Anurag Goel grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe, as the 8th employee, before eventually moving on and launching his current venture. Outside of tech, he is married, living in San Francisco. He likes to read science fiction, especially prior to bedtime. He also enjoys eating Thai food on the regular, though he mentioned he could eat pizza every day.Post leaving Stripe, Anurag decided to work on an ambitious problem, and he started doing this by building a bunch of stuff in many different domains. After noticing a common problem in building out Kubernetes, he decided to start a new business to abstract these problems, and allow builders to focus on the differentiating factors to their solutions.This is the creation story of Render.SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://render.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuragoel/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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As soon as I got our first users onto the platform, I have always relied on their input and feedback. And obviously users have a specific, everyone on Render has a specific problem they're trying to solve. And sometimes they might come up with the solution itself, but it's our job to truly pull out the problem that they're trying to solve so we can solve it in the way that makes the most sense.
We have been obsessed about getting customer feedback every day. That has been, I think, the most influential piece on our roadmap. My name is Anurag Goyal, and I'm the founder and CEO at Render.
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Anurag Goyal grew up in New Delhi, but moved to Boston after college for his first job. He worked at Stripe as the eighth employee before eventually moving on and launching his current venture. Outside of tech, he's married, living in San Francisco. He likes to read science fiction, especially prior to bedtime.
He also enjoys eating Thai food on the regular, though he mentioned he could eat pizza every day. Post leaving Stripe, Anurag decided to work on an ambitious problem. And he started doing this by building a bunch of stuff in many different domains.
After noticing a common problem in building out Kubernetes, he decided to start a new business to abstract these problems and allow builders to focus on the differentiating factors of their solutions. This is the creation story of Render.
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