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S7 Bonus: The Everything-as-a-Service Engine: Enterprise Managed Security at Scale with Faisal Bhutto of Calian Feb 16, 2023

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Faisal Bhutto is a family man, and the proud father of 2 girls and a boy. He is based out of Houston, and enjoys the outdoors - hunting, sports, and working on his off-road rig. When discussing sports, the mentioned he was lucky enough to go see the World Cup recently. And when I asked about hunting, we yammered on about white tail and pheasant, as your host is an avid hunter too.

Prior to his current role, Faisal built and grew his Computex business to serve the larger part of the United States. Calian took noticed of the business, and stepped in to acquire their footprint and expand into the US, specifically around Cloud & Cybersecurity.

This is Faisal's creation story at Calian.

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S7 E23: The 4.5-Million Combination Problem: Why Human Cognition Fails Precision Oncology and the Rise of Knowledge-Based Medical AI with Navid Alipour, Co-Founder & CEO of AI Med Global Feb 14, 2023

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Navid Alipour has spent many years in the world of medicine and AI, supporting and admiring doctors. He jokes that his wife and he are the black sheep of the family... because they aren't actual doctors. He's the co-founder and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, as well as serving on the board of multiple San Diego based companies. Outside of his professional ventures, he enjoys watching movies with his wife and kids.

Navid and his team explored the world of radiology, from a technology and data standpoint. After applying the same thought process and/or algorithm for predicting space weather, they processed millions of mammogram images to detect cancer in their patients. And it worked... really well.

This is the creation story of AI Med Global.

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S7 Bonus: The Real-Time Arcade: Engineering Instant Leaderboard Micropayments with Joe De Pinto of Haste Arcade Feb 09, 2023

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Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, and was drafted to play professional baseball in the minors for the White Sox. He's always had an active lifestyle, and now lives at the beach and surfs regularly. In 2015, he and his current co-founder started a company called Barpay, which makes it easier to get drinks at busy bars.

In January 2021, Joe and his co-founder are sitting in their office, frustrated that no one was getting what Bitcoin - that is BSV, not BTC - was originally created for. They asked themselves, what could we build to illustrate the utility of blockchain?

This is the creation story of Haste Arcade.

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GrowthMode: ON - Zach Fragapane, GrowthMatch Feb 08, 2023

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Welcome back listeners, today we are kicking off a special series of the Code Story podcast, entitled Growth Mode: On!, sponsored by our good friends at GrowthMatch. GrowthMatch helps tech companies grow their audience, supercharge their sales, and activate thought leadership in their industry. They are turning entrepreneurs into thought leaders, one video at a time, by utilizing fractional growth teams. You can learn more by checking out their website, GrowthMatch.com.

Guest: Zach Fragapane, CEO of GrowthMatch

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S7 E22: The Instagram of Building Maintenance: Engineering a Photo-First Facilities Engine with Paul McCarthy of SnapFix Feb 07, 2023

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Paul McCarthy grew up in Cork, Ireland, and went to school there. He lives around the corner from the sea, and likes to dip in now again - literally, swim in the ocean. He calls it a great shock to the system, but ensured that I know he doesn't spend a full hour in the water.

Five years ago, Paul was fed up with the archaic ways that properties were managing their safety, maintenance and work orders manually, through platforms like WhatsApp. He set out to build the simplest way to manage your hotel, facilities and team - using photos.

This is the creation story of SnapFix.

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S7 Bonus: Solving the Blockchain Storage Bottleneck: Building Dedicated Gateways & "Submarined" Data with Kyle Tut of Piñata Feb 02, 2023

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Kyle Tut started out his life wanting to be a car mechanic. His Mom affirmed his aspirations, but gave him the advice to make sure he owned the mechanic shop. He's taken interesting paths through the auto world, marketing, and eventually, into the tech world. Outside of tech, he is originally from North Dakota but now lives in Nebraska, and enjoys the practicality of the way people think in the Midwest.

Kyle knew that storing data on the blockchain was expensive. At the same time, it wasn't fast, nor was it stable. He and his co-founder set out to build an unbelievably fast content delivery network, easily accessible across the world.

This is the creation story of Piñata.

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S7 E21: Democratizing Enterprise Code: Engineering AI No-Code Apps for Regulated Markets with Nanxi Liu, Co-CEO of Blaze.tech Jan 31, 2023

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Nanxi Liu is from Colorado, and went to school at UC Berkeley. In college, she immediately started her entrepreneurial journey by starting a bio tech company, and then eventually starting tech companies. She built and sold a company called Enplug, which was the #1 open digital signage software company. Outside of tech, she has kept a full life as well - producing TV shows - them winning an Emmy, snowboarding, and playing piano & cello.

At her prior company, Nanxi experienced her non-technical team members consistently needing some sort of tool to solve a problem, and as such, waiting around for engineering resources to be freed up to build it. When their company got acquired, she and her co-founders knew exactly what they wanted to build.

This is the creation story of Blaze.

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S7 Bonus: Making the Operating System Multiplayer: From a $13M Collaboration Engine to OpenAI with Alex Embiricos of Remotion Jan 26, 2023

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Alex Embiricos comes from an interesting background, having grown up all over the place - between Asia, the Caribbean, and Switzerland. He came to the states for college, and found his way into software after a stint in Aerospace. Ultimately, he found himself interested in the intersection between business and building technology. During his career, he spent a lot of time working at Dropbox, followed up by starting a company with his friends. Outside of tech, he loves to play Badminton, and when asked what his favorite food was, well... it is his Mom's food.

After his prior startup failed, Alex still had the urge to build something. He met his now co-founder, and they started to explore ways to connect people online. What they noticed was that most video chat tools were created around a presentation, but not around solving problems together.

This is the creation story of Remotion.

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S7 Bonus: The AI CTO: Democratizing App Development for Underserved Founders with Sydney Davis of NixCode Jan 25, 2023

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Sydney Davis really enjoys art. She enjoys immersive exhibits and loves to paint. She's a Mom, and digs spending time with her son and traveling to different exhibits. She loves the intersection between elemental art, digital art, and art from repurposed elements. She introduced me to a new term for immersive exhibits - selfie museums, which I hadn't heard before.

When Sydney was leaving the college world, she was creating apps for customers, and validated the need for said customers to have guidance on how to build an app. After taking a development hiatus, she picked back up her platform approach in 2019, and eventually started using AI & Machine Learning to drive an easier, no code, app development experience.

This is the creation story of Nixcode.

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S7 E20: Engineering a $1B GraphQL Data Federation Engine: Real-Time DB Queries with Tanmai Gopal of Hasura Jan 24, 2023

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Tanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research work was getting exposure, so he expedited his jump into industry, which help solidify the foundation for his current venture. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, hikes and travels. For the readers, he highly recommends N.K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane-Anders and Namoi Novak.

Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after breaking down the process to its simplest form - data mapping and security authorization - he had a bead on how to do that.

This is the creation story of Hasura.

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