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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S5 E12: Chris Wexler, Krunam

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Chris Wexler had a crazy path to get where he is today. By his count, he is on his 6th career. His first job was on Capital Hill, followed up with a stint in Wall Street. After that, he produced independent theater, and then got into marketing and advertising, being one of the early adopters of ad tech. He's married with two daughters, and is a huge baseball fan (the Minnesota Twins specifically). He reads a lot of non fiction books, interestingly about public projects and how it portrays power distribution in the United States. All along his career, he was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit. The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career, plus his advocacy for fighting human trafficking... and with that, it was a no brainer for him to start his current venture. This is the creation story of Krunam. 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

The question was, could this even look at a problem like CSAN? Because all of a sudden, we're looking at

0:05.8

relative body position. Is that sexual opposing? And will it understand that versus something else?

0:12.3

Is it a child? Is it an adult? These were real questions. They literally had to drag, the MVP was

0:18.9

dragging their equipment into a Faraday cage at the UK

0:22.4

home office to work on the database because they couldn't have anything connected to the

0:27.5

internet. When the first time that they ran it through and they had a high enough success

0:32.5

rate of identification, they knew it was going to be something that they could refine into a

0:36.8

real product. It was a eureka moment. My name is Chris Wexler. I'm the CEO of Kruon.

0:47.8

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, Noel Aft, and today how Chris Wexler built the system

1:07.5

to identify and classify predatory online content.

1:13.5

All this and more on Coat Story.

1:20.6

Chris Wexler had a crazy path to get where he is today.

1:24.7

By his count, he is on his sixth career.

1:28.9

His first job was on Capitol Hill, followed up with a stint in Wall Street. his count, he is on his sixth career. His first job was on Capitol Hill,

1:33.5

followed up with a stint in Wall Street. After that, he produced independent theater and then got into marketing and advertising, being one of the early adopters of Ad Tech. He's married with two daughters,

1:39.1

and is a huge baseball fan, the Minnesota Twins, specifically. He reads a lot of nonfiction books, interestingly,

1:45.2

about public projects, and how it portrays power distribution in the United States.

1:51.4

All along his career, he was involved in the prevention of human trafficking. He has family

1:57.2

members running organizations focused on this specific philanthropic pursuit.

2:02.2

The opportunity came about for Chris to utilize all the different skill sets he'd obtained over his career,

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