Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders

Avi 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 solution for just that.

This is the creation story of Kentik.

Sponsors

• Drata
• CacheFly
• ClearQuery

Links

• https://www.kentik.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/avifreedman/

Juan 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 biking and snowboarding.

Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own.

This is the creation story of Salsa.

Sponsors

• Drata
• CacheFly
• ClearQuery

Links

• https://www.salsa.dev/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmbarroso/

Fabiana 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 her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science.

This is the creation story of YData.

Sponsors

• CacheFly
• ClearQuery

Links

• https://ydata.ai/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiana-clemente/

Kyle 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 coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off.

This is the creation story of Coder.com.

Sponsors

• CacheFly
• ClearQuery

Links

• https://coder.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylecarbs/

Matt 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 approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN.

This is the creation story of CacheFly.

Sponsors

• CacheFly
• ClearQuery

Links

• https://www.cachefly.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/exile2k/

What 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
• ClearQuery

For 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, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models.

This is the creation story of Amberflo.

Glauber 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 systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite.

This is the creation story of Turso.

Sefi 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 code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale.

This is the creation story of Firefly.

Naré 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, where she shifted over to tech. Outside of tech, she used to love reading, but now that she has a child, she sticks to audiobooks. And, she thoroughly enjoys art, specifically, 20th century Russian-Jewish artists.

When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data.

This is the creation story of Ntropy.