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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

By: Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
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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 challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks
  • Hiring the first team
  • Lessons learned from growing a startup

From 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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Episodes
  • S12 E20: Ofir Stein, Apono
    May 26 2026

    Ofir Stein is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, born and raised in Jerusalem. He spent many years in the Israeli air force, in infrastructure and security, before he moved to Tel Aviv. He's a tech guy through and through, bragging about his raspberry pi setup at home, which adjust the AC settings based on the temp outside. Outside of tech, he is married with a daughter and a dog. He's connected and close to his family, which he notes is how he refreshes and reloads as a founder, alongside playing tennis from time to time.

    Ofir and his cofounder started interviewing CISO's and security professionals on how they feel about access management. The found out that this was the first line of attack for bad actors, but from a business standpoint, access management is a slow to value feature. They decided to build a platform that was based on just in time access, over the slow to value setup plaguing the industry.

    This is the creation story of Apono.

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    Links

    • https://www.apono.io/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/




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    25 mins
  • S12 Bonus: Anusha Iyer, Corsha
    May 21 2026

    Anusha Iyer is a first generation immigrant, born in India. She moved to the states with her family, when her Dad was going grad school at Ohio State. She fondly remembers sitting on her Dad's shoulders for Buckeyes football games, as he was fan enough for the whole family. Outside of her professional life, she has 2 kids in college who were coding since they could walk - but neither of which ended up in computer science. She loves to cook, and notes that she is not a recipe follower - she likes to use whatever is at her fingertips.

    Anusha has been in the cybersecurity space for quite some time, starting off in naval research in DC. Further down here career, she had a friend reach out to pitch an idea to build a platform for dynamic machine identification.

    This is the creation story of Corsha.

    Sponsors

    • Unblocked
    • TECH Domains
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    Links

    • https://corsha.com/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/anusha-iyer/




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    20 mins
  • S12 E19: Thomas Schlegel, Built
    May 19 2026

    Thomas Schlegel lives in Nashville, TN, but grew up in rural Virginia. He didn't have the internet for a large portion of his childhood - but, his friends did! So that meant he was spending more time at his friends place, and eventually when MySpace came around, he was the guy to build everyone's custom site. He's always been the wild idea guy amongst his friends, always the tinkerer. Today, he's married with twins on the way. He loves to run, either on the road or the trails. And when he gets the chance, he enjoys a good conversation with good people, contemplating or pondering the bigger things in life.

    In the past, Thomas was a lead engineer at a professional services organization in Tennessee. While at a conference, he met the CEO of his current venture, and they hit it off. He was intrigued by their company, and several years later, he started working for the company as an individual contributor - and quickly activated his entrepreneur DNA to solve ALL the problems.

    This is the creation story of Built.

    Sponsors

    • Unblocked
    • TECH Domains
    • Mezmo
    • Braingrid.ai

    Links

    • https://getbuilt.com/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-schlegel-678772215/




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    38 mins
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