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Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders

Noah Labhart | Podcast for Technical Founders & Startups
Artificial Intelligence
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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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Charles Maddock is a Swedish engineer, who has been a developer since he was young. Being heavily influenced by Minecraft and building his own empires, he learned Java when he was 11. In high school, he built his first AI agents, and quickly headed i... more

Yash Sinha hates losing even more than he wants to win, as the saying goes. He was born and raised in India, growing up in Delhi and competing in sports like Cricket. He's always been intellectually curious, always looking to the next step - which bo... more

Leo Fan grew up in China, performing his undergrad and masters within the country. Eventually, he came to the states to get his PhD from Cornell. Prior to his current venture, his experience has been in academia, and research in computer science. But... more

Pooja Brown grew up in India, and now lives in San Francisco. Her family ran manufacturing factories that made fertilizer and medicine - IE real products, real customers, and real consequences when a batch didn't ship. She grew up learning that a pro... more

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Recent Guests

Yash Sinha
Co-founder and CEO of Intelligence Factory, a robotics startup building manipulation models
Intelligence Factory
Episode: S13 Bonus: The 99% Reliability Shift: Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation with Yash Sinha, Founder of Intelligence Factory
Leo Fan
Computer science researcher and co-founder and CEO of Cysic.
Cysic
Episode: S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic
Pooja Brown
CTO of Tribe AI with engineering leadership experience at DocuSign and Stitch Fix
Tribe AI
Episode: S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI
Brian McKeown
Founding Engineer at Harmony AI
Harmony AI
Episode: S13 Bonus: Eliminating Paperwork & Manual Data Entry in Manufacturing with Brian McKeown, Founding Engineer at Harmony AI
Jeff Emalaba
Founder and CEO of InvestFusion
InvestFusion
Episode: S13 Bonus: Spotting Property Red Flags using the "CARFAX" of Real Estate with Jeff Emalaba, Founder & CEO of InvestFusion
Alex Blackwood
CEO and Co-Founder of Mogul
Mogul
Episode: S13 E8: Democratizing Real Estate: Fractional Wealth Building for Modern Investors with Alex Blackwood, CEO of Mogul
Caitlinn McMinn
Executive Director at Tech Fort Worth
Tech Fort Worth
Episode: S13 Bonus: From Lab to Market: Scaling High-Growth Tech Startups with Caitlinn McMinn, Programs Director at TechFW
David Moore
Founder & CEO of Stalex.ai
Stalex.ai
Episode: S13 Bonus: Automating Local Lead Growth: High-Intent Prospecting & AI Verification with David Moore, Founder & CEO of Stalex.ai
Dave Berner
Co-Founder and CTO of Parachute
Parachute
Episode: S13 E7: The AI Legal Shift: Giving SME Law Firms BigLaw Leverage with Dave Berner, Co-Founder & CEO of Parachute

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Noah Laphart
Host of Code Story
Noah Labhart
Host of Code Story

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 296 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 States2 years 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 States2 years 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
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S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI
Q: What does the future look like for tribe.ai? For what you offer for your team and for where the industry is going, all the things.
Brown envisions delivering larger enterprise transformations faster by reusing systems, integrations, evaluation processes and lessons learned across engagements, so later deployments reach promised outcomes more quickly.
S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI
Q: Summer, you joined Tribe.AI, what was the first thing you stepped in to take on with Tribe?
Brown says her focus is getting a production MVP running in every enterprise: a real use case with a business owner, a clear metric, integrations, evaluations, audit trails and security guardrails.
S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic
Q: How do you go about deciding that, okay, this is the next most important thing to build or to address with Cysic?
Fan says the team monitors market trends and looks for real computing demand. With layer-two transaction volume too low to sustain proof-generation demand, Cysic is expanding support to AI computing and other workloads.
S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic
Q: Tell me about that MVP and how long it took to build and what sort of tools you're using to bring it to life.
Fan says the team spent more than six months building a GPU version of CPU proof generation, reducing a proof workload from over two hours to about 15 minutes on a two-GPU machine. Customers were willing to pay for the service, which led the company to build a blockchain network for contributing idle GPU power.
S13 Bonus: The 99% Reliability Shift: Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation with Yash Sinha, Founder of Intelligence Factory
Q: What does the future look like for Intelligence Factory and the robotics industry?
The company plans to deploy robots for individual tasks such as pick-and-pack, cleaning, and tool use, collecting data from deployments to expand its models' action space. Its long-term goal is a general-purpose manipulation model.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Code Story

What is Code Story about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show spotlights founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built software products, landed early customers, and navigated scaling challenges. Episodes consistently explore engineering decisions, MVP trade-offs, pricing and GTM experiments, and the realities of growing a startup from first commit to scale. A notable strength is the deep-dive style that surfaces real-world lessons, from infrastructure bottlenecks and data strategies to governance and security in AI-driven enterprises. The blend of founder journeys with technical context makes it especially useful for CTOs, engineers, and startup leaders evaluating technology choices and growth paths.

What stands out is the pragmatic focus on process, culture, and executio... more

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2. Leo Fan
3. Pooja Brown
4. Brian McKeown
5. Jeff Emalaba
6. Alex Blackwood
7. Caitlinn McMinn
8. David Moore

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