Latest Co-founder Podcast Episodes
S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly
Code Story - November 28, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMatt 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. Outsi...
Season 9 Trailer
Code Story - November 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhat 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, t...
S8 Replay - Puneet Gupta, Amberflo
Code Story - November 23, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsFor 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 ...
S8 Replay - Glauber Costa, Turso
Code Story - November 21, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsGlauber 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...
S8 Replay - Sefi Genis, Firefly
Code Story - November 16, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSefi 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 l...
S8 Replay - Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy
Code Story - November 14, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsNaré 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 ca...
S8 Bonus: Alex Yarotsky, Hubstaff
Code Story - November 09, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlex 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 consultanc...
S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io
Code Story - November 08, 2023 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsPato 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 - w...
S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction
Code Story - November 07, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMoti 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 ...
S8 Bonus: Shaun Ritchie, nClouds
Code Story - November 02, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsShaun Ritchie has lived in Salt Lake City for 20 plus years. He grew up in Phoenix, but decided it was too hot to live there. He started his first company 20 years ago, and has had some major successes, selling later ventures to WeWork. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 kids. He loves the mo...
S8 Bonus: Arunabh Dastidar, RealSage
Code Story - November 01, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsArunabh Dastidar has a background in engineering, starting his coding years in his teens. In fact, he was building and selling web products even prior to college. He spends most of his free time thinking about tech and startups, but when he is not, he plays acoustic guitar and attends music fest...
S8 E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet
Code Story - October 31, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsZach Wasserman lives near Vancouver, but grew up a child of the 90's in Berkeley, California. The .COM boom was happening around him, so he found himself fascinated with this era in tech, with little understanding of the details. He was a skater kid, riding around the Bay Area, typically on a sh...
S8 Bonus: Steven Schkolne, MightyMeld
Code Story - October 26, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSteven Schkolne has a standard tech story. He was good at math, and loved computers - so, he got into programming. What sets him apart in the industry though, is his passion for design, art and creativity. He is a self taught designer, but really jams when his right and left brains are firing at...
S8 Bonus: Somak Chattopadhyay, Armory Square Ventures
Code Story - October 25, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSomak Chattopadhyay lives 30 minutes outside of Syracuse, NY, where he enjoys the great outdoors vibe of the area. He studied engineering at MIT, but spent the bulk of his career in investing. He has been in venture capital for nearly 18 years, spending time at Edison and Tribeca. Outside of tec...
S8 E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal
Code Story - October 24, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMaxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. In the late 90's, he moved to the US, eventually landing in Seattle, which loves. He's been married for 27 years, with 3 boys, and loves to hi...
S8 Bonus: Ibrahim & Jay, Astera
Code Story - October 19, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsIbrahim Surani grew up in Pakistan, dropped out of high school and in his words, stumbled around for a while. Eventually, he stumbled onto an IBM mainframe, taught himself to code, and has been in tech ever since. He moved to the states in 1988 and has been here ever since. Outside of tech, he i...
S8 Bonus: Jason Radisson, Movo
Code Story - October 18, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJason Radisson had a tough childhood, being born to a 16 year old single mom. He grew up on a rural place, and his journey required him to work jobs to get ahead and figure the world out at a young age. He was always interested in math and sports, which led him down the path to study economics a...
S8 E27: Valeriy Bykanov, Prodigy
Code Story - October 17, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsValeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing this for some time, he wanted to expand his horizons and moved to Berlin to join a startup. Outside of tech, he is married, and loves to be active ou...
S8 Bonus: Massoud Alibakhsh, Omadeus
Code Story - October 12, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMassoud Alibakhsh was born in Iran, but grew up in the states. He has always been curious about machines, computers, robots - and as such, studied electrical engineering and computer science. He built his career on hardware and software, and witnessed all the tech changes throughout the past dec...
S8 E26: Josh Purvis, Assembly
Code Story - October 10, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJosh Purvis grew up in Missouri, on a lake in the Ozarks. He spent most of his time outdoors, and became a professional wakeboarder. Eventually, an injury took him out of the circuit and he went to entertainment school. During his time there, he and his roommate built a website - and he has been...
S8 Bonus: Max Rudman, Prodly
Code Story - October 05, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMax Rudman grew up in Soviet, Moscow - then moved from Russia when he was 16 years old. He spent his early years programming and exploring engineering, and it just continued on as he got older. He got the entrepreneurial bug in early 2000's when he was hired at a marketplace .COM startup. Outsid...
S8 Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU
Code Story - October 04, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsKaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has had tons of exposure to cultures and countries, which he is fond of. Outside of tech, he married with a family, and loves climbing, being a...
S8 E25: Andrew Colombi, Tonic
Code Story - October 03, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAndrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to load it. After digging into the internal configuration to delay the load of peripherals, he was hooked on computers and eventually, coding. Outside of tech, he is pic...
Dev Interrupted: Assembling & Nurturing Engineering Teams
Code Story - September 29, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsOur host, Noah Labhart, couldn't be more excited about being featured on Dev Interrupted, whom we have followed for a long time, and have learned a ton from. Check out the post below, and subscribe to Dev Interrupted! Check out the original post here: https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted/podca...
S8 Bonus: Max Howell, Tea
Code Story - September 28, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMax Howell did well in school, and was presented with the problem that - he didn't know what to do with himself. At that time, software wasn't cool, so he studied chemistry and started out a job in that industry. After he mastered his work environment within 3 months, he was disenchanted with th...
S8 Bonus: Shirshanka Das, Acryl Data
Code Story - September 27, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsShirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post undergrad, he got his PhD at UCLA, eventually working at PayPal and Yahoo on massive architectural systems. Outside of tech, he's married with...
S8 E24: Jon Ricketts, Writerly
Code Story - September 26, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJon Ricketts lives in Knoxville, TN with his wife and kids. He notes that he has had an unconventional route to being a tech startup founder. He has an MBA and JD, but knew during law school he didn't want to practice. Throughout his career, he has continually fallen in love with building. Outsi...
S8 Bonus: Tim Tutt, ClearQuery
Code Story - September 21, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsTim Tutt grew up in the military, and travelled around following his father. An interesting fact he shared was that he attended three different schools in the 1st grade. He learned how to make friends and fit in quickly. Outside of tech, he loves the marvel cinematic universe, from which he stat...
S8 Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta
Code Story - September 20, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an Apple 2 computer, which started him on his software development journey. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and lo...
S8 E23: Will Gaviria, Coactive AI
Code Story - September 19, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWill Gaviria was born and raised in Columbia, immigrating to Florida at 11 years old. His family seta off in a single bedroom together, and worked hard for their life and successes. He got a full ride to MIT, and funny enough, he had to convince his mother that it was a legit school. Through all...
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