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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersAggie Growth Hacks w/ Noah LabhartOriginally posted at this link: https://www.aggiegrowthhacks.com/season-3-episode-2-changing-the-equation-for-manufacturing-w-founder-cto-noah-labhart-04/Noah Labhart ‘04 joins us today to talk about his on-demand marketplace for manufacturing labor, Veryable Incorporated. Noah breaks down challenges, opportunities, and solutions he sees within the industry, and tells us maybe the biggest BHAG we’ve heard on the show. We appreciate Noah for dropping his wisdom on this week’s episode, and we encourage you to check out his podcast, Code Story! Thanks and Gig ‘em!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle...
2021-05-2025 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersThe Yield Podcast by YieldstreetOriginal episode:https://the-yield.simplecast.com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintechEpisode NotesThe evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology, from updating archaic systems to blockchain hype and the impact of legislation on this developing industry.Key Takeaways:[2:24] Noah’s journey from corporate America to tech entrep...
2021-04-0135 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 Bonus: Jeff Meisner, Sector 5 DigitalJeff 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 side.He loves to travel with his family - his wife of 34 years, 2 daughters & sons in laws, and a couple of grand dogs in the dachshund, beagle and black lab family. In addition to this, he enjoys watching sports, mainly golf and football. Fun fact, he has a 3rd degree black belt in taekwondo, but he doesn't keep up with the discipline anymore...
2021-02-1830 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E7: Dan Robinson, HeapAt 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 different.. and as such, he didn't want to make that his day job. He always enjoyed making stuff, specifically with computers, and he started leaning into computer science and deep learning projects.He loves to hike, and be outside with his friends. Recently, he has gotten addicted to chess online - though he claims he's not any good at...
2021-02-1639 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E6: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorpMitchell 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 own plane, which happens to be a Cirrus. He spends an hour a day studying or practicing flying, and even takes his wife and dog up every now and again, when there is something worth flying to and they can make the oxygen work for then dog.He attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and...
2021-02-0926 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 Bonus: Natalie Nagele, WildbitNatalie 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 their family.She met Chris, her husband when she was 18. And they have been working together ever since, as he is the co-founder of their business. They have 2 kids together, and love to travel - specifically to the Caribbean, since it is a quick flight from Philly (and of course, its warm). Despite that, she would love to live in Italy one day.
2021-02-0442 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img.lyDaniel 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 sports, more specifically archery, where he learned about patience, concentration and competition. In his younger years, he clung to a long bow, but steadily moved towards using a higher tech, compound bow in later years.When he was 14 years old, he got into cracking video games, which lead him down the path of coding, and learning the assembly language...
2021-02-0226 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E4: Hrishi Dixit, YieldstreetHrishi 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 book store owners, so he was kind of an outlier - and, as a kid, having a computer was a luxury that his family couldn't afford. In his undergrad, he studied mechanical engineering, as computer science wasn't available. However, he brought in programming as much as possible. His graduate studies were completed at Cornell, where he worked side by side with Xerox scientists...
2021-01-2643 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E3: Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop 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 years, excited about animation from seeing Pixar movies. He learned all about 3d models, graphics and rendering - but then found out there was no course or curriculum specially for animation. So he switched to comp sci, which ended up being perfect.He is into swimming, tennis and shotokan - which is traditional Japanese karate. Along with these, he's been playing c...
2021-01-1930 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E2: Charlie & Chinmay, RidePandaCharlie 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 NGO, or non-government organization. He writes short sci-fi stories, and as he was learning to code, he discovered that he could now create these future stories with code, rather than just write them. He's been into bicycles since his first trip to China, prior to college - and has bought, built and used many different types of bikes... including an ice bike with metal studded tires.
2021-01-1237 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersTech Talks Daily w/ Noah LabhartVeryable 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 work arrangements.Noah Labhar is a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host. Noah shares his startup story and personal experience building an engineering team of non-CS grads.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 hosted by Noah featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they...
2021-01-0826 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS4 E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDriveSophy 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 bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran.
2021-01-0529 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSS (Replay)Adam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first programming project was using Q-Basic, following a tutorial on how to make a pro wrestling simulator.During his time in university, he wasn’t enjoying the programming curriculum and ended up dropping out to play in his band, and working odd jobs to support his music career. During this, he got into the production side of music, and started a home studio to record local bands. Four ye...
2020-12-2938 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersThe Entrepreneurial Coder PodcastClick here to listen to the episode on the Entrepreneurial Coder podcast. Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory.Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable and the founder and CEO of Touchtap, a digital s...
2020-12-1544 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersDevelomentor PodcastClick here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. BiographyNoah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, Labhart is intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Tune in to hear about how Noah became a two time tech startup founder.A note from GrantNoah Labhart, on paper at least, in the early part of his career, has all the hallmarks of a cl...
2020-12-0846 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E20: Aaron White, BlissfullyAaron 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 gathering player when he was young, and his parents pushed him towards working for a startup. Coming from a family of creators, he was sort of the black sheep since he wasn't painting or doing something with physical creative elements. Started coding professionally in his mid teens, and has kept at it ever since, attending college to study computer science and make all...
2020-12-0132 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E19: Joe Howard, WP BuffsJoe 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 time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows).He likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of...
2020-11-2425 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Joe + Tony, Mythic MarketsJoe 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, and worked with startups of all shapes and sizes. In fact, he spent some time on the VC side of the fence as well. Tony Tran met Joe in San Diego at school, moving back to the Bay Area around the same time. He is a startup veteran, having built solutions that were acquired by LinkedIn, and creating Uber's fraud detection solutions. He even dabbled in...
2020-11-1723 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E18: Charity Majors, Honeycomb.ioCharity 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 food. She went to college to study classical performance in piano. And though she loved piano, she decided to switch keyboards, so to speak, and pursue something in computers.Been in San Francisco since she was 19, and never wants to leave. Outside of tech, she does some hand lettering as a hobby, reads a lot - and considers serial television as the highest...
2020-11-1733 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E17: Jeff Bermant, Cocoon MyDataRewardsJeff 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 school, he played the pro circuit for bit but eventually moved on. Now a days, he is into cycling, and has gotten to ride with Lance Armstrong - who told him to make sure to keep his day job. He worked for Coldwell Banker in the real estate business, under Bob Selleck (Tom Selleck's Dad). After that he started his own real estate...
2020-11-1026 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Rob Joseph, ReadItToMeTech 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's into weight lifting and going to the gym. His favorite lift is deadlift, since he can continually make progress on his goals.He loves to hang out with friends and his partner, sharing a good meal or watching an amazing movie. Prior to lockdown, he was really into proper nutritional eating and cooking his own food...
2020-11-0541 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E16: Ron Rock, MicroshareBorn 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's. He's married with 3 adult children, of whom he is very proud of. He spends a lot of time restoring old furniture and cars. In fact, when he was a kid, he was the guy all his friends brought their 10 speed bikes to to be fixed - which of course, changed to cars as they got older. Basically, he has always been building things either...
2020-11-0334 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E15: Ward Sandler, MemberSpaceWard 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 now, living in Pennsylvania, and is really into healthy living - fitness, nutrition, getting enough sleep - and recently, started to learn jiu jitsu, which he describes as a bunch of if - then - else statements.He also supports and volunteers for organizations that help the wrongfully incarcerated, such as the innocence project and defy - helping these individuals learn...
2020-10-2930 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUPLike 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 entrepreneurial bug - in fact, he started one venture in a homemade class wait list, that almost got him kicked out of school. Now a days, he is married with two kids, and in his free time, he manages a salt water reef tank as a hobby, and enjoys growing the different species of creatures in his 90 gallon tank. The original founding team...
2020-10-2724 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E14: Tim Spect, DubsmashOriginally 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 the startup scene in Berlin started to pick up pace, Tim got interested. His first couple of gigs were in mobile engineering, which influenced him to continue to pursue startups further. Now a days, he is a dog foster-er - that is, he rotates dogs through his apartment in Brooklyn, taking are of their special needs while a good home is found for them.
2020-10-2039 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersSimplyPHP w/ Noah LabhartIn 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 marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development.Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing s...
2020-10-1543 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E13: Dean McPherson, PaperformDean 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 philosophy. And then - he sold his way into a jr. programming job. Prior to his current venture, he spent several years doing mobile and full stack development for a couple of companies.He has a small family - 2 little boys - and his wife is not only his partner in life, but in business as well. He loves the idea...
2020-10-1330 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E12: Seth Mattox, Apex HostingSeth 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 his mother type on a keyboard as he fell asleep. He can't remember life without a gaming console of some sort within arms reach.When he was 12, he and his friends created their crew concept of "we don't ever want to stop gaming". They decided when they were in their early 20's that they wanted to build a business...
2020-10-0640 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Christopher Brown, ZaboChristopher 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 military out of high school, and now is married with 5 kids. He and his wife focus a lot of their time on family activities, basketball, hide and seek, watching movies or just simply laughing together. When Ethereum came out, he was hooked - and found inspiration in the historical marker that cryptocurrency was making. In getting involved, He found that he had difficulty keeping up with who was...
2020-10-0128 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E11: Mike Kadin, RedCircleMike 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 a dual degree in EE and education. He is a musician, singing in acapella groups, playing the drums, piano, guitar - and is an polished beat boxer, having been practicing regularly over the years. Mike started his career as a high school physics and math teacher. During this time, he learned a lot about managing a bunch of kids in a class, and catering to different types of personalities...
2020-09-2936 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E10: Nick Patrick, RadarNick 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 toward computer science and his love for building things. He and his wife enjoy cooking, where his wife does the Mis en plan and Nick executes the cooking - primarily, backing pizzas and corn bread. He calls this a great analog activity with a big payoff. Four years ago, Nick was working at Handy, which is an on demand services platform. There, he and hi...
2020-09-2227 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersThe Ops Show with Noah LabhartIn 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 he's heard.Check out the show and links to the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGv3jgNpCQ&feature=youtu.beLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing pl...
2020-09-1750 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E9: Adam Wathan, Tailwind CSSAdam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first programming project was using Q-Basic, following a tutorial on how to make a pro wrestling simulator.During his time in university, he wasn't enjoying the programming curriculum and ended up dropping out to play in his band, and working odd jobs to support his music career. During this, he got into the production side of music, and started a home studio to record local bands. Four years...
2020-09-1538 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersWPRRR Podcast with Noah LabhartSuper 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 an outdoors person?[00:04:44] How Noah’s interest in software development started.[00:08:56] The programming and execution learned at HP.[00:10:19] From programming to learning entrepreneurship.[00:14:33] In startups, people that become developers contribute long-term to the company.[00:19:59] Junior developers are hungry to learn, they are excited to figure out problems.[00:24:33] How Code Story came to be.[00:29:09] Why Code Story podcast is delivered in seasons?[00:32:09] Some of the most popular Code St...
2020-09-1048 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E8: Jane Portman, UserlistOriginally 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, product work and design is her hobby! Jane is Married, with 3 kids, and shares entrepreneurial love with her husband. Having a college degree in applied information technology to the legal side of business, she has a solid foundation baseline for understanding the tech world. A few years ago, Jane was selling her first SaaS product, and moved forward recruited some co-founders to work on a new idea...
2020-09-0825 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Tony Chan, CloudforecastBorn 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 started a restaurant. Tony took orders and took orders as a kid, sitting on a milk crate. This really shaped him as an entrepreneur. He is heavily involved in Chicago china town community, where he is interested in asian American history. He plays volleyball, specifically an isolated version in the china town community - 9 man volleyball - which is super high p...
2020-09-0328 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E7: Kimeshan Naidoo, UnibuddyKimeshan 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 to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year - and is planning to complete an olympic triathlon and eventually, an iron man race. He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know what to expect. They met...
2020-09-0125 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersCoffee and Coding PodcastRecently, 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 engineeringHow I founded his own a Mobile Development StudioCo-founding a successful startupThe role networking has played in my successWhat makes a good technical testHow to hire & manage a fully remote teamWhat Being CTO actually involvesWhat Code Story has taught meCheck out the show and links to the episode here: https://robj.me/coffeeandcoding/Leave us a r...
2020-08-2755 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E6: Elias Torres, DriftA 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't looked back, living the American dream and graduating from Harvard with an MS in Computer Science. He's married with 3 teenagers, and is currently learning a new stage of parenthood. When he's not being Dad or CTO, he enjoys disconnecting while he is kite surfing or sailing. Torres strives to find balance in building a successful company as an entrepreneur with not forgetting his roots, and increasing...
2020-08-2526 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Peter Voss, AIGOPeter 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 technology, AI, longevity, futurism... in face, he got very involved with futurism, following tech that could repair damage in your body and truly conquer aging. His target is to live long enough to take benefit from these life extending technologies, so he practices calorie restriction and is exploring cryonics. For fun, he rides motorcycles, specifically his 1000CC BMW racing bike. Not too long ago, he found himself...
2020-08-2032 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E5: Dan Burcaw, Nami MLTech 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 younger, along with playing video games and interestingly enough.. keeping up with foreign policy (is that a hobby?). Currently, Dan studies Brazilian Jujitsu and its endless progress of growth and evolvement, while taking care of his 2 pets (and their 3 eyes... you'll have to ask him). His prior company was in the push notifications world, which became a mission critical system for notifications, ultimately bought by Oracle. Afterwards, he...
2020-08-1836 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersMentoring Developers with Noah LabhartI 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 episode, and Arsalan's podcast at the link below.http://mentoringdevelopers.com/episode-76-noah-wears-many-hats-how-does-he-do-it/Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm.Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, yo...
2020-08-1345 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E4: Yoshi Yokokawa, AlpacaBorn 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 potential for areas of automation - IE, where things didn't need a human hand. A marathon runner, triathlete and yoga teacher, he attempts to understand himself physically, spiritually and mentally. When he set out on a venture of his own, he originally started building deep neural net prediction models for trading funds and hedge funds. In doing so, he quickly figured out that...
2020-08-1119 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Shawn Frayne, Looking Glass FactoryShawn 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 Back to the Future 2 - specifically, when Marty McFly gets eaten by the holographic shark. Believe it or not, to kick back and relax - he likes to have a cold beer and think about inventing other things... though he is fine with cheap beer, and has even been lovingly called Frugal Frayne by his team. Shawn recalls that Edison once said, All you need...
2020-08-0634 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E3: Mark Hendriks, Wild VenturesMark 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. And by off the grid, I mean a house on 20 acres, with its own solar power system, and own rain water collection system. But don't worry... he made sure he checked the LGE network speed before buying the property. Five years ago, he started a side project, building a weather app that combined up to date weather with his wife's beautiful landscape illustrations...
2020-08-0426 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E2: Dave Zohrob, ChartableDave 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, and even ran a small record label in San Francisco. But nowadays, he focuses on his family with two little kids. While working at Angelist, he and his co-founder decided to start another thing together... the problem was, they didn't know what to build. Dave had been a podcast listener for a long time, but never really thought about what was under the hood...
2020-07-2827 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 Bonus: Andrew Smith, OutriderAndrew 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't? In 7th grade, his science teacher told him they got bad fuel economy, so he was inspired to change that. He currently lives in Oregon, though Outrider is based in CO, he is passionate about mountaineering, climbing and skiing, with whom he does with his friends, colleagues and family any chance he can. He has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is...
2020-07-2329 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS3 E1: Cole Raven, PodchaserCole 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 moved to Hawaii... they have been a full time travelling couple, following the Spartan Race for quite some time - so obviously they are into trail running! Prior to his latest venture, he signed on to Vibenomics as one of their first employees, early on in their startup inception. He learned a lot about startups - about fundraising, and what it takes...
2020-07-2131 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersSeason 3 - TrailerComing 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 take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. You'll hear from amazing guests, such as Cole Raven of Podchaser, Dave Zohrob or Chartable and Mark Hendricks of Wild Ventures. And in these interviews, we continue to uncover the stories you want to hear most - stories around success, mistakes, scaling, building and maki...
2020-07-1501 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 Bonus: Ryan Graciano, Credit Karma (Replay)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 modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma.
2020-07-1437 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 Bonus: Innovabuzz Podcast InterviewRecently, 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 projectsGetting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it andHow to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a whileListen to the podcast to find out more at https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart. Some tweetable snippets:Be yourself. Be in touch with yourself, own it, and rock it! @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz po...
2020-07-0748 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E20: Daniel Gebler, PicnicA 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 enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors – though he loves to go out in the trees with his friends when he can. After leading R&D at Fredhopper, he took several years to do research on large scale systems. Coming out of his research in 2015, he joined Picnic – the online supermarket delivering groceries directly to your home, free of charge.Today’s Sponsors:Ladder.s...
2020-06-2333 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E19: Denis Lunev, DepositFixNine 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 didn’t quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration consulting he saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot, so he set out to build DepositFix – a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world’s most used CRM.Today’s Sponsors:Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org/savekids)Payoff (payoff.com/codestory)RIMS (Get 25% off a year l...
2020-06-1623 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 Bonus: Meet the PodcastersA 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 dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all. Link to the episode: https://www.podcast.co/inspire/noah-labhart-code-storyShow Notes: 02:22 – How Noah first got into podcasting07:30 – Plans to launch a company podcast for Veryable09:20 – Similarities between starting a company and starting a podcast11:45 – Hiring a podcast te...
2020-06-1157 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E18: Mubashar Iqbal, Pod HuntMubashar 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 create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. On a train ride home, he started to build pod hunt, a place for podcast lovers to submit and vote on new episodes, solving discovery around episodes over entire podcast shows. Today’s Sponsors:Ladder (ladder.sport)Payoff (payoff.com/codestory)Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org/savekids)Atomic Child (atomi...
2020-06-0934 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E17: Dominik Obermaier, HiveMQGrowing 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 of ancient philosophy, he likes to hang out with friends and play board games, specifically long-lasting games such as Arkham horror. Obermaier started a company with his college friends with the goal to broker data from connected devices, and not just a few, but millions following his very own standardized IoT protocol MQTT. This solution is now known as HiveMQ.Today’s...
2020-06-0237 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E16: Kyle Campbell, CTO.aiKyle 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 even starting an online record label. A husband and a dad, he loves the outdoors, camping and motorbikes, and frequently hits the trails with a group of tight-knit campers. After moving into entrepreneurship post-high school, he worked his way up through the ranks of several companies in the Vancouver area, and founded his own companies along the way, one of which got acquired by Zillow. Post that Ky...
2020-05-2645 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 Bonus: Interview on Podcast JunkiesRecently, 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, production and promos. I was able to share my insights on entrepreneurship and how my podcasting skills have transferred over to Veryable, my startup company. Enjoy the episode. Link to the episode: https://podcastjunkies.com/noah-labhart-interview/Show Notes: 06:00 – Harry welcomes to the podcast, Noah Labhart who speaks to his podcasting genesis story14:28 – How Noah mapped out his vision and plan for the C...
2020-05-2049 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E15: Desi McAdams, NannoA 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 derby a time or 2. Fast forward several years, she and her co-founder were meeting to figure out how to create a co-working space with childcare. In attempting to do this, they came up with the idea for Nanno – an on-demand platform for connecting parents to vetted, quality sitters…. when & where they need them. Today’s Sponsors:Kernl (https://kernl.us)
2020-05-1922 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E14: Rob Moore, FloomA 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 amazing places. Post-graduation he started doing data visualization work for several different companies. He noticed the difficulty of going from a core product to a sellable SaaS platform. Internalizing dry principles and learning the pains of smaller product value delivery, he built Floom to be the startup as a service tool, enabling small SaaS businesses away quickly to productize their products.
2020-05-1226 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 Bonus: Andrew Overton, SagaAndrew 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 to learn the ropes. During that time, he obtained his masters in CS from Johns Hopkins, and fulfilled his life long dream of working for Apple – specifically, on Apple Music data pipelines. Married to his wife Jessica, he is a family centered dude, looking up to both his brother and parents. And outside of tech, he loves to read and practice Ju Jitsu to blow off steam an...
2020-05-0630 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E13: Adrienne Bolger, BlocHealthAdrienne 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, and found her way into computer science, trying to find the intersection of both. Bolger interned at Pixar, and tinkered in robotics and medical devices. Eventually, she founded Bloc Health, which aims to solve healthcare credentialing, and the pains associated with moving yourself, your practice, or even working, in another state.Today’s Sponsors: Tre...
2020-05-0533 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E12: Jack Rhysider, Darknet DiariesJack 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 theories, but found himself drawn more to a truthful scandal over the former. Having watched some of the biggest events in history come and go – dot.com bubble, bitcoin boom, etc. – he felt the increasing presence of an entrepreneurial itch. In the early days, he created some blogs and websites, using some well known web tech, and cultivated a love of podcasting and storytelling. Not able to find the ri...
2020-04-2842 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E11: Jason Tan, SiftJason 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 school, and graduating with a CS degree from the University of Washington, he found himself drawn to crating powerful abstractions within software, to produce outcomes for users. Though previously a hardcore video gamer – playing such well known games like Diablo 2 & 3, he has since moved on to dabble in freestyle rapping & singing. And in 2006 post college, he worked for startups in Seattle, like Zillow and Optify. Finally, in 2011, he...
2020-04-2136 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E10: Steven Naimark, ZiptilitySteven 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 required for his craft. After not enjoying the teaching aspect of music, he began looking for something different, to help separate him from music… to provide clarity. Along the way, he fell in love with web development and made a universe change to do it full time. Eventually, he started building a solution to totally modernize the water utility space, called Ziptility – a platform providing asset, task and...
2020-04-1431 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E9: Thane Brimhall, SeekThane 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 Weave Communications, Divvy Pay and Simple Citizen. A long time gamer, frequenting platforms like Dota, he made efforts to create his own games. Through these passions – tech and gaming – he created a treasure hunt using augmented reality. He quickly learned what his clients really wanted, which was augmented reality through the web. This is the creation story of Seek.Today’s Sponsors: LinkedIn Jobs (h...
2020-04-0726 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E8: Erin Karam, Dina (Formerly Prepared Health)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, coaching her kids sports teams and teaching them to play music. Being from a healthcare family, she was always looking for purpose, and doing a job that meant something.. and 5 years ago, she jumped onboard to build Dina (Formerly Prepared Health), after latching on the story and vision of the company. She set positively impact the world – by enabling the real time exchange of information between health care providers and...
2020-03-3127 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E7: Ryan Graciano, Credit KarmaEarly 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 modification – and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM… yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users… for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma....
2020-03-2437 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E6: Dennis Cail, ZirtueBorn 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 and father, he realized he was having limited success in getting money returned to him, that he lent to friends and family. Ten years later, he set out to solve that problem, to hold people accountable to return lent funds, and remove the awkwardness for the lender. This solution became known as Zirtue.Today’s Sponsors: D...
2020-03-1727 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E5: Matt Senter, LolliMatt 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 selling his prior company CosmicCart, he and his co-founder wanted to make it easier for people to get into cryptocurrency. Having experience with products like Ebates, they decided to build Lolli, which is a rewards platform for shopping online… except the rewards are given in bitcoin.Today’s Sponsors:ClipGain.ioLinkedIn Jobs...
2020-03-1029 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E4: George Deglin, OneSignalGrowing 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. During that team, he co-founded a startup in the education space. After building this company up, he parted ways to start his next venture. This next venture led to the discovery of the vision for OneSignal – the most widely used Push Notification and marketing platform, sending over 5 billion messages a day. Today’s sponsors: ThryveLinks
2020-03-0329 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E3: Wil Schroter, Startups.comStartup 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. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built Startups.com – a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process – and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform.
2020-02-2537 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E2: Zach Moreno, SquadcastZach 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 a big believer in AngularJS, he wrote a book about deployment essentials of the language. After attempting to record a sci-fi drama, he found that the conventional remote audio recording tools didn’t produce a good quality recording… so much so, that he decided to build SquadCast – the best way for podcasters to record awesome sounding remote conversations.Today’s sponsors:Podcorn ...
2020-02-1856 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS2 E1: Courtland Allen, Indie HackersCourtland 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 to build and run his own thing. After going through Y Combinator and trying out different startups, he landed on the idea for Indie Hackers – and it checked all the boxes for what he wanted to work on. He spent three weeks, and built a community for creators who want to find freedom in making a living for themselves online.Today’s sponsors:Podc...
2020-02-1145 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersSeason 2 - TrailerNext 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 journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products… their stories.Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazi...
2020-02-0601 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersInterview on Milestone HackersA 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. Enjoy todays bonus episode on the Milestone Hackers podcast.https://milestonehackers.com/https://veryableops.comhttps://touchtap.comhttps://noahlabhart.comLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Amazing tools we use:If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm.Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need...
2020-02-0344 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersInterview on Product JourneyI had the opportunity to chat with Noah and Ben on the Product Journey podcast. Every week they get together and talk about building online businesses, what’s been going on and where they struggling at the moment. On the show, we talked about the startup I co-founded, Veryable, which is a marketplace of on-demand labor for manufacturing and warehouse work. We talked through the early days of Veryable and what it looked like to reach product/market fit. We also talked through execution and asked for my advice on how to execute well. Be sure to check out their...
2020-01-2744 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E20: Brandon Hilkert, BarkEarly 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 becoming acquainted with building startup solutions. While considering the purpose, legacy and impact of his work, he was approached by his co-founder to create something to alert parents of potential online dangers for kids. This conversation ultimately led to the start of a simple, yet sophisticated internet safety solution for parents and kids… called Bark.Today’s sponsors:Podcorn (https://podcorn.com/podca...
2020-01-2042 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E19: Chris Slowe, RedditA 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. When he put roots into the product as the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics. Fast forward many years, Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation, content rating and online discussion around interesting information.Linkshttp://reddit.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisslowe/https://en...
2020-01-1327 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E18: Bill Eager, Nomad HealthFor 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 performing musician. As he pursued a role with a startup, he was introduced to the founders of Nomad Health – and instantly connected with the idea. He jumped in on the ground floor, and created a marketplace to serve clinical nomads.Today’s sponsors:Dwolla (https://dwolla.com/codestory)Linkshttps://nomadhealth.com/https://www.lin...
2020-01-0628 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 Bonus: Jonathan Perichon, Checkr (Replay)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 States. In doing so, he fell in love with the culture and opportunity. After working for a startup requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. Within 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more.
2019-12-3044 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 Bonus: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvy (Replay)Throwback to our very first interview! Originally released, June 2019. 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 programming his legos to move, and all the way through college, where he built early marketplaces for trading textbooks and built physical, automated chess boards. When he started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea the doors it would open and lead to the formation of his most successful product, venture… and exit – called S...
2019-12-2344 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E17: Blake Miller, HomebaseComing 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 people flip houses. Outside of tech, he is a competitive barbecuer, with a team of long time friends who create award winning BBQ. Highly involved in the Kansas City Smart City initiative, he created an award winning iOT solution around smarter living experience for tenants and more profitable infrastructure for building owners and managers. This solution quickly turned into the company known as Homebase.Today’s sp...
2019-12-1627 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E16: Aalok Shah, EnergyFundersTech 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 community, he found himself always drifting back towards tech and software development, hacking together websites and doing web consulting. Several years later, he was onboarded by the founders of EnergyFunders – a platform for investing in Oil & Gas – to help improve their technology feature set. The business took off, and they found themselves in need of a full time CTO – and Aalok was the best fit.
2019-12-0932 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E15: Omri Mor, RoutableGrowing 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… over some pita and hummus. They began swapping stories of problems they encountered in processing payments to their third parties – so many problems that they were both required to build their own. After taking some time validate a solution in the market, Omri set out to build Routable – a modern bill payments, payouts and invoicing system, enabling companies to speed up payment processing through a secure platfo...
2019-12-0236 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E14: Dennis Steele, PodiumAlong 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 with practical dev skills. He took this base knowledge, and he and his co-founder built Podium – a way for businesses to manage their online reputation, through one single platform.Today’s sponsors:DevMountain (https://learn.devmountain.com/devmountain-code-story)Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy.com/learn-programs-cs)Linkshttps://www.podium.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ste...
2019-11-2530 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E13: Ben Milne, DwollaBen 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 a good while. His second startup started as a consumer product that you downloaded to move money between banks… without using credit cards or paying hefty fees. What he discovered was the thing they were best at was payment processing infrastructure… So he changed his business to focus on being a high performing, white label solution for enabling others to process ACH paym...
2019-11-1829 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E12: Bernard Worthy, LoanWellBernard 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 technologist, spending many years in consulting and startups. Through some research and discovery, he figured out that community lenders were using multiple disconnected systems to accomplish important tasks . He set out to solve this problem – to bring all of these systems under one piece of software to make the loan origination process more efficient. This solution would eventually be called Loan Well....
2019-11-1138 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E11: Eric Sharp, DegreedEric 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 teacher. She instilled in him curiosity and a desire to learn, which made a big difference in changing his life trajectory. Using this passion, he and his co-founders were motivated to build the vision for a SaaS learning platform called Degreed – enabling learners and businesses to build the skills they need for the future. Today’s sponsor: DevMountain (https://learn.d...
2019-11-0433 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E10: Shelby Stephens, JollyGrowing 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 for NASA, he decided to venture out onto his own, pursuing a new venture with his friend, doing video production work for hire. Fast forward 15 years, he and his co-founder are serving the production and project worker space by building Jolly – a social and professional network, designed for gig workers, providing reputation portability, connection opportunities and a marketplace to find work.Today’s sponsors:
2019-10-2137 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E9: Andy Abbott, HeretikAndy 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 spring break on the beach… learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences – from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. Along with this, he built an active and successful Microsoft developer community in Chicago. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and...
2019-10-0737 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E8: Jon Buda, Transistor.fmBuilding 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 music platform – way before Spotify existed – he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single.. and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor.fm.Today’s sponsor: Hackbright Academy (https://hackbrightacademy.com/)
2019-09-2338 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E7: Jonathan Campos, AltoAfter 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 startups and agencies, before landing at Bottle Rocket as the chief architect, growing their web and backend practice. Not too long after, a former boss reached out about an opportunity to up-level the ride sharing experience, focusing on simple billing, safety and control over the experience. This opportunity was to become the CTO of Alto.Today’s sponsor: DevMountan (https://devmountain.com)
2019-09-0937 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E6: Jonathan Perichon, CheckrThrough 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 requiring background checks for its users, he saw first hand how antiquated and slow the process can be. After about 6 months, he and his co-founder set off to build an API driven solution, facilitating the submission, reporting and workflow of background checks for candidate workers… and much more. Today’s sponsor: DevMountain (https://devmountain.com)Links:check...
2019-08-2630 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E5: Alvaro Sabido, CaribuA 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 through consulting, IT, radio and media, he became a natural problem solver, interested in innovating to make things better. When seeing a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book – and what would eventually be called Caribu. ...
2019-08-1237 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E4: Sean Washington, Design KollectiveNow-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 – teaching, project management… even music. Sean Washington took an unconventional route into software, through writing music and graphic design. Since then he has been sprinting forward, as a full stack web developer and tech podcast host. His most recent adventure has been becoming the CTO and lead developer of the Design Kollective – giving him the opportunity to not only learn the platform – but to make it his own and define the vision for...
2019-07-2942 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E3: Leah Culver, BreakerPodcasts 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 Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon. And that thing was a more powerful way to discover the podcasts you love – through your subscriptions, activity, and most of all – through the power of social networking and suggestion. So she decided to fix it – and built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and epis...
2019-07-1536 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E2: Tanner Hearne, MusicbedA 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 paid was an untimely event, where checks just sort of “showed up” in the mail. The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. And in the beginning, Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house developer – with the job and goal to take the product to new heights, as a well engineered, scalable and secure platform.
2019-06-2448 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS1 E1: Rylan Barnes, ShopSavvyFor 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 programming his legos to move, and all the way through college, where he built early marketplaces for trading textbooks and built physical, automated chess boards. When he started creating a solution for mobile phone barcode scanning, he had no idea the doors it would open and lead to the formation of his most successful product, venture… and exit – called ShopSavvy.Linkshttps://rylan.io/http...
2019-06-1742 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersSeason 1 - TrailerThe 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?There will be mistakes and issues along the way, how is your team going to respond? How do you build a team? And not just any team… a team that gets the vision, that follows your lead. What is the vision, and what does the future look like?Ultimately – how do you take an idea from...
2019-06-0401 min