Latest Co-founder Podcast Episodes
S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork
Code Story - March 05, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMike 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 dow...
S9 E13: David Boskovic, Flatfile
Code Story - February 27, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDavid 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 ...
S9 Bonus: Debbie Levitt, Delta CX
Code Story - February 22, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDebbie 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 bo...
S9 E12: Yoav Abrahami, Velo by Wix
Code Story - February 20, 2024 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsYoav 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 te...
S9 Bonus: Shauli Rozen, ARMO Security
Code Story - February 15, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsShauli 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...
S9 E11: Srikar Sam Yeruva, Pycube
Code Story - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSrikar 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...
S9 Bonus: David Hartmann, Helio Additive
Code Story - February 08, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDavid 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 s...
S9 E10: Dennis Pilarinos, Unblocked
Code Story - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDennis 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...
S9 Bonus: Ruslan Zaripov, RiskHunter by KRIT
Code Story - February 01, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRuslan 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 wi...
S9 Bonus: Erik Gross, The Tech Academy
Code Story - January 31, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsErik 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 ...
S9 E9: Ryo Koyama, Remote.it
Code Story - January 30, 2024 19:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRyo 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...
S9 E8: Roger Light, Cedalo
Code Story - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRoger 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 ment...
S9 Bonus: Nate Henderson, BILT
Code Story - January 18, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsNathan 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 c...
S9 Bonus: Craig McLuckie, Stacklok
Code Story - January 17, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsCraig 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 o...
S9 E7: Naomi Chopra, Hatica
Code Story - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsNaomi 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,...
S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans
Code Story - January 10, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMelissa 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 p...
S9 Bonus: Jonathan Norris, DevCycle & Taplytics
Code Story - January 04, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJonathan 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 peopl...
S9 E5: Gilad Shriki, Descope
Code Story - January 02, 2024 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsGilad 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 wel...
Replay: Alexander Deeb, Classhook
Code Story - December 28, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlex 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 hi...
S9 Bonus: Sahil Patel, Spiralyze
Code Story - December 21, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSahil 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 ...
S9 Bonus: Ariel & Irena, Healthbird
Code Story - December 20, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAriel 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 thin...
S9 E4: Ayal Regev, Redefine.dev
Code Story - December 19, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAyal 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,...
S9 Bonus: Leonardo Shapiro, Not Alien
Code Story - December 14, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsLeonardo 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 ...
S9 Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard
Code Story - December 13, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsBlack 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...
S9 E3: Reinis Simanovskis, Finfra
Code Story - December 12, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsReinis 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 toda...
S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc
Code Story - December 07, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRaven 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 adva...
S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik
Code Story - December 06, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAvi 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 ra...
S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa
Code Story - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJuan 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 U...
S9 Bonus: Fabiana Clemente, YData
Code Story - November 30, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsFabiana 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 Portug...
S9 Bonus: Kyle Carberry, Coder
Code Story - November 29, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsKyle 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 ...
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