Latest Co-founder Podcast Episodes
S9 Bonus: Jason Hill, Owwlll App
Code Story - July 05, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJason Hill was born and raised in New York, and post college, went back to New York and joined the financial services - though, he was always into technology. Eventually, he moved to South Florida because every time he was in New York, he couldn't wait to leave. He enjoys playing poker, pickleba...
S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Code Story - June 25, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAdam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin based. He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80's hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of wh...
S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra
Code Story - June 20, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsBerkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but enable him to live a nomadic life. He split his college time in Turkey and America, and while he was stateside, he discovered hackathons - which is t...
S9 E29: Umaimah Khan , Opal Security
Code Story - June 18, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsUmaimah Khan grew up in San Diego, but now lives in the Bay Area. A fun fact about her - she was home schooled until college, and growing up, loved puzzles and math. She planned to be a math professor until she eventually got into startups and tech. She is a curious person, with many hobbies and...
S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave
Code Story - June 11, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDavid Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at Texas Instruments - who makes a whole lot more than calculators - serving in numerous roles in IT, the latter being e-commerce. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and really enjoys spend...
S9 Bonus: Omry Hay, env0
Code Story - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsOmry Hay is 41 years old, married, with 3 young kids. He has lived his whole life in Israel. Unlike many founders in Israel tech, he did not serve his military service in a technology group, but as a commanding officer in the infantry. Outside of tech, he is passionate about all things sports, a...
S9 E27: Neil Patel, Axiom
Code Story - June 04, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsNeil Patel has always been a hacker - electronics boards, radios, etc. - being interested in how things work, mechanically or digitally. He learned hard work at his Father's convenience store, while also reading every computer magazine on the rack. He is a pharmacologist by study, but landed in ...
S9 E26: Sanjay Nagaraj, Traceable AI
Code Story - May 30, 2024 05:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSanjay Nagaraj started his journey in India, where he was born and raised. He earliest influences started at home, as his father taught him honesty and integrity and his mother heavily influenced his growth as an individual. Though he spends most of his time in tech, anytime outside of work is d...
S9 Bonus: Nic Beique, Helcim
Code Story - May 23, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsNic Beique was born in Odessa, Texas, but moved when he was very young to Montreal. Later in his teens, he moved to Alberta, which he describes as the "Denver of Canada". He loves his work, and spends most of his time thinking about how to expand his new venture - but outside of this, he lives i...
S9 E25: JJ Tang, Rootly
Code Story - May 21, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJJ Tang grew up in mainland China, though eventually he came to the US for University and stayed. He found a job, started working and eventually, moved to Canada, as the entrepreneur ecosystem was quite friendly. He has worked for companies like Instacart, IBM and Cisco, gaining vast experience ...
S9 E24: Alex Gallego, Redpanda Data
Code Story - May 15, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlex Gallego was born and raised in Colombia. He has always identified as a builder, and as a kid, he would help his Uncle re-build dirt bike engines, and was the kid that would take apart his friend's computer when they weren't looking. Once he arrived in the US, his Dad got a computer, which s...
S9 Bonus: Adam Sandman, Inflectra
Code Story - May 09, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAdam Sandman grew up in Wales, in the United Kingdom. He went to university to study physics, because he had a fascination and desire to understand how things in the world worked. It was during this time that he ended up falling in love with tech, and has been in the industry ever since. Outside...
S9 E23: Vlad Sadovskiy, Netevia
Code Story - May 07, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsVlad Sadovskiy is a first generation immigrant from the Ukraine in the early 1990's. He has been in the payments space for 30+ years, so he knows a thing or two about the space. But outside of this and tech, he is a cancer survivor, and ex professional chess player. He mentions that along with p...
S9 Bonus: Sasha Mitchell, BeL2
Code Story - May 02, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSasha Mitchell living in Bangkok, Thailand, but grew up in London. He stared in the creative industries, as one side of his family are architects and the other side are musicians. This inspired him to study music production, which allowed him to enjoy the intersection of tech and creativity. Dur...
S9 E22: Roman Sevast, Awesomic
Code Story - April 30, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRoman Sevast was born in a small city in Ukraine. When he met his girlfriend, he wanted to take her out to dinner - but he didn't have the money to do so. So he started to learn software engineering to make a little money - and his tech career started. Outside of tech, he loves to play a myriad ...
S7 Bonus: Björn Kolbeck, Quobyte
Code Story - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhen asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech?". He has made his hobby into his job, being exposed to his first computer at 11 and dreaming of being a programer. Outside of tech, he is a father of 2 kids. He loves going to the gym and travelin...
S9 E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs
Code Story - April 23, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMatt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, which led him to New York and the startup community. He is a multi founder, which led him to his current venture. Outside of tech and startups, he i...
Tech Update: Rene Morkos, Alice Technologies
Code Story - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWelcome back listeners. Today we have a return guest on the podcast, Rene Morkos, the Founder & CEO of Alice Technologies. If you recall our conversation with Rene from Season 7, April 6th 2023, he and his team are building algorithms to disrupt the construction industry, through project option...
S9 E20: Michael Hummel, Establish
Code Story - April 16, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMichael Hummel has a different perspective on tech and startups than most people in this realm. His background dis in marketing, and prior to his current venture, he was running a lead gen marketing firm. Outside of his professional life, he is married, living in Puerto Rico, and has a miniature...
S9 Bonus: Alon Arvatz, Pointfive & Author of Battle for Your Computer
Code Story - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlon 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 Com...
S9 E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee
Code Story - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsLinus 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 cookin...
S9 Bonus: Erin & Jesus, MSquared
Code Story - April 04, 2024 14:46 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsErin 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...
S9 E18: Jai Ranganathan, Motive
Code Story - April 02, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJai 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 ...
S8 Bonus: Amy & Whitney, Disruption Advisors
Code Story - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhitney 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,...
S9 E17: Jake Ward, Data Protocol
Code Story - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJake 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 ...
S9 Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine
Code Story - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsLuka 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 we...
S9 E16: James Perkins, Unkey
Code Story - March 19, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJames 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 ...
S9 Bonus: Zach Goldberg, Gruntwork & The Startup CTO's Handbook
Code Story - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsZach 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 interse...
S9 E15: Saravana Kumar, Document360
Code Story - March 12, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSaravana 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 f...
S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self
Code Story - March 07, 2024 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsCraig 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 m...
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