Code Story
595 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsIn a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created. On the show, we interview tech visionaries, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry, and build (and lead) a team that has your back.Hosted by Noah Labhart, this show is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses.Their tech. Their products. Their stories.This podcast is for the founder, tech leader, CTO, CEO, developer, software architect, startup leader, disruptive visionary - or the curious minded individual, who wants to know what a builder goes through in creating world changing technology.
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S9 Bonus: Alon Arvatz, Pointfive & Author of Battle for Your Computer
April 11, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBAlon Arvatz has been in tech for a long time. Fun fact, he loved technology but hated computer science. After getting introduced to the industry by his father, he discovered that tech is not just computer science - which was a big relief. He is the author of a book called The Battle for your Computer, which highlights Israel and the growth of the global cybersecurity industry. Outside of tech and cybersecurity, he is married with 4 kids, and highlights that all things in life - family, start...
S9 E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee
April 09, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBLinus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family man, with a 2.5 year old son, and enjoys spending time with them and raising is kid. Outside of that, he enjoys soccer, sports, and cooking Italian food. In fact, recently he bought a pizza oven and started making his own dough and pie. Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to hi...
S9 Bonus: Erin & Jesus, MSquared
April 04, 2024 14:46 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBErin Marie has been in tech for 20 years. Prior to tech, she was a history major but became more passionate about building websites and technology. She went from web developer to programmer analyst to cloud engineering, and met her current business partner at Boeing. Outside of tech, she is into amateur photography, capturing landscapes and portraits. She is also passionate about passion and film, with her favorite grind core film titled "They call her one eye". Jesus Maria comes from the C...
S9 E18: Jai Ranganathan, Motive
April 02, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBJai Ranganathan is a typically middle aged man, living in Austin, TX with a couple of kids and a Tesla. He moved to the US when he was 17, to attend the University of Texas. Post that, he spent 25 years in California at different tech businesses. Outside of tech, he enjoys doing activities with his daughters, rock climbing, and playing sports. In 2013, Jai's current CEO saw a huge opportunity for the millions of heavy freight vehicles on the road. He built an app to track service hours, aro...
S8 Bonus: Amy & Whitney, Disruption Advisors
March 28, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBWhitney Johnson graduated college with a degree in Music, minoring in English. Of course, she needed a job, and became the secretary to a broker on Wall Street. After taking business courses at night and building confidence from a boss who believed in her, she moved into picking stocks. In 2005, she had an "aha!" moment leading her towards entrepreneurship, and starting a fund with Clayton Christensen, author of the Innovators Dilemma. She's the author of the many books, including Disrupt Yo...
S9 E17: Jake Ward, Data Protocol
March 26, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBJake Ward originally from a small town in Maine, and claims to be running away from the snow by living in South Carolina now. He worked in politics for a while - in the House, the Senate, and Public Affairs before starting the Application Developers Alliance. That spurred on the next chapter of his life. Outside of tech, he has 3 kids and enjoys golf. He loves to cook and spend time with his kids, playing basketball or exploring life sciences. He also mentioned that every 5 years, he tends t...
S9 Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine
March 21, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBLuka Yancopoulos lives in New York City, and believes whole heartedly in doing well by doing good. He grew up in the early 2000's, where the focal point was environmentalism and doing good in the world. He is an active botanist, and though there isn't much "soil to toil" in NYC, he spends his weekends filling the planter boxes with plants, on his block and around the neighborhood. For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around...
S9 E16: James Perkins, Unkey
March 19, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBJames Perkins did not have a traditional journey to technology, but has been in the space for 16 years. He had planned to be a special education teacher prior to switching to technology. He's worked in pre-seed startups all the way to big corporations. But outside of tech, he has a wide variety of hobbies - in particular, running and training for half marathons. This process requires about 6 weeks of training, primarily mental training over physical. James and his co-founder were friends an...
S9 Bonus: Zach Goldberg, Gruntwork & The Startup CTO's Handbook
March 14, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBZach Goldberg was sent to computer camp when he was 12 years old. An interesting part of the story is that the prior year, he went to sports camp - and it didn't go so well. At the camp, he fell in love with tech, and eventually became a counselor. He finds the most joy and impact at the intersection of business and technology. Outside of tech, he is married, and a private pilot in California. He also admits to being a total geek, getting very excited about installing a solar panel on his ro...
S9 E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360
March 12, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBSaravana Kumar is from India, near Chennai, but moved to London 23 years ago. He loves to play badminton, and is very into high quality cars. One of his favorite things to do is to engage in interesting conversations on social media, which there are ample opportunities to do. Outside of Indian food, he enjoys Chinese and Mexican, of which all three he cited having good options in London. In past projects, Saravana encountered the need to build a knowledge base for a different product - and ...
S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self
March 07, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBCraig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He went to Georgia Tech to get his degree, and after spending many years in industry, he jumped into the blockchain in 2013. Outside of tech, he used to do competitive, 4 way formation sky diving. He mentioned this was like synchronized swimming - but in the air. Nowadays, he enjoys long road trips into the sunset. Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether ...
S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork
March 05, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBMike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshman CS classs. Coming out of school, he applied to 300 entry level jobs, interviewed for 15 of them, received offers for 3 - and turned them all down to start his own company. Outside of tech, he is into road cycling and enjoys the ritual, science and community around making - and enjoying - a good cup of coffee or espresso. He's also a musician,...
S9 E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile
February 27, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBDavid Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building technology. However, when he was 12 years old, he built a website for his Dad. And after he built and rebuilt it several times, he was hooked on technology. Outside of tech and software, he enjoys playing poker with friends, gambling, and working on his new house. When asked what his favorite type of food, he said it is always something that he hasn't tried before - cause it's always better whe...
S9 Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBDebbie Levitt is an American living in Italy, with her Italian husband, and their 5 dogs. Many years ago, she obtained a degree in Music, but now focuses on customer experience online - of which, she has been called the Mary Poppins of Customer Experience. Outside of this, she and her husband bought a used camper and quickly became camper people. Her favorite place to take their camper to is Laces, Italy - but she noted that of her 5 dogs, zero of them are allowed in the camper. In the 90's...
S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix
February 20, 2024 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBYoav Abrahami was born and raised in Israel, never living in another country. Currently he lives in Tel Aviv, and has spent 30 years in technology. He studied High Energy Physics in college, and today, he finds similarities in how you solve problems in building products and physic. Outside of tech, he is the father of 2 children, and enjoys hiking and mountain biking in the diverse climates and terrains that Israel has to offer. In 2006, Yoav helped his brothers get Wix started up and build...
S9 Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security
February 15, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBShauli Rozen grew up in Israel, and besides a 5 year stint stateside, he has spent his whole life there. He is married with 3 boys, and is 45 years old. Shauli loves the beach, and the ocean, spending time surfing, scuba diving and free diving. Free diving peaked my interest, and he described it as diving with fins without scuba gear, holding your breath. He has made it 26m deep, which requires him to hold his breath for 60 seconds. In the past, Shauli noticed that the world was not actuall...
S9 E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube
February 13, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBSrikar Sam Yeruva comes from an immigrant family from India. He had a humble background, which shaped his path forward and how he approaches life with hunger. He comes from a family of engineers, and his current venture is his 3rd startup. He loves learning, believing whole heartedly in constant learning. In fact, he mentioned that education was nothing but exposure, which I found insightful. He believes in being a person that tries to understand things, and people, without judgement. Srika...
S9 Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive
February 08, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBDavid Hartmann is a German born New Zealander, where he still lives today. His first job was to spend 17 years at Bayer, getting deep in the materials world, which triggered his passion for 3d printing. Outside of tech, he is raising 2 kids in New Zealand, which he notes is a great place to do so. He also travels a lot, which he loves, and mentioned that traditional cooking for New Zealand is something that doesn't happen often, and his cooking with hot stones under the earth. In 2014, Davi...
S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked
February 06, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBDennis Pilarinos was tinkerer at an early age. He always found himself wanting to understand how things were put together - and as such, he would take them apart and try to reassemble them. He grew up in Canada, and is currently based in Vancouver. He is professional driven by tech curiosity and attention to detail. Previously, he founded and sold BuddyBuild, which went from inception to acquisition within 3 years. Outside of tech, he has his private pilots license, which allows him to fly a...
S9 Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT
February 01, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBRuslan Zaripov has been interested in computers since the early days. He started his career as a database developer, and eventually became a project manager. Essentially, he has been serving in information technology his whole life. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids and a dog. In the winter, he enjoys cross country skiing, and tries to keep a work life balance. Eight years ago, Ruslan bought into the company KRIT, becoming a co-owner. KRIT builds software products for large enterpr...
S9 Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy
January 31, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBErik Gross had an odd journey into tech. He grew up in the redwoods of California, off the grid with no running water in a tee pee. However, there was a pivotal moment in his life when his Dad brought home an old school computer, and taught him about the internals, hardware, binary, and removed all mystery from computers. He had a career in the Navy as a nuclear reactor operator, and gained a lot from the training methods of the Navy. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and recently mo...
S9 E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it
January 30, 2024 19:30 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBRyo Koyama never thought he would be in technology. In the past, and in current days, he is very much into art, photography and woodworking. However, as he says it, he did was a good Asian son does and got a fluid dynamics degree. Eventually, he went on to be a product manager for graphics cards and has been in tech since. He has two adult daughters, and at one point, coached high school basketball in Palo Alto. Ryo and his co-founder have both been in networking for a very long time. They ...
S9 E8: Roger Light, Cedalo
January 23, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBRoger Light lives in the midlands of the UK. He has his PhD in Electrical Engineering, and post graduating, he did research, then taught. But in parallel, he worked on hobby projects that eventually led him to a new venture. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 young boys and a dog - so he mentioned things get a little loud and crazy at home. He loves spicy food, but has been enjoying the visit to the local carvery lately. In 2009, Roger attended a conference on iOT, MQTT, and how it was b...
S9 Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT
January 18, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBNathan Henderson grew up in Saudi Arabia, where he actually met his now co-founder, back when he was 5 years old. His wife grew up in Mexico, and as such, they love to travel internationally. They are married with 3 college age kids, two at BYU and one on a church mission in Chile. His hobbies center around his family, but on his own, he loves to scuba dive, hike and stay physically fit. While he was at SAP, Nate worked on a concept to eliminate the paper instructions we are all familiar wi...
S9 Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok
January 17, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBCraig McLuckie is a self proclaimed boring guy - monochromatic, as he put it. At one point, he tried retiring from his professional ventures - IE building technology - but... it didn't work. So he is now back into building tech. Outside of tech, he is father to four children - two younger, two older - and enjoys spending time outside with them, hiking and building things. When he comes to food, he mentioned that there is no type of food he doesn't like - as long as it is well prepared and ma...
S9 E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica
January 16, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBNaomi Chopra grew up in Delhi, India, but attended Grad school in the US, specifically in Atlanta. He worked in the valley for several companies, including Uber, but eventually left to start his own thing. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with family and friends and loves to play tennis, which he has been playing since he was young. He mostly plays doubles because there are more people and less courts these days. Naomi noticed that people were depending on dozen's of SaaS tools to g...
S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans
January 10, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBMelissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge part of her life from middle school through grad school, and she is hoping to get back into it soon. She's married, and runs outside as much as possible. In fact, she has completed several half and full marathons, including the Boston Marathon. Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a t...
S9 Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics
January 04, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBJonathan Norris lives in Toronto, and has a passion for tech that started early in his life. He has participated in the First Robotics competition, which got him into mechanical engineering, building robots, and leading teams to world championships. He still actively volunteers and mentors people in the program today. Outside of tech, he is a new Dad, and stays quite busy parenting his kid, when he's not riding an eBike to work. In Winter 2014, Jonathan and his founding team did Y-combinato...
S9 E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope
January 02, 2024 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBGilad Shriki was born and raised in Israel. He loves the outdoors, and loves to travel. Skiing in a passion of his, and he loves to explore new places in the winter, mentioning that Whistler was his most recent favorite. He started digging tech very early, and his hobbies center around it as well. He loves building things in home automation, like building micro controllers that detect temperature or relay that turn the lights on and off. Gilad has known his current founding team for many, m...
Replay: Alexander Deeb, Classhook
December 28, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBAlex 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 school on order to obtain better opportunities. Along side of that, he is interested in equitable opportunities, which is a big driver for him in his professional ventures. He is passionate about helping learn about new opportunities. He grew up in Long Island, NY - so of course, he loves pizza. He frequents the local pizza house, which in...
S9 Bonus: Sahil Patel, Spiralyze
December 21, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBSahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, and in 2011, started a company called ER Express, which centered around patient scheduling. After building the company, he sold it for a successful outcome for him, for his team, and for the buyer. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 daughters, and loves to play music and play socer. He plays guitar in a rush cover band called the Atlanta Rush ...
S9 Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird
December 20, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBAriel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family members before he could drive. He continued his career later, in finance, then consumer product goods, then healthcare insurance. He loves to build things, and has started 13 - 15 businesses in his lifetime. Outside of tech, he is an avid drummer, and has been playing since he was 10 years old. Irena Tigranyan was born in Armenia, and moved to the U...
S9 E4: Ayal Regev, Redefine.dev
December 19, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBAyal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Prior to his current venture, he was in tech for 10 years, doing consulting in cybersecurity, healthcare, and gaming. Being a gamer for a long time, he enjoyed the technical challenges in brining a game to market. Outside of tech, he likes to write raps - and forecasts that he will perform them one day. He also likes to do rock climbing and play ...
S9 Bonus: Leonardo Shapiro, Not Alien
December 14, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBLeonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the US. He is an outdoorsy person, and loves to walk and hike. And in fact, he used to be a scuba diving instructor in college, and he loves to spend time in spaces like the underwater. He's also a foodie, and loves coffee and wine. For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that ...
S9 Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard
December 13, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBBlack Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music professor, specifically in percussion. But eventually, he moved over to the tech world. But, outside of tech, he plays board games, in the strategy realm, and named one that I hadn't heard of called Terra Mystica. Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it star...
S9 E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra
December 12, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBReinis Simanovskis was born in Latvia. He comes from a family of exact sciences - physic, math, tech, etc. - which gave him a clear path of where to go professionally. He started coding classes in middle school, but quit to purse road cycling, of which he was very successful. He still rides today, nearly 200-300 kilometers per ride. He has worked in London, Africa, and eventually landed in Jakarta - and aligned with his travels, he is an adventurous foodie. In the past, Reinis and his co-fo...
S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc
December 07, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBRaven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fiction, and liked the idea of working with technology. He plays multiplayer video games, which helped to shape how he viewed technology and the advancements in that ecosystem. He enjoys Japanese food, and in fact, traveled to Japan regularly while living in Singapore. Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting ...
S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik
December 06, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBAvi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years, and likes to play Pot Limit Omaha (which is Poker) and to Taekwondo to keep his body healthy. Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a so...
S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa
December 05, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBJuan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mother was a seamstress. Neither went to University, but they made sure to push Juan to attend university and focus hard on his studies. It was during University that he fell in love with programming. Outside of tech, he likes to try new things, and doesn't stick with one hobby for too long (other than traveling). Right now, he is into mountain bikin...
S9 Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData
November 30, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBFabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, having a creative mind. She finds great joy and relaxation in water color painting, while also spending time with her family over fantastic Portuguese dinners. Outside of this, she enjoys traveling, learning about other cultures and cuisines across the world. As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to...
S9 Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder
November 29, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBKyle Carberry grew up in a very small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was always into tech, but mainly the pirating side of things on his dial up internet connection. He got into pogromming when he got is first Xbox, and started modding it - followed by Minecraft servers and building tools for the internet. Outside of tech, he just moved to New York and prefers the hustle and bustle over the small town quiet. Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be co...
S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly
November 28, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBMatt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And during that time, he started to dig into computers, and became hooked. He started several businesses in High School, and later founded eFront. Outside of tech, he is married with a couple of kids, and likes top lay golf. While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approache...
Season 9 Trailer
November 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 minute - 1.3 MBWhat 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 recover from critical mistakes... ...how to scale your solution to the masses? How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product? What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology? What if there was a show where you could hear those stories? Sponsors CacheFly ClearQu...
S8 Replay - Puneet Gupta, Amberflo
November 23, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBFor 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 therapeutic. He spent many years launching prominent cloud solutions, and has a track record for success there. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 boys, living in the Bay Area with his extended family. He is into motorcycles, and is falling in love with reading again. The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, whe...
S8 Replay - Glauber Costa, Turso
November 21, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBGlauber 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 that the jump from 2-3 kids was hard, and we joked that he playing zone defense now over man to man. AS of this recording, he had already seen the Mario movie 3 times with his kids, and enjoys playing video games with them. But, his game to play is Civilizations, which he is highly addicted to. Glauber comes from a heavy database and ...
S8 Replay - Sefi Genis, Firefly
November 16, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBSefi 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 military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family. Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as c...
S8 Replay - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy
November 14, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBNaré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience it much differently than the hardship it was. Her upbringing was very community driven, focused on caring for others. Eventually, she went to work for the United Nations, in her words, so she could save the world - though eventually she was disillusioned by how slow things moved. It was at this point...
S8 Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff
November 09, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBAlex Yarotsky got into tech as a little kid. In fact, he remembers watching the movie Toy Story, and wanting to learn how to build the tech that drove its creation. He got into University, but eventually, dropped out, and went the standard Eastern European software route, by joining a consultancy. Post that, he joined his first tech startup, and hasn't looked back since. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 fat cats. He and his wife enjoy MMA, and traveling. Twelve years ago, the founders ...
S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io
November 08, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBPato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boca Juniors. He also admits to being influenced by the Messi effect as well, liking Barcelona and now the States. He is a father of 2 young kids - who also play soccer - so there are a lot of nets and practice tools in his backyard. At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shi...
S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction
November 07, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBMoti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of which are in college. His family and he lives in the Bay Area, and he likes to play tennis and travel. In fact, he has been to over 65 countries in his life, and has lived in 2 continents. After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't...