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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S12 Bonus: Prashanth Tondapu, Innostax

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Prashanth Tondapu was born and raised in India, now living in New Delhi, the capital there. He claims to be a textbook nerd, loving technology and information. He reads a lot, primarily eastern philosophy and stuff on being enlightened, basically pointing him to skills in accepting reality. He's married with two girls, 9 and 4 years old, along with a Labrador and a German shepherd. He says that having 3 girls in the house means he has 3 supreme leaders. Prashanth has worked for companies in the past focused on products - companies like McAffee and the Advisor Board Company. Outside of that, he started to build product after product, but no one wanted to buy his product. Eventually, he was tasked to advise a company in product delivery, which then changed everything. This is the creation story of Innostax. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai 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 Mesmo.

0:02.0

If your team is collecting large volumes of logs, metrics, and traces, but still struggling to get timely answers,

0:08.0

Mesmo can help.

0:10.0

Mesmo is an active telemetry platform that processes and enriches observability data in real time before it's stored or analyzed.

0:17.0

That means lower data volume, lower cost, and faster root cause analysis across your existing observability tools.

0:24.3

To see how it works, get a demo at mesmo.com slash code story. That's M-EZMO.com slash code story.

0:35.2

This episode is sponsored by Brain Grid.

0:43.0

If you are building with AI coding tools, but your features keep breaking, you need to check out Brain Grid.

0:45.9

It is the product management agent for AI builders.

0:51.7

Brain Grid turns messy ideas into clear specs, tasks, and prompts that coding agents like Cursor and Claude can actually build the right way.

0:55.5

Ship real software, not fragile prototypes.

0:59.0

Start free at braingrid.aI.

1:03.1

Today's episode is brought to you by dot tech domains, and this one hits close to home.

1:07.3

Back in 2016, I was building my startup and went hunting for that perfect.com

1:11.2

and found next to nothing. So I did what every founder does. Settled. Here's what I wish someone

1:17.0

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1:22.7

and customers what you're about. Don't overthink it. Get a dot-tech domain for your startup today.

1:31.1

This episode is sponsored by Unblocked. AI code generation is moving fast, but quality and

1:37.4

confidence, well, they haven't kept pace. The core problem is shared context.

1:47.2

Unblocked was built to solve this specific problem.

1:50.4

The code review platform is built on the same context senior engineers rely on when reviewing code.

1:53.5

The result is fewer comments, higher signal,

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