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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S1 E9: Andy Abbott, Heretik

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Andy Abbott has been a tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that techies do. He built a BBS network so his friends could play games together, he created websites on geocities, and spent spring break on the beach… learning PHP. Post graduating from Purdue, he spent many years gaining a diverse set of professional experiences - from software to consulting to domain squatting to SEO to grocery shopping. Along with this, he built an active and successful Microsoft developer community in Chicago. After selling the company he co-founder, called BookedOut, he felt the pains of the contract review and diligence processes. From that experience, he set off to build Heretik, to enable the streamlining of contract review at scale. 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 a very special sponsor of

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the Code Story podcast, and that's Dev Mountain. Dev Mountain is one of the highest rated

0:09.8

coding schools in the country, employing experts who are passionate about sharing their craft

0:15.5

and empowering the next wave of programmers. Through their boot camp, they accelerate education by focusing on modern skills

0:22.7

to align their students with the needs of the tech industry. They offer a variety of courses

0:27.9

from web development to U.X design to iOS development, and their hands-on approach enables students

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to launch their careers or build their startups and ultimately to achieve

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their goals. I can personally vouch for the quality developers they produce, having hired

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six graduates from their Dallas campus. Not only does Dev Mountain teach the practical

0:49.1

skills needed to build software, they give their students a foundation to amplify the necessary creative

0:55.6

thinking, problem solving, and project-focused skills required for tech professionals today.

1:02.4

You can find out more information about their programs and how to sign up at devmountain.com.

1:08.2

That's d-evmountain.com. That's d-evmountain.com.

1:14.9

We're actually building the same technology in the same city and literally across the street

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from each other. And I figured it was, you know, maybe best for me to step aside and take a break.

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I mean, that, I think, lasted for like two days.

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And so I started spending some time kind of diving into where the industry was with text analysis and machine learning and NLP.

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I'm Andy Abbott. I'm the co-founder and CTO of Heretic.

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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.

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I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Andy Abbott used a startup experience and a little bit of machine

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learning to streamline your contract review. All this and more on Code Story. Andy Abbott has been a

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tech enthusiast for a long time, doing things that tech enthusiasts do.

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