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

Nanxi Liu is from Colorado, and went to school at UC Berkeley. In college, she immediately started her entrepreneurial journey by starting a bio tech company, and then eventually starting tech companies. She built and sold a company called Enplug, which was the #1 open digital signage software company. Outside of tech, she has kept a full life as well - producing TV shows - them winning an Emmy, snowboarding, and playing piano & cello.

At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build.

This is the creation story of Blaze.

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• Website: https://www.blaze.tech/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nanxi/

Alex Embiricos comes from an interesting background, having grown up all over the place - between Asia, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. He came to the states for college, and found his way into software after a stint in Aerospace. Ultimately, he found himself interested in the intersection between business and building technology. During his career, he spent a lot of time working at Dropbox, followed up by starting a company with his friends. Outside of tech, he loves to play Badminton, and when asked what his favorite food was, well... it is his Mom's food.

After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together.

This is the creation story of Remotion.

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Links

• Website: https://remotion.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/embirico/

Sydney Davis really enjoys art. She enjoys immersive exhibits and loves to paint. She's a Mom, and digs spending time with her son and traveling to different exhibits. She loves the intersection between elemental art, digital art, and art from repurposed elements. She introduced me to a new term for immersive exhibits - selfie museums, which I hadn't heard before.

When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience.

This is the creation story of Nixcode.

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Links

• Website: https://nixcodeapps.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamsydneydavis/

Tanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research work was getting exposure, so he expedited his jump into industry, which help solidify the foundation for his current venture. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, hikes and travels. For the readers, he highly recommends N.K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane-Anders and Namoi Novak.

Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that.

This is the creation story of Hasura.

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• Website: https://hasura.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanmaig/

Ken Babcock grew up outside of Buffalo, and as such.. is a big Bills fan. He attended Cornell, and has spent time in NYC, San Francisco and now Chicago. He's a family man, with an 11 month old, and loves to ski. His favorite mountain was Tahoe, specifically Palisades, where he mentioned spending many hours on the slopes. He mentions that his busy life of a startup and family life is a dangerous cocktail, but one that is worth drinking.

Back in 2019, he and his current co-founders met each other at Harvard Business School. After digging into team performance, they started asking questions around the barriers to increasing team performance, specifically in replicating high performers. The dialed it into process replication, and started down the road to build a tool to make this not only possible... but easy.

This is the creation story of Tango.

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Links

• Website: https://www.tango.us/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenbabcock/

Hello again listeners!

Today I have yet another special return episode for you. I'm speaking with Arjun Narayan, Co-founder & CEO of Materialize. He told us the creation story of the product and company in Season 4, Episode 11, which I would encourage you to go back and listen to. Similar to yesterday's episode, Arjun is returning to the podcast since his prior appearance to give me major updates on the company and the product. As a reminder Materialize is a fast, distributed SQL database, based on streaming internals, which allows you to have data consistency, scalability and low latency. You can learn more about the product at materialize.com. Thats M A T E R I A L I Z E.com.

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• Website: https://materialize.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunravinarayan/
• https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-arjun-narayan-materialize/

Hello Listeners!

We have a treat for today's episode. On the show, I'll be interviewing Joe, the CEO of Pulumi, to get an update on all that has gone on within the company. As a reminder, Pulumi is Infrastructure as Code technology, that allows you as an engineer, developer, architect - to deliver infrastructure with high velocity and scale, through software engineering. You can learn more about their product, and get started quick, at pulumi.com. Thats P U L U M I.com.

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Links

• Website: https://www.pulumi.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejduffy/
• https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-luke-hoban-pulumi/

Arjun Bhatnager has been coding since he was 10 years old, and in general, his family is full of entrepreneurs, running their own businesses. In fact, his brother is his co-founder in his current business. He loves to read, write, and play tennis in his spare time, along with playing music. In fact, playing music was a large part of his life, starting out playing the trumpet. In general, he is passionate about creating, and was inspired early on by the Inkheart series of books.

Arjun decided to build a prototype system, which integrated all the data from every aspect of his life. What he figured out was that he didn't trust other companies to handle the data from these systems - and he needed a way to "cloak" his true credentials from those he utilized on other platforms.

This is the creation story of Cloaked.

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Links

• Website: https://www.cloaked.app/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunbhatnagar/

Derek Osgood comes from a family of entrepreneurs, and has always known he wanted to start something himself. Prior to that, he worked for other companies, large and small, in product and marketing roles. Some of the companies he worked for included Playstation, Rippling and BBVA. Outside of his profession, he loves to travel the world, and is a huge fantasy story nut. It's worth noting that we geeked out on fantasy novels for a good 10 minutes, as your host is a fantasy nut as well.

At his previous companies, Derek has been through hundreds of product launches, of various types and sizes. In his words... every one of them was a dumpster fire, no matter the size and supposed maturity of the company. It was always a challenge, and after trying to build a robust process in every tool imaginable, he decided to set out and build it right.

This is the creation story of Ignition.

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Links

• Website: https://www.haveignition.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekosgood3/

Raj Bains grew up in India, North of Delhi, and comes from a family who, as he says, does "whatever is best to do" at the time. They moved around quite a bit when he was a kid, and his family dabbled in a number of different trades. After doing an internship in France and then, completing his undergrad, he moved stateside and has called many different states home. In fact, in those states, he got involved in outdoors activities, like kayaking, mountain biking, and the like. Also, he plays a lot of games, specifically on his phone, which makes his fingers hurt.

Raj comes from a background of building powerful tools, that also happen to be really complicated and hard to use... specifically, around the data engineering space. To put it blunt, he felt that the tools were from the Stone Age. He knew that he could build something better.

This is the creation story of Prophecy.

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Links

• Website: https://www.prophecy.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-bains-b837a46/