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

Noah Labhart | Podcast for Technical Founders & Startups
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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 developmentLanding the first customersPricing and go-to-market experimentsScaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecksHiring the first teamLessons learned from growing a startupFrom first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.

  1. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: Storage to Inference: Powering High-Speed AI & NVMe Infrastructure with Eran Kirzner, CEO of Lightbits

    Eran Kirzner born and raised in south Israel, then moved to Tel Aviv to be close to the technology center of the country. He isn't able to see himself outside of technology, no matter how far he looks. He's spent 20+ years in compute storage and networking, building things to help scale data centers - IE deep tech. Outside of work, he is married with 3 kids, a cat, and a dog. His startup and family life blend together in a beautiful way, and there is no real border as his family provides him tremendous support. For hobbies, he enjoys mountain biking and running 10-20 kilometers at a time.  In 2016, Eran was approached by one of his co-founders, Avigdor Willenz, to start something new together. They realized that connecting drives across a network was flawed, built off top of an old model - so they invented a new standard. After successfully pioneering this technology across the globe, they started to lean into AI inference, and how to break the GPU memory wall.   This is the creation story of Lightbits.  Links https://www.lightbitslabs.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erankirzner/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: Storage to Inference: Powering High-Speed AI & NVMe Infrastructure with Eran Kirzner, CEO of Lightbits

  2. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: The Edge Vision Shift: Privacy-First Computer AI for Smart Security & Eldercare with Mike Link, VP of Kami Vision

    Mike Link grew up in Rochester, New York, and had no intention in getting into technology... but he loves it now. His educational background was in neuroscience, as he found the brain absolutely fascinating. As he looked into western medicine, he figured out that it wasn't that attractive to him, nor the life style he wanted. He got into building his won things, including a trip to India and a return into sales. Outside of professional life, he lives in San Diego and loves to travel, visiting Mexico City often. He's a huge fan of cooking as well, and when he travels, he enjoys experiencing different cultures through the actual people living there.  Mike was found by his current venture, as he had past experience in elder care. He joined the team to help with the go to market planning, sales, etc. - to be the Swiss Army knife at the company. When they started digging into senior care and the problem around fall detection, he led the group in how they took on this market.  This is Mike's creation story at KamiVision.  Links https://kamivision.com/en-us https://kamivision.com/en-us/fall-detection/assisted-living-kamicare https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelink1/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: The Edge Vision Shift: Privacy-First Computer AI for Smart Security & Eldercare with Mike Link, VP of Kami Vision

  3. 4d ago

    S13 E10: Decoupling Authorization: Scalable Policy-as-Code for Enterprise Apps with Alex Olivier, Co-Founder & CPTO of Cerbos

    Alex Olivier lives in London, England, and has been a tech since the early days. In fact, his Dad awarded him an old linux box - from which, he built a Harry Potter website. Five years after he deployed said website, his site was getting 3 million visitors a month, and gained him success and access to red carpet events and interviewing the cast. He studied computer science, eventually going to work for Microsoft, before getting into the startup world. Outside of tech, he is a Dad to a 2 year old daughter - so he doesn't have much free time. But when he does, he enjoys cycling and skiing.  In several prior companies, Alex built, and built, and re-built, solutions around application permissions. Each time he did so, he found himself annoyed that he had to create this type of solution again. He and his co-founders decided to set out and create a company around an authorization management platform.  This is the creation story of Cerbos.  Links https://www.cerbos.dev/ https://www.cerbos.dev/blog/code-story-podcast-building-cerbos-ai-agents-authorization-every-request https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexolivier/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 E10: Decoupling Authorization: Scalable Policy-as-Code for Enterprise Apps with Alex Olivier, Co-Founder & CPTO of Cerbos

  4. Oct 22 ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: The 99% Reliability Shift: Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation with Yash Sinha, Founder of Intelligence Factory

    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 both of these things led him into entrepreneurship, of which he has started several businesses. Outside of tech, he likes to read fantasy and science fiction, as he enjoys the world building of this genre.  Yash and his co-founders realized that in order for robotics to work, foundational models needed to exist for robotic manipulation. Since hardware was no longer a bottleneck, he and his team focused on building models and deploying bots centered around human level dexterity.  This is the creation story of Intelligence Factory.  Links https://www.intelligence-factory.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-sinha-556b411b3/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: The 99% Reliability Shift: Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation with Yash Sinha, Founder of Intelligence Factory

  5. Oct 21 ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic

    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 outside of tech, he's a gamer. In fact, he was pretty good at it, almost entering professional eSports during his undergrad days, playing Counterstrike and Warcraft. Besides that, he enjoys playing tennis and basketball, and eating some good Chinese food or tacos.  In his engineering days, Leo discovered a very powerful system for crypto, with powerful properties to enable it to be so. Once he figured out that this type of model can scale crypto systems, he wanted to build the first full stack compute network - to own the growth of on-chain compute.  This is the creation story of Cysic.  Links https://cysic.xyz/ https://leofanxiong.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leofanxiong/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: Accelerating Zero-Knowledge: Hardware-Driven ZK Proof Generation with Leo Fan, Co-Founder & CEO of Cysic

  6. Oct 20

    S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI

    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 product was not done until it was in the customers hands. She came stateside for university, and never left San Francisco. She's held leadership positions in many companies, some notable names being Stitch Fix and Docusign. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 daughters. She notes that in all her years in tech, home is the one place she can't automate.  In 2019, Tribe made a bet that every company would become an AI company. In the summer of 2026, Pooja joined the company during the point of hyper growth, when AI is booming but businesses are still trying to catch up and implement. She stepped in to help lead the charge and build transformational AI systems for the enterprise.  This is Pooja's creation story at Tribe AI.  Links https://www.tribe.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgarg/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 E9: Forward-Deployed AI: Moving Enterprise Pilots into Real Production with Pooja Brown, CTO at Tribe AI

  7. Oct 15 ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: Eliminating Paperwork & Manual Data Entry in Manufacturing with Brian McKeown, Founding Engineer at Harmony AI

    Brian McKeown is 24 years old, and was born and raised in Dallas, TX. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, and was heavily involved in rec athletics. Post college, he worked a year or so before getting invited on the rocket ship he has been apart of in manufacturing, and moving to Chattanooga. Outside of tech, he loves being outdoors and in the mountains. He finds the Tennessee area great for hiking and community, which is a bit different than what he grew up with in Texas.  In his prior role, which was more of an old school company, Brian was referred to an opportunity by one of his mentors in college. The founders of his current venture had proven market fit for their product, but needed talented engineers to create a repeatable platform, built on top of a playbook for what works, to deploy in manufacturing plants across the US.  This is the creation story of Harmony AI.  Links https://www.tryharmony.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mckeown-49b225229 Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: Eliminating Paperwork & Manual Data Entry in Manufacturing with Brian McKeown, Founding Engineer at Harmony AI

  8. Oct 14 ·  Bonus

    S13 Bonus: Spotting Property Red Flags using the "CARFAX" of Real Estate with Jeff Emalaba, Founder & CEO of InvestFusion

    Jeff Emalaba has a background that has morphed into risk mitigation over the years. He has a professional background in options trading, risk management and auditing, along with over two decades of real estate investment. Jeff is also a licensed agent in North Carolina. Outside of tech and professional life, he enjoys reading and spending time with his family, taking vacations when time allows.  Years ago, Jeff invested $11k of his own money into a property. As it turned out, the investment opportunity had hidden foundation and structural defects. It was this experience that led him to look for a solution that analyzed hidden risks, appraisals, and property data - to be the Carfax for real estate.  This is the creation story of InvestFusion.  Links https://www.investfusion.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-emalaba/ Current Sponsors: Tiger Data Protected Harbor Render Fitnexa Perplexity Entelligence Checkout our Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Check out our Patreon! Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    S13 Bonus: Spotting Property Red Flags using the "CARFAX" of Real Estate with Jeff Emalaba, Founder & CEO of InvestFusion
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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 developmentLanding the first customersPricing and go-to-market experimentsScaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecksHiring the first teamLessons learned from growing a startupFrom first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.

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