S10 E8: Jason Harbert, Flowspace

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jason Harbert grew up in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. He got into video games, which led him into programming... which led him to Linux and internet security and joining the hacking club. He studied computer science at the University of Cincinnati, but left his senior year to hit the startup scene in the Bay Area. Outside of tech, he lives in Ohio, and is married with a 13 month old son. He loves to travel, and spend time with his family, trying new restaurants. Jason and his co-founder, Ben, were having a beer, coming out of their prior startup life. Over the beer, Ben was sharing some stories about tight warehouse space and product distribution. They started to ask the question - how can you add flexibility to warehousing? They decided to set out and build something to create this solution. This is the creation story of Flowspace. 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	The team really understood our business really well.
0:04.0	The engineers working on a feature or the designer designing a certain page,
0:09.0	like they understood like at a deep level, like what the business was trying to achieve and why that was important.
0:15.0	And that understanding really helps in the small decisions that you're making every day.
0:20.0	And so we never had this working style where we designed something and just like chuck it over the fence for someone to go build.
0:26.6	Like the engineers, the product managers, the designers were in our kind of business conversations and really understood what we are trying to achieve.
0:35.1	My name's Jason Harbert and I'm the co-founder and CTO at FlowSpace.
0:42.1	This is Code Story.
0:44.7	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:47.7	It's six months moonlighting.
0:49.2	There's nothing out of the backcats.
0:51.1	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:53.6	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:54.9	She took many goes to get right.
0:57.5	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:00.1	The company is its people.
1:01.5	The teams help each other.
1:02.8	She was proud of her team.
1:04.3	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:07.0	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:08.1	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:09.9	Total waste of time.
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