- S8 Bonus: Nooshin Alibhai & Eric Klimuk, Supportbench
Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is actually where she met her co-founder Eric. Eric Klimuk has also been in entrepreneurial roles throughout his life, starting companies early on in his life. Eventually, he dove into enterprise customer support, which led him to his current venture today. He attributes his love for salsa dancing as a major part of his professional successes, and has danced on ESPN. Both Nooshin and Eric enjoy spending time with family and friends, to help decompress from startup life.
Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the world
This is the creation story of SupportBench.
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- Website: https://www.supportbench.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nooshin-alibhai-2a0795177/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericklimuk/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy27m | Jun 1, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Matt Swalley & Hikari Senju, Omneky
Hikari Senju grew up in Westchester, NY, and was exposed to tech early on, as his family worked at IBM. His Dad is also a painter, so he has been driven through the intersection of art and tech. He studied Computer Science at Harvard, and was cross registered at MIT. It was at MIT that his passions united, and he knew that his life goals would be aligned between art and technology. He started his first couple of businesses while still in college,
Matt Swalley graduated from Indiana University business school, and was influenced by his Dad and Mom, who were both business people. Post school, he joined a leadership development program at AT&T, and led sales teams in several different locations. Post getting his MBA, he got deep into data to analyze the big trends in the business world.
In one of his earliest ventures, Hikari was leading marketing efforts across multiple digital channels. He saw an opportunity to use generative AI and omni-channel marketing to optimize how content is generated, and how well it performs. At the same time, Matt was researching great folks building companies around data - and found Hikari.
This is the creation story of Omneky.
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- Website: https://www.omneky.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-swalley-59249533/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hikari-senju-63780199/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy30m | May 31, 2023 - S8 E7: Jason Boehmig, Ironclad
Jason Boehmig is lucky to be in tech, in his words. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do post college, and ended up at Lehman Brothers. In reflecting on what was unique about this moment in time, he decided it was tech's influence - and he wanted to be a part of it. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, and enjoys music, specifically collecting vinyl records and listening (they do sound better).
Jason was working as a corporate attorney, and was fascinated with the fact that no company had a good way to handle contracts. Even Google was building their own internal version to handle this. He and his co-founder felt like the problem was pervasive, and wanted to change that.
This is the creation story of Ironclad.
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- Website: https://ironcladapp.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jboehmig
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy22m | May 30, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Adam Judelson, NetworkNerd
Day to day, Adam Judelson is obsessed with complex problem sets in the product world. This has resulted in him getting more and more excited about simple, but powerful, productivity tools. He comes from Silicon Valley, joining Palantir Technologies in the early days, followed up by some VC backed startups. Outside of tech, he spends a lot of his free time with his kids, riding bikes and polishing up his Dad joke trophies. He also does ocean swimming, and loves the challenge to get out past the waves.
When Adam was a Palantir, he was building great relationships with his colleagues. Then he realized that the relationships he had in his life before had moved on, or changed in natural ways. He started to wonder if there was a way to build something easy, to store information about people and prompt you to checkin with important people.
This is the creation story of NetworkNerd.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy32m | May 25, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Vlad Matsiiako, Infisical
Vlad Matsiiako was born in the Ukraine, but moved to the Netherlands to study his undergrad. He was one of the first data scientists at Bunq. He eventually got his Masters at Cornell, and actually worked at Figma, around the time of their acquisition - which he mentioned was super exciting. Outside of tech, he enjoys tennis and traveling, especially to Europe, meeting people and hearing their stories... and of course trying the food. His favorite place to go has been Portugal.
Vlad and his co-founder were previously working on other startup projects. And one of the problems they encountered on a regular basis was secrets management. After talking to like minded industry folks, they figured out that this was a MUCH bigger problem, and needed to be solved.
This is the creation story of Infisical.
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- Website: https://infisical.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmatsiiako/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy19m | May 24, 2023 - S8 E6: Bryce Crawford, Meow
Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his Dad's role in tech sales, he thought the industry looked like a good way to make money. He's worked for Capital One, Gemini and Facebook, specifically on Instagram shops. Outside of work - he keeps on coding, while trying to exercise, stay in shape, and travel when time permits. Fun fact - he claims to have an addiction to Indian food, and tends to eat at the same restaurant 2-3 times a week.
Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management.
This is the creation story of Meow.
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- Website: https://meow.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-crawford-32164466/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy20m | May 23, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Shai Ber & Elad Ben-Israel, Monada & Winglang
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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- Website: https://monada.co/
- Website: https://www.winglang.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shai-ber-245b1226/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hackingonstuff/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy29m | May 18, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Andrew Louder, Louder Co
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/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewlouder/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy29m | May 17, 2023 - S8 E5: Nikita Federov, Qase
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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- Website: https://qase.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nifedorov/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy17m | May 16, 2023 - No Priors: Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO of Nvidia
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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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy45m | May 12, 2023 - S8 Bonus: George Novik, Zerocoder
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/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nov3k/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy17m | May 11, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Rickard Hansson, Weavy
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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- Website: https://www.weavy.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickardh/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy22m | May 10, 2023 - S8 E4: Andy Skipper, CTO Craft
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/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyskipper/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy18m | May 9, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash
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/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilconr/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy25m | May 4, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Aviram Hassan, MetalBear & mirrord
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/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviram-hassan/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy24m | May 3, 2023 - S8 E3: Shem Magnezi, Wilco
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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- Website: https://www.trywilco.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shem-magnezi-45490424/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy23m | May 2, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Puneet Gupta, Amberflo
For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching prominent cloud solutions, and has a track record for success there. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 boys, living in the Bay Area with his extended family. He is into motorcycles, and is falling in love with reading again.
The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models.
This is the creation story of Amberflo.
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- Website: https://www.amberflo.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/puneetguptausa/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy24m | Apr 26, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Glauber Costa, Turso
Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was hard, and we joked that he playing zone defense now over man to man. AS of this recording, he had already seen the Mario movie 3 times with his kids, and enjoys playing video games with them. But, his game to play is Civilizations, which he is highly addicted to.
Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite.
This is the creation story of Turso.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy27m | Apr 26, 2023 - S8 E2: Sefi Genis, Firefly
Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family.
Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale.
This is the creation story of Firefly.
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- Website: https://www.gofirefly.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sefi-genis-90282185
- https://www.momtestbook.com/
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy16m | Apr 25, 2023 - S8 Bonus: Naré Vardanyan, Ntropy
Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience it much differently than the hardship it was. Her upbringing was very community driven, focused on caring for others. Eventually, she went to work for the United Nations, in her words, so she could save the world - though eventually she was disillusioned by how slow things moved. It was at this point, where she shifted over to tech. Outside of tech, she used to love reading, but now that she has a child, she sticks to audiobooks. And, she thoroughly enjoys art, specifically, 20th century Russian-Jewish artists.
When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data.
This is the creation story of Ntropy.
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- Website: https://ntropy.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narevardanyan/
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