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Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders
Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product market fit, and navigated early-stage growth.
We explore:
Early engineering decisions and MVP development
Landing the first customers
Pricing and go-to-market experiments
Scaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks
Hiring the first team
Lessons learned from growing a startup…
Episodes
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Hacking the Brainwave: Building Closed-Loop Sleep Hardware and Raising $20M+ with Aaron Bromberg of StimScience
Aaron Bromberg is living the Dad life outside of tech. His kids are 11 and 13, so he wants to spend as much time with them before they get too cool to hangout…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E14: The Real-Time Ledger: How Banked Scaled Global Account-to-Account Infrastructure with Joe Pettersson
Joe Pettersson is quite the renaissance man, with many interests and ventures he is a part of. He's also had an interesting path to tech. He was originally a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Unifying Broken Architecture: Building the InsurTech API Data Layer and Raising $30M+ with Dan Langevin of Vericred
Dan Langevin grew up in Madison, CT - east of New Haven. He had a good size family, with his Dad being an engineer and Mother being a teacher. He grew up…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: The API-First Playbook: From Twilio COO to Building a $42M FinTech Engine and Exiting to FIS with Roy Ng of Bond
Roy Ng moved to LA from Hong Kong when he was 10 years old, first with his Mother, with his Father following on a year later. His family moved to the stats to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E13: Disrupting Supply Chain Logistics: Building an API-First TMS and Raising $50M+ with Alexander Luksidadi of Rose Rocket
Alexander Luksidadi came to Canada in 2002 as an immigrant, with a dream to work for IBM. However, during his time in school, he had a friend that went to San…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Debugging Live in Production: Building Dynamic Logging and Exiting to Dynatrace with Liran Haimovitch of Rookout
Liran Haimovitch is 34 years old, and recently married. He and his wife enjoy traveling and eating delicious foods together, and of course, taking care of…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Leaving Lyft to Build a $1B FinTech Engine: Real Estate Syndication Architecture with Perry Zheng of Cash Flow Portal
Perry Zheng graduated in 2010 from Duke University. He became a software engineer, working for big name companies like Amazon, Twitter and Lyft. During his…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E12: The Pivot That Made App Store History: How the YouVersion Bible App Built a Global Mobile Phenomenon with Bobby Gruenewald
Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always interested in entrepreneurship. In 1995, he built a website for…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Productizing the Agency: Building Automated Media Engines & Scaling Growth with Brandy & Ryan of Kitcaster (by Moburst)
Brandy Whalen and Ryan Estes are two different folks, joined together in a unified mission. If you look up Denver guy in the dictionary, you will see a picture…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March - Josh Campbell
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Brand Building Josh Campbell is the founder and CEO of protein supplement brand…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E11: Why Tech Training Fails Engineers: Building Live Micro-Coaching Engines with Hywel Carver of SkillerWhale
Hywel Carver has been writing code since he was 9 years old. His first language was C, which quite a language to start out in, and his first program was a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: When Systems Crash: Engineering Facebook-Scale Incident Management & Exiting to PagerDuty with John Egan
John Egan is a computer and electrical engineer by training. Early on, he got disillusioned by the idea of building robots - it was too slow for him. While he…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Sovereign Privacy: How Thrivacy Tokenized Identity Verification Without Data Leakage with Dr. Gordon Jones
Dr. Gordon Jones just turned 60 years old, but you wouldn't know it from his energetic, vibrant tone. He has his doctorate in Health Administration, but he got…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March - Edvard Engeseath
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Angel Investing Dr. Edvard "Eddie" Engeseath, MD is the Co-founder of a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E10: Killing the Clipboard: Digitizing High-Stakes Franchise Operations with Tommy Yionoulis of OpsAnalitica
Tommy Yionoulis has a traditional tech founder st4ry... via hotel, restaurant and standup comedy route. But in all seriousness, his Dad was literally a rocket…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Garbage In, Garbage Out: How Claravine Restructured Enterprise Data Management with Verl Allen
Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3 kids as a single Dad, so you can imagine that during that…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersWhat's Your Problem? with Jacob Goldstein
Today, I’m excited to share with you a preview from a new podcast I’ve been enjoying and think you will, too. You may know Jacob Goldstein as the former host…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March - Benjamin Balazs
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: All Things Product Bio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E9: Bootstrapping the Knowledge Economy: Scaling LearnWorlds to a $32M Growth Engine with Panos Siozos
Panos Siozos and his co-founders go back 25 years or more. They all studied Computer Science together in Greece and did their post graduate studies on…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: The $156M DevSecOps Blueprint: From Open-Source Checkov to Acquisition with Barak Schoster of Bridgecrew
Barak Schoster claims he's generally a boring guy. What he does professionally, he also loves to do in his free time - which is coding. He contributes…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March - Max Samuel
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: How VC's see your startup Max Samuel is a venture capitalist and lawyer. He…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E8: Killing the SSH Key: Building Identity-Native Cloud Access and a $1B Unicorn with Ev Kontsevoy of Teleport
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…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Beyond Standard Logging: Building Full-Stack Workflow Telemetry and Analytics with Prabhjot Singh of Pyze
Prabhjot Singh has been in enterprise software for the last 22 years - so he has seen a thing or 2. He joined Citibank out of school, and did a leadership…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March - Rune Hauge
Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: Funding your startup For the first installment of Mentorcam March, we chat with…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E7: How Doppler Built the Universal Secrets Management Platform with Brian Vallelunga
Brian Vallelunga loves to build things - products, companies, or silly things on the side. In Elementary school, he was asked by one of his friends, "why…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Building a Video Automation Platform for 14 Million Users with Raghav R S of Animaker
Raghav was a product developer, starting a young age. He was creating interesting products for science exhibitions as a kid. Once, this professor asked him to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersMentorcam March!
Happy Wednesday to all of you listeners. First and foremost, thank you for being just that - a faithful listener. Thank you for tuning in to the show each…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E6: The Synthetic Frontier: How Gretel.ai Weaponized Generative AI to Protect Privacy with John Myers
John Myers comes from a big military family. He was convinced he was going to be a pilot his whole life. When he was a junior in High School, he started doing…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Merging Hardware with Code: Restructuring Subsea Cables and Global Networks with Jim Fagan of GCX (Global Cloud Exchange)
Jim Fagan has had a long and winding road into the tech world. He grew up in New Jersey, and post school, started out in Finance. Slowly, through those roles…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersCode Story on Goodpods!
Hey y'all, hope everyone is having an awesome day! Do you ever find yourself about to put your earbuds on, or jump in the car, but don't really know which…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E5: Cracking Government Compliance: How Aceable Productized State-Mandated Learning with Blake Garrett
Blake Garrett had the good fortunate to grow up in the Bay Area. He got to observe his father and his involvement in startups. Though none of them were massive…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Fueling the AI Engine: Optimizing Unstructured Data Pipelines for Vector Databases with Michel Tricot of Airbyte
Michel Tricot has been in the data space for the past 15 years. He really enjoys gathering information, and gaining insight from it. As a kid, he would gather…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Ending the API Debugging Nightmare: Building Real-Time Observability Networks with Vedran Cindrić of Treblle
Vedran Cindrić grew up in a small town, in rural Croatia. As far back as he can remember, he has been tinkering with computers - messing around with DOS, and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E4: Scaling From Seed to Enterprise: Engineering Hyper-Growth Pipelines with Mike Boufford, Former CTO of Greenhouse
Mike Boufford has no hobbies anymore, and for good reason... he has two 6 month old daughters and a 3 year old toddler, so its an exciting and very busy time…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Unlocking the Content Black Box: How Casted Monetized B2B Rich Media with Lindsay Tjepkema
Lindsay Tjepkema is married with three kids, living in Indianapolis. Her children are all boys, and she lovingly describes them more like bear cubs, that don't…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Engineering Speech Processing: Tuning Proprietary Natural Language Engines for High-Noise Edge Environments, with Rob Carpenter of Valyant
Rob Carpenter was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska - and no... he can't see Russia from his back steps. He has been a long term space ship nerd, and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E3: Streaming the Paycheck: Building Real-Time Earned Wage Access with Matt Pierce of Immediate
Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started out in healthcare tech for a decade or so. Eventually, he…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: Solving the Data Blindspot: How Hustle Fund-Backed Pyrl Cryptographs Commerce with Adam Newman
Adam Newman grew up in the suburbs of New York and Brooklyn. Now, he lives in the DC / Maryland area. His grandparents were immigrants, and owned a bakery and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: The "Duolingo for Data Literacy": Building AI Assessment Engines with Matt Cowell of QuantHub
Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in Chemical…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E2: Scaling a $2B Neobank: Moving Money at the Edge with Current Co-Founder Trevor Marshall
Trevor Marshall grew up in NY, and has been living in the state his whole life. His path into technology was not a direct one. Prior to school, he was on the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: The Pop-Culture Video Engine: Bootstrapping & Scaling ClassHook to Acquisition with Alexander Deeb
Alex Deeb was influenced by the education space early on. He had many teachers who inspired him through his life, and his parents pushed him to do well in…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 Bonus: From Plaid to a $1B Unicorn: Killing the Password with Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stytch
Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn't know what he wanted to do and "stumbled" into…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS6 E1: Scaling to 1 Trillion Messages: Building the Real-Time Fabric of the Internet with Stephen Blum of PubNub
Stephen Blum finds that his life outside of tech is tricky to define, given we are surrounded by tech everywhere. He was inspired to be a game developer at an…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 6 Trailer
Hello listeners... it's time to embark upon yet another season of the Code Story podcast. As we dive into another journey together, in fact our 6th journey…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 5 Sign Off
This is Season 5, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 6 of the Code Story podcast will be starting SOON, so stay tuned. Current Sponsors: Tiger…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Favorite: The Evolution of the Modern Web: Guillermo Rauch on the Architecture Behind Next.js and Vercel
Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Favorite: Ditching the SaaS Tax: Rebuilding HubSpot-Level Marketing Automation on Open Source with Adrian Tobey of Groundhogg
Adrian Tobey lives in Canada. He got started in his tech career right out of high school, working for his father's digital marketing agency. In high school, he…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: The Science of Scaling: Engineering Repeatable B2B Growth Experiments with Techstars Alum Shelby Stephens
Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stephens on the show to talk about his project then, called Jolly. Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E30: From Heroku to Muse: Rethinking Personal Computing & Local-First Software with Adam Wiggins
Adam Wiggins was from California originally, but has lived in Berlin for the last decade. Earlier in his life, he did burning man art installations and was a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: From Pop Charts to the App Store: Coding the "LinkedIn for Golfers" with Lydia Davies, Founder of Teemates
Lydia Davies is from the UK originally, but she has lived all over the world. She was Born in Thailand, and has lived in Southeast Asia, Singapore, Alaska, the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E29: Coding the Designer’s Brain: Reengineering Fashion with AI Alongside Nick Clayton of Savitude
Nick Clayton has been into tech most of life. Outside of tech, he loves a good strategy game or board game - in face, he met his fiancé playing these types of…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: The Evolution of APIs: Building the AI Gateway of the Future with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong
Marco Palladino migrated from Italy about 10 years ago.. and brought all of his Italian hobbies with him. He loves to cook - specifically pasta, of course -…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E28: Putting Money on Autopilot: Building Self-Driving Banking Tech with Oona Rokyta of Lance
Oona Rokyta is a first generation American, which you wouldn't expect from her lack of accent. Her parents are artists from the Czech Republic, who migrated to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: Stopping Account Takeovers: Fighting the AI-Driven Fraud Wave with Ari Jacoby of Deduce
Ari Jacoby grew up in the DC Metro Area, but has lived in New York City for the last 17 years. He's married with 2 kids at home, ages 12 and 9, and he spends a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: Scaling to 1 Trillion Requests: How IPinfo Built a Global API with Ben Dowling
Ben Dowling lives in Seattle, and loves it there. He is married, and a father of three kids - ages 11, 8 and 5 - so he's a busy dude. He loves to hike, and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersCompiler - What is the recipe for burnout?
Original episode: https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-write-technical-documentation Hey guys, we are narrowing in on the Christmas holiday's in the states…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E27: Fixing the Edge: Dropping Traffic by 95% with Max Stoiber of GraphCDN (Stellate)
Max Stoiber was born and raised in a small town, just outside of Vienna, Austria. From a young age, his biggest influence was his mother, who left her job to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: Stop Guessing: Getting to the "Aha!" Moment in Product Validation with Darshan Mehta of iResearch
Darshan Mehta has a degree in marketing and finance, and has typically served those disciplines. However, he has been accused of having the extra tech gene…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: No More Hotfixes: Debugging Live Production Applications Without Redeploying with Ilan Peleg of Lightrun
Ilan Peleg is 29 years old, and has been a long time middle distance runner. He previously ran the 800 meters, and served int he Israeli Army as a professional…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E26: Rehearsing Surgery: How Armor Bionics Built the 3D "GPS" for Complex Operations with Bruno Demuro
Bruno Demuro is first and foremost, a father of 2 children. He says this is the single most awesome thing, and yet at the same time, the most challenging…