Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Episodes
S7 E18: Hadi Radwan, Asteya
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hadi Radwan is an amateur biohacker, which was a new term for me, and means trying to DIY your own biology. He is a family man, and enjoys playing fan...
S7 Bonus: Nick Ippolito & Rowan Findlay, Squarekicker
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Ippolito has been involved with youth work for many years, and stumbled into web design and taught himself how to code. He's been married for...
S7 Bonus: Casey Kipfer, Justifi
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Kipfer is a family man. He's married with 3 kids, and there is a lot of excitement and noise at his house - which is says is wonderful. He e...
S7 E17: Nora Jones, Jeli.io
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nora Jones has been in tech her entire career. She originally thought she was going to get into hardware, but was always focused on reliability and sa...
S7 Bonus: Alex Svinov, Insquad
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Svinov has very few things to talk about outside of the business world. He likes to jog, play tennis, and has a family with three kids at home. H...
S7 Return to Komodor - Andrey Pohkilko
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You might remember in Season 6, episode 15, I interviewed Itiel, the Co-founder of Komodor. Today I have a special episode of the Code Story podcast, ...
S7 E16: Gabriel Isserlis, Tutti
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Isserlis grew up in London with an artistic background in the creative industries. His Dad is a professional cellist, which is the instrument ...
S7 Bonus: Nathan Yap, SupportZebra
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Yap has a tight knit family, that he spends a lot of time with. So traveling and enjoying good food with his family is winning to him. Outside ...
S7 Bonus: Satish Jayanthi, Coalesce
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Satish Jayanthi was born in India, and attended school there. When he was growing up, his Mom was a teacher and his Dad was dabbling in different busi...
S7 E15: Jeff Grass, Hungry Marketplace
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Grass had his career start more traditionally, as a bond underwriter, graduating from Wharton, and then being a serial entrepreneur. Outside of h...
S7 Bonus: Rob Moore, Churnkey
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Moore was previously on the Code Story podcast back in Season 2, when he was building Floom - a marketplace built to make monetizing SaaS products...
S7 Bonus: Juan Soberanis, Beacon
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 1986, Juan Soberanis and his family got a personal computer for the house - a Commodore 128. He asked his mother if he could take it to his ro...
S7 E14: Olga Stern, Tangy Market
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Stern considers herself an onion, with a lot of different layers. She loves to try out new things, which has produced a lot of different hobbies ...
S7 Nick Donofrio - If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello listeners! Today have Nick Donorio on the show today.Nick Donorio is a second generation American. His grandparents were poor, Italian immigrant...
S7 Bonus: Michael Zuercher, Prismatic
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Zuercher has been in tech since he was young, starting his first company when he was 19 years old. A lot of his path to his current place is t...
S7 E13: Krish Ramineni, Fireflies.ai
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Krish Ramineni grew up in Silicon Valley, observing tech all around him. But really excited him was the innovation happening the in the last 5 years. ...
S7 Bonus: Shawn Ramirez, Mystery
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Ramirez spent a decade as a political science professor, studying terrorism and strategic negotiations. Five years ago, she switched into tech, ...
S7 Bonus: Shaheeb Roshan, ThreeFlow
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaheeb Roshan is a family man. He's been married 16 years and has a 10 year old daughter. It's his family that drives how he looks at the wor...
S7 E12: Roi Ravhon, Finout
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roi Ravhon path to tech started in the Israeli military, like many other founders in Israel. In fact, the very first introduction he had to computers ...
S7 Bonus: Mike Malone, Smallstep
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Malone is a nerd from way back (his words, not mine). In the 6th grade, he bought a Borland C book and learned how to code. Back when Napster was...
S7 Bonus: Kateryna Sytnyk, Fract & CTO Doctor
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kateryna Sytnyk is originally from Ukraine, but moved to the states 15 years ago after winning the green card lottery. Her background is in applied ma...
S7 E11: Benjamin Wilms, Steadybit
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Wilms started his career in 1999 as a developer. In the little free time he has, he does mountain biking, spends time with his family, and vi...
S7 Bonus: John Rush, Mars X
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Rush has been in tech since he was a child, so its hard for him to think of a time where it wasn't a part of his life. Since 2008, he has bee...
S7 Bonus: Tom Medema, Bubbles
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Medema is Dutch, and grew up in a small village in the Netherlands. This allowed him to explore what else was out there, which led to him living i...
S7 E10: Raj Bains, Prophecy
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved aro...
S7 Bonus: Derek Osgood, Ignition
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other compa...
S7 Bonus: Justin Clegg, Allset
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Clegg grew up all around the world, living in countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico City and Brazil. He spent 2 years on mission in Africa, and 5 ...
S7 E9: William Falcon, Lightning AI
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He is originally from South America, and moved to the US when he was a teenager. Later in life, h...
S7 Bonus: Conor Carmody, Furthr Festival
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conor Carmody lives just outside of Dublin with his wife and has 3 lads - aka boys. Professionally, he worked in Eastern Europe around the time of the...
S7 Bonus: Mark Stouse, Proof Analytics
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Stouse was a CCO and CMO in large companies like Honeywell Aerospace. He claims that he is not a data scientist, but can play one on TV. He got t...
S7 Bonus: Jake Vacovec, Flycode
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Vacovec started his career in sales, and eventually moved into the product world. He loves to cook, and finds it relaxing, and a good way to unwi...
S7 E8: Waseem Daher, Pilot
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Waseem Daher had two immigrant parents from Lebanon. He was born in the states, after the migrated to the states in the 80's. With his relatives a...
S7 Bonus: Ryan Buick, Canvas
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Buick grew up in San Francisco - in the actual city itself. He went to school in Oregon, but quickly back to the area. He is a very proud owner o...
S7 Bonus: Ashleigh Wilson, Auditmate
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ashleigh Wilson is a self proclaimed elevator baby, being raised in the elevator industry. She grew up with an interesting mix of entrepreneurial spir...
S7 E7: Alexandre Omeyer, Stepsize
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Omeyer is undercover French ,despite his thick British accent. He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management, he...
S7 Bonus: Ruslan K, Filmustage
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruslan K has been doing software development for over 10 years. He's gone from mobile development to automation and AI most recently, working with...
S7 Bonus: Max Koziolek, Spectrm
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Koziolek comes from a simple background. His single mother raised he and his twin brother, outside of Berlin, with no connection to technology. Wh...
S7 E6: Jon Darbyshire, SmartSuite
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Darbyshire is joined at the hip with his wife, in life and in business. They have been doing business together for 22 years, along with having 2 o...
S7 Bonus: Andrew Zhou, Kona
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Zhou grew up in the Bay Area, which he claims was a great place to grow up in. However, he noticed that it was sort of in authentic - as in, no...
S7 E5: Vicki Duben, Viewst
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vicki Duben's background is actually in physics and applied mathematics. Prior to graduation, she was a professional tennis player, having played ...
S7 HarperDB Update - Jaxon Repp, Head of Product
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episodeGuest: Jaxon Repp is the Head of Product at HarperDB. He has 25 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing ente...
S7 Bonus: Luca Rossi, Refactoring
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luca Rossi is based in Italy, and has lived there his whole life. He has studied computer science, while being a part time musician. He left his PhD p...
S7 Bonus: Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Lorenc got into tech in a roundabout way. Most of his time in school was dedicated to the study of Mechanical Engineering, building in the world o...
S7 E4: Yuliia Tkachova, Masthead Data
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yuliia Tkachova grew up in the Ukraine, but lives in Canada now. She has a family with 2 kids, and a masters in statistics. And, she acknowledges that...
S7 Bonus: Josh Lewis, Sensible
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Lewis was fascinated by computers in the late 80's / early 90's. In the early days, he was neighborhood tech support, fixing people's...
S7 Bonus: Andrew Hoag, Teampay
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Hoag remembers a time before he started his own company where there were other things outside the company. What keeps him sane is spending time...
S7 E3: Stephany LaPierre, Tealbook
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephany LaPierre is originally from Quebec, so English is her second language. She was a ski instructor in Whistler, and followed up going to univers...
S7 Bonus: Nat Robinson, Trustworthy
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nat Robinson is from New Zealand, and grew up there the first half of his life. He finds that growing up in a small island nation gives him a unique p...
S7 Bonus: Dan Draper, CipherStash
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Draper is from South Australia, specifically Adelaide, but his family now lives in Sydney. Interestingly, he does not drink Fosters beer (which is...
S7 E2: Marie Ng, Llama Life
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Ng was born in Malaysia but grew up in Australia. She has lived and worked in London and New York City, so you could say she has been all over. ...
S7 Bonus: Aaron Upright, Zenhub
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron Upright used to get a ton of energy staying up late and strategizing about his startup, but now that he is 8 years in, he gets the most energy f...
S7 Bonus: Arjun Bhatnagar, Cloaked
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact,...
S7 E1: Ian Small, Evernote
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade...
Season 7 Trailer
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hello listeners.Believe it or not, Season 6 has come to a close, and tomorrow, we are kicking off yet another Season of the Code Story podcast. With 6...
S6 Bonus: Alexander Deeb, Classhook (Replay)
18 Aug 2022
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...
S6 Bonus: Adam Newman, Pyrl (Replay)
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a ba...
S6 Bonus: Harshil Parikh, Tromzo
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harshil Parikh is the father of 2 daughters, as well as the father of 2 dogs. Most of the time spent outside of work is with his family, although he d...
S6 Bonus: Gavin Mendel-Gleason, TerminusDB
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendel-Gleason likes to program for fun. He builds stuff in his spare time, as tech dominates his life. Outside...
S6 Bonus: Jennifer Smith, Scribe
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Smith had an abnormal path to tech. She was born in upstate New York, and was not exposed to tech or startups or building companies during he...
S6 E30: Liam Gerada, Krepling
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Gerada comes from an eCommerce background, building websites, stores, etc. He is passionate about providing people ways to find cheaper products ...
Microsoft Careers with Girish & Junior!
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is sponsored by Microsoft!Guests: Girish Bablani and Junior Diarrassouba, two Microsoft employees at different stages in their car...
S6 Bonus: Addison Higham, StreamNative
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Addison Higham is a father of 2 kids, and has been married for 12 years. His family is of the utmost importance to him, and he has been happy to be ab...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applicat...
S6 E29: Irina Bednova, Cordless
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Irina Bednova started programming when she was a kid, starting out with a smash the cockroach game written in Delphi (which is object oriented pascal)...
S6 Bonus: Andre Ferraz, Incognia
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Ferraz was influenced heavily by his parents, as they were both computer scientists. When he was 10 years old, his first science project was the...
S6 Bonus: Robert Cooke, 3Forge
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since he was a little kid, Robert Cooke always had a fascination with computers. Even when he was super young, when he didn't know much about...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Daniel McElroy, WV Coding Club
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Daniel McElroy is the Founder of the West Virgina Coding Club. He has been helping young people t...
S6 E28: Tyson Kunosvsky, Autocloud
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tyson Kunosvsky was born in South Africa, and travelled a lot as a kid. When he was a kid, he was majorly influenced by his parents, who ran the Gottm...
S6 Bonus: Saksham Sharda, Outgrow
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saksham Sharda likes to make short films, or anything that is related to videos. In fact, he has narrowed that down to creating trailers, which he att...
S6 Bonus: Mike Cruz, Protégé
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Cruz grew up in Guam, near Japan. He spent 18 years before moving to the US for college. He has always been in tech - everywhere from the Discove...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Dustin Usey, Treehouse
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Dustin Usey is a Treehouse graduate and a full time technical evangelist for Treehouse. He has pu...
S6 E27: Gina Bianchini, Mighty Networks
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people were tinkerers and creators. What she learned from ...
S6 Bonus: Omer Rosenbaum, Swimm
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel. He loves c...
S6 Bonus: Andreas Creten, madewithlove
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he was 18 years old. He is a family man, with 3 kids, ...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Cynthia Kao, Operation Code
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a comb...
S6 E26: Aria Hahn, Pocketed
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneurial train, though at times she says she may not h...
S6 Bonus: Chakri Devarakonda, Tavant
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security guy. That being said, he can definitely see the int...
S6 Bonus: Ben Turner, Verituity
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Turner's grandfathers were both an entreprenuer. One grandfather went to Cornell, but ended up buying a fishing boat and then eventually, a ha...
Tutelage of Treehouse - Jason Gilmore, Treehouse
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!Guest: Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. He is also a principal at Xenon Partners, along with a sta...
S6 E25: Tom Hacohen, Svix
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Tom Hacohen, coding started when he was 9 years old. He took after school robotics classes which required coding... and once he stepped into the p...
S6 Bonus: Mark Porter, MongoDB
01 Jul 2022
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...
S6 Bonus: Maria Meier, Phantasma Labs
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Meier grew up bilingual, as her Mom was from Poland and her Dad was from Germany. In her free time, she participates Olympic weight lifting (whi...
Notifications North Star - Stephanie Griffith, Marketing Expert
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Stephanie Griffith is an email and SMS marketing expert, and a marketing strategy consultant. Sh...
S6 E24: Matt Young, UserVoice
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Young claims to have been born with a tech spoon in his mouth, having his Dad work for IBM and providing early access to computers. In the 80'...
S6 Bonus: Tyler Rohrer, Remotely
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his words, Tyler Rohrer is best described through his spirit animal, Curious George. He likes to write and try new things. He has 3 grown children,...
S6 Bonus: Andrew Salvadore, Coinrule
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Salvadore is a father of 2 young boys, and when he is not working, they fill up his schedule. He and his boys live half an hour from the forest...
Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator...
S6 E23: Franzi Low, Localyze
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Franzi Low doesn't have the usual CTO path. She studied economics, and was doing her PhD in econometrics, prior to her current venture, and was a ...
S6 Bonus: Shaunak Roy, Yellowdig
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shaunak Roy spent 10 years in the tech industry before deciding to be a tech entrepreneur. In undergraduate, he studied mechanical engineering and eve...
Notifications North Star - Vatasha White, Courier
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previously, she built software at Lacewo...
S6 E22: Matt Provo, Stormforge
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Provo has been married for 16 years and has three kids. So between the Provo household and his startup, there is never a dull moment. He is origi...
S6 Bonus: Temilola Adebayo, HumanSquad
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Temilola Adebayo is in tech, but her background is in film production. She grew up most other life in Nigeria, but then moved to Canada. She has been ...
S6 Bonus: Christine Spang, Nylas
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate New York when she was 3, and grew up there. She ca...
Notifications North Star - Patrick Malatack, Matrix Partners
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Patrick Malatack is a partner at Matrix Partners, early stage investment firm. Prior to that, he...
S6 E21: Douwe Maan, Meltano
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Douwe Maan started programming when he was 9 years old, and grew up with his Dad pushing Linux on him over Windows. He was raised in the Netherlands, ...
S6 Bonus: Jon Dahl, Mux
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Dahl was a philosophy major in college, and eventually, obtained a graduate degree studying theology. He thought he would go into academia, but he...
Notifications North Star - Eric Koslow, Lattice
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Notification North Star, sponsored by Courier!Guest: Eric Koslow is the Co-founder of Lattice, the people success platform. Prior to Lattice, he spent...
S6 E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Izzy Azeri has been in the tech industry for 20 years, starting out at places like EMC and VMWare. He's married with three kids, living in Frankli...
S6 Bonus: George Georgallides, Basis Health
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
George Georgallides is originally from a small island in Europe called Cypress. He grew up there, joined the army, and competed in Track & Field a...
S6 Bonus: Savarth Misra, ContractPodAI
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Savarth Misra didn't start out in tech. In fact, he was a lawyer, working as a corporate commercial lawyer in Asia and the UK. During this time, h...