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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S1 E8: Jon Buda, Transistor.fm

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Building on the early tech he learned, Jon Buda became a ruby on rails champion - building his projects using the back and front end components of the language. Having created a Spotify like music platform - way before Spotify existed - he gained large experience in what is required to host and process audio files. While working at Cards Against Humanity, he created his second podcast hosting solution in time to host a single.. and very popular podcast. This solution would come to be known as Transistor.fm. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hey, before we start the show, I'd like to give a shout out to one of our sponsors, Hackbright Academy.

0:06.4

Hackbright Academy is an all-women coding boot camp in San Francisco. They were founded with the

0:11.8

mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career. One of the most

0:17.3

impressive things about the school is the tight-knit community they've created.

0:22.3

They truly believe in empowering each other and working to change the ratio of women in the tech industry.

0:29.3

Hackbright firmly believes that when you combine a community of like-minded, ambitious women

0:34.4

and a network of strong support, the possibilities are endless.

0:39.6

Check out their programs at hackbright academy.com.

0:45.2

A lot of my path really starts this thing I built in college,

0:48.9

which was this Linux-based audio web server.

0:55.0

Like my process when I'm building something,

0:58.0

sketch a bunch of stuff.

1:00.0

It's very easy to do, like I said, kind of like sketch with code.

1:04.0

Like you can try things out.

1:06.0

You can erase things very easily.

1:09.0

In the way I've built things in the past, you don't really build these things with scaling

1:14.9

in mine necessarily.

1:18.4

My name is John Buda.

1:19.5

I'm the co-founder and lead developer of Transistor.fm.

1:42.3

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

1:49.0

I'm your host, Noah Labart, and today how John Buddha took its web dev and audio experience and created the last podcasting host you'll ever need.

1:54.0

All this and more on Code Story.

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