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

Nathan Yap has a tight knit family, that he spends a lot of time with. So traveling and enjoying good food with his family is winning to him. Outside of that, he is enjoying the Pickleball craze, and he was heading into his first tournament at the time of this recording. He also loves to ski as well, and mentions really enjoying Crested Butte and Vail.

Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams.

This is the creation story of SupportZebra.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://supportzebra.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanyap/

Satish Jayanthi was born in India, and attended school there. When he was growing up, his Mom was a teacher and his Dad was dabbling in different businesses. After he graduated, he started working for a software company, which ultimately sent him to Europe, and then eventually to the US 22 years ago. Outside of tech, he spends a lot of time with his family, his 2 kids, and he loves to play tennis and meet people doing so. As a father, he continually reminds his kids to be passionate about what they are doing, and to do so with 100% effort.

Prior to his current venture, Satish was building data warehouses for different businesses and firms in the industry. He saw first hand how hard it was to bring a bunch of data sources all together, and have them be compatible in a single source. He decided to set out and solve the problem, by bringing a modern approach to the space, paired with automations.

This is the creation story of Coalesce.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://coalesce.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-jayanthi-32703613/

Jeff Grass had his career start more traditionally, as a bond underwriter, graduating from Wharton, and then being a serial entrepreneur. Outside of his business ventures, he is married with 2 kids, and used to run marathons... including one into Athens with his bare feet. When he's not running, he's spending time with his kids and their activities.

Jeff's current venture started out as a tech-enabled platform for office and event catering, which connected their users to incredible chef entrepreneurs. Fast forward, they are now a national platform for top chef-made food production and delivery services, that includes much, much more.

This is the creation story of Hungry.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://tryhungry.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffgrass/

Rob Moore was previously on the Code Story podcast back in Season 2, when he was building Floom - a marketplace built to make monetizing SaaS products easier. Three years ago, he moved to London with his now wife, as they got married a few months ago. Another update is he enjoys studying philosophy and how people think... and he tends to find good insight from Seneca. He applies a lot of his learnings to his personal life, but also to his startup ventures.

Rob previously built a product called Waave. When their customer acquisition couldn't keep up with churn, they started building tools to help them figure out what was going on. They focused on a cancellation flow, and spent 6 months perfecting a tool that helped them fix their churn problem.

This is the creation story of ChurnKey.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://churnkey.co/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-moore/

Back in 1986, Juan Soberanis and his family got a personal computer for the house - a Commodore 128. He asked his mother if he could take it to his room, and taught himself how to program, and of course, he did some gaming on it as well. This was the genesis of his career path, which picked back up in college. Outside of tech, he has kids in their 20's, and spends a lot of his free time hiking and being outdoors.

Juan has been working with startups for quite some time. At one point in his career, he became a contractor doing mobile development. Through a number of contracts with a specific investor, Juan found himself as the CTO of a startup, pitching an idea for what his current venture would become.

This is the creation story of Beacon.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://www.beacon.site/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-soberanis-4447191/

Olga Stern considers herself an onion, with a lot of different layers. She loves to try out new things, which has produced a lot of different hobbies in her life - like underwater rugby, floor hockey, knitting and squash. Recently, she became a dog owner, and listens to podcasts to learn more about being a good dog parent. She splits her time 50% in Stockholm, and the other half in a small village up north, in an outdoors and skiing area. She is currently into ski touring... when you hike up the mountain, don't use a lift, and "earn your turn".

Olga's co-founder has a PhD in financial flows, specifically for the music industry. She decided to pursue the democratization of music rights, and created new assets for anyone to invest in. Olga joined her, and starting building out what would become their mobile app.

This is the creation story of Tangy Market.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://www.tangymarket.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-stern-51957216

Hello listeners! Today have Nick Donorio on the show today.

Nick Donorio is a second generation American. His grandparents were poor, Italian immigrants - and his family was hard working, focused on value creation. They were poor, but never thought of themselves as poor - they always had food to eat, and always sat down at the table for dinner at night. Nick spent 44 years of his life at IBM, as an electrical engineer and then as a technology leader. In 2008, he "graduated" from IBM, and now holds board seats for dozens of companies.

Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. With heart and candor, Nick explains how he led IBM's global technical team to embrace market centric, focus redefining innovation and sparking worldwide collaboration.

Get the book on Amazon, or learn more at nickdonofrio.com.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://www.nickdonofriobook.com/
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/If-Nothing-Changes-Donofrio-Story/dp/1544531338/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-donofrio-7588609/
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Michael Zuercher has been in tech since he was young, starting his first company when he was 19 years old. A lot of his path to his current place is through that prior company. He is married with 3 kids, living in South Dakota, and is a pilot. Beyond these things, he is a machinist as a hobby - in fact, he created logos for his current team as they shipped their MVP.

In his prior company, Michael built numerous amount of productized integrations across his platform and thousands of customers. No matter their state of growth, these integrations were always a significant challenge. After selling the company in 2018, he decided to build the thing he wished he had back then.

This is the creation story of Prismatic.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl
• SupportZebra

Links

• Website: https://prismatic.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-zuercher/

Krish Ramineni grew up in Silicon Valley, observing tech all around him. But really excited him was the innovation happening the in the last 5 years. He used to play sports as a kid - tennis, baseball, etc. - and he was always excited about filming his games or practice, and utilizing software to analyze how he executed the craft. He brings his analytical mainframe into his current venture, and still plays some sports, lifts weights, and tracks his nutrition.

Krish went through meetings like we all do - conducting a meeting with expensive team members, and then forgetting most of the conversation afterwards. He decided he wanted to figure out a way to remember every conversation he had, and unlock the hidden metrics behind meetings.

This is the creation story of Fireflies.ai.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl

Links

• Website: https://fireflies.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishramineni/

Shawn Ramirez spent a decade as a political science professor, studying terrorism and strategic negotiations. Five years ago, she switched into tech, in order to make a positive impact, joining startups with great missions. She has created training programs, worked in AI, scaled teams, and dug into the data science world. Outside of tech, she lives in Seattle with her family, and loves all the outdoors things you can do in the Pacific Northwest.

Shawn tells the story of how her current venture started out as a dating service, but pivoted when the pandemic hit to positive events for remote teams. Being on one of those remote teams and consuming the events, she fell in love with the idea and joined the team, to build and deliver shared experiences with powerful insights.

This is the creation story of Mystery.

Sponsors

• Airbyte
• Doppler
• Host.io
• IPInfo
• mabl

Links

• Website: https://www.trymystery.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/slramz/