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

Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows).

He likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out.

Joe started out as a Wordpress freelancer, but found it was hard to scale building websites. However, what he knew was the fact that there are a lot of Wordpress sites out there... and they need grade A support.

This is the creation story of WP Buffs.

Links

• https://wpbuffs.com/
• https://wpmrr.com/podcast/
• Pomodoro Journal
• https://wpmrr.com/podcast/noah-labhart-code-story/

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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.

Charity Majors didn't touch a computer until she was in college. In fact, she was raised in a religious, fundamentalist compound in rural Idaho, homeschooled and cultivating all of her own food. She went to college to study classical performance in piano. And though she loved piano, she decided to switch keyboards, so to speak, and pursue something in computers.

Been in San Francisco since she was 19, and never wants to leave. Outside of tech, she does some hand lettering as a hobby, reads a lot - and considers serial television as the highest modern art form. She is firmly motivated by using code to get stuff done - IE she doesn't do tech for fun. And in her words, she's made a niche out of being an infrastructure engineer.

Several years ago, she was the first infrastructure hire at Parse. While supporting the mobile backend as a service before and after the Facebook acquisition, she had access toa tool where she could slice and dice her infrastructure, to gain visibility into a particular section of services and answer questions. When she left - she realized that a tool of that nature was paramount to doing her job well. So she set out to build it again, and figure out how to coin the term observability.

This is the creation story of Honeycomb.io.

Sponsors

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Links

• https://www.honeycomb.io/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/charity-majors/
• https://parseplatform.org/

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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.

Joe Mahavuthivanij was born and raised in the Bay Area, into an entrepreneurial family. Primarily through his life, he was exposed to small businesses. He went to school at UCSD in San Diego, and worked with startups of all shapes and sizes. In fact, he spent some time on the VC side of the fence as well. Tony Tran met Joe in San Diego at school, moving back to the Bay Area around the same time. He is a startup veteran, having built solutions that were acquired by LinkedIn, and creating Uber's fraud detection solutions. He even dabbled in the crypto space, which ended up fizzling out at the time that Joe was looking for a technical leader to join his latest venture.

Joe is a long time collector and investor in Magic the gathering... but one day, his entire collection was stolen - which today, would have been worth a million dollars. Ouch... Being into pop culture relics, Joe wanted a way to make these assets accessible to those who love them most - without requiring them to pay huge sums of money. So he and Tony set out to build a solution to do just that.

This is the creation story of Mythic Markets.

Links

• https://mythicmarkets.com/marketplace
• https://www.crunchbase.com/person/joe-mahavuthivanij
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahavuthivanij/

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Credits: Season 3 of 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.

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Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, to be a highly ranked tennis player. After school, he played the pro circuit for bit but eventually moved on. Now a days, he is into cycling, and has gotten to ride with Lance Armstrong - who told him to make sure to keep his day job. He worked for Coldwell Banker in the real estate business, under Bob Selleck (Tom Selleck's Dad). After that he started his own real estate business, which he did for 30 years. But after a while, he realized that he really enjoyed creating - and a lot of that sort of thing gets lost in the real estate business.

He got into tech because, believe it or not - he was annoyed at the internet, and its lack of privacy. After a casual conversation with his son, he realized that the average user is not getting paid for their data. He found this to be wrong - and set out to fix the problem, to ensure users got paid for their data, not Google, Facebook or anyone else.

This is the creation story of Cocoon - MyDataRewards.

Links

• https://trycocoon.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bermant-83911619/

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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.

Tech has been Rob Joseph's thing for as long as he can remember. At 4 years old, he was the only person in his household who knew how to use the TV and video recorder. Now a day's, he's into weight lifting and going to the gym. His favorite lift is deadlift, since he can continually make progress on his goals.

He loves to hang out with friends and his partner, sharing a good meal or watching an amazing movie. Prior to lockdown, he was really into proper nutritional eating and cooking his own food - from which, he lost a ton of weight and created his twitter handle - low carb rob.

Outside of these things, he is a Podcast host of the budding show Coffee & Coding, which he started during the covid lockdown (of course, after years of procrastination). A quick note... Given that you are listening to this podcast, you should look up his show right now and subscribe. Rob interviews app developers on the latest news, tip and has in depth discussions around how to be a better app developer.

Prior to freelance development, he worked in an office as an IT consultant and had to ride the train to the office. Being packed in the car like a sardine, he would see he received a message on his phone, but had no way to get to it. He wanted a way to have these messages read to him.

This is the creation story of ReadItToMe.

Links

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=robj.readit.tomefree
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Rob+J
• https://robj.me/coffeeandcoding/

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Credits: Season 3 of 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.

Born and raised in Philly, Ron Rock put himself through college, working at Denny's as a midnight chef. He is a life long entrepreneur, and started his first business when he was in his 20's. He's married with 3 adult children, of whom he is very proud of. He spends a lot of time restoring old furniture and cars. In fact, when he was a kid, he was the guy all his friends brought their 10 speed bikes to to be fixed - which of course, changed to cars as they got older. Basically, he has always been building things either at work or at home.

Post his other successful startups, one of which he sold to Accenture, he was intrigued by the space at the intersection of cloud and mobile, in the enterprise. He set out to combine disparate data sources that employees were required to use - digital signatures, smartphones, salesforce - after enterprises spent the last many years having locked everything down.

When he started to pursue this, he noticed that iOt sensors were going to put his core mission on steroids. Four years ago, his company pivoted to be solely focused on iOt & commercial real estate - to create smart, clean, safe - and connected - facilities.

This is the creation story of Microshare.

Sponsors

Wyld Gallery

Podcorn

Links

• https://www.microshare.io/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-rock-2b52499/
• https://kitcaster.com/ron-rock/

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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.

Ward Sandler had a nice upbringing in New Jersey, and went to college in Hoboken, majoring in business tech. In fact, he met his co-founder there, being in the same fraternity. He's married now, living in Pennsylvania, and is really into healthy living - fitness, nutrition, getting enough sleep - and recently, started to learn jiu jitsu, which he describes as a bunch of if - then - else statements.

He also supports and volunteers for organizations that help the wrongfully incarcerated, such as the innocence project and defy - helping these individuals learn to start businesses when they are paroled. Both he and his co-founder were working for a company, selling tax software to enterprises. Post its acquisition to Thomson Reuters, they left and started building small scale projects... finding a niche creating Squarespace sites.

When working on these projects, people kept asking to add membership to their sites - and they found there wasn't a good way to do this, especially on the Squarespace forums. After reading through the comments, Ward realized that there was a huge opportunity to build a tool to solve this problem.

This is the creation story of MemberSpace.

Sponsors

Future Hindisight Podcast

Marathon Training for Beginners Podcast

Links

• https://www.memberspace.com/
• https://twitter.com/memberspace
• https://twitter.com/wardsandler

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Like many folks I talk to in tech, Brendon Beebe grew up in tech. He comes from a long line of programmers, and he has been building things since his teens. In college, he felt the entrepreneurial bug - in fact, he started one venture in a homemade class wait list, that almost got him kicked out of school. Now a days, he is married with two kids, and in his free time, he manages a salt water reef tank as a hobby, and enjoys growing the different species of creatures in his 90 gallon tank. The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew.

Sponsors

Learn Spanish Con Salsa

Future Hindisight Podcast

Wyld Gallery

If I Was President Game

Links

• https://www.foreupgolf.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendon-beebe/
• https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439

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Originally from Berlin Germany, Tim Specht started programming for fun, during high school. He had no plans to make a career out it - in fact, he wanted to become an experimental physicist. When the startup scene in Berlin started to pick up pace, Tim got interested. His first couple of gigs were in mobile engineering, which influenced him to continue to pursue startups further. Now a days, he is a dog foster-er - that is, he rotates dogs through his apartment in Brooklyn, taking are of their special needs while a good home is found for them.

In 2014, he and his co-founders had been experimenting with video and music related apps, tinkering with creation inside of the different mediums - for example, integrating with the iTunes library. And then, of course, sharing those creations with friends. They realized that the features they were creating were too complex for most users... but the ones they created for themselves - just for kicks - were the most interesting pieces of tech. So they spent some time scrapping the complex features, and centering around the short, quick, fun video creation to share.

This is the creation story of Dubsmash.

Sponsors

In Dice We Trust podcast

Marathon Training for Beginners podcast (https://www.crummymarathoners.com/)

Links

• https://dubsmash.com/
• https://medium.com/@tspecht
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-specht/

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In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development.

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Credits: Season 3 of 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.