end web system, working in the early days of AJAX, JS Animation and jQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed - because he really enjoys what is does professionally on the web . On a personal level though, he has three kiddos so he stays pretty busu. He is into fitness, and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that, he is into coffee - though I don't know many tech people who aren't into coffee. Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API's. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast - specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. This is the creation story of Next. js and Vercel. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://vercel. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/guillermo-rauch-b834b917b/https://nextjs. org/ --- > Growing up, David loved experimenting with sound - playing piano, tuning into radio stations, and tinkering with an old record player. He discovered there was an audio engineering program at school, and set out with the goal of starting a small project recording studio. He met his now wife and co-founder through their first voice recording project... which then, began to be advertised and attract more and more talent. - Published: 2021-11-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-david-ciccarelli-voices-com/ - Tags: ceo, founder, marketplace, service, transaction, voice, voiceover - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Growing up, David loved experimenting with sound - playing piano, tuning into radio stations, and tinkering with an old record player. He discovered there was an audio engineering program at school, and set out with the goal of starting a small project recording studio. He met his now wife and co-founder through their first voice recording project... which then, began to be advertised and attract more and more talent. David Ciccarelli is a husband to his partner in life and business, Stephanie, and a dad to 4 kids - one boy, and three girls. He loves to be doing anything outdoors - hiking, biking, etc - and has a cottage out in the country. His most memorable hike was near his hometown, at the Provincial Park, where he climbed up to the top if the Sleeping Giant. Being a true Canadian, he was able to direct my suspicions about Poutine, which is French fries, gravy and cheese curds - aka an indulgent dish. He said that its more of a regular favorite in places like old Quebec, but most people enjoy it perhaps once a year, as you can't really have it every day. Growing up, David loved experimenting with sound - playing piano, tuning into radio stations, and tinkering with an old record player. He discovered there was an audio engineering program at school, and set out with the goal of starting a small project recording studio. He met his now wife and co-founder through their first voice recording project... which then, began to be advertised and attract more and more talent. This is the creation story of Voices. com. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. voices. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/davidciccarelli --- > At a prior company as a developer advocate, Josh started using the Orbit model. He compared the model to being like the funnel for sales, except the Orbit model applies to community. After he left the company, he joined his now co-founder, using the Orbit model in a consulting context. Then, the aha moment occurred - what if we built a product to facilitate this? - Published: 2021-11-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-josh-dzielak-orbit/ - Tags: building, co-founder, community, cto, forum, founder, sentiment, slack - Podcasts: S5 At a prior company as a developer advocate, Josh started using the Orbit model. He compared the model to being like the funnel for sales, except the Orbit model applies to community. After he left the company, he joined his now co-founder, using the Orbit model in a consulting context. Then, the aha moment occurred - what if we built a product to facilitate this? Josh Dzielak is originally from the US, but lives in Paris now. And because of this, he likes to take advantage and walk around to take in the sights. He lives close to an area with a park, featuring gardens and lots of trees. He goes there to clear his head, have a little bit of nature, and also, to have walking meetings. Josh likes to stay active through running, cycling, and the aforementioned walking. He's married with a 13 month old daughter. He met his wife, not in Paris or the US, but in Thailand. He jokes that his young daughter is growing up faster than his company. He avidly confirms that the food in Paris is amazing. The simple things are fantastic, and he frequents the patisserie for his favorite almond croissant. His family loves to host people when the come to town, so they can ensure they try some of the exquisite foods and strong flavors. At a prior company as a developer advocate, Josh started using the Orbit model. He compared the model to being like the funnel for sales, except the Orbit model applies to community. After he left the company, he joined his now co-founder, using the Orbit model in a consulting context. Then, the aha moment occurred - what if we built a product to facilitate this? This is the creation story of Orbit. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://orbit. love/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dzello/ --- > Matt has been in tech industry for nearly 21 years, and started Front Range Systems, building software for bidding customers. He found that post difficult projects, he started to figure out that the best way to improve a project was to improve the team - the entire team, as a whole. - Published: 2021-11-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-matt-dixon-code-program/ - Tags: agency, building, coaching, founder, project, software, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Matt has been in tech industry for nearly 21 years, and started Front Range Systems, building software for bidding customers. He found that post difficult projects, he started to figure out that the best way to improve a project was to improve the team - the entire team, as a whole. Matt Dixon grew up job hopping, before eventually starting his own business. He is married with 5 kids - 1 daughter and 4 sons. He loves to eat, spend time with his family, mountain bike, and travel with his wife to new places. They just moved to Nashville from the Colorado Springs area. He found that starting his own business was the best way to find freedom to be present for his family. For a personal foundation, he likes to live with no regrets. Matt has been in tech industry for nearly 21 years, and started Front Range Systems, building software for bidding customers. He found that post difficult projects, he started to figure out that the best way to improve a project was to improve the team - the entire team, as a whole. This is the creation story of Code Program. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://codeprogram. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattdixon/https://frontrangesystems. com/ --- > Prior to their current venture, Oleg and his co-founder, Dave, ran an agency focusing on high fidelity prototyping. After doing many projects, they figured out that the process of creating dashboards for a product was a mostly the same, but took a ton of time to prepare the data, extract data, and display it. They both figured out that they could create a solution to make this process simpler. - Published: 2021-11-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-oleg-fridman-verb-data/ - Tags: analytics, co-founder, cto, dashboards, data, no code - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Prior to their current venture, Oleg and his co-founder, Dave, ran an agency focusing on high fidelity prototyping. After doing many projects, they figured out that the process of creating dashboards for a product was a mostly the same, but took a ton of time to prepare the data, extract data, and display it. They both figured out that they could create a solution to make this process simpler. Oleg Fridman has been at this startup thing for a while. Most of his career, he has been working for himself, remotely. In High School, he was drug into entrepreneurship by a few of his buddies, creating an e-commerce website in 2002 for selling furniture. They figured out that they sucked at selling furniture, but made a pretty good website. Post that, he got involved with restaurant ordering, and turned it into a thriving business. That business, called Onosys, sold to LivingSocial, after serving 4 countries, around 10k restaurants, and doing quite a bit of business online. Currently he lives in Cleveland, Ohio, but has done stints in Austin and Boston. He's married with 2 little girls, 3 years and 7 months old. His major hobby is legos. He has a huge Star Wards collection, owning one of almost everything. When asked if he shared the legos with his girls, he mentioned they know Daddy's legos are off limits. Prior to their current venture, Oleg and his co-founder, Dave, ran an agency focusing on high fidelity prototyping. After doing many projects, they figured out that the process of creating dashboards for a product was a mostly the same, but took a ton of time to prepare the data, extract data, and display it. They both figured out that they could create a solution to make this process simpler. This is the creation story of Verb Data. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. verbdata. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ofridman/ --- > In 2013, the founders of Phil's current company saw the way the data center industry was going. They saw that the energy consumption around DC's was going to be astronomical. They started building some incredibly innovative things in this area, and got Phil's attention. Three years ago, he joined the team. - Published: 2021-11-03 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-phill-lawson-shanks-aligned/ - Tags: data center, energy, heat, innovation, officer, servers, sustainability - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In 2013, the founders of Phil's current company saw the way the data center industry was going. They saw that the energy consumption around DC's was going to be astronomical. They started building some incredibly innovative things in this area, and got Phil's attention. Three years ago, he joined the team. Phill Lawson-Shanks has had a convoluted path into tech. In the past, he worked for a company that owned and operated airpots in Europe. He got involved in the very early days of servers - so early, that this was back when they were just PC's under someones desk. This took him down the path of migrating mainframes to more cost effective, productivity machines. He worked for Compaq at one point, which brought him to the states. Personally, he enjoys risk taking. He rides a Ducati motorbike way too fast, enjoys adventure sports, jumping out of planes, and rock climbing. In 2013, the founders of Phill's current company saw the way the data center industry was going. They saw that the energy consumption around DC's was going to be astronomical. They started building some incredibly innovative things in this area, and got Phil's attention. Three years ago, he joined the team. This is the creation story of Aligned. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. alignedenergy. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/plawsonshanks/ --- > When she decided to simplify her life and sell her house, Laura went through the process of buying a Condo.. and interacting with the HOA. She realized that the process was a bit arcane, and getting the details up front was near impossible. Her and her co-founder, who happens to also be her mother, set out to bring value to the buyers in the process, with the goal to eventually positively impact all stakeholders. - Published: 2021-11-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-laura-butler-uplift/ - Tags: analysis, cto, data, founder, history, hoa, microsoft, package, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 When she decided to simplify her life and sell her house, Laura went through the process of buying a Condo.. and interacting with the HOA. She realized that the process was a bit arcane, and getting the details up front was near impossible. Her and her co-founder, who happens to also be her mother, set out to bring value to the buyers in the process, with the goal to eventually positively impact all stakeholders. For Laura Butler, tech has always been woven into her life. She left Harvard to go work full time at Microsoft, because she was having the time of her life as an intern. She went on to spend 20 years at the company, working on many different big name projects. To her, tech is solving problems for people by people - and everything boils down to tech. She is drawn to getting her hands on things, breaking them - then fixing them again. She is s self proclaimed professional contrarian, intentional rebel and successful misfit. She loves to read about people, history, and logistics - specifically, what works and what doesn't. She likes to run and walk, which is her yoga and helps to clear her brain. She is a cat mom right now, but loves all animals, and enjoys collecting art when she travels. Post Microsoft, she has been an angel investor multiple times, supporting startups and small businesses across a different variety of industries. When she decided to simplify her life and sell her house, Laura went through the process of buying a Condo. . and interacting with the HOA. She realized that the process was a bit arcane, and getting the details up front was near impossible. Her and her co-founder, who happens to also be her mother, set out to bring value to the buyers in the process, with the goal to eventually positively impact all stakeholders. This is the creation story of the Uplift Group. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. upliftinc. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lauracatpjs/ --- > Before he built his current project, every time he would move to a new city, Anthony would try to start a local indie hackers meetup. He started one in Boston and DC, and a few other places - but every time he moved, he lost his friend group. In order to stay connected with his friends, he decided to take his groups virtual. And it started to grow from there. - Published: 2021-10-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anthony-castrio-indie-worldwide/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Before he built his current project, every time he would move to a new city, Anthony would try to start a local indie hackers meetup. He started one in Boston and DC, and a few other places - but every time he moved, he lost his friend group. In order to stay connected with his friends, he decided to take his groups virtual. And it started to grow from there. Anthony Castrio has been a freelance engineer and digital nomad for 3. 5 years. He currently living in Mexico City, but is originally from upstate New York, up around the Adirondack Mountains area. He describes where he grew up very similar to the shire from the Lord of the Rings. His hobbies include reading, tennis and languages. He's learning Spanish, given his current location, but also has dabbled in Japanese and French. As a freelance dev, he mostly is a full stack web developer. He's been aggressively part time, or quarter time as he puts it, as a freelancer. He considers it the boots trappers seed round... it is how he keeps his runway infinite to work on his personal projects. Before he built his current project, every time he would move to a new city, Anthony would try to start a local indie hackers meetup. He started one in Boston and DC, and a few other places - but every time he moved, he lost his friend group. In order to stay connected with his friends, he decided to take his groups virtual. And it started to grow from there. This is the creation story of Indie Worldwide. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://indieworldwide. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/antcas/ --- > At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. - Published: 2021-10-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leon-kuperman-cast-ai/ - Tags: co-founder, containers, cto, founder, infrastructure, kubernetes, optimize - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. Leon Kuperman comes from an immigrant family, who migrated to North America in the late 70's. He was born in a city that is not part of the Ukraine, but grew up in Canada. So he was brought up in western society, but closely observed his parents and their immigrant background, grinding as entrepreneurs throughout Leon's life. He's a brown belt in Brazilian Jui Jitsu, and has been training for over 15 years. This consumes a lot of his time outside of tech. Funny enough though, when he was living in Seattle, he was a part of a group of people from Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. , who all did martial arts. He finds that there is a correlation between Jui Jitsu specifically, and tech. He's married with 3 kids, and of course, likes to spend time with his kids in different ways. His older son actually trains with him in martial arts, and also does tech - building raspberry pi's and engineering different things. Leon also plays piano, as coming from a Russian family, it wasn't an option not to. At his prior startup, Leon and his CEO would get into conversations about - you guessed - his cloud spending bill. He knew that the usage was justified, but could not point to why each piece of infrastructure was allocated. And further, he could not automatically optimize it, and reduce the bill. This is the creation story of Cast AI. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://cast. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/itexecutivecto --- > This was a great discussion on technical debt. Have a listen to Episode 4, titled "Do we want a world without technical debt." Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. - Published: 2021-10-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-recast-do-we-want-a-world-without-technical-debt/ - Tags: code, compiler, Developer, manager, podcast, red hat - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 This was a great discussion on technical debt. Have a listen to Episode 4, titled "Do we want a world without technical debt." Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. Original episode: https://www. redhat. com/en/compiler-podcast/what-is-technical-debt? pfe-ngumm8p1n=show-notesHey guys, I'm back again to share another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange and small. On this particular episode - which is episode 4 - the team dives into the topic of technical debt, by first asking the question - what the heck is it? Its starts quite humorous, with the hosts slinging thoughts about financial debt and trying to bridge the gap there. There definition comes down to this - technical debt is the cost of delaying necessary work on a project or platform, so that you can hit your milestones on time. Essentially, the cost of delivering new features as a priority over bug fixes or maintenance of a platform. I think this is pretty accurate, but incomplete view of technical debt. I'd like to add my 2 cents to the definition. In my view, technical debt can also be inferior approach or framework decisions early on in the life of a piece of software, that you plan to uplevel, change or completely replace in the future. In the startup world, I find this to be the more commonly occurring form of technical debt, with the former definition occurring for more mature software solutions. At any rate, this was a great discussion on technical debt. Have a listen to Episode 4, titled "Do we want a world without technical debt. " Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. And as always... Enjoy. --- > In college, Nate was very interested and connected to the real estate industry, as urban planning works closely with realtors. He figured out that lead follow up was a huge pain point for realtors, which peaked his interest. And led him to build some tech to solve the problem. - Published: 2021-10-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-nate-joens-structurely/ - Tags: co-founder, follow up, founder, innovation, leads, mesage, messages, notifications, product - Podcasts: S5 In college, Nate was very interested and connected to the real estate industry, as urban planning works closely with realtors. He figured out that lead follow up was a huge pain point for realtors, which peaked his interest. And led him to build some tech to solve the problem. Nate Joens was born and raised in Iowa. And in fact, he plans to spend out the rest of his days there, cause he loves it. He lovingly calls it the Silicon Prairie, though he admits that most people don't call it that. He studied at Iowa State University, majoring in Geographic Information Systems and Urban Planning - which is basically mapping on steroids. He learned how to map topography, three dimensionally, using tools like ArcGIS. Outside of tech, he loves to hike, kayak, golf, and generally be outdoors. In college, Nate was very interested and connected to the real estate industry, as urban planning works closely with realtors. He figured out that lead follow up was a huge pain point for realtors, which peaked his interest. And led him to build some tech to solve the problem. This is the creation story of Structurely. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. structurely. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/nathanjoens/ --- > Ryan joined the his current company many years ago, and was charged to build a team to expand the companies call tracking functionality… to essentially, make it omni channel, with form, source and message tracking. - Published: 2021-10-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-johnson-callrail/ - Tags: builder, call, conversion, leads, marketing, martech, product, tracking - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Ryan joined the his current company many years ago, and was charged to build a team to expand the companies call tracking functionality… to essentially, make it omni channel, with form, source and message tracking. Ryan Johnson is originally from Saginaw, Michigan, and now lives in Atlanta. He never imagined he would get into tech. In fact, when he was growing up he wanted to be an orthodontist. He got into school, and immediately saw how difficult the classes were going to be. So he switched to business, and that part of school stuck and came naturally to him. As a college elective, he took computer science as an elective (who does that? ). He brags that his computer science professor still has the mortgage calculator program on hand (and it still works). Post college, he worked as a broker for Equitable, as a financial advisor, and then supported law firm with their SEO. Eventually, he got into product and is still leading the charge there. He is married, and has 2 young daughters, both in grade school. He loves to travel, and hopes to make that more of a regular thing as the pandemic slows down. He has an affinity for all things automotive as well, and has been into racing most of his life. Though he loves cars, he really prefers just to watch... and not wrench on them. Ryan joined the his current company many years ago, and was charged to build a team to expand the companies call tracking functionality... to essentially, make it omni channel, with form, source and message tracking. This is the creation story of CallRail. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. callrail. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/ryandjohnson/ --- > Way back in college, Kordel started building a codebase around computer vision and detection. He started adding to it over time, made it quite impressive, and figured out a way to monetize the platform. However, coming from the defense industry, he and his co-founder understood the apprehension around the use of AI commercially. They set out to change that. - Published: 2021-10-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kordel-france-seekar-technologies/ - Tags: ai, augmented reality, ceo, deep learning, detection, learning, machine learning - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Way back in college, Kordel started building a codebase around computer vision and detection. He started adding to it over time, made it quite impressive, and figured out a way to monetize the platform. However, coming from the defense industry, he and his co-founder understood the apprehension around the use of AI commercially. They set out to change that. Kordel France has always been infatuated with finding order in chaos - and has carried that way of living throughout his life. He is an engineer by training and schooling, but grew up on a farm. What triggered his interest in AI was the day that his father brought home autonomous driving systems for the farm equipment. His Dad let him tinker with it, and Kordel was hooked. In college, he studied Physics and Mathematics, as his father always told him that there was a lot of math involved with autonomous systems. Aligned with this, he really enjoyed studying calculus. He saw the relationship between time series and control theory - essentially, autonomous guidance of a vehicle. And to learn to code, he tried to automate the calculation of derivatives. All in all, he considers math a beautiful thing, and sees it behind everything throughout our day to day lives. Post school, he worked for defense companies, specifically on autonomous systems. He also got to work as a mechanical engineer for a while, which helped him to view things from a different discipline. To round this out, he obtained his graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence. For fun, he practices Jiu Jitsu and plays the drums. In another life, he says he might been a drummer, but in this life, he plays along with a wide spectrum of music - from punk rock to country. Both hobbies allow his brain to turn off, but at the same time, Kordel solves some of his biggest technical problems while he is doing his hobbies. Way back in college, Kordel started building a codebase around computer vision and detection. He started adding to it over time, made it quite impressive, and figured out a way to monetize the platform. However, coming from the defense industry, he and his co-founder understood the apprehension around the use of AI commercially. They set out to change that. This is the creation story of Seekar Technologies. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://seekartech. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kordel-k-f-10349811b/ --- > During the days when he was involved in the accelerator, Phil started noticing that many founder problems were centered around distribution - or how to get their products in front of customers. He decided to build a better cold email tool, one that solved these problems. And it worked. - Published: 2021-10-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-philippe-kwiatkowski-ubico/ - Tags: ai, ceo, conversion, distribution, email, founder, learning, marketing, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 During the days when he was involved in the accelerator, Phil started noticing that many founder problems were centered around distribution - or how to get their products in front of customers. He decided to build a better cold email tool, one that solved these problems. And it worked. Phillipe Kwiatkowski has been addicted to gaming since he was a teenager. He played games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Grand Theft Auto. In the process, he discovered multiplayer mods, that allowed you to play online - which was his first introduction to coding. When he was 16, he got his first freelancing gig building websites. Eventually, he studied computer science at University, and interestingly, he joined an accelerator. There were a ton of smart people, working on very interesting problems. For fun, he enjoys playing soccer, and has played ever since high school. He also enjoys running, and in fact, is sorta prepping for a marathon. Eventually he would love to do a spartan race as well. During the days when he was involved in the accelerator, Phil started noticing that many founder problems were centered around distribution - or how to get their products in front of customers. He decided to build a better cold email tool, one that solved these problems. And it worked. This is the creation story of Ubico. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. ubico. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/philkwiatkowski/ --- > After many self learning adventures in his life, Joshua set out to create a product that would allow people to go through self directed learning online, but in specific learning pathways... and allow them to learn faster in the process. Self taught developer? Be able to prove you went through the appropriate material that you acquired the skills necessary. - Published: 2021-10-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-joshua-wohle-mindstone/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, deep learning, fast, founder, learning, path, self directed, self taught - Podcasts: S5 After many self learning adventures in his life, Joshua set out to create a product that would allow people to go through self directed learning online, but in specific learning pathways... and allow them to learn faster in the process. Self taught developer? Be able to prove you went through the appropriate material that you acquired the skills necessary. Joshua Whole was born in the Netherlands. Before he was 13, he actually went to 5 different schools. Afterwards, he moved to Switzerland and went into the public school system - which was all in French (which he didn't speak). In his younger years, he started building websites and ultimately started a company, with 35 other high school students building these sites. Eventually, he moved to London, initially to shape up his computer science background, given he was a self taught developer. He attended a 3 year Computer Science program at King's College, and the last year of University, he attempted to try to start another business. He and his co-founders declined an investment, and never got another one... so the business was out. After University, he started a company called SuperAwesome - providing tools for safe digital engagement to almost half a billion kids every month, while also ensuring that parental consent was baked in. Seven years after starting the company, he eventually sold this to Epic games, the makers of Fortnite, and at the time of acquisition, the company was 170 people with offices all over the world. For fun he is a whiskey lover, and has been collecting them for over 10 years now. In fact, once a week, he does a (fully remote) whisky tasting with a friend of his. His favorite is The Ileach, with his backup being a 10 year Laphroaig. After many self learning adventures in his life, Joshua set out to create a product that would allow people to go through self directed learning online, but in specific learning pathways... and allow them to learn faster in the process. Self taught developer? Be able to prove you went through the appropriate material that you acquired the skills necessary. This is the creation story of Mindstone. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://mindstone. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/joshuawohle/ --- > Post his exit from Balanced, Mahmoud began listening to customer needs. What he heard people say was that they really wanted everything that he built in his former startup, minus the payments. Companies wanted the heavy lifting of data security taken off their plate, so they could focus on building their differentiated products. - Published: 2021-10-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mahmoud-abdelkader-very-good-security-vgs/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, encryption, founder, pia, security, tokenization - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Post his exit from Balanced, Mahmoud began listening to customer needs. What he heard people say was that they really wanted everything that he built in his former startup, minus the payments. Companies wanted the heavy lifting of data security taken off their plate, so they could focus on building their differentiated products. Mahmoud Abdelkader immigrated to the United States from Egypt, from a city 100 km east of Cairo, on the Suez Canal. He was 8 years old when he moved to New York City, and later in life, he moved to Maryland, which is where he really started to get into gaming... er... computers. He used to play World of Warcraft and Age of Empires a lot, and through his gameplay, he was led down a path of reverse engineering hacks to aid him in winning. Eventually, he started learning high level languages, all in the pursuit of building game hacking systems. He got into real programming when he was 16, slinging some C++ and deciding that he wanted to be a computer engineer. Post college, he worked on Wall Street, which in his eyes, was where he really became an engineer. After working for a startup, he joined Y Combinator and built Balanced, a payments marketplace system, which eventually transitioned to Stripe. Outside of tech, he plays basketball, and used to weight lift and do long distance running. He likes to set goals, crush them - and then move on to the next thing, keeping a well rounded life. He used to ride motorcycles, but his wife put a stop to that... especially given they are expecting their 2nd child soon. Post his exit from Balanced, Mahmoud began listening to customer needs. What he heard people say was that they really wanted everything that he built in his former startup, minus the payments. Companies wanted the heavy lifting of data security taken off their plate, so they could focus on building their differentiated products. This is the creation story of Very Good Security, or VGS. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. verygoodsecurity. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mabdelkader/ --- > Through a chance discovery in Docker's eco-system, Sergei discovered an open source test container library, and realized that they approach he was taking to test containers was out there in the wild. He was invited to be a co-maintainer to the open source library, which would eventually become their current Company today. - Published: 2021-10-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sergei-egorov-atomicjar/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, docker, founder, java, testing - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Through a chance discovery in Docker's eco-system, Sergei discovered an open source test container library, and realized that they approach he was taking to test containers was out there in the wild. He was invited to be a co-maintainer to the open source library, which would eventually become their current Company today. Sergei Egorov grew up in a small city of only 100,000 citizens (which is huge compared to some cities). He grew up in Siberia, in the cold part of the country. His personal record for how cold it was during his time there was -53 Degrees Celsius. And a funny story, on that same day, he had to go to the post office to pay his internet bill. . so he could play video games at 16 years old. His favorite game at the time was Might and Magic, which was also 50% of Russia's favorite game as well. The cold weather was partially the reason he got into tech... cause he could do it at home indoors. Other than that, he was a regular kid, who liked to skateboard, and play guitar in his band. Through a chance discovery in Docker's eco-system, Sergei discovered an open source test container library, and realized that they approach he was taking to test containers was out there in the wild. He was invited to be a co-maintainer to the open source library, which would eventually become their current Company today. This is the creation story of AtomicJar. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. atomicjar. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bsideup --- > Eventually, Tigran and his business partners decided that they could do more than plugins... by hosting and automating the entire ecosystem. He saw great potential that this type of opportunity could grow big. This is the creation story of 10Web. - Published: 2021-10-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-tigran-nazaryan-10web/ - Tags: algorithm, co-founder, cto, fintech, founder, markets, trading - Podcasts: S5 Eventually, Tigran and his business partners decided that they could do more than plugins... by hosting and automating the entire ecosystem. He saw great potential that this type of opportunity could grow big. This is the creation story of 10Web. Tigran Nazaryan started out doing science in University. In fact, he was studying physics, and then went on to do his PhD in Astronomy in Astro Physics. He never imagined he would eventually become a CEO of a company. He's a research guy, and introvert naturally, who likes to read, hike, and do nothing... and by do nothing, he means watch a sunset or the waves of the ocean. After school, he joined a company with his friends creating Wordpress plugins. At first, he though engineering wasn't that interesting. But, as it turns out, he decided it was not less interesting than science and research. Eventually, he and his business partners decided that they could do more than plugins... by hosting and automating the entire ecosystem. He saw great potential that this type of opportunity could grow big. This is the creation story of 10Web. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://10web. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tnazaryan/ --- > Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags. - Published: 2021-10-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-john-kodumal-launchdarkly/ - Tags: co-founder, features, flags, founder, launch, releases, sdlc, software - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags. John Kodumal grew up really into computers. And, he is old enough that during his childhood, it was abnormal to be so into computers. To illustrate just how much he was into computers, he told me a story about how he taught himself to touch type in grade school. . using the DVORAK keyboard layout. He is a family man, with 2 children - a 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son. Outside of family, he has a ton of hobbies and interests, including climbing. In fact, his last trip before COVID hit, he took a bunch of friends and co-workers to ice climb in Colorado. Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better. He did a PhD in programming languages, and he worked at Atlassian for a number of years. When he got connected with his co-founder, Edith Harbaugh, they started to explore just how big of an opportunity they had around feature flags. This is the creation story of LaunchDarkly. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://launchdarkly. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jkodumal/ --- > Brian's prior company was called Orbiterra, which he eventually sold it to Google in 2016. He spent the first year at Google, migrating the product off of AWS, on to GCP. Once this was done, it was inquired of him about what the SLO's were for the product. This led to the spark of his current venture. - Published: 2021-10-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brian-singer-nobl9-slo/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Brian's prior company was called Orbiterra, which he eventually sold it to Google in 2016. He spent the first year at Google, migrating the product off of AWS, on to GCP. Once this was done, it was inquired of him about what the SLO's were for the product. This led to the spark of his current venture. Brian Singer has always been interested in computers. He into gaming in high school, which he claims is what led him to an engineering degree in college. He got his start in the industry with low level stuff, designing ASIC chips. Post that, he branched into product development, got his MBA, and funny enough, starting working in marketing for the software industry. Eventually, he started his own company. From his professional journey, a big takeaway for him was its hard to start a company fresh out of school... cause you don't know anything. He has two boys at home, and is a soccer coach, avid golfer and skier. He finds that the most creative moments for him are away from the digital space, doing analog activities with other people. His prior company was called Orbitera, which he eventually sold it to Google in 2016. He spent the first year at Google, migrating the product off of AWS, on to GCP. Once this was done, it was inquired of him about what the SLO's were for the product. This led to the spark of his current venture. This is the creation story of Nobl9. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://nobl9. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/briantsinger/ --- > A bit a go, LaKeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated, algorithmic trading and portfolio management. This is the creation story of AlgoPear. - Published: 2021-10-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-lakeisha-turner-algopear/ - Tags: algorithm, co-founder, cto, fintech, founder, markets, trading, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 A bit a go, LaKeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated, algorithmic trading and portfolio management. This is the creation story of AlgoPear. LaKeisha Turner is a strong woman. She has her hands full, as a single mom of a 16 year old girl, and an 8 year old boy. She is a breast cancer survivor, and lover of classical music - previously playing instruments in her high school days. She chose a tech path at a very early age, heavily influenced by her grade school computer science teacher, ultimately leading to her decision to pursue a career in technology. When she's not building technology, she likes to take trips with her kids. Each weekend she tries to plan something fun and exciting for them to do as a family. A bit a go, LaKeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated, algorithmic trading and portfolio management. This is the creation story of AlgoPear. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://algopear. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lakeisharturner/ --- > In 2015, Lyric unfortunately lost his Grandmother, to what he states as health misinformation from forwards. This combined, with the Brexit happenings, the US elections, and general world happenings, he started to see first hand the trend, that behavior was being influenced by online activity. - Published: 2021-09-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-lyric-jain-logically/ - Tags: ai, ceo, content, fact checking, founder, misinformation, osint, social, social media - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In 2015, Lyric unfortunately lost his Grandmother, to what he states as health misinformation from forwards. This combined, with the Brexit happenings, the US elections, and general world happenings, he started to see first hand the trend, that behavior was being influenced by online activity. Lyric Jain comes from a family of business people, and is an engineer by training. He was born in India, and spent the first half of his life there. When he was 12, he moved to the United Kingdom. He has always been fascinated in physical engineering, mostly, which is interesting since he plays in the digital space now. He is a huge football fan - thats European football, or soccer for us in the US). In fact, he was obsessed with it while he was attending University, playing the console games and memorizing the rosters and stats for the live sport. He specifically loves Manchester United, and typically spent around 20 hours a week watching football. In 2015, Lyric unfortunately lost his Grandmother, to what he states as health misinformation from forwards. This combined, with the Brexit happenings, the US elections, and general world happenings, he started to see first hand the trend, that behavior was being influenced by online activity. This is the creation story of Logically. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. logically. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/lyricjain/ --- > Have a listen to Episode 1 "Should Managers Code?" from the Compiler podcast. Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. - Published: 2021-09-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/compiler-should-managers-code/ - Tags: code, compiler, Developer, manager, podcast, red hat - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Have a listen to Episode 1 "Should Managers Code?" from the Compiler podcast. Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. Hey guys, today I want to tell you about a new podcast I'm digging. It's called Compiler, an original podcast from Red Hat, who also brought you the popular show Command Line Heroes. Anyway, the show Compiler is hosted by two tech veterans, Angela and Brent from Red Hat, and on the show, they discuss tech topics - big, strange and small. I checked out the first episode, titled “Should Managers Code? ”, and I was intrigued by the discussion and the topic. There were differing opinions, but one common thread was this... managers, VP's, leaders, etc. - that came from a coding background - STILL love to code! But... what I appreciated was the approach that these managers took to the coding they still love. My takeaway was that managers don't want to get in the way of their team from coding, solving problems, and delivering their contributions. Though difficult, a manager should keep to an 80/20 rule - 80% management, 20% coding - and in my experience, this allows you to keep your eye on the proverbial ball... of leading your team to their success, which is ultimately, your success as well. Have a listen to Episode 1 "Should Managers Code? " from the Compiler podcast. Be sure and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast catcher. I'll make sure and add a link to the show notes as well. Enjoy. --- > While she was working on her PhD for medical simulation and training, Veena was contacted by her now co-founder. He let her know that he wanted to add virtual reality to his clinic. She thought wow, this is an amazing opportunity, to make the therapy experience better for patients. - Published: 2021-09-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-veena-somareddy-neuro-rehab-vr/ - Tags: ceo, design, development, founder, game, simulation, therapy, virtual reality, vr, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 While she was working on her PhD for medical simulation and training, Veena was contacted by her now co-founder. He let her know that he wanted to add virtual reality to his clinic. She thought wow, this is an amazing opportunity, to make the therapy experience better for patients. Veena Somareddy is from India, and came to the US in 2012 to peruse her Masters degree in Game Design & Development. Technology has been an integral part of her life, as she was a big time gamer in high school and after, playing such games as GTA, Doom and Diablo. She also likes to keep watch on the latest tech gadget on Kickstarter. Outside of tech, she plays sports recreationally, and grows hydrophobic plants for a hobby. While she was working on her PhD for medical simulation and training, Veena was contacted by her now co-founder. He let her know that he wanted to add virtual reality to his clinic. She thought wow, this is an amazing opportunity, to make the therapy experience better for patients. This is the creation story of Neuro Rehab VR. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. neurorehabvr. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/veenasomareddy/ --- > Adam and his brother took anonymous ID verification and ran with it inside of their email marketing tool. After some time, they realized email marketing is a tough space to compete in… so they switched to an area they were intrigued by, and had already built something to work with. - Published: 2021-09-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-robinson-getemails/ - Tags: capture, ceo, email, exit, founder, goals, linking, public data, zapier - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Adam and his brother took anonymous ID verification and ran with it inside of their email marketing tool. After some time, they realized email marketing is a tough space to compete in… so they switched to an area they were intrigued by, and had already built something to work with. Adam Robinson has had an interesting path into the tech world. He started out at Lehmen Brothers, and eventually Barclays, as a credit default swap trader. He spent 10 years doing the job that the movie the Big Short was written about. And he loved it. Back in the day, his first roommates in New York were the founders of Vimeo, and he was inspired by what they built and by being a tech entrepreneur in general. Once he saved up some cash, he decided to jump out and give the tech world a try. Through lots of learnings and mistakes, he eventually re-trained the way he thought to align with the way an entrepreneur thinks. Adam and his brother were eyeing an email marketing and customer review management tool. After it shutdown, they met witht the founder, who shared his secret sauce in how to collect data - specifically email addresses - from anonymous website traffic. They took this and ran with it inside of their email marketing tool. After some time, they realized email marketing is a tough space to compete in... so they switched to an area they were intrigued by, and had already built something to work with. This is the creation story of Retention. com. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://getemails. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/adam-robinson-64409348/ --- > As a renter and landlord, Paraag intimately felt the pains on both sides of the equation, when it comes to security deposits. Rather than people stuffing large amounts of cash into a system that doesn't help either side, he knew there was a better way to help renters... and landlords. - Published: 2021-09-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-paraag-sarva-rhino/ - Tags: ceo, deposit, escrow, founder, landlord, renters, renting, security - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 As a renter and landlord, Paraag intimately felt the pains on both sides of the equation, when it comes to security deposits. Rather than people stuffing large amounts of cash into a system that doesn't help either side, he knew there was a better way to help renters... and landlords. Paraag Sarva is a New York City native. He grew up in Queens, and went to college at NYU. When he started his career, he didn't think about going into tech. In 2004 / 2005 timeframe, he did what most people did or tried to do - he went to work for Goldman Sachs to learn the financial services world. Though he was good at his job, he quickly realized that he didn't love it, and moved on to work for Mike Bloomberg when he was mayor at City Hall. This was as pivotal time for the city, as this was the the time period after 9/11. It was after this that he was introduced to - and fell in love with - the startup world. He's married with 2 kids, and during the pandemic, he found that one of the early tell-tell signs that people were getting panicky was the line of cars backed up to get into... you guessed it, Costco. He loves to cook, and actually, he and some friends would get together occasionally to have ice cream club, which had one rule - you had to make the ice cream. He also has slowly found himself enamored with Formula 1 Racing. As a renter and landlord, Paraag intimately felt the pains on both sides of the equation, when it comes to security deposits. Rather than people stuffing large amounts of cash into a system that doesn't help either side, he knew there was a better way to help renters... and landlords. This is the creation story of Rhino. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. sayrhino. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/psarva/ --- > Matt's current venture started by researching the food industry, specifically the world of produce. Post this, Matt and his team realized that this part of the food world was ripe for disruption. - Published: 2021-09-21 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-matt-schwartz-afresh/ - Tags: ceo, delivery, food, founder, fresh food, inventory, ordering, produce - Podcasts: S5 Matt's current venture started by researching the food industry, specifically the world of produce. Post this, Matt and his team realized that this part of the food world was ripe for disruption. Matt Schwartz is a lover of food. It's been a huge part of his personal and professional life, in such areas like evidence based nutrition, exercise science, and the history & economics of our food system. As a kid, he was a picky eater. Over time, learning to eat better was a catalyst towards personal improvement for Matt. He believes that food, more so than anything else, shapes the health of our planet and the health of us, as individuals. Not surprisingly, he loves to seek out the best food nearby. But outside of food, he has become obsessed with chess, and is being coached by a grandmaster. He's proud of the fact that one of his opponents resigned after 7 moves. Beyond chess, he always working through a good book. His current venture started by researching the food industry, specifically the world of produce. Post this, Matt and his team realized that this part of the food world was ripe for disruption. This is the creation story of Afresh. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. afresh. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/matt-schwartz-0b76a326/ --- > In 2014, Cody was working in San Francisco and planned to have some drinks with his friends. One of them had to go all the way home to drop off some luggage, before heading to happy hour. He took the ideas he wrote down that night, and in 2017, he set out to solve this complex problem… by just getting started. - Published: 2021-09-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cody-candee-bounce/ - Tags: ceo, customer service, founder, law enforcement, messaging, perception, police, public, survey - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In 2014, Cody was working in San Francisco and planned to have some drinks with his friends. One of them had to go all the way home to drop off some luggage, before heading to happy hour. He took the ideas he wrote down that night, and in 2017, he set out to solve this complex problem… by just getting started. Travel is a huge part of Code Candee's life, even prior to his current venture. He has lived in a dozen different cities, travelled to over 60 countries, and has been to 49 of the 50 US states. Out of all of them, his favorite place to live was India, specifically in Bangalore. While he was there, he tried to experience all the cultures, food and people, and quite enjoyed his time. He is a minimalist. . to the tune of owning a couple of suitcases. He loves the idea of not being held down by things, and being able to move around at the drop of a hat. He reads a lot of books, his favorite one being the Alchemist, and enjoys rock climbing. But to be honest, he likes the all consuming, work centric lifestyle he leads. In 2014, he was working in San Francisco and planned to have some drinks with his friends. One of them had to go all the way home to drop off some luggage, before heading to happy hour. He took the ideas he wrote down that night, and in 2017, he set out to solve this complex problem... by just getting started. This is the creation story of Bounce. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://usebounce. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/codycandee/ --- > At a prior startup, the opinionated nature of project tools his team was using started to get in the way of their productivity... not to mention, it was not possible to get a birds eye view of direction, progress, etc. across multiple projects. - Published: 2021-09-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-childs-shortcut-formerly-clubhouse/ - Tags: agile, cdo, designer, Developer, founder, integrated, migration, project management - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 At a prior startup, the opinionated nature of project tools his team was using started to get in the way of their productivity... not to mention, it was not possible to get a birds eye view of direction, progress, etc. across multiple projects. Andrew Childs doesn't have a computer science background. He grew up in Philly, and is currently based in NYC with his wife and 6 year old. His first computer experience was in 1984, with a Macintosh plus. He was immediately hooked on this extraordinary machine, that felt like it was made by humans. With no internet, it was just a playground in the beginning, but on it, he was able to explore design and learn pascal. He attended RISD, an arts school in providence, and studied painting. His goal was to go into contemporary art, but he quickly realized he didn't know anything about how to approach the art world. Throughout the program, he did learn a lot about how to think, how to look at things, and how to be creative. Post that, he ran a few web design and development agencies, before being pulled into the startup world. At a prior startup, the opinionated nature of project tools his team was using started to get in the way of their productivity... not to mention, it was not possible to get a birds eye view of direction, progress, etc. across multiple projects. During a hack day project, Andrew built a way to aggregate their tool into one single view. It was then that it clicked, and he and his co-founder thought maybe they were on to something. This is the creation story of Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse). SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://shortcut. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrew-childs-9887552/ --- > After collecting dust in his idea notebook, in the list of markets which he knew well, Derrick decided to venture forward to make a better calendar scheduling work tool... based on his anxiety using this type of product, and his desire to level up the status quo. - Published: 2021-09-14 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-derrick-reimer-savvycal/ - Tags: calendar, calendly, exit, founder, indie hacker, online, saas - Podcasts: S5 After collecting dust in his idea notebook, in the list of markets which he knew well, Derrick decided to venture forward to make a better calendar scheduling work tool... based on his anxiety using this type of product, and his desire to level up the status quo. Derrick Reimer got his first computer in kindergarten. His Dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home, tinkered with code. . and Derrick was always interested in the projects he was working on. In junior high, he learned Dos basics, and started to make games. He found it really fun to write utilities and tools for people, and funny enough, he even tinkered with accounting software - and tried to replicate Quicken. Even still, he ignored coding as a career path. He majored in math in college, and wasn't sure how he wanted to apply it. He needed more creativity than most math jobs offered at the time. After college, he discovered the Basecamp team and their perspective on building software. It was at that moment that his interest in tech and entrepreneurship merged together. For fun, he loves to do a lot of things. He lives in Minneapolis, and is outdoors a lot - hiking, road cycling, and playing a bit of tennis here and there. He also enjoys cooking, and coffee - but not just drinking coffee. He has gotten into hobbyist coffee roasting - with a popcorn popper. He likes to play around with the beans, the equipment, and overall, tinkering with making the perfect cup. After collecting dust in his idea notebook, in the list of markets which he knew well, he decided to venture forward to make a better calendar scheduling work tool... based on his anxiety using this type of product, and his desire to level up the status quo. This is the creation story of SavvyCal. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://savvycal. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/derrick-reimer-93916020/https://www. derrickreimer. com/ --- > After feeling the pain of having to log into a myriad of tools day to day to get their jobs done, Greg and his co-founders decided to build a connected application, to drive revenue communications. - Published: 2021-09-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-greg-ratner-troops-ai/ - Tags: ceo, customer service, founder, law enforcement, messaging, perception, police, public, survey - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 After feeling the pain of having to log into a myriad of tools day to day to get their jobs done, Greg and his co-founders decided to build a connected application, to drive revenue communications. Greg Rather comes from a family of artists, so he always envisioned himself going in to art. From an early age, he was drawing and creating comics (funny enough, centered around his favorite animal - pigs). And back then, he was also a budding entrepreneur. In fact, in grade school, he would Xerox his comics and sell them at school for a buck a piece. In High School, he got into animation and game development, which was the catalyst for his interest in programming. He started out for doing animation by hand, drawing each cell and each frame by itself, which was super tedious. The tools he switched to was Director and Flash, allowing him to create stop animation, eventually layering programming into the mix as well. Outside of tech, he is a purple belt in jiu-jitsu. He also enjoys cycling and cooking, which both were handy hobbies during the pandemic. After feeling the pain of having to log into a myriad of tools day to day to get their jobs done, Greg and his co-founders decided to build a connected application, to drive revenue communications. This is the creation story of Troops. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: http://troops. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/gratner/ --- > In flying school, Andrew met his co-founder growing a distribution company. They discovered a problem first hand, around trading agreements and incentives between companies. So much so, that they found a need in the industry and set off to build a product to solve the problem. - Published: 2021-09-07 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-andrew-butt-enable/ - Tags: .net, b2b, ceo, deals, distribution, enterprise, founder, products, saas, suppliers - Podcasts: S5 In flying school, Andrew met his co-founder growing a distribution company. They discovered a problem first hand, around trading agreements and incentives between companies. So much so, that they found a need in the industry and set off to build a product to solve the problem. Andrew Butt always dreamed of being an airline pilot, and his passion outside of tech is flying. He has spent more time in helicopters over planes, and he enjoys that more. His family relocated to San Francisco 18 months ago, and they have been pretty much under lock down since that time. He and his wife have been doing the normal things during lock down - surfing the web, hiking, etc... but mostly keeping to themselves. In flying school, he met his co-founder growing a distribution company. They discovered a problem first hand, around trading agreements and incentives between companies. So much so, that they found a need in the industry and set off to build a product to solve the problem. This is the creation story of Enable. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://enable. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/awbutt/ --- > In 2015, within the Techstars program in New York, Rahul and his co-founders were running out of cash, unable to deliver on what they were intending. After some helpful words from a friendly former Chief, he and his team decided to keep it simple, and attempt to help police departments solve the "customer service" problem. - Published: 2021-09-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rahul-sidhu-spidr-tech/ - Tags: ceo, customer service, founder, law enforcement, messaging, perception, police, public, survey - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In 2015, within the Techstars program in New York, Rahul and his co-founders were running out of cash, unable to deliver on what they were intending. After some helpful words from a friendly former Chief, he and his team decided to keep it simple, and attempt to help police departments solve the "customer service" problem. Rahul Sidhu was one of those kids who was always fiddling with computers. He even had a small tech startup in high school, to help him pay his way through college. Out of High School, he was an EMT, and studied emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Post that, he became a paramedic crew chief, overseeing an assigned rescue crew and shift. In 2013, he became a police officer full time. He is a regular at the gym, which obviously shows that fitness is important to him, along with hanging out with his family and friends. He's a golfer, and is recently trying to get better at it. And, he likes to travel through food, as he says it, planning his trips around the best places to eat. In 2015, within the Techstars program in New York, Rahul and his co-founders were running out of cash, unable to deliver on what they were intending. After some helpful words from a friendly former Chief, he and his team decided to keep it simple, and attempt to help police departments solve the "customer service" problem. This is the creation story of Spidr Tech. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. spidrtech. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rahulsidhu/ --- > All along his career, Chris was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. - Published: 2021-08-31 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-chris-wexler-krunam/ - Tags: ai, ceo, csam, data, founder, machine learning, online content, predator - Podcasts: S5 All along his career, Chris was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. Chris Wexler had a crazy path to get where he is today. By his count, he is on his 6th career. His first job was on Capital Hill, followed up with a stint in Wall Street. After that, he produced independent theater, and then got into marketing and advertising, being one of the early adopters of ad tech. He's married with two daughters, and is a huge baseball fan (the Minnesota Twins specifically). He reads a lot of non fiction books, interestingly about public projects and how it portrays power distribution in the United States. All along his career, he was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. This is the creation story of Krunam. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://krunam. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/chriswexler/ --- > One day, Brendan found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. - Published: 2021-08-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brendan-wood-passiv/ - Tags: automation, co-founder, cto, fintech, founder, investment - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 One day, Brendan found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. Brendan Wood lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife and 3 kids. They live in an old house, and from his per-view, he has done way to many projects on it. In fact, shortly after they moved into the house, they discovered foundation problems and had to re-pour a new foundation (which is a massive undertaking). They have a cabin a half hour drive out of town, which is is Brandan's happy place. There is a beach, land, hammocks - and its a place where the whole family can run free. He grew up in New Finland, and in college, studied mechanical engineering. This focus led him into robotics - specifically the kinematics side - and software development. All in all, he chose the latter, cause it was easier to start a career. One day, he found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. This is the creation story of Passiv. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://passiv. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/brendancalebwood --- > In the past, Alexander held several senior positions with companies having small tech teams. During these times, he would quickly spot inefficiencies in processes - a manual step here, a spot of friction there, etc. He decided to build a product to enable non-engineers to automate processes. - Published: 2021-08-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-alexander-alimovs-automations-io/ - Tags: app to app, automation, cto, founder, no code, processes - Podcasts: S5 In the past, Alexander held several senior positions with companies having small tech teams. During these times, he would quickly spot inefficiencies in processes - a manual step here, a spot of friction there, etc. He decided to build a product to enable non-engineers to automate processes. Alexander Alimovs was born in a country that no longer exists. It was the USSR (or the Soviet Union), but today it's an independent country called Latvia. In 2008 when he was 18, he moved to the United Kingdom for school, and he has been there ever since. He studied business and medicine in school. Early on, he was given the recommendation that in order to make a big impact, he should start a business. Paired with this, he has been passionate about tech since he was a young kid, using tools like Dreamweaver to make simple websites. Outside of work, he likes to stay active. He loves sports, and he used to do martial arts as a kid. Though he hasn't played much since the pandemic hit, he loves to play American Football in the UK, strapping on his helmet and pads and playing defensive cornerback. In the past, he held several senior positions with companies having small tech teams. During these times, he would quickly spot inefficiencies in processes - a manual step here, a spot of friction there, etc. He decided to build a product to enable non-engineers to automate processes. This is the creation story of Automations. io. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://automations. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/aalimovs/ --- > In his prior startup, Colin found that he and his team were very sensitive to breaking changes, as it was critical to deliver information in a timely manner. So much so, that his customers would churn if anything broke in the critical chain. He created something to fill this gap at his prior venture, which he was offering up to friends and colleagues via open source. - Published: 2021-08-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-colin-chartier-webapp-io-formerly-layer-ci/ - Tags: automation, ci/cd, cto, devops, environment, founder, servers - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 In his prior startup, Colin found that he and his team were very sensitive to breaking changes, as it was critical to deliver information in a timely manner. So much so, that his customers would churn if anything broke in the critical chain. He created something to fill this gap at his prior venture, which he was offering up to friends and colleagues via open source. Colin Chartier started making video games when he was young. He used to played Warcraft 3, which had a powerful map editor for its users. He recalls that one game map was called goblet exploration, where you were stuck in the middle of nowhere and you had to make civilization (think a precursor to Minecraft). He found that this was really good for learning how to make things that people wanted... which ultimately, led him into entrepreneurship and programming He also played minecraft, which involved his first exposure to a real programming language, as map editing was done in Java. He lives in Toronto, and is a 20 minute bike ride from the water front. Many days, he will head down to the beach and work from there. He enjoys getting outdoors when he doesn't have too many calls scheduled that day. In his prior startup, he found that he and his team were very sensitive to breaking changes, as it was critical to deliver information in a timely manner. So much so, that his customers would churn if anything broke in the critical chain. He created something to fill this gap at his prior venture, which he was offering up to friends and colleagues via open source. This is the creation story of Webapp. io, formerly Layer CI. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://webapp. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/colinchartier --- > Slater and his co-founders fell in love with the technology centered around intelligent process automation, which enables organizations to automate processes involving structured, semi-structured and unstructured document formats. Since 2014, they have been at the forefront of innovation in enterprise AI. - Published: 2021-08-17 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-slater-victoroff-indico/ - Tags: ai, automation, co-founder, cto, data, founder, machine learning - Podcasts: S5 Slater and his co-founders fell in love with the technology centered around intelligent process automation, which enables organizations to automate processes involving structured, semi-structured and unstructured document formats. Since 2014, they have been at the forefront of innovation in enterprise AI. Slater Victoroff has had some pretty cool hobbies over his life. Though he claims to be a weird guy, he has a well rounded set activities. He is a vegan baker, which is half mad science, requiring the breakdown of recipes to the fundamentals of their elements. He is also a fiction writer, halfway through his second book (which he started during the pandemic). Along with that, he has pursued mastery in blacksmithing at one point in his life. He had a short MMA career too, believe it or not - and has studied Yoshukai Karate for quite some time. Post high school, he was burnt out on academics... so he jumped head first into martial arts - spent time in Japan studying the craft, and did some MMA fights in LA. He has learned over the years that most tech people are typically afraid of being punched in the face. He and his co-founders fell in love with the technology centered around intelligent process automation, which enables organizations to automate processes involving structured, semi-structured and unstructured document formats. Since 2014, they have been at the forefront of innovation in enterprise AI. This is the creation story of Indico. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://indico. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/slatervictoroff/ --- > After spending some time researching, Jody figured out that everyone has more SaaS than ever before, and companies were having a hard time managing their portfolios. He thought there must be a way to solve this problem, and solve it driven by data. - Published: 2021-08-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jody-shapiro-productiv/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 After spending some time researching, Jody figured out that everyone has more SaaS than ever before, and companies were having a hard time managing their portfolios. He thought there must be a way to solve this problem, and solve it driven by data. Jody Shapiro was fortunate enough to know he was going to be an engineer from a young age. He did the typical kid things, liked played with legos, and built things, with deep curiosity around how things worked. He was introduced to coding when he was 9 years old - and it clicked. He also found himself interested in the business world. The same curiosity around gears and levers was also extended into business... and he was fascinated by the systems in place that enabled intelligent decisions around pricing, stocking, etc. He's had the opportunity to indulge in his curiosities, studying computer engineering in his undergrad, and working on incredible problems in the industry. He has worked for Microsoft, video conferencing software, Silicon Graphics, and Google (for 9 years). He finds it's easy to fall in love with tech, but it's important to remember that there are users on the other side of solutions. When he left Google, he set out to build... a business. He wasn't sure what type of business he was going to build. But he wanted to go work on a big problem, one that everyone had. After spending some time researching, he figured out that everyone has more SaaS than ever before, and companies were having a hard time managing their portfolios. He thought there must be a way to solve this problem, and solve it driven by data. This is the creation story of Productiv. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://productiv. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jodyshapiro/ --- > Ken got excited about three things that attracted him to his new role, which was purposeful culture, a world changing goal, and the size of an opportunity in front of him. It was these three things that brought him to the company. - Published: 2021-08-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ken-gavranovic-unqork/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Ken got excited about three things that attracted him to his new role, which was purposeful culture, a world changing goal, and the size of an opportunity in front of him. It was these three things that brought him to the company. Ken Gavranovic lives in the northern suburbs of Atlanta - namely Alpharetta - with his wife Heather, and two teenage daughters. As a kid, he was fascinated by the movie war games... but what excited him was not the war aspect, but the fact that kid could sit in front of a computer and build anything with their mind. That... got Ken excited. While living in Galveston, TX, he dove into computers as a 10 year old, reading books and learning assembly. His first computer job was working on the Pick operating system, where he built a way for people to send faxes from their desk. The year after, his solution was a 2 million dollar business. Post that, he moved to NY to write software, and then to Florida. While in Florida, the internet started booming (about the same time as AOL). He figured out everyone was going to run their business on the internet... so he moved to Atlanta to be in a place with the highest density of bandwidth, and built what is known as web. com today. Ken was a part of many transformational things throughout his career. Prior to his current venture, he ran product and engineering at New Relic. He got excited about three things that attracted him to his new role, which was purposeful culture, a world changing goal, and the size of an opportunity in front of him. It was these three things that brought him to the company. This is Ken's creation story at Unqork. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. unqork. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/gavranovic/War Games: https://www. imdb. com/title/tt0086567/ --- > Valerie and her co-founder started their current venture by exploring why people resist believing scientifically backed, factual information. She wanted to figure out which messages and stories were more effective at communicating these true facts. - Published: 2021-08-10 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-valerie-coffman-swayable/ - Tags: ads, believeability, climate change, co-founder, cto, fake news, founder, impact, misinformation, rcts, testing, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 Valerie and her co-founder started their current venture by exploring why people resist believing scientifically backed, factual information. She wanted to figure out which messages and stories were more effective at communicating these true facts. Valerie Coffman has a family in San Francisco, with 2 cats - both 18 pounds each - and 2 kids, the oldest being 3 and a half. So you could say she has a lot to juggle, even outside of a startup. Her family spends time outside, in parks, the zoo, museums, etc - as much as she can since they are opening up again post pandemic. She graduated from Cornell, with her PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - which I had to google to understand. Prior to her current venture, she was the CTO and Chief Science Officer at Xometry, an on demand marketplace for custom manufacturing - building their software team from scratch. She and her co-founder started their current venture by exploring why people resist believing scientifically backed, factual information. She wanted to figure out which messages and stories were more effective at communicating these true facts. This is the creation story of Swayable. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. swayable. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/valeriecoffman --- > Throughout his career, time at Microsoft, schooling, startup life, etc. - Jay found out that no one really had a secret sauce to innovation. He started evaluating new ways to do it, and came across the Jobs to Be Done theory, which became the foundation to what he has built today. - Published: 2021-08-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jay-haynes-thrv/ - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Throughout his career, time at Microsoft, schooling, startup life, etc. - Jay found out that no one really had a secret sauce to innovation. He started evaluating new ways to do it, and came across the Jobs to Be Done theory, which became the foundation to what he has built today. Jay Haynes has always been interested in tech, just like his Dad. In 1979, his Dad bought and brought home an apple II plus. Though he was using it for his business to do spreadsheets, Jay began writing code so he could play video games for free, slinging code in BASIC. It's worth noting that this was back when you had to pay a quarter to play a video game. His Dad was a navy pilot, and a hobbyist sail plane flyer, which Jay flew as well, even up to 30,000 feet in the air! As he says, he got grounded as soon as he got married and had 4 kids. Early in his career, Jay got into finance and quickly became familiar with using debt to get equity returns. However, he was always interested in the core innovation problem - of why customers buy new products, and why they switch. Throughout his career, time at Microsoft, schooling, startup life, etc. - he found out that no one really had a secret sauce to innovation. He started evaluating new ways to do it, and came across the Jobs to Be Done theory, which became the foundation to what he has built today. This is the creation story of THRV. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. thrv. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jayhaynes/https://jobs-to-be-done. com/ --- > While building applications under the guise of his web development agency, Rendered Text, Marko and his fellow builders saw a need to have a way of automating processes of building, testing and integrating... and doing so fast. - Published: 2021-08-03 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-marko-anastasov-semaphore/ - Tags: building, ci/cd, co-founder, code, cto, fast, founder, infrastructure - Podcasts: S5 While building applications under the guise of his web development agency, Rendered Text, Marko and his fellow builders saw a need to have a way of automating processes of building, testing and integrating... and doing so fast. Marko Anastasov has been working with computers for a long time. He grew up in former Yugoslavia in the 90's, when there was civil war, hyper inflation, and the economy was taken back 20 years. His father was an electronics guy, so there was always a computer around in the house. He found himself fascinated with information and the things you could conjure up on the "magic screens"... and, he found that computers were a place you could build things that were not influenced by the outside world. As a kid he played sports, mainly volleyball. He recalls that even at the age of 15, he and his friends were already being measured for spots on the national team. He has taken many lessons from his time playing volleyball, where a group of people have a shared sense of purpose, driving towards a goal. While building applications under the guise of his web development agency, Rendered Text, he and his fellow builders saw a need to have a way of automating processes of building, testing and integrating... and doing so fast. This is the creation story of Semaphore. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://semaphoreci. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/markoa/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-josh-millet-criteria/ - Tags: assessment, ceo, co-founder, founder, hiring, hr, hr tech, onboarding, psycology - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 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. Josh Millet's journey to tech was quite circuitous. He spent most of his 20's doing a PhD in French medieval history, with his plan being a professor in college. His specific time period was the era around Joan of Arc. Upon graduating, he realized that the job market for French medieval history professors wasn't super hot... and he ended up doing a startup with some of his friends from school - a small test prep company, which ended up being sold with 5 employees onboard. He's married with 2 boys, living in Los Angeles. With two boys, he mentioned that there is a lot of referring... and he feels like an adjudicator and mediator most of the time. After getting involved in the hiring process at his prior company, he 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. This is the creation story of Criteria. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. criteriacorp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/josh-millet-23ba192/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-kristen-buchanan-edify/ - Tags: automated, ceo, co-founder, engineering, founder, onboarding, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 In 2015, Kristen 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. Kristen Buchanan live in Portland, Oregon with her husband, cats and dog. She went to school for museum education, with a minor in art history - note the non-technical background. She was a kid who loved archeology and anthropology, and though she was going to be spending her time in museums. Personally, she loves teaching and sharing new things with people - yet, never wanted to be a teacher. Her hobbies center around learning new things and being outside, She loves to read, and used to dig into the relics in the library stacks at her school. An interesting fact, when studying the art of wax painting in an old latin book, she found a note that someone had passed their friend in latin class - from the 1950's. She is also a big DIY'er and gardener, enjoying the engineering in both of those things. In fact, she highlighted that there is a lot of math and engineering within the world of creating clothing. 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. This is the creation story of Edify. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. getedify. co/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kristenmg/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-angel-munoz-beacon/ - Tags: browser, ceo, conferencing, founder, serverless, streaming, video, webrtc, zoom - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 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. In his early career, Angel Munoz was an investment banker, specializing in technology. He was fortunate enough to invest in the development of MP3's in the 80's. In addition to this, he is well known for being the spearhead of what is known as eSports today. He is a father of 2 kids, and has been married for 36 years. His passion centers around interactive entertainment, specifically in the world of gaming. He tends to lean towards first person shooters - abbreviated FPS - because they have a real sense of immersion. He loves post apocalyptic games, where you have to survive in a world where our systems and infrastructure have been completely removed. After launching a successful, social media platform around the gaming community - called GTribe, he 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. This is the creation story of Beacon. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://beaconx. com/https://www. amazon. com/Being-Digital-Nicholas-Negroponte/dp/0679762906 --- > Through some projects he was working on, and networking in the tech space of Ottawa, Braden was introduced to his Co-founder, Martin Cloake. Together, the combined ideas around machine telemetry and the next level of insight into continuous improvement. - Published: 2021-07-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-braden-stenning-raven/ - Tags: co-founder, continuous improvement, cto, founder, iot, machine, manufacturing, oee, production - Podcasts: S5 Through some projects he was working on, and networking in the tech space of Ottawa, Braden was introduced to his Co-founder, Martin Cloake. Together, the combined ideas around machine telemetry and the next level of insight into continuous improvement. Braden Stenning has always been interested in tech. His earliest memories include the desire to be an aerospace engineer - to be the guy to build the spaceships. He spent a lot of time exploring computers, being interested in math & science - and even founded a high school robotics team. This really opened his eyes to software development as a career, and lit up something inside of him. He is a curious person who often has a plan, and keeps his eyes open for what is happening around him. He did his undergrad at Carlton university, studying aerospace engineering - and he realized he really loved school. So much so, that he got his PhD from the University of Toronto, around the topic of space exploration robots. In Toronto, met his wife, and they decided to stick around Ottawa. They love to spend time outside in the "green space", as he puts it, getting their 2 boys outside or walking the dog. Through some projects he was working on, and networking in the tech space of Ottawa, he was introduced to his Co-founder, Martin Cloake. Together, the combined ideas around machine telemetry and the next level of insight into continuous improvement. This is the creation story of Raven. ai. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://raven. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/braden-stenning-ba849487/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-meha-agrawal-silk-and-sonder/ - Tags: analog, awareness, ceo, digital, engineer, founder, mental health, self care, subscription, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 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. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Meha Agrawal grew up in a beach town. Her Dad is a professor of Computer Science, and her Mom worked at the University as well. In the 5 years before she was blessed with a sibling, her creativity and problem solving nature was cultivated by her parents. The majority of her life she was chasing gold stars - A+'s on her assignments, targeting the doctor or engineer job - which led her to attend USC and study computer science and business administration. She wound up in NY working for Goldman Sachs, and she quickly realized that she didn't like engineering, particular working on legacy systems. She left Goldman, started working for the Muse and began to fall in love with entrepreneurship. Post that, she spent some time at Stitch Fix, and there she observed how data and tech could foster magical moments for consumers. She enjoys dancing, singing, and is a huge culinary and mixology enthusiast - searching for the next speakeasy in town with her fiancé. Along with that, she enjoys reading, writing, performing, or sketching. 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. This is the creation story of Silk & Sonder. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. silkandsonder. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mehaagrawal/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-kirt-debique-syncfloor/ - Tags: ai, api, ceo, co-founder, founder, incubator, music, search, startup, tagging - Podcasts: S5 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. Kirt Debique is originally from Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela. He came to the states to study computer engineering, at the University of Miami. On the way to attending grad school at Stanford, he did an internship at Microsoft. After being offered a full time job there, he took it - and subsequently, never made it to Stanford. He started out in a role on the OS team, but after spending 20 years at the company, he did many types of roles, including general manager over several different divisions. He loves to play soccer, and dabbles in chess. Above all, he loves his first born son, who recently celebrated his first birthday. He and his wife are enjoying the spoils of parenthood. Also, and to know surprise given his most recent ventures, he loves music - listening to music, making music, and helping artists. When he left Microsoft, he 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. This in the creation story of SyncFloor. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://syncfloor. com/HomePageLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/kirtdebique/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shaun-cooley-mapped/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, data, devices, founder, infrastructure, iot, service - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 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. Shaun Cooley was born and raised in LA. His Mom worked at Xerox and his Dad was an auto mechanic... so needless to say, at an early age, he was pulling things apart electronically and mechanically. He's an avid snowboarder, usually shredding some snow at Mammoth mountain, and a kite surfer. He says he is terrible at the latter, but he likes that the wind is doing most of the work for him. He also spent a ton of time on a pilots license, but it got put on hold when he got busy professionally. At age 15, he went to work for Symantec, building internal websites. After some time, he got the opportunity to build an easter egg in Norton Systemworks for Windows. All in all, he spent 18 years at Symantec, before moving onto Cisco and joining the iOT side of the world. During his time at Cisco, he 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. This is the creation story of Mapped. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. mapped. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/shauncooley/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-hazel-savage-musiio/ - Tags: ai, api, ceo, co-founder, founder, incubator, music, search, startup, tagging, women in tech - Podcasts: S5 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. Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England. She attended university, and studied politics. She's played the guitar since she was 13, and started out as a self taught player. Her first guitar was a cherry red Fender Telecaster, followed by a Fender Cyclone and a Danelectro Hodad. Recently, she's started getting more into collecting, grabbing a Gibson Goddess for her collection. She used to play in an all girl punk band in London, called Ginkinta. She worked part time in HMV, a records store, stocking shelves, putting CD's out, and gaining an understanding of the music world from the perspective of a customer. And I find it interesting that she doesn't miss the physical music products, as a large collection of CD's tend to weigh a lot and are hard to move across the country. After joining an incubator, she 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. This is the creation story of Musiio. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. musiio. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hazelrebeccasavage --- > 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. - Published: 2021-07-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-real-world-ai/ - Tags: ai, author, book, data, data science, failure, machine, machine learning, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 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. How can you successfully deploy AI? When AI works, it’s nothing short of brilliant, helping companies make or save tremendous amounts of money while delighting customers on an unprecedented scale. When it fails, the results can be devastating. Most AI models never make it out of testing, but those failures aren’t random. This practical guide to deploying AI lays out a human-first, responsible approach that has seen more than three times the success rate when compared to the industry average. 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. AI for business doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Real World AI uses plain language to walk you through an AI approach that you can feel confident about—for your business and for your customers. Click here to purchase Real World AI Author Biographies:Alyssa Rochwerger is a customer-driven product leader dedicated to building products that solve hard problems for real people. She delights in bringing products to market that make a positive impact for customers. Her experience in scaling products from concept to large-scale ROI has been proven at both startups and large enterprises alike. She has held numerous product leadership roles for machine learning organizations. She served as VP of product for Figure Eight (acquired by Appen), VP of AI and data at Appen, and director of product at IBM Watson. She recently left the space to pursue her dream of using technology to improve healthcare. Currently, she serves as director of product at Blue Shield of California, where she is happily surrounded by lots of data, many hard problems, and nothingbut opportunities to make a positive impact. She is thrilled to pursue the mission of providing access to high-quality, affordable healthcare that is worthy of our families and friends. Alyssa was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and holds a BA in American studies from Trinity College. When she is not geeking out on data and technology, she can be found hiking, cooking, and dining at “off the beaten path” restaurants with her family. Wilson Pang joined Appen in November 2018 as CTO and is responsible for the company’s products and technology. Wilson has over nineteen years’ experience in software engineering and data science. Prior to joining Appen, Wilson was chief data officer of Ctrip in China, the second-largest online travel agency company in the world, where he led data engineers, analysts, data product managers, and scientists to improve user experience and increase operational efficiency that grew the business. Before that, he was senior director of engineering at eBay in California and provided leadership in various domains, including data service and solutions, search science, marketing technology, and billing systems. He worked as an architect at IBM prior to eBay, building technology solutions for various clients. Wilson obtained his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University in China. SponsorsCourierImg.... --- > As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. - Published: 2021-06-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-alex-yurkowski-clickup/ - Tags: api, api design, ceo, chrome, chrome extension, css, cto, endpoint, founder, html, india, js - Podcasts: S5 As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. Alex Yurkowski grew up in New Jersey. He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software. Like many others, it all started with a lot of video games, like Warcraft, Starcraft - basically the Blizzard portfolio. But along with that, it included Legos, Connects, and then progressed naturally into computer science. He attended Notre Dame to study CS and being a part of the fighting Irish, he can confirm there is a love hate relationship with the Rudy story. Post college, he worked at IBM for a stint in North Carolina. It was at this point in his life that he got married, and then moved to LA and he's been there for about 5 years. He and his co-founder were working on projects together, and they went through multiple workflow tools that didn't fit there work style. They realized that there was a gap in the market, where people needed a tool that allowed you to work the way you want, and have all of your tools in one place. This is the creation story of ClickUp. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://clickup. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/alex-yurkowski-70644585/ --- > During his past successes at Scopely, one of the largest game builders in the world, he realized in the early innings of mobile that there was no mobile first data source, enabling businesses to capture all mobile session data... and more. - Published: 2021-06-24 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-eric-futoran-embrace-io/ - Tags: apps, ceo, co-founder, data, founder, gaming, infrastructure, mobile, observability - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 During his past successes at Scopely, one of the largest game builders in the world, he realized in the early innings of mobile that there was no mobile first data source, enabling businesses to capture all mobile session data... and more. A multi startup founder, Eric Futoran has always focused in on being a family man. He considers himself a multi-hat wearing person, and though most entrepreneurs say that. . Eric really means it. He has 4 degrees... no really, four - Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Juris Doctor and MBA. He REALLY likes to learn, and is constantly reading and learning from people, books, other sources, and of course, his family. He has found that his JD has really helped him understand the legal world, as it applies to the startup world, specifically SPAC's (special purpose acquisition group). He is digging into what the implications will be in the future withSPAC's, and the potential legal tension with their structures. He has 2 young boys, 5 and 8, and has felt the pains of many parents through the pandemic with kids being home. Other than startups and school, he likes to get outdoors as much as he can, doing some hiking or spending time at the beach. During his past successes at Scopely, one of the largest game builders in the world, he realized in the early innings of mobile that there was no mobile first data source, enabling businesses to capture all mobile session data... and more. This is the creation story of Embrace. io. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://embrace. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/futoran/https://scopely. com/ --- > As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. - Published: 2021-06-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-miriam-schwab-strattic/ - Tags: agency, ceo, co-founder, founder, generate, sites, static, websites, women in tech, wordpress - Podcasts: S5 As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She has been in Israel for 26 years, and moved there after high school to attend university. She studied English Literature in school, and she really enjoyed the focus, though it has little to do with what she is doing today. Even still, her heart was always pointed towards technology. She is a mother of 7 children, which keeps her super busy. The oldest is 22 a boy, and the rest are girls, with the youngest being 8. If she does have spare time, she spends time with her extended family, or goes out with friends. Around the time she had kid number 4, she took her maternity leave to re-evaluate what she wanted to do. She started freelancing, and building people websites on a contract basis. At the time, she was exploring open content management systems, namely Wordpress. She was one of the first people in Israel to offer Wordpress as a business solution. Her business grew from just her to being an agency, building sites for businesses for 13 years. As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. This is the creation story of Strattic. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. strattic. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/miriamschwab --- > Timur started attending hackathons as much as he could, and he met his co-founder Saba, who helped him learn how to make money contracting. One day, they got fed up with the complexity of video editing software... and decided to disrupt it. - Published: 2021-06-17 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-timur-mamedov-veed-io/ - Tags: audio, AV, cto, FFmpeg, founder, graffitti, russia, video, ycombinator - Podcasts: Bonus, S5 Timur started attending hackathons as much as he could, and he met his co-founder Saba, who helped him learn how to make money contracting. One day, they got fed up with the complexity of video editing software... and decided to disrupt it. Timur Mamodev grew up in Russia, within a very loving and supportive family. His Dad was an entrepreneur, so he knew some day he wanted to do the same, or at least have some sort of brand. His Mom gave up everything to support her children, and he's very grateful for that. He was a creative kid, kept to himself with millions of hobbies - including graffiti, which was a way to escape and express himself. At the time in Russia, there weren't consequences attached to painting, and Timur got quite a rush from it. He found himself hacking playstation portables at a young age, when his cousin introduced him to programming. During his last year in University, his world got flipped upside down when his Dad's business went under. Immediately, his family dropped into poverty and his relationship to programming became about survival. He started attending hackathons as much as he could, and he met his co-founder Saba, who helped him learn how to make money contracting. They hit it off, and have been through so much together that they consider each others brothers. One day, they got fed up with the complexity of video editing software... and decided to disrupt it. This is the creation story of Veed. io. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. veed. io/tools/ai-videoLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/timur-mamedov-376a5911b/https://www. ffmpeg. org/ --- > In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had to use never helped him develop efficiently. He thought - what would make the better? - Published: 2021-06-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-abhinav-asthana-postman/ - Tags: api, api design, ceo, chrome, chrome extension, css, cto, endpoint, founder, html, india, js - Podcasts: S5 In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had to use never helped him develop efficiently. He thought - what would make the better? Abhinav Asthana grew up in several small towns in the northern part of India. A couple of those towns were Basti, 150 miles from the capital. He's been a computer geek since 5th grade, when his Dad bought a pretty sophisticated pentium for the time. The small towns he lived in were not the most connected parts of the world, and as such, he experienced the impact of computers and the internet improving lives from an early age. He enjoys reading books, and as a kid he was into fiction - reading Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, novels, Agatha Christie, etc... whatever was relevant at the at the time. Slowly, he started to drift towards popular science, design books, and non-fiction, more towards the tech sphere of the world. In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had to use never helped him develop efficiently. He thought - what would make the better? This is the creation story of Postman. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. LinksWebsite: https://www. postman. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/abhinavasthana/https://twitter. com/a85 --- > 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. - Published: 2021-06-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-sophy-lee-hopskipdrive-replay/ - Tags: acquisition, cto, culture, marketplace, microservice, on demand, safety, scale, schools, teams, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Sophy Lee 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. Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran. 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. This is the creation story of HopSkipDrive. LinksWebsite: https://www. hopskipdrive. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sophylee --- > Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determining feature importance, building teams - and scaling, or fighting scale, as you grow. Our guest list continues to impress, with appearances from Abhinav Asthana of Postman, Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal, Hazel Savage of Musiio... and so many more. - Published: 2021-06-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-5-trailer/ - Tags: api, api design, ceo, chrome, chrome extension, css, cto, endpoint, founder, html, india, js - Podcasts: S5, Trailer Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determining feature importance, building teams - and scaling, or fighting scale, as you grow. Our guest list continues to impress, with appearances from Abhinav Asthana of Postman, Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal, Hazel Savage of Musiio... and so many more. Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determining feature importance, building teams - and scaling, or fighting scale, as you grow. Our guest list continues to impress, with appearances from Abhinav Asthana of Postman, Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal, Hazel Savage of Musiio... and so many more. Season 5 starts on June 15th, so subscribe today to ensure you don't miss an episode. SponsorsCourierImg. lyRoutableCTO. aiCloudways offers peace of mind and flexibility so you can focus on growing your business instead of dealing with server management. With Cloudways, you get an optimized stack, managed servers, backups, staging environment, integrated Git, pre-configured, Composer, 24/7 support, and a choice of five cloud providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud, and Vultr. Get up to 2 Month Free Hosting by using code "CODE30" and get $30 free hosting credit. --- > Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. - Published: 2021-06-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-mitchell-hashimoto-hashicorp-replay/ - Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, cto, devops, ec2, founder, google, infrastructure, toolset, vagrant, virtualization - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school. Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet. He is a pilot, and owns his own plane, which happens to be a Cirrus. He spends an hour a day studying or practicing flying, and even takes his wife and dog up every now and again, when there is something worth flying to and they can make the oxygen work for then dog. He attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. It was these projects put the ideas in his head, on what he could make in order for infrastructure to work better. This is the creation story of HashiCorp. LinksWebsite: https://www. hashicorp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mitchellh/ --- > This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. - Published: 2021-05-28 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-4-sign-off/ - Podcasts: S4 This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. This is Season 4, signing off... . Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. --- > RECAST: Try to surround yourself with people who believe in you. So in that same example that I mentioned, that was my biggest mistake and biggest learning. My wife was absolutely amazing. She was a rock and, she was picking me up off the ground when I was in the corner crying and rocking back and forth when the project was going south. - Published: 2021-05-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-the-inventive-journey/ - Tags: bonus, inventive, journey, recast, veryable - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 RECAST: Try to surround yourself with people who believe in you. So in that same example that I mentioned, that was my biggest mistake and biggest learning. My wife was absolutely amazing. She was a rock and, she was picking me up off the ground when I was in the corner crying and rocking back and forth when the project was going south. Originally posted at this link:https://anchor. fm/the-inventive-journey/episodes/Surround-Yourself-With-Good-People-The-Inventive-Journey-Podcast-For-Entrepreneurs-w-Noah-Labhart-e10a14oRECAST: Try to surround yourself with people who believe in you. So in that same example that I mentioned, that was my biggest mistake and biggest learning. My wife was absolutely amazing. She was a rock and, she was picking me up off the ground when I was in the corner crying and rocking back and forth when the project was going south. She was like, no, you've got to keep going this is just a part of the journey. We are going to get through it, and it will be fine. So she really picked me up. You have to surround yourself with people that are going to tell you that because there are going to be days where it just sucks, and it's not a good day. There are going to be days where this is the greatest job in the world, and you love it. Some days it's just nothing is going my way. You've got to be able to get through those. I think a huge reason why I was able to get through those days was my wife and the encouragement people were surrounding me with. --- > When Ofer was 24 years old, he had become very familiar with cyber security during his time in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. He and his co-founder had a unique understanding, and as such advantage, to bring value to the industrial cyber security world. - Published: 2021-05-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-ofer-shaked-scadafence/ - Tags: cto, cyber security, entreprenuer, israel, marathon, military, runner, scada - Podcasts: S4 When Ofer was 24 years old, he had become very familiar with cyber security during his time in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. He and his co-founder had a unique understanding, and as such advantage, to bring value to the industrial cyber security world. Ofer Shaked started in on computers early. He was passionate about tech from a very early age, and started programming when he was 10 years old. He loves tech, loves reading about tech, and is excited about new things in tech - especially around the topic of tooling. He really enjoys music, having played the guitar for a while. He now focuses on this recently acquired African drum. He connects with music on a deep level, and can see the correlation between tech and music (or at least, now that we have discussed it). He loves to play sports as well, specifically he loves running. In fact, he ran a marathon a couple of years ago, which in his words was very very... painful. In Israel where he lives, the timing of the marathon is towards the end of the winter... so training requires running in the rain and bad weather. When he was 24 years old, he had become very familiar with cyber security during his time in an elite cyber unit in the Israeli intelligence corps. He and his co-founder had a unique understanding, and as such advantage, to bring value to the industrial cyber security world. This is the creation story of SCADAFence. SponsorsActon Children's Business FairWork PatternsLinksWebsite: https://www. scadafence. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/oshaked/ --- > RECAST: Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. We appreciate Noah for dropping his wisdom on this week’s episode, and we encourage you to check out his podcast, Code Story! Thanks and Gig ‘em! - Published: 2021-05-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aggie-growth-hacks/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, customer, founder, inventory, marketplace, observers, product, retailer - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 RECAST: Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. Originally posted at this link:https://www. aggiegrowthhacks. com/season-3-episode-2-changing-the-equation-for-manufacturing-w-founder-cto-noah-labhart-04/RECAST: Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. We appreciate Noah for dropping his wisdom on this week’s episode, and we encourage you to check out his podcast, Code Story! Thanks and Gig ‘em! --- > In a past venture, Paul was the founder of CircleCI, the very popular continuous integration tool for engineering teams. Building on his successes here, he started to look at how difficult it was to deploy code, to do infrastructure, to write code, how teams interact, and many other friction points for the SDLC. He set out to remove the complexities of how we build apps today - Published: 2021-05-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-paul-biggar-dark/ - Tags: ceo, ci/cd, co-founder, devops, founder, infrastructure, irish, language, one stop shop - Podcasts: S4 In a past venture, Paul was the founder of CircleCI, the very popular continuous integration tool for engineering teams. Building on his successes here, he started to look at how difficult it was to deploy code, to do infrastructure, to write code, how teams interact, and many other friction points for the SDLC. He set out to remove the complexities of how we build apps today Paul Biggar was born in Dublin, Ireland, and lived there most of his life. When he was young, his Dad had a couple of computers, where Paul could program in Basic and Logo. In addition to these early introductions, he was into building his own machines, and tweaking their hardware settings to get the most optimal performance out of them. He completed his CS undergrad after spending many years into computers, along with his Phd, before heading off to Silicon Valley to do the tech startup thing. He currently lives in NY, and during the pandemic, his primary activity outside of tech and entrepreneurship is taking walks with friends. In a past venture, he was the founder of CircleCI, the very popular continuous integration tool for engineering teams. Building on his successes here, he started to look at how difficult it was to deploy code, to do infrastructure, to write code, how teams interact, and many other friction points for the SDLC. He set out to remove the complexities of how we build apps today. This is the creation story of Dark. SponsorsActon Children's Business FairLinksWebsite: https://darklang. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/paulbiggar/ --- > In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information. - Published: 2021-05-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-chelstad-observa/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, customer, founder, inventory, marketplace, observers, product, retailer - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information. Erik Chelstad is a child of both coasts. In his life, he spent a lot of time skiing, and carried that activity into his adult life. Funny enough though, he is actually a better boarder than skier. He volunteers with the local avalanche centers, and climbs mountains where he lives - which is the Pacific Northwest, near Mt. Ranier. In his words, climbing gives him ample time to think. He's married, and just moved into a house outside of the city. He has found a new hobby in being a home owner, which he says as a new platform to play with - cameras, sensors, sprinkler systems - etch. They have a dog, and if they are lucky enough to have kids one day, Erik hopes it will be easier than having a dog... and, that the kids won't bite him. In a prior venture, Erik was the owner of bakeries. In developing certain channels for distribution, he ran into a problem where he didn't have visibility to his product at places he didn't control. He figured out the answer was cell phones, and a centralized location for entities to consume this information. This is the creation story of Observa. Sponsors. Acton Children's Business FairWork PatternsLinksWebsite: https://www. observanow. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/chelstad/ --- > Ultimately, Daniel realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it. - Published: 2021-05-11 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-daniel-gallancy-atakama/ - Tags: blockchain, ceo, co-founder, crypto, cryptocurrency, encryption, founder, key management - Podcasts: S4 Ultimately, Daniel realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it. Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finance, doing diligence on tech companies for an investment fund. In 2011, he discovered bitcoin and became enamored with the concept. At that time, he bought 1 whole bitcoin for $4 dollars. Looking back, he obviously wishes he would have bought more. We got into an interesting conversation about ICO's - initial coin offerings - and tokens in general, around how companies drive up the value of said tokens through usage, rather than business profit. In his words, he saw the ICO world as a regulatory arbitrage, which didn't make for a good investment, but did make an interesting story. In 2013, he decided to leave the hedge fund world - IE his nice cushy job - and pursue something in the crypto world. Ultimately, he realized that some of the more interesting concepts being used in crypto - specifically, distributed key management - could be used in solutions outside of the block chain world. In a discussion with his co-founder, they figured out that solutions like this didn't exist, and that they wanted to build it. This is the creation story of Atakama. SponsorsActon Children's Business FairProdPerfectLinksWebsite: https://www. atakama. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/gallancy/ --- > Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. - Published: 2021-05-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-erik-fogg-prodperfect/ - Tags: bandwidth, ceo, father, founder, kids, remote, remote work, slack, voice - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could guess, Erik is not the tech guy - but, he does know enough to be dangerous. He loves to work with his hands, and has a professional history in solving old problems in new ways. Speaking of working with his hands, he likes to create comic con gear (at the time of the recording he had a captain America shield made out of an old satellite in his office). He's also a huge comic book and sports card collector, and he actually mentors several startups involved in pricing & liquidity around collectibles. Outside of that, he hosts a podcast around the topic of politics, polarization, and tribalism. Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. This is the creation story of ProdPerfect. Sponsors. Acton Children's Business FairLinksWebsite: https://prodperfect. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/erikfogg/ --- > Lior realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. - Published: 2021-05-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-lior-sion-bringg/ - Tags: amazon, co-founder, cto, delight, final mile, founder, logistics, ride hailing, service, uber - Podcasts: S4 Lior realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. Lior Sion has been doing tech for 30 years, since he was in High School. He is married with 2 amazing and a dog (a Vizsla to be specific), and is in his mid 40s. He is passionate about ultra running, which is anything larger than a marathon... which can equate to 5-6 hours of running. Yep, you heard that right. He loves the contrast between being outdoors and computers, and typically runs the trails and rivers around where he lives. Around 8 or 9 years ago, Amazon was a losing company - as in, they are losing money. At the time, Lior was CTO of a ride hailing company in Europe, where he gained great understanding around logistics in this industry. He realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. Lior and his co-founders decided to create an operating system, enabling these types of players to achieve this out of the box. This is the creation story of Bringg. SponsorsActon Children's Business FairProdPerfectKitcasterLinksWebsite: https://www. bringg. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/liorsion/ --- > Justin noticed over the years of working remote that the accepted culture of getting stuff done was to have meetings all day. He and his team started thinking about how to increase the amount of communication that happened during the day, without increasing the number of meetings. - Published: 2021-04-29 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-justin-mitchell-yac/ - Tags: bandwidth, ceo, father, founder, kids, remote, remote work, slack, voice - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Justin noticed over the years of working remote that the accepted culture of getting stuff done was to have meetings all day. He and his team started thinking about how to increase the amount of communication that happened during the day, without increasing the number of meetings. Justin Mitchell started off wanting to be an actor, dreaming of going off to work for Disney or doing movies. He loved being on the stage, playing sports, and overall, being the center of attention. He loves video games, reading, and generally - he loves making things. He is married with 2 foster boys, and is expecting a new addition soon. And, a lot of the stuff he is building on the side centers around his family. For example, he's creating a solution to incentivize his kids to be human beings - put on deodorant, clean their room, etc - by rewarding them with redeemable tokens, allowing them to cash them in for toys, screen time, or other things. To top it off, the solution he is building is such that it's designed to be a kit - for parents and kids to build the system as a bonding exercise. As a Dad - I think this is absolutely brilliant. He noticed over the years of working remote that the accepted culture of getting stuff done was to have meetings all day. He and his team started thinking about how to increase the amount of communication that happened during the day, without increasing the number of meetings. This is the creation story of Yac. Sponsors. ProdPerfectActon Children's Business FairLinksWebsite: https://www. yac. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/itsthisjustin/https://www. butterbehavior. com/https://www. ohtipi. com/ --- > Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. - Published: 2021-04-27 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-matt-debergalis-apollo-graphql/ - Tags: auto, cto, data science, frisbee, insurance, leadership, sports - Podcasts: S4 Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the handbook. To Matt, computers are tools to make things possible... and enable people to do it quickly. He loves community building, with his background in politics, and he loves the open source world. He finds that it's a powerful force for organizing people to create what wasn't possible before. He lives in San Francisco, with his wife and 6 year old. And he's a private pilot, owning his own plane. When asked how he balances all he has going on, he quickly replies that anything worth doing is going to require hard work. For him, this is his family, flights and code adventures. Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today. This is the creation story of Apollo GraphQL. SponsorsMorgan Page Game DevProdPerfectArt of ManlinessLinksWebsite: https://www. apollographql. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/debergalis/https://www. meteor. com/ --- > Along his consulting route, Dave picked up some facilitation techniques to figure out what was important within the diverse groups of people he was working with. He got hooked up with some people building software to solve a similar problem. - Published: 2021-04-22 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-dave-macleod-thoughtexchange/ - Tags: ceo, consultant, consulting, facilitator, founder, important, non-tech, ranking, thirty five - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Along his consulting route, Dave picked up some facilitation techniques to figure out what was important within the diverse groups of people he was working with. He got hooked up with some people building software to solve a similar problem. As an interesting turn to the guests I have on the podcast, Dave MacLeod is not a technologist by trade. He is a serial entrepreneur, and an old school face to face facilitator, who cares a lot about what people have to say and feel. He came out of college having taken every course under the sun, and getting zero degrees. . which prepared him perfectly to be a consultant. He lives in a small ski town called Rossland, in British Columbia. And it's important to him to be a good Dad, a good Son, and a good member of his community. Along the way, he got to do some interesting and complex work, where he heard voices representing many different viewpoints. In doing this, he picked up some facilitation techniques to figure out what was important within the diverse groups of people he was working with. He got hooked up with some people building software to solve a similar problem. This is the creation story of ThoughtExchange. SponsorsProdPerfect LinksWebsite: https://www. thoughtexchange. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dave-macleod-te/https://www. amazon. com/Scaling-Conversations-Leaders-Access-Potential/dp/1119764459https://www. diversityinc. com/ --- > In January 2013, he was approached to create and own the technology and team around a product that allowed people to compare insurance providers - from scratch. Meetesh made the decision to onboard and started the journey to build the Zebra. - Published: 2021-04-20 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-meetesh-karia-the-zebra/ - Tags: auto, cto, data science, frisbee, insurance, leadership, sports - Podcasts: S4 In January 2013, he was approached to create and own the technology and team around a product that allowed people to compare insurance providers - from scratch. Meetesh made the decision to onboard and started the journey to build the Zebra. The tech career of Meetesh Karia started early, as his father was an electrical engineer bringing home a TRS80 with a tape drive. Computers just clicked, as he dialed into BBS systems, built computers installed with Slackware & Linux. Early on, he also dabbled in AI (is that even a thing? ), building neural networks to predict weather patterns. He has played competitive sports for years - in fact, he has won a national championship in the masters division of ultimate frisbee (and met his wife playing the sport as well). He bases a lot of his leadership philosophy in tech around what he has learned from sports. Self proclaimed - he's one of those people that can't just sit still. In January 2013, he was approached to create and own the technology and team around a product that allowed people to compare insurance providers - from scratch. Meetesh made the decision to onboard and started the journey to build the Zebra. SponsorsMorgan Page Game DevInMoatLinksWebsite: https://www. thezebra. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/tesh11/https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/TRS-80 --- > Starting as a nights and weekends side project, Jason and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity. - Published: 2021-04-15 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jason-riedel-aspireship-saas/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, founder, jobs, placement, saas, sales, training - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Starting as a nights and weekends side project, Jason and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity. Jason Riedel was drawn to technology as a 9 year old. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, falling into the tech world - and as such, he didn't attend college. Music was his first love (or second, he debates which came first), though he is not a musician. He has produced music in the past, creating beats for artists. Interesting fact about Jason - he ran a hip hop label for 8 years on the side. The way he puts it, he used to make money through IT and spend money through building a hip hop label. He's married with 2 kids, and is into nutrition - though that tends to fall to the wayside, cause kids will only eat what they are going to eat. Starting as a nights and weekends side project, he and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity. This is the creation story of AspireShip. SponsorsInMoatArt of ManlinessLinksWebsite: https://aspireship. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jasonariedel/https://twitter. com/kelseyhightowerhttps://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Conway%27s_law --- > Twelve or so years ago, Beerud noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be? - Published: 2021-04-13 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-beerud-sheth-gupshup/ - Tags: ceo, consumer, elance, engagement, enterprise, founder, freelancer, messages, text messages - Podcasts: S4 Twelve or so years ago, Beerud noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be? Beerud Sheth grew up in Mumbai, India, and attended undergrad in Bombay. For graduate school, he came to the states to study at MIT, and then did a short stint in Wall Street before moving into the entrepreneurial world. He lives in the Bay Area, and enjoys hiking, working out and spending time with his family. He loves the Bay Area for these things, but also because of the community of ideation. The way he puts it, someone is always doing something interesting, and he really enjoys that. Besides business books, he leans towards reading biographies and books about the history of tech and business. Previously, he founded Elance, which is now Upwork, pioneering online freelancing. Twelve or so years ago, he noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be? This is the creation story of Gupshup. SponsorsGrindologyMorgan Page Game DevLinksWebsite: https://www. gupshup. io/developer/homeLinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/beerud/https://www. upwork. com/ --- > While Greg was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem. - Published: 2021-04-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-greg-schier-insomnia-client/ - Tags: analog, api, data, founder, indie hacker, json, platform, rest, solo founder, Tech - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 While Greg was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem. Greg Schier grew up in a small town, without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and skate boards, and spent a lot of time building ramps and jumps for them both. At that time... he had no idea what programming entailed. He went to university and it was at that point that he learned about programming, after spending some time in mechanical engineering and then moving over to coding. He recently moved outside of Montreal, into a house with chickens... and he now finds himself getting into homesteading, gardening, and wood working - creating many improvements around his place to increase the quality of life. The way he describes it, he is midway to a life change towards analog hobbies away from the digital world and the city. While he was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem. This is the creation story of Insomnia. SponsorsWildbitLinksWebsite: https://insomnia. rest/Twitter: https://twitter. com/GregorySchierhttps://schier. co/ --- > Bryon and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated. - Published: 2021-04-06 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-bryon-jacob-data-world/ - Tags: austin, catalog, co-founder, cto, data, ecosystem, integration, share, sharing - Podcasts: S4 Bryon and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated. Bryon Jacob is a family man with 4 kids, from ages 11 down. With a young startup and family, his hobbies has suffered some, but during the pandemic, he was able to pick back up music, specifically playing the keyboard. He's an avid reader, mostly sci-fi and loves to play strategy board games. His family and he tend to play games like Puerto Rico and Ticket to Ride, which is simple enough for his 6 year old to compete. He and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated. This is the creation story of data. world. SponsorsGrindologyMorgan Page Game DevWildbitKIMOLinksWebsite: https://data. world/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/bryon/ --- > The evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology. - Published: 2021-04-01 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-the-yield-podcast-by-yieldstreet-bonus/ - Tags: blockchain, challenges, cto, fintech, founder, investment, legacy - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 The evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology. Original episode:https://the-yield. simplecast. com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintechEpisode NotesThe evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology, from updating archaic systems to blockchain hype and the impact of legislation on this developing industry. Key Takeaways: Noah’s journey from corporate America to tech entrepreneur. Challenges and complexities of building a profitable platform. Key factors that have enabled the commoditizing of APIs. Steps to help develop a strong and updated infrastructure ecosystem. Blockchain hype, facts and its potential to upgrade archaic systems. The impact of state legislation that is targeted at the gig economy. Will the marketplace have an influence on new legislation? What’s coming next in fintech reinvention and innovation? Will legislation have a positive or negative impact on the gig economy? Yieldstreet offerings are required to comply with regulations. Mentioned in This Episode:YieldstreetVeryableOriginal episode:https://the-yield. simplecast. com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintech --- > Troy has worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. - Published: 2021-03-30 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-troy-goode-courier-courier/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, email, founder, integration, mailgun, notifications, sendgrid, slack, y combinator, ycombinator - Podcasts: S4 Troy has worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and loves to go outside, to the park, and spend time with his family. His parents had a boat when he was growing up, and they lived in a rural area. He used to sail down (as a spectator, not a sailor) a nearby river in Virginia. As he got older, he missed the simple peace yet required work that came with sailing - so he picked it back up as an adult. He's worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. He figured it out it was not only difficult to build... but every developer was recreating this in their solution. He decided to build it one last time. This is the creation story of Courier. SponsorsKIMOTIKILinksWebsite: https://www. courier. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/troygoode/ --- > When he attempted to break into the space, Rens had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. - Published: 2021-03-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rens-ter-weijde-kimo/ - Tags: ai, ceo, content, education, founder, journey, learning, reskilling, skills - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 When he attempted to break into the space, Rens had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend does most of the work. He's an avid kitesurfer, and he likes to be outdoors on the water. He started wave surfing and did it for 8 years, but found it incredibly difficult. He switched to kite surfing 6 years ago, and finds it much more enjoyable. He was a strategy consultant for 10 years, but then he hit a wall at one point and decided to move on to something new... and that new thing was AI. When he attempted to break into the space and become educated, he had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. This is the creation story of KIMO. SponsorsImagine GolfVirtualPBXKIMOTIKILinksWebsite: https://kimo. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rensterweijde/ --- > After working for Dell, Richard grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this? - Published: 2021-03-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-richard-barkley-cloudsnap/ - Podcasts: S4 After working for Dell, Richard grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this? Richard Barkley is a big traveller, and has been all around the world. The first business he started doing was doing non profit work in Uganda. He is a family man. Adopted several children from China, so he's been there. A few times. In total, he has 6 kids - 3 biological and 3 adopted. He graduated with a finance degree, then taught himself how to code. After having a few engineering jobs, he then started his own businesses. He is a lifelong learner and reads a ton... currently reading former President Obama's latest book. But in fact, he reads all types of books - biographies, tech books, economics... even books about extraterrestrials. After working for Dell, he grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this? This is the creation story of Cloudsnap. SponsorsVirtualPBXImagine GolfKIMOLinksWebsite: https://cloudsnap. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/rick-barkley-8839b87/ --- > When he was a sophomore in college, Cameron ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items. - Published: 2021-03-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-cameron-moreau-gozova/ - Tags: bonus, co-founder, college, delivery, fort worth, media, moving, san francisco, silicon valley, startup, truck - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 When he was a sophomore in college, Cameron ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items. Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it. Eventually though, he discovered programming and went to school at the University of Texas at Arlington, studying computer science. He spends a lot of time with his dog Twix, bike riding, rock climbing, and staying outdoors when he can. Note... he didn't get into rock climbing until he moved to San Francisco, because - its not really a thing in the flat lands of Texas. Post school, he spent some time in the Bay Area, working for technology startups. He lived the Silicon Valley dream, coding at Pivotal and OpenDoor, pair programming with amazing developers and people. When he was a sophomore in college, he ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items. This is the creation story of Gozova. SponsorsImagine GolfVirtualPBXKIMOLinksWebsite: https://gozova. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/cameron-moreau/ --- > As he was as grad student doing his PHD, Arjun came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. - Published: 2021-03-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-arjun-narayan-materialize/ - Podcasts: S4 As he was as grad student doing his PHD, Arjun came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts, and did his PHD at Penn, focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability. His doctorate taught him how to write at length, but out of the norm, he knew early on he didn't want to be an academic. He is married, with a young son - and he really enjoys being a father. Today, his life consists of his startup and his young family, which are about the same age. As he was as grad student doing his PHD, he came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution. This is the creation story of Materialize. SponsorsVirtualPBXImagine GolfKIMOUnidragon Coupon: DragonStory, 10% Discount. Expires July 1, 2021LinksWebsite: https://materialize. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/arjunravinarayan/ --- > As the COVID pandemic decimated live music events, Steve was caught in a related riff. He found himself networking for his next gig, and while doing so, started to chat with his now co-founders about a new opportunity... where musicians could interact with fans in new ways. - Published: 2021-03-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-steve-caldwell-mandolin/ - Podcasts: S4 As the COVID pandemic decimated live music events, Steve was caught in a related riff. He found himself networking for his next gig, and while doing so, started to chat with his now co-founders about a new opportunity... where musicians could interact with fans in new ways. Steve Caldwell lives in Louisville, Kentucky - but grew up in South Louisiana, in cajun country. In the 90's he loved seeing things he typed on the screen come to life, as he built website in Frontpage 95. As he got into his 20's, he wanted to jump into professional dev. He's got 3 kids in elementary school - so with the pandemic, its been quite interesting having everybody at home. He's relatively new to Kentucky, but hopes to get out and do the bourbon trail when the timing is right. He enjoys playing music, composing, and DJ'ing. As he puts it, he enjoys combining his passion for music with his passion for technology. In startup land, you have to be able to adlib and be flexible to change, understand your customers, and to skate where the puck is so to speak. Its the same in music - feeling the crowd, responding to your band, etc. - which is a really interesting parallel. As the COVID pandemic decimated live music events, Steve was caught in a related riff. He found himself networking for his next gig, and while doing so, started to chat with his now co-founders about a new opportunity... where musicians could interact with fans in new ways. This is the creation story of Mandolin. SponsorsKitcasterUnidragon Coupon: DragonStory, 10% Discount. Expires July 1, 2021LinksWebsite: https://www. mandolin. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/caldwellsteve/ --- > While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - Matt Fornaciari was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. - Published: 2021-03-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-matt-fornaciari-gremlin/ - Podcasts: S4 While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - Matt Fornaciari was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. Matt Fornaciari started his career at Amazon. First gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezo's directly about what was working & not working, which he rightfully so, says was stressful. He spends a lot of time outdoors, reading, and mostly just away from tech. He is so immersed in tech during the day, that in his free time he prefers to do analog activities... and a lot of activities that require motion. In fact... he claims that his career after tech will be something like a park ranger, taking care of the outdoors. While he was managing platforms for other companies - like Salesforce and Amazon - he was burning the midnight oil creating something to help build resiliency in your platform reliability. A solution based on the principles of chaos engineering. This is the creation story of Gremlin. SponsorsWildbitContentBotLinksWebsite: https://www. gremlin. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mattforni/https://www. calnewport. com/ --- > Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. - Published: 2021-02-25 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-richard-mensah-ellisx/ - Tags: bonus, co-founder, connection, founder, marketplace, media, stories, story - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. He is a huge music fan - and is a guitar player and singer. He sees the correlation between tech and music, and describes them both as understanding the rules but being able to bend them in your own way to make a product, service, or song. He also loves to dance. In fact, he recently tried to learn Salsa, which he mentions didn't go super great. Previously, he founded a few startups and one thing he found was it was hard to scale startups past early adopters. When he met his co-founder, they immediately saw a gap in connecting startups, startup ideas and those that are looking for interesting stories. They decided to build a better way to do this. This is the creation story of EllisX. LinksWebsite: https://www. ellisx. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/richard-okyere-mensah/ --- > After applying to Y Combinator, Brendan & Matt were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. - Published: 2021-02-23 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-brendan-matt-fig/ - Podcasts: S4 After applying to Y Combinator, Brendan & Matt were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. Brendan Falk is originally from Australia. Growing up, he was always into computers, sports, extra curricular activities - he was the kid who always had a side hustle going on. Once he got to college, he built a currency converting startup to help him pay his tuition fees... and he has been toying around with startup ideas ever since. His partner, Matt Schrage, is from San Fran originally - and he confesses, that its hard to escape tech when you are from the area. He started coding as early a middle school, and hasn't stopped since. And outside of tech... he builds more tech! Tinkering with embedded hardware, robotics and mini-machines. After applying to Y Combinator, they were invited to interview with the accelerator. During the interview, they decided to change from their original idea. After that, their YC partner advised them to pivot yet again... so change has been a regular occurrence for this team since the beginning. They realized that every time they went to get setup on a new project, they had to go through the same commands on the terminal, over and over again. Every time, they either forgot what they were, or encountered an issue with their environment that needed to be dug into. They thought, how can we solve the problem of making the terminal easier to use? This is the creation story of Fig. SponsorsTandem PodcastingLinksWebsite: https://withfig. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/brendanfalk/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/matt-schrage-957b6843/ --- > Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development side. - Published: 2021-02-18 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-jeff-meisner-sector-5-digital-s5d/ - Tags: 3d, ceo, co-founder, content, digital, display, founder, interactive, remote, trade show, virtual - Podcasts: Bonus Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development side. Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development side. He loves to travel with his family - his wife of 34 years, 2 daughters & sons in laws, and a couple of grand dogs in the dachshund, beagle and black lab family. In addition to this, he enjoys watching sports, mainly golf and football. Fun fact, he has a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo, but he doesn't keep up with the discipline anymore. Some of his biggest influences are the 10 commandments and the books - good to great, crossing the chasm, and traction. He started his agency 6 years ago to create award winning live, 3d experiences for brands like American Airlines, Halliburton, Galderma and other large organizations. When COVID hit, live events were no more, which created a problem for his industry. In response to this, his team built a new platform to connect his clients to their customers... virtually. This is the creation story of Sector 5 Digital, and S5D Rush. LinksWebsite: https://www. sector5digital. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/jeffmeisner/https://www. sector5digital. com/news/s5d-rush/ --- > Dan Robinson went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very different.. and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. - Published: 2021-02-16 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-dan-robinson-heap/ - Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, cto, devops, ec2, founder, google, infrastructure, toolset, vagrant, virtualization - Podcasts: S4 Dan Robinson went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very different.. and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. At 18 years old, Dan Robinson was 100% convinced that he was going to be a mathematician. He went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very different. . and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. He always enjoyed making stuff, specifically with computers, and he started leaning into computer science and deep learning projects. He loves to hike, and be outside with his friends. Recently, he has gotten addicted to chess online - though he claims he's not any good at it. So addicted, that he had to have his close friend hold onto his account password for him. Dan is originally from Boston, which is his excuse for being direct. In fact, he finds it so strange that people don't interrupt others more in the bay area. Previously, the CEO of Dan's current venture was a PM at Facebook - and he couldn't get basic answers to how people used the platform. Similar problems were popping up for Dan at Palantir, causing long cycles just to get a single question answered. They both were thinking - there HAS to be a better way. This is the creation story of Heap. SponsorsPodcornUnidragonLinksWebsite: https://heap. io/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/dan-robinson-a6930726/ --- > Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. - Published: 2021-02-09 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-mitchell-hashimoto-hashicorp/ - Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, cto, devops, ec2, founder, google, infrastructure, toolset, vagrant, virtualization - Podcasts: S4 Mitchell Hashimoto attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school. Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet. He is a pilot, and owns his own plane, which happens to be a Cirrus. He spends an hour a day studying or practicing flying, and even takes his wife and dog up every now and again, when there is something worth flying to and they can make the oxygen work for then dog. He attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. It was these projects put the ideas in his head, on what he could make in order for infrastructure to work better. This is the creation story of HashiCorp. SponsorsPodcast BloggersWildbitUnidragonLinksWebsite: https://www. hashicorp. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/mitchellh/ --- > Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. - Published: 2021-02-04 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-natalie-nagele-wildbit/ - Tags: beanstalk, builder, ceo, company, creator, founder, people, postmark, product, source code, women in tech - Podcasts: Bonus Natalie Nagele's company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. Natalie Nagele came to the states in 1989 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. She watched her parents go from nothing and utilizing furniture from trash, to building big businesses and supporting their family. She met Chris, her husband when she was 18. And they have been working together ever since, as he is the co-founder of their business. They have 2 kids together, and love to travel - specifically to the Caribbean, since it is a quick flight from Philly (and of course, its warm). Despite that, she would love to live in Italy one day. Their company started off as a remote consulting company, but launched their first product in 2003 - and they were immediately hooked. In 2009, they stopped doing client work and focused solely on products. And haven't looked back in 20 years. This is the creation story of Wildbit. SponsorsUnidragonWyld GalleryLinksWebsite: https://wildbit. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/natalie-nagele-b9aa42/ --- > In 2008, Daniel's current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. - Published: 2021-02-02 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-daniel-hauschildt-img-ly/ - Tags: agency, api, content, cto, founder, images, mobile, photoshop, processing, sdk - Podcasts: S4 In 2008, Daniel's current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. Daniel Hauschildt lives in Germany, in a town called Bochum. He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at an early age. He stayed busy with friends and sports, more specifically archery, where he learned about patience, concentration and competition. In his younger years, he clung to a long bow, but steadily moved towards using a higher tech, compound bow in later years. When he was 14 years old, he got into cracking video games, which lead him down the path of coding, and learning the assembly language. He recalls the first game he cracked was X Wing vs Tye Fighter. In 2008, his current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. This is the creation story of Img. ly. SponsorsUnidragonShape & FosterJennifer BrazerLinksWebsite: https://img. ly/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/danielhauschildt/https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun --- > Towards the end of his time in San Fran, Hrishi 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. - Published: 2021-01-26 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-hrishi-dixit-yieldstreet/ - Tags: alternative, art, bourbon, cto, fintech, investment, portfolio, startup, whiskey - Podcasts: S4 Towards the end of his time in San Fran, Hrishi 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. Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forward. He comes from a family of teachers and book store owners, so he was kind of an outlier - and, as a kid, having a computer was a luxury that his family couldn't afford. In his undergrad, he studied mechanical engineering, as computer science wasn't available. However, he brought in programming as much as possible. His graduate studies were completed at Cornell, where he worked side by side with Xerox scientists on interesting micro-mechanical systems problems. Books have always been a thing for Hrishi - loving the tactile sense of holding a book. He also enjoys a good whisky, along with traveling - and he'd love to retire living in Scotland within walking distance of Laguvulin. . if he can convince his wife to brave the winters in Scotland. He worked for Schlumberger for a while on robotic drilling tools, but then followed the activity in California, around the time where the internet was evolving and Google was taking shape. He wanted to be apart of that. Towards the end of his time in San Fran, he 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 investment platform defining a new way to build wealth. This is the creation story of Yieldstreet. SponsorsPodcornShape & FosterJennifer BrazerLinksWebsite: https://www. yieldstreet. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/hrishi-dixit/https://www. crunchbase. com/person/hrishi-dixithttps://www. yieldstreet. com/blog/article/cto-interviewhttps://queue. acm. org/detail. cfm? id=2884038 --- > 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. - Published: 2021-01-19 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-davit-buniatyan-activeloop/ - Tags: ceo, data, efficiency, founder, machine learning, neural networks, pedibyte, terabyte - Podcasts: S4 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. Davit Buniatyan is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at UCL. He entered into his college years, excited about animation from seeing Pixar movies. He learned all about 3d models, graphics and rendering - but then found out there was no course or curriculum specially for animation. So he switched to comp sci, which ended up being perfect. He is into swimming, tennis and shotokan - which is traditional Japanese karate. Along with these, he's been playing chess since he was 5 years old, and is an avid fan of the show Queen's Gambit on Netflix. When he 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. This is the creation story of Activeloop. SponsorsPodcornWildbitShape & FosterWingLinksWebsite: https://www. activeloop. ai/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/davidbuniatyan/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-01-12 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-charlie-chinmay-ridepanda/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, cto, lambda, marketplace, micro mobility, monolith, on demand, react, safety, serverless - Podcasts: S4 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. Charlie Depman grew up in Connecticut, then went to college in Canada - pursuing environmental studies. His first job out of college was to be the Asia regional coordinator for an environment NGO, or non-government organization. He writes short sci-fi stories, and as he was learning to code, he discovered that he could now create these future stories with code, rather than just write them. He's been into bicycles since his first trip to China, prior to college - and has bought, built and used many different types of bikes... including an ice bike with metal studded tires. Chinmay Malaviya grew up in New Delhi with engineers as parents - so math and science was always a thing growing up. He ended up doing his undergrad in Singapore, studying computer science. Funny enough, he is the trained engineer in his current venture. After trying out big companies and computer research early on in his career, he realized that he didn't like either one. He took the leap into the startup world with Food Panda, and eventually got involved with Lime, the popular micro mobility platform. At Lime, Chinmay was exposed to the environmental challenges we are facing as a society, especially around transportation. 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. SponsorsShape & FosterWingLinksWebsite: https://www. ridepanda. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/cdepman/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/chinmaymalaviya/ --- > 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. - Published: 2021-01-08 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tech-talks-daily/ - Tags: bonus, cto, industry, interview, on demand, scaling, Tech, veryable - Podcasts: Bonus, S4 Noah Labhart is a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host. Noah shares his startup story and personal experience building an engineering team of non-CS grads. Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer administrative burdens and workers with flexible work arrangements. Noah Labhart is a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host. Noah shares his startup story and personal experience building an engineering team of non-CS grads. In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast hosted by Noah featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. He interviews tech visionaries on his show, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry and build & lead a team that has your back. Code Story is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world-class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses. We talk about all this and the shifting landscape for on-demand workers, and the tech hurdles Noah has overcome in his career. https://noahlabhart. comhttps://veryableops. com --- > 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. - Published: 2021-01-05 - Modified: 2025-03-19 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-sophy-lee-hopskipdrive/ - Tags: acquisition, cto, culture, marketplace, microservice, on demand, safety, scale, schools, teams, women in tech - Podcasts: S4 Sophy Lee 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. Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran. 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. This is the creation story of HopSkipDrive. SponsorsShape & FosterLinksWebsite: https://www. hopskipdrive. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/sophylee --- > 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. - Published: 2020-12-29 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-adam-wathan-tailwind-replay/ - Tags: css, frontend, guest, indie hacker, musician, podcast, Tech, web - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 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. 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. During his time in university, he wasn’t enjoying the programming curriculum and ended up dropping out to play in his band, and working odd jobs to support his music career. During this, he got into the production side of music, and started a home studio to record local bands. Four years after he quit programming, he started tinkering with the same framework used to make Winamp – called reaper – and fell in love with pogromming all over again. At this point, he tried school again, but post internship, he decided to go straight into the field without finishing his degree. These days, he is married with a young family. Besides staying busy with that, he still finds time to play games with his remote friends, and occasionally trains for powerlifting. He met his business partner, Steve, in college, and hacked on side projects together. These side projects led to the creation of a mini CSS framework, which Wathan started using throughout other projects, growing it into something he was quite proud of. In fact, while live-streaming some coding, he was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage – to the tune of millions of downloads a month. This is the creation story of Tailwind CSS and Tailwind Labs. Linkshttps://adamwathan. me/https://tailwindcss. com/https://tailwindui. com/https://www. reaper. fm/index. phphttps://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/QBasic --- > Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. - Published: 2020-12-22 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-leah-culver-breaker-replay/ - Tags: android, cto, dropbox, founder, ios, l, oembed, podcast, sentry, women in tech, yc - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. And that thing was a more powerful way to discover the podcasts you love – through your subscriptions, activity, and most of all – through the power of social networking and suggestion. So she decided to fix it – and built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you – and your friends – like most. Linkshttps://leahculver. comhttps://breaker. audiohttps://oauth. net/https://oembed. com/http://altconf. com/https://sentry. io/welcome/ --- > Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. - Published: 2020-12-15 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-the-entrepreneurial-coder/ - Tags: android, england, founder, freelancer, host, london, mobile, podcast, podcasting, sms, solo founder, whatapp - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. Click here to listen to the episode on the Entrepreneurial Coder podcast. Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable and the founder and CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, he’s intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Noah is also the host of CodeStory, a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. Noah's Links. Noah on LinkedInNoah's WebsiteVeryableCodeStoryClick here to listen to the episode on the Entrepreneurial Coder podcast. --- > Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. - Published: 2020-12-08 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-develomentor/ - Tags: android, england, founder, freelancer, host, london, mobile, podcast, podcasting, sms, solo founder, whatapp - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. Biography Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder. A note from Grant Noah Labhart, on paper at least, in the early part of his career, has all the hallmarks of a classic math and computer science graduate’s path through tech. He interned at places like Hewlett Packard and worked as a developer in the first few years post college before moving into management. However, for Noah Labhart, there is more to the story than punching the clock working for someone else. After 8 years working in IT management for Alcon Laboratories, Noah made the leap on his own and hasn’t looked back since. In 2015, he started his own development studio, called Touchtap, which specializes in native mobile application development. And, as if starting and running one company isn’t enough, in 2016, he co-founded Veryable, an on-demand marketplace for labor in the warehousing space. Never one to sit still, Noah also runs the popular Code Story podcast. It features tech leaders reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products. -Grant Ingersoll Quotes “I got into math and started pursuing it but I really started to enjoy my computer science classes. In coding, I loved the creativity and I started building some websites for myself, throwing pictures up of my family and little bios. I learned html, css, javascript, and really liked it. ” “At the time there was an opportunity to work for Alcon Laboratories. I had a lot of friends that worked there. Great company. Takes really good care of their employees. Pretty good flexibility. So I was like ‘I can do my band during the weekends and have a really great job during the week’. And I worked for Alcon for 8 years. ” “As problems needed to be fixed, we brought on more help. We didn’t try to bite off more than we can chew. That’s how Touchtap grew and we’ve done a similar thing with Veryable. We’ve started with uncsontrained models. We’ve built things as we’ve needed them. And instead of building these intricate systems, we’ve built something, responded to market feedback, and then build it in a new way to meet the needs of the market. ” —Noah Labhart Key Milestones What inspired Noah Labhart to get into tech and to pursuing a comp sci and math degree at Texas A&M? Why did Noah transition into IT management after starting his career in development? Noah was at Alcon Labs when he decided to found his tech startup, TouchTap. How did this happen? How does Noah think about building teams and businesses these days? What is Veryable why did Noah decide to build... --- > When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, Aaron White noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. When it started to spread like wildfire, he figured out this was more than a leadgen tool.This is the creation story of Blissfully. - Published: 2020-12-01 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-aaron-white-blissfully/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, founder, infrastructure, it, new york, startup - Podcasts: S3 When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, Aaron White noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. Aaron White started coding when he was young, tinkering on his commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in esoteric commands just to get the game to run. He was a big magic the gathering player when he was young, and his parents pushed him towards working for a startup. Coming from a family of creators, he was sort of the black sheep since he wasn't painting or doing something with physical creative elements. Started coding professionally in his mid teens, and has kept at it ever since, attending college to study computer science and make all sorts of things. He currently lives in New York with his girlfriend, and enjoys a life of professional and personal flexibility. When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, he noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. When it started to spread like wildfire, he figured out this was more than a leadgen tool. This is the creation story of Blissfully. Linkshttps://www. blissfully. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/aaronmwhite/https://profiles. forbes. com/members/tech/profile/Aaron-White-Founder-CTO-Blissfully/2c1fe39c-cfed-4370-8f7b-f2571a7878eb --- > Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows). Likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out. - Published: 2020-11-24 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-joe-howard-wp-buffs/ - Tags: agency, ceo, hosting, services, support, wordpress - Podcasts: S3 Joe started out as a Wordpress freelancer, but found it was hard to scale building websites. However, what he knew was the fact that there are a lot of Wordpress sites out there... and they need grade A support. This is the creation story of WP Buffs. Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows). Likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out. Joe started out as a Wordpress freelancer, but found it was hard to scale building websites. However, what he knew was the fact that there are a lot of Wordpress sites out there... and they need grade A support. This is the creation story of WP Buffs. LinksWP Buffshttps://wpmrr. com/podcast/Pomodoro Journalhttps://wpmrr. com/podcast/noah-labhart-code-story/ --- > Several years ago, Charity Majors was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. - Published: 2020-11-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-charity-majors-honeycomb-io/ - Tags: cto, facebook, founder, infrastructure, instrumentation, microservices, niche, observability, parse, san francisco, women in tech - Podcasts: S3 Several years ago, Charity Majors was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, homeschooled and cultivating all of her own food. She went to college to study classical performance in piano. And though she loved piano, she decided to switch keyboards, so to speak, and pursue something in computers. Been in San Francisco since she was 19, and never wants to leave. Outside of tech, she does some hand lettering as a hobby, reads a lot - and considers serial television as the highest modern art form. She is firmly motivated by using code to get stuff done - IE she doesn't do tech for fun. And in her words, she's made a niche out of being an infrastructure engineer. Several years ago, she was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. When she left - she realized that a tool of that nature was paramount to doing her job well. So she set out to build it again, and figure out how to coin the term observability. This is the creation story of Honeycomb. io. SponsorsFree Lunch Coffee - discount coupon CODESTORYLinkshttps://www. honeycomb. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/charity-majors/https://parseplatform. org/ --- > Joe Mahavuthivanij is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that. - Published: 2020-11-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-joe-mahavuthivanij-tony-tran-mythic-markets/ - Tags: android, england, founder, freelancer, host, london, mobile, podcast, podcasting, sms, solo founder, whatapp - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Joe Mahavuthivanij is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that. Joe Mahavuthivanij was born and raised in the Bay Area, into an entrepreneurial family. Primarily through his life, he was exposed to small businesses. He went to school at UCSD in San Diego, and worked with startups of all shapes and sizes. In fact, he spent some time on the VC side of the fence as well. Tony Tran met Joe in San Diego at school, moving back to the Bay Area around the same time. He is a startup veteran, having built solutions that were acquired by LinkedIn, and creating Uber's fraud detection solutions. He even dabbled in the crypto space, which ended up fizzling out at the time that Joe was looking for a technical leader to join his latest venture. Joe is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that. This is the creation story of Mythic Markets. Linkshttps://mythicmarkets. com/marketplacehttps://www. crunchbase. com/person/joe-mahavuthivanijhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/mahavuthivanij/ --- > When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. - Published: 2020-11-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-jeff-bermant-cocoon-mydatarewards/ - Tags: android, browser, ceo, data, founder, internet, mobile, privacy - Podcasts: S3 Jeff Bermant got into tech because, believe it or not - he was annoyed at the internet, and its lack of privacy. After a casual conversation with his son, he realized that the average user is not getting paid for their data. He found this to be wrong - and set out to fix the problem, to ensure users got paid for their data, not Google, Facebook or anyone else. Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, to be a highly ranked tennis player. After school, he played the pro circuit for bit but eventually moved on. Now a days, he is into cycling, and has gotten to ride with Lance Armstrong - who told him to make sure to keep his day job. He worked for Coldwell Banker in the real estate business, under Bob Selleck (Tom Selleck's Dad). After that he started his own real estate business, which he did for 30 years. But after a while, he realized that he really enjoyed creating - and a lot of that sort of thing gets lost in the real estate business. He got into tech because, believe it or not - he was annoyed at the internet, and its lack of privacy. After a casual conversation with his son, he realized that the average user is not getting paid for their data. He found this to be wrong - and set out to fix the problem, to ensure users got paid for their data, not Google, Facebook or anyone else. This is the creation story of Cocoon - MyDataRewards. Linkshttps://trycocoon. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/jeffrey-bermant-83911619/ --- > Prior to freelance development, Rob Joseph worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him. - Published: 2020-11-05 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-rob-joseph-readittome/ - Tags: android, england, founder, freelancer, host, london, mobile, podcast, podcasting, sms, solo founder, whatapp - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Prior to freelance development, Rob Joseph worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him. Tech has been Rob Joseph's thing for as long as he can remember. At 4 years old, he was the only person in his household who knew how to use the TV and video recorder. Now a day's, he's into weight lifting and going to the gym. His favorite lift is deadlift, since he can continually make progress on his goals. He loves to hang out with friends and his partner, sharing a good meal or watching an amazing movie. Prior to lockdown, he was really into proper nutritional eating and cooking his own food - from which, he lost a ton of weight and created his twitter handle - low carb rob. Outside of these things, he is a Podcast host of the budding show Coffee & Coding, which he started during the covid lockdown (of course, after years of procrastination). A quick note... Given that you are listening to this podcast, you should look up his show right now and subscribe. Rob interviews app developers on the latest news, tip and has in depth discussions around how to be a better app developer. Prior to freelance development, he worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him. This is the creation story of ReadItToMe. SponsorsIn Dice We TrustLinkshttps://play. google. com/store/apps/details? id=robj. readit. tomefreehttps://play. google. com/store/apps/developer? id=Rob+Jhttps://robj. me/coffeeandcoding/ --- > When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. - Published: 2020-11-03 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-ron-rock-microshare/ - Tags: ceo, covid, data, data center, entreprenuer, founder, sensor, startup - Podcasts: S3 When he started to pursue his core mission, Ron Rock noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. Born and raised in Philly, Ron Rock put himself through college, working at Denny's as a midnight chef. He is a life long entrepreneur, and started his first business when he was in his 20's. He's married with 3 adult children, of whom he is very proud of. He spends a lot of time restoring old furniture and cars. In fact, when he was a kid, he was the guy all his friends brought their 10 speed bikes to to be fixed - which of course, changed to cars as they got older. Basically, he has always been building things either at work or at home. Post his other successful startups, one of which he sold to Accenture, he was intrigued by the space at the intersection of cloud and mobile, in the enterprise. He set out to combine disparate data sources that employees were required to use - digital signatures, smartphones, salesforce - after enterprises spent the last many years having locked everything down. When he started to pursue this, he noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities. This is the creation story of Microshare. SponsorsWyld GalleryPodcornLinkshttps://www. microshare. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/ronald-rock-2b52499/https://kitcaster. com/ron-rock/ --- > Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the same fraternity. He's married now, living in Pennsylvania, and is really into healthy living - fitness, nutrition, getting enough sleep - and recently, started to learn jui jitsu, which he describes as a bunch of if - then - else statements.He also supports and volunteers for organizations that help the wrongfully incarcerated, such as the innocence project and defy - helping these individuals learn to start businesses when they are paroled. Both he and his co-founder were working for a company, selling tax software to enterprises. Post its acquisition to Thomson Reuters, they left and started building small scale projects... finding a niche creating Squarespace sites.When working on these projects, people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do this, especially on the Squarespace forums. After reading through the comments, Ward realized that there was a huge opportunity to build a tool to solve this problem.This is the creation story of MemberSpace. - Published: 2020-10-29 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-ward-sandler-memberspace/ - Tags: agency, ceo, founder, hiring friends, membership, non-tech, outsource, plugin, remote, squarespace, wordpress - Podcasts: S3 When working on Squarespace projects, Ward Sandler discovered that people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do it. Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the same fraternity. He's married now, living in Pennsylvania, and is really into healthy living - fitness, nutrition, getting enough sleep - and recently, started to learn jiu jitsu, which he describes as a bunch of if - then - else statements. He also supports and volunteers for organizations that help the wrongfully incarcerated, such as the innocence project and defy - helping these individuals learn to start businesses when they are paroled. Both he and his co-founder were working for a company, selling tax software to enterprises. Post its acquisition to Thomson Reuters, they left and started building small scale projects... finding a niche creating Squarespace sites. When working on these projects, people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do this, especially on the Squarespace forums. After reading through the comments, Ward realized that there was a huge opportunity to build a tool to solve this problem. This is the creation story of MemberSpace. SponsorsFuture Hindisight PodcastMarathon Training for Beginners PodcastLinkshttps://www. memberspace. com/https://twitter. com/memberspacehttps://twitter. com/wardsandler --- > The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew. - Published: 2020-10-27 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-brendon-beebe-foreup/ - Tags: autonomy, cto, dwolla, golf, leader, mvp, tee time - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew. Like many folks I talk to in tech, Brendon Beebe grew up in tech. He comes from a long line of programmers, and he has been building things since his teens. In college, he felt the entrepreneurial bug - in fact, he started one venture in a homemade class wait list, that almost got him kicked out of school. Now a days, he is married with two kids, and in his free time, he manages a salt water reef tank as a hobby, and enjoys growing the different species of creatures in his 90 gallon tank. The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew. SponsorsLearn Spanish Con SalsaFuture Hindisight PodcastWyld GalleryIf I Was President GameLinkshttps://www. foreupgolf. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/brendon-beebe/https://www. amazon. com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439 --- > In 2014, Tim and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. - Published: 2020-10-20 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-tim-specht-dubsmash/ - Tags: avfoundation, co-founder, founder, fun, germany, mobile, music, new york, sharing, social, startup, tik tok, tiktok, video - Podcasts: S3 In 2014, Tim and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. Originally from Berlin Germany, Tim Specht started programming for fun, during high school. He had no plans to make a career out it - in fact, he wanted to become an experimental physicist. When the startup scene in Berlin started to pick up pace, Tim got interested. His first couple of gigs were in mobile engineering, which influenced him to continue to pursue startups further. Now a days, he is a dog foster-er - that is, he rotates dogs through his apartment in Brooklyn, taking are of their special needs while a good home is found for them. In 2014, he and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. And then, of course, sharing those creations with friends. They realized that the features they were creating were too complex for most users... but the ones they created for themselves - just for kicks - were the most interesting pieces of tech. So they spent some time scrapping the complex features, and centering around the short, quick, fun video creation to share. This is the creation story of Dubsmash. SponsorsIn Dice We Trust podcastMarathon Training for Beginners podcast (https://www. crummymarathoners. com/)Linkshttps://dubsmash. com/https://medium. com/@tspechthttps://www. linkedin. com/in/tim-specht/ --- > In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development. - Published: 2020-10-16 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-simplyphp/ - Tags: agency, bonus, Developer, php, remote, remote work, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development. In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development. --- > In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. - Published: 2020-10-13 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-dean-mcpherson-paperform/ - Tags: bootstrap, co-founder, forms, founder, musician, react, startup, web development - Podcasts: S3 In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. Dean McPherson - you guessed it... has always been interested in tech. Though unlike many of our guests, he taught himself how to code after he finished his degree program in music and philosophy. And then - he sold his way into a jr. programming job. Prior to his current venture, he spent several years doing mobile and full stack development for a couple of companies. He has a small family - 2 little boys - and his wife is not only his partner in life, but in business as well. He loves the idea of fishing - but doesn't really go much. And, he is a well rounded musician, but most interestingly. . he plays the didgeridoo. I can only imagine this at parties. In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. In 2016, he and his wife set out to build something to solve this problem - something easy to use, doesn't require coding, and offers a well rounded, branded solution. This is the creation story of Paperform. SponsorsCloud Academy (https://cloudacademy. com)Linkshttps://paperform. co/https://www. linkedin. com/in/dean-mcpherson/https://gobrief. com/blog/interviews/dean-mcpherson-co-founder-of-paperform --- > Combined with his desire to game forever, Seth and his partners approached the gaming community applying real estate concepts with digital hosting. He and his partners started a Minecraft hosting company, with the best support in the industry. - Published: 2020-10-06 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-seth-mattox-apex-hosting/ - Tags: data center, florida, founder, gaming, hosting, minecraft, node, online, startup, wordpress - Podcasts: S3 Combined with his desire to game forever, Seth and his partners approached the gaming community applying real estate concepts with digital hosting. He and his partners started a Minecraft hosting company, with the best support in the industry. Seth Mattox is a 33 year old single dude with a degree in finance, living in St. Petersburg FL. Both of his parents were computer coders, so some of his earliest memories in life are watching his mother type on a keyboard as he fell asleep. He can't remember life without a gaming console of some sort within arms reach. When he was 12, he and his friends created their crew concept of "we don't ever want to stop gaming". They decided when they were in their early 20's that they wanted to build a business system that would allow them to game - forever. Seth is an avid rock climber, cycler, he likes to visit local breweries, he likes to cook, and network in the local entrepreneurial communities. He spends a lot of time on a boat or the beach with his girlfriend, most recently doing some scalloping - which is a pretty rad date night. Combined with his desire to game forever, he and his partners approached the gaming community applying real estate concepts with digital hosting. He and his partners started a Minecraft hosting company, with the best support in the industry. This is the creation story of Apex Hosting. SponsorsKeep Optimising Podcast (https://keepoptimising. com/)Cloud Academy (https://cloudacademy. com)LinksWebsite: https://apexminecrafthosting. com/LinkedIn: https://www. linkedin. com/in/smattox/https://entrepreneursocialclub. com/entrepreneurs/seth-mattox/ --- > When Ethereum came out, Christopher Brown was hooked - and found inspiration in the historical marker that cryptocurrency was making. In getting involved, He found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was building what in the space - and he could only imagine how hard it was for outsiders to keep up. - Published: 2020-10-01 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-christopher-brown-zabo/ - Tags: crypto, cryptocurrency, fintech, founder, plaid, sql, startup, wallet - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 When Ethereum came out, Christopher Brown was hooked - and found inspiration in the historical marker that cryptocurrency was making. In getting involved, He found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was building what in the space - and he could only imagine how hard it was for outsiders to keep up. Christopher Brown has always tinkered with computers, by building them and creating websites. However, he struggled through his life to figure out which area he was passionate in. He joined the military out of high school, and now is married with 5 kids. He and his wife focus a lot of their time on family activities, basketball, hide and seek, watching movies or just simply laughing together. When Ethereum came out, he was hooked - and found inspiration in the historical marker that cryptocurrency was making. In getting involved, He found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was building what in the space - and he could only imagine how hard it was for outsiders to keep up. This inspired He and his co-founder to build Zabo, which connects any app to crypto currency via an API. Linkshttps://zabo. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/christopherbrown12/ --- > Mike Kadin started hacking on a side project on nights and weekends, learning the Go programming language, and creating a unique way to stitch together podcast episodes. - Published: 2020-09-29 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-mike-kadin-redcircle/ - Tags: engineer, golang, hosting, manager, mp3 stitching, podcast, side project, startup, uber - Podcasts: S3 Mike Kadin started hacking on a side project on nights and weekends, learning the Go programming language, and creating a unique way to stitch together podcast episodes. Mike Kadin is a family man, having been married for 7 years with a 2 year old (in the No phase). He studied electrical engineering, specifically chip design and computer architecture, obtaining a dual degree in EE and education. He is a musician, singing in acapella groups, playing the drums, piano, guitar - and is an polished beat boxer, having been practicing regularly over the years. Mike started his career as a high school physics and math teacher. During this time, he learned a lot about managing a bunch of kids in a class, and catering to different types of personalities. At this time, he found. himself trying to find a way to write code to make his classroom work better. In the winter of 2017, Mike was working at Uber, leading the communication platform team. As the company grew bigger, he found himself longing to be in a smaller, more tight knit team, along with being aligned to a long term vision for positive impact. At the same time, he started hacking on a side project on nights and weekends, learning the Go programming language, and creating a unique way to stitch together podcast episodes. He found his passion not only for the solution he was building, but for making an impact in the podcasting industry - for podcasters and marketers. He went on to commit to building a marketplace to easily connect the two, creating a win-win scenario for both. This is the creation story of RedCircle. SponsorsKeep Optimising Podcast (https://keepoptimising. com/)Cloud Academy (https://cloudacademy. com)The Podcast Discovery Show (https://www. podchaser. com/podcasts/the-podcast-discovery-show-860001)Linkshttps://radar. io/https://www. nicholasjohnpatrick. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nicholaspatrick/ --- > Nick was working at Handy, which is an on demand services platform. There, he and his colleagues were tasked to build a map system, with real time , transparent location info about the service technician. He realized that this was a difficult problem to solve - Published: 2020-09-22 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-nick-patrick-radar/ - Tags: ceo, founder, location, location services, mobile, radar, sdk, startup, stripe, web - Podcasts: S3 Nick was working at Handy, which is an on demand services platform. There, he and his colleagues were tasked to build a map system, with real time , transparent location info about the service technician. He realized that this was a difficult problem to solve. Nick Patrick has had his hands in tech for most of his life. He's been dabbling in computer programming and hardware from an early age. During college, he veered away from a focus in Biology toward computer science and his love for building things. He and his wife enjoy cooking, where his wife does the mise en place and Nick executes the cooking - primarily, backing pizzas and corn bread. He calls this a great analog activity with a big payoff. Four years ago, Nick was working at Handy, which is an on demand services platform. There, he and his colleagues were tasked to build a map system, with real time , transparent location info about the service technician. He realized that this was a difficult problem to solve, and quickly found there was no third party solution out there - IE he couldn't find the Stripe or MixPanel for location infrastructure. So he and his co-founder set out to build Radar, to provide tools quickly develop location based features right in your technology. SponsorsKeep Optimising Podcast (https://keepoptimising. com/)The Podcast Discovery Show (https://www. podchaser. com/podcasts/the-podcast-discovery-show-860001)Linkshttps://radar. io/https://www. nicholasjohnpatrick. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/nicholaspatrick/ --- > In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories he’s heard. - Published: 2020-09-17 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-the-ops-show/ - Tags: bonus, community, cto.ai, developers, devops, integration, microservices, monolith, ops, slack - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories he's heard. In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories he's heard. Check out the show and links to the episode here: --- > While live-streaming some coding, Adam Wathan was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage - to the tune of millions of downloads a month. - Published: 2020-09-15 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-adam-wathan-tailwind-css/ - Tags: components, css, framework, labs, musician, sass, tailwind, ui, ux - Podcasts: S3 While live-streaming some coding, Adam Wathan was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage - to the tune of millions of downloads a month. 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. During his time in university, he wasn't enjoying the programming curriculum and ended up dropping out to play in his band, and working odd jobs to support his music career. During this, he got into the production side of music, and started a home studio to record local bands. Four years after he quit programming, he started tinkering with the same framework used to make Winamp - called reaper - and fell in love with pogromming all over again. At this point, he tried school again, but post internship, he decided to go straight into the field without finishing his degree. These days, he is married with a young family. Besides staying busy with that, he still finds time to play games with his remote friends, and occasionally trains for powerlifting. He met his business partner, Steve, in college, and hacked on side projects together. These side projects led to the creation of a mini CSS framework, which Wathan started using throughout other projects, growing it into something he was quite proud of. In fact, while live-streaming some coding, he was surprised by the influx of people asking what it was... and where they could get it. He decided to open source the framework in 2017, and it has steadily grown and grown in usage - to the tune of millions of downloads a month. This is the creation story of Tailwind CSS and Tailwind Labs. SponsorsKeep Optimising Podcast (https://keepoptimising. com/)Linkshttps://adamwathan. me/https://tailwindcss. com/https://tailwindui. com/https://www. reaper. fm/index. phphttps://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/QBasic --- > Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs. - Published: 2020-09-10 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-wpmrr/ - Tags: bonus, developers, entreprenuer, junior, motivation, wordpress, wp buffs, wpmrr - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs. Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs. Who is Noah Labhart? Have you always been an outdoors person? How Noah’s interest in software development started. The programming and execution learned at HP. From programming to learning entrepreneurship. In startups, people that become developers contribute long-term to the company. Junior developers are hungry to learn, they are excited to figure out problems. How Code Story came to be. Why Code Story podcast is delivered in seasons? Some of the most popular Code Story episodes. How do you grow your listenership? The type of guest helps. Tell people about the podcast. Distribute and SEO optimize podcast content wherever possible. To stay motivated in creating podcast episodes, stay passionate and be creative. Check out the show and links to the episode here: https://wpmrr. com/podcast/noah-labhart-code-story/ --- > A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging. - Published: 2020-09-08 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-jane-portman-userlist/ - Tags: exit, messages, notifications, saas, san francisco, startup, ui, ux, women in tech - Podcasts: S3 A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging. Originally from Russia, Jane Portman gained experience as a creative director for an agency. She has been involved in tech as a designer for 16 years, occupying different design jobs. In fact, product work and design is her hobby! Jane is Married, with 3 kids, and shares entrepreneurial love with her husband. Having a college degree in applied information technology to the legal side of business, she has a solid foundation baseline for understanding the tech world. A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea - around a problem she was having with automated email, and in app messaging. This is the creation story of Userlist. Useful resource: Detailed Guide on SaaS User OnboardingLinkshttps://userlist. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/uibreakfast/https://uibreakfast. com/https://dribbble. com/portmanstudio --- > Tony Chan and his co-founders had experiences at prior ventures where it took a long time to report on cloud cost trends, and to know what you forgot to turn off in your infrastructure. - Published: 2020-09-03 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tony-chan-cloudforecast/ - Tags: aws, cloud, cost, exit, founder, pricing, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Tony Chan and his co-founders had experiences at prior ventures where it took a long time to report on cloud cost trends, and to know what you forgot to turn off in your infrastructure. Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Chan grew up in the Southside, a blue collar neighborhood. He was heavily influenced by hid Dad, who was a first generation immigrant, barely knew English, but started a restaurant. Tony took orders and took orders as a kid, sitting on a milk crate. This really shaped him as an entrepreneur. He is heavily involved in Chicago china town community, where he is interested in asian American history. He plays volleyball, specifically an isolated version in the china town community - 9 man volleyball - which is super high paced, and played on the street. He runs the Chicago indie hacker crew, meeting up once a month to talk about side projects. And he is a bulls fan all the way - but, he is a hardcore Sox fan, which can be a little controversial in an area where the Cubs are also just as iconic. He and his co-founders had experiences at prior ventures where it took a long time to report on cloud cost trends, and to know what you forgot to turn off in your infrastructure. After returning from a successful exit - and 3 years or so later - they all came back together to build their current venture. This is the creation story of CloudForecast. Linkshttps://cloudforecast. io/https://www. linkedin. com/in/tony-c-82b7397/https://www. indiehackers. com/product/cloudforecast --- > Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. - Published: 2020-09-01 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-kimeshan-naidoo-unibuddy/ - Tags: buddy, chat, cto, founder, london, microservices, monolith, new, school, student, university - Podcasts: S3 Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year - and is planning to complete an olympic triathlon and eventually, an iron man race. He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know what to expect. They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea, which immediately spoke to Kimeshan - as he lived out the problem they were trying to solve when he moved to London. They decided to move forward and build a platform that embeds chat capabilities for high school or prospective university students to chat with current students at a particular school. In fact, Naidoo built the first version as his dissertation project. This is the creation story of Unibuddy. Linkshttps://unibuddy. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/kimeshan/ --- > Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. - Published: 2020-08-27 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-coffee-and-coding/ - Tags: apps, bonus, guest, host, london, mobile, podcast, success - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. In this episode we discuss: How I got started in software engineering How I founded his own a Mobile Development Studio Co-founding a successful startup The role networking has played in my success What makes a good technical test How to hire & manage a fully remote team What Being CTO actually involves What Code Story has taught me Check out the show and links to the episode here: https://robj. me/coffeeandcoding/ --- > Elias Torres set out to build a revenue acceleration platform, and did so quickly, given that this was the 4th company he and his co-founder built. - Published: 2020-08-25 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-elias-torres-drift/ - Tags: acceleration, chat, cto, founder, infrastructure as code, java, latinx, microservices, revenue, startup, team, teraform - Podcasts: S3 Elias Torres set out to build a revenue acceleration platform, and did so quickly, given that this was the 4th company he and his co-founder built. A first generation LatinX immigrant, Elias Torres was born in Nicaragua. Growing up in a communist country, he had little resources, even food. Thirty years ago, he came to the US, and hasn't looked back, living the American dream and graduating from Harvard with an MS in Computer Science. He's married with 3 teenagers, and is currently learning a new stage of parenthood. When he's not being Dad or CTO, he enjoys disconnecting while he is kite surfing or sailing. Torres strives to find balance in building a successful company as an entrepreneur with not forgetting his roots, and increasing opportunities for people of color in the US. Five years ago, He and his co-founder figured out that teams needed to increase the effectiveness of their go to market strategy. Today, everyone wants to do things in real time... not during the 9 to 5. So he set out to build a revenue acceleration platform, and did so quickly, given that this was the 4th company the founders built together. This is the creation story of Drift. Linkshttps://www. drift. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/eliast/ --- > Not too long ago, Peter Voss found himself struck by how "dumb" software is, or better put, how narrow. So his mission for the last 25 years has been to make software smarter. - Published: 2020-08-20 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-peter-voss-aigo/ - Tags: ai, artificial intelligene, design, futurism, intelligence, robots, smart software - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Not too long ago, Peter Voss found himself struck by how "dumb" software is, or better put, how narrow. So his mission for the last 25 years has been to make software smarter. Peter Voss fell in love with software after starting a hardware design company. He moved to America 25 years ago, and rapidly connected with interesting people - leaders in the field of nano technology, AI, longevity, futurism... in face, he got very involved with futurism, following tech that could repair damage in your body and truly conquer aging. His target is to live long enough to take benefit from these life extending technologies, so he practices calorie restriction and is exploring cryonics. For fun, he rides motorcycles, specifically his 1000CC BMW racing bike. Not too long ago, he found himself struck by how "dumb" software is, or better put, how narrow. So his mission for the last 25 years has been to make software smarter. This led him to dig into the current definitions for what is knowledge, and our relationship with psychology, etc - to deeply understand cognition and intelligence to understand what we knew. He came up with a design for an AI, centering around the phrase AGI - artificial general intelligence. This is the creation story of AIGO. Linkshttps://www. aigo. ai/https://www. linkedin. com/in/vosspeter/https://medium. com/@petervoss --- > Dan Burcaw found out that there weren't many app millionaires in existence - so, he and his co-founder set out to build a better way to sell subscriptions inside app experiences, not only by abstracting the tech bits, but by using machine learning to prompt users at just the right time. - Published: 2020-08-18 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-dan-burcaw-nami-ml/ - Tags: apps, cto, exit, in app purchase, machine learning, ml, mobile, startup, subscription - Podcasts: S3 Dan Burcaw found out that there weren't many app millionaires in existence - so, he and his co-founder set out to build a better way to sell subscriptions inside app experiences, not only by abstracting the tech bits, but by using machine learning to prompt users at just the right time. Tech and entrepreneurship has always been super intertwined in Dan Burcaw's life - through his family, and starting to tinker with computers in the 90's. He played Baseball when he was younger, along with playing video games and interestingly enough. . keeping up with foreign policy (is that a hobby? ). Currently, Dan studies Brazilian Jujitsu and its endless progress of growth and evolvement, while taking care of his 2 pets (and their 3 eyes... you'll have to ask him). His prior company was in the push notifications world, which became a mission critical system for notifications, ultimately bought by Oracle. Afterwards, he and his co-founder started looking at the way people monetize their apps, specifically diving into subscriptions. In doing so, they found out that there weren't many app millionaires in existence - so, they set out to build a better way to sell subscriptions inside app experiences, not only by abstracting the tech bits, but by using machine learning to prompt users at just the right time. This is the story of Nami ML. Linkshttp://namiml. com/https://www. danburcaw. com/Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor. fmWant to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast. Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREECredits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice. --- > I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below. - Published: 2020-08-13 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-mentoring-developers/ - Tags: cto, Developer, guest, hats, host, junior, podcast, transition - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below. I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below. http://mentoringdevelopers. com/episode-76-noah-wears-many-hats-how-does-he-do-it/ --- > Yoshi Yokokawa quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API. - Published: 2020-08-11 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-yoshi-yokokawa-alpaca/ - Tags: api, api design, broker, investment, market, scale, startup, stocks, stripe, trading, us - Podcasts: S3 Yoshi Yokokawa quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API. Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi Yokokawa started his career at Leimen Brothers in the US. In doing so, he was exposed to the fragility of the economies, yet saw how all things were connected and potential for areas of automation - IE, where things didn't need a human hand. A marathon runner, triathlete and yoga teacher, he attempts to understand himself physically, spiritually and mentally. When he set out on a venture of his own, he originally started building deep neural net prediction models for trading funds and hedge funds. In doing so, he quickly figured out that in order to scale this quickly, his solution would need to work with existing brokerage firms and banks. It was at this pain point that he decided to pivot and build Alpaca, the best way for developers to trade US stocks through an API. Linkshttps://alpaca. markets/https://www. linkedin. com/in/yoshiyokokawa/https://www. crunchbase. com/person/yoshi-yokokawahttps://twitter. com/iyoshyoshi? lang=en --- > Shawn Frayne decided to pursue this dream, and eventually cycled back to the inspiration from back to the future - the hologram. This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory. - Published: 2020-08-06 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-shawn-frayne-looking-glass-factory/ - Tags: back to the future, beam, edison, founder, glass, hardware, hologram, inventor, japan, light, looking, startup - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Shawn Frayne decided to pursue this dream, and eventually cycled back to the inspiration from back to the future - the hologram. This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory. Shawn Frayne grew up dreaming of being an inventor. His heroes were the inventors of yore, like Thomas Edison and Tesla. Growing up, he was inspired by TV shows and movies, like Beyond 2000 and Back to the Future 2 - specifically, when Marty McFly gets eaten by the holographic shark. Believe it or not, to kick back and relax - he likes to have a cold beer and think about inventing other things... though he is fine with cheap beer, and has even been lovingly called Frugal Frayne by his team. Shawn recalls that Edison once said, All you need to invent is an imagination and a pile of junk - and he lives by that, with the added part of having his kids around in the mix. He studied physics at MIT, and post graduation, while everyone was heading to Silicon Valley, he was curious if anyone could still be an inventor. He decided to pursue this dream, and eventually cycled back to the inspiration from back to the future - the hologram. This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory. SponsorsBest Self - Use Promo Code CODESTORY for 20% offLinkshttps://lookingglassfactory. comhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/shawn-frayne-411b651https://www. crunchbase. com/person/shawn-fraynehttps://medium. com/@TWiStartups/shawn-frayne-co-founder-ceo-of-looking-glass-factory-2081ef3ebeb2 --- > Five years ago, Mark started a side project, building a weather app that combined up to date weather with his wife's beautiful landscape illustrations. Shortly after - Apple started promoting their apps, and their business started to take off. Today, they have ventured into nature based mindfulness apps, through their company known as Wild Ventures. - Published: 2020-08-04 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-mark-hendriks-wild-ventures/ - Tags: apple, apps, design, illustration, mindfulness, mobile, off grid, soundscapes, startup - Podcasts: S3 Five years ago, Mark Hendriks started a side product, that took off and allowing his company to build nature based mindfulness apps, through their company known as Wild Ventures. Mark Hendriks has been a product designer for 11 years. His family and he love to travel, see the world and visit national parks. He currently live in Spain with his wife and son, off the grid. And by off the grid, I mean a house on 20 acres, with its own solar power system, and own rain water collection system. But don't worry... he made sure he checked the LGE network speed before buying the property. Five years ago, he started a side project, building a weather app that combined up to date weather with his wife's beautiful landscape illustrations. Shortly after - Apple started promoting their apps, and their business started to take off. Today, they have ventured into nature based mindfulness apps, through their company known as Wild Ventures. SponsorsBest Self - Use Promo Code CODESTORY for 20% offLinkshttps://wildventures. nl --- > Dave Zohrob has been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood. After considering a few different avenues, including yet another podcast app, they decided to focus on podcast analytics - some might say the app annie for podcasting. This is the creation story of Chartable. - Published: 2020-07-28 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-dave-zohrob-chartable/ - Tags: analytics, api, api design, apple, charts, downloads, host, iab, metrics, podcast, startup - Podcasts: S3 Dave Zohrob has been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood. After considering a few different avenues, he decided to focus on deep podcast analytics, which would eventually become Chartable. Dave Zohrob has been coding since before he can remember. He is among the crews where their Dad's bought TRS-80's hooked up to the TV and loaded games from tape drives. He loves music, and even ran a small record label in San Francisco. But nowadays, he focuses on his family with two little kids. While working at Angelist, he and his co-founder decided to start another thing together... the problem was, they didn't know what to build. Dave had been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood. After considering a few different avenues, including yet another podcast app, they decided to focus on podcast analytics - some might say the App Annie for podcasting. This is the creation story of Chartable. Today’s Sponsors:Tresta. com/codestory - 30 Day Free TrialLinkshttps://chartable. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/dzohrob/https://www. crunchbase. com/person/dave-zohrobhttps://twitter. com/dzohrob --- > Andrew Smith has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental technologies. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually.. in the US alone... his perspective was solidified. This is the creation story of Outrider. - Published: 2020-07-23 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-smith-outrider/ - Tags: ai, automation, chassis, environmental, exit, founder, freight, logistics, startup, technlogy, trailer, yard - Podcasts: Bonus, S3 Andrew Smith thinks the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental tech. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually in the US, his perspective was solidified. Andrew Smith grew up playing in the woods of northern New England. In 6th grade, he was given a car and drivers magazine and fell in love with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches - who didn't? In 7th grade, his science teacher told him they got bad fuel economy, so he was inspired to change that. He currently lives in Oregon, though Outrider is based in CO, he is passionate about mountaineering, climbing and skiing, with whom he does with his friends, colleagues and family any chance he can. He has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental technologies. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually. . in the US alone... his perspective was solidified. This is the creation story of Outrider. Linkshttps://www. tuck. dartmouth. edu/mba/alumni-stories/andrew-smithhttps://www. linkedin. com/in/andrew-smith-8173853/https://news. crunchbase. com/news/colorados-outrider-comes-out-of-stealth-with-53m-to-automate-logistics-hub-operations/https://techcrunch. com/2020/02/19/autonomous-yard-trucking-startup-outrider-comes-out-of-stealth-with-53-million-in-funding/ --- > Cole Raven and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery. - Published: 2020-07-21 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-cole-raven-podchaser/ - Tags: co-founder, creater, discovery, founder, host, imdb, listener, listing, podcast, revenue, startup - Podcasts: S3 Cole Raven and his team figured out that podcast discovery is terrible. After some community polling, they set out to build Podchaser - the IMDB for podcasts. Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana. Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly - but early on, he knew he wanted to do his own thing. His wife and he just moved to Hawaii... they have been a full time traveling couple, following the Spartan Race for quite some time - so obviously they are into trail running! Prior to his latest venture, he signed on to Vibenomics as one of their first employees, early on in their startup inception. He learned a lot about startups - about fundraising, and what it takes to build a successful startup. A few years ago, he and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery. Today’s Sponsors:Tresta. com/codestory - 30 Day Free TrialGo. RIMS. org/CODESTORY - to save 25% on a yearly membershipLinkshttps://www. podchaser. com/https://www. linkedin. com/in/cole-raven-b320b531/https://www. podchaser. com/creators/cole-raven-107Zzj5ex7https://www. spartan. com/enhttps://www. vibenomics. com/ --- > Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. - Published: 2020-07-15 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/season-3-trailer/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, founder, journey, trailer - Podcasts: S3, Trailer Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. You'll hear from amazing guests, such as Cole Raven of Podchaser, Dave Zohrob or Chartable and Mark Hendricks of Wild Ventures. And in these interviews, we continue to uncover the stories you want to hear most - stories around success, mistakes, scaling, building and making trade-offs - all in the name of building the next big thing. --- > Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. - Published: 2020-07-14 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ryan-graciano-credit-karma-replay/ - Tags: co-founder, credit, credit card, enterprise, fintech, founder, microservices, monolith, offers, report, savings, startup, team - Podcasts: Bonus, S2 Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things. Early in his career, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. Today's Sponsors: ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) RIMS (https://www. rims. org/) Links https://www. creditkarma. com/ourstory/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/graciano/ --- > Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about: How to have your team OWN and run your projects, getting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it and how to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a while. - Published: 2020-07-07 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-innovabuzz-podcast/ - Tags: austrailia, be yourself, bonus, buzz, consulting, enable, ideas, marketing, projects, story - Podcasts: Bonus, S2 Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about: How to have your team OWN and run your projects, getting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it and how to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a while. Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about: How to have your team OWN and run your projects Getting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it and How to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a while Listen to the podcast to find out more at https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart. Some tweetable snippets: Be yourself. Be in touch with yourself, own it, and rock it! @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts Be bold in yourself and go do it. Give things a shot. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts Enable your people and stay connected with them. There's nothing more satisfying than making yourself redundant. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts It's helpful to create brand awareness but the real selling point is knowing your ideal client and understanding the problem that you are solving. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts You need to have enough workers to attract business, but you also need to have enough business to attract workers. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts Making sure that your team stays connected is important in doing remote work. Make sure that there are touchpoints where people can connect and talk to each other with that they are working on. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts Just do it. You'll never know until you do it. There are so many resources at your fingertips that you can take advantage of, and so, there's very little risk in trying. If you fail, you'll just learn something that will help you in the next thing you will do. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts Go analog. Get away from the digital world and go outside. Good ideas come from random places. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz. co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts --- > A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors - though he loves to go out in the trees with his friends when he can. After leading R&D at Fredhopper, he took several years to do research on large scale systems. Coming out of his research in 2015, he joined Picnic - the online supermarket delivering groceries directly to your home, free of charge. - Published: 2020-06-23 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-daniel-gebler-picnic/ - Tags: api design, delivery, founder, free, grocery, infrastructure, on demand, online, startup, supermarket, white label - Podcasts: S2 A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route - through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors - though he loves to go out in the trees with his friends when he can. After leading R&D at Fredhopper, he took several years to do research on large scale systems. Coming out of his research in 2015, he joined Picnic - the online supermarket delivering groceries directly to your home, free of charge. Today’s Sponsors: Ladder. sport - use code: BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% off Payoff. com/CODESTORY - pay off your credit card debt Go. RIMS. org/CODESTORY - to save 25% on a yearly membership Episode Resources: Picnic --- > Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that didn't quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration consulting he saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot, so he set out to build DepositFix - a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world's most used CRM. - Published: 2020-06-16 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-denis-lunev-depositfix/ - Tags: api, api design, crm, cto, fintech, founder, hubspot, integration, money, payments, startup, stripe - Podcasts: S2 While doing integration consulting, Denis Lunev saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot - So he set out to build DepositFix - a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world's most used CRM. Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that didn't quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration consulting he saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot, so he set out to build DepositFix - a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world's most used CRM. Today’s Sponsors: Save the Children (www. savethechildren. org/savekids) Payoff (payoff. com/codestory) RIMS (Get 25% off a year long membership at Go. RIMS. org/codestory) Calibre (Start a free 15 day trial at CalibreApp. com) Episode Resources: DepositFix Connect with Denis on LinkedIn RICE Framework HubSpot Stripe --- > A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all. - Published: 2020-06-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-meet-the-podcasters-james-deeney/ - Tags: bonus, grow, guest, host, launch, podcast, podcasting - Podcasts: Bonus, S2 A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all. A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all. Some notes from their website: As CTO and co-founder of Veryable, Noah has the first-hand knowledge and experience needed to ask the right questions. And in each episode, he walks listeners through how guests went from an idea sketched on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product with thousands of users. Inspired by How I Built This with Guy Raz, Noah consciously kept a high bar on quality from day one. Interviews are edited to craft a narrative arc. Introductions are carefully scripted to set the scene. Hand-picked backing music helps convey the key stages of each guest’s journey. And all this is pieced together and promoted with the help of a dedicated podcast team. All that effort and investment is now paying off. Code Story has continued to build momentum throughout its second season and has now secured sponsorship from numerous different brands. In this interview James Deeney chats to Noah about leading a podcast team and the parallels that exist between starting a company and starting a podcast. Link to the episode: https://www. podcast. co/inspire/noah-labhart-code-story Show Notes: 02:22 - How Noah first got into podcasting 07:30 - Plans to launch a company podcast for Veryable 09:20 - Similarities between starting a company and starting a podcast 11:45 - Hiring a podcast team 14:10 - How Noah initially financed Code Story 16:30 - Why podcast quality is so important 18:30 - Communicating clearly and avoiding tech jargon 22:00 - How to conduct relaxed and conversational interviews 27:00 - Editing interviews to craft a narrative 29:30 - How music is added to Code Story 33:00 - Why Noah decided to produce Code Story in seasons 37:00 - Strategies Noah used to build his audience 40:30 - Promoting a podcast in relevant online communities 44:20 - Finding and pitching to podcast sponsors 50:15 - Noah’s predictions on the future of podcast tech --- > Mubashar Iqbal, AKA Mubs, has always been a maker. Having built 85 side projects, he is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. On a train ride home, he started to build pod hunt, a place for podcast lovers to submit and vote on new episodes, solving discovery around episodes over entire podcast shows. - Published: 2020-06-09 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-mubashar-iqbal-pod-hunt/ - Tags: hosting, indie hacker, mvp, podcast, project, rails, side project, Tech, upvote - Podcasts: S2 Having built 85 side projects, Mubs is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. Mubashar Iqbal, AKA Mubs, has always been a maker. Having built 85 side projects, he is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. On a train ride home, he started to build pod hunt, a place for podcast lovers to submit and vote on new episodes, solving discovery around episodes over entire podcast shows. Today’s Sponsors: Ladder (ladder. sport) Payoff (payoff. com/codestory) Save the Children (www. savethechildren. org/savekids) Atomic Child (atomicchild. com) RIMS (go. rims. org/codestory) Scatterspoke (scatterspoke. com) Episode Resources: https://podhunt. app/ https://mubs. me/ --- > Growing up in a small rural city in Germany, Dominic Obermaier was not exposed too much when it comes to computers. After studying computer science in college, he was hooked. A frequent reader of ancient philosophy, he likes to hang out with friends and play board games, specifically long-lasting games such as Arkham horror. Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ. - Published: 2020-06-02 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-dominik-obermaier-hivemq/ - Tags: broker, cto, data, device, founder, integration, interconnected, iot, protocol, standardized, startup - Podcasts: S2 Dominik Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ. Growing up in a small rural city in Germany, Dominic Obermaier was not exposed too much when it comes to computers. After studying computer science in college, he was hooked. A frequent reader of ancient philosophy, he likes to hang out with friends and play board games, specifically long-lasting games such as Arkham horror. Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ. Today’s Sponsors: Atomic Child (atomicchild. com) Save the Children (savethechildren. org/savekids) RIMS (go. rims. org/codestory) Calibre (calibreapp. com) Episode Resources: https://www. hivemq. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/dobermai --- > Kyle Campbell is a native Canadian and high school dropout growing up in Nova Scotia. He's been working with technology since he was eight years old. Learning computers, building websites, and even starting an online record label. A husband and a dad, he loves the outdoors, camping and motorbikes, and frequently hits the trails with a group of tight-knit campers. After moving into entrepreneurship post-high school, he worked his way up through the ranks of several companies in the Vancouver area, and founded his own companies along the way, one of which got acquired by Zillow. Post that Kyle started to consider the current complexity of the infrastructure and DevOps landscape, Cloud, Kubernetes containers, et cetera. So he set out with the mission to make DevOps successful, easy to use, and bring developer tools to where development happens by enabling developer shortcuts. - Published: 2020-05-26 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-kyle-campbell-cto-ai/ - Tags: ceo, cto, cto.ai, devops, integration, ops, slack - Podcasts: S2 Kyle Campbell started to consider the current complexity of the infrastructure and DevOps landscape, Cloud, Kubernetes containers, et cetera. So he set out with the mission to make DevOps successful, easy to use, and bring developer tools to where development happens by enabling developer shortcuts. Kyle Campbell is a native Canadian and high school dropout growing up in Nova Scotia. He's been working with technology since he was eight years old. Learning computers, building websites, and even starting an online record label. A husband and a dad, he loves the outdoors, camping and motorbikes, and frequently hits the trails with a group of tight-knit campers. After moving into entrepreneurship post-high school, he worked his way up through the ranks of several companies in the Vancouver area, and founded his own companies along the way, one of which got acquired by Zillow. Post that Kyle started to consider the current complexity of the infrastructure and DevOps landscape, Cloud, Kubernetes containers, et cetera. So he set out with the mission to make DevOps successful, easy to use, and bring developer tools to where development happens by enabling developer shortcuts. Today’s Sponsors: Ladder (ladder. sport) Save the Children (savethechildren. org) Atomic Child (atomicchild. com) Collard (collard. app/codestory) Episode Resources: https://cto. ai/ https://ca. linkedin. com/in/slajax --- > Recently, I had the pleasure of guesting on Harry Duran's Podcast Junkies. In this episode, we talked about technology startups, communication skills and formatting podcasts for length, production and promos. I was able to share my insights on entrepreneurship and how my podcasting skills have transferred over to Veryable, my startup company. Enjoy the episode. - Published: 2020-05-20 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-interview-on-podcast-junkies-harry-duran/ - Tags: guest, harry duran, host, launch, podcast, podcast junkies, startup, Tech, vision - Podcasts: Bonus, S2 Recently, I had the pleasure of guesting on Harry Duran's Podcast Junkies. In this episode, we talked about technology startups, communication skills and formatting podcasts for length, production and promos. Recently, I had the pleasure of guesting on Harry Duran's Podcast Junkies. In this episode, we talked about technology startups, communication skills and formatting podcasts for length, production and promos. I was able to share my insights on entrepreneurship and how my podcasting skills have transferred over to Veryable, my startup company. Enjoy the episode. Link to the episode: https://podcastjunkies. com/noah-labhart-interview/ Show Notes: 06:00 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Noah Labhart who speaks to his podcasting genesis story 14:28 – How Noah mapped out his vision and plan for the Code Story podcast 22:33 – Noah speaks to how he formats his podcast, including length, production and promotions 25:46 – How Noah has grown more confident as a podcast host 29:31 – Noah’s background in technology 33:50 – Noah talks about his own startup, Veryable, and the initial response he received in the marketplace 43:01 – Noah’s future plans for the growth of Veryable and the Code Story podcast 47:03 – What is something that Noah has changed his mind about recently 48:32 – What is the most misunderstood thing about Noah 48:49 – Harry thanks Noah for joining the show and where listeners can follow Noah --- > A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science, and loves to roller skate - and may have participated in roller derby a time or 2. Fast forward several years, she and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno - an on-demand platform for connecting parents to vetted, quality sitters.... when & where they need them. - Published: 2020-05-19 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-desi-mcadam-nanno/ - Tags: cto, fundraise, nanny, on demand, platform, roller derby, sitter, Technology, women in tech - Podcasts: S2 A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno. A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science, and loves to roller skate - and may have participated in roller derby a time or 2. Fast forward several years, she and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno - an on-demand platform for connecting parents to vetted, quality sitters... . when & where they need them. Today’s Sponsors: Kernl (https://kernl. us) Episode Resources: https://www. nanno. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/desimcadam/ --- > A Maryland native, Rob Moore quickly found himself in the UK studying game theory and behavioral economics. A lover of travel, he has been able to live the digital nomad life and see a number of amazing places. Post-graduation he started doing data visualization work for several different companies. He noticed the difficulty of going from a core product to a sellable SaS platform. Internalizing dry principles and learning the pains of smaller product value delivery, he built Floom to be the startup as a service tool, enabling small SaS businesses away quickly to productize their products. - Published: 2020-05-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-rob-moore-floom/ - Tags: api, api design, connection, integrated, marketplace, on demand, purchase, saas - Podcasts: S2 Rob Moore created Floom to be the startup as a service tool, enabling small SaS businesses away quickly to productize their products. A Maryland native, Rob Moore quickly found himself in the UK studying game theory and behavioral economics. A lover of travel, he has been able to live the digital nomad life and see a number of amazing places. Post-graduation he started doing data visualization work for several different companies. He noticed the difficulty of going from a core product to a sellable SaaS platform. Internalizing dry principles and learning the pains of smaller product value delivery, he built Floom to be the startup as a service tool, enabling small SaaS businesses away quickly to productize their products. Today’s Sponsors: Ladder (ladder. sport) Tresta (tresta. com) Payoff (payoff. com) Episode Resources: Rob Moore Website https://www. robmoo. re/ Flume Website https://floom. app/ Rob creates Data Visualization on https://d3js. org/ Rob’s game theory model as a downloadable document http://s3. amazonaws. com/rob-moore/ExamsGamesAndKnapsacks_RobMooreOxfordThesis. pdf Aws Lambda Website https://aws. amazon. com/lambda/ Aws AppSync site https://aws. amazon. com/appsync/ The programme Rob took, Entrepreneur First Website https://www. joinef. com/ Indie Hackers Website https://www. indiehackers. com/ Product Hunt Website https://www. producthunt. com/ --- > Andrew Overton is a finance grad from Howard University. He spent 3 years after graduation, in investment banking. After a while, he desired to work in tech and joined Graphiq in Santa Barbara to learn the ropes. During that time, he obtained his masters in CS from Johns Hopkins, and fulfilled his life long dream of working for Apple - specifically, on Apple Music data pipelines. Married to his wife Jessica, he is a family centered dude, looking up to both his brother and parents. And outside of tech, he loves to read and practice Ju Jitsu to blow off steam and practice thinking a few moves ahead. During his career, he had the idea of saving his own family's story somehow, but drug his feet on the idea. In 2019, he committed to making progress and validated the idea - in fact, it was at this point where he connected with his co-founder, Amelia Lin, and set off to create a robust product to capture stories from your loved ones - through an easy interface, all in one place, and saved in audio format. It's like getting a personal podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories. This is the creation story of Saga. - Published: 2020-05-06 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-andrew-overton-saga/ - Tags: app, audio, co-founder, cto, founder, marketplace, mvp, podcast, recording, startup, stories - Podcasts: Bonus, S2 Andrew Overton and his co-founder, Amelia Lin, and set off to create a robust product to capture stories from your loved ones - through an easy interface, all in one place, and saved in audio format. It's like getting a personal podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories. This is the creation story of Saga. Andrew Overton is a finance grad from Howard University. He spent 3 years after graduation, in investment banking. After a while, he desired to work in tech and joined Graphiq in Santa Barbara to learn the ropes. During that time, he obtained his masters in CS from Johns Hopkins, and fulfilled his life long dream of working for Apple - specifically, on Apple Music data pipelines. Married to his wife Jessica, he is a family centered dude, looking up to both his brother and parents. And outside of tech, he loves to read and practice Ju Jitsu to blow off steam and practice thinking a few moves ahead. During his career, he had the idea of saving his own family's story somehow, but drug his feet on the idea. In 2019, he committed to making progress and validated the idea - in fact, it was at this point where he connected with his co-founder, Amelia Lin, and set off to create a robust product to capture stories from your loved ones - through an easy interface, all in one place, and saved in audio format. It's like getting a personal podcast of your Grandma's childhood stories. This is the creation story of Saga. Download Saga in the App Store: https://apps. apple. com/us/app/saga-save-family-memories/id1504305671 Today's Sponsors CloudForecast (https://cloudforecast. io) Links https://trysaga. com/ https://www. cnet. com/news/turn-grandmas-memories-into-a-podcast-with-the-saga-app/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/andrew-p-overton/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/amelialin/ https://www. crunchbase. com/person/andrew-overton-32b7 --- > Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and tinkered in robotics and medical devices. Eventually, she founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state. - Published: 2020-05-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-adrienne-bolger-blochealth/ - Tags: co-founder, credentials, crypto, cryptocurrency, cto, founder, startup, women in tech - Podcasts: S2 Adrienne Bolger founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state. Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and tinkered in robotics and medical devices. Eventually, she founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state. Today's Sponsors: Tresta (https://www. tresta. com/codestory) ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) Links https://blochealth. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/adriennebolger/ --- > Jack Rhysider is a veteran of the security world. He likes to explore, rather it be through street cycling, empty buildings, alleyways - or just getting outdoors. He grew up with conspiracy theories, but found himself drawn more to a truthful scandal over the former. Having watched some of the biggest events in history come and go - dot.com bubble, bitcoin boom, etc. - he felt the increasing presence of an entrepreneurial itch. In the early days, he created some blogs and websites, using some well known web tech, and cultivated a love of podcasting and storytelling. Not able to find the right podcast in the info sec arena, he decided to give it a shot on his own. Fast forward to today, his podcast - Darknet Diaries - is one of the most well known podcasts available, topping the charts with its weekly release of hacking true stories. - Published: 2020-04-28 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-jack-rhysider-darknet-diaries/ - Tags: darknet diaries, entreprenuer, ethical hacker, guest, hacker, host, infosec, podcast, security, startup - Podcasts: S2 Jack Rhysider is a veteran of the security world. His podcast - Darknet Diaries - is one of the most well known podcasts available, topping the charts with its weekly release of hacking true stories. Jack Rhysider is a veteran of the security world. He likes to explore, rather it be through street cycling, empty buildings, alleyways - or just getting outdoors. He grew up with conspiracy theories, but found himself drawn more to a truthful scandal over the former. Having watched some of the biggest events in history come and go - dot. com bubble, bitcoin boom, etc. - he felt the increasing presence of an entrepreneurial itch. In the early days, he created some blogs and websites, using some well known web tech, and cultivated a love of podcasting and storytelling. Not able to find the right podcast in the info sec arena, he decided to give it a shot on his own. Fast forward to today, his podcast - Darknet Diaries - is one of the most well known podcasts available, topping the charts with its weekly release of hacking true stories. Today's Sponsors: SimpleTexting (https://simpletexting. com/codestory) Links https://darknetdiaries. com/ https://shop. darknetdiaries. com/ https://www. patreon. com/darknetdiaries https://www. linkedin. com/in/jack-rhysider-02922a167/ https://www. amazon. com/Out-Wire-Storytelling-Secrets-Masters/dp/0385348436 https://meetedgar. com/ http://aaronmahnke. com/ --- > Jason Tan started his love of tech back in middle school, when his Dad showed in the wonders 0f connectivity through dial up internet. After taking some beginner programming classes in high school, and graduating with a CS degree from the University of Washington, he found himself drawn to crating powerful abstractions within software, to produce outcomes for users. Though previously a hardcore video gamer - playing such well known games like Diablo 2 & 3, he has since moved on to dabble in freestyle rapping & singing. And in 2006 post college, he worked for startups in Seattle, like Zillow and Optify. Finally, in 2011, he moved to San Francisco to start his current company and go through Y Combinator. Through some discovery, he figured out that a large area ripe for innovation and disruption was fraud. He then set out to build Sift, a product to power digital trust and safety, empowering companies to unlock revenue without risk. - Published: 2020-04-21 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-jason-tan-sift/ - Tags: ceo, co-founder, digital, digital trust, dwolla, founder, fraud, revenue, risk, safety, startup, trust, y combinator - Podcasts: S2 Jason Tan set out to build Sift, a product to power digital trust and safety, empowering companies to unlock revenue without risk. Jason Tan started his love of tech back in middle school, when his Dad showed in the wonders 0f connectivity through dial up internet. After taking some beginner programming classes in high school, and graduating with a CS degree from the University of Washington, he found himself drawn to crating powerful abstractions within software, to produce outcomes for users. Though previously a hardcore video gamer - playing such well known games like Diablo 2 & 3, he has since moved on to dabble in freestyle rapping & singing. And in 2006 post college, he worked for startups in Seattle, like Zillow and Optify. Finally, in 2011, he moved to San Francisco to start his current company and go through Y Combinator. Through some discovery, he figured out that a large area ripe for innovation and disruption was fraud. He then set out to build Sift, a product to power digital trust and safety, empowering companies to unlock revenue without risk. Today's Sponsors: Personal Revolution Podcast (https://www. himalaya. com/self-improvement-podcasts/personal-revolution-with-allison-task-1573018) ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) SimpleTexting (https://simpletexting. com/codestory) Links https://sift. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/jasontan325/ https://www. rhymecombinator. com/ https://us. diablo3. com/en/ --- > Steven Naimark started out his professional career as a clarinet performer. Through his passion for performing, he grew not only as a musician, but as a person, finding joy in the discipline required for his craft. After not enjoying the teaching aspect of music, he began looking for something different, to help separate him from music... to provide clarity. Along the way, he fell in love with web development and made a universe change to do it full time. Eventually, he started building a solution to totally modernize the water utility space, called Ziptility - a platform providing asset, task and inventory management for water utilities. - Published: 2020-04-14 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-steven-naimark-ziptility/ - Tags: api design, cto, field, founder, mobile, musician, startup, utilities, web, wells - Podcasts: S2 Steven Naimark fell in love with web development and made a personal universe change to do it full time. Eventually, he started building a solution to totally modernize the water utility space, called Ziptility - a platform providing asset, task and inventory management for water utilities. Steven Naimark started out his professional career as a clarinet performer. Through his passion for performing, he grew not only as a musician, but as a person, finding joy in the discipline required for his craft. After not enjoying the teaching aspect of music, he began looking for something different, to help separate him from music... to provide clarity. Along the way, he fell in love with web development and made a universe change to do it full time. Eventually, he started building a solution to totally modernize the water utility space, called Ziptility - a platform providing asset, task and inventory management for water utilities. Today's Sponsors: Personal Revolution Podcast (https://www. himalaya. com/self-improvement-podcasts/personal-revolution-with-allison-task-1573018) ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) SimpleTexting (https://simpletexting. com/codestory) Links https://www. ziptility. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/stevennaimark/ --- > Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions - tech and gaming - he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek. - Published: 2020-04-07 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-thane-brimhall-seek/ - Tags: ar, augmented reality, co-founder, cto, founder, hunt, mobile, product, startup, virtual reality, vr - Podcasts: S2 Through his tech and gaming passions, Thane Brimhall created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek. Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions - tech and gaming - he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek. Today's Sponsors: LinkedIn Jobs (https://linkedin. com/codestory) Tresta (https://tresta. com/codestory) SimpleTexting (https://simpletexting. com/codestory) Links https://seekxr. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/thanebrimhall/ https://www. abc27. com/news/us-world/national/utah-company-bringing-augmented-reality-shopping-to-life/ --- > Erin Karam was a kid interested in everything. She played music, she was into sports, and... into computers and programming. She continues to have well rounded interests today, running marathons, coaching her kids sports teams and teaching them to play music. Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something.. and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Prepared Health (Now Dina!), after latching on the story and vision of the company. She set positively impact the world - by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and home health professionals. - Published: 2020-03-31 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-erin-karam-dina-formerly-prepared-health/ - Tags: co-founder, founder, healthcare, information, information exchange, startup, team, women in tech - Podcasts: S2 Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something... and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Prepared Health (Now Dina). Erin Karam was a kid interested in everything. She played music, she was into sports, and... into computers and programming. She continues to have well rounded interests today, running marathons, coaching her kids sports teams and teaching them to play music. Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something. . and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Dina (Formerly Prepared Health), after latching on the story and vision of the company. She set positively impact the world - by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and home health professionals. Today's Sponsors: ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) Links https://www. linkedin. com/in/erinkaram https://www. dinacare. com/ --- > Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. - Published: 2020-03-24 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-ryan-graciano-credit-karma/ - Tags: co-founder, credit, credit card, enterprise, fintech, founder, microservices, monolith, offers, report, savings, startup, team - Podcasts: S2 Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things. Early in his career, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma. Today's Sponsors: ClipGain. io (https://clipgain. io) RIMS (https://www. rims. org/) Links https://www. creditkarma. com/ourstory/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/graciano/ --- > Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Dennis Cail has been involved in the tech world since he started in the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he obtained his CS degree and an MBA in Finance. A family man and father, he realized he was having limited success in getting money returned to him, that he lent to friends and family. Ten years later, he set out to solve that problem, to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. This solution became known as Zirtue - Published: 2020-03-17 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-dennis-cail-zirtue/ - Tags: banking, ceo, Developer, dwolla, fintech, founder, loan, military service, money, react, startup - Podcasts: S2 Dennis Cail set out to solve personal lending problems - to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Dennis Cail has been involved in the tech world since he started in the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he obtained his CS degree and an MBA in Finance. A family man and father, he realized he was having limited success in getting money returned to him, that he lent to friends and family. Ten years later, he set out to solve that problem, to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. This solution became known as Zirtue. Today's Sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory) Tresta (https://www. tresta. com/codestory) RIMS (https://www. rims. org/) Links https://zirtue. com https://www. linkedin. com/in/denniscail/ --- > Matt Senter grew up on a small farm in rural North Carolina, dreaming of being a game programmer. A Dad, a husband and musician, he keeps extra busy besides being a startup founder. After selling his prior company CosmicCart, he and his co-founder wanted to make it easier for people to get into cryptocurrency. Having experience with products like Ebates, they decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online... except the rewards are given in bitcoin. - Published: 2020-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-matt-senter-lolli/ - Tags: bitcoin, co-founder, crypto, cryptocurrency, cto, founder, money, offers, purchase, remote - Podcasts: S2 Having experience with products like Ebates, Matt Senter and his co-founder decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online... except the rewards bitcoin. Matt Senter grew up on a small farm in rural North Carolina, dreaming of being a game programmer. A Dad, a husband and musician, he keeps extra busy besides being a startup founder. After selling his prior company CosmicCart, he and his co-founder wanted to make it easier for people to get into cryptocurrency. Having experience with products like Ebates, they decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online... except the rewards are given in bitcoin. Today's Sponsors: ClipGain. io LinkedIn Jobs Links https://www. lolli. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/msenter/ https://techcrunch. com/2014/05/05/cosmic-cart/ --- > Growing up in the bay area, George Deglin has always been in the middle of the Silicon Valley action. Having both parents being engineers, he was influenced to study Computer Science at Berkley. During that team, he co-founded a startup in the education space. After building this company up, he parted ways to start his next venture. This next venture led to the discovery of the vision for OneSignal - the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. - Published: 2020-03-03 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-george-deglin-onesignal/ - Tags: apps, ceo, co-founder, cto, founder, integrated, marketing, messages, mobile, platform, push notifications, saas, san francisco, sdk - Podcasts: S2 George Deglin's ventures led to the discovery of OneSignal - the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. Growing up in the bay area, George Deglin has always been in the middle of the Silicon Valley action. Having both parents being engineers, he was influenced to study Computer Science at Berkley. During that team, he co-founded a startup in the education space. After building this company up, he parted ways to start his next venture. This next venture led to the discovery of the vision for OneSignal - the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. Today's sponsors: Thryve Links https://www. onesignal. com/ https://twitter. com/gdeglin https://www. linkedin. com/in/gdeglin/ https://onesignal. com/blog/tag/podcasts/ --- > Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built startups.com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process - and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform - Published: 2020-02-25 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-wil-schroter-startups-com/ - Tags: acquisition, ceo, education, founder, funding, fundraising, platform, startup, startups - Podcasts: S2 For his 9th startup, Wil Schroter built startups.com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process. Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built Startups. com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process - and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform. Today's sponsors: Podcorn (https://podcorn. com/podcasters) Links https://www. startups. com/ https://www. fundable. com https://www. linkedin. com/in/wilschroter/ https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Wil_Schroter https://www. crunchbase. com/person/wil-schroter --- > Zach Moreno is quite the renaissance man, being an artist, designer, author, developer... and a loving husband. He has interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of DevTools and as a big believer in AngularJS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language. After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording... so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast - the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations. - Published: 2020-02-18 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-zach-moreno-squadcast-fm/ - Tags: audio, ceo, cto, Developer, latinx, podcast, recording, remote, startup, tool, video - Podcasts: S2 Zach Moreno found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording... so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast.fm. Zach Moreno is quite the renaissance man, being an artist, designer, author, developer... and a loving husband. He has interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of DevTools and as a big believer in AngularJS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language. After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn't produce a good quality recording... so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast - the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations. Today's sponsors: Podcorn (https://podcorn. com/podcasters) Links https://squadcast. fm https://twitter. com/zach__moreno https://www. linkedin. com/in/zachariah-moreno-8a1a0432/ --- > Courtland Allen grew up totally opposite of his twin brother, Channing, but influenced by him nevertheless. His family was rooted in entrepreneurship, and as such, Courtland was heavily inspired to build and run his own thing. After going through Y Combinator and trying out different startups, he landed on the idea for Indie Hackers - and it checked all the boxes for what he wanted to work on. He spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online. - Published: 2020-02-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-courtland-allen-indie-hackers/ - Tags: builder, firebase, host, indie hacker, interview, podcast, react, render, saas, solo, startup, stripe - Podcasts: S2 Courtland Allen spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online. Courtland Allen grew up totally opposite of his twin brother, Channing, but influenced by him nevertheless. His family was rooted in entrepreneurship, and as such, Courtland was heavily inspired to build and run his own thing. After going through Y Combinator and trying out different startups, he landed on the idea for Indie Hackers - and it checked all the boxes for what he wanted to work on. He spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online. Today's sponsors: Podcorn (https://podcorn. com/podcasters) Links https://indiehackers. com https://twitter. com/csallen https://www. linkedin. com/in/courtlandallen/ https://render. com https://nomadlist. com https://firebase. com --- > Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We've taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products... their stories. - Published: 2020-02-05 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e0-season-2-trailer/ - Tags: builder, Tech, trailer, visionary - Podcasts: S2, Trailer Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We've taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know and love. Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We've taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products... their stories. --- > A few weeks ago, I sat down with Paolo on the Milestone Hackers podcast, and had a great chat about startup life, co-founding partners, balancing family & startup life and how to avoid fear. Enjoy todays bonus episode on the Milestone Hackers podcast. - Published: 2020-01-27 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/interview-on-milestone-hackers/ - Tags: co-founder, fear, founder, guest, host, indie hacker, milestone, podcast - Podcasts: Bonus, S1 A few weeks ago, I sat down with Paolo on the Milestone Hackers podcast, and had a great chat about startup life, co-founding partners, balancing family & startup life and how to avoid fear. A few weeks ago, I sat down with Paolo on the Milestone Hackers podcast, and had a great chat about startup life, co-founding partners, balancing family & startup life and how to avoid fear. Enjoy todays bonus episode on the Milestone Hackers podcast. https://milestonehackers. com/ https://veryableops. com https://touchtap. com https://noahlabhart. com --- > Early in his career, Brandon Hilkart shifted from a mechanical engineering focus to tech support for a school district. Through his exposure to IT operations, he drifted towards software and becoming acquainted with building startup solutions. While considering the purpose, legacy and impact of his work, he was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. This conversation ultimately led to the start of a simple, yet sophisticated internet safety solution for parents and kids... called Bark. - Published: 2020-01-20 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-brandon-hilkert-bark/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, data, data science, founder, information, mvp, protect, security - Podcasts: S1 While considering the legacy of his work, Brandon Hilkert was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. Early in his career, Brandon Hilkert shifted from a mechanical engineering focus to tech support for a school district. Through his exposure to IT operations, he drifted towards software and becoming acquainted with building startup solutions. While considering the purpose, legacy and impact of his work, he was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. This conversation ultimately led to the start of a simple, yet sophisticated internet safety solution for parents and kids... called Bark. Today's sponsors: Podcorn (https://podcorn. com/podcasters) Design Pickle (https://designpickle. com/codestory/) Bark (https://www. bark. us? ref=CODESTORY) Links https://www. bark. us/ https://brandonhilkert. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/brandonhilkert/ --- > A tech and science minded individual, Chris Slowe has spent 9 years with Reddit. Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a Dad and likes to work with his hands in the machine shop. When he put roots into the product as the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Fast forward many years, Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information. - Published: 2020-01-13 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-chris-slowe-reddit/ - Tags: aggregation, cto, engineer, lisp, reddit, y combinator - Podcasts: S1 When Chris Slowe put roots into the product, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information. A tech and science minded individual, Chris Slowe has spent 9 years with Reddit. Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a Dad and likes to work with his hands in the machine shop. When he put roots into the product as the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Fast forward many years, Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information. Links http://reddit. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/chrisslowe/ https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Christopher_Slowe --- > For Bill Eager, his interest in tech paralleled his desire to play music. After attending music school, he became disillusioned with music as a day job and pursued tech - still moonlighting as a performing musician. As he pursued a role with a startup, he was introduced to the founders of Nomad Health - and instantly connected with the idea. He jumped on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads. - Published: 2020-01-06 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e18-bill-eager-nomad-health/ - Tags: co-founder, cto, dwolla, founder, healthcare, marketplace, monolith, musician, on demand, startup - Podcasts: S1 Bill Eager jumped in on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads - called Nomad Health. For Bill Eager, his interest in tech paralleled his desire to play music. After attending music school, he became disillusioned with music as a day job and pursued tech - still moonlighting as a performing musician. As he pursued a role with a startup, he was introduced to the founders of Nomad Health - and instantly connected with the idea. He jumped in on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads. Today's sponsors: Dwolla Links https://nomadhealth. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/beager/ --- > Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. - Published: 2019-12-30 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/throwback-jonathan-perichon-checkr/ - Podcasts: S1 Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. After working for a startup requiring BG checks, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. Throwback to one of our favorites from Season 1! Original released August 2019. Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. Within 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers... and much more. Links: checkr. com https://twitter. com/jperichon https://www. deliv. co/ --- > When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. - Published: 2019-12-23 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/throwback-rylan-barnes-shopsavvy/ - Podcasts: S1 When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. Throwback to our very first interview! Originally released, June 2019. For some builders, there is a moment where technical creativity is catalyzed. For others... it starts much earlier. Rylan Barnes has been working with technology since childhood, starting out by programming his legos to move, and all the way through college, where he built early marketplaces for trading textbooks and built physical, automated chess boards. When he started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea the doors it would open and lead to the formation of his most successful product, venture... and exit – called ShopSavvy. Links https://rylan. io/ https://shopsavvy. com/ http://www. purch. com/about/ https://tirania. org/blog/ https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) --- > Coming from a supportive, entrepreneurial home, Blake Miller was introduced to the internet at a very young age - building websites for friends, and flipping digital businesses the same way people flip houses. Outside of tech, he is a competitive barbecuer, with a team of long time friends who create award winning BBQ. Highly involved in the Kansas City Smart City initiative, he created an award winning iOT solution around smarter living experience for tenants and more profitable infrastructure for building owners and managers. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase. - Published: 2019-12-16 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e17-blake-miller-homebase/ - Tags: apartment, bluetooth, ceo, dwolla, founder, hardware, home, integration, iot, living, startup - Podcasts: S1 Blake Miller created an award winning iOT solution around a smarter living experience. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase. Coming from a supportive, entrepreneurial home, Blake Miller was introduced to the internet at a very young age - building websites for friends, and flipping digital businesses the same way people flip houses. Outside of tech, he is a competitive barbecuer, with a team of long time friends who create award winning BBQ. Highly involved in the Kansas City Smart City initiative, he created an award winning iOT solution around smarter living experience for tenants and more profitable infrastructure for building owners and managers. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase. Today's sponsors: Podcorn (https://podcorn. com/podcasters) Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory) Links https://homebase. ai https://www. linkedin. com/in/blakermiller/ https://socialsmokersbbq. com/ --- > Tech has always been a part of Aalok Shah's life. His father and mother influenced his tech interests and biomedical education. After working in nuclear medicine and supporting the special needs community, he found himself always drifting back towards tech and software development, hacking together websites and doing web consulting. Several years later, he was onboarded by the founders of EnergyFunders - a platform for investing in Oil & Gas - to help improve their technology feature set. The business took off, and they found themselves in need of a full time CTO - and Aalok was the best fit. - Published: 2019-12-09 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-aalok-shah-energyfunders/ - Tags: cto, dwolla, energy, engineer, features, gas, investment, leader, oil, payments, Technology - Podcasts: S1 When EnergyFunders took off, the team found themselves in need of a full time CTO - and Aalok Shah was the best fit. Tech has always been a part of Aalok Shah's life. His father and mother influenced his tech interests and biomedical education. After working in nuclear medicine and supporting the special needs community, he found himself always drifting back towards tech and software development, hacking together websites and doing web consulting. Several years later, he was onboarded by the founders of EnergyFunders - a platform for investing in Oil & Gas - to help improve their technology feature set. The business took off, and they found themselves in need of a full time CTO - and Aalok was the best fit. Today's sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory)Links https://www. energyfunders. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/aalok0/ --- > Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri More learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up… over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of problems they encountered in processing payments to their third parties - so many problems that they were both required to build their own. After taking some time validate a solution in the market, Omri set out to build Routable - a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platform. - Published: 2019-12-02 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-omri-mor-routable/ - Tags: banking, bill, ceo, dwolla, fintech, founder, payments, processing, secure, startup - Podcasts: S1 After catching up over pita and hummus, Omri Mor and his co-founder set out to build Routable - a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing. Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri Mor learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up... over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of problems they encountered in processing payments to their third parties - so many problems that they were both required to build their own. After taking some time validate a solution in the market, Omri set out to build Routable - a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platform. Quick tip - Routable now supports SameDay Transfers! Today's sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory) Links https://routable. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/omrimor/ https://twitter. com/omri_mor --- > Along with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp - called DevMountain - to enable him with practical dev skills. He took the base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform. - Published: 2019-11-25 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-dennis-steele-podium/ - Tags: co-founder, devmountain, founder, messages, online, platform, ratings, reputation, reviews, startup - Podcasts: S1 Dennis Steele attended a software development bootcamp, DevMountain, which armed him with practical dev skills to build Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation. Along with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp - called DevMountain - to arm him with practical dev skills. He took this base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium - a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform. Today's sponsors: DevMountain (https://learn. devmountain. com/devmountain-code-story)Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com/learn-programs-cs)Links https://www. podium. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/steeledennis https://twitter. com/steele32 --- > Ben Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for a good while. His second startup started as a consumer product that you downloaded to move money between banks... without using credit cards or paying hefty fees. What he discovered was the thing they were best at was payment processing infrastructure... So he changed his business to focus on being a high performing, white label solution for enabling others to process ACH payments - and started phase two of his company, known as Dwolla. - Published: 2019-11-18 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e13-ben-milne-dwolla/ - Tags: ach, banking, ceo, dwolla, entreprenuer, fintech, founder, infrastructure, payments, president, startup - Podcasts: S1 After seeing some success from his second startup, Ben Milne discovered that the thing he and his team were best at was payment processing infrastructure... So he changed his business. Ben Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for a good while. His second startup started as a consumer product that you downloaded to move money between banks... without using credit cards or paying hefty fees. What he discovered was the thing they were best at was payment processing infrastructure... So he changed his business to focus on being a high performing, white label solution for enabling others to process ACH payments - and started phase two of his company, known as Dwolla. Today's sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory)Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com/learn-programs-cs)Links https://benmilne. com/ https://twitter. com/bpmilne https://dwolla. com https://www. dwolla. com/resources/types/podcasts/ --- > Bernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through some research and discovery, he figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks . He set out to solve this problem - to bring all of these systems under one piece of software to make the loan origination process more efficient. This solution would eventually be called Loan Well. - Published: 2019-11-11 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e12-bernard-worthy-loanwell/ - Tags: banking, ceo, co-founder, dwolla, fintech, founder, integration, loan, origination, startup, systems - Podcasts: S1 Bernard Worthy figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks... and he set out to solve this problem, building Loan Well. Bernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through some research and discovery, he figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks . He set out to solve this problem - to bring all of these systems under one piece of software to make the loan origination process more efficient. This solution would eventually be called Loan Well. Today's sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory)DevMountain (https://learn. devmountain. com/devmountain-code-story)Links https://loanwell. com/ https://www. linkedin. com/in/bernardworthy/ https://twitter. com/bernardworthy --- > Eric Sharp grew up with a unique background. With vivid memories of growing up in poverty, he recalls being distinctly inspired towards education when his mother went back to school to be a teacher. She instilled in him curiosity and a desire to learn, which made a big difference in changing his life trajectory. Using this passion, he and his co-founders were motivated to build the vision for a SaaS learning platform called Degreed - enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. - Published: 2019-11-04 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-eric-sharp-degreed/ - Tags: co-founder, degree, founder, learning, saas, skills, startup, university - Podcasts: S1 Using his passion for learning, Eric Sharp and his co-founders were motivated to build Degreed - enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. Eric Sharp grew up with a unique background. With vivid memories of growing up in poverty, he recalls being distinctly inspired towards education when his mother went back to school to be a teacher. She instilled in him curiosity and a desire to learn, which made a big difference in changing his life trajectory. Using this passion, he and his co-founders were motivated to build the vision for a SaaS learning platform called Degreed - enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. Today's sponsor: DevMountain (https://learn. devmountain. com/devmountain-code-story)Links https://degreed. com https://degreed. com/eric#/overview https://twitter. com/ericgsharp https://labs. spotify. com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/ --- > Growing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He was brought up appreciating science and art, and studied engineering in College. After working for NASA, he decided to venture out onto his own, pursuing a new venture with his friend, doing video production work for hire. Fast forward 15 years, he and his co-founder are serving the production and project worker space by building Jolly - a social and professional network, designed for gig workers, providing reputation portability, connection opportunities and a marketplace to find work. - Published: 2019-10-21 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e10-shelby-stephens-jolly/ - Tags: austin, ceo, events, founder, freelancer, gig, gig worker, marketplace, network, nfx, startup - Podcasts: S1 Growing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He and his co-founder built Jolly - a social/professional network, designed for gig workers. Growing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He was brought up appreciating science and art, and studied engineering in College. After working for NASA, he decided to venture out onto his own, pursuing a new venture with his friend, doing video production work for hire. Fast forward 15 years, he and his co-founder are serving the production and project worker space by building Jolly - a social and professional network, designed for gig workers, providing reputation portability, connection opportunities and a marketplace to find work. Today's sponsors: Dwolla (https://dwolla. com/codestory)Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com/) Links https://jollyhq. com https://www. linkedin. com/in/shelbystephens/ https://www. dwolla. com https://www. dwolla. com/updates/jollyfms-paying-freelancers-through-the-ach-network/ https://www. nfx. com/   --- > Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach… learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences - from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale. - Published: 2019-10-07 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e9-andy-abbott-heretik/ - Tags: .net, chicago, contract, cto, diligence, founder, legal, microsoft, on prem, php, review, startup - Podcasts: S1 Andy Abbott does things that techies do... like spending spring break on the beach, learning PHP. Among his many ventures, he built Heretik to enable contract review at scale. Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach... learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences - from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. Along with this, he built an active and successful Microsoft developer community in Chicago. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale. Today's sponsor: DevMountan (https://devmountain. com) Links https://www. heretik. com/ https://www. crunchbase. com/person/andy-abbott https://www. meetup. com/chicagodevnet/ https://www. startupdigest. com/ --- > Building on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single.. and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor.fm. - Published: 2019-09-23 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e8-jon-buda-transistor/ - Tags: basecamp, chicago, host, hosting, mega maker, podcast, rails, ruby, saas, startup, vue - Podcasts: S1 While working at Cards Against Humanity, Jon Buda created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a very popular pod. This solution would come to be known as Transistor.fm. Building on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single. . and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor. fm. Today's sponsor: Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com/) Links https://jonbuda. com https://transistor. fm https://cardsagainsthumanity. com https://saas. transistor. fm/ https://www. thegoodnewspodcast. fm https://www. mtraxmusic. com https://basecamp. com/ https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/XOXO_%28festival%29 https://caddyserver. com/ https://vuejs. org --- > After getting his masters, Jonathan Campos found himself working with clients, listening to their pain points, and creating software to meet those needs. He worked his way through a handful of startups and agencies, before landing at Bottle Rocket as the chief architect, growing their web and backend practice. Not too long after, a former boss reached out about an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience, focusing on simple billing, safety and control over the experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto. - Published: 2019-09-09 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e7-jonathan-campos-alto/ - Tags: architect, cto, dallas, houston, kubernetes, marketplace, on demand, ride hailing, ride sharing, scaling, startup - Podcasts: S1 Jonathan Campos was offered an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto. After getting his masters, Jonathan Campos found himself working with clients, listening to their pain points, and creating software to meet those needs. He worked his way through a handful of startups and agencies, before landing at Bottle Rocket as the chief architect, growing their web and backend practice. Not too long after, a former boss reached out about an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience, focusing on simple billing, safety and control over the experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto. Today's sponsor: DevMountan (https://devmountain. com) Links: ridealto. com linkedin. com/in/jonbcampos/ kubernetes. io istio. io knative. dev microservices. io --- > Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. - Published: 2019-08-26 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-jonathan-perichon-checkr/ - Tags: background check, checkr, cto, fair, france, french, on demand, san francisco, startup - Podcasts: S1 Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. After working for a startup requiring BG checks, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow he process can be. Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers... and much more. Today's sponsor: DevMountain (https://devmountain. com) Links: checkr. com https://twitter. com/jperichon https://www. deliv. co/ --- > When Alvaro Sabido saw a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book - and what would eventually be called Caribu. - Published: 2019-08-12 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e5-alvaro-sabido-caribu/ - Tags: cto, florida, grandma, latin, london, military, opentok, parse, startup, tablet, tokbox, video call - Podcasts: S1 When he saw a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, Alvaro Sabido set out to create a solution to fix it - called Caribu. A born creative, Alvaro Sabido loves to travel and continuously be learning. His engineering background led him to love anything with an engine, and having worked in a diverse set of companies through consulting, IT, radio and media, he became a natural problem solver, interested in innovating to make things better. When seeing a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book - and what would eventually be called Caribu. Want to support Caribu? Check out their fundraising campaign on WeFunder (https://wefunder. com/caribu) Today's sponsor: Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com) Links: caribu. com linkedin. com/in/alvarosabido/ twitter. com/sabidosan tokbox. com/ firebase. google. com/ facebook. github. io/react-native/ --- > Sean Washington is the CTO of Design Kollective, and the Co-Host of Does Not Compute - a popular podcast on the Spec.fm network, about the lives and workflows of modern web developers. - Published: 2019-07-29 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e4-sean-washington-design-kollective/ - Tags: backend development, cto, does not compute, host, musician, podcast, san francisco, web developer, web development - Podcasts: S1 Sean Washington is the CTO of Design Kollective, and the Co-Host of Does Not Compute - a popular podcast on the Spec.fm network, about the lives and workflows of modern web developers. Now-a-days, people are introduced to software development through multiple avenues. And it’s pretty amazing how many other industries parallel the thinking and creative process of writing code - teaching, project management... even music. Sean Washington took an unconventional route into software, through writing music and graphic design. Since then he has been sprinting forward, as a full stack web developer and tech podcast host. His most recent adventure has been becoming the CTO and lead developer of the Design Kollective - giving him the opportunity to not only learn the platform - but to make it his own and define the vision for how to up level the product. Today's sponsor: DevMountain. com (https://devmountain. com) Links: https://seanwash. com/ https://designkollective. com/ https://spec. fm/podcasts/does-not-compute Design Patterns (by the Gang of Four) --- > Podcasts are a great thing - the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing for Leah Culver. So she built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most. - Published: 2019-07-15 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-leah-culver-breaker-episode/ - Tags: api design, breaker, cto, dropbox, founder, oauth, oembed, podcasts, python, san francisco, startup, women in tech - Podcasts: S1 There was something missing for Leah Culver in the podcasts world - a better way to discover episodes. So she built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most. Podcasts are a great thing - the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. And that thing was a more powerful way to discover the podcasts you love - through your subscriptions, activity, and most of all - through the power of social networking and suggestion. So she decided to fix it - and built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most. Today's sponsor: Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy. com/) Links https://leahculver. com https://breaker. audio https://oauth. net/ https://oembed. com/ http://altconf. com/ https://sentry. io/welcome/ --- > A gap used to exist in the world of music licensing. The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house developer - with the job and goal to take the product to new heights. - Published: 2019-06-24 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e2-tanner-hearne-musicbed/ - Tags: engineering, licensing, music, operations, product design, startup, user experience - Podcasts: S1 The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house dev - with the goal to take the product to new heights. A gap used to exist in the world of music licensing. The quality of music available to project teams making promotional videos or materials was pretty low. And for those composing music, getting paid was an untimely event, where checks just sort of “showed up” in the mail. The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. And in the beginning, Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house developer - with the job and goal to take the product to new heights, as a well engineered, scalable and secure platform. Links https://tannerhearne. com https://www. musicbed. com/ https://aws. amazon. com/lambda/ https://laravel. com/ --- > When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. - Published: 2019-06-17 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e1-rylan-barnes-shopsavvy/ - Tags: barcode, barcode scanner, exit, founder, price comparison, shopping, startups - Podcasts: S1 When Rylan Barnes started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea it would lead to the formation of his most successful venture and exit - called ShopSavvy. For some builders, there is a moment where technical creativity is catalyzed. For others... it starts much earlier. Rylan Barnes has been working with technology since childhood, starting out by programming his legos to move, and all the way through college, where he built early marketplaces for trading textbooks and built physical, automated chess boards. When he started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea the doors it would open and lead to the formation of his most successful product, venture... and exit - called ShopSavvy. Links https://rylan. io/ https://shopsavvy. com/ http://www. purch. com/about/ https://tirania. org/blog/ https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) --- > The process of building a product can take many twists and turns, based on the path that is chosen. How do you get started? What tools do you use? And how do you build your product roadmap? There will be mistakes and issues along the way, how is your team going to respond? How do you build a team? And not just any team... a team that gets the vision, that follows your lead. What is the vision, and what does the future look like? Ultimately - how do you take an idea from the back of a napkin to MVP to launch? - Published: 2019-06-04 - Modified: 2025-03-14 - URL: https://codestory.co/podcast/e0-code-story-trailer-episode/ - Tags: architect, build, code, cto, software, team, Tech, trailer - Podcasts: S1, Trailer The process of building a product can take twists and turns. How do you get started, what tools do you use? How do you build your roadmap, and your team? How do you take an idea from the back of a napkin to MVP to launch? The process of building a product can take many twists and turns, based on the path that is chosen. How do you get started? What tools do you use? And how do you build your product roadmap? There will be mistakes and issues along the way, how is your team going to respond? How do you build a team? And not just any team... a team that gets the vision, that follows your lead. What is the vision, and what does the future look like? Ultimately - how do you take an idea from the back of a napkin to MVP to launch? --- ---