S5 Bonus: Stop Building Features Nobody Wants: Mastering Jobs-to-be-Done with Jay Haynes of THRV

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Aug 5, 2021 · 32m

Jay Haynes has always been interested in tech, just like his Dad. In 1979, his Dad bought and brought home an apple II plus. Though he was using it for his business to do spreadsheets, Jay began writing code so he could play video games for free, slinging code in BASIC. It's worth noting that this was back when you had to pay a quarter to play a video game.

His Dad was a navy pilot, and a hobbyist sail plane flyer, which Jay flew as well, even up to 30,000 feet in the air! As he says, he got grounded as soon as he got married and had 4 kids.

Early in his career, Jay got into finance and…