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S8 Bonus: The $20M Seed Manifesto: Unifying Application Code and Infrastructure into One Language with Elad Ben-Israel & Shai Ber, Co-Founders of Wing Cloud May 18, 2023

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Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech consumes a large amount of his life - and he likes it that way. Elad Ben-Israel is also from Tel Aviv, and is 43 years old - and he jokingly claims that he is the responsible adult in the company. Outside of tech, he enjoys attending burning man, and making sure he gets his workout in,

About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language.

This is the creation story of Monada and Winglang.

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S8 Bonus: Cutting Through the ChatGPT Hype: Deploying Practical, Profit-Driven AI Strategy with Andrew Louder, Founder & CEO of Louder Co. May 17, 2023

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Andrew Louder grew up west of Houston, TX, in a town called Katy. He got into tech during his web mastery class in High School. He's a business graduate from Texas A&M University, and he got a taste of what life would be like as an entrepreneur when he founded a social group of Latin American students. Outside of tech, he lives in Dallas, married with 3 kids, and is enjoying all that life has to offer in that space.

About 6 years ago, Andrew decided to jump out and be on his own, with the hope of making a bigger impact than what he was experiencing. He went the solo consultant right for a while, bringing big firm experience to the table and trying things out. Fast forward to now, he and his team are at the forefront of utilizing AI to help you grow your business.

This is the creation story of Louder Co.

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Website: https://www.louderco.com/
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S8 E5: The Evolution of TestOps: Unifying Manual and Automated QA Without the Archaic Tooling Sprawl with Nikita Fedorov, Founder & CEO of Qase May 16, 2023

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Nikita Fedorov has been a tech guy all his life. He loves physics, and eventually decided to try out being a developer, starting out with PHP and doing it for 7 years. Eventually, he moved into leadership and management of engineering teams. Outside of tech, he into his side projects and playing video games, of which is favorite is the game Dark Souls.

While he was an engineering manager, Nikita went looking for a good suite of tools to support manual testing. All of the tools he found were archaic, and looked like they came from the days of the mainframe. He decided to start building a tool that met his own need... and people liked it.

This is the creation story of Qase.

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No Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of Nvidia May 12, 2023

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This week, we’re sharing something special: The No Priors podcast. No Priors is your guide to the AI revolution. At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo ask the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders the biggest questions - people like Cristobal Valenzuela, Founder/CEO RunwayML and Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft.

They ask questions like: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art research? In this episode, Jensen Huang, legendary founder/CEO of Nvidia talks about how Nvidia is powering AI models, their latest chips, how he runs Nvidia, and the AI applications he's most excited about.

You can find No Priors wherever you get your podcasts.

And, thanks again for listening.

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S8 Bonus: Democratizing the Software Factory: Scaling AI-Accelerated No-Code Development with George Novik, Founder & CPO of Zerocoder May 11, 2023

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George Novik's life is his work, so it's strange for him to think of life outside of his startup. But outside of tech, his hobbies include swimming, surfing, and computer games. He loves to surf at the United Emirate States. He is uncertain of the wave sizes there, as the variance is high.

A few years ago, George was hired to build a marketplace for his friends company. Fast forward, he and his team are on a mission to simplify software production, and provide access to vetted, no code developers.

This is the creation story of Zerocoder.

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Website: https://zerocoder.com/
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S8 Bonus: Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Dropping Full-Stack Collaboration Building Blocks Into Any App with Rickard Hansson, Founder & CEO of Weavy May 10, 2023

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Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building things and distributing it - IE building for others. He built his first commercial product at 15, which was a CRM built in Pascal. Outside of tech, he is a father of 3 and is a movie buff in his spare time. His favorite movie is a story about a tree diver, called Le Grand Blue or "The Big Blue".

In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. He and his team decided to create the tooling to help them better compete.

This is the creation story of Weavy.

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S8 E4: The Isolation of the Tech C-Suite: Eradicating CTO Burnout and Building Communities of Practice with Andy Skipper, Founder of CTO Craft May 09, 2023

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Andy Skipper currently resides in Belfast, Ireland, though he is from London originally. He's been knee deep in tech since he was 12 years old, as a hobby programmer. He left college early to start his first software development agency, prior to joining the startup world during the .com era. He loves tech, but loves people as well - which lead him into his current venture. Outside of tech, he is a bedroom guitarist, an amateur photographer, and a Dad - which means he plays a log of Minecraft and Roblox.

In the past, Andy was a consulting CTO, going into companies to coach leaders or temporarily fill in for leaders who had left. What he realized was that these leaders would be doing just fine, if they had mentorship and/or coaching available from seasoned veterans. So Andy branched off - and started doing just that.

This is the creation story of CTO Craft.

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Website: https://ctocraft.com/
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S8 Bonus: The Open-Source LaunchDarkly Killer: Engineering Privacy-First Edge Evaluation with Egil Østhus, Co-Founder & CEO of Unleash May 04, 2023

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Egil Østhus is based out of Norway - which obviously means he loves skiing. But outside of this, he loves to run outdoors, through the woods and on the streets. He has not done a full marathon yet, but dreams of doing the New York marathon someday. He's a family man, married, with 2 boys - none of which like to run with him, but they all enjoy being active and hiking.

In a past role, Egil's co-founder (and brother, FYI) was looking for a tool that would help him release code into the wild, in a rapid - yet safe - manner. He couldn't find anything to meet his high standards - so he built his own. When the open source version started to get a lot of attention, Egil joined his brother to bring the solution to the enterprise.

This is the creation story of Unleash.

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Website: https://www.getunleash.io/
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S8 Bonus: Bypassing the Staging Queue: Hooking Local Processes into Live Kubernetes Clusters with Aviram Hassan, Co-Founder & CEO of MetalBear, Creators of mirrord May 03, 2023

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Aviram Hassan started hacking his way into stuff at a young age, primarily from online multiplayer games. The first game was a fan based game for Pokemon, when he was 8 years old, which was helpful for him to learn English. He served in the Israeli military, prior to become a startup solution architect and backend developer. Outside of tech, he is a family man with a 6 month old, born around the same time as his startup. He also really enjoys coffee, but he admits, he is not obsessive or overly enthusiastic about it.

Given their background, Aviram and his co-founder wanted to build a product based company. In their last company, they didn't really have a developer environment, as it was hard to maintain and didn't represent real data in the production environment. They started thinking about how they could solve this sort of problem.

This is the creation story of Metalbear, and mirrord.

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Website: https://metalbear.co/, https://mirrord.dev/
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S8 E3: The Developer Flight Simulator: Simulating Production Melt-Downs and in a Safe Sandbox with Shem Magnezi, Co-Founder & CTO of Wilco May 02, 2023

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Shem Magnezi is from Tel Aviv, and started his software engineering career when he was in high school. It wasn't really professional, just hacking some stuff together, which is the way he learned the typical starting tools like HTML, Javascript, and the like. Post college, he served in the Israeli Military, in intelligence, and then moved into startups, then bigger companies like Facebook, and then - into his current venture. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 kids, and he loves to play and watch football (or soccer for us stateside).

Throughout their time in the industry, Shem and his co-founders saw a big gap in the industry - between theoretical knowledge and what is actually done on the job in a company. They wanted to set out and build something to bridge that gap - an immersive experience, that not only prepares engineers... but takes them on a quest.

This is the creation story of Wilco.

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