S5 E14: Derrick Reimer, SavvyCal

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Derrick Reimer got his first computer in kindergarten. His Dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home, tinkered with code.. and Derrick was always interested in the projects he was working on. In junior high, he learned Dos basics, and started to make games. He found it really fun to write utilities and tools for people, and funny enough, he even tinkered with accounting software - and tried to replicate Quicken. Even still, he ignored coding as a career path. He majored in math in college, and wasn't sure how he wanted to apply it. He needed more creativity than most math jobs offered at the time. After college, he discovered the Basecamp team and their perspective on building software. It was at that moment that his interest in tech and entrepreneurship merged together. For fun, he loves to do a lot of things. He lives in Minneapolis, and is outdoors a lot - hiking, road cycling, and playing a bit of tennis here and there. He also enjoys cooking, and coffee - but not just drinking coffee. He has gotten into hobbyist coffee roasting - with a popcorn popper. He likes to play around with the beans, the equipment, and overall, tinkering with making the perfect cup. After collecting dust in his idea notebook, in the list of markets which he knew well, he decided to venture forward to make a better calendar scheduling work tool... based on his anxiety using this type of product, and his desire to level up the status quo. This is the creation story of SavvyCal. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What makes you believe that anyone actually wants to pay for this thing?
0:07.0	And maybe they're not trying to build a business. And that's, you know, that's a different thing.
0:11.1	Like we can all work on side projects for our own edification or learning. There's nothing wrong with that.
0:16.7	The first couple of SaaS products that I built really went nowhere because I sort of got excited
0:22.0	about the technology. I got excited about writing code, designing interfaces, doing all those things.
0:27.1	And I omitted the one really critical piece that I was just touching on, which is actually
0:31.8	talking to customers and ensuring that like, do you have a plan to get this in the hands of
0:35.8	users? And are you sure people really want to pay for this thing?
0:39.8	My name is Derek Reimer and I'm the founder of Savvy Cowl.
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, Noah Labhart, and today how Derek Reimer built the latest tool
1:07.6	to make calendar scheduling not feel weird.
1:13.5	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.3	Derek Rimer got his first computer in kindergarten.
1:23.6	His dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home he tinkered with code, and Derek was always
1:27.8	interested in the projects he was working on. In junior high, he learned DOS basics and started to make
1:32.9	games, and he found it was really fun to write utilities and tools for people. And funny enough,
1:38.8	he tinkered with accounting software and tried to replicate Quiggin. Even still, he ignored coding as a career path. He majored
1:46.2	in math in college and wasn't sure how he wanted to apply it. He needed more creativity than most
1:51.2	math jobs offered at the time. After college, he discovered the base camp team and their
1:55.9	perspective on building software. And it was at that moment that his interest in tech and entrepreneurship merged together.
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