Latest Co-founder Podcast Episodes
S8 Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox
Code Story - September 14, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAndrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, when he came across a job ad for Compaq. He's been in tech ever since, all around the building of things. Outside of tech, he is marred with 2 dau...
S8 Bonus: Pete Hunt, Dagster
Code Story - September 13, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsPete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m butterfly. He has a 2 year old daughter, and loves to play guitar in his cover band. Pete was one of the founding team members of React...
S8 E22: Eric Olden, Strata Identity
Code Story - September 12, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsEric Olden grew up in the Bay Area, as one of the few local natives, but enjoys the mountains of Colorado now, outside of Boulder. He and his family love to ski, mountain bike, and even visit the reservoir to do some surfing. Outside of these things, he is passionate ab out landscape architectur...
S8 Bonus: Barak Glanz, Coddy.tech
Code Story - September 07, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsBarak Glanz is 26 years old, and has done quite a few things in his life. He served in the Israeli Navy prior to jumping into the professional world. He worked for Meta as a student, and has has a few impressive startup failures in different sectors. Outside of tech, he is a rock climber, weight...
S8 Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove
Code Story - September 06, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDavid Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their journey out of the nest into college was a driver behind starting his current venture. Outside of current venture, he is an avid photographer and really ...
S8 E21: Jared Ward, Luminous
Code Story - September 05, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJared Ward grew up in a sporty family, participating in wrestling and football. His background is in supply chain and eCommerce, but outside of this and tech, he is a family man and loves spending time with his kids. With his 7 year old son, he is sharing his love of Zelda, and with his 3 year o...
S8 Bonus: Vikram Chalana, Pictory
Code Story - August 31, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsVikram Chalana grew up in India, but has been in Seattle over 30 years. He graduated from the University of Washington, and actually met his wife in college. In fact, his kids now go to the same school, so his whole family are Huskies. Outside of tech, he loves anything outdoors - skiing, biking...
S8 Bonus: Dor Laor, ScyllaDB
Code Story - August 30, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDor Laor lives North of Tel Aviv, Israel, but travels 4 times out of the year to the states. He loves tech, which drives 200% of his day. Outside of tech, he is married with two teenage kids, and enjoys extreme sports. At the time, he does snowboarding and mountain biking, mentioning that the be...
S8 E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI
Code Story - August 29, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsArtem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web applications in High School. Post school at Columbia, he started working at .COM businesses, but found himself dis-enchanted with the state of AI. Ou...
From Tools and Weapons: Putting AI in the Hands of People Everywhere
Code Story - August 28, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsHello Listeners. This week, we're sharing another episode of the Tools and Weapons podcast, brought to you by our friends at Microsoft. Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott, believes that for AI to benefit everyone, humans must be at the center of its development. His philosophy wa...
S8 Bonus: Adam Nathan, Almanac
Code Story - August 24, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAdam Nathan was born and raised in New York. His parents were small business owners, his brother is entrepreneur, so starting a business was just in his blood. He has always been interested in complex systems, working in the government and in the airline industry. Outside of tech, he is a big sk...
S8 Bonus: Idan Plotnik, Apiiro
Code Story - August 23, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsIdan Plotnik is a half Russian and half Moroccan, which mainly shows up in the way he cooks. First and foremost though, he is a geek, having worked in computer security from his early days. Outside of tech, he is married to a professional surfer, so he and his wife surf Israel's waves regularly....
S8 E19: Yann Ravel-Sibillot, Flowie
Code Story - August 22, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsYann Ravel-Sibillot lives in France, and has a lot of hobbies. Ones that he mentioned was kayaking and rock climbing, which he has been doing for more than 10 years. He is passionate about AI, and built his first robot 15 years ago. Outside of tech, he is happily married and really enjoys Italia...
S8 Bonus: Danielle Shaul, Nilus
Code Story - August 18, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDanielle Shaul was born and raised in Tel Aviv, as an only child with a dog she dearly loved. She has always been passionate about building and creating things, often assembling and disassembling things in her home. She loves to travel, and spent many years in Asia, Europe and in the US. Outside...
S8 Bonus: Dan & Caroline, Overplay
Code Story - August 16, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsCaroline Strzalka is a Philadelphia native, born and raised. She is a first generation American, and is grateful to be in a place where she can run her own company. Her parents are from Argentina, with a Polish heritage - so she pointed out that they speak a lot of languages in her home. Outside...
S8 E18: Ritukar Vijay, Ottonomy
Code Story - August 15, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsRitukar Vijay has been in tech for around 16 years. He has always been fascinated with new things above and beyond the normal day to day grind. During his studies, he was interested in robotics - which he describes as the culmination of computer and physical sciences. Outside of tech, he is marr...
S8 Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli
Code Story - August 10, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he worked in England, then Norway, then China... and now back to Norway. Early on his career, he worked in the Oil & Gas building larger robots for ...
S8 Bonus: Suman Kanuganti, Personal AI
Code Story - August 09, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsSuman Kanuganti is married with a 5 year old daughter, which he greatly enjoys. He loves robots, as a robotics major, but describes himself as a human oriented person - one who wants to elevate the experience of people. Outside of tech, he enjoys playing volleyball and is a foodie with his wife....
S8 E17: Jay Sarmaz, Truve.ai
Code Story - August 08, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJay Sarmaz studied operations research in college, which he describes as the science of solving problems and maximizing value with limited resources. His studies led him to learn computer science to utilize in solving this problems, and eventually, he got his PhD from Georgia Tech. He is driven ...
S8 Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie
Code Story - August 03, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsReza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he thought was the coolest job in the world. He graduated from Waterloo, and became a data scientist - but eventually moved towards entrepreneurship...
S8 Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne
Code Story - August 02, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can be found shuttling kids to soccer or dance practices in his spare time. During COVID, he was able to pickup guitar, using YouTube to teach himself. Hi...
S8 E16: Job Rietbergen, Alphadoc
Code Story - August 01, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsJob Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things - art, photography, product and technology, to name a few. He finds its an odd trait to create art and be in tech, as there are not a lot of peop...
Beyond Bots - Daniel Jordan, Wayflyer
Code Story - July 28, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsToday we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API....
S8 Bonus: David Frank, Stonehaven
Code Story - July 27, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDavid Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love it today. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and did investment banking in San Francisco, before starting his own firm. Outside of tech...
S8 Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs
Code Story - July 26, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMax Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating with a computer science degree, and working as a software engineer. Along the way, he fell in love with entrepreneurship, and dove into the startup...
S8 E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow
Code Story - July 25, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAlex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and eventually, he stepped into the possibilities in this world. Outside of tech, he is married with two k...
Beyond Bots - Bryce Crawford, Meow
Code Story - July 21, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsToday we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API....
S8 Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably
Code Story - July 20, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMatthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft brought him to the UK, where he saw more opportunity. Outside of tech, he likes adrenaline sports. He was a competitively skydiver, participating in fre...
S8 Bonus: Ali Nichols, Getaway
Code Story - July 19, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAli Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and is pretty stoked to have achieved that. Outside of tech, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, hiking, golfing or boating. In fact...
S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB
Code Story - July 18, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsDan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers...
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