S6 E8: Killing the SSH Key: Building Identity-Native Cloud Access and a $1B Unicorn with Ev Kontsevoy of Teleport

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Mar 8, 2022 · 38m

Ev Kontsevoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engineering parents. When he was younger, computers were relatively uncool still. But as they grew in popularity, he started to explore how to make computers do what he wanted them to do, specifically to interact with hardware. He recalls burning up a monitor once, because he was tinkering with changing the refresh rate, typing up assembly in DOS, and playing early games like Doom. Eventually, he got into infrastructure so he could serve engineers and stay close to the hardware. Fun fact about him -…