S5 E21: From Microsoft Technical Fellow to Startup Zero-to-One with Laura Butler of Uplift

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Nov 2, 2021 · 47m

For Laura Butler, tech has always been woven into her life. She left Harvard to go work full time at Microsoft, because she was having the time of her life as an intern. She went on to spend 20 years at the company, working on many different big name projects. To her, tech is solving problems for people by people - and everything boils down to tech. She is drawn to getting her hands on things, breaking them - then fixing them again.

She is s self proclaimed professional contrarian, intentional rebel and successful misfit. She loves to read about people, history, and logistics - specifically…