S10 Bonus: David Young, Federated Computer
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
4.6 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
David Young spent many years in California, but lives in Colorado Springs now. He mentioned that things outside of work are very important to him, as they are the soil from which he brings fruit to bear in his work. He's married and loving living in the Rockies. He and his wife love to ski hike and camp - but most interesting, they are both endurance athletes. They run marathons, bike rides, and triathlons - in fact, David himself has run 10, which includes a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, then a marathon - all in succession. All in one day.
David noticed that that problem with SaaS today is that it's expensive, and adds up as you compile solutions. Right alongside that, open source software is free - but requires more setup and maintenance to keep it up and running. He decided that there must be a better way to purchase software, while getting the best price on a bundle of solutions.
This is the creation story of Federated Computer.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rohan Kare Mandy. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Phil Hawthorne, and we're the hosts of the Home Assistant podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | We're guessing you're into technology. |
| 0:06.5 | Home Assistant is the number one open source contributor project on GitHub, with a focus on privacy and local control. |
| 0:12.5 | Join us every other week as we'll break down the latest features of Home Assistant |
| 0:16.0 | and talk to everyday users who are automating their lives with Home Assistant. |
| 0:19.5 | From feeling like you're living in Star Trek with lights turning on in rooms when you walk in, |
| 0:24.9 | to automating, flushing the toilet. |
| 0:27.0 | Home Assistant can integrate with virtually anything, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've interviewed everyday people like yourselves, |
| 0:32.1 | and that have done some pretty crazy automations. |
| 0:34.5 | Listen to the Home Assistant Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, |
| 0:37.3 | or find us on |
| 0:38.3 | YouTube or visit home assistant.fm. |
| 0:45.6 | We're building really the first Linux distribution in the cloud. |
| 0:49.9 | And for anyone that has worked on a Linux distribution, you're not starting from scratch. |
| 0:55.4 | You're starting from some pre-built building blocks like a kernel, different user land software |
| 1:01.7 | that you're going to put together and then deliver that as a distribution. |
| 1:05.9 | At Federated Computer, we had a very similar problem set where we're taking some |
| 1:10.5 | pre-built building blocks and then |
| 1:12.8 | we're combining them in a way that makes it easier for the customer to adopt. My name is David |
| 1:18.1 | Young. I am the founder and CEO of Federated Computer. This is Code Story. |
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