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

Tyson Kunosvsky was born in South Africa, and travelled a lot as a kid. When he was a kid, he was majorly influenced by his parents, who ran the Gottman Institute. It was his parents job to take the content that the Gottmans created, and deliver their research to the world, and Tyson helped them do that by building the first version of their learning management system. Outside of tech, he loves to ride motorcycles and do rock climbing.

In 2015, Tyson started a company who focused on migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud. After being acquired, he realized they kept doing the same thing over and over again at the larger company. At 18,000 feet in the air while climbing a mountain, he made the decision to quit his job and build a solution to help people go to cloud.

This is the creation story of Autocloud.

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Links

• Website: https://www.autocloud.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tkunovsky/

Saksham Sharda likes to make short films, or anything that is related to videos. In fact, he has narrowed that down to creating trailers, which he attributes to being in the right role in marketing. He's always active in making social media clips, and is always recording everything (even the most boring moments, in his words).

The founders of Saksham's current venture started out building an estimator for what it would take to build an app. This estimator became very popular, and they figured they should build a platform to enable others to make their own.

This is the creation story of Outgrow.

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• Website: https://outgrow.co/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saksham-sharda-outgrowco/

Mike Cruz grew up in Guam, near Japan. He spent 18 years before moving to the US for college. He has always been in tech - everywhere from the Discovery Channel to startups like Trunk Club, and always in building tech products. He has a young family with 2 boys, and his oldest is getting into programming from the lens of gaming. He reflects on how far games have come these days, as they were much simpler and easier to code in the past.

In 2011, Mike & his co-founder has witnessed the proliferation of bootcamps for practical entry and exposure into the tech industry. Given their own backgrounds in struggling to plug into the music and startup scenes, they thought they could replicate this type of model and help people be discovered.

This is the creation story of Protégé.

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• Website: https://www.protege.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdcruz/

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Dustin Usey is a Treehouse graduate and a full time technical evangelist for Treehouse. He has pursued numerous tech degrees, after switching careers from the Oil & Gas field into technology.

Questions:

• How did you come across Treehouse? What attracted you to it?
• What skills did you have professionally that helped you learn faster?
• How many programs did you complete on Treehouse? What was your goal?
• Tell me the story about how you got your job with Treehouse. What do you do for them?

Links

https://teamtreehouse.com/

Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people were tinkerers and creators. What she learned from that experience was a deep appreciation for the interests and passions of people. When the early days of social tech happened, she fell in love with how they worked - specially around creating communities. Outside of tech, she played field hockey at Stanford and a solid career. Fun fact, you can't cross check in field hockey, which was news to me. Now a days, she loves to hike, read, and hangout with her friends, family and her husband.

Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives.

This is the creation story of Mighty Networks.

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• Website: https://www.mightynetworks.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginabianchini/

Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel. He loves coffee, traveling, meeting new people, and learning languages (not just coding languages). In High School, he took an after school Pascal class - and he loved it. And around that time, he installed a virus on his computer, and established a new hobby for him - virus removal. As military service is obligatory, he spent several years in the Israeli military and learned a ton.

Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken... and they wanted to fix it.

This is the creation story of Swimm.

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• Website: https://swimm.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omer-rosenbaum-034a08b9

Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he was 18 years old. He is a family man, with 3 kids, which is what he spends most of his spare time. He likes to do carpentry as well, and he recently built a cabin in his garden, for him to work remotely. His bucket list item is to built a truly remote cabin in the forest someday.

In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion - taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO's, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies.

This is the creation story of madewithlove.

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• Website: https://madewithlove.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreascreten

Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military.

Questions:

• What is Operation Code?
• In supporting our service members and spouses, what sort of tooling do you use to help them thrive in learning?
• What makes Treehouse stand out from the other solutions?
• What sort of feedback have you gotten from your members about Treehouse?
• What does the future look like for the organization, and for your partnership with Treehouse?

Links

https://teamtreehouse.com/

https://operationcode.org/

Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneurial train, though at times she says she may not have known it. She started out studying business - but hated it. She eventually went into grad school (cause she wasn't ready to work full time). By the end of grad school and a small stint in teaching, she pursued her PhD in Genomix. When she observed the folks in the dry lab pasting thousands of lines of code, she was intrigued by computer science.

Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar.

This is the creation story of Pocketed.

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Links

• Website: https://hellopocketed.io/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariahahn/

Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security guy. That being said, he can definitely see the intersection of both. Where he used to test a lot of security devices and labs, he has shifted into the quality side of things and ensuring things work properly. He is a family oriented guy, with 2 boys nearing the end of grade school. Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality.

This is his creation story at Tavant.

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Links

• Website: https://www.tavant.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chakridevarakonda/