You know, I had no intention, like literally zero intention of ever building a business around these tools.

I thought they were just going to be open source and free.

And at best, they would help my resume to get a better job.

Like, that was going through my mind in college.

And so I didn't try to build this mega generic tool

that solved everyone's problems.

I built vagrant and my MVP was,

I want a really awesome VM-based development workflow

for Ruby on Rails,

because that's what I do every day.

And that's sort of how it formed.

I'm Mitchell Hashimoto.

I'm the founder and CTO of HashiCorp.

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 and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noel Lab Park, and today how Mitchell Hashimoto created the tool set to create consistent workflows across your infrastructure.

All this and more on Code Story.

Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school,

teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip

files he could download on the internet. He's a pilot and owns his own plane, which happens to be

a Cirrus. And he spends an hour a day studying or practicing flying and even takes his wife and

dog up every now and then, when there's something worth flying to, and they can make the oxygen work for the dog.

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