S5 Bonus: Brendan Wood, Passiv

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Brendan Wood lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife and 3 kids. They live in an old house, and from his per-view, he has done way to many projects on it. In fact, shortly after they moved into the house, they discovered foundation problems and had to re-pour a new foundation (which is a massive undertaking). They have a cabin a half hour drive out of town, which is is Brandan's happy place. There is a beach, land, hammocks - and its a place where the whole family can run free. He grew up in New Finland, and in college, studied mechanical engineering. This focus led him into robotics - specifically the kinematics side - and software development. All in all, he chose the latter, cause it was easier to start a career. One day, he found he had a personal itch to solve a problem, while managing his personal stock portfolio. As his account grew, his risk tolerance changed, and general shifts happened in the market, he found that keeping on top of his portfolio was particularly time consuming and tedious. He got bored of doing this manually, and built a script out of frustration for having to manage this manually. This is the creation story of Passiv. 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	I never had the intention of building this into a service at the beginning.
0:05.9	This was just a simple thing for myself to make life easier, and that was the extent of it.
0:10.8	As I used it, and I realized this is actually really cool,
0:13.4	and now instead of spending an hour or two a month keeping track of these things,
0:17.1	I can do it in 15 seconds.
0:19.6	That was like a real eye-opener for me. And when I
0:23.0	told my friends about it, became clear that I wasn't the only one with this sort of problem,
0:28.0	and other people wanted my script. So I slowly started transforming it into a web application
0:34.3	that would allow anybody to do this on their own.
0:39.0	My name is Brendan Wood.
0:41.7	I'm the co-founder and CTO of Passive.
0:57.3	This is Code Story, the 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.
0:59.5	A team that has your back.
1:02.1	I'm your host, Noah Lab Park.
1:04.3	And today, how Brendan Wood created the tool to put your brokerage account on autopilot.
1:13.5	All this and more on Cote Story.
1:19.6	Brendan Wood lives in New Brunswick, Canada, with his wife and three kids.
1:24.1	They live in an old house, and from his purview, he has done way too many projects on it.
1:29.2	In fact, shortly after they moved into the house, they discovered foundation problems
1:32.8	and had to re-pour a new foundation, which is a massive undertaking.
1:37.6	They have a cabin, a half-hour drive out of town, which is Brandon's happy place.
1:43.0	There's a beach, land, hammocks, and it's a place where the whole
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