Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Job Rietbergen lives in Amsterdam, which he says is awesome because there are so many types of amazing cuisine. He has always been a creator of things - art, photography, product and technology, to name a few. He finds its an odd trait to create art and be in tech, as there are not a lot of people who lead from a designers mind. He has been supporting early stage startups for the last 13 years. Outside of tech, he loves to do anything boarding, and mentioned he loves to snowboard in Austria every year.In his last role, Job was in charge of marketing and growth, of an integrations platform in healthcare tech. He dreamt of a way to enable developers and users of this platform to easy understand and implement their system. Once he met up with his co-founder, who was passionate about solving the same thing, they set out to solve this problem.This is the creation story of Alphadoc.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://alphadoc.io/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/developer-experience/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.Guest: Daniel Jordan, Product & Data at WayflyerQuestions:Tell me and the audience what Wayflyer is.How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play?You mention on your website that you exist to provide funding and insights, essentially helping eCommerce companies grow faster and achieve their potential. Why focus on eCommerce?Is the “software layer” - IE fintech - on top of finance going to make this better? How?Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you using these approaches within Wayflyer? How?How do you prioritize what is important to your eCommerce business customers?What matters to your customers.... do eCommerce businesses expect the funding process to be easy and like magic?What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be?LinksWebsite: https://www.ntropy.com/Website: https://www.wayflyer.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

David Frank grew up in Denver, CO, and as expected, he grew up loving skiing. He mentioned that Vale was his favorite mountain, and continues to love it today. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and did investment banking in San Francisco, before starting his own firm. Outside of tech, he has two kids and by the time this episode releases, he will be a married man! His family loves to ski, especially his son, who races down the mountain competitively.From his experience in the industry and in the market, David saw a gap for small and medium size organizations to have a system to run financial businesses on. He and his team set forth to build the next generation, broker dealer platform - one that is better than they could build themselves, and better than what the large institutions have.This is the creation story of Stonehaven.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://stonehaven-llc.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-frank-cfa-68897a5/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating with a computer science degree, and working as a software engineer. Along the way, he fell in love with entrepreneurship, and dove into the startup world. Outside of tech, he is an avid rock climber, hiker, and loves super spicy food as a vegetarian.Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage.This is the creation story of Piton Labs.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://pitonlabs.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellwalkerwindrush/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and eventually, he stepped into the possibilities in this world. Outside of tech, he is married with two kids, and enjoys being outside, gardening, and hiking through the forest outside of his small house.Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity.This is the creation story of Upflow.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://upflow.io/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlouisy/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.Guest: Bryce Crawford, CTO & Co-founder at MeowQuestions:Remind the audience what Meow does.How long have you been a customer of Ntropy? When did this come into play?Last we talked about passing on revenue to customers in banking. It’s hard given the tight margins. How is Meow thinking about that today?Is the “software layer” on top of finance going to make this better? How?Generative AI and LLMs are the talk of the town, are you seeing any use cases? Or, are you working on an in-house solutions?There are many new decisions you have to make as a CTO. How does you prioritize around what will make a difference in the market?What matters to your customers.... are people expecting finance to be magical or simply reliable?What is the real impact of AI on finance going to be in your eyes?LinksWebsite: https://www.ntropy.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-crawford-32164466/https://codestory.co/podcast/e6-bryce-crawford-meow-treasury-management/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Matthew O'Riordan, originally from South Africa, fell into engineering because of his love for it. He built Ably, a platform for real-time communication developer tools. The podcast discusses their progress, challenges faced by developers, building a team, and reaching a large audience. Matthew also shares advice for young entrepreneurs.

Ali Nichols has been obsessed with real estate since she was a little kid. She has always wanted to marry whatever she was doing with real estate, and is pretty stoked to have achieved that. Outside of tech, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, hiking, golfing or boating. In fact, when she and her significant other were living in San Fransisco, they boat a sailboat and were obsessed with the craft. But now that the live in Miami, they've switched over to power boating, to better enjoy all that Florida water has to offer.Ali and her Co-founder previously worked together at a real estate startup, specifically in the single family rental space. They both really struggled with the idea that their friends were priced out of the market, and wanted to make opportunities available to more people.This is the creation story of Getaway.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://www.getaway.co/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicnichols/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers on the side, or creating an early sports streaming platform, before streaming was a thing.Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains.This is the creation story of LinearB.SponsorsCipherstashTreblleCAST AI FireflyTursoMemberstackLinksWebsite: https://linearb.io/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-lines/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today we are dropping another special episode of the Code Story podcast, as part of our series entailed Beyond Bots: the REAL impact of AI on financial services, brought to you by our friends at Ntropy. As a reminder, Ntropy is the most accurate financial data standardization and enrichment API. They can take in any data source, any geography, and understand / enrich a financial transition in milliseconds. Made for developers, for fast, easy implementation. Check out their product at Ntropy.com.Guest: Ilia Zintchenko, CTO & Co-founder of NtropyQuestions:We talked with Nare about Ntropy and LLM's. But let's dig in more.... what is your LLM stack? How did you choose it, what were the considerations?What are the system costs in doing this?How do you optimize on reliability - what sort of lever are you pulling to ensure reliability?'How are you thinking about predictive vs generative learning?You guys have been using small and large LM's since the beginning - why is this significant?What data sources have you been using, and are there some that are better than others?'Have you had to scrub these data sources in any way to prep them for your LM?What is the major benefit that Ntropy is providing by using LLM?What would you go back and change if you could?LinksWebsite: https://www.ntropy.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iliazintchenko/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy