S5 E3: Alex Yurkowski, ClickUp

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Alex Yurkowski grew up in New Jersey. He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software. Like many others, it all started with a lot of video games, like Warcraft, Starcraft - basically the Blizzard portfolio. But along with that, it included Legos, Connects, and then progressed naturally into computer science. He attended Notre Dame to study CS and being a part of the fighting Irish, he can confirm there is a love hate relationship with the Rudy story. Post college, he worked at IBM for a stint in North Carolina. It was at this point in his life that he got married, and then moved to LA and he's been there for about 5 years. He and his co-founder were working on projects together, and they went through multiple workflow tools that didn't fit there work style. They realized that there was a gap in the market, where people needed a tool that allowed you to work the way you want, and have all of your tools in one place. This is the creation story of ClickUp. 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	One of the big trade-offs we made was automated testing.
0:05.0	We avoided automated testing to begin with if it wasn't something that we knew either wasn't going to change or it wasn't super vital to the product where it can't break.
0:14.0	That's rough. Without automated testing, you're going to need to be very confident in your code changes without that cushion of,
0:22.6	oh, something catches when I make a mistake.
0:25.4	Turns out that was a good decision because we went from our 1.0 version of our product
0:29.9	to the 2.0 version of our product was a big migration, and it's completely evolved.
0:35.1	And so a lot of that testing work would have just kind of thrown away anyway.
0:39.5	I'm Alex Jarkowski.
0:40.9	I'm the CTO and co-founder at ClickUp.
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.
1:02.4	I'm your host, Noah Lab Park, and today how Alex Jerkowski built the future of work
1:07.9	by creating one app to replace them all.
1:13.7	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.4	Alex Jarkowski grew up in New Jersey.
1:23.4	He has always been into tech and building things, especially in software.
1:27.8	Like many others, it started with a lot of video games, like Warcraft, Starcraft, basically
1:33.0	the entire Blizzard portfolio.
1:35.7	But along with that, it included Legos, Connects, and then progressed naturally into computer
1:40.0	science.
1:41.7	He attended Notre Dame to study CS, and being a part of the fighting Irish, he can
1:45.9	confirm there is a love-hate relationship with the Rudy story. Post-college, he worked at IBM for a stint
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