Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Episodes
S8 E22: Eric Olden, Strata Identity
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Olden grew up in the Bay Area, as one of the few local natives, but enjoys the mountains of Colorado now, outside of Boulder. He and his family l...
S8 Bonus: Barak Glanz, Coddy.tech
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barak Glanz is 26 years old, and has done quite a few things in his life. He served in the Israeli Navy prior to jumping into the professional world. ...
S8 Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their jou...
S8 E21: Jared Ward, Luminous
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Ward grew up in a sporty family, participating in wrestling and football. His background is in supply chain and eCommerce, but outside of this a...
S8 Bonus: Vikram Chalana, Pictory
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vikram Chalana grew up in India, but has been in Seattle over 30 years. He graduated from the University of Washington, and actually met his wife in c...
S8 Bonus: Dor Laor, ScyllaDB
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of t...
S8 E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web app...
From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Listeners. This week, we're sharing another episode of the Tools and Weapons podcast, brought to you by our friends at Microsoft.Microsoft’...
S8 Bonus: Adam Nathan, Almanac
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in h...
S8 Bonus: Idan Plotnik, Apiiro
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Idan Plotnik is a half Russian and half Moroccan, which mainly shows up in the way he cooks. First and foremost though, he is a geek, having worked in...
S8 E19: Yann Ravel-Sibillot, Flowie
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yann Ravel-Sibillot lives in France, and has a lot of hobbies. Ones that he mentioned was kayaking and rock climbing, which he has been doing for more...
S8 Bonus: Danielle Shaul, Nilus
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Shaul was born and raised in Tel Aviv, as an only child with a dog she dearly loved. She has always been passionate about building and creati...
S8 Bonus: Dan & Caroline, Overplay
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Strzalka is a Philadelphia native, born and raised. She is a first generation American, and is grateful to be in a place where she can run he...
S8 E18: Ritukar Vijay, Ottonomy
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ritukar Vijay has been in tech for around 16 years. He has always been fascinated with new things above and beyond the normal day to day grind. During...
S8 Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he...
S8 Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human...
S8 E17: Jay Sarmaz, Truve.ai
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Sarmaz studied operations research in college, which he describes as the science of solving problems and maximizing value with limited resources. ...
S8 Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he...
S8 Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can ...
S8 E16: Job Rietbergen, Alphadoc
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things...
Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...
S8 Bonus: David Frank, Stonehaven
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love ...
S8 Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating w...
S8 E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he wa...
Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...
S8 Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft br...
S8 Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and...
S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now li...
Beyond Bots - Ilia Zintchenko, Ntropy
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financia...
S8 Bonus: Einat Sitbon, iFocus Health
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Einat Sitbon has always been intrigued by nature, and all of its parts. She studied biology in school, all the way through getting her PhD in Computat...
S8 Bonus: Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals...
S8 E13: Colleen Schnettler, HelloQuery
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Schnettler was a stay at home Mom for many years, taking care of her 3 children. When she was looking to return to work, she was looking for r...
S8 Bonus: Eduardo Abeliuk, Teselagen
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eduardo Abeliuk is originally from Santiago, Chile, where he spent the first few decades of his life. From early days, he had a deep curiosity to unde...
Beyond Bots - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are kicking off a special and new series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at ...
S8 Bonus: Adriaan van Rossum, Simple Analytics
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adriaan van Rossum is a tech guy even at home. He likes to tinker with home automation, like turning on the lights - which his girlfriend doesn't ...
S8 E12: Stephanie Mertz, Eisen
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tec...
S8 Bonus: Fredrik Björk, Grafbase
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also pl...
S8 Bonus: Jaclyn Ling, Hatchways
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jaclyn Ling is a super competitive person, and has been her entire life. Whether it's board games with her family, or playing sports in her younge...
S8 Bonus: Shawn Cao, Columns
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Cao lives in Kirkland, just outside of Seattle. He immigrated to the US, and is married with 4 kids. He loves to hike and play soccer with his c...
S8 E11: Lauren Long, Ampersand
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Long was originally born and raised in China, and moved to Canada when she was 10. She had to learn English for the first time, which taught he...
S8 Bonus: P. Scott Bening, Monosol & Author
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Bening is a 63 year old kid at heart who grew up in Buffalo, NY. He got a degree in chemistry and went into the plastics industry. Outside of hi...
S8 Bonus: Matt Martin, Clockwise
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Martin has always been a computer nerd, even way back in Elementary School, learning to use a Mac and learning Hypercard. In Middle School, he di...
S8 E10: Ido Shamun, Daily Dev
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ido Shamunn cut his teeth on the C programming language, while studying Applied Mathematics. He was unsure while studying if he should go Computer Sci...
The Closer: Toys R Us
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I have another special episode of the Code Story podcast today, where I'm sharing another great podcast I've just been made aware of. It's...
S8 Bonus: Andy Wilson, Logikcull
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Wilson lives in Central Oregon, which he claims is an adult playground. He loves to ski, hike, and enjoy all outdoor recreation available to him....
S8 Bonus: Dr. Eamonn Keogh, FarmSense
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Eamonn Keogh is a globally renowned expert in data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval. He is pioneering the field of computationa...
S8 Bonus: Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Srini Srinivasan grew up in India, during a time when you could go do whatever you wanted during the summer. So he explored and experienced many thing...
S8 E9: Lilac Bar David, Lili
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lilac Bar David has been in the banking and payments space for over 20 years. Previously, she was the Co-founder & CEO of Pepper, a banking system...
S8 Bonus: Prasad Kawthekar, Dashworks
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prasad Kawthekar grew up in India, and eventually came stateside to school in Wisconsin. He took a java coding class, and was immediately hooked - whi...
S8 Bonus: Kwindla Kramer, Daily
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kwindla Kramer has always been interested in building things, and his parents gave him lots of opportunity. He spent his early days learning to progra...
S8 E8: Gilad Uziely, Sequence
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different podcast. He h...
S8 Bonus: Nooshin Alibhai & Eric Klimuk, Supportbench
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is ...
S8 Bonus: Matt Swalley & Hikari Senju, Omneky
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hikari Senju grew up in Westchester, NY, and was exposed to tech early on, as his family worked at IBM. His Dad is also a painter, so he has been driv...
S8 E7: Jason Boehmig, Ironclad
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecti...
S8 Bonus: Adam Judelson, NetworkNerd
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day to day, Adam Judelson is obsessed with complex problem sets in the product world. This has resulted in him getting more and more excited about sim...
S8 Bonus: Vlad Matsiiako, Infisical
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vlad Matsiiako was born in the Ukraine, but moved to the Netherlands to study his undergrad. He was one of the first data scientists at Bunq. He event...
S8 E6: Bryce Crawford, Meow
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his...
S8 Bonus: Shai Ber & Elad Ben-Israel, Monada & Winglang
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits,...
S8 Bonus: Andrew Louder, Louder Co
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Louder grew up west of Houston, TX, in a town called Katy. He got into tech during his web mastery class in High School. He's a business gr...
S8 E5: Nikita Federov, Qase
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doin...
No Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of Nvidia
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re sharing something special: The No Priors podcast. No Priors is your guide to the AI revolution. At this moment of inflection in tec...
S8 Bonus: George Novik, Zerocoder
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
George Novik's life is his work, so it's strange for him to think of life outside of his startup. But outside of tech, his hobbies include swi...
S8 Bonus: Rickard Hansson, Weavy
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building t...
S8 E4: Andy Skipper, CTO Craft
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Skipper currently resides in Belfast, Ireland, though he is from London originally. He's been knee deep in tech since he was 12 years old, as...
S8 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash
04 May 2023
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...
S8 Bonus: Aviram Hassan, MetalBear & mirrord
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aviram Hassan started hacking his way into stuff at a young age, primarily from online multiplayer games. The first game was a fan based game for Poke...
S8 E3: Shem Magnezi, Wilco
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shem Magnezi is from Tel Aviv, and started his software engineering career when he was in high school. It wasn't really professional, just hacking...
S8 Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo
26 Apr 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
26 Apr 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 E2: Sefi Genis, Firefly
25 Apr 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
20 Apr 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: Ronald Richardson, Fleetbase
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest in...
S8 E1: Sargun Kaur, Byteboard
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before Sargun Kaur got into tech, she was anti-wanting to be in tech. Her Dad was an engineer, and she thought the work he did was super boring. She p...
Season 8 - Trailer
12 Apr 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?......
From Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture t...
S7 Bonus: Rene Morkos, ALICE Technologies
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rene Morkos is a builder. When he was younger, his Dad told him that he could study anything he wanted, as long as it wasn't Civil Engineering. So...
S7 Bonus: Valentin Vasilyev, Fingerprint.com
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Valentin Vasilyev has always been interested in the open source world. His Github account was created way back in 2008 when they started. He always dr...
S7 E30: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco....
S7 Bonus: Ruben Izmailyan, Quiltt
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually atten...
The New Notification Stack for Developers - Drew Youngwerth
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long tim...
S7 E29: Manik Suri & Lucas Tepman, Therma
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Manik Suri calls himself a jack of all trades. He went about his career doing lots of different things, and figured out most of what he didn't wan...
S7 Bonus: Tapan Pattnayak, Addverb
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tapan Pattnayak life revolves around technology - his friends, professional colleagues, etc. and even his wife is an engineer, who he met at a company...
The New Notification Stack for Developers - Maria Irizarry
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long tim...
S7 E28: Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio...
S7 Bonus: Ashley Cline, Ice Cream Social
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Cline was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. Her big dreams and aspirations led her to move to California and start her career in tech an...
The New Notification Stack for Developers - Shreya Gupta
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long tim...
S7 E27: Mathias Nestler, AccessOwl
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mathias Nestler has co-founded several startups in his career, in the insure-tech and fintech spaces. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing and diving...
S7 Bonus: Evan Powell & Sam Clemens, Reprise
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Powell had a career mostly in sales, which started in college within his acapella group. His group recorded tracks for the well known show Glee, ...
The New Notification Stack for Developers - Seth Carney & Ben Link
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long tim...
S7 E26: Liam Patterson, Bidnamic
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Patterson has been an entrepreneur since the early days of his life. He was the kid that was selling sweets at school, undercutting the local sto...
S7 Bonus: Roya Kachooei, Walletafai
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roya Kachooei came to Canada 9 years ago, with the aim to pursue her masters in the US. When her funding fell through, she stayed in Canada and starte...
S7 E25: Matt Butcher, Fermyon
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Butcher was always intending to be a philosopher in the early days. His Dad informed him at some point he would need to get a job though. After h...
The New Notification Stack for Developers - Mike Miller
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off another special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers,...
GrowthMode: ON - Jesse Rubenfeld, FinOptimal
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. Gr...
S7 Bonus: Chelsey Roney, Proxi
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chelsey Roney graduated from Texas A&M in 2011 (whoop!). She is passionate about building businesses, as her current venture is her 3rd startup. B...
GrowthMode: ON - Arun Sivashankaran, FunnelEnvy
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. Gr...
S7 E24: Ethan Song, RareCircles
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Song is a boarder through and through - enjoying snowboarding, surfing, etc. and doing it as often as he can. He loves to read, and has moved mo...
S7 Bonus: Faisal Bhutto, Calian
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Faisal Bhutto is a family man, and the proud father of 2 girls and a boy. He is based out of Houston, and enjoys the outdoors - hunting, sports, and w...
GrowthMode: ON - Lee Gilley, Docmo
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. Gr...
S7 E23: Navid Alipour, AI Med Global
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Navid Alipour has spent many years in the world of medicine and AI, supporting and admiring doctors. He jokes that his wife and he are the black sheep...