Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Episodes
S9 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB (Replay)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 scho...
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
S9 Bonus: Matt Cowell, Quanthub (Replay)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in ...
S9 E35: Prince Ghosh, Factored Quailty
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prince Ghosh was born in Bangalore, India, and moved around a lot during his life - to the US, then to Europe, then back to the US. But he spent his f...
S9 E34: Anish Dhar, Cortex
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anish Dhar grew up in the Bay Area, but now is located in New York. He felt lucky to be surrounded by technology, being in the Bay Area and having his...
S9 E33: Rick Caccia, WitnessAI
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him a...
S9 E32: Shalin Madan, Formidium
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shalin Madan immigrated to the US when he was 6 years old. He spent 20 years in the financial markets, of which he got into when he was a teenager. HI...
S9 E31: Konrad Niemiec, Lekko
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Konrad Niemiec lives in San Francisco. He is very close to his family, of which his parents are polish immigrants. He started coding when he was 11, w...
S9 Bonus: Jason Hill, Owwlll App
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Hill was born and raised in New York, and post college, went back to New York and joined the financial services - though, he was always into tec...
S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the interne...
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Berkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but ena...
S9 E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Umaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved pu...
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at Texas Instruments - who makes a whole lot more th...
S9 Bonus: Omry Hay, env0
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Omry Hay is 41 years old, married, with 3 young kids. He has lived his whole life in Israel. Unlike many founders in Israel tech, he did not serve his...
S9 E27: Neil Patel, Axiom
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Patel has always been a hacker - electronics boards, radios, etc. - being interested in how things work, mechanically or digitally. He learned ha...
S9 E26: Sanjay Nagaraj, Traceable AI
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty an...
S9 Bonus: Nic Beique, Helcim
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nic Beique was born in Odessa, Texas, but moved when he was very young to Montreal. Later in his teens, he moved to Alberta, which he describes as the...
S9 E25: JJ Tang, Rootly
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JJ Tang grew up in mainland China, though eventually he came to the US for University and stayed. He found a job, started working and eventually, move...
S9 E24: Alex Gallego, Redpanda Data
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, he would help his Uncle re-build dirt bike engines,...
S9 Bonus: Adam Sandman, Inflectra
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, because he had a fascination and desire to understand ho...
S9 E23: Vlad Sadovskiy, Netevia
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been in the payments space for 30+ years, so he knows ...
S9 Bonus: Sasha Mitchell, BeL2
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Mitchell living in Bangkok, Thailand, but grew up in London. He stared in the creative industries, as one side of his family are architects and ...
S9 E22: Roman Sevast, Awesomic
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have the money t...
S7 Bonus: Björn Kolbeck, Quobyte
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech?". He has made his hobby into his job, bei...
S9 E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, wh...
S9 Bonus: Tech Update - Rene Morkos, Alice Technologies
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners.Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. If you recall our conver...
S9 E20: Michael Hummel, Establish
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His background dis in marketing, and prior to his curr...
S9 Bonus: Alon Arvatz, Pointfive & Author of Battle for Your Computer
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alon Arvatz has been in tech for a long time. Fun fact, he loved technology but hated computer science. After getting introduced to the industry by hi...
S9 E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He'...
S9 Bonus: Erin & Jesus, MSquared
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Marie has been in tech for 20 years. Prior to tech, she was a history major but became more passionate about building websites and technology. Sh...
S9 E18: Jai Ranganathan, Motive
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jai Ranganathan is a typically middle aged man, living in Austin, TX with a couple of kids and a Tesla. He moved to the US when he was 17, to attend t...
S9 Bonus: Amy & Whitney, Disruption Advisors
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whitney Johnson graduated college with a degree in Music, minoring in English. Of course, she needed a job, and became the secretary to a broker on Wa...
S9 E17: Jake Ward, Data Protocol
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Ward originally from a small town in Maine, and claims to be running away from the snow by living in South Carolina now. He worked in politics fo...
S9 Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Luka Yancopoulos lives in New York City, and believes whole heartedly in doing well by doing good. He grew up in the early 2000's, where the focal...
S9 E16: James Perkins, Unkey
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 years. He had planned to be a special education teach...
S9 Bonus: Zach Goldberg, Gruntwork & The Startup CTO's Handbook
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Goldberg was sent to computer camp when he was 12 years old. An interesting part of the story is that the prior year, he went to sports camp - an...
S9 E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badminton, and is very into high quality cars. One of h...
S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He went to Georgia Tech to get his degree, and after sp...
S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshma...
S9 E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building technology. However, when he was 12 years old, he b...
S9 Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Debbie Levitt is an American living in Italy, with her Italian husband, and their 5 dogs. Many years ago, she obtained a degree in Music, but now focu...
S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He...
S9 Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shauli Rozen grew up in Israel, and besides a 5 year stint stateside, he has spent his whole life there. He is married with 3 boys, and is 45 years ol...
S9 E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Srikar Sam Yeruva comes from an immigrant family from India. He had a humble background, which shaped his path forward and how he approaches life with...
S9 Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Hartmann is a German born New Zealander, where he still lives today. His first job was to spend 17 years at Bayer, getting deep in the materials...
S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how things were put together - and as such, he would take...
S9 Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ruslan Zaripov has been interested in computers since the early days. He started his career as a database developer, and eventually became a project m...
S9 Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Gross had an odd journey into tech. He grew up in the redwoods of California, off the grid with no running water in a tee pee. However, there was...
S9 E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryo Koyama never thought he would be in technology. In the past, and in current days, he is very much into art, photography and woodworking. However, ...
S9 E8: Roger Light, Cedalo
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in paral...
S9 Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and as s...
S9 Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE buil...
S9 E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Naomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, incl...
S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge...
S9 Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has participated in the First Robotics competition, wh...
S9 E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a passion of his, and he loves to explore new places...
S9 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay)
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 wel...
S9 Bonus: Sahil Patel, Spiralyze
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, an...
S9 Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family member...
S9 E4: Ayal Regev, Redefine.dev
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Pr...
S9 Bonus: Leonardo Shapiro, Not Alien
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the ...
S9 Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a mus...
S9 E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fic...
S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. Outsid...
S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mo...
S9 Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
S9 Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 int...
S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 du...
Season 9 Trailer
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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?......
S8 Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo (Replay)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 quit...
S8 Bonus: Glauber Costa, Turso (Replay)
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 Bonus: Sefi Genis, Firefly (Replay)
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
S8 Bonus: Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy (Replay)
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified th...
S8 Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Boc...
S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
S8 Bonus: Shaun Ritchie, nClouds
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 com...
S8 Bonus: Arunabh Dastidar, RealSage
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S8 Bonus: Steven Schkolne, MightyMeld
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 Bonus: Somak Chattopadhyay, Armory Square Ventures
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
S8 E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Scien...
S8 Bonus: Ibrahim & Jay, Astera
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 main...
S8 Bonus: Jason Radisson, Movo
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
S8 E27: Valeriy Bykanov, Prodigy
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Valeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing thi...
S8 Bonus: Massoud Alibakhsh, Omadeus
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ele...
S8 E26: Josh Purvis, Assembly
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
S8 Bonus: Max Rudman, Prodly
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
S8 E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 diggi...
Dev Interrupted: Assembling & Nurturing Engineering Teams
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned ...
S8 Bonus: Max Howell, Tea
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S8 Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. P...
S8 E24: Jon Ricketts, Writerly
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
S8 Bonus: Tim Tutt, ClearQuery
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different school...
S8 Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, ...
S8 E23: Will Gaviria, Coactive AI
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 har...
S8 Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, ...
S8 Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 partic...