S5 E2: Miriam Schwab, Strattic

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She has been in Israel for 26 years, and moved there after high school to attend university. She studied English Literature in school, and she really enjoyed the focus, though it has little to do with what she is doing today. Even still, her heart was always pointed towards technology. She is a mother of 7 children, which keeps her super busy. The oldest is 22 a boy, and the rest are girls, with the youngest being 8. If she does have spare time, she spends time with her extended family, or goes out with friends. Around the time she had kid number 4, she took her maternity leave to re-evaluate what she wanted to do. She started freelancing, and building people websites on a contract basis. At the time, she was exploring open content management systems, namely Wordpress. She was one of the first people in Israel to offer Wordpress as a business solution. Her business grew from just her to being an agency, building sites for businesses for 13 years. As more and more people built websites, she began to realize that the content on the site was sluggish to load... and the stack used to power Wordpress wasn't keeping up with the growth in content. As she stumbled across a new trend, around static site generation, she immediately thought she found the answer. This is the creation story of Strattic. 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	Some people, when I've told people this story, they're like, oh yeah, that's happened to me.
0:04.3	Like it's a thing.
0:05.7	Sometime in the beginning, we all went to sleep and we woke up, finding out that we had a runaway lambda.
0:12.7	I guess you could call it that, on AWS.
0:15.0	And it had racked up the most enormous bill.
0:18.1	First of all, we had to recover from that.
0:19.7	It was a huge expense. We begged
0:22.7	AWS for flexibility and whatever. I think maybe we just weren't aware enough. And also we had said,
0:29.7	no, it's fine. If something goes wrong, we'll like know about it. No, AWS has no mercy. They're
0:35.6	going to charge you for it. I thought that was the end of the company.
0:39.7	My name is Ma'am Schwab.
0:41.1	I'm co-founder and CEO at Stratik.
0:47.8	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries
0:53.1	who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead.
0:59.5	A team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel Lab Park,
1:04.2	and today how Miriam Schwab built a company around making WordPress better
1:09.2	by making it stack.
1:13.7	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.8	Miriam Schwab is originally from Canada. She's been in Israel for 26 years and moved there
1:25.8	after high school to attend university. She studied English
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