S6 Bonus: Beier Cai, Commit.dev

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Beier Cai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups. The third startup he worked at did pretty well, which was HootSuite. He was the first engineer writing the first line of code for the social sharing platform. Towards the latter years at the company, he fell in love with helping engineers grow their careers, and managing teams. Passionate about community, he started organizing meetup groups outside of the company. Outside of tech, he is married with two boys. He finds that being a father helps him to be a better business owner, thinking towards building something for the long term. Being based in Vancouver, he loves to ski during the winter, and be outdoors hiking and camping in the summer. After Beier left Hootsuite, he was interested in getting back into the startup life and solving a new problem. He got together with his now co-founder, and a particular problem stood out to him - the difficulty in building a successful career within the startup ecosystem. He was puzzled to see great talent leaving the startup eco-system, and he wanted to fix it, through a private, professional network. This is the creation story of Commit. 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	Honestly, to this day, I still don't have a clue like what MVP means, you know, to be honest with you.
0:07.0	Not that, you know, I don't like the word.
0:10.0	It's just like it's so, it can be so shallow or so deep, right?
0:14.0	You know, I've been through four or five different startups and every journey is different.
0:19.0	So I think particularly for Commit, unlike typical product building, you know,
0:25.2	we kind of went the opposite way.
0:27.3	You know, like Greg and I, like my partner and I, we know we can build communities.
0:31.6	But what we don't know is if we can actually make it a proper business.
0:37.3	My name is Bear Kai.
0:39.5	I'm the CEO and co-founder of Commit.
0:47.6	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 and build and lead.
0:59.5	A team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Barakai establish a remote-first developer community,
1:08.6	where engineers are paid to find their next gig.
1:13.5	All this and more. OnCote Story.
1:20.2	Bear Kai has been in the tech space for 16 years, almost exclusively in early stage startups.
1:25.9	The third startup he worked at did pretty well, which was
1:28.3	Hootsweet. He was the first engineer writing the first line of code for the social sharing platform.
1:34.0	Towards the latter years at the company, he fell in love with helping engineers grow their
1:37.7	careers and managing teams. Passionate about community started organizing meetup groups
1:42.8	outside of the company. Outside of
1:44.7	tech, he's married with two boys. He finds that being a father helps him to be a better business owner,
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