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David Cauthron

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

But he came in going, you know what, I'll go learn it. I don't mind. Let's go figure this thing out. And then we started hiring developers in the same sense. We did put the rec out saying we want someone who knew React or Node. And we did get those individuals. But for another example of this is the individual who leads our mobile platform now didn't start there.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We said, you know what, go learn React Native, which is where we built the mobile platform. But what we really saw in her was, and in the rest of the team, is just the ability to want to learn a passion for what we're doing, a belief in what we're doing, and wanting to just make the vision that we were bringing to the table happen.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We said, you know what, go learn React Native, which is where we built the mobile platform. But what we really saw in her was, and in the rest of the team, is just the ability to want to learn a passion for what we're doing, a belief in what we're doing, and wanting to just make the vision that we were bringing to the table happen.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We said, you know what, go learn React Native, which is where we built the mobile platform. But what we really saw in her was, and in the rest of the team, is just the ability to want to learn a passion for what we're doing, a belief in what we're doing, and wanting to just make the vision that we were bringing to the table happen.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that's where we just really looked to hire the team and how we built it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that's where we just really looked to hire the team and how we built it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And that's where we just really looked to hire the team and how we built it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

You always hope to build with scale in mind. I think any startup will tell you that. And we did. But there's always a situation of, OK, what's the minimum thing that we can deliver to sell the product today? And so some areas that we still need to scale on is like analytics. We utilize a DynamoDB database that doesn't provide great analytics without a lot of effort.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

You always hope to build with scale in mind. I think any startup will tell you that. And we did. But there's always a situation of, OK, what's the minimum thing that we can deliver to sell the product today? And so some areas that we still need to scale on is like analytics. We utilize a DynamoDB database that doesn't provide great analytics without a lot of effort.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

You always hope to build with scale in mind. I think any startup will tell you that. And we did. But there's always a situation of, OK, what's the minimum thing that we can deliver to sell the product today? And so some areas that we still need to scale on is like analytics. We utilize a DynamoDB database that doesn't provide great analytics without a lot of effort.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We also went with an AWS Lambda backend that was great for when we were building the product because it's really low cost. You only pay for what you use. But we just recently had to refactor over to Fargate because of the performance really wasn't as good.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We also went with an AWS Lambda backend that was great for when we were building the product because it's really low cost. You only pay for what you use. But we just recently had to refactor over to Fargate because of the performance really wasn't as good.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

We also went with an AWS Lambda backend that was great for when we were building the product because it's really low cost. You only pay for what you use. But we just recently had to refactor over to Fargate because of the performance really wasn't as good.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And we were starting to have to turn on provision concurrency, which if you don't know what that is, just means that it keeps the Lambdas online. So then you lose all of the reason for serverless platform. There's that form of scale and we're constantly iterating and improving and adding to that to continue to scale as we continue to grow the company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And we were starting to have to turn on provision concurrency, which if you don't know what that is, just means that it keeps the Lambdas online. So then you lose all of the reason for serverless platform. There's that form of scale and we're constantly iterating and improving and adding to that to continue to scale as we continue to grow the company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And we were starting to have to turn on provision concurrency, which if you don't know what that is, just means that it keeps the Lambdas online. So then you lose all of the reason for serverless platform. There's that form of scale and we're constantly iterating and improving and adding to that to continue to scale as we continue to grow the company.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also probably the biggest scale, I'm a little concerned about it, is just customer acquisition. If you think about the construction market and generally those individuals are not highly technical people. We are going into that again. We're tackling it differently from you can't just run ads all over the place because they generally aren't on Facebook and Google.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also probably the biggest scale, I'm a little concerned about it, is just customer acquisition. If you think about the construction market and generally those individuals are not highly technical people. We are going into that again. We're tackling it differently from you can't just run ads all over the place because they generally aren't on Facebook and Google.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

There's also probably the biggest scale, I'm a little concerned about it, is just customer acquisition. If you think about the construction market and generally those individuals are not highly technical people. We are going into that again. We're tackling it differently from you can't just run ads all over the place because they generally aren't on Facebook and Google.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

And so you have to actually go into the markets that they're in. You have to face you have to talk to them where they are and meet them where they are. And so we actually go to a lot of trade shows. That scale is hard, too, because you're constantly traveling. Every next show, you're having to bring in big banners and things to those shows.