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S9 Bonus: Squeezing Maximum Conversion from 130,000 A/B Tests and Killing the Competitor-Copying Fallacy with Sahil Patel, CEO of Spiralyze Dec 21, 2023

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Sahil Patel has lived in Atlanta for 12 years now, but has made a lifetime of leaving Atlanta... and the coming back. He attended undergrad in ATL, and in 2011, started a company called ER Express, which centered around patient scheduling. After building the company, he sold it for a successful outcome for him, for his team, and for the buyer. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 daughters, and loves to play music and play socer. He plays guitar in a rush cover band called the Atlanta Rush Hour, and used to play soccer competitively.

In the past, Sahil was a client of his current venture. In leading ER Express, he saw great value in a tool to predict conversion. He liked it so much, that after he sold his company and moved on, he wanted to join the team - and take it to the next level.

This is the creation story of Spiralyze.

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S9 Bonus: The Expedia of InsurTech: Overthrowing Health Insurance Jargon and Engineering AI-Powered Personalized Enrollment Rails with Ariel Dominguez & Irena Tigranyan, Co-Founders of HealthBird Dec 20, 2023

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Ariel Dominguez has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He started his first company at age 15, selling websites in Miami, hiring family members before he could drive. He continued his career later, in finance, then consumer product goods, then healthcare insurance. He loves to build things, and has started 13 - 15 businesses in his lifetime. Outside of tech, he is an avid drummer, and has been playing since he was 10 years old.

Irena Tigranyan was born in Armenia, and moved to the US in 2014. She never dreamed of being a founder, cause in the world she was raised in, youalways worked for someone else. She has diverse professional experience in retail and operations, but outside of work, she likes to explore, kayaking, tennis and being outdoors.

Fun fact - Ariel and Irena are married, IE partners in life and in business. They Met on Bumble, live in Miami, and invested their "wedding money" to found a company.

Ariel and Irena wanted to build the Expedia for healthcare - to make it simple, and abstract away all the loopholes and jargon. They wanted to innovate in a non-innovative space, and to bring the swipe right or left mentality to healthcare insurance.

This is the creation story of Healthbird.

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S9 E4: The CI/CD Optimization Blueprint: Bypassing Bloated Dev Pipelines and Slashing Cloud Expenses with Predictive Test Selection with Ayal Regev, Co-Founder & CTO of Redefine.dev Dec 19, 2023

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Ayal Regev lives in Tel Aviv, and continues working hard on his startup, despite the hostage conflict in the country at the time of this recording. Prior to his current venture, he was in tech for 10 years, doing consulting in cybersecurity, healthcare, and gaming. Being a gamer for a long time, he enjoyed the technical challenges in brining a game to market. Outside of tech, he likes to write raps - and forecasts that he will perform them one day. He also likes to do rock climbing and play board games with friends.

Ayal and his co-founders noticed the trends of automation in continuous integration and development processes (or CI/CD). They also noticed that over time, this has created a lot of clutter and bloat in the ecosystem. They wanted to filter out bad practices, and build a platform to reduce feedback time and redefine CI/CD.

This is the creation story of Redefine.

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S9 Bonus: The Immigration Risk Fabric: Bypassing Legal Friction with Data-Driven Onboarding Maps and Global Mobility Engines with Leonardo Shapiro, Founder & CEO of Not Alien Dec 14, 2023

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Leonardo Shapiro is originally from Mexico City. His family was from Russia and Poland, but ended up being in Mexico City after being denied from the US. He is an outdoorsy person, and loves to walk and hike. And in fact, he used to be a scuba diving instructor in college, and he loves to spend time in spaces like the underwater. He's also a foodie, and loves coffee and wine.

For Leonardo, the immigration process into the US was a very hard process. He went on the search for a product that would make this process easier, and he couldn't find it. He wanted to fix this, and provide something for his fellow "not" alien's.

This is the creation story of Not Alien.

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S9 Bonus: The DataOps Democratization Blueprint: Overthrowing Airflow Infrastructure Overhead and Scaling Serverless Data Orchestration with Blake Burch, Founder & CEO of Shipyard Dec 13, 2023

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Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music professor, specifically in percussion. But eventually, he moved over to the tech world. But, outside of tech, he plays board games, in the strategy realm, and named one that I hadn't heard of called Terra Mystica.

Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own.

This is the creation story of Shipyard.

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S9 E3: Embedded Lending Infrastructure and Navigating Emerging Market API Scaling with Reinis Simanovskis, Co-Founder & CPO of Finfra Dec 12, 2023

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Reinis Simanovskis was born in Latvia. He comes from a family of exact sciences - physic, math, tech, etc. - which gave him a clear path of where to go professionally. He started coding classes in middle school, but quit to purse road cycling, of which he was very successful. He still rides today, nearly 200-300 kilometers per ride. He has worked in London, Africa, and eventually landed in Jakarta - and aligned with his travels, he is an adventurous foodie.

In the past, Reinis and his co-founders noticed that no one was approaching embedded finance in Indonesia. At the same time, he was seeing other companies be successful at this very thing in the US and other countries, and they started to realize the magnitude of the opportunity.

This is the creation story of Finfra.

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S9 Bonus: Programmatic Venture Finance and Algorithmic Cash Management with Raven Jiang, Co-Founder & CTO of Arc Dec 07, 2023

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Raven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fiction, and liked the idea of working with technology. He plays multiplayer video games, which helped to shape how he viewed technology and the advancements in that ecosystem. He enjoys Japanese food, and in fact, traveled to Japan regularly while living in Singapore.

Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup.

This is the creation story of Arc.

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S9 Bonus: Shattering the Network Telemetry Silo, with Avi Freedman of Kentik Dec 06, 2023

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Avi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years, and likes to play Pot Limit Omaha (which is Poker) and to Taekwondo to keep his body healthy.

Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for just that.

This is the creation story of Kentik.

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S9 E2: The Embedded Payroll Fabric: Bypassing Legacy Monoliths with Developer-First Fintech APIs and Multi-State Compliance Rails with Juan Barroso, Co-Founder & CTO of Salsa Dec 05, 2023

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Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mother was a seamstress. Neither went to University, but they made sure to push Juan to attend university and focus hard on his studies. It was during University that he fell in love with programming. Outside of tech, he likes to try new things, and doesn't stick with one hobby for too long (other than traveling). Right now, he is into mountain biking and snowboarding.

Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own.

This is the creation story of Salsa.

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S9 Bonus: Data-Centric AI Blueprint: Bypassing Privacy Walls and Scaling High-Fidelity Synthetic Data Pipelines with Fabiana Clemente, Co-Founder & CDO of YData Nov 30, 2023

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Fabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, having a creative mind. She finds great joy and relaxation in water color painting, while also spending time with her family over fantastic Portuguese dinners. Outside of this, she enjoys traveling, learning about other cultures and cuisines across the world.

As a data scientist, Fabiana realized that there were several pain points that led to her not being fulfilled in her role. After meeting her now co-founder, who felt the same paints, they decided to set out and solve the problem by building a developer platform for data science.

This is the creation story of YData.

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