S6 E8: Ev Kontsevoy, Teleport

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ev Kontsevoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engineering parents. When he was younger, computers were relatively uncool still. But as they grew in popularity, he started to explore how to make computers do what he wanted them to do, specifically to interact with hardware. He recalls burning up a monitor once, because he was tinkering with changing the refresh rate, typing up assembly in DOS, and playing early games like Doom. Eventually, he got into infrastructure so he could serve engineers and stay close to the hardware. Fun fact about him - Ev enjoys to watch computers boot. Outside of tech, he likes to tinker with photography, but not digitally - he likes the old cameras, where you have to develop the pictures yourself. Prior to his current venture, Ev created Mailgun - one of the top transactional email platforms out there - which he eventually sold to Rackspace. During his time scaling Mailgun, and working for Rackspace, he started to feel the pain of logging into multiple cloud services - so much so, that he decided to consolidate these connections into a single platform. This is the creation story of Teleport. 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	We had our own roadmap and then we had things that customers wanted and we would only implement
0:05.8	things that were on our roadmap anyway. So in other words, we continue to be extremely opinionated.
0:12.8	And right now, by the way, it's giving us massive benefits because teleports is just so far ahead
0:17.3	versus computing solutions because it doesn't use any secrets, any passwords,
0:22.0	anywhere. But in the early days, it was not obvious. I think at some point, like one of Google
0:27.4	teams reached out to us, they wanted us to support public-private keys for authentication.
0:32.0	And believe it or not, we said no. We had like almost no revenue at the time, and Google is
0:36.0	calling and they want to purchase your product and we said no.
0:39.2	My name is Ev Konsavoy.
0:40.6	I'm CEO and founder of Teleport.
0:47.8	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 Lappart, and today how Ev Konsevoix built the easiest, most secure way to access and connect to your cloud infrastructure.
1:13.5	All this and more.
1:15.1	Oncoat Story.
1:19.5	Ev Kansavoy wanted to be an engineer when he grew up, and this was directly influenced by his engineering parents.
1:26.3	When he was younger, computers were relatively
1:28.3	uncool still, but as they grew in popularity, he started to explore how to make computers do
1:33.2	what he wanted them to do, specifically to interact with hardware. He recalls burning up a monitor
1:38.6	once because he was tinkering with changing the refresh rate. Eventually, he got into infrastructure
1:43.6	so he could serve engineers and stay close to the hardware.
1:47.7	Fun fact about him, Ev enjoys to watch computer spute. Wow.
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