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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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S4 E16: Querying the Whole Web in Seconds

Code Story podcast episode S4 E16 features Meetesh Karia discussing how he built The Zebra, an insurance comparison engine, from scratch starting in January 2013. The episode covers his early tech background, from TRS-80 computers and neural networks to his leadership philosophy shaped by competitive sports.

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Code Story podcast episode S4 E16 features Meetesh Karia discussing how he built The Zebra, an insurance comparison engine, from scratch starting in January 2013. The episode covers his early tech background, from TRS-80 computers and neural networks to his leadership philosophy shaped by competitive sports.

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startup · insurance-comparison · podcast · technical-founder · the-zebra · engineering-leadership · web-technology

Key entities

Meetesh Karia (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · The Zebra (organization, 0.99) · TRS-80 (technology, 0.85) · Slackware (technology, 0.8) · Linux (technology, 0.8) · insurance comparison engine (concept, 0.95) · neural networks (concept, 0.8) · Code Story (organization, 0.95) · RedCircle (organization, 0.7) · Squadcast (organization, 0.65)

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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