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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S6 Bonus: Verl Allen, Claravine

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe. During that time, he was raising 3 kids as a single Dad, so you can imagine that during that time, it took a large part of his focus. Outside of his profession and family, he loves to ride road bikes 3-4 hours a week, but in particular, long distance rides (to the tune of 200 miles in a single day). He is also a runner, which he finds takes less time to get a good workout in. During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions. He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not doing this down to the data level. When he found out about his current gig, the product was attempting to solve a specific use case of this problem, but was sorta falling over. This is Verl's creation story of Claravine. 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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There's some work that's already been done by some outsourced engineers.

0:04.0

And the problem we ran into is they'd kind of gone down a path with a certain set of technologies

0:09.0

that we quickly realized we're not going to be able to scale where we thought the business was going

0:13.0

going to end up going, which if you look over the last almost four years, three and a half years

0:17.0

I've been here, we've grown the business from a revenue perspective like 10x.

0:21.5

So we first had to kind of step back and say, okay, let's really be clear about what the

0:25.0

problem is we're going to go solve going forward. That's kind of where we started was what

0:29.6

are the right technologies that are going to help us, let's assume we're 10, 20 times or 30 times

0:34.3

the size we are. Where are we going to hit problems and where we're going to hit scaling issues? Hi, I'm Ferrell Allen. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Clarivine.

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 lead.

0:59.5

A team that has your back.

1:02.3

I'm your host, Noah Laphart.

1:04.5

And today how Burl Allen leads the charge in creating a platform to ensure and control your data integrity.

1:13.5

All this and more on code story.

1:20.3

Prior to his current venture, Verl Allen spent 12 years at Adobe.

1:24.6

During that time, he was raising three kids as a single dad, so you can imagine that

1:28.7

during that time, it took a large part of his focus. Outside of his profession and family, he

1:33.4

loves to ride road bikes, three to four hours a week, but in particular, long distance rides,

1:38.5

to the tune of 200 miles in a single day. He's also a runner, which he finds takes less time to

1:44.1

get a good workout. During his also a runner, which he finds takes less time to get a good workout.

1:46.6

During his time at Adobe, Verl noticed a problem emerging with his exposure to acquisitions.

1:52.4

He saw that the acquisitions were merging at the process level, but were not merging down to the data level.

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