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

Andrew Smith grew up playing in the woods of northern New England. In 6th grade, he was given a car and drivers magazine and fell in love with Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches - who didn't? In 7th grade, his science teacher told him they got bad fuel economy, so he was inspired to change that. He currently lives in Oregon, though Outrider is based in CO, he is passionate about mountaineering, climbing and skiing, with whom he does with his friends, colleagues and family any chance he can. He has always thought the largest business opportunity and moral obligation is the commercialization of environmental technologies. Taking a look at the 10 billion tons of freight that is shipped annually.. in the US alone... his perspective was solidified. This is the creation story of Outrider. 

Links

• https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/alumni-stories/andrew-smith
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-smith-8173853/
• https://news.crunchbase.com/news/colorados-outrider-comes-out-of-stealth-with-53m-to-automate-logistics-hub-operations/
• https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/19/autonomous-yard-trucking-startup-outrider-comes-out-of-stealth-with-53-million-in-funding/

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm.
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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.

Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana. Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly - but early on, he knew he wanted to do his own thing. His wife and he just moved to Hawaii... they have been a full time travelling couple, following the Spartan Race for quite some time - so obviously they are into trail running! Prior to his latest venture, he signed on to Vibenomics as one of their first employees, early on in their startup inception. He learned a lot about startups - about fundraising, and what it takes to build a successful startup. A few years ago, he and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery.

Today’s Sponsors:

• Tresta.com/codestory - 30 Day Free Trial
• Go.RIMS.org/CODESTORY - to save 25% on a yearly membership

Links

• https://www.podchaser.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-raven-b320b531/
• https://www.podchaser.com/creators/cole-raven-107Zzj5ex7
• https://www.spartan.com/en
• https://www.vibenomics.com/

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Amazing tools we use:

• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE

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.

Coming soon... we will be releasing Season 3 of the Code Story podcast. With 2 seasons under our belt, we've dialed into the founder tidbits that you want to hear most. And, we are going to take a few new approaches to how we shape those conversations, produce those episodes, and bring your favorite show to life. You'll hear from amazing guests, such as Cole Raven of Podchaser, Dave Zohrob or Chartable and Mark Hendricks of Wild Ventures. And in these interviews, we continue to uncover the stories you want to hear most - stories around success, mistakes, scaling, building and making trade-offs - all in the name of building the next big thing. 

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm.
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE!

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.

A quick note about the end of Season 2 and the start of Season 3... soon.

Early on in his life, Ryan Graciano aspired to be many things - law, writing... and eventually coding, of course. Fun fact, he is an accomplished dog trainer. focusing on animal behavior modification - and more recently, has gotten into powerlifting. Despite his love of analog activities, he got started coding right after college, and tried to avoid joining IBM... yet, still did, through an acquisition. After a few years of growth, he met a group of entrepreneurs who had an idea to provide credit scores to millions of users... for free. This idea would eventually become Credit Karma.

Today's Sponsors: 

ClipGain.io (https://clipgain.io)

RIMS (https://www.rims.org/)

Links

• https://www.creditkarma.com/ourstory/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/graciano/

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm.
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• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE!

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

Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jürgen Strauss on the InnovaBuzz podcast, to talk about:

• How to have your team OWN and run your projects
• Getting in touch with who you are, then owning it and rocking it and
• How to get new ideas and solve problems by walking away from them for a while

Listen to the podcast to find out more at https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart. Some tweetable snippets:

• Be yourself. Be in touch with yourself, own it, and rock it! @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• Be bold in yourself and go do it. Give things a shot. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• Enable your people and stay connected with them. There’s nothing more satisfying than making yourself redundant. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• It’s helpful to create brand awareness but the real selling point is knowing your ideal client and understanding the problem that you are solving. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• You need to have enough workers to attract business, but you also need to have enough business to attract workers. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• Making sure that your team stays connected is important in doing remote work. Make sure that there are touchpoints where people can connect and talk to each other with that they are working on. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• Just do it. You’ll never know until you do it. There are so many resources at your fingertips that you can take advantage of, and so, there’s very little risk in trying. If you fail, you’ll just learn something that will help you in the next thing you will do. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts
• Go analog. Get away from the digital world and go outside. Good ideas come from random places. @CodeStory on #InnovaBuzz podcast https://innovabiz.co/noahlabhart @ApplePodcasts

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE

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

A resident of Amsterdam, Daniel Gebler found his way into tech through an artistic route – through creating demos, combining visuals and music through technology. A husband and Dad of 2, he enjoyed rock climbing, but mostly bouldering indoors – though he loves to go out in the trees with his friends when he can. After leading R&D at Fredhopper, he took several years to do research on large scale systems. Coming out of his research in 2015, he joined Picnic – the online supermarket delivering groceries directly to your home, free of charge.

Today’s Sponsors:

• Ladder.sport – use code: BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% off
• Payoff.com/CODESTORY – pay off your credit card debt
• Go.RIMS.org/CODESTORY – to save 25% on a yearly membership

Episode Resources:

Picnic

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE

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

Nine years ago, Dennis Lunev moved from Russia to the USA. He likes to polish his skills in archery and throw axes. Previously, he was a software engineer attempting to build SaaS solutions that didn’t quite pan out. Afterwards while doing integration consulting he saw the need to connect payment gateways to HubSpot, so he set out to build DepositFix – a way to directly integrate Stripe and PayPal into the world’s most used CRM.

Today’s Sponsors:

• Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org/savekids)
• Payoff (payoff.com/codestory)
• RIMS (Get 25% off a year long membership at Go.RIMS.org/codestory)
• Calibre (Start a free 15 day trial at CalibreApp.com)

Episode Resources:

• DepositFix
• Connect with Denis on LinkedIn
• RICE Framework
• HubSpot
• Stripe

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• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm
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• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE

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

A few weeks ago, I got to have a great chat with James Deeney on the Meet the Podcasters podcast. In this episode, we talk about Code Story and how we craft the narratives for the stories. We dig into the editing, the workflow, and the inspiration that started it all.

Link to the episode: https://www.podcast.co/inspire/noah-labhart-code-story

Show Notes: 

• 02:22 – How Noah first got into podcasting
• 07:30 – Plans to launch a company podcast for Veryable
• 09:20 – Similarities between starting a company and starting a podcast
• 11:45 – Hiring a podcast team
• 14:10 – How Noah initially financed Code Story
• 16:30 – Why podcast quality is so important
• 18:30 – Communicating clearly and avoiding tech jargon
• 22:00 – How to conduct relaxed and conversational interviews
• 27:00 – Editing interviews to craft a narrative
• 29:30 – How music is added to Code Story
• 33:00 – Why Noah decided to produce Code Story in seasons
• 37:00 – Strategies Noah used to build his audience
• 40:30 – Promoting a podcast in relevant online communities
• 44:20 – Finding and pitching to podcast sponsors
• 50:15 – Noah’s predictions on the future of podcast tech

Amazing tools we use:

• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm.
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE!

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

Mubashar Iqbal, AKA Mubs, has always been a maker. Having built 85 side projects, he is no stranger to launching new products, being inspired by his love for Product Hunt, he got the idea to create something with the same mechanics, but for podcasts. On a train ride home, he started to build pod hunt, a place for podcast lovers to submit and vote on new episodes, solving discovery around episodes over entire podcast shows.  

Today’s Sponsors:

• Ladder (ladder.sport)
• Payoff (payoff.com/codestory)
• Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org/savekids)
• Atomic Child (atomicchild.com)
• RIMS (go.rims.org/codestory)
• Scatterspoke (scatterspoke.com)

Episode Resources:

• https://podhunt.app/
• https://mubs.me/

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Amazing tools we use:

• If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fm
• Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.
• Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE

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