S5 E9: The Science of Changing Minds: Valerie Coffman’s Journey Architecting Swayable’s Analytics Engine

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Aug 10, 2021 · 25m

Valerie Coffman has a family in San Francisco, with 2 cats - both 18 pounds each - and 2 kids, the oldest being 3 and a half. So you could say she has a lot to juggle, even outside of a startup. Her family spends time outside, in parks, the zoo, museums, etc - as much as she can since they are opening up again post pandemic.

She graduated from Cornell, with her PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - which I had to google to understand. Prior to her current venture, she was the CTO and Chief Science Officer at Xometry, an on demand marketplace for custom manufacturing - building their…