S10 Bonus: Reed McGinley-Stempel, Stytch (Replay)

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn't know what he wanted to do and "stumbled" into management consulting. When I dug into how someone stumbles into this profession, he mentioned that early on he got some sage advice from his older brother about not rushing to law school because... being a lawyer isn't that fun. So, he followed some friends to Bain & Company. The more projects he was involved in, the more he got interested in technology. Candidly, one of his motivations for going in tech was the fact that his was moving out to San Francisco to support his wife through law school at Stanford. He considered continuing to do consulting with Bain, but decided tech was the best route and eventually, joined Plaid. Outside of his professional career, he is into the outdoors, loving hiking and taking his very active dog outside. He mentions that living in San Francisco makes the outdoors super accessible. Reed and his Co-founder both came from Plaid, and worked on the adaptive authentication team. There, they explored how to secure bank authentication to maintain security, but also do it in such a way that reduced friction and created an amazing experience. They found that the biggest problem to be solved was the combination of security issues with passwords, and the low conversion rate of sign up / sign in forms requiring passwords. They wanted to fix this. This is the creation story of Stytch. 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	This episode is sponsored by Kinsta. Between juggling client meetings, managing your website and keeping up with everyday task, who has the time to stress out about website security? Well, with Kinsta, the technical stuff is taken care of, so you can focus on what you do best. Kinsta provides managed hosting for WordPress, offering lightning fast load times, top-tier security, and unmatched
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1:14.8	We've gotten to some instances in the past where it's just clear as your customers
1:19.4	grow, as your product surface area grows, you're not scaling the team as quickly as you'd
1:24.7	like to. We've tried to be a lot more thoughtful with how we make sure
1:30.1	that we don't get into instances where the need for resources lags where we are in the recruiting
1:37.7	pipeline. And it's kind of a thing I need to consistently remind myself of, which is, you know, source for this role tonight,
1:46.0	even though you're not going to feel the pain of not having them for another six or eight weeks.
1:51.5	I'm Reed McGinley-Steple. I'm the co-founder and CEO at Stitch.
2:09.0	This is Code Story, the 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.
2:16.3	I'm your host, Noah Lapphart, and today how Reed McGinley Stemple built the out-of-the-box
2:21.9	solution to enable user authentication without the dev hassle.
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