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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S5 E17: LaKeisha Turner, AlgoPear

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

LaKeisha Turner is a strong woman. She has her hands full, as a single mom of a 16 year old girl, and an 8 year old boy. She is a breast cancer survivor, and lover of classical music - previously playing instruments in her high school days. She chose a tech path at a very early age, heavily influenced by her grade school computer science teacher, ultimately leading to her decision to pursue a career in technology. When she's not building technology, she likes to take trips with her kids. Each weekend she tries to plan something fun and exciting for them to do as a family. A bit a go, LaKeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated, algorithmic trading and portfolio management. This is the creation story of AlgoPear. 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 wish I would have built the mobile app simultaneously with the web app.

0:07.0

That's one thing I feel like I should have made that decision

0:11.0

instead of waiting to build the web app first and then the mobile app second.

0:17.0

So I would have took that approach because I feel like we would have saved some more time and money by doing that.

0:25.6

So as we building our features out, we have to still keep in mind the features and how they're going to be in the mobile app as well.

0:35.6

I'm Lakeisha Turner, co-founder and CTO of the in the mobile app as well.

0:42.4

I'm Lakeisha Turner, co-founder and CTO of AlgoPair.

1:01.1

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.

1:12.4

I'm your host, Noah Laphardt, and today how Lukisha Turner built the platform to automate stock trades and grow portfolios for everyone.

1:16.0

All this and more on Coat Story.

1:27.3

Lakeisha Turner is a strong woman. She has her hands full as a single mom of a 16-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy.

1:29.3

She's a breast cancer survivor and a lover of classical music, previously playing instruments

1:33.7

in her high school days. She chose a tech path at a very early age, heavily influenced by

1:39.1

her grade school computer science teacher, ultimately leading to her decision to pursue a

1:44.1

career in technology. When she's not building technology, ultimately leading to her decision to pursue a career in technology.

1:45.7

When she's not building technology, she likes to take trips with her kids, and each weekend she

1:50.1

tries to plan something fun and exciting for them to do as a family.

1:54.6

A little bit ago, Lakeisha was approached by her founder, Ronnie Green, about utilizing her tech expertise to build out his vision for automated algorithmic trading and portfolio management.

2:09.2

This is the creation story of AlcoPair.

2:15.9

AlgoPair automates the trading process by matching a trader's investment portfolio with an algorithm bot that best fits their risk level and their goals.

2:29.3

So we ask them a series of questions to determine what their risk level is, and we help them match

2:35.2

an algorithm to place on their brokerage account.

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