S4 E16: Querying the Whole Web in Seconds: How The Zebra Built an Insurance Comparison Engine with Meetesh Karia

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Apr 20, 2021 · 34m

The tech career of Meetesh Karia started early, as his father was an electrical engineer bringing home a TRS80 with a tape drive. Computers just clicked, as he dialed into BBS systems, built computers installed with Slackware & Linux. Early on, he also dabbled in AI (is that even a thing?), building neural networks to predict weather patterns.

He has played competitive sports for years - in fact, he has won a national championship in the masters division of ultimate frisbee (and met his wife playing the sport as well). He bases a lot of his leadership philosophy in tech around what he has…