S10 E29: Lucas Lovell, Paddle
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
4.6 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Lucas Lovell grew up in Adelaide, Australia, before eventually landing where resides now, in London. He studied law, but he eventually decided that he didn't want to become a lawyer. During his time in law school, he and his crew built an app - and he was hooked on the wild ride that tech is. Prior to London, he spent 4 years in Paris, and indeed loves to travel. He also enjoys skiing, and when asked about snowboarding, he said he tried - but eventually reverted back.
Four and a half years ago, Lucas joined a company solving end to end payments, while being the merchant of record. What was missing from the platform was some function around invoicing - which started him on his journey of product creation.
This is Lucas' creation story at Paddle.
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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. |
| 0:45.0 | It was tough. |
| 0:46.4 | It was really tough because you're always trying to balance time constraints with feature |
| 0:53.0 | richness as well, right? So we're trying to identify |
| 0:55.8 | or put together what we believe is the minimum viable product to take to market. And so we needed |
| 1:01.4 | to scope it and slice it as such. We wanted to get customer feedback as soon as possible on what |
| 1:06.6 | we'd built and really validate the opportunity for the company as well. So we've in sliced it |
| 1:11.7 | quite heavily and made some pretty big decisions around what was going to go into that MVP. |
| 1:17.5 | They were based on what is the highest percentage of use cases that our customers want to |
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