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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 FoundersS5 E4: Listening to Millions of Tracks: How Musiio Scaled AI Audio Processing with Hazel Savage
Hazel Savage is originally from Northeast England. She attended university, and studied politics. She's played the guitar since she was 13, and started out as…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersReal World AI: A Practical Guide for Responsible Machine Learning
How can you successfully deploy AI? When AI works, it’s nothing short of brilliant, helping companies make or save tremendous amounts of money while delighting…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E3: The Hyper-Scale Engineering Playbook: Building a Feature-Rich Tech Stack with ClickUp’s Alex Yurkowski
Alex Yurkowski grew up in New Jersey. He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software. Like many others, it all started with a lot of…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: Engineering High-Volume Telemetry: Tracking 100% of Mobile User Sessions at Scale with Eric Futoran of Embrace.io
A multi startup founder, Eric Futoran has always focused in on being a family man. He considers himself a multi-hat wearing person, and though most…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E2: The Headless WordPress Engine: How Strattic Built Serverless Static Site Pipelines with Miriam Schwab
Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She has been in Israel for 26 years, and moved there after high school to attend university. She studied English…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 Bonus: Rendering at Scale: How VEED.io Built a AI Web-Based Video Editing Platform with Timur Mamedov
Timur Mamodev grew up in Russia, within a very loving and supportive family. His Dad was an entrepreneur, so he knew some day he wanted to do the same, or at…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS5 E1: How Postman Scaled to 30 Million Developers with Abhinav Asthana
Abhinav Asthana grew up in several small towns in the northern part of India. A couple of those towns were Basti, 150 miles from the capital. He's been a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 5 Trailer
Hello listeners... its time to embark upon Season 5 of the Code Story podcast. As we step into this journey together, you an expect to hear amazing stories…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Favorite: Architecting Safety at Scale: The Code Behind Real-Time Routing and HopSkipDrive’s Logistics Engine with CTO Sophy Lee
Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 4 Sign Off
This is Season 4, signing off.... Thank you for listening! Season 5 of the Code Story podcast will be starting in the next couple of weeks. Current Sponsors…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Favorite: The Open-Source Empire: Scaling HashiCorp From Side Project to Tech Giant with Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe Inventive Journey
Originally posted at this link: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/episodes/Surround-Yourself-With-Good-People-The-Inventive-Journey-Podcast-For-Entreprene…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E21: Defending Critical Infrastructure: How SCADAFence Engineered Industrial OT Security with Ofer Shaked
Ofer Shaked started in on computers early. He was passionate about tech from a very early age, and started programming when he was 10 years old. He loves tech…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersAggie Growth Hacks w/ Noah Labhart
Originally posted at this link: https://www.aggiegrowthhacks.com/season-3-episode-2-changing-the-equation-for-manufacturing-w-founder-cto-noah-labhart-04/ Noah…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E20: The Code Deployed as You Type: Reimagining Backend Infrastructure with Dark’s Paul Biggar
Paul Biggar was born in Dublin, Ireland, and lived there most of his life. When he was young, his Dad had a couple of computers, where Paul could program in…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: The Real-Time Marketplace Playbook: Engineering Geospatial Crowd Ingestion with Erik Chelstad
Erik Chelstad is a child of both coasts. In his life, he spent a lot of time skiing, and carried that activity into his adult life. Funny enough though, he is…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E19: The Death of the Password: How Atakama Engineered Threshold Cryptography with Daniel Gallancy
Daniel Gallancy is a husband and father to an 18 month old son. He studied electrical engineering and physics in school, but ended up working in finance, doing…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Fixing the Brittle Test Suite: The DevOps Playbook for Smarter continuous Integration with ProdPerfect’s Erik Fogg
Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E18: Orchestrating Millions of Deliveries: How Bringg Built an Enterprise Logistics Engine with Lior Sion
Lior Sion has been doing tech for 30 years, since he was in High School. He is married with 2 amazing and a dog (a Vizsla to be specific), and is in his mid…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Killing the Meeting: How Yac Built a Voice-First Async Platform with Founder Justin Mitchell
Justin Mitchell started off wanting to be an actor, dreaming of going off to work for Disney or doing movies. He loved being on the stage, playing sports, and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E17: Engineering High-Performance API Query Engines: Schema Federation at Scale with Matt DeBergalis of Apollo GraphQL
Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the handbook. To…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Engineering Collective Intelligence: How ThoughtExchange Scaled Large-Scale Discussion Engines with Dave MacLeod
As an interesting turn to the guests I have on the podcast, Dave MacLeod is not a technologist by trade. He is a serial entrepreneur, and an old school face to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E16: Querying the Whole Web in Seconds: How The Zebra Built an Insurance Comparison Engine with Meetesh Karia
The tech career of Meetesh Karia started early, as his father was an electrical engineer bringing home a TRS80 with a tape drive. Computers just clicked, as he…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Building Dual-Sided Marketplaces: The Tech Architecture Powering Aspireship with Jason Riedel
Jason Riedel was drawn to technology as a 9 year old. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, falling into the tech world - and as such, he didn't attend…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E15: Processing Billions of Messages: How Gupshup Built a Global Conversational AI Unicorn with Beerud Sheth
Beerud Sheth grew up in Mumbai, India, and attended undergrad in Bombay. For graduate school, he came to the states to study at MIT, and then did a short stint…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: The Insomnia Story: Bootstrapping an Open-Source API Client to a Major Exit with Greg Schier
Greg Schier grew up in a small town, without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and skate boards, and spent a lot of time building ramps and jumps for…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E14: Tripling AI Accuracy: How data.world Built an Enterprise Knowledge Graph with CTO Bryon Jacob
Bryon Jacob is a family man with 4 kids, from ages 11 down. With a young startup and family, his hobbies has suffered some, but during the pandemic, he was…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe Yield Podcast by Yieldstreet
Original episode: https://the-yield.simplecast.com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintech Episode Notes The evolution of FinTech has come…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E13: Connecting High-Throughput Message Routing: Scaling the Core Tech of Courier with Troy Goode
Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Deploying Enterprise AI: Scaling Production LLMs and RAG Frameworks with Rens ter Weijde
Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend does most…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E12: Scaling to an Enterprise Acquisition: Building the Core Tech of Cloudsnap with Richard Barkley
Richard Barkley is a big traveller, and has been all around the world. The first business he started doing was doing non profit work in Uganda. He is a family…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: The Uber for Moving: How Gozova Built an On-Demand Logistics Engine with Cameron Moreau
Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E11: Engineering Fast Materialized Views: Sub-Second Queries Over Live Streams with Arjun Narayan
Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E10: Re-Engineering Live Concerts: How Mandolin Scaled Ultra-Low Latency Streaming with Steve Caldwell
Steve Caldwell lives in Louisville, Kentucky - but grew up in South Louisiana, in cajun country. In the 90's he loved seeing things he typed on the screen come…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E9: Pioneers of Chaos Engineering: How Gremlin Architected Bulletproof Systems with Matt Forniciari
Matt Forniciari started his career at Amazon. First gig was on the availability team, but then he was tasked with emailing Jeff Bezo's directly about what was…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Disrupting the PR Industry: How EllisX Uses Data to Automate Startup Visibility with Richard Mensah
Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E8: The AWS Acquisition: How Fig Re-Engineered the Command Line with Brendan & Matt
Brendan Falk is originally from Australia. Growing up, he was always into computers, sports, extra curricular activities - he was the kid who always had a side…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: The Spatial Computing Playbook: Deploying Immersive Software for Global Brands with Jeff Meisner
Jeff Meisner is an electrical engineering grad from Waterloo in Canada. Post college, he settled in to the DFW area, and worked for several tech companies…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E7: Ingesting Billions of Events: How Heap Scaled Real-Time Data Pipelines with Dan Robinson
At 18 years old, Dan Robinson was 100% convinced that he was going to be a mathematician. He went to college at Stanford, and when he got there, he realized…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E6: The Open-Source Empire: Scaling HashiCorp From Side Project to Tech Giant with Mitchell Hashimoto
Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 Bonus: Engineering Ultra-High Reliability: Scaling Postmark’s Transactional Email Engine with Natalie Nagele
Natalie Nagele came to the states in 1989 as a Jewish refugee from Russia. She watched her parents go from nothing and utilizing furniture from trash, to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E5: Building the Canvas for Developers: How IMG.LY Scaled a Media Editing Engine with Daniel Hauschildt
Daniel Hauschildt lives in Germany, in a town called Bochum. He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at an early age…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E4: Scaling FinTech Capital Engines: How Yieldstreet Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment Platform with CTO Hrishi Dixit
Hrishi Dixit was born and raised in India. He wrote his first program when he was 13 years old... and he was hooked on computers from that point forward. He…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E3: The Tech Behind LLM Data Pipelines: Optimizing AI Infrastructure with Activeloop’s Davit Buniatyan
Davit Buniatyan is originally from Armenia. He completed his high school years there, until he was 17, when he started to pursue his undergrad in the UK at…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E2: The E-Mobility Revolution: How RidePanda Built a Green Tech Marketplace with Charlie & Chinmay
Charlie Depman grew up in Connecticut, then went to college in Canada - pursuing environmental studies. His first job out of college was to be the Asia…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersTech Talks Daily w/ Noah Labhart
Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer administrative…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS4 E1: Architecting Safety at Scale: The Code Behind Real-Time Routing and HopSkipDrive’s Logistics Engine with CTO Sophy Lee
Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 4 - Trailer
Season 4 of the Code Story podcast is now live! Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist!…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 Favorite: The Tailwind Revolution: How Adam Wathan Built an Open-Source CSS Empire with Tailwind CSS
Adam Wathan has been obsessed with computers since he was a kid. In fact, he was introduced to computers by his 1st grade librarian.. and his first programming…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 Favorite: The Twitter Acquisition: How Breaker Re-Engineered Social Audio with CTO Leah Culver
Podcasts are a great thing – the good parts of a radio show, the powerful snippets from an audio book, with all the content control of a topical news feed…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast
Click here to listen to the episode on the Entrepreneurial Coder podcast. Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersDevelomentor Podcast
Click here to listen to the episode on the Develomentor podcast. Biography Noah Labhart is the CTO & Co-Founder of Veryable, and the Founder & CEO of Touchtap…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E20: Wrangling Shadow IT: Engineering Blissfully’s Automated SaaS Discovery Engine with Aaron White
Aaron White started coding when he was young, tinkering on his commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in esoteric commands just to get the game to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E19: Managing 1,000+ WordPress Sites: How WP Buffs Built a Mass Technical Support Engine with Joe Howard
Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 Bonus: The Robinhood for Pop Culture: How Mythic Markets Engineered Fractional Investing with Joe + Tony
Joe Mahavuthivanij was born and raised in the Bay Area, into an entrepreneurial family. Primarily through his life, he was exposed to small businesses. He went…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E18: Defining Modern Observability: How Honeycomb Redefined Systems Engineering with Charity Majors
Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, homeschooled…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E17: Taking on Big Tech: How Cocoon - MyDataRewards Empowers Users to Monetize Their Data with Jeff Bermant
Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, to be a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 Bonus: The Code Behind Hands-Free UI: Managing Real-Time Audio Processing with Rob Joseph of ReadItToMe
Tech has been Rob Joseph's thing for as long as he can remember. At 4 years old, he was the only person in his household who knew how to use the TV and video…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E16: The Enterprise IoT Blueprint: Scaling Smart Building Data Pipelines with Microshare’s Ron Rock
Born and raised in Philly, Ron Rock put himself through college, working at Denny's as a midnight chef. He is a life long entrepreneur, and started his first…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS3 E15: Monetizing the Web: How MemberSpace Built a No-Code Subscription Empire with Ward Sandler
Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the…