S3 E20: Aaron White, Blissfully

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Aaron White started coding when he was young, tinkering on his commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in esoteric commands just to get the game to run. He was a big magic the gathering player when he was young, and his parents pushed him towards working for a startup. Coming from a family of creators, he was sort of the black sheep since he wasn't painting or doing something with physical creative elements. Started coding professionally in his mid teens, and has kept at it ever since, attending college to study computer science and make all sorts of things. He currently lives in New York with his girlfriend, and enjoys a life of professional and personal flexibility. When attempting to start an IT consulting firm, he noticed that there was not a good way to show a firm their IT landscape - what your app inventory was, who uses what, etc. So he built a tool to do just that, to help with leadgen for his firm. When it started to spread like wildfire, he figured out this was more than a leadgen tool. This is the creation story of Blissfully. 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	Every engineer in some capacity is a product person.
0:05.4	They're always making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't matter
0:08.5	because nothing's ever fully specified.
0:10.9	Otherwise, your product people would be your engineering team.
0:14.1	Really focus in on doing an end-to-end proof of concept before you polish anything.
0:21.1	Like if you can't go from someone can install this to see data they care about,
0:25.0	do not focus on any subsystem until you've achieved a sort of a lightning bolt path from start
0:31.5	to finish.
0:32.3	Because until you can demonstrate that, you really aren't even anywhere close to an MVP,
0:36.5	and everything else is a
0:37.7	distraction.
0:39.4	My name is Aaron White, and I'm the CTO and founder of Blissfully.
0:47.8	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.2	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labhart,
1:04.0	and today how Aaron White created a way for you to get a handle on your IT landscape.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.6	Aaron White started coding when he was young.
1:23.6	Tinkering on his Commodore 64 when he was sent to his room, typing in the esoteric commands just to get the game to run.
1:30.3	He was a big Magic the Gathering player when he was young, and his parents pushed him towards working for a startup.
1:36.3	Coming from a family of creators, he was sort of the black sheep since he wasn't painting or doing something with physical creative elements.
1:43.3	He started coding professionally in his mid-teens and has kept at it ever since he wasn't painting or doing something with physical creative elements.
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