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

Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He is originally from South America, and moved to the US when he was a teenager. Later in life, he went through Navy Seal training and served the country for 6 years, doing primarily special reconnaissance. After leaving the military, he taught himself how to code and "fell into" the world of AI. He finds the dynamic of uncertainty in the military translates over to the tech startup world. Outside of tech, he likes to try random things, but digs surfing, swimming, and doing art.

In his undergrad program, Will created a toolset to help you scale code within the deep learning, AI world. Prior to joining Facebook, he open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix.

This is the creation story of Lightning AI.

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Links

• Website: https://lightning.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wfalcon/
• https://www.williamfalcon.com/

Conor Carmody lives just outside of Dublin with his wife and has 3 lads - aka boys. Professionally, he worked in Eastern Europe around the time of the Berlin Wall, through some dramatic change in society. He learned a ton about setting up businesses in a society that was rebuilding itself. Today, he does a lot of advising and consulting around establishing and growing a business. Outside of his current venture, he likes to garden - and claims he is the guy that counts down the minutes until he can cut the grass again.

Conor joined his current organization is helping to build the Ireland entrepreneur and startup culture. With the arrival of big tech companies helping to accelerate that, his group is ensuring that entrepreneurs are being strategic in forming their businesses, meeting the right people, raising money, and... building community.

This is the creation story of the Furthr Festival.

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Links

• Website: https://furthr.ie/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorcarmody

Mark Stouse was a CCO and CMO in large companies like Honeywell Aerospace. He claims that he is not a data scientist, but can play one on TV. He got to a high degree of organizational maturity, and could understand and speak to the needs of a data scientist. If he wasn't pursuing his current venture, he would likely be a history professor, as he is seriously passionate about 15th century innovation and the pre renaissance era. He is also a parent of 2 teenage boys, so outside of tech and history, he spends time doing what they want to do.

As a communications and marketing leader, Mark was frustrated with the lack of recognition for his marketing teams to the bottom line. In addition, he solved major analytics problems at his prior companies, but had massive budgets to do so. He saw that software and automation was the way forward.

This is the creation story of Proof Analytics.

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• Airbyte
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• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://www.proofanalytics.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markstouse/

Jake Vacovec started his career in sales, and eventually moved into the product world. He loves to cook, and finds it relaxing, and a good way to unwind from startup world. Primarily, he loves to cook steaks and likes to integrate chemistry into cooking, which aligns with the recipes he likes. Also, he loves to mountain ski, starting out when he was a 1 year old (he was the kid on the leash, he says).

Jake noticed that capacity for engineering resources was scarce across the board, while the demand for experimentation in product was very high. He sought to fix the problem, by creating no code edits - for your code itself.

This is the creation story of Flycode.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://www.flycode.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-p-vacovec-28417869/

Waseem Daher had two immigrant parents from Lebanon. He was born in the states, after the migrated to the states in the 80's. With his relatives around him, he saw that it was possible to run your own business, and do it well. His love for computer science really culminated when he went to MIT to complete is undergraduate studies, where he actually met his current co-founders. He is married with a 2 year old - so all additional time he has outside of work is spent with his young family.

Waseem and his co-founders have done many startups together. Inevitably, with every business they started, they found the back office type processes were important to have each time, but not the area of expertise for the founders - and much less, not the focus of said business. So, they built the service they wished they had in prior ventures.

This is the creation story of Pilot.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://pilot.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdaher/

Ryan Buick grew up in San Francisco - in the actual city itself. He went to school in Oregon, but quickly back to the area. He is a very proud owner of a COVID dog - IE, he got the dog during COVID - and enjoys biking and just hanging out. He named the dog Jerry, in order to make his Dad and his Grateful Dead loving family laugh.

Prior to their current venture, Ryan and his co-founders were working at Flexport. They were so early on the team, that while having to prove ROI on a roadmap, he had to grow new skills in data analytics just to service his job needs. This got him thinking about other folks, and what sort of tool could support a spreadsheet interface on top of data sources.

This is the creation story of Canvas.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://canvasapp.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanjbuick/

Ashleigh Wilson is a self proclaimed elevator baby, being raised in the elevator industry. She grew up with an interesting mix of entrepreneurial spirit, along side blue collar influence. Outside of her current venture, she likes to reach books and is very into fashion. For books, she likes self help, spiritual type books, like Brene Brown or Glennon Doyle.

At a prior company, Ashleigh did a research profit that surfaced to her how much the industry was focused solely on profits, and not the people they were serving. She left her company, and had a moment where she envisioned how she would change the industry, and shift the power back to the customer.

This is the creation story of Auditmate.

Sponsors

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

Links

• Website: https://auditmate.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleigh-wilson-she-her-01131285/

Alex Omeyer is undercover French ,despite his thick British accent. He was born and raised in Paris, and though he studied business and management, he spent most of his time doing show jumping - in other wides, riding horses to jump over obstacles. He moved over to the UK to join his brother, finish his Masters, and get cracking on what they were going to build together.

Alex, his brother, and their friends set off building software solutions. They noticed that there was a lot of data generated throughout the process, and they envisioned a future where this could be accessed to enable anyone to code. But.. in order to arrive at that, they realized that a tool needed to be built to access that data, in a trustworthy manner.

This is the creation story of Stepsize.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://www.stepsize.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-omeyer-060a0175

Ruslan K has been doing software development for over 10 years. He's gone from mobile development to automation and AI most recently, working with neural networks. He is a huge horror movie fan - with his favorite being the original Thing movie - and has always been looking for an intersection of tech and movie making. He's also a musician, and is into rockabilly and psycho-billy.

Ruslan started his current venture in 2019, with his university friend who is a film maker. While his co-founder was stuck int the US, he dove deeper into the film making process. They noticed that the processes used in film making were not innovated... IE ripe for disruption.

This is the creation story of Filmustage.

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• Airbyte
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• Host.io
• IPInfo
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Links

• Website: https://filmustage.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslan-khamidullin-136831a1/

Max Koziolek comes from a simple background. His single mother raised he and his twin brother, outside of Berlin, with no connection to technology. When he was introduced to tech, he was really only interested as far as the games he could play. He was into sports, martial arts, and even politics, believe it or not. He studied law, and realized that as the world was changing to be wrapped around tech, he came back to the industry. Now a days, he is back into martial arts, and he notices - and supports - the trend of tech and martial arts being correlated.

In the past, Max noticed that he was getting a ton of good content from his friends on the chat apps he used. He paired up with his co-founder to explore fixing journalism, and distribute valuable content to users... through WhatsApp.

This is the creation story of Spectrm.

Sponsors

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

Links

• Website: https://spectrm.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoziolek/