Code Story Podcast: Season 8 Tech Founders & Builders

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?

In this bonus episode, Mike Long, former CTO of a DevOps consultancy, discusses the recurring challenges faced in regulated environments. He emphasizes the importance of having a structured process for tracking changes to ensure compliance and accountability.

This episode features Alex Yarotsky, who discusses his journey with Hubstaff, a time tracking solution that emerged from the growing demand for freelancers. As CTO, Alex shares insights into the challenges and innovations in the freelance market and time management tools.

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.

In this bonus episode, Andy Wilson shares his journey from printing legal emails to founding Logikcull, a company that digitizes the legal process. He discusses the evolution of his business, including the transition to cloud services and the integration of AI technology.

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.

Vikram Chalana, founder of Pictory AI, shares his journey from growing up in India to building an AI-powered video creation tool after recognizing the shift in content marketing from text to video.

Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that.

Rickard Hansson, founder of Weavy, shares his journey from building a CRM in Pascal at age 15 to creating developer tooling for in-app collaboration on the Code Story podcast.

Simple Analytics founder Adriaan van Rossum shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, explaining how frustration with Google Analytics during freelance work led him to build a privacy-focused analytics tool.

Code Story podcast episode 27 features Valeriy Bykanov, founder of Prodigy, who transitioned from running a software development agency in Ukraine to building a new kind of recruiting tool in Berlin.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Max Walker, founder of Piton Labs, discussing how his background in software engineering and love for the messy early stages of startups led him to build an agency focused on early-stage company creation.

Code Story podcast episode 10 (Season 8) features Ido Shamun, co-founder of Daily Dev, discussing his journey from studying Applied Mathematics and C programming to building a developer content aggregation tool.

Naré Vardanyan, CEO and co-founder of Ntropy, shares her journey from growing up in war-torn Armenia to working at the United Nations and eventually founding a fintech company focused on enriched financial data as a great equalizer.

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 focuses on connecting Africa’s youth to global opportunities through technology and innovation.

Code Story shares a feed drop of the No Priors podcast featuring Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, discussing how Nvidia powers AI models, their latest chips, company management, and exciting AI applications.

Shirshanka Das, founder of Acryl Data, shares his journey from IIT and UCLA to leading data teams at LinkedIn, where he created DataHub—an open-source platform for data discovery, governance, and observability.

Code Story podcast features Jason Radisson, founder of Movo, discussing his journey from a tough childhood to working at McKinsey and Uber before creating a workforce productivity platform.

Ronald Richardson, a former Marine and robotics student, shares the origin story of Fleetbase, an API and SDK solution he built to address the lack of developer tools in the logistics and supply chain industry.

Code Story podcast episode 21 features Jared Ward, founder of Luminous, discussing his journey from supply chain and eCommerce roles to building a system-of-record platform for growing eCommerce companies.

Code Story podcast episode 18 features Ritukar Vijay, founder of Ottonomy, discussing his 16-year tech career and how he began ideating autonomous delivery robots during COVID lockdowns, building them from guest rooms.

Code Story's "Beyond Bots" podcast episode features Naré Vardanyan, CEO and Co-founder of Ntropy, discussing large language models, deep learning, and their real impact on financial services.

David Frank, founder of Stonehaven, shares his journey from investment banking in San Francisco to building a next-generation broker dealer platform for small and medium-sized financial organizations.

Matt Martin, co-founder and CEO of Clockwise, shares his journey from law to tech, explaining how his focus on schedule optimization led him to realize that time management is a team problem rather than an individual one.

Sefi Genis, co-founder of Firefly, shares his journey from maintaining school websites and serving in the Israeli military cybersecurity unit to building a platform that helps DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint at scale.

Code Story podcast features Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, discussing his journey from chemistry to software development and the creation of Tea, a web3 platform for open source.

George Novik, founder of Zerocoder, shares the creation story of his platform that simplifies software production by providing access to vetted no-code developers, originating from a marketplace he was hired to build for a friend's company.

Code Story podcast features Hikari Senju and Matt Swalley discussing the creation of Omneky, a company leveraging generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize content generation and performance.

Code Story podcast episode 28 features Maxim Fateev, founder of Temporal, discussing his journey from the Soviet Union through Brazil and the US, and how his work at Amazon and Uber led to the creation of Temporal's durable execution platform.

Sargun Kaur, co-founder of Byteboard, shares her journey from being anti-tech to building a company that reimagines the engineering interview process after experiencing flawed whiteboard-style interviews at Google.

David Hurwitt, founder of Troove, shares his journey on the Code Story podcast about creating a platform that helps students find their perfect college by utilizing graduate preferences and pattern matching.

Code Story podcast bonus episode features Dan Projansky and Caroline Strzalka discussing the creation story of Overplay, a company born from Dan's idea to play videos like games.

Code Story podcast features a special "Beyond Bots" episode with Ilia Zintchenko, CTO and Co-founder of Ntropy, discussing their LLM stack, data standardization, and the real impact of AI on financial services.

Code Story podcast episode 16 features Job Rietbergen, co-founder of Alphadoc, discussing his journey from supporting early-stage startups to creating a platform that helps developers and users understand and implement integration systems.

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Code Story podcast episode 25 features Andrew Colombi, founder of Tonic.ai, discussing his journey from childhood computer tinkering to building a synthetic data generation tool born out of the frustration of manually creating fake data for private datasets.

Code Story podcast episode 5 (Season 8) features Nikita Fedorov, founder of Qase, discussing his journey from PHP developer and engineering manager to building a modern manual testing tool after finding existing solutions outdated.

Glauber Costa, CEO and co-founder of Turso, discusses the creation story of the company, which emerged from recognizing that frontend and full-stack developers increasingly make database technology decisions.

SupportBench co-founders Nooshin Alibhai and Eric Klimuk share their creation story on the Code Story podcast, describing how Eric's frustration with deploying customer support platforms led him to build a toolset that went viral.

Somak Chattopadhyay of Armory Square Ventures discusses the creation of the fund, which was established in 2014 to address the lack of early-stage capital and talent access for startups in Syracuse and broader New York regions.

Naré Vardanyan, CEO and co-founder of Ntropy, shares her journey from growing up in war-torn Armenia to working at the United Nations and eventually founding a fintech company focused on enriched financial data as a great equalizer.

Danielle Shaul, co-founder of Nilus, shares her journey from building homegrown financial workflow solutions at Fundbox to creating the software she wished existed.

Barak Glanz, co-founder of Coddy.tech, shares the creation story of his coding education platform on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast's "Beyond Bots" series features Bryce Crawford, CTO & Co-founder of Meow, discussing the real impact of AI on financial services, generative AI use cases, and CTO decision-making priorities.

Code Story podcast features Eduardo Abeliuk, co-founder of Teselagen, discussing his journey from studying physics and electrical engineering in Chile to building an enterprise R&D automation platform with Stanford colleagues.

Code Story podcast episode 11 features Lauren Long, co-founder of Ampersand, discussing her journey from growing up in China, moving to Canada, working at Firebase, and ultimately founding Ampersand to solve integration challenges.

Max Rudman, founder of Prodly, shares his journey from growing up in Soviet Moscow to building a tool that simplifies deploying configuration rules on Salesforce.

Glauber Costa, CEO and co-founder of Turso, discusses his journey from a database and systems programming background to building an edge data solution built on SQLite, targeting the shifting buyer persona of frontend and full-stack developers.

Puneet Gupta, founder and CEO of Amberflo, discusses his journey from working at AWS during the dawn of cloud computing to creating a usage-based pricing solution for SaaS companies.

Gilad Uziely discusses the creation story of Sequence on the Code Story podcast, detailing how his team pivoted from Lance, a neo-bank for the self-employed, to a financial routing product.

Steven Schkolne, founder of MightyMeld, shares his journey from VR and Unity Game Engine development to creating a visual web development tool, inspired by the gap between visual game development and code-based web development.

Code Story podcast episode E2 features Sefi Genis, co-founder of Firefly, discussing his journey from maintaining school websites and serving in the Israeli military cybersecurity unit to building a platform that helps DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint at scale.

Code Story podcast episode 22 features Eric Olden, founder of Strata Identity, discussing how he left Oracle to solve the problem of managing identities across multiple cloud environments.

Code Story podcast episode 19 (Season 8) features Yann Ravel-Sibillot, founder of Flowie, discussing how his experience as a CTO at a restaurant group led him to build an invoice validation solution.

Code Story podcast's "Beyond Bots" series features Daniel Jordan of Wayflyer discussing the real impact of AI on financial services, eCommerce funding, and the use of generative AI and LLMs in fintech.

Code Story podcast episode 13 (Season 8) features Colleen Schnettler discussing her journey from stay-at-home mom to self-taught Rails developer and co-founder of HelloQuery, a SaaS tool for embedded reporting.

Shawn Cao, founder of Columns (described as the "Canva for Data"), shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, explaining how his experience at Pinterest and Microsoft revealed the need for easier data analytics tools.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Kaj Pedersen, CEO of AstrumU, discussing his background growing up in Zambia and his journey to joining the company in 2019.

Andrew Louder, founder of Louder Co, shares his journey from growing up in Katy, TX, and studying business at Texas A&M University to launching his own AI-focused consultancy after six years of solo consulting.

Puneet Gupta, founder of Amberflo, shares his journey from working at AWS during the dawn of cloud computing to creating a usage-based pricing solution for SaaS companies.

Pete Hunt, a founding team member of React and co-founder of Dagster, shares the creation story of Dagster on the Code Story podcast, describing how he and his colleague Nick identified data pipeline management as a critical challenge to solve after leaving Facebook.

Code Story podcast episode 29 features Zach Wasserman discussing the origin of Fleet, a device management platform born out of his work at Facebook in 2014 to query and monitor machines without writing code.

Code Story podcast shares a bonus episode from the Tools and Weapons podcast featuring Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott discussing his philosophy that AI development must be human-centered, shaped by his rural Virginia upbringing.

Kwindla Kramer, founder of Daily, shares his journey from programming on a Commodore 64 to discovering WebRTC and building real-time video communication tools on this bonus episode of the Code Story podcast.

Alex Bovee, co-founder of ConductorOne, shares his journey from Okta to building a company that addresses identity access and governance challenges for cloud-forward organizations.

Sharekh Shaikh, founder of CleverX, shares his journey from growing up on a farm in India to building a market research platform focused on transparency and trust after encountering fraud issues while working at Gartner.

Jaclyn Ling, co-founder of Hatchways, shares her creation story on the Code Story podcast, explaining how her own struggles with interviewing led her to build a platform that helps people get noticed for their first job.

Shai Ber and Elad Ben-Israel discuss the creation story of Monada and Winglang, a company and programming language designed to make using the cloud easier.

Code Story host Noah Labhart was featured on the Dev Interrupted podcast, discussing assembling and nurturing engineering teams as part of a career journey series.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Andrew Kahl, CEO of BackBox, discussing his 30-year tech career starting at Compaq and his journey to leading BackBox after a private equity acquisition in late 2021.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Shem Magnezi, co-founder of Wilco, discussing his journey from high school hacking to building an immersive platform that bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world engineering skills.

Idan Plotnik, founder of Apiiro, shares his journey from selling two companies (one to Microsoft) to creating Apiiro, which optimizes the integration of security and risk management into the software development process.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode with Arunabh Dastidar, founder of RealSage, who built a real estate data solution after his Excel sheet crashed during an important call.

Reza Farahani, an engineering graduate from Waterloo turned data scientist, shares the creation story of WFHomie, a platform designed to measure and improve remote team performance through productivity and mental health metrics.

Einat Sitbon, founder of iFocus Health, shares her journey from a PhD in Computational Biology to creating a tool that measures concentration for people diagnosed with ADHD, inspired by her nephew's diagnosis.

Prasad Kawthekar, founder of Dashworks, shares his journey from India to the Bay Area and how a frustrating 8-week search for an internal document inspired him to build an AI-powered enterprise search solution.

Fredrik Björk, co-founder of Grafbase, shares his journey from coding BASIC on a Commodore 64 in Sweden to building startups in San Francisco, culminating in the creation of Grafbase as an API layer service for developers.

Code Story podcast episode 6 features Bryce Crawford, co-founder of Meow, discussing his journey from a history major at Vanderbilt to working at Capital One, Gemini, and Facebook before co-founding a fintech company focused on treasury management.

Code Story podcast episode 26 features Josh Purvis, co-founder of Assembly, discussing his journey from professional wakeboarding to tech entrepreneurship and how he built a platform to improve employee engagement and information sharing.

Aviram Hassan, co-founder of MetalBear, discusses his journey from childhood hacking and Israeli military service to creating mirrord, a tool born from the challenge of maintaining developer environments that reflect production data.

Code Story podcast episode 23 features Will Gaviria of Coactive AI, covering his journey from Colombia to MIT and his focus on neo-morphic computing and artificial intelligence.

Shaun Ritchie, founder and CEO of nClouds, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, detailing his journey from starting companies in Salt Lake City to selling ventures to WeWork and ultimately acquiring nClouds in 2022.

Suman Kanuganti, founder of Personal AI, discusses his journey from building augmented experiences for blind people to creating an AI platform for long-term personal memory on the Code Story podcast.

Adam Nathan, founder of Almanac, shares his journey on the Code Story podcast, describing how frustration with document review workflows inspired him to build a centralized collaboration platform for business users, modeled after what GitHub did for developers.

Code Story podcast shares a special episode featuring The Closer, a podcast by Project Brazen hosted by Aimee Keane, which explores the final days of Toys R Us and its impending bankruptcy.

Code Story podcast episode 14 features Dan Lines, co-founder of LinearB, discussing his journey from engineering leader managing 100 engineers to building a platform that addresses the pain points he experienced as a VP of Engineering.

Lilac Bar David, co-founder and CEO of Lili, discusses her journey from 20+ years in banking and payments to building a banking solution tailored for freelancers and business owners.

Vlad Matsiiako, co-founder of Infisical, shares his journey from Ukraine to the Netherlands and Cornell, working at Bunq and Figma, before founding Infisical to solve the widespread problem of secrets management.

Massoud Alibakhsh, founder of Omadeus, shares his creation story on the Code Story podcast, detailing how his background in electrical engineering and computer science led him to tackle complex communication problems between people and systems.

Egil Østhus, co-founder of Unleash, shares the creation story of the open-source feature flag tool on the Code Story podcast, explaining how his brother built it to safely release code rapidly.

Code Story podcast episode 30 features Moti Rafalin, CEO and co-founder of vFunction, discussing his background and the creation story of vFunction, born from the realization at AWS re:Invent that applications needed better modernization beyond simple lift-and-shift migrations.

Code Story podcast episode 20 features Artem Koren, co-founder of Sembly AI, discussing his journey from early programming to building an AI-powered meeting assistant based in Amsterdam.

Code Story podcast episode 17 features Jay Sarmaz, co-founder of Truve.ai, discussing his journey from operations research and a PhD at Georgia Tech to building a legal data analytics startup.

Alfredo Ramirez, son of Ecuadorian immigrants and CEO/co-founder of Vyopta, shares how he and his co-founders built a digital collaboration analytics platform starting during the 2008 financial crisis.

Stephanie Mertz, co-founder of Eisen, discusses her journey from software development to tackling the overlooked problem of escheatment processes in business on the Code Story podcast.

Ali Nichols, co-founder of Getaway, discusses her lifelong passion for real estate and how the struggle of friends being priced out of the housing market inspired her to create opportunities for more people.

Code Story podcast features Adam Judelson, founder of NetworkNerd, discussing how his experience at Palantir Technologies inspired him to build a simple productivity tool for managing personal relationships and staying connected with important people.

Srini Srinivasan, co-founder of Aerospike, shares his journey from growing up in India with a passion for cricket and sports to discovering gaps in existing database technology while working in mobile and adtech.

Code Story podcast bonus episode features Ibrahim Surani and Jay Mishra discussing the origin story of Astera, which emerged from a consultancy pivot after the 2008 financial meltdown.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Andy Skipper, founder of CTO Craft, who shares how his experience as a consulting CTO led him to create a mentorship and coaching platform for technology leaders.

Pato Echague, co-founder of Split.io, shares his journey from Argentina to building a feature flagging platform after observing that faster shipping led to more production breakages at his prior startup acquired by Salesforce.

Dor Laor, CEO and co-founder of ScyllaDB, shares the creation story of the distributed NoSQL database company on the Code Story podcast, describing how he and his co-founder pivoted from building an operating system to tackling database performance.

Tim Tutt, co-founder of ClearQuery, shares his origin story on the Code Story podcast, describing how his experience as a middleman between data and decision-makers inspired him to build a tool that removes that bottleneck.

Matthew O'Riordan, originally from South Africa, shares the creation story of Ably, a next-generation real-time communication platform built to provide developer tools for collaboration that "just work." The Code Story bonus episode explores his journey from competitive skydiving enthusiast to founder of a real-time infrastructure company.

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