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Code Story

In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. On the show, we interview tech visionaries, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry, and build (and lead) a team that has your back.Hosted by Noah Labhart, this show is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses.Their tech. Their products. Their stories.This podcast is for the founder, tech leader, CTO, CEO, developer, software architect, startup leader, disruptive visionary - or the curious minded individual, who wants to know what a builder goes through in creating world changing technology.

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Code Story
Season 1 - Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.213872

The process of building a product can take many twists and turns, based on the path that is chosen. How do you get started? What tools do you use? And how do you build your product roadmap?

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S1 E1: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.210416

For some builders, there is a moment where technical creativity is catalyzed. For others… it starts much earlier. Rylan Barnes has been working with technology since childhood, starting out by p...

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S1 E2: Tanner Hearne, Musicbed from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.206166

A gap used to exist in the world of music licensing. The quality of music available to project teams making promotional videos or materials was pretty low. And for those composing music, getting...

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S1 E3: Leah Culver, Breaker from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.202693

Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when ...

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S1 E4: Sean Washington, Design Kollective from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.200159

Now-a-days, people are introduced to software development through multiple avenues. And it’s pretty amazing how many other industries parallel the thinking and creative process of writing code –...

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S1 E5: Alvaro Sabido, Caribu from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.198118

A born creative, Alvaro Sabido loves to travel and continuously be learning. His engineering background led him to love anything with an engine, and having worked in a diverse set of companies t...

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S1 E6: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.195484

Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup req...

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S1 E7: Jonathan Campos, Alto from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.192444

After getting his masters, Jonathan Campos found himself working with clients, listening to their pain points, and creating software to meet those needs. He worked his way through a handful of s...

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S1 E8: Jon Buda, Transistor.fm from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.190420

Building on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion – building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like mus...

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S1 E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.188204

Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent...

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S1 E10: Shelby Stephens, Jolly from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.186229

Growing up in an entrepreneurial home, Shelby Stephens felt enabled to pursue his own projects. He was brought up appreciating science and art, and studied engineering in College. After working ...

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S1 E11: Eric Sharp, Degreed from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.183444

Eric Sharp grew up with a unique background. With vivid memories of growing up in poverty, he recalls being distinctly inspired towards education when his mother went back to school to be a teac...

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Announcement! Listen up... from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.180720

Breaking news! We are going to 1 episode a week!

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S1 E12: Bernard Worthy, LoanWell from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.178103

Bernard Worthy loves to travel the world with his wife, spend time with his family and stay connected with his friends. Born and raised in Atlanta, he is a long time entrepreneur and technologis...

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S1 E13: Ben Milne, Dwolla from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.175596

Ben Milne grew up in a small town, and has had a pretty normal life. Raising a family, riding a stationary bike and funding startups through selling music gear, he has been in the tech world for...

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S1 E14: Dennis Steele, Podium from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.173670

Along with being a startup founder, Dennis Steele is a family man and a triathlete. A non-tech grad from BYU, he went through a software development bootcamp – called DevMountain – to arm him wi...

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S1 E15: Omri Mor, Routable from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.171116

Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, Omri Mor learned to appreciate music, art, food and other sensory experiences. After selling his first company, he and his now co-founder got together to catch up...

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S1 E16: Aalok Shah, EnergyFunders from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.168772

Tech has always been a part of Aalok Shah’s life. His father and mother influenced his tech interests and biomedical education. After working in nuclear medicine and supporting the special needs...

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S1 E17: Blake Miller, Homebase from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.166905

Coming from a supportive, entrepreneurial home, Blake Miller was introduced to the internet at a very young age – building websites for friends, and flipping digital businesses the same way peop...

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S1 Throwback - Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.164442

Throwback to our very first interview! Originally released, June 2019. 


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S1 Throwback - Jonathan Perichon, Checkr from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.162487

Throwback to one of our favorites from Season 1! Original released August 2019.


Through a chance internship in LA, Jonathan Perichon made his way from France to the United State...

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S1 E18: Bill Eager, Nomad Health from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.160132

For Bill Eager, his interest in tech paralleled his desire to play music. After attending music school, he became disillusioned with music as a day job and pursued tech – still moonlighting as a...

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S1 E19: Chris Slowe, Reddit from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.158167

A tech and science minded individual, Chris Slowe has spent 9 years with Reddit. Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a Dad and likes to work with his hands in the machine shop....

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S1 E20: Brandon Hilkert, Bark from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.155786

Early in his career, Brandon Hilkert shifted from a mechanical engineering focus to tech support for a school district. Through his exposure to IT operations, he drifted towards software and bec...

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Interview on Product Journey from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.153076

I had the opportunity to chat with Noah and Ben on the Product Journey podcast. Every week they get together and talk about building onlin...

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Interview on Milestone Hackers from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.149271

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Paolo on the Milestone Hackers podcast, and had a great chat about startup life, co-founding partners, balancing family & startup life and how to avoid fear....

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Season 2 - Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.143563

Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We’ve taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product ...

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S2 E1: Courtland Allen, Indie Hackers from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.138824

Courtland Allen grew up totally opposite of his twin brother, Channing, but influenced by him nevertheless. His family was rooted in entrepreneurship, and as such, Courtland was heavily inspired...

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S2 E2: Zach Moreno, Squadcast from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.105217

Zach Moreno is quite the renaissance man, being an artist, designer, author, developer… and a loving husband. He has interned on the Chrome team at Google, building extensions of DevTools and as...

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S2 E3: Wil Schroter, Startups.com from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.101278

Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life...

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S2 E4: George Deglin, OneSignal from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.098943

Growing up in the bay area, George Deglin has always been in the middle of the Silicon Valley action. Having both parents being engineers, he was influenced to study Computer Science at Berkley....

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S2 E5: Matt Senter, Lolli from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.094983

Matt Senter grew up on a small farm in rural North Carolina, dreaming of being a game programmer. A Dad, a husband and musician, he keeps extra busy besides being a startup founder. After sellin...

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S2 E6: Dennis Cail, Zirtue from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.090235

Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Dennis Cail has been involved in the tech world since he started in the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he obtained his CS degree and an MBA in Finance. A family man ...

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S2 E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.085866

Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things – law, writing… and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modificat...

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S2 E8: Erin Karam, Dina (Formerly Prepared Health) from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.082287

Erin Karam was a kid interested in everything. She played music, she was into sports, and… into computers and programming. She continues to have well rounded interests today, running marathons, ...

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S2 E9: Thane Brimhall, Seek from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.076744

Thane Brimhall has been passionately building tech for over 15 years. He started by programming his graphing calculator in High School. He has built solutions for prominent startups, such as Wea...

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S2 E10: Steven Naimark, Ziptility from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.072263

Steven Naimark started out his professional career as a clarinet performer. Through his passion for performing, he grew not only as a musician, but as a person, finding joy in the discipline req...

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S2 E11: Jason Tan, Sift from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.067772

Jason Tan started his love of tech back in middle school, when his Dad showed in the wonders 0f connectivity through dial up internet. After taking some beginner programming classes in high scho...

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S2 E12: Jack Rhysider, Darknet Diaries from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.062419

Jack Rhysider is a veteran of the security world. He likes to explore, rather it be through street cycling, empty buildings, alleyways – or just getting outdoors. He grew up with conspiracy theo...

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S2 E13: Adrienne Bolger, BlocHealth from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.056468

Adrienne Bolger grew up in the midwest, and moved up to Boston to attend MIT. She is a lover of running, and was a jujitsu martial arts coach at the institute. Growing up, she loved art and math...

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S2 Bonus: Andrew Overton, Saga from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.050905

Andrew Overton is a finance grad from Howard University. He spent 3 years after graduation, in investment banking. After a while, he desired to work in tech and joined Graphiq in Santa Barbara t...

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S2 E14: Rob Moore, Floom from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.045130

A Maryland native, Rob Moore quickly found himself in the UK studying game theory and behavioral economics. A lover of travel, he has been able to live the digital nomad life and see a number of...

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S2 E15: Desi McAdams, Nanno from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.039084

A mother of 2, Desi McAdam understands the needs of a parent. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science, and loves to roller skate – and may have participated in roller d...

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S2 Bonus: Interview on Podcast Junkies from 2023-12-12T18:38:31.004304

Recently, I had the pleasure of guesting on Harry Duran’s Podcast Junkies. In this episode, we talked about technology startups, communication skills and formatting podcasts for length, producti...

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S2 E16: Kyle Campbell, CTO.ai from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.999916

Kyle Campbell is a native Canadian and high school dropout growing up in Nova Scotia. He’s been working with technology since he was eight years old. Learning computers, building websites, and e...

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S2 E17: Dominik Obermaier, HiveMQ from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.996022

Growing up in a small rural city in Germany, Dominic Obermaier was not exposed too much when it comes to computers. After studying computer science in college, he was hooked. A frequent reader o...

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S2 E18: Mubashar Iqbal, Pod Hunt from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.992175

Mubashar Iqbal, AKA Mubs, has always been a maker. Having built 85 side projects, he is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to cre...

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S2 Bonus: Meet the Podcasters from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.988106

A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We di...

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S2 E19: Denis Lunev, DepositFix from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.983798

Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that...

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S2 E20: Daniel Gebler, Picnic from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.977886

A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route – through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjo...

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Quick Note: S2 End, S3 Coming Soon from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.972428

A quick note about the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3... soon.

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com...

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S2 Bonus: Innovabuzz Podcast Interview from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.967133

Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about:


  • How to have your team OWN and run your projects
  • Getting in to...

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S2 Bonus: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.960820

Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modific...

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Season 3 - Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.954652

Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to ...

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S3 E1: Cole Raven, Podchaser from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.948197

Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana. Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly - but early on, he knew he wanted to do his own thing. His wife and he just move...

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S3 Bonus: Andrew Smith, Outrider from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.942021

Andrew Smith grew up playing in the woods of northern New England. In 6th grade, he was given a car and drivers magazine and fell in love with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches - who didn'...

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S3 E2: Dave Zohrob, Chartable from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.928542

Dave Zohrob has been coding since before he can remember. He is among the crews where their Dad's bought TRS-80's hooked up to the TV and loaded games from tape drives. He loves music, a...

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S3 E3: Mark Hendriks, Wild Ventures from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.923468

Mark Hendriks has been a product designer for 11 years. His family and he love to travel, see the world and visit national parks. He currently live in Spain with his wife and son, off the grid. ...

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S3 Bonus: Shawn Frayne, Looking Glass Factory from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.917396

Shawn Frayne grew up dreaming of being an inventor. His heroes were the inventors of yore, like Thomas Edison and Tesla. Growing up, he was inspired by TV shows and movies, like Beyond 2000 and ...

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S3 E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.911566

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi Yokokawa started his career at Leimen Brothers in the US. In doing so, he was exposed to the fragility of the economies, yet saw how all things were connected and...

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S3 Bonus: Interview on Mentoring Developers from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.905830

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Arsalan on the Mentoring Developers podcast, to talk about wearing many hats, transitioning from developer to CTO and much much more. Check out the ep...

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S3 E5: Dan Burcaw, Nami ML from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.900032

Tech and entrepreneurship has always been super intertwined in Dan Burcaw's life - through his family, and starting to tinker with computers in the 90's. He played Baseball when he was y...

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S3 Bonus: Peter Voss, AIGO from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.893048

Peter Voss fell in love with software after starting a hardware design company. He moved to America 25 years ago, and rapidly connected with interesting people - leaders in the field of nano tec...

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S3 E6: Elias Torres, Drift from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.887184

A first generation LatinX immigrant, Elias Torres was born in Nicaragua. Growing up in a communist country, he had little resources, even food. Thirty years ago, he came to the US, and hasn'...

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S3 Bonus: Interview on Coffee and Coding from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.876931

Recently, I had an awesome chat with Rob of the Coffee & Coding podcast - the App Developer's Handbook. In this episode we discuss:


  • How I got started in software en...

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S3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, Unibuddy from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.871632

Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how t...

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S3 Bonus: Tony Chan, Cloudforecast from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.865274

Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Chan grew up in the Southside, a blue collar neighborhood. He was heavily influenced by hid Dad, who was a first generation immigrant, barely knew English, but s...

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S3 E8: Jane Portman, Userlist from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.859086

Originally from Russia, Jane Portman gained experience as a creative director for an agency. She has been involved in tech as a designer for 16 years, occupying different design jobs. In fact, p...

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S3 Bonus: Interview on WPRRR from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.853532

Super fun chat with a very cool dude, Joe Howard - Host of WPMRR and Founder & CEO of WP Buffs.


  • [00:01:17] Who is Noah Labhart?
  • [00:02:52] Have you always been ...

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S3 E9: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.847784

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, followi...

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S3 Bonus: Interview on The Ops Show from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.842466

In their best episode yet, Noah Labhart, our host and the CTO and Co-Founder of Veryable Ops, shared his CTO journey, his 5-year stack evolution, and the trends behind the countless code stories...

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S3 E10: Nick Patrick, Radar from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.836740

Nick Patrick has had his hands in tech for most of his life. He's been dabbling in computer programming and hardware from an early age. During college, he veered away from a focus in Biology...

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S3 E11: Mike Kadin, RedCircle from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.828914

Mike Kadin is a family man, having been married for 7 years with a 2 year old (in the No phase). He studied electrical engineering, specifically chip design and computer architecture, obtaining ...

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S3 Bonus: Christopher Brown, Zabo from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.822982

Christopher Brown has always tinkered with computers, by building them and creating websites. However, he struggled through his life to figure out which area he was passionate in. He joined the ...

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S3 E12: Seth Mattox, Apex Hosting from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.816620

Seth Mattox is a 33 year old single dude with a degree in finance, living in St. Petersburg FL. Both of his parents were computer coders, so some of his earliest memories in life are watching hi...

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S3 E13: Dean McPherson, Paperform from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.810845

Dean McPherson - you guessed it... has always been interested in tech. Though unlike many of our guests, he taught himself how to code after he finished his degree program in music and philosoph...

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S3 Bonus: Interview on SimplyPHP from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.804875

In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor...

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S3 E14: Tim Spect, Dubsmash from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.798664

Originally from Berlin Germany, Tim Specht started programming for fun, during high school. He had no plans to make a career out it - in fact, he wanted to become an experimental physicist. When...

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S3 Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUP from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.792005

Like many folks I talk to in tech, Brendon Beebe grew up in tech. He comes from a long line of programmers, and he has been building things since his teens. In college, he felt the entrepreneuri...

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S3 E15: Ward Sandler, MemberSpace from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.785385

Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the same fraternity. He's married ...

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S3 E16: Ron Rock, Microshare from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.779934

Born and raised in Philly, Ron Rock put himself through college, working at Denny's as a midnight chef. He is a life long entrepreneur, and started his first business when he was in his 20&#...

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S3 Bonus: Rob Joseph, ReadItToMe from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.773492

Tech has been Rob Joseph's thing for as long as he can remember. At 4 years old, he was the only person in his household who knew how to use the TV and video recorder. Now a day's, he...

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S3 E17: Jeff Bermant, Cocoon MyDataRewards from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.765704

Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, to be a highly ranked tennis player. After s...

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S3 Bonus: Joe+Tony, Mythic Markets from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.757331

Joe Mahavuthivanij was born and raised in the Bay Area, into an entrepreneurial family. Primarily through his life, he was exposed to small businesses. He went to school at UCSD in San Diego, an...

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S3 E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.750490

Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, homeschooled and cultivating all of her own f...

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S3 E19: Joe Howard, WP Buffs from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.744412

Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work...

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S3 E20: Aaron White, Blissfully from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.738780

Aaron White started coding when he was young, tinkering on his commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in esoteric commands just to get the game to run. He was a big magic the gatherin...

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S3 Bonus: Leah Culver, Breaker (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.721980

Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed. Yet, there was something missing when ...

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S3 Bonus: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.716508

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, followi...

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Season 4 - Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.711133

Season 4 of the Code Story podcast is now live!



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S4 E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.705190

Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid b...

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S4 Bonus: Tech Talks Daily from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.699924

Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer administrative burdens and workers with flexible wo...

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S4 E2: Charlie&Chinmay, RidePanda from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.694417

Charlie Depman grew up in Connecticut, then went to college in Canada - pursuing environmental studies. His first job out of college was to be the Asia regional coordinator for an environment NG...

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S4 E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.688644

 Davit Buniatyan is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at UCL. He entered into his college year...

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S4 E4: Hrishi Dixit, Yieldstreet from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.682977

Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forward. He comes from a family of teachers and b...

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S4 E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img.ly from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.677436

Daniel Hauschildt lives in Germany, in a town called Bochum. He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at an early age. He stayed busy with friends and...

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S4 Bonus: Natalie Nagele, Wildbit from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.671621

Natalie Nagele came to the states in 1989 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. She watched her parents go from nothing and utilizing furniture from trash, to building big businesses and supporting t...

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S4 E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.665414

Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet. He is a pilot, and owns his o...

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S4 E7: Dan Robinson, Heap from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.659839

At 18 years old, Dan Robinson was 100% convinced that he was going to be a mathematician. He went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized that math beyond high school was very...

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S4 Bonus: Jeff Meisner, Sector 5 Digital from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.654756

Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies, mostly on the business development sid...

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S4 E8: Brendan&Matt, Fig from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.649670

Brendan Falk is originally from Australia. Growing up, he was always into computers, sports, extra curricular activities - he was the kid who always had a side hustle going on. Once he got to co...

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S4 Bonus: Richard Mensah, EllisX from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.644202

Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help...

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S4 E9: Matt Forniciari, Gremlin from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.637844

Matt Forniciari started his career at Amazon. First gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezo's directly about what was working & not working, whic...

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S4 E10: Steve Caldwell, Mandolin from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.631665

Steve Caldwell lives in Louisville, Kentucky - but grew up in South Louisiana, in cajun country. In the 90's he loved seeing things he typed on the screen come to life, as he built website i...

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S4 E11: Arjun Narayan, Materialize from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.625997

Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachus...

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S4 Bonus: Cameron Moreau, Gozova from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.619783

Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it. Eventually though, he discovered programmi...

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S4 E12: Richard Barkley, Cloudsnap from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.614446

Richard Barkley is a big traveller, and has been all around the world. The first business he started doing was doing non profit work in Uganda. He is a family man. Adopted several children from ...

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S4 Bonus: Rens ter Weijde from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.608873

Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend does most of the work. He's an avid kite...

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S4 E13: Troy Goode, Courier from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.603895

Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and loves to go outside, to the park, ...

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S4 E14: Bryon Jacob, data.world from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.592749

Bryon Jacob is a family man with 4 kids, from ages 11 down. With a young startup and family, his hobbies has suffered some, but during the pandemic, he was able to pick back up music, specifical...

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S4 Bonus: Greg Schier, Insomnia from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.587677

Greg Schier grew up in a small town, without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and skate boards, and spent a lot of time building ramps and jumps for them both. At that time... he had no i...

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S4 E15: Beerud Sheth, Gupshup from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.582312

Beerud Sheth grew up in Mumbai, India, and attended undergrad in Bombay. For graduate school, he came to the states to study at MIT, and then did a short stint in Wall Street before moving into ...

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S4 Bonus: Jason Riedel, Aspireship from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.577327

Jason Riedel was drawn to technology as a 9 year old. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, falling into the tech world - and as such, he didn't attend college.

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S4 E16: Meetesh Karia, The Zebra from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.571757

The tech career of Meetesh Karia started early, as his father was an electrical engineer bringing home a TRS80 with a tape drive. Computers just clicked, as he dialed into BBS systems, built com...

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S4 Bonus: Dave MacLeod, ThoughtExchange from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.565857

As an interesting turn to the guests I have on the podcast, Dave MacLeod is not a technologist by trade. He is a serial entrepreneur, and an old school face to face facilitator, who cares a lot ...

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S4 E17: Matt DeBergalis, Apollo GraphQL from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.558787

Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the handbook. To Matt, computers are tools to make ...

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S4 Bonus: Justin Mitchell, Yac from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.551716

Justin Mitchell started off wanting to be an actor, dreaming of going off to work for Disney or doing movies. He loved being on the stage, playing sports, and overall, being the center of attent...

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S4 E18: Lior Sion, Bringg from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.545792

Lior Sion has been doing tech for 30 years, since he was in High School. He is married with 2 amazing and a dog (a Vizsla to be specific), and is in his mid 40s. He is passionate about ultra run...

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S4 Bonus: Erik Fogg, ProdPerfect from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.540383

Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could guess, Erik is not the tech guy - b...

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S4 E19: Daniel Gallancy, Atakama from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.535199

Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finance, doing diligence on tech companies for an...

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S4 Bonus: Erik Chelstad, Observa from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.529924

Erik Chelstad is a child of both coasts. In his life, he spent a lot of time skiing, and carried that activity into his adult life. Funny enough though, he is actually a better boarder than skie...

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S4 E20: Paul Biggar, Dark from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.524001

Paul Biggar was born in Dublin, Ireland, and lived there most of his life. When he was young, his Dad had a couple of computers, where Paul could program in Basic and Logo. In addition to these ...

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S4 Bonus: Aggie Growth Hacks from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.518225

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S4 E21: Ofer Shaked, SCADAFence from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.512288

Ofer Shaked started in on computers early. He was passionate about tech from a very early age, and started programming when he was 10 years old. He loves tech, loves reading about tech, and is e...

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S4 Bonus: The Inventive Journey from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.504386

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Season 4 Sign Off from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.497617

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S4 Bonus: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.491416

Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet. He is a pilot, and owns his o...

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S4 Bonus: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.486189

Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid b...

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Season 5 Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.480668

Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories about MVP's, trade offs, determini...

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S5 E1: Abhinav Asthana, Postman from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.474587

Abhinav Asthana grew up in several small towns in the northern part of India. A couple of those towns were Basti, 150 miles from the capital. He's been a computer geek since 5th grade, when ...

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S5 Bonus: Timur Mamedov, VEED.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.468837

Timur Mamodev grew up in Russia, within a very loving and supportive family. His Dad was an entrepreneur, so he knew some day he wanted to do the same, or at least have some sort of brand. His M...

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S5 E2: Miriam Schwab, Strattic from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.463295

Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She has been in Israel for 26 years, and moved there after high school to attend university. She studied English Literature in school, and she really enj...

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S5 Bonus: Eric Futoran, Embrace.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.456995

A multi startup founder, Eric Futoran has always focused in on being a family man. He considers himself a multi-hat wearing person, and though most entrepreneurs say that.. Eric really means it....

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S5 E3: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.451806

Alex Yurkowski grew up in New Jersey. He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software. Like many others, it all started with a lot of video games, like Warcraft, Starcra...

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Bonus: Real World AI from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.444677

How can you successfully deploy AI? When AI works, it’s nothing short of brilliant, helping companies make or save tremendous amounts of money while delighting customers on an unprecedented scal...

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S5 E4: Hazel Savage, Musiio from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.439061

Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England. She attended university, and studied politics. She's played the guitar since she was 13, and started out as a self taught player. Her first...

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S5 Bonus: Shaun Cooley, Mapped from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.433532

Shaun Cooley was born and raised in LA. His Mom worked at Xerox and his Dad was an auto mechanic... so needless to say, at an early age, he was pulling things apart electronically and mechanical...

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S5 E5: Kirt Debique, SyncFloor from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.427936

Kirt Debique is originally from Trinidad, off the coast of Venezuela. He came to the states to study computer engineering, at the University of Miami. On the way to attending grad school at Stan...

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S5 Bonus: Meha Agrawal, Silk&Sonder from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.422336

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Meha Agrawal grew up in a beach town. Her Dad is a professor of Computer Science, and her Mom worked at the University as well. In the 5 years before she was bl...

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S5 E6: Braden Stenning, Raven from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.415975

Braden Stenning has always been interested in tech. His earliest memories include the desire to be an aerospace engineer - to be the guy to build the spaceships. He spent a lot of time exploring...

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S5 Bonus: Angel Munoz, Beacon from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.410097

In his early career, Angel Munoz was an investment banker, specializing in technology. He was fortunate enough to invest in the development of MP3's in the 80's. In addition to this, he ...

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S5 E7: Kristen Buchanan, Edify from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.404724

Kristen Buchanan live in Portland, Oregon with her husband, cats and dog. She went to school for museum education, with a minor in art history - note the non-technical background. She was a kid ...

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S5 Bonus: Josh Millet, Criteria from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.398775

Josh Millet's journey to tech was quite circuitous. He spent most of his 20's doing a PhD in French medieval history, with his plan being a professor in college. His specific time period...

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S5 E8: Marko Anastasov, Semaphore from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.393310

Marko Anastasov has been working with computers for a long time. He grew up in former Yugoslavia in the 90's, when there was civil war, hyper inflation, and the economy was taken back 20 yea...

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S5 Bonus: Jay Haynes, THRV from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.387278

Jay Haynes has always been interested in tech, just like his Dad. In 1979, his Dad bought and brought home an apple II plus. Though he was using it for his business to do spreadsheets, Jay began...

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S5 E9: Valerie Coffman, Swayable from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.381411

Valerie Coffman has a family in San Francisco, with 2 cats - both 18 pounds each - and 2 kids, the oldest being 3 and a half. So you could say she has a lot to juggle, even outside of a startup....

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S5 Bonus: Ken Gavranovic, Unqork from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.375666

Ken Gavranovic lives in the northern suburbs of Atlanta - namely Alpharetta - with his wife Heather, and two teenage daughters. As a kid, he was fascinated by the movie war games... but what exc...

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S5 Bonus: Jody Shapiro, Productiv from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.369968

Jody Shapiro was fortunate enough to know he was going to be an engineer from a young age. He did the typical kid things, liked played with legos, and built things, with deep curiosity around ho...

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S5 E10: Slater Victoroff, Indico from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.364413

Slater Victoroff has had some pretty cool hobbies over his life. Though he claims to be a weird guy, he has a well rounded set activities. He is a vegan baker, which is half mad science, requiri...

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S5 Bonus: Colin Chartier, Webapp.io (Formerly Layer CI) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.358928

Colin Chartier started making video games when he was young. He used to played Warcraft 3, which had a powerful map editor for its users. He recalls that one game map was called goblet explorati...

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S5 E11: Alexander Alimovs, Automations.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.353503

Alexander Alimovs was born in a country that no longer exists. It was the USSR (or the Soviet Union), but today it's an independent country called Latvia. In 2008 when he was 18, he moved to...

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S5 Bonus: Brendan Wood, Passiv from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.349274

Brendan Wood lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife and 3 kids. They live in an old house, and from his per-view, he has done way to many projects on it. In fact, shortly after they moved...

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S5 E12: Chris Wexler, Krunam from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.344073

Chris Wexler had a crazy path to get where he is today. By his count, he is on his 6th career. His first job was on Capital Hill, followed up with a stint in Wall Street. After that, he produced...

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S5 Bonus: Rahul Sidhu, SpidrTech from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.338628

Rahul Sidhu was one of those kids who was always fiddling with computers. He even had a small tech startup in high school, to help him pay his way through college. Out of High School, he was an ...

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S5 E13: Andrew Butt, Enable from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.331669

Andrew Butt always dreamed of being an airline pilot, and his passion outside of tech is flying. He has spent more time in helicopters over planes, and he enjoys that more. His family relocated ...

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S5 Bonus: Greg Ratner, Troops from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.326028

Greg Rather comes from a family of artists, so he always envisioned himself going in to art. From an early age, he was drawing and creating comics (funny enough, centered around his favorite ani...

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S5 E14: Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.320324

Derrick Reimer got his first computer in kindergarten. His Dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home, tinkered with code.. and Derrick was always interested in the projects he was working on. I...

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S5 Bonus: Andrew Childs, Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.307712

Andrew Childs doesn't have a computer science background. He grew up in Philly, and is currently based in NYC with his wife and 6 year old. His first computer experience was in 1984, with a ...

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S5 Bonus: Cody Candee, Bounce from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.302699

Travel is a huge part of Code Candee's life, even prior to his current venture. He has lived in a dozen different cities, travelled to over 60 countries, and has been to 49 of the 50 US stat...

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S5 E15: Matt Schwartz, Afresh from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.297588

Matt Schwartz is a lover of food. It's been a huge part of his personal and professional life, in such areas like evidence based nutrition, exercise science, and the history & economics ...

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S5 Bonus: Paraag Sarva, Rhino from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.292374

Paraag Sarva is a New York City native. He grew up in Queens, and went to college at NYU. When he started his career, he didn't think about going into tech. In 2004 / 2005 timeframe, he did ...

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S5 Bonus: Adam Robinson, GetEmails from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.286670

Adam Robinson has had an interesting path into the tech world. He started out at Lehmen Brothers, and eventually Barclays, as a credit default swap trader. He spent 10 years doing the job that t...

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S5 E16: Veena Somareddy, Neuro Rehab VR from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.281329

Veena Somareddy is from India, and came to the US in 2012 to peruse her Masters degree in Game Design & Development. Technology has been an integral part of her life, as she was a big time g...

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S5 Compiler Recast - Should Managers Code? from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.275910

Hey guys, today I want to tell you about a new podcast I'm digging. It's called Compiler, an original podcast from Red Hat, who also brought you the popular show Command Line Heroes.

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S5 Bonus: Lyric Jain, Logically from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.270232

Lyric Jain comes from a family of business people, and is an engineer by training. He was born in India, and spent the first half of his life there. When he was 12, he moved to the United Kingdo...

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S5 E17: LaKeisha Turner, AlgoPear from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.264852

LaKeisha Turner is a strong woman. She has her hands full, as a single mom of a 16 year old girl, and an 8 year old boy. She is a breast cancer survivor, and lover of classical music - previousl...

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S5 Bonus: Brian Singer, Nobl9 from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.259303

Brian Singer has always been interested in computers. He into gaming in high school, which he claims is what led him to an engineering degree in college. He got his start in the industry with lo...

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S5 Bonus: John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.254021

John Kodumal grew up really into computers. And, he is old enough that during his childhood, it was abnormal to be so into computers. To illustrate just how much he was into computers, he told m...

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S5 E18: Tigran Nazaryan, 10Web from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.248510

Tigran Nazaryan started out doing science in University. In fact, he was studying physics, and then went on to do his PhD in Astronomy in Astro Physics. He never imagined he would eventually bec...

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S5 Bonus: Sergei Egorov, AtomicJar from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.242283

Sergei Egorov grew up in a small city of only 100,000 citizens (which is huge compared to some cities). He grew up in Siberia, in the cold part of the country. His personal record for how cold i...

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S5 Bonus: Mahmoud Abdelkader, Very Good Security (VGS) from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.237249

Mahmoud Abdelkader immigrated to the United States from Egypt, from a city 100 km east of Cairo, on the Suez Canal. He was 8 years old when he moved to New York City, and later in life, he moved...

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S5 E19: Joshua Wohle, Mindstone from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.231499

Joshua Whole was born in the Netherlands. Before he was 13, he actually went to 5 different schools. Afterwards, he moved to Switzerland and went into the public school system - which was all in...

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S5 Bonus: Philippe Kwiatkowski, Ubico from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.224188

Phillipe Kwiatkowski has been addicted to gaming since he was a teenager. He played games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Grand Theft Auto. In the process, he discovered multiplayer mods, t...

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S5 Bonus: Kordel France, Seekar Technologies from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.219205

Kordel France has always been infatuated with finding order in chaos - and has carried that way of living throughout his life. He is an engineer by training and schooling, but grew up on a farm....

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S5 Bonus: Ryan Johnson, CallRail from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.214790

Ryan Johnson is originally from Saginaw, Michigan, and now lives in Atlanta. He never imagined he would get into tech. In fact, when he was growing up he wanted to be an orthodontist. He got int...

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S5 E20: Nate Joens, Structurely from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.208818

Nate Joens was born and raised in Iowa. And in fact, he plans to spend out the rest of his days there, cause he loves it. He lovingly calls it the Silicon Prairie, though he admits that most peo...

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S5 Bonus: Leon Kuperman, CAST.ai from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.197013

Leon Kuperman comes from an immigrant family, who migrated to North America in the late 70's. He was born in a city that is not part of the Ukraine, but grew up in Canada. So he was brought ...

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S5 Bonus: Anthony Castrio, Indie Worldwide from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.191101

Anthony Castrio has been a freelance engineer and digital nomad for 3.5 years. He currently living in Mexico City, but is originally from upstate New York, up around the Adirondack Mountains are...

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S5 E21: Laura Butler, Uplift from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.186601

For Laura Butler, tech has always been woven into her life. She left Harvard to go work full time at Microsoft, because she was having the time of her life as an intern. She went on to spend 20 ...

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S5 Bonus: Phil Lawson-Shanks, Aligned from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.182088

Phill Lawson-Shanks has had a convoluted path into tech. In the past, he worked for a company that owned and operated airpots in Europe. He got involved in the very early days of servers - so ea...

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S5 Bonus: Oleg Friedman, Verb Data from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.177387

Oleg Fridman has been at this startup thing for a while. Most of his career, he has been working for himself, remotely. In High School, he was drug into entrepreneurship by a few of his buddies,...

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S5 Bonus: Matt Dixon, Code Program from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.172638

Matt Dixon grew up job hopping, before eventually starting his own business. He is married with 5 kids - 1 daughter and 4 sons. He loves to eat, spend time with his family, mountain bike, and tr...

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S5 E22: Josh Dzielak, Orbit from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.166176

Josh Dzielak is originally from the US, but lives in Paris now. And because of this, he likes to take advantage and walk around to take in the sights. He lives close to an area with a park, feat...

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S5 Bonus: David Ciccarelli, Voices.com from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.159338

David Ciccarelli is a husband to his partner in life and business, Stephanie, and a dad to 4 kids - one boy, and three girls. He loves...

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S5 Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel&Next.js from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.152586

Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he feel in love with the web ...

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S5 E23: Ulf Schwekendiek, Centered.app from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.148128

Ulf Schwekendiek was brought up in Germany, but spent most of his life in the US. He speaks German with an American accent, and English with a German accent... so he claims to not speak any lang...

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S5 Bonus: Brandon White, File Finder from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.139211

Brandon White started his career from his passion for fishing. In doing so, he wound up building the largest social networking and eCommerce site for sport fisherman. He got to travel around the...

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S5 Bonus: Adrian Tobey, Groundhogg from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.113132

Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In high school, he was interested in computer sci...

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S5 Bonus: Shinji Kim, Select Star from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.109016

Shinji Kim was born in Korea. Her family moved to Canada when she was 13 years old. She likes to hang out with her friends, watch movies and likes to be outdoors, skiing, hiking or doing yoga. S...

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S5 E24: Thejo Kote, Airbase from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.105086

Thejo Kote grew up in Southern India. He came from an academic, intellectual family. Both of his grandfathers were authors, and in the house, they had built up a library. But not just a few book...

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S5 Bonus: Luke Hoban, Pulumi from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.100943

Luke Hoban has been into tech and computers for many, many years. It started off when he was a kid, but sailed with him into college as he got into languages. He spent the first part of his care...

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S5 E25: Bobby Ross, Fire Hydrant from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.095598

Robert Ross, also known as Bobby Tables, has been into building stuff since he was 12 years old. Around that time, he Googled "how to make a website", learned from an online tutorial, an...

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S5 Bonus: Cherish Santoshi, SAWO Labs from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.090120

Cherish Santoshi started his professional career when he was just 18. He plays music, being a one man band through his guitar, bass and drum skills. He's even got a studio setup at home, and...

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S5 Bonus: Kyle Bernhardy, HarperDB from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.083702

Kyle Bernhardy had a less than traditional path to the tech world. He has been in the industry since the late 90's, but it all started when he was growing up, attempting to program text adve...

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S5 E26: Bruno Demuro, Armor Bionics from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.078116

Bruno Demuro is first and foremost, a father of 2 children. He says this is the single most awesome thing, and yet at the same time, the most challenging thing. He has a background in industrial...

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S5 Bonus: Ilan Peleg, Lightrun from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.072478

Ilan Peleg is 29 years old, and has been a long time middle distance runner. He previously ran the 800 meters, and served int he Israeli Army as a professional athlete. At the age of 21, he reti...

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S5 Bonus: Darshan Mehta, iResearch from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.066549

Darshan Mehta has a degree in marketing and finance, and has typically served those disciplines. However, he has been accused of having the extra tech gene, since he was born in India. He enjoys...

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S5 E27: Max Stoiber, GraphCDN from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.062066

Max Stoiber was born and raised in a small town, just outside of Vienna, Austria. From a young age, his biggest influence was his mother, who left her job to start her own business as a medical ...

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S5 Bonus: Ben Downling, IPInfo from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.051156

Ben Dowling lives in Seattle, and loves it there. He is married, and a father of three kids - ages 11, 8 and 5 - so he's a busy dude. He loves to hike, and recently took his family on a week...

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S5 Bonus: Ari Jacoby, Deduce from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.044326

Ari Jacoby grew up in the DC Metro Area, but has lived in New York City for the last 17 years. He's married with 2 kids at home, ages 12 and 9, and he spends a lot of time outside of his bus...

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S5 E28: Oona Rokyta, Lance from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.035469

Oona Rokyta is a first generation American, which you wouldn't expect from her lack of accent. Her parents are artists from the Czech Republic, who migrated to the US 6 months before she was...

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S5 Bonus: Marco Palladino, Kong from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.024221

Marco Palladino migrated from Italy about 10 years ago.. and brought all of his Italian hobbies with him. He loves to cook - specifically pasta, of course - and enjoys a good glass of wine. He h...

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S5 E29: Nick Clayton, Savitude from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.017355

Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these types of games. He is an avid Magic the Gath...

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S5 Bonus: Lydia Davies, Teemates from 2023-12-12T18:38:30.003542

Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Alaska, the Middle East and now in Houston. Sh...

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S5 E30: Adam Wiggins, Muse from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.996322

Adam Wiggins was from California originally, but has lived in Berlin for the last decade. Earlier in his life, he did burning man art installations and was a DJ. Now, he is a middle aged family ...

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S5 Bonus: Shelby Stephens, Growth Match from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.990246

Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that tim...

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Season 5 Sign Off from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.985368

This is Season 5, signing off....

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S6 Bonus: Verl Allen, Claravine from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.821351

Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3 kids as a single Dad, so you can imagine that during that time, it took a large part of his f...

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S6 E10: Tommy Yionoulis, OpsAnalitica from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.816153

Tommy Yionoulis has a traditional tech founder st4ry... via hotel, restaurant and standup comedy route. But in all seriousness, his Dad was literally a rocket scientist, and his Mom was a softwa...

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S6 Bonus: Dr. Gordon Jones, Thrivacy from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.806309

Dr. Gordon Jones just turned 60 years old, but you wouldn't know it from his energetic, vibrant tone. He has his doctorate in Health Administration, but he got into Health Technology in 1997...

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S6 Bonus: John Egan, Kintaba from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.801130

John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he was working at Harvard, he was watc...

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S6 E11: Hywel Carver, SkillerWhale from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.795575

Hywel Carver has been writing code since he was 9 years old. His first language was C, which quite a language to start out in, and his first program was a "Guess the Number" program, usi...

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S6 Bonus: Brandy&Ryan, Kitcaster from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.785886

Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes are two different folks, joined together in a unified mission. If you look up Denver guy in the dictionary, you will see a picture of Ryan, in a flannel shirt, with ...

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S6 E12: Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.781125

Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always interested in entrepreneurship. In 1995, he built a website for a car dealership for $100, and the...

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S6 Bonus: Perry Zheng, Cash Flow Portal from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.775894

Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big name companies like Amazon, Twitter and Lyft. During his time at Lyft, he started tinkering wit...

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S6 Bonus: Liran Haimovitch, Rookout from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.769820

Liran Haimovitch is 34 years old, and recently married. He and his wife enjoy traveling and eating delicious foods together, and of course, taking care of their awesome dog. Although it has been...

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S6 E13: Alexander Luksidadi, Rose Rocket from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.764421

Alexander Luksidadi came to Canada in 2002 as an immigrant, with a dream to work for IBM. However, during his time in school, he had a friend that went to San Francisco, and came back "chang...

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S6 Bonus: Roy Ng, Bond from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.759180

Roy Ng moved to LA from Hong Kong when he was 10 years old, first with his Mother, with his Father following on a year later. His family moved to the stats to build a future for him, with educat...

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S6 Bonus: Dan Langevin, Vericred from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.754080

Dan Langevin grew up in Madison, CT - east of New Haven. He had a good size family, with his Dad being an engineer and Mother being a teacher. He grew up around computers, and learned how to bui...

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S6 E14: Joe Pettersson, Banked from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.748759

Joe Pettersson is quite the renaissance man, with many interests and ventures he is a part of. He's also had an interesting path to tech. He was originally a lawyer many years go... funny en...

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S6 Bonus: Aaron Bromberg, StimScience from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.743706

Aaron Bromberg is living the Dad life outside of tech. His kids are 11 and 13, so he wants to spend as much time with them before they get too cool to hangout with their parents. He likes to coo...

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S6 Bonus: Marin Smiljanic, Omnisearch from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.738835

Marin Smiljanic was born and raised in Croatia. He attended a local math school, which actually got him into tech. Post attending college, his first experiences of the industry were through inte...

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S6 Bonus: Todd Larsen, Tech Leaders from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.733744

From the time he was very young, Todd Larsen was always interested in technology. However, he ended up studying audio engineering so found his way to tech through teaching himself how to code. H...

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S6 E15: Itiel Schwartz, Komodor from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.728740

For Itiel Schwartz, it's hard to remember life before his current venture. He studied computer science and psychology in school, and during that time he started working for Ebay. He's 32...

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S6 Bonus: Jack Naglieri, Panther Labs from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.723975

Jack Naglieri grew up in Ohio, but moved to Virginia when he was 10. He had a normal east coast family up-bringing, but he focused on tech early on, even as a kid. Eventually, he went to George ...

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S6 Bonus: Lars Grønnegaard, Dreamdata from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.719400

Outside of technology, Lars Grønnegaard is an avid cyclist. He stats that if you've been to Copenhagen, where his from, you would know that a lot of people do cycling. He is into road or mou...

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S6 E16: Jimmy Jacobson, Stake.rent from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.715524

Jimmy Jacobson grew up in Snoqualmie, about 45 minutes east of Seattle, Washington. He graduated from college in 2020, as the pandemic was breaking - but, directly correlated with the pandemic, ...

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S6 Bonus: Stephen Mathai-Davis, Q.ai from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.711398

Stephen Mathai-Davis grew up in a family where he was expected to go into the buy side of Wall Street. Originally, he rebelled against this, pursuing professional kickboxing and even running his...

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S6 Bonus: Austin Parker, Lightstep from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.707405

Austin Parker started out at a young age with computers, writing programs in BASIC and hanging out on bulletin boards. Prior to his tech career, he held many other jobs - as a short order cook, ...

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S6 E17: Girish Redekar, Sprinto from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.703248

If you would have told Girish Redekar while he was in college that he would eventually be writing software, he would have been shocked. His studies focused on electrical engineering, and post sc...

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S6 Bonus: Stephanie Florio, Swob from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.698578

Stephanie Florio's journey to tech started in the world of advertising. She always knew that she wanted to be an entrepreneur, but didn't really know what it was. Outside of tech, she ha...

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S6 E18: Or Weis, Permit.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.693547

Or Weis has been a programmer or engineer since the age of 5. He started playing with DOS commands super early in his life. He made a significant leap in his professional skills when he was join...

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S6 Bonus: Patrick Bryant, CODE+TRUST from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.689370

Patrick Bryant lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and splits time in Washington, DC. He loves entrepreneurship, and believes it is the number one change agent in the world. He is involved in m...

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S6 Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit.dev from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.685274

Beier Cai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups. The third startup he worked at did pretty well, which was HootSuite. He was the first engineer writ...

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S6 E19: Kirk Marple, Unstruk Data from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.680872

Kirk Marple has been a family man for 20+ years now. His kids are older now, in their 20's, which he finds amazing. He's been in tech for most of his whole career, but when he started ou...

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S6 Bonus: Savarth Misra, ContractPodAI from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.676528

Savarth Misra didn't start out in tech. In fact, he was a lawyer, working as a corporate commercial lawyer in Asia and the UK. During this time, he noticed how little tech adoption was being...

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S6 Bonus: George Georgallides, Basis Health from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.671949

George Georgallides is originally from a small island in Europe called Cypress. He grew up there, joined the army, and competed in Track & Field and Triatholons. He came to Los Angeles in 20...

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S6 E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.666894

Izzy Azeri has been in the tech industry for 20 years, starting out at places like EMC and VMWare. He's married with three kids, living in Franklin, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. He love...

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Notifications North Star - Eric Koslow, Lattice from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.662015

Notification North Star, sponsored by Courier!

Guest: Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prio...

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S6 Bonus: Jon Dahl, Mux from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.657277

Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia, but he quickly figured out that he needed to make ...

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S6 E21: Douwe Maan, Meltano from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.653197

Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, outside of Amsterdam. How he recharges outsi...

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Notifications North Star - Patrick Malatack, Matrix Partners from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.648470

Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!

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S6 Bonus: Christine Spang, Nylas from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.644073

According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate New York when she was 3, and grew up there. She came from a family of engineers and entreprene...

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S6 Bonus: Temilola Adebayo, HumanSquad from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.639383

Temilola Adebayo is in tech, but her background is in film production. She grew up most other life in Nigeria, but then moved to Canada. She has been producing films for 10 years, and still does...

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S6 E22: Matt Provo, Stormforge from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.633259

Matt Provo has been married for 16 years and has three kids. So between the Provo household and his startup, there is never a dull moment. He is originally from the West Coast, until he came to ...

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Notifications North Star - Vatasha White, Courier from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.627140

Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!

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S6 Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.621212

Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering and eventually came to the states for his masters. ...

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S6 E23: Franzi Low, Localyze from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.614596

Franzi Low doesn't have the usual CTO path. She studied economics, and was doing her PhD in econometrics, prior to her current venture, and was a teaching assistant. She loves to play sports...

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Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.607509

Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!

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S6 Bonus: Andrew Salvadore, Coinrule from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.601012

Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule. He and his boys live half an hour from the forest, so they spent lots of time there, swimming...

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S6 Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.593496

In his words, Tyler Rohrer is best described through his spirit animal, Curious George. He likes to write and try new things. He has 3 grown children, one who is getting married. He has found th...

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S6 E24: Matt Young, UserVoice from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.585080

Matt Young claims to have been born with a tech spoon in his mouth, having his Dad work for IBM and providing early access to computers. In the 80's, he was interested in music and video gam...

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Notifications North Star - Stephanie Griffith, Marketing Expert from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.578479

Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!

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S6 Bonus: Maria Meier, Phantasma Labs from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.572247

Maria Meier grew up bilingual, as her Mom was from Poland and her Dad was from Germany. In her free time, she participates Olympic weight lifting (which she clarified does not mean she participa...

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S6 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.565005

Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey for him. He got his first 4k computer in middle school, and then moved into doing programming fo...

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S6 E25: Tom Hacohen, Svix from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.559590

For Tom Hacohen, coding started when he was 9 years old. He took after school robotics classes which required coding... and once he stepped into the programming aspect, he realized he didn't...

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Jason Gilmore, Treehouse from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.554282

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. He is also a principal at Xenon Partner...

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S6 Bonus: Ben Turner, Verituity from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.549203

Ben Turner's grandfathers were both an entreprenuer. One grandfather went to Cornell, but ended up buying a fishing boat and then eventually, a hardware store. His other grandfather started ...

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S6 Bonus: Chakri Devarakonda, Tavant from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.543697

Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security guy. That being said, he can definitely see the intersection of both. Where he used to test a l...

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S6 E26: Aria Hahn, Pocketed from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.537413

Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneurial train, though at times she says she may not have known it. She started out studying busin...

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Cynthia Kao, Operation Code from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.530776

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has s...

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S6 Bonus: Andreas Creten, madewithlove from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.523427

Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he was 18 years old. He is a family man, with 3 kids, which is what he spends most of his spare ti...

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S6 Bonus: Omer Rosenbaum, Swimm from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.516453

Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel. He loves coffee, traveling, meeting new people, and le...

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S6 E27: Gina Bianchini, Mighty Networks from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.509936

Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people were tinkerers and creators. What she learned from that experience was a deep appreciation for ...

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Dustin Usey, Treehouse from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.503460

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

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S6 Bonus: Mike Cruz, Protégé from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.497458

Mike Cruz grew up in Guam, near Japan. He spent 18 years before moving to the US for college. He has always been in tech - everywhere from the Discovery Channel to startups like Trunk Club, and ...

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S6 Bonus: Saksham Sharda, Outgrow from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.485913

Saksham Sharda likes to make short films, or anything that is related to videos. In fact, he has narrowed that down to creating trailers, which he attributes to being in the right role in market...

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S6 E28: Tyson Kunosvsky, Autocloud from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.479762

Tyson Kunosvsky was born in South Africa, and travelled a lot as a kid. When he was a kid, he was majorly influenced by his parents, who ran the Gottman Institute. It was his parents job to take...

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Daniel McElroy, WV Coding Club from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.473298

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been hel...

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S6 Bonus: Robert Cooke, 3Forge from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.466159

Ever since he was a little kid, Robert Cooke always had a fascination with computers. Even when he was super young, when he didn't know much about them, he was still intrigued by this magic ...

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S6 Bonus: Andre Ferraz, Incognia from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.459814

Andre Ferraz was influenced heavily by his parents, as they were both computer scientists. When he was 10 years old, his first science project was themed around computer hacking, which got a lot...

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S6 E29: Irina Bednova, Cordless from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.454178

Irina Bednova started programming when she was a kid, starting out with a smash the cockroach game written in Delphi (which is object oriented pascal). She obtained her Computer Science degree i...

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.449001

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has...

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S6 Bonus: Addison Higham, StreamNative from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.443480

Addison Higham is a father of 2 kids, and has been married for 12 years. His family is of the utmost importance to him, and he has been happy to be able to balance his career and personal life a...

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Microsoft Careers with Girish&Junior! from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.437288

Today's episode is sponsored by Microsoft!

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S6 E30: Liam Gerada, Krepling from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.431677

Liam Gerada comes from an eCommerce background, building websites, stores, etc. He is passionate about providing people ways to find cheaper products through online commerce. Liam loves to solve...

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S6 Bonus: Jennifer Smith, Scribe from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.426288

Jennifer Smith had an abnormal path to tech. She was born in upstate New York, and was not exposed to tech or startups or building companies during her early years. Post school, she interned at ...

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S6 Bonus: Gavin Mendel-Gleason, TerminusDB from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.420858

When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendel-Gleason likes to program for fun. He builds stuff in his spare time, as tech dominates his life. Outside of tech though, he has 2 daughters, and his...

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S6 Bonus: Harshil Parikh, Tromzo from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.415335

Harshil Parikh is the father of 2 daughters, as well as the father of 2 dogs. Most of the time spent outside of work is with his family, although he does love to cook, especially experimenting w...

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S6 Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.410226

Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a bakery and were Taylors. So the entrepreneur a...

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S6 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.404068

Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well in school on order to obtain better opport...

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Season 7 Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.399622

Hello listeners.

Believe it or not, Season 6 has come to a close, and tomorrow, we are kicking off yet another Season of the Code Story podcast. With 6 seasons under our belt, we've na...

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S7 E1: Ian Small, Evernote from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.394632

Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade on a homework assignment, bought the manual...

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S7 Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.388471

Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his curren...

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S7 Bonus: Aaron Upright, Zenhub from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.381600

Aaron Upright used to get a ton of energy staying up late and strategizing about his startup, but now that he is 8 years in, he gets the most energy from what he does outside of work. Living out...

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S7 E2: Marie Ng, Llama Life from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.376474

Marie Ng was born in Malaysia but grew up in Australia. She has lived and worked in London and New York City, so you could say she has been all over. At one point, she decided to teach herself h...

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S7 Bonus: Dan Draper, CipherStash from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.363829

Dan Draper is from South Australia, specifically Adelaide, but his family now lives in Sydney. Interestingly, he does not drink Fosters beer (which is not surprising), and doesn't know what ...

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S7 Bonus: Nat Robinson, Trustworthy from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.358847

Nat Robinson is from New Zealand, and grew up there the first half of his life. He finds that growing up in a small island nation gives him a unique perspective in the world. He currently lives ...

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S7 E3: Stephany LaPierre, Tealbook from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.352805

Stephany LaPierre is originally from Quebec, so English is her second language. She was a ski instructor in Whistler, and followed up going to university studying English. She grew up with an in...

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S7 Bonus: Andrew Hoag, Teampay from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.349273

Andrew Hoag remembers a time before he started his own company where there were other things outside the company. What keeps him sane is spending time outdoors, kite surfing, and traveling. He&#...

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S7 Bonus: Josh Lewis, Sensible from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.346553

Josh Lewis was fascinated by computers in the late 80's / early 90's. In the early days, he was neighborhood tech support, fixing people's computers around the block. He quickly move...

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S7 E4: Yuliia Tkachova, Masthead Data from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.342968

Yuliia Tkachova grew up in the Ukraine, but lives in Canada now. She has a family with 2 kids, and a masters in statistics. And, she acknowledges that the war with Russia has been difficult to d...

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S7 Bonus: Dan Lorenc, Chainguard from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.338699

Dan Lorenc got into tech in a roundabout way. Most of his time in school was dedicated to the study of Mechanical Engineering, building in the world of atoms in machine shops and with 3d printer...

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S7 Bonus: Luca Rossi, Refactoring from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.315214

Luca Rossi is based in Italy, and has lived there his whole life. He has studied computer science, while being a part time musician. He left his PhD program to found a startup called Wanderio, a...

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S7 HarperDB Update - Jaxon Repp, Head of Product from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.312050

Today's episode

Guest: Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He has founded 3 tec...

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S7 E5: Vicki Duben, Viewst from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.309085

Vicki Duben's background is actually in physics and applied mathematics. Prior to graduation, she was a professional tennis player, having played since she was 4 years old. She loves science...

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S7 Bonus: Andrew Zhou, Kona from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.306342

Andrew Zhou grew up in the Bay Area, which he claims was a great place to grow up in. However, he noticed that it was sort of in authentic - as in, no one really did things for themselves. Event...

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S7 E6: Jon Darbyshire, SmartSuite from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.303451

Jon Darbyshire is joined at the hip with his wife, in life and in business. They have been doing business together for 22 years, along with having 2 older kids, out in the world doing their own ...

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S7 Bonus: Max Koziolek, Spectrm from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.300771

Max Koziolek comes from a simple background. His single mother raised he and his twin brother, outside of Berlin, with no connection to technology. When he was introduced to tech, he was really ...

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S7 Bonus: Ruslan K, Filmustage from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.298513

Ruslan K has been doing software development for over 10 years. He's gone from mobile development to automation and AI most recently, working with neural networks. He is a huge horror movie ...

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S7 E7: Alexandre Omeyer, Stepsize from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.296031

Alex Omeyer is undercover French ,despite his thick British accent. He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management, he spent most of his time doing show jumping -...

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S7 Bonus: Ashleigh Wilson, Auditmate from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.293338

Ashleigh Wilson is a self proclaimed elevator baby, being raised in the elevator industry. She grew up with an interesting mix of entrepreneurial spirit, along side blue collar influence. Outsid...

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S7 Bonus: Ryan Buick, Canvas from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.290769

Ryan Buick grew up in San Francisco - in the actual city itself. He went to school in Oregon, but quickly back to the area. He is a very proud owner of a COVID dog - IE, he got the dog during CO...

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S7 E8: Waseem Daher, Pilot from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.288082

Waseem Daher had two immigrant parents from Lebanon. He was born in the states, after the migrated to the states in the 80's. With his relatives around him, he saw that it was possible to ru...

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S7 Bonus: Jake Vacovec, Flycode from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.285979

Jake Vacovec started his career in sales, and eventually moved into the product world. He loves to cook, and finds it relaxing, and a good way to unwind from startup world. Primarily, he loves t...

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S7 Bonus: Mark Stouse, Proof Analytics from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.283345

Mark Stouse was a CCO and CMO in large companies like Honeywell Aerospace. He claims that he is not a data scientist, but can play one on TV. He got to a high degree of organizational maturity, ...

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S7 Bonus: Conor Carmody, Furthr Festival from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.280701

Conor Carmody lives just outside of Dublin with his wife and has 3 lads - aka boys. Professionally, he worked in Eastern Europe around the time of the Berlin Wall, through some dramatic change i...

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S7 E9: William Falcon, Lightning AI from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.278308

Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He is originally from South America, and moved to the US when he was a teenager. Later in life, he went through Navy Seal training and served...

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S7 Bonus: Justin Clegg, Allset from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.275065

Justin Clegg grew up all around the world, living in countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico City and Brazil. He spent 2 years on mission in Africa, and 5 years in India as well. Through these experi...

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S7 Bonus: Derek Osgood, Ignition from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.271563

Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other companies, large and small, in product and market...

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S7 E10: Raj Bains, Prophecy from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.268106

Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved around quite a bit when he was a kid, and his f...

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S7 Bonus: Tom Medema, Bubbles from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.264286

Tom Medema is Dutch, and grew up in a small village in the Netherlands. This allowed him to explore what else was out there, which led to him living in 5 different countries. Alongside that, he ...

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S7 Bonus: John Rush, Mars X from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.259588

John Rush has been in tech since he was a child, so its hard for him to think of a time where it wasn't a part of his life. Since 2008, he has been building apps, websites, etc. and a lot of...

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S7 E11: Benjamin Wilms, Steadybit from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.254645

Benjamin Wilms started his career in 1999 as a developer. In the little free time he has, he does mountain biking, spends time with his family, and visits the ocean a few hours away. For mountai...

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S7 Bonus: Kateryna Sytnyk, Fract&CTO Doctor from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.249642

Kateryna Sytnyk is originally from Ukraine, but moved to the states 15 years ago after winning the green card lottery. Her background is in applied mathematics, and she grew up surrounded with l...

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S7 Bonus: Mike Malone, Smallstep from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.244643

Mike Malone is a nerd from way back (his words, not mine). In the 6th grade, he bought a Borland C book and learned how to code. Back when Napster was round, he hosted an open Nap server in his ...

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S7 E12: Roi Ravhon, Finout from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.238631

Roi Ravhon path to tech started in the Israeli military, like many other founders in Israel. In fact, the very first introduction he had to computers was when he joined the services. It was a gr...

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S7 Bonus: Shaheeb Roshan, ThreeFlow from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.220781

Shaheeb Roshan is a family man. He's been married 16 years and has a 10 year old daughter. It's his family that drives how he looks at the world - teaching his daughter how to swim and b...

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S7 Bonus: Shawn Ramirez, Mystery from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.217016

Shawn Ramirez spent a decade as a political science professor, studying terrorism and strategic negotiations. Five years ago, she switched into tech, in order to make a positive impact, joining ...

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S7 E13: Krish Ramineni, Fireflies.ai from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.213173

Krish Ramineni grew up in Silicon Valley, observing tech all around him. But really excited him was the innovation happening the in the last 5 years. He used to play sports as a kid - tennis, ba...

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S7 Bonus: Michael Zuercher, Prismatic from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.208818

Michael Zuercher has been in tech since he was young, starting his first company when he was 19 years old. A lot of his path to his current place is through that prior company. He is married wit...

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S7 Nick Donofrio - If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.203171

Hello listeners! Today have Nick Donorio on the show today.

Nick Donorio is a second generation American. His grandparents were poor, Italian immigrants - and his family was hard working, ...

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S7 E14: Olga Stern, Tangy Market from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.199459

Olga Stern considers herself an onion, with a lot of different layers. She loves to try out new things, which has produced a lot of different hobbies in her life - like underwater rugby, floor h...

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S7 Bonus: Juan Soberanis, Beacon from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.195265

Back in 1986, Juan Soberanis and his family got a personal computer for the house - a Commodore 128. He asked his mother if he could take it to his room, and taught himself how to program, and o...

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S7 Bonus: Rob Moore, Churnkey from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.191186

Rob Moore was previously on the Code Story podcast back in Season 2, when he was building Floom - a marketplace built to make monetizing SaaS products easier. Three years ago, he moved to London...

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S7 E15: Jeff Grass, Hungry Marketplace from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.187120

Jeff Grass had his career start more traditionally, as a bond underwriter, graduating from Wharton, and then being a serial entrepreneur. Outside of his business ventures, he is married with 2 k...

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S7 Bonus: Satish Jayanthi, Coalesce from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.181420

Satish Jayanthi was born in India, and attended school there. When he was growing up, his Mom was a teacher and his Dad was dabbling in different businesses. After he graduated, he started worki...

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S7 Bonus: Nathan Yap, SupportZebra from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.171323

Nathan Yap has a tight knit family, that he spends a lot of time with. So traveling and enjoying good food with his family is winning to him. Outside of that, he is enjoying the Pickleball craze...

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S7 E16: Gabriel Isserlis, Tutti from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.166350

Gabriel Isserlis grew up in London with an artistic background in the creative industries. His Dad is a professional cellist, which is the instrument that he chose as a young musician. As a teen...

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S7 Return to Komodor - Andrey Pohkilko from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.160726

You might remember in Season 6, episode 15, I interviewed Itiel, the Co-founder of Listen

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S7 Bonus: Alex Svinov, Insquad from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.155845

Alex Svinov has very few things to talk about outside of the business world. He likes to jog, play tennis, and has a family with three kids at home. He likes to travel with his family and try ne...

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S7 E17: Nora Jones, Jeli.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.151171

Nora Jones has been in tech her entire career. She originally thought she was going to get into hardware, but was always focused on reliability and safety. She has quite the track record, in reg...

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S7 Bonus: Casey Kipfer, Justifi from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.146118

Casey Kipfer is a family man. He's married with 3 kids, and there is a lot of excitement and noise at his house - which is says is wonderful. He enjoys golfing and fishing, and tries to spen...

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S7 Bonus: Nick Ippolito&Rowan Findlay, Squarekicker from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.141306

Nick Ippolito has been involved with youth work for many years, and stumbled into web design and taught himself how to code. He's been married for 15 years, and he and his wife have 3 childr...

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S7 E18: Hadi Radwan, Asteya from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.136513

Hadi Radwan is an amateur biohacker, which was a new term for me, and means trying to DIY your own biology. He is a family man, and enjoys playing fantasy sports. He's also a podcaster, and ...

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S7 Bonus: Max Lukichev, Telmai from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.131442

Max Lukichev is a deeply technical guy, which means his hobbies have been related to tech since the early days. He is a PhD in computer science, and has always been interested in building things...

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S7 Bonus: Jeremy Wood, OpenStore from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.125800

Jeremy Wood grew up in Portland, and has been heavily influenced by that upbringing. He enjoyed really strong maker communities, supporting local craft artists to thrive and build their business...

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S7 E1: Ian Small, Evernote (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.121117

Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade on a homework assignment, bought the manual...

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S7 E10: Raj Bains, Prophecy (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.116599

Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved around quite a bit when he was a kid, and his f...

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S7 Bonus: Derek Osgood, Ignition (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.112361

Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other companies, large and small, in product and market...

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S7 Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked (Replay) from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.107879

Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his curren...

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S7 Whats New with Pulumi - Joe Duffy, Co-founder&CEO from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.102243

Hello Listeners!

We have a treat for today's episode. On the show, I'll be interviewing Joe, the CEO of Pulumi, to get an update on all that has gone on within the company. As a re...

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S7 Whats New with Materialize - Arjun Narayan, Co-founder&CEO from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.096011

Hello again listeners!

Today I have yet another special return episode for you. I'm speaking with Arjun Narayan, Co-founder & CEO of Materialize. He told us the creation story of t...

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S7 E19: Ken Babcock, Tango from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.091699

Ken Babcock grew up outside of Buffalo, and as such.. is a big Bills fan. He attended Cornell, and has spent time in NYC, San Francisco and now Chicago. He's a family man, with an 11 month o...

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S7 E20: Tanmai Gopal, Hasura from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.086945

Tanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research work was getting exposure, so he ex...

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S7 Bonus: Sydney Davis, Nixcode from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.082371

Sydney Davis really enjoys art. She enjoys immersive exhibits and loves to paint. She's a Mom, and digs spending time with her son and traveling to different exhibits. She loves the intersec...

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S7 Bonus: Alex Embiricos, Remotion from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.077818

Alex Embiricos comes from an interesting background, having grown up all over the place - between Asia, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. He came to the states for college, and found his way into ...

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S7 E21: Nanxi Liu, Blaze.tech from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.073407

Nanxi Liu is from Colorado, and went to school at UC Berkeley. In college, she immediately started her entrepreneurial journey by starting a bio tech company, and then eventually starting tech c...

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S7 Bonus: Kyle Tut, Piñata from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.068428

Kyle Tut started out his life wanting to be a car mechanic. His Mom affirmed his aspirations, but gave him the advice to make sure he owned the mechanic shop. He's taken interesting paths th...

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S7 E22: Paul McCarthy, SnapFix from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.063514

Paul McCarthy grew up in Cork, Ireland, and went to school there. He lives around the corner from the sea, and likes to dip in now again - literally, swim in the ocean. He calls it a great shock...

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GrowthMode: ON - Zach Fragapane, GrowthMatch from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.059201

Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off a special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled Growth Mode: On!, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech compa...

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S7 Bonus: Joe De Pinto, Haste Arcade from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.054823

Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, and was drafted to play professional baseball in the minors for the White Sox. He's always had an active lifestyle, and now lives at the beac...

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S7 E23: Navid Alipour, AI Med Global from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.050224

Navid Alipour has spent many years in the world of medicine and AI, supporting and admiring doctors. He jokes that his wife and he are the black sheep of the family... because they aren't ac...

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GrowthMode: ON - Lee Gilley, Docmo from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.045646

Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their au...

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S7 Bonus: Faisal Bhutto, Calian from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.040899

Faisal Bhutto is a family man, and the proud father of 2 girls and a boy. He is based out of Houston, and enjoys the outdoors - hunting, sports, and working on his off-road rig. When discussing ...

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S7 E24: Ethan Song, RareCircles from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.035718

Ethan Song is a boarder through and through - enjoying snowboarding, surfing, etc. and doing it as often as he can. He loves to read, and has moved more into non-fiction over fiction as he has g...

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GrowthMode: ON - Arun Sivashankaran, FunnelEnvy from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.030585

Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their au...

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S7 Bonus: Chelsey Roney, Proxi from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.025665

Chelsey Roney graduated from Texas A&M in 2011 (whoop!). She is passionate about building businesses, as her current venture is her 3rd startup. But prior to her entrepreneurial adventures, ...

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GrowthMode: ON - Jesse Rubenfeld, FinOptimal from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.020556

Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their au...

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Mike Miller from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.016145

Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off another special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and...

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S7 E25: Matt Butcher, Fermyon from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.011470

Matt Butcher was always intending to be a philosopher in the early days. His Dad informed him at some point he would need to get a job though. After he interviewed at a local utility company, he...

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S7 Bonus: Roya Kachooei, Walletafai from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.006830

Roya Kachooei came to Canada 9 years ago, with the aim to pursue her masters in the US. When her funding fell through, she stayed in Canada and started working. When she was younger, her mother ...

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S7 E26: Liam Patterson, Bidnamic from 2023-12-12T18:38:29.001194

Liam Patterson has been an entrepreneur since the early days of his life. He was the kid that was selling sweets at school, undercutting the local store. He journeyed into e-commerce as he got o...

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Seth Carney&Ben Link from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.994852

Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story pod...

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S7 Bonus: Evan Powell&Sam Clemens, Reprise from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.988414

Evan Powell had a career mostly in sales, which started in college within his acapella group. His group recorded tracks for the well known show Glee, and Evan had to manage and negotiate contrac...

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S7 E27: Mathias Nestler, AccessOwl from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.983437

Mathias Nestler has co-founded several startups in his career, in the insure-tech and fintech spaces. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing and diving. He claims that the calmness under the wate...

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Shreya Gupta from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.978

Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends and sponsors of the Code Story pod...

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S7 Bonus: Ashley Cline, Ice Cream Social from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.972216

Ashley Cline was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. Her big dreams and aspirations led her to move to California and start her career in tech and marketing. She has always really enjoyed m...

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S7 E28: Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.965680

Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio, breaking his friends computers along the w...

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Maria Irizarry from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.960112

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S7 Bonus: Tapan Pattnayak, Addverb from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.954418

Tapan Pattnayak life revolves around technology - his friends, professional colleagues, etc. and even his wife is an engineer, who he met at a company he was working at. He's passionate abou...

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S7 E29: Manik Suri&Lucas Tepman, Therma from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.949563

Manik Suri calls himself a jack of all trades. He went about his career doing lots of different things, and figured out most of what he didn't want to do. He started out an academic, then we...

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The New Notification Stack for Developers - Drew Youngwerth from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.944184

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S7 Bonus: Ruben Izmailyan, Quiltt from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.939208

Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually attending school at Brown in Rhode Island. He'...

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S7 E30: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.903574

Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds software to be a creative, playful...

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S7 Bonus: Valentin Vasilyev, Fingerprint.com from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.900181

Valentin Vasilyev has always been interested in the open source world. His Github account was created way back in 2008 when they started. He always dreamt about contributing to Ruby on Rails, si...

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S7 Bonus: Rene Morkos, ALICE Technologies from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.896602

Rene Morkos is a builder. When he was younger, his Dad told him that he could study anything he wanted, as long as it wasn't Civil Engineering. So... that is exactly what he did. He has buil...

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From Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.893316

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 challe...

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Season 8 - Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.890089

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 m...

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S8 E1: Sargun Kaur, Byteboard from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.886033

Before Sargun Kaur got into tech, she was anti-wanting to be in tech. Her Dad was an engineer, and she thought the work he did was super boring. She pursued journalism, marine biology, and found...

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S8 Bonus: Ronald Richardson, Fleetbase from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.882280

Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest influence has been his parents. He mentioned h...

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S8 Bonus: Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.879175

Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience...

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S8 E2: Sefi Genis, Firefly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.876226

Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybe...

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S8 Bonus: Glauber Costa, Turso from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.873246

Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was har...

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S8 Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.870047

For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching...

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S8 E3: Shem Magnezi, Wilco from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.865102

Shem Magnezi is from Tel Aviv, and started his software engineering career when he was in high school. It wasn't really professional, just hacking some stuff together, which is the way he le...

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S8 Bonus: Aviram Hassan, MetalBear&mirrord from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.861184

Aviram Hassan started hacking his way into stuff at a young age, primarily from online multiplayer games. The first game was a fan based game for Pokemon, when he was 8 years old, which was help...

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S8 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.856623

Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he loves to run outdoors, through the woods and on the streets. He has not done a full marathon y...

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S8 E4: Andy Skipper, CTO Craft from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.852867

Andy Skipper currently resides in Belfast, Ireland, though he is from London originally. He's been knee deep in tech since he was 12 years old, as a hobby programmer. He left college early t...

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S8 Bonus: Rickard Hansson, Weavy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.848349

Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building things and distributing it - IE building for ...

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S8 Bonus: George Novik, Zerocoder from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.845438

George Novik's life is his work, so it's strange for him to think of life outside of his startup. But outside of tech, his hobbies include swimming, surfing, and computer games. He loves...

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No Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder&CEO of Nvidia from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.842545

This week, we’re sharing something special: The No Priors podcast. No Priors is your guide to the AI revolution. At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo ask t...

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S8 E5: Nikita Federov, Qase from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.838944

Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doing it for 7 years. Eventually, he moved into ...

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S8 Bonus: Andrew Louder, Louder Co from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.833782

Andrew Louder grew up west of Houston, TX, in a town called Katy. He got into tech during his web mastery class in High School. He's a business graduate from Texas A&M University, and he...

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S8 Bonus: Shai Ber&Elad Ben-Israel, Monada&Winglang from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.796667

Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech consumes a large amount of his life - ...

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S8 E6: Bryce Crawford, Meow from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.792089

Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his Dad's role in tech sales, he thought th...

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S8 Bonus: Vlad Matsiiako, Infisical from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.787131

Vlad Matsiiako was born in the Ukraine, but moved to the Netherlands to study his undergrad. He was one of the first data scientists at Bunq. He eventually got his Masters at Cornell, and actual...

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S8 Bonus: Adam Judelson, NetworkNerd from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.783870

Day to day, Adam Judelson is obsessed with complex problem sets in the product world. This has resulted in him getting more and more excited about simple, but powerful, productivity tools. He co...

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S8 E7: Jason Boehmig, Ironclad from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.780217

Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecting on what was unique about this moment in t...

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S8 Bonus: Matt Swalley&Hikari Senju, Omneky from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.777128

Hikari Senju grew up in Westchester, NY, and was exposed to tech early on, as his family worked at IBM. His Dad is also a painter, so he has been driven through the intersection of art and tech....

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S8 Bonus: Nooshin Alibhai&Eric Klimuk, Supportbench from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.773733

Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is actually where she met her co-founder Eric. ...

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S8 E8: Gilad Uziely, Sequence from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.770617

Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different podcast. He has always been an entrepreneur, along with h...

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S8 Bonus: Kwindla Kramer, Daily from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.767537

Kwindla Kramer has always been interested in building things, and his parents gave him lots of opportunity. He spent his early days learning to program on the Commodore 64, and playing old games...

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S8 Bonus: Prasad Kawthekar, Dashworks from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.764392

Prasad Kawthekar grew up in India, and eventually came stateside to school in Wisconsin. He took a java coding class, and was immediately hooked - which led to him pursuing computer science, foc...

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S8 E9: Lilac Bar David, Lili from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.761420

Lilac Bar David has been in the banking and payments space for over 20 years. Previously, she was the Co-founder & CEO of Pepper, a banking system focused on millennials and young adults. Ou...

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S8 Bonus: Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.758841

Srini Srinivasan grew up in India, during a time when you could go do whatever you wanted during the summer. So he explored and experienced many things, tech and non-tech. He was very into sport...

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S8 Bonus: Dr. Eamonn Keogh, FarmSense from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.755908

Dr. Eamonn Keogh is a globally renowned expert in data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval. He is pioneering the field of computational entomology. Outside of tech, he is origina...

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S8 Bonus: Andy Wilson, Logikcull from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.752978

Andy Wilson lives in Central Oregon, which he claims is an adult playground. He loves to ski, hike, and enjoy all outdoor recreation available to him. His favorite food is a medium-rare steak, w...

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The Closer: Toys R Us from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.750630

I have another special episode of the Code Story podcast today, where I'm sharing another great podcast I've just been made aware of. It's called The Closer, from the team at Project...

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S8 E10: Ido Shamun, Daily Dev from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.747591

Ido Shamunn cut his teeth on the C programming language, while studying Applied Mathematics. He was unsure while studying if he should go Computer Science, but he mentioned that his Applied Math...

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S8 Bonus: Matt Martin, Clockwise from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.744426

Matt Martin has always been a computer nerd, even way back in Elementary School, learning to use a Mac and learning Hypercard. In Middle School, he discovered the internet and programming in HTM...

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S8 Bonus: P. Scott Bening, Monosol&Author from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.741179

Scott Bening is a 63 year old kid at heart who grew up in Buffalo, NY. He got a degree in chemistry and went into the plastics industry. Outside of his profession, he is super active - playing d...

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S8 E11: Lauren Long, Ampersand from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.737609

Lauren Long was originally born and raised in China, and moved to Canada when she was 10. She had to learn English for the first time, which taught her how to embrace hard things and challenges....

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S8 Bonus: Shawn Cao, Columns from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.700689

Shawn Cao lives in Kirkland, just outside of Seattle. He immigrated to the US, and is married with 4 kids. He loves to hike and play soccer with his children, and even though Seattle can be rain...

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S8 Bonus: Jaclyn Ling, Hatchways from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.696773

Jaclyn Ling is a super competitive person, and has been her entire life. Whether it's board games with her family, or playing sports in her younger years, she wants to win. She still plays s...

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S8 Bonus: Fredrik Björk, Grafbase from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.692587

Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also playing video games, of course). Post graduatin...

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S8 E12: Stephanie Mertz, Eisen from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.688106

Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tech, she loves to garden, grow her own vegetab...

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S8 Bonus: Adriaan van Rossum, Simple Analytics from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.684159

Adriaan van Rossum is a tech guy even at home. He likes to tinker with home automation, like turning on the lights - which his girlfriend doesn't like the home automation experiments at time...

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Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.680393

Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Listen

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S8 Bonus: Eduardo Abeliuk, Teselagen from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.677195

Eduardo Abeliuk is originally from Santiago, Chile, where he spent the first few decades of his life. From early days, he had a deep curiosity to understand the world around him, which led him t...

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S8 E13: Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.673523

Colleen Schnettler was a stay at home Mom for many years, taking care of her 3 children. When she was looking to return to work, she was looking for remote - and it seemed that programming was t...

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S8 Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.669556

Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals and pets, more than people, and followed hi...

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S8 Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.664572

Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computational Biology. This field also introduced he...

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Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.661014

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at...

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S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.652593

Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been ...

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S8 Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.649387

Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and is pretty stoked to have achieved that. Out...

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S8 Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.646060

Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft brought him to the UK, where he saw more oppor...

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Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.642404

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at...

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S8 E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.638462

Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and ...

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S8 Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.603620

Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating with a computer science degree, and working a...

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S8 Bonus: David Frank, Stonehaven from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.599433

David Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love it today. He graduated from the University o...

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Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.595296

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at...

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S8 E16: Job Rietbergen, Alphadoc from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.591966

Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things - art, photography, product and technology,...

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S8 Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.587163

Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can be found shuttling kids to soccer or dance p...

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S8 Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.583178

Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he thought was the coolest job in the world. H...

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S8 E17: Jay Sarmaz, Truve.ai from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.579347

Jay Sarmaz studied operations research in college, which he describes as the science of solving problems and maximizing value with limited resources. His studies led him to learn computer scienc...

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S8 Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.576291

Suman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human oriented person - one who wants to elevate ...

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S8 Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.573219

Mike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he worked in England, then Norway, then China....

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S8 E18: Ritukar Vijay, Ottonomy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.569799

Ritukar Vijay has been in tech for around 16 years. He has always been fascinated with new things above and beyond the normal day to day grind. During his studies, he was interested in robotics ...

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S8 Bonus: Dan&Caroline, Overplay from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.566510

Caroline Strzalka is a Philadelphia native, born and raised. She is a first generation American, and is grateful to be in a place where she can run her own company. Her parents are from Argentin...

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S8 Bonus: Danielle Shaul, Nilus from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.563029

Danielle Shaul was born and raised in Tel Aviv, as an only child with a dog she dearly loved. She has always been passionate about building and creating things, often assembling and disassemblin...

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S8 E19: Yann Ravel-Sibillot, Flowie from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.559531

Yann Ravel-Sibillot lives in France, and has a lot of hobbies. Ones that he mentioned was kayaking and rock climbing, which he has been doing for more than 10 years. He is passionate about AI, a...

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S8 Bonus: Idan Plotnik, Apiiro from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.555547

Idan Plotnik is a half Russian and half Moroccan, which mainly shows up in the way he cooks. First and foremost though, he is a geek, having worked in computer security from his early days. Outs...

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S8 Bonus: Adam Nathan, Almanac from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.550695

Adam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in his blood. He has always been interested in c...

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From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.482613

Hello Listeners. This week, we're sharing another episode of the Tools and Weapons podcast, brought to you by our friends at Microsoft.

Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scot...

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S8 E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.479322

Artem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web applications in High School. Post school at Col...

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S8 Bonus: Dor Laor, ScyllaDB from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.475579

Dor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of tech, he is married with two teenage kids, an...

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S8 Bonus: Vikram Chalana, Pictory from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.470760

Vikram Chalana grew up in India, but has been in Seattle over 30 years. He graduated from the University of Washington, and actually met his wife in college. In fact, his kids now go to the same...

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S8 E21: Jared Ward, Luminous from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.466146

Jared Ward grew up in a sporty family, participating in wrestling and football. His background is in supply chain and eCommerce, but outside of this and tech, he is a family man and loves spendi...

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S8 Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.462327

David Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their journey out of the nest into college was a driv...

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S8 Bonus: Barak Glanz, Coddy.tech from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.458638

Barak Glanz is 26 years old, and has done quite a few things in his life. He served in the Israeli Navy prior to jumping into the professional world. He worked for Meta as a student, and has has...

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S8 E22: Eric Olden, Strata Identity from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.454757

Eric Olden grew up in the Bay Area, as one of the few local natives, but enjoys the mountains of Colorado now, outside of Boulder. He and his family love to ski, mountain bike, and even visit th...

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S8 Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.450697

Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m butterfly. He has a 2 year old...

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S8 Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.446025

Andrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, when he came across a job ad for Compaq. He&...

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S8 E23: Will Gaviria, Coactive AI from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.392803

Will Gaviria was born and raised in Columbia, immigrating to Florida at 11 years old. His family seta off in a single bedroom together, and worked hard for their life and successes. He got a ful...

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S8 Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.387812

Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an Apple 2 computer, w...

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S8 Bonus: Tim Tutt, ClearQuery from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.382148

Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different schools in the 1st grade. He learned how to make f...

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S8 E24: Jon Ricketts, Writerly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.378912

Jon Ricketts lives in Knoxville, TN with his wife and kids. He notes that he has had an unconventional route to being a tech startup founder. He has an MBA and JD, but knew during law school he ...

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S8 Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.354604

Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, event...

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S8 Bonus: Max Howell, Tea from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.348522

Max Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't cool, so he studied chemistry and started o...

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Dev Interrupted: Assembling&Nurturing Engineering Teams from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.343217

Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Inte...

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S8 E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.338297

Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After digging into the internal configuration to delay ...

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S8 Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.294744

Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has had tons of exposure to cultures and ...

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S8 Bonus: Max Rudman, Prodly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.290464

Max Rudman grew up in Soviet, Moscow - then moved from Russia when he was 16 years old. He spent his early years programming and exploring engineering, and it just continued on as he got older. ...

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S8 E26: Josh Purvis, Assembly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.286398

Josh Purvis grew up in Missouri, on a lake in the Ozarks. He spent most of his time outdoors, and became a professional wakeboarder. Eventually, an injury took him out of the circuit and he went...

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S8 Bonus: Massoud Alibakhsh, Omadeus from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.273523

Massoud Alibakhsh was born in Iran, but grew up in the states. He has always been curious about machines, computers, robots - and as such, studied electrical engineering and computer science. He...

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S8 E27: Valeriy Bykanov, Prodigy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.269415

Valeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing this for some time, he wanted to expand his hor...

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S8 Bonus: Jason Radisson, Movo from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.266110

Jason Radisson had a tough childhood, being born to a 16 year old single mom. He grew up on a rural place, and his journey required him to work jobs to get ahead and figure the world out at a yo...

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S8 Bonus: Ibrahim&Jay, Astera from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.263033

Ibrahim Surani grew up in Pakistan, dropped out of high school and in his words, stumbled around for a while. Eventually, he stumbled onto an IBM mainframe, taught himself to code, and has been ...

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S8 E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.259943

Maxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. In the late 90's, he moved to the US...

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S8 Bonus: Somak Chattopadhyay, Armory Square Ventures from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.256630

Somak Chattopadhyay lives 30 minutes outside of Syracuse, NY, where he enjoys the great outdoors vibe of the area. He studied engineering at MIT, but spent the bulk of his career in investing. H...

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S8 Bonus: Steven Schkolne, MightyMeld from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.253221

Steven Schkolne has a standard tech story. He was good at math, and loved computers - so, he got into programming. What sets him apart in the industry though, is his passion for design, art and ...

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S8 E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.249658

Zach Wasserman lives near Vancouver, but grew up a child of the 90's in Berkeley, California. The .COM boom was happening around him, so he found himself fascinated with this era in tech, wi...

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S8 Bonus: Arunabh Dastidar, RealSage from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.245808

Arunabh Dastidar has a background in engineering, starting his coding years in his teens. In fact, he was building and selling web products even prior to college. He spends most of his free time...

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S8 Bonus: Shaun Ritchie, nClouds from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.242330

Shaun Ritchie has lived in Salt Lake City for 20 plus years. He grew up in Phoenix, but decided it was too hot to live there. He started his first company 20 years ago, and has had some major su...

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S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.238683

Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of which are in college. His family and he lives ...

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S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.200821

Pato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boca Juniors. He also admits to being influence...

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S8 Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.197145

Alex Yarotsky got into tech as a little kid. In fact, he remembers watching the movie Toy Story, and wanting to learn how to build the tech that drove its creation. He got into University, but e...

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S8 Replay - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.192945

Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience...

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S8 Replay - Sefi Genis, Firefly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.185181

Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybe...

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S8 Replay - Glauber Costa, Turso from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.179524

Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was har...

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S8 Replay - Puneet Gupta, Amberflo from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.175863

For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching...

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Season 9 Trailer from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.171818

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 m...

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S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.160648

Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And during that time, he started to dig into compu...

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S9 Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.157231

Kyle Carberry grew up in a very small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was always into tech, but mainly the pirating side of things on his dial up internet connection. He got into pogromming whe...

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S9 Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.153082

Fabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, having a creative mind. She finds great joy ...

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S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.146759

Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mother was a seamstress. Neither went to Unive...

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S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.143080

Avi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years,...

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S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.139147

Raven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fiction, and liked the idea of working with tec...

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S9 E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra from 2023-12-12T18:38:28.134118

Reinis Simanovskis was born in Latvia. He comes from a family of exact sciences - physic, math, tech, etc. - which gave him a clear path of where to go professionally. He started coding classes ...

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S5 Compiler Recast – Why Should You Write Technical Documentation? from 2021-11-17T11:00

Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentation

Hey guys, getting close to Thanksgiving in the states. For today, I'm sharing another fantastic episode o...

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S5 Compiler Recast - Do we want a world without technical debt? from 2021-10-27T10:00

Hey guys, I'm back again to share another fantastic episode of the Compiler podcast, from Red Hat. As a reminder Compiler is a show hosted by tech veterans, discussing tech topics - big, strange an...

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S5 Compiler Recast - Should Managers Code? from 2021-09-29T10:00

Hey guys, today I want to tell you about a new podcast I'm digging. It's called Compiler, an original podcast from Red Hat, who also brought you the popular show Command Line Heroes.

Anywa...

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S2 Bonus: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma (Replay) from 2020-07-14T18:00

Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modificati...

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