S6 Bonus: Christine Spang, Nylas

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate New York when she was 3, and grew up there. She came from a family of engineers and entrepreneurs. After getting into an RPG game based on Lord of the Rings, she had to learn to code, run linux, and fell in love with software. In High School, she was a band geek, and was super into fantasy reading. These days she tends to focus more on hobbies that get her out and moving in the world, specifically rock climbing and plants. Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email. This is the creation story of Nylas. 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 remember I was like terrified to flip the private to public button on GitHub.
0:06.0	It turns out that like if you just switch a repo to public on GitHub and you're like some tiny startup that no one's ever heard of, people don't find it.
0:15.0	Like literally nothing happened. Until we went out, you know, got boots on the ground and like really started pushing and talking about it to draw attention to it.
0:23.4	No one even discovered the repo on their own. We shouldn't have been worried about that.
0:27.6	You know, the response we got seemed pretty positive. You know, the next step was like, okay, how do we build, you know, an infrastructure service for this and get it launched as quickly as possible.
0:38.7	My name is Christine Spang and I'm the founder and CTO at Nylos.
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 and build and leave a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel Lappart, and today how Christine Spang created the communications API so you can unlock the power of your comms data.
1:13.8	All this and more.
1:15.1	OnCote story.
1:19.4	According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto.
1:24.9	Early on in life, she moved to upstate New York and grew up there. She came from a
1:29.6	family of engineers and entrepreneurs. After getting into an RPG game based on Lord of the Rings,
1:35.5	she had to learn to code, run Linux, and fell in love with software. In high school, she was a band
1:40.8	geek and was super into fantasy reading. These days, she tends to focus more on hobbies that get her out and moving in the world,
1:47.6	specifically rock climbing and plants.
1:50.8	Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle.
1:54.7	At that point, she was considering what was next for her,
1:58.3	and the timing was fortuitous as her friend from MIT was starting up something
2:02.4	around extracting information from email. This is the creation story of Nylas.
2:15.6	Nylis is a software platform that makes it easy for developers to build apps that can connect to communications data and to help people drive action from the insights from that communications data.
2:29.3	In its simplest form, this can mean that folks can use our APIs to bring communications data into
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