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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
Artificial Intelligence
Startups
Product Development
Entrepreneurship
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Cybersecurity
Automation
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Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products.

Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product-market fit, and navigated early-stage growth.

We explore:

Early engineering decisions and MVP development

Landing the first customers

Pricing and go-to-market experiments

Scaling chall... more

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Sid Dixit is originally from central India, and came to the states for college. He is a technologist and builder at heart, serving in leadership roles across major companies. He has built and managed a fleet of satellites, built robots at Amazon, wor... more

The Working Smarter podcast from Dropbox is a show about AI in the modern workplace. It is a great show for our listeners who want to go deeper and hear from the engineers who are actually building cutting edge AI software. We hope you enjoy!

Emilie Schario grew up in New Jersey, outside of Newark, and attended college in the state. Currently, she lives in Columbus, Georgia, outside of Atlanta. She mentions she got into technology so she could easily follow her husband's career geographic... more

Bhaskar Sunkara grew up in Delhi, India, and moved to the states when he started working. He has lived in San Fransisco for several decades now, and has spent a lot of his professional life building systems (infrastructure, observability and now, ana... more

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Recent Guests

Emilie Schario
Co-Founder & Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo
Kilo
Episode: S12 E28: The AI Throughput Illusion: Why Splurging on Expensive Models Fails to Ship Code and How to Measure Real Engineering Output with Emilie Schario, Co-Founder & Head of Product & Engineering at Kilo Code
Bhaskar Sunkara
Founder & CEO at Bicycle AI
Bicycle AI
Episode: S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI
Shayne Higdon
Wallarm CEO
Wallarm
Episode: The AI Control Loop: The Enterprise AI Accountability Moment – with Shayne Higdon of Wallarm
Irina Nazarova
CEO of Evil Martians, co-founder of AnyCable
Evil Martians / AnyCable
Episode: S12 E27: The Real-Time Scaling Tax: Why High-Volume WebSockets Kill Monolithic Performance and How AnyCable Decoupled the Real-Time Layer with Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians
Ramiro Roballos
CEO and co-founder of Tukki
Tukki
Episode: S12 Bonus: The Global Talent Mirage: Why Rigid Immigration Frameworks Fail Elite Tech Teams and the Rise of the Global Mobility OS with Ramiro Roballos, Co-Founder & CEO of Tukki
John Wright
CEO and Co-Founder of TrueDialog
TrueDialog
Episode: S12 E26: Your Automated CRM Texts are Ending up in the Spam Folder (And How to Fix It) with John Wright, Co-Founder & CEO of TrueDialog
Ajay Kulkarni
Co-founder and CEO of Tiger Data
Tiger Data
Episode: S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data
Ahikam Kaufman
Co-founder and CEO of Safebooks AI
Safebooks AI
Episode: S12 E25: From Processing $500B at Intuit to Building the Fraud-Proof Ledger: Eradicating Financial Misstatement with Ahikam Kaufman, Co-Founder & CEO of Safebooks AI
Vitalii Sydorenko
Co-Founder, Gearheart
Gearheart
Episode: S12 E24 P2: Why Off-the-Shelf APIs Fail Complex Web Workflows and the Blueprint for High-Velocity Product Engineering with Volodymyr & Vitalii Sydorenko, Co-Founders of Gearheart

Host

Noah Laphart
Host of Code Story

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 294 ratings
  • Authentic Narrative

    Insightful deep dive into the real-world experiences of tech entrepreneurs, highlighting both successes and setbacks.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sam Rotbart
    United Statesa year ago
  • Color commentary

    We all hear stories about tech, but they’re sanitized to fit the narrative. Understanding the human journey is so powerful. Good stuff!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    playa hata 987
    United Statesa year ago
  • Great host!

    Loved the direct and candid conversations!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    HouraniT
    United States2 years ago
  • Informative and Entertaining Listen

    Enjoyable podcast that talks building businesses with a wide variety of entrepreneurs.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    CSchnettler
    United States3 years ago
  • I was a victim of a sim-swap hack and if not for urgent intervention by a recovery experts whom I hired after my crypto account was hacked and coins stolen. The experts i hired sought the permission of INTERPOL darknet and crypto crime monitoring unit to pursue my case which ended up in a successful recovery of 90% of my lost coins. You’re free to reach out if you need help too. E f f i c i e n t N e t H a c k on Gmal

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Quality guests and strong storytelling make complex tech topics accessible and actionable.
Listeners appreciate deep, candid conversations that reveal both successes and setbacks of entrepreneurship.
The host asks thoughtful, well-researched questions that draw out practical lessons.

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S12 E27: The Real-Time Scaling Tax: Why High-Volume WebSockets Kill Monolithic Performance and How AnyCable Decoupled the Real-Time Layer with Irina Nazarova, CEO of Evil Martians
Q: What was the MVP approach for AnyCable and why open source?
The MVP was an open-source drop-in replacement for Rails' WebSocket protocol (Action Cable) built to be easily adoptable by changing a configuration rather than code, which helped rapidly attract early users and feedback from the Rails community.
S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data
Q: I'm curious then about what you would consider the MVP, and how long it took to build and what tools were used to bring it to life.
The MVP was a Postgres extension built as an open-source addition to the database, created because off-the-shelf options failed to meet the needs. It took about a year to go from idea to a working MVP, and the focus was on leveraging Postgres to scale for sensor and time-series data rather than starting from scratch.
S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI
Q: How has the product progressed from MVP to today?
From detecting and explaining KPI movements to a full loop of detect, explain, act, and learn, implementing agentic capabilities that map data sources automatically and provide actionable steps.
S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI
Q: What was a core decision in the early MVP and how did it shape the product?
The key decision was to fix on verticals rather than building a giant horizontal analytics platform, grounding the model in specific business contexts (retail, travel, payments) to create practical, reusable agents that solve real problems.
S12 Bonus: The Dashboard Mirage: Why Aggregate Metrics Hide Revenue Leaks and the Rise of Autonomous, Agentic Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara, Founder & CEO of Bicycle AI
Q: What was the MVP for Bicycle AI and how long did it take to build?
The MVP took about a year, focusing on three core capabilities: connect to customer data, define the KPI properly, and automatically search across the dimensions that could be causing KPI movements, all within a vertical-focused scope.

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