Noah Labhart

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And I'm curious about how you decide what is the next most important thing to build or to address with the product?

So this will be interesting. Tell me about team. How do you go about building your team? Is it just you or do you have multiple people that you're working with? And what do you look for in those people and indicate that they're the winning horses to join you?

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Was it built to scale efficiently from day one or with scale in mind, maybe abstractions, things like that, or are there interesting areas where you've had to fight it as you've grown?

So as you step out on the balcony and you look across all that you've built, what are you most proud of? And I mean with Blockparty specifically.

Let's flip the script a little bit. Tell me about a mistake you made and how you and your team responded to it.

So this will be fun because it's early days and it's you and your co-founder. But what does the future look like for the product and for your team?

Let's switch to you, Ro. Who influences the way that you work? Name a person or many persons or something you look up to and why.

Last question, Ralph. So you're getting on a plane and you're sitting next to a young entrepreneur who's built the next big thing. They're jazzed about it. They can't wait to show it off to the world and can't wait to show it to you right there on the plane. What advice do you give that person having gone down this road a bit?

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Well, Rove, thanks for being on the show today. And thank you for telling the creation story of Block Party.

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This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months of moonlighting. There's nothing at the back end. Who share what it takes to change an industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many goes to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. The company is its people. The teams help each other achieve. Most proud of our team.

This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months of moonlighting. There's nothing at the back end. Who share what it takes to change an industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many goes to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. The company is its people. The teams help each other achieve. Most proud of our team.

This is CodeStory. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. Six months of moonlighting. There's nothing at the back end. Who share what it takes to change an industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. It took many goes to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. The company is its people. The teams help each other achieve. Most proud of our team.

Keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as a group. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve. Took it off the shelf and dusted it off and tried it again. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology.