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S6 E27: Escaping the Social Media Algorithm: Building a $100M+ Community SaaS with Gina Bianchini of Mighty Networks Jul 19, 2022

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Gina Bianchini grew up in Cupertino in the 70's & 80's, which was a place where people were tinkerers and creators. What she learned from that experience was a deep appreciation for the interests and passions of people. When the early days of social tech happened, she fell in love with how they worked - specially around creating communities. Outside of tech, she played field hockey at Stanford and a solid career. Fun fact, you can't cross check in field hockey, which was news to me. Now a days, she loves to hike, read, and hangout with her friends, family and her husband.

Gina has created community tools before, and has discovered that people who are creating and participating in these online communities are phenomenal. So much so, that she set out to do it again, in order to unlock the power of community in people's lives.

This is the creation story of Mighty Networks.

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S6 Bonus: The Documentation Debt Trap: Why Static Readmes Are Sabotaging Dev Velocity and the Shift Toward Continuous Code Understanding with Omer Rosenbaum, Co-Founder & CTO of Swimm Jul 15, 2022

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Omer Rosenbaum lives in Tel Aviv, with his wife and 3 month old son. He loves to teach, and he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel. He loves coffee, traveling, meeting new people, and learning languages (not just coding languages). In High School, he took an after school Pascal class - and he loved it. And around that time, he installed a virus on his computer, and established a new hobby for him - virus removal. As military service is obligatory, he spent several years in the Israeli military and learned a ton.

Despite the skill level of engineers these days, Omer found that the onboarding processes of many companies were too costly. After discussing this issue with many end users, they confirmed that the world of knowledge sharing was broken... and they wanted to fix it.

This is the creation story of Swimm.

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S6 Bonus: The Startup Code Doctor: Triage for Broken Tech Stacks & Technical Debt with Andreas Creten of madewithlove Jul 14, 2022

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Andreas Creten has been in tech for as long as he can remember, and even started a company when he was 18 years old. He is a family man, with 3 kids, which is what he spends most of his spare time. He likes to do carpentry as well, and he recently built a cabin in his garden, for him to work remotely. His bucket list item is to built a truly remote cabin in the forest someday.

In the past, Andreas started an agency in the normal fashion - taking on development projects and delivering results. What happened was that businesses starting asking their team to be interim CTO's, and help lead the technical strategy for their companies.

This is the creation story of madewithlove.

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Cynthia Kao, Operation Code Jul 13, 2022

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Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Cynthia Kao is the Executive Director at Operation Code. Previously, she has spent time as a combat journalist, and was deployed in the Air Force twice. She is passionate about serving and advocating for the families and for the military.

Questions:

What is Operation Code?
In supporting our service members and spouses, what sort of tooling do you use to help them thrive in learning?
What makes Treehouse stand out from the other solutions?
What sort of feedback have you gotten from your members about Treehouse?
What does the future look like for the organization, and for your partnership with Treehouse?

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https://operationcode.org/

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S6 E26: From a Genomics PhD to a Deloitte Exit: Engineering AI Grant Matching with Aria Hahn of Pocketed Jul 12, 2022

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Aria Hahn grew up in Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada. She's always been on the entrepreneurial train, though at times she says she may not have known it. She started out studying business - but hated it. She eventually went into grad school (cause she wasn't ready to work full time). By the end of grad school and a small stint in teaching, she pursued her PhD in Genomix. When she observed the folks in the dry lab pasting thousands of lines of code, she was intrigued by computer science.

Having some experience with grants, Aria and her co-founder took some friends who were business owners out for drinks. When their platform idea and grant acquisition capabilities were challenged, they took action and secured a large amount of grant money... directly from the bar.

This is the creation story of Pocketed.

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S6 Bonus: Moving Beyond Legacy Manual Testing to Drive High-Velocity Digital Assurance and DevOps Optimization with Chakri Devarakonda, Head of Quality Engineering at Tavant Jul 08, 2022

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Chakri Devarakonda finds it strange how he got into Quality Engineering starting out as a security guy. That being said, he can definitely see the intersection of both. Where he used to test a lot of security devices and labs, he has shifted into the quality side of things and ensuring things work properly. He is a family oriented guy, with 2 boys nearing the end of grade school. Three years ago, Chakri carried forward his quality mindset into his current role. He was intrigued by the intersection of product, services, and quality.

This is his creation story at Tavant.

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Website: https://www.tavant.com/
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S6 Bonus: Moving Beyond Real-Time: Engineering Zero Trust Payment Precision with Ben Turner of Verituity Jul 07, 2022

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Ben Turner's grandfathers were both an entreprenuer. One grandfather went to Cornell, but ended up buying a fishing boat and then eventually, a hardware store. His other grandfather started a grain elevator after WWII, followed by going into real estate. He learned to be blind to risk, which is important in starting something new. Outside of tech, he likes to do outdoor activities, like kayaking, mountain biking and trail running.

Ben was apart of a company called Network Solutions, and when they started that company, there wasn't the concept of a payment gateway. To make a solution work, you had many technical hurdles that existed. Two years ago, Ben started looking into how you solve this problem.

This is the creation story of Verituity.

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Tutelage of Treehouse - Jason Gilmore, Treehouse Jul 06, 2022

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Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!

Guest: Jason Gilmore is the CEO of Treehouse. He is also a principal at Xenon Partners, along with a startup advisor. He has spend many years as an engineer, consultant, and conference leader, along with making significant content contributions to prominent tech sites and writing several books on programming.

Questions:

How to you come to land in this position with Treehouse?
What are the future plans for Treehouse? What's the strategy?
How many people do you hire who have graduated from your program?
Why would someone choose Treehouse over other online training providers?

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S6 E25: Why Webhooks are Broken: Building the Twilio for Webhooks with Tom Hacohen of Svix Jul 05, 2022

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For Tom Hacohen, coding started when he was 9 years old. He took after school robotics classes which required coding... and once he stepped into the programming aspect, he realized he didn't really care about robots anymore. Outside of tech, he surfs, cycles, and longboards - when the conditions are right. When asked where he likes to longboard, he prefers the roads on a sunny day for long distance long boarding in Tel Aviv.

When a friend asked Tom a question about webhooks, he dug deeper into the problem and realized that for her solution, she just wanted an easy way to send hooks from her service. After she agreed to pay him to build it, along with several others, he found the validation to step into building a platform.

This is the creation story of Svix.

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S6 Bonus: From Oracle & AWS Aurora to CTO of MongoDB: Scaling Document Databases with Mark Porter Jul 01, 2022

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Mark Porter has always been fascinated with puzzles, so tech just fit for him and a great journey for him. He got his first 4k computer in middle school, and then moved into doing programming for the Department of Education. His big learning from this was that you can use tech to do social good. He's married with 5 kids, and as he puts it, they put up with his deep tech obsession.

Mark joined the board of MongoDB in 2019. What got him excited about the company was the world changing nature of the product. So much so, that he asked to step off the board to be CTO - and carry the banner to the developer community about the power of their doc based, distributed system performing DB transactions.

This is Mark's story with MongoDB.

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