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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: Harshil Parikh, Tromzo

Harshil Parikh is the father of 2 daughters, as well as the father of 2 dogs. Most of the time spent outside of work is with his family, although he does love to cook, especially experimenting with pizza. Through his life, he has realized that sleep is overrated - humans can function on very little sleep... maybe not forever, but for a few weeks at a time.

Through their experiences, Harshil and his co-founder found that it was difficult to make a cyber security program successful. After running through the same challenges again and again, they decided to step out and build a solution to streamline security and the development process.

This is the creation story of Tromzo.

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PHPUgly - 298: Hire Tom

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - A conversation with Spencer Kimball, creator of GIMP and CockroachDB

Spencer was one of the original creators of open-source, cross-platform image editing software GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), authored while he was still in college. He went on to spend a decade at Google, plus two years as CTO of Viewfinder, later acquired by Square.

In 2014, he cofounded Cockroach Labs to back his creation CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database.

Database sharding is essential for CockroachDB: “a critical part of how Cockroach achieves virtually everything,” says Spencer. Read up on how sharding a database can make it faster.

Like many engineers who find themselves in the C-suite, Spencer went from full-time programmer to full-time CEO. He says it’s been a “relatively gentle” evolution, but he can always go back.

Like lots of you out there, Spencer started programming on a TI-99/4, the world’s first 16-bit home computer.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: Gavin Mendel-Gleason, TerminusDB

When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendel-Gleason likes to program for fun. He builds stuff in his spare time, as tech dominates his life. Outside of tech though, he has 2 daughters, and his family enjoys spending time outdoors, specifically in the alps.

At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets. During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database, to help solve with these sorts of problems.

This is the creation story of TerminusDB.

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Big Technology Podcast - What Social Media Influence Really Gets You — With Nuseir Yassin

Nuseir Yassin is the force behind Nas Daily — and CEO of Nas Company — which more than 50 million people follow across six different social media platforms. He joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about what such a large social media audience makes possible. Our conversation dives into why "YouTuber" is such a desirable occupation for kids today, what his fame really costs, and what it takes to build an audience online.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: Jennifer Smith, Scribe

Jennifer Smith had an abnormal path to tech. She was born in upstate New York, and was not exposed to tech or startups or building companies during her early years. Post school, she interned at Lehman Brothers but didn't enjoy the feel of the money obsessed tribe. She went into management consulting for 7 years, which eventually led her into business school. Post that, she decided to stay in Silicon Valley and eventually went into Venture. Outside of tech, she just recently had a baby and is in the throws of early parenting.

As a management consultant, Jennifer did a lot of work, observing the tricks and tribal knowledge contained in the workers themselves. After frequently documenting these practices, she thought there had to be a way to just capture their knowledge work instantly with a tool.

This is the creation story of Scribe.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 E30: Liam Gerada, Krepling

Liam Gerada comes from an eCommerce background, building websites, stores, etc. He is passionate about providing people ways to find cheaper products through online commerce. Liam loves to solve problems, and finds it is hard to find a replacement hobby, now that his hobby has become his full time gig. He and his brother have worked together for years, as they do now on their current venture. They grew up in Malta, which is an amazing gem in the Mediterranean.

Liam and his brother were merchants, building their own eCommerce store around 5-6 years ago. From that perspective, they saw very early on that there was a movement towards a headless platform. They weren't developers at the time, which most merchants aren't, and they struggled - and felt there must be a better way.

This is the creation story of Krepling.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The internet’s Robin Hood uses robo-lawyers to fight parking tickets and spam calls

DoNotPay offers more than 250 “automated justice” services in every US state, from suing robo-callers to annulling marriages to fighting eviction. It earned Joshua the title “Robin Hood of the internet.”

DoNotPay leverages AI and ML solutions, including GPT-3, to shape and refine its decision trees.

Read about how DoNotPay is helping crypto traders who’ve lost money file suit against fallen leaders.

Why PDFs are unfit for human (or computer) consumption.

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