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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 FoundersS8 E8: The Anatomy of a High-Stakes Pivot: Engineering a 'Zapier for Money' with Gilad Uziely, Co-Founder & CEO of Sequence
Gilad Uziely is married with 2 daughters. He told me he met his wife on a taxi in Thailand, but that the story there was for a different podcast. He has always…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The Salsa-Dancing Founders Rewriting B2B Support: Eliminating Legacy Tool Sprawl with Embedded AI and Dynamic SLAs with Nooshin Alibhai & Eric Klimuk, Co-Founders of Supportbench
Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is actually…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: How an AT&T Executive and a Harvard AI Engineer Scaled an $11M Generative Ad Engine with Hikari Senju & Matt Swalley, Co-Founders of Omneky
Hikari Senju grew up in Westchester, NY, and was exposed to tech early on, as his family worked at IBM. His Dad is also a painter, so he has been driven…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E7: The Lawyer Who Learned to Code: Turning Unstructured Contracts Into a $3.2B Enterprise Workflow Engine with Jason Boehmig, Co-Founder of Ironclad
Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecting on what…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Democratizing Entity Graphs and Data Fusion with Adam Judelson, Co-Founder of FirstPrinciples (NetworkNerd)
Day to day, Adam Judelson is obsessed with complex problem sets in the product world. This has resulted in him getting more and more excited about simple, but…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The Death of Hardcoded .env Chaos: Unifying Developer Identity and Secrets Automation with Vlad Matsiiako, Co-Founder & CEO of Infisical
Vlad Matsiiako was born in the Ukraine, but moved to the Netherlands to study his undergrad. He was one of the first data scientists at Bunq. He eventually got…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E6: The $1B Treasury Lifeboat: Engineering Compliance-First Yield and Business Banking for Startups with Bryce Crawford, Co-Founder & CTO of Meow
Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his Dad's…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The $20M Seed Manifesto: Unifying Application Code and Infrastructure into One Language with Elad Ben-Israel & Shai Ber, Co-Founders of Wing Cloud
Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Cutting Through the ChatGPT Hype: Deploying Practical, Profit-Driven AI Strategy with Andrew Louder, Founder & CEO of Louder Co.
Andrew Louder grew up west of Houston, TX, in a town called Katy. He got into tech during his web mastery class in High School. He's a business graduate from…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E5: The Evolution of TestOps: Unifying Manual and Automated QA Without the Archaic Tooling Sprawl with Nikita Fedorov, Founder & CEO of Qase
Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doing it for…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersNo Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of Nvidia
This week, we’re sharing something special: The No Priors podcast. No Priors is your guide to the AI revolution. At this moment of inflection in technology…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Democratizing the Software Factory: Scaling AI-Accelerated No-Code Development with George Novik, Founder & CPO of Zerocoder
George Novik's life is his work, so it's strange for him to think of life outside of his startup. But outside of tech, his hobbies include swimming, surfing…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Dropping Full-Stack Collaboration Building Blocks Into Any App with Rickard Hansson, Founder & CEO of Weavy
Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building things and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E4: The Isolation of the Tech C-Suite: Eradicating CTO Burnout and Building Communities of Practice with Andy Skipper, Founder of CTO Craft
Andy Skipper currently resides in Belfast, Ireland, though he is from London originally. He's been knee deep in tech since he was 12 years old, as a hobby…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The Open-Source LaunchDarkly Killer: Engineering Privacy-First Edge Evaluation with Egil Østhus, Co-Founder & CEO of Unleash
Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he loves to run outdoors, through the woods and on the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Bypassing the Staging Queue: Hooking Local Processes into Live Kubernetes Clusters with Aviram Hassan, Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear, Creators of mirrord
Aviram Hassan started hacking his way into stuff at a young age, primarily from online multiplayer games. The first game was a fan based game for Pokemon, when…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E3: The Developer Flight Simulator: Simulating Production Melt-Downs and in a Safe Sandbox with Shem Magnezi, Co-Founder & CTO of Wilco
Shem Magnezi is from Tel Aviv, and started his software engineering career when he was in high school. It wasn't really professional, just hacking some stuff…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The AWS Blueprint for Consumption: Decoupling Cloud Metering from Billing Architecture with Puneet Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Amberflo
For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The Linux Kernel Maverick Rewriting SQLite in Rust: Scaling Micro-Databases for AI Agents with Glauber Costa, Co-Founder & CEO of Turso
Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E2: The ClickOps Cure: Automating Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Discovery and Code Drift with Sefi Genis, Co-Founder & Late CTO of Firefly
Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: The Language of Money: Re-Engineering Messy Transaction Data for the Era of AI Agents with Naré Vardanyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Ntropy
Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 Bonus: Bypassing the Enterprise Black Box: Building an Extensible, Headless Supply Chain Operating System with Ronald Richardson of Fleetbase
Ron Richardson studied robotics and embedded systems in Arizona, and is a former Marine - which is where he got his start in logistics. His biggest influence…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS8 E1: The Death of LeetCode: Eradicating Whiteboard Anxiety with Project-Based Interview Analytics with Sargun Kaur, Co-Founder & CEO of Byteboard
Before Sargun Kaur got into tech, she was anti-wanting to be in tech. Her Dad was an engineer, and she thought the work he did was super boring. She pursued…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersSeason 8 - Trailer
What if you had a window into the digital startup world? What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product? ...how to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersFrom Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World
Tools and Weapons, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith, features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Algorithmic Construction Site: Engineering a Generative Scheduling Engine with René Morkos of ALICE Technologies
Rene Morkos is a builder. When he was younger, his Dad told him that he could study anything he wanted, as long as it wasn't Civil Engineering. So... that is…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Death of Cookies: Engineering 99.5% Accurate Device Identification with Valentin Vasilyev of Fingerprint
Valentin Vasilyev has always been interested in the open source world. His Github account was created way back in 2008 when they started. He always dreamt…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E30: The Architecture of Infinite Scale: Harnessing Vitess and Database Sharding with Sam Lambert of PlanetScale
Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Shopify for Fintech: Engineering Low-Code Financial Rails with Ruben Izmailyan of Quiltt
Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually attending…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe New Notification Stack for Developers - Drew Youngwerth
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E29: Engineering Virtual Power Plants: Scaling AI-Driven Supply Chain Cooling with Manik Suri & Lucas Tepman of Therma
Manik Suri calls himself a jack of all trades. He went about his career doing lots of different things, and figured out most of what he didn't want to do. He…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Architecting the Dark Warehouse: Scaling Autonomous Mobile Robots with Tapan Pattnayak of Addverb
Tapan Pattnayak life revolves around technology - his friends, professional colleagues, etc. and even his wife is an engineer, who he met at a company he was…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe New Notification Stack for Developers - Maria Irizarry
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E28: The Elixir Stack Behind a $5B Payments Engine: Scaling Vertical SaaS with Sean Stavropoulos of Boulevard
Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Cutting Customer Acquisition Costs: Turning Ticketing Data into Viral Referrals with Ashley Cline of Ice Cream Social
Ashley Cline was born and raised in a small town in Ohio. Her big dreams and aspirations led her to move to California and start her career in tech and…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe New Notification Stack for Developers - Shreya Gupta
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E27: Automating the SOC2 Compliance Trap: Slack-First Identity Governance with Mathias Nestler of AccessOwl
Mathias Nestler has co-founded several startups in his career, in the insure-tech and fintech spaces. Outside of tech, he does kite surfing and diving. He…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Architecture of PLG: Engineering Interactive Product Demos at Scale with Evan Powell & Sam Clemens of Reprise
Evan Powell had a career mostly in sales, which started in college within his acapella group. His group recorded tracks for the well known show Glee, and Evan…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe New Notification Stack for Developers - Seth Carney & Ben Link
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping episode in our series entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought to you by our long time friends…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E26: The 40 Million SKU Bottleneck: Engineering an Algorithmic Ad Bidding Engine with Liam Patterson of Bidnamic
Liam Patterson has been an entrepreneur since the early days of his life. He was the kid that was selling sweets at school, undercutting the local store. He…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Automating the "Save-to-Spend" Loop: Machine Learning for Smart Wallets with Roya Kachooei of Walletifai
Roya Kachooei came to Canada 9 years ago, with the aim to pursue her masters in the US. When her funding fell through, she stayed in Canada and started…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E25: From a Philosophy PhD to Creating Helm and the Next Wave of Serverless with Matt Butcher of Fermyon
Matt Butcher was always intending to be a philosopher in the early days. His Dad informed him at some point he would need to get a job though. After he…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersThe New Notification Stack for Developers - Mike Miller
Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off another special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled The New Notification Stack for Developers, brought…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersGrowthMode: ON - Jesse Rubenfeld, FinOptimal
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: From a COVID Trick-or-Treat Map to a Techstars-Backed GIS Platform with Chelsey Roney of Proxi
Chelsey Roney graduated from Texas A&M in 2011 (whoop!). She is passionate about building businesses, as her current venture is her 3rd startup. But prior to…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersGrowthMode: ON - Arun Sivashankaran, FunnelEnvy
Welcome back listeners, today we are dropping another episode in the series entitled Growth Mode: ON, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E24: From Scaling Frank And Oak to Engineering Decentralized Brand Communities with Ethan Song of RareCircles
Ethan Song is a boarder through and through - enjoying snowboarding, surfing, etc. and doing it as often as he can. He loves to read, and has moved more into…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Everything-as-a-Service Engine: Enterprise Managed Security at Scale with Faisal Bhutto of Calian
Faisal Bhutto is a family man, and the proud father of 2 girls and a boy. He is based out of Houston, and enjoys the outdoors - hunting, sports, and working on…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E23: The 4.5-Million Combination Problem: Why Human Cognition Fails Precision Oncology and the Rise of Knowledge-Based Medical AI with Navid Alipour, Co-Founder & CEO of AI Med Global
Navid Alipour has spent many years in the world of medicine and AI, supporting and admiring doctors. He jokes that his wife and he are the black sheep of the…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The Real-Time Arcade: Engineering Instant Leaderboard Micropayments with Joe De Pinto of Haste Arcade
Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, and was drafted to play professional baseball in the minors for the White Sox. He's always had an active…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersGrowthMode: ON - Zach Fragapane, GrowthMatch
Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off a special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled Growth Mode: On!, sponsored by our good friends at…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E22: The Instagram of Building Maintenance: Engineering a Photo-First Facilities Engine with Paul McCarthy of SnapFix
Paul McCarthy grew up in Cork, Ireland, and went to school there. He lives around the corner from the sea, and likes to dip in now again - literally, swim in…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Solving the Blockchain Storage Bottleneck: Building Dedicated Gateways & "Submarined" Data with Kyle Tut of Piñata
Kyle Tut started out his life wanting to be a car mechanic. His Mom affirmed his aspirations, but gave him the advice to make sure he owned the mechanic shop…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E21: Democratizing Enterprise Code: Engineering AI No-Code Apps for Regulated Markets with Nanxi Liu, Co-CEO of Blaze.tech
Nanxi Liu is from Colorado, and went to school at UC Berkeley. In college, she immediately started her entrepreneurial journey by starting a bio tech company…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Making the Operating System Multiplayer: From a $13M Collaboration Engine to OpenAI with Alex Embiricos of Remotion
Alex Embiricos comes from an interesting background, having grown up all over the place - between Asia, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. He came to the states…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: The AI CTO: Democratizing App Development for Underserved Founders with Sydney Davis of NixCode
Sydney Davis really enjoys art. She enjoys immersive exhibits and loves to paint. She's a Mom, and digs spending time with her son and traveling to different…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E20: Engineering a $1B GraphQL Data Federation Engine: Real-Time DB Queries with Tanmai Gopal of Hasura
Tanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 E19: From Uber Data Analytics to an HBS Dropout Scaling a $19M+ Workflow Engine with Ken Babcock, Tango
Ken Babcock grew up outside of Buffalo, and as such.. is a big Bills fan. He attended Cornell, and has spent time in NYC, San Francisco and now Chicago. He's a…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Whats New with Materialize - Arjun Narayan, Co-founder & CEO
Hello again listeners! Today I have yet another special return episode for you. I'm speaking with Arjun Narayan, Co-founder & CEO of Materialize. He told us…
Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical FoundersS7 Bonus: Whats New with Pulumi - Joe Duffy, Co-founder & CEO
Hello Listeners! We have a treat for today's episode. On the show, I'll be interviewing Joe, the CEO of Pulumi, to get an update on all that has gone on within…