1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
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Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
>15 yrs software developer. In 2016 I quit my job with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, to found CodeLingo and tackle the Technical Debt crisis head on.
In a 40hr work week, a developer spends over 17hrs on Tech Debt (https://bit.ly/2MSQr7b). I've become obsessed with fixing this and unlocking the true potential of development teams. CodeLingo does this by transforming the whole software stack into a big data problem, detects anti-patterns and then automates common development tasks, such as code reviews, bug fixes and generating contributor guidelines - to name a few.
As developers, we're good at scaling up anything except ourselves. CodeLingo unlocks code quality at scale.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm recording this here on April 5th. It's Sunday. Everyone's trying to survive the crisis. |
| 0:04.7 | Quick note to you guys, we are moving. You know, you used to delay these episodes by, you know, |
| 0:09.5 | four to eight months after we recorded them in terms of releasing them on the podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We've changed that. A lot of these interviews you're going to hear over the next many months are |
| 0:16.1 | going to be ones we recorded only days prior. We think that's a smarter way to run the show. I've made the change. |
| 0:21.9 | So expect more urgent information coming out. Secondly, I am getting destroyed on iTunes reviews |
| 0:27.4 | by these people that say Nathan's rude. He's hard hitting. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Which, by the way, |
| 0:32.1 | I am. It's part of my style. It's what works. The problem is people that love that style never |
| 0:36.5 | take the time to go leave a five-star review. So I only get one-star reviews on iTunes. And right now there's a streak of one-star |
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| 1:04.5 | Thanks, guys. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:06.9 | Launched code lingo back in 2016 to help solve this massive issue of technical debt they built the |
| 1:12.2 | company really around enterprises which were chasing kind of a 50,000 dollar ACV deal then looked at |
| 1:16.2 | themselves and said oh my gosh we're basically an agency low margin high touch not product ties we want to |
| 1:21.1 | change this so they're going down market now relaunching really doing marketing strategy related to going |
| 1:25.7 | after open source kind of specs and helping |
| 1:28.0 | folks make their code stronger and adhere to their own essential policies. They raised about |
| 1:31.8 | $700,000 to do this. Seven people on the team in New Zealand. They've got about four months |
| 1:35.9 | and runway left hoping to raise here in the next month or two or at least start. We'll see what |
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