S6 E12: Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Bobby Gruenewald is a lifelong learner, and an activator. He majored in Finance, but was always interested in entrepreneurship. In 1995, he built a website for a car dealership for $100, and then went on to build hondaparts.com. The dealer he worked for committed to investing in his future projects right then and there. Post that, he built several companies and sold them, creating a successful track record. He has been married for 26 years, and has 4 children. His 16 year old just started driving, but he claims she is a great driver... way better than the self driving mode on his Tesla. As a hobby - or addiction, as he confesses - he is a pilot but didn't stop with his pilots license. He can fly helicopters, seas planes, jets - over the past few years, he had flown 44 different types of planes. He's found it was very therapeutic to be up in the air... a great way to clear his head of all the things that occupy his thoughts. In spite of being on staff at a church, Bobby found himself not reading the bible regularly. While standing in the security line in the airport, he thought up an idea to use technology to help him read the Bible more, and grow spiritually. This is the creation story of the YouVersion Bible App. 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	It was a huge journey just to get it off the ground in terms of all the complications that we ran into.
0:08.0	And we launched the website and it didn't work.
0:11.0	But that failure led us to the idea of putting it on mobile devices,
0:17.0	right at the moment in time when Apple and Steve Jobs were announcing it was going to be possible
0:21.4	to develop apps for the iPhone and we're going to create something called the App Store.
0:25.7	So we quickly tried to build a Bible app and it was in the first 200 apps the day that the App Store
0:34.6	launched back in 2008.
0:37.8	My name is Bobby Grimwald and I'm the founder and CEO at U-Bersion.
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.
1:02.4	I'm your host, Noah Laphardt, and today help Bobby Greenwald created one of the first apps in the app store to help you read the Bible daily.
1:13.5	All this and more on Cote Story.
1:20.8	Bobby Greenwald is a lifelong learner and an activator.
1:24.7	He majored in finance but was always interested in entrepreneurship.
1:28.6	In 1995, he built a website for a car dealership for $100 and then went on to build honda parts.com.
1:35.5	The dealer he worked for committed to investing in his future projects right then and there.
1:40.0	Post that, he built several companies and sold them, creating a successful entrepreneurial track record.
1:45.8	He's been married for 26 years and has four children.
1:49.5	His 16-year-old just started driving, but he claims she's a great driver.
1:53.0	Way better than the self-driving mode on his Tesla.
1:56.4	As a hobby, or addiction, as he confesses, he's a pilot, but didn't just stop with his pilot's license.
2:02.5	He could fly helicopters, seaplanes, jets, and over the past few years, he's flown 44 different
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