S10 E1: Sagar Batchu, Speakeasy

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sagar Batchu was born in Sacramento, but moved to Bangalore after a decade. He has always been interested in how things work, and majored in Physic at his University. Towards the end of his studies, he crammed in a ton of CS classes and fell in love with the craft. He's worked on firmware, enterprise software, and eventually went to LiveRamp, building new experiences for them. Outside of tech, he loves pickleball, enjoys growing coffee and loves readying about historical events. In his past, Sagar and his team took on API initiative to invest in internal API experience. Through this project, he spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this happen. He immediately saw the need across the industry, with the absence of time and money to fill the need. He decided to take it on and start a company. This is the creation story of Speakeasy. 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	A lot of our customers was spending a lot of time, a lot of support time,
0:06.4	onboarding users onto the API.
0:08.3	Like, the table stakes for what they were providing the users was just the classic
0:12.9	three-pane documentation site.
0:14.7	Now, this is the classic left-hand view, middle-view, right-hand view.
0:17.8	You've probably seen for a lot of API docs.
0:20.6	And that just wasn't enough.
0:21.9	Like that, to me, felt like the lazy thing to do, throw up a swagger dox site, and
0:26.8	send it to your customers.
0:28.5	We actually started to innovate around a set of React and developer portal components
0:33.0	that would allow you to stitch together a really interactive and guided onboarding experience.
0:40.1	My name's Saga. I'm CEO and co-founder of Speak Easy.
0:46.8	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
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