Code Story Podcast: Season 4 Founder Interviews

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.

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.

This episode features Jeff Meisner, an electrical engineering graduate from Waterloo, Canada, who has transitioned into the tech industry in the DFW area. He shares insights from his experience working in business development across various tech companies.

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. This episode explores the challenges and innovations in logistics technology through the lens of Bringg's mission.

This episode features Leah Culver discussing her experiences with the Breaker podcast platform and the challenges she faced in finding engaging content while training for her first marathon. It highlights the unique aspects of podcasts that blend radio show elements with the convenience of on-demand listening.

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.

In this episode, Erik Fogg discusses the challenges of QA testing and how he co-founded ProdPerfect to address these issues. The conversation highlights the evolution of QA testing and the innovative solutions being developed in the industry.

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. This episode explores Dan's journey and insights into the tech industry and his work at Heap.

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.

Adam Wathan's journey from dropping out of university to play music to creating Tailwind CSS, an open-source CSS framework with millions of monthly downloads, is featured in this Code Story podcast episode.

Code Story podcast episode 8 features Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage discussing the creation of Fig, a tool designed to make the terminal easier to use, born from their frustration with repetitive setup commands.

In this episode, Daniel Gallancy discusses the innovative concepts of distributed key management and their potential applications beyond the blockchain realm. He and his co-founder recognized a gap in the market for such solutions and set out to create them.

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.

RidePanda co-founders Charlie Depman and Chinmay Malaviya share their creation story on the Code Story podcast, detailing how their backgrounds in environmental studies and computer science led them to build a one-stop e-mobility marketplace.

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.

In this episode, Erik Chelstad discusses his journey from owning bakeries to creating Observa, a solution for product visibility through centralized information access via cell phones. He shares insights on the challenges he faced and the innovative approaches he developed to enhance distribution channels.

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.

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?

Richard Mensah, originally from Ghana, shares his journey from fixing family tech problems to co-founding EllisX, a platform connecting startups, startup ideas, and people seeking interesting stories.

Code Story podcast episode 20 features Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and creator of Dark, discussing his journey from Dublin to Silicon Valley and his mission to simplify the software development lifecycle.

Davit Buniatyan, founder of Activeloop, shares his journey from Armenia to UCL and Princeton, where working with large datasets for neural network research inspired him to build tools for more efficient data learning.

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. This episode explores their journey and the impact of Aspireship in the SaaS industry.

Steve Caldwell, co-founder of Mandolin, shares his journey from building websites in Frontpage 95 to creating a platform that enables musicians to interact with fans in new ways during the COVID pandemic.

In this episode, we explore Hrishi Dixit's journey from fintech to becoming the founding CTO of LearnVest, which was sold to Northwestern Mutual. He shares insights on his transition to Yieldstreet and the intersection of math, science, and software in his career.

Code Story podcast episode 16 features Meetesh Karia discussing his tech career journey from early computing with a TRS-80 to building The Zebra, an insurance comparison platform, from scratch starting in 2013.

Arjun Narayan, co-founder of Materialize, shares his journey from growing up in India and studying computer science to building a startup around an incremental compute engine on the Code Story podcast.

Code Story podcast features a bonus episode from The Inventive Journey where host Noah Labhart shares advice for entrepreneurs about surrounding yourself with supportive people during difficult times.

Dave MacLeod, a serial entrepreneur and facilitator, shares the creation story of ThoughtExchange on the Code Story podcast, describing how his facilitation work with diverse groups led to building software that scales conversations.

Code Story podcast episode featuring Daniel Hauschildt of Img.ly, tracing his journey from cracking video games as a teenager to co-founding an image processing SDK company that evolved from a Twitter image hosting service.

Cameron Moreau, founder of Gozova, shares his journey from studying computer science at UT Arlington to working at Silicon Valley startups like Pivotal and OpenDoor before creating a platform that gives people access to trucks for moving and delivering large items.

Code Story podcast episode 21 features Ofer Shaked, co-founder of SCADAFence, discussing his journey from early programming at age 10 to founding an industrial cyber security company after serving in an elite Israeli intelligence cyber unit.

Natalie Nagele, co-founder of Wildbit, shares her creation story on the Code Story podcast, from immigrating to the US as a Jewish refugee from Russia to building a successful product company with her husband Chris.

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 and automating information flow for larger companies and enterprises.

Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp, shares his origin story on the Code Story podcast, describing how he taught himself programming through open source and developed infrastructure tooling ideas while studying at the University of Washington.

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.

Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. He breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions within the industry, sharing valuable insights and a significant BHAG on this week's episode.

In this episode, Matt DeBergalis discusses his journey from co-writing Meteor to focusing on Apollo GraphQL. The conversation centers around schema federation and how it enhances API performance and efficiency.

In this bonus episode of Code Story, Rens ter Weijde discusses his journey in deploying enterprise AI and the challenges he faced while scaling production LLMs and RAG frameworks. He shares insights on optimizing the process of learning and content creation in the AI space.