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Code Story is 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.

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The AWS Acquisition: Fig's Command Line Revolution

Code Story podcast episode S4 E8 features Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage discussing how they created Fig, a tool to re-engineer and simplify the command line experience, after pivoting multiple times during Y Combinator. The episode covers their backgrounds, the problem of repetitive terminal setup, and Fig's eventual acquisition by AWS.

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Summary

Code Story podcast episode S4 E8 features Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage discussing how they created Fig, a tool to re-engineer and simplify the command line experience, after pivoting multiple times during Y Combinator. The episode covers their backgrounds, the problem of repetitive terminal setup, and Fig's eventual acquisition by AWS.

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startup · command-line · aws-acquisition · y-combinator · developer-tools · podcast · fig

Key entities

Brendan Falk (person, 0.98) · Matt Schrage (person, 0.98) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.9) · Fig (organization, 0.97) · AWS (organization, 0.95) · Y Combinator (organization, 0.95) · Code Story (organization, 0.9) · command-line terminal (technology, 0.9) · Australia (location, 0.85) · San Francisco (location, 0.85)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 13 Aug 2026