S5 Bonus: Brian Singer, Nobl9
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
5.0 • 217 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We had a concept for how we wanted to show the amount of error budget that you've burned |
| 0:06.0 | and how quickly you've burned it. |
| 0:09.0 | You know, it's just how it fit our thought process at the time. |
| 0:12.0 | So we built an entire user interface around that. |
| 0:16.0 | And then as we started showing it to people, we noticed that they were confused by what we had built. |
| 0:21.6 | It wasn't until Alex Hidalgo joined the company and he said, well, you know, there's some other ways that we could represent this. |
| 0:28.6 | Like, have you thought about doing it this way that we realized we really missed the mark with the first version that we built? |
| 0:34.6 | My name is Brian Singer. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm the co-founder and chief product officer at Noble Nine. |
| 0:47.7 | 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 |
| 0:57.3 | and build and lead a team that has your back. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm your host, Noah Laphart, |
| 1:04.0 | and today helped Ryan Singer build the cheat code for SLOs |
| 1:08.6 | and error budgets with no math required. |
| 1:13.5 | All this and more on code story. |
| 1:20.4 | Brian Singer has always been interested in computers. |
| 1:23.1 | He was into gaming in high school, which he claims is what led him to an engineering degree in college. |
| 1:28.1 | He got his start in the industry with low-level stuff, designing ASIC chips. |
| 1:32.2 | And post that, he branched into product development, got his MBA, and funny enough, started |
| 1:36.8 | working in marketing for the software industry. |
| 1:40.2 | Eventually, he started his own company. |
| 1:42.3 | From his professional journey, a big takeaway for him was it's hard to start a company fresh out of school, because you don't know anything. |
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