S7 Bonus: Ruben Izmailyan, Quiltt

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ruben Izmailyan grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12. When he was 14, he and his family came to the US, eventually attending school at Brown in Rhode Island. He's an avid BBQer, which fits perfectly now that he is living in Texas with his young family. However, he let me know that he even was into this style of cooking when he was living in Brooklyn - against the wishes of his landlord at the time. In a previous role, Ruben was made aware that although financial institutions and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app, he and his team ended up pivoting to creating the tooling and infrastructure needed to interact with financial data sets. And this abstraction started to gain traction. This is the creation story of Quiltt. 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	Core product and the core I would say secret sauce of quill is that we're a unified API for multiple different types of APIs and data providers.
0:09.0	And we're sort of normalizing that into a single standard data model.
0:13.0	So one of the assumptions that we made was, okay, well, we're solving the back end problem, and that's the really hard engineering problem.
0:23.1	The front end, you know, that's easier.
0:26.1	You know, we can deal with it later or our customers can figure that out.
0:32.3	One of the learnings from our last year in beta, they're coming to us to solve integration issues, right?
0:33.7	They want to make it easier to access this data.
0:35.8	They want to accomplish a particular job.
0:38.7	My name is Ruben Izmalyon, and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Quilt.
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 Laphart.
1:04.6	And today how Ruben Ismail is stitching together consumer fintech, enabling you to launch innovative technology.
1:13.5	All this and more.
1:15.1	Oncoat story.
1:20.0	Ruben is Malian grew up in Armenia originally, then moved to Russia when he was 12.
1:24.7	When he was 14, he and his family came to the U.S. and eventually he attended
1:27.9	Brown in Rhode Island. He's an avid barbecuer, which fits perfectly now that he's living in Texas
1:32.8	with his young family. He did let me know that he was even into this style of cooking when he
1:37.9	was living in Brooklyn, against the wishes of his landlord at the time. In a previous role, Ruben was
1:43.9	made aware that although financial institutions
1:45.8	and brokers had access to useful data, normal consumers did not. Starting out with a budgeting app,
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