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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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From Navy to Fintech: Building a Peer Lending App

Code Story podcast S2 E6 features Dennis Cail, a Navy veteran turned fintech founder, discussing how he built Zirtue, a peer lending app designed to hold borrowers accountable and remove awkwardness from lending money to friends and family. The episode covers his journey from Monroe, Louisiana through military service, earning CS and MBA degrees, to launching his fintech startup.

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Code Story podcast S2 E6 features Dennis Cail, a Navy veteran turned fintech founder, discussing how he built Zirtue, a peer lending app designed to hold borrowers accountable and remove awkwardness from lending money to friends and family. The episode covers his journey from Monroe, Louisiana through military service, earning CS and MBA degrees, to launching his fintech startup.

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fintech · podcast · peer-lending · startup · navy-veteran · entrepreneurship · technical-founder

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Dennis Cail (person, 0.99) · Zirtue (organization, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Code Story (organization, 0.97) · peer-to-peer lending (concept, 0.95) · United States Navy (organization, 0.9) · Monroe, Louisiana (location, 0.92) · Bradley Denham (person, 0.85) · Dwolla (organization, 0.8)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026