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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 Bonus: Daniel Shnaider, Warmy.io
    Feb 19 2026

    Daniel Shnaider came from a family that worked 9 to 5 jobs - engineers, doctors, etc. He was a military officer in Isreal, and while he was there, he met the son of the founder of Waze. After learning about that journey, he knew he wanted to build something meaningful, and started building businesses. Outside of technology, he loves pushing himself to the limits. But to relax, interestingly enough he does adrenaline activities - sky diving and racing cars.

    As I mentioned, Daniel started and ran many businesses in the past. One of them was centered around physical products, and led him to send emails to the mom and pop' shops they wanted to work with. To fight the spam trap, he and his team built a solution to solve the problem for themselves... and then took the next step.

    This is the creation story of Warmy.io.

    Sponsors

    • Unblocked
    • TECH Domains
    • Mezmo
    • Braingrid.ai

    Links

    • https://www.warmy.io/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-shnaider/


    Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donations

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    19 mins
  • S12 E6: Michael Fester, 14.ai
    Feb 17 2026

    Michael Fester grew up in Denmark, the son of a French mother and a Danish father. He was always interested in tech, math and the arts, initially wanting to go into design. However, he did research in number theory at Cambridge, and founded his first startup in Paris, which eventually was acquired by Sonos. Outside of tech, he enjoys reading, in particular the classics - like Dostoyevsky - and biographies - like that of Einstein. He enjoys eating and living healthy, and promotes this lifestyle at his current venture.

    Michael and his team noticed that despite the continual improvement of models, the process of maintaining systems using AI was tedious. Not only did this impact support operations, and building software for this area of a business, but negatively impacted the customers themselves. He and his wife wanted to build the new standard for how support operations are run.

    This is the creation story of 14.ai.

    Sponsors

    • Unblocked
    • Mezmo
    • Braingrid.ai
    • Alcor
    • Equitybee
    • Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA.

    Links

    • https://14.ai/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfester


    Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donations

    Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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    22 mins
  • S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax
    Feb 12 2026

    Prashanth Tondapu was born and raised in India, now living in New Delhi, the capital there. He claims to be a textbook nerd, loving technology and information. He reads a lot, primarily eastern philosophy and stuff on being enlightened, basically pointing him to skills in accepting reality. He's married with two girls, 9 and 4 years old, along with a Labrador and a German shepherd. He says that having 3 girls in the house means he has 3 supreme leaders.

    Prashanth has worked for companies in the past focused on products - companies like McAffee and the Advisor Board Company. Outside of that, he started to build product after product, but no one wanted to buy his product. Eventually, he was tasked to advise a company in product delivery, which then changed everything.

    This is the creation story of Innostax.

    Sponsors

    • Unblocked
    • TECH Domains
    • Mezmo
    • Braingrid.ai
    • Alcor
    • Equitybee
    • Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA.

    Links

    • https://innostax.com/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanth-tondapu


    Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story-insights-from-startup-tech-leaders/donations

    Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

    Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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    17 mins
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