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

Jason Riedel was drawn to technology as a 9 year old. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, falling into the tech world - and as such, he didn't attend college.

Music was his first love (or second, he debates which came first), though he is not a musician. He has produced music in the past, creating beats for artists. Interesting fact about Jason - he ran a hip hop label for 8 years on the side. The way he puts it, he used to make money through IT and spend money through building a hip hop label. He's married with 2 kids, and is into nutrition - though that tends to fall to the wayside, cause kids will only eat what they are going to eat.

Starting as a nights and weekends side project, he and his co-founder created a way for driven individuals to transform their future through learning and opportunity.

This is the creation story of AspireShip.

Sponsors

InMoat

Links

• Website: https://aspireship.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonariedel/
• https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Beerud Sheth grew up in Mumbai, India, and attended undergrad in Bombay. For graduate school, he came to the states to study at MIT, and then did a short stint in Wall Street before moving into the entrepreneurial world.

He lives in the Bay Area, and enjoys hiking, working out and spending time with his family. He loves the Bay Area for these things, but also because of the community of ideation. The way he puts it, someone is always doing something interesting, and he really enjoys that. Besides business books, he leans towards reading biographies and books about the history of tech and business.

Previously, he founded Elance, which is now Upwork, pioneering online freelancing. Twelve or so years ago, he noticed a key insight, in that the mobile revolution was happening all around. Within this, the lowest common denominator was text messages, in that not everyone had a smart phone. This got him asking the question - how interesting can these experiences be?

This is the creation story of Gupshup.

Sponsors

• Grindology
• Morgan Page Game Dev

Links

• Website: https://www.gupshup.io/developer/home
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beerud/
• https://www.upwork.com/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Greg Schier grew up in a small town, without a lot of opportunity. He rode BMX bikes and skate boards, and spent a lot of time building ramps and jumps for them both. At that time... he had no idea what programming entailed. He went to university and it was at that point that he learned about programming, after spending some time in mechanical engineering and then moving over to coding.

He recently moved outside of Montreal, into a house with chickens... and he now finds himself getting into homesteading, gardening, and wood working - creating many improvements around his place to increase the quality of life. The way he describes it, he is midway to a life change towards analog hobbies away from the digital world and the city.

While he was working for a company making a transactional email API, he realized that they didn't have a good way to interact with said API. There needed to be an easy way to interact with the solution as a customer, as a developer, etc. His tool, which ended up taking off, was born out of trying to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of Insomnia.

Sponsors

Wildbit

Links

• Website: https://insomnia.rest/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregorySchier
• https://schier.co/ 

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Bryon Jacob is a family man with 4 kids, from ages 11 down. With a young startup and family, his hobbies has suffered some, but during the pandemic, he was able to pick back up music, specifically playing the keyboard. He's an avid reader, mostly sci-fi and loves to play strategy board games. His family and he tend to play games like Puerto Rico and Ticket to Ride, which is simple enough for his 6 year old to compete.

He and his co-founders have created a massive, open community for data. Users can sign up for free, bring their data catalogue, and analyze any data outside of that. In doing so, they have seen traction of nearly a million users in the eco-system, along with enterprise users with a private, internal data eco-system - all based in the cloud, and fully integrated.

This is the creation story of data.world.

Sponsors

• Grindology
• Morgan Page Game Dev
• Wildbit
• KIMO

Links

• Website: https://data.world/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryon/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

https://the-yield.simplecast.com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintech

The evolution of FinTech has come an impressively long way in a short period of time, but the transformation is far from over. In today’s episode, Yieldstreet’s CTO Hrishi Dixit and Noah Labhart, Co-Founder and CTO at Veryable, discuss the evolution of finance through technology, from updating archaic systems to blockchain hype and the impact of legislation on this developing industry.

[2:24] Noah’s journey from corporate America to tech entrepreneur.

[5:15] Challenges and complexities of building a profitable platform.

[8:10] Key factors that have enabled the commoditizing of APIs.

[13:17] Steps to help develop a strong and updated infrastructure ecosystem.

[17:26] Blockchain hype, facts and its potential to upgrade archaic systems.

[23:39] The impact of state legislation that is targeted at the gig economy.

[25:03] Will the marketplace have an influence on new legislation?

[26:23] What’s coming next in fintech reinvention and innovation?

[28:50] Will legislation have a positive or negative impact on the gig economy?

[30:42] Yieldstreet offerings are required to comply with regulations.

Yieldstreet

Veryable

https://the-yield.simplecast.com/episodes/reinventing-the-wheel-trends-challenges-in-fintech

Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and loves to go outside, to the park, and spend time with his family.

His parents had a boat when he was growing up, and they lived in a rural area. He used to sail down (as a spectator, not a sailor) a nearby river in Virginia. As he got older, he missed the simple peace yet required work that came with sailing - so he picked it back up as an adult.

He's worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. He figured it out it was not only difficult to build... but every developer was recreating this in their solution. He decided to build it one last time.

This is the creation story of Courier.

Sponsors

KIMO

TIKI

Links

• Website: https://www.courier.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troygoode/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend does most of the work. He's an avid kitesurfer, and he likes to be outdoors on the water. He started wave surfing and did it for 8 years, but found it incredibly difficult. He switched to kite surfing 6 years ago, and finds it much more enjoyable.

He was a strategy consultant for 10 years, but then he hit a wall at one point and decided to move on to something new... and that new thing was AI. When he attempted to break into the space and become educated, he had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way.

This is the creation story of KIMO.

Sponsors

Imagine Golf

VirtualPBX

KIMO

TIKI

Links

• Website: https://kimo.ai/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rensterweijde/

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Richard Barkley is a big traveller, and has been all around the world. The first business he started doing was doing non profit work in Uganda. He is a family man. Adopted several children from China, so he's been there. A few times. In total, he has 6 kids - 3 biological and 3 adopted.

He graduated with a finance degree, then taught himself how to code. After having a few engineering jobs, he then started his own businesses. He is a lifelong learner and reads a ton... currently reading former President Obama's latest book. But in fact, he reads all types of books - biographies, tech books, economics... even books about extraterrestrials.

After working for Dell, he grew tired of not moving the needle much, no matter how hard he worked. So he started a company called Nuvola Networks, innovating around e-learning. While doing this, he noticed how manual the flow of information was between antiquated systems for larger companies and enterprises. He thought - why don't we automate this?

This is the creation story of Cloudsnap.

Sponsors

VirtualPBX

Imagine Golf

KIMO

Links

• Website: https://cloudsnap.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-barkley-8839b87/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Cameron Moreau grew up in DFW, more on the Dallas side of Texas. Early on in life, he thought he was going to have a career in music cause he loved it. Eventually though, he discovered programming and went to school at the University of Texas at Arlington, studying computer science.

He spends a lot of time with his dog Twix, bike riding, rock climbing, and staying outdoors when he can. Note... he didn't get into rock climbing until he moved to San Francisco, because - its not really a thing in the flat lands of Texas.

Post school, he spent some time in the Bay Area, working for technology startups. He lived the Silicon Valley dream, coding at Pivotal and OpenDoor, pair programming with amazing developers and people.

When he was a sophomore in college, he ran a group at UTA and organized hackathons. He started to kick around an idea to give people access to a truck when they need it - to enable them to move & deliver large items.

This is the creation story of Gozova.

Sponsors

Imagine Golf

VirtualPBX

KIMO

Links

• Website: https://gozova.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-moreau/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

Arjun Narayan grew up in India, programming as a kid. He came to America for college, thrown into the scene cold but really liked it. He studied computer science at Williams College in Massachusetts, and did his PHD at Penn, focusing on distributed systems, security, privacy and scalability. His doctorate taught him how to write at length, but out of the norm, he knew early on he didn't want to be an academic.

He is married, with a young son - and he really enjoys being a father. Today, his life consists of his startup and his young family, which are about the same age.

As he was as grad student doing his PHD, he came across a set of papers written by his co-founder - about a more capable, incremental compute engine. After several years of persuasion, Arjun convinced him that they needed to start a company to commercialize the solution.

This is the creation story of Materialize.

Sponsors

VirtualPBX

Imagine Golf

KIMO

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Links

• Website: https://materialize.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunravinarayan/

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.