S7 Bonus: Valentin Vasilyev, Fingerprint.com

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Valentin Vasilyev has always been interested in the open source world. His Github account was created way back in 2008 when they started. He always dreamt about contributing to Ruby on Rails, since he developed with it in the past. Outside of tech, he loves cycling - road and mountain, and enjoys good coffee and online shooting games. He's married with 2 kids, and loves living in the midwest, specifically Chicago. Post getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open source library he created, which its worth noting, was starred 6000 times. He decided to keep his library, but spin off a pro version which included a backend. Then he followed up with some landing pages, and payment mechanisms. And then began his focus on accuracy. This is the creation story of Fingerprint.com. 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	Getting validation from customers that you're building what they want is the number one
0:06.9	priority for an early founder and I made that mistake of building customers didn't need.
0:12.9	But luckily, I didn't feel like it's the end of the world.
0:16.8	One of the values that we have is fail, learn, grow.
0:20.3	So fail comes first. So it's fine in our have is fail, learn, grow. So fail comes first.
0:22.1	So it's fine in our culture to fail then because you learn from that and then you grow as a result.
0:27.2	So even though it was a failure to build certain things or it was a mistake to build certain
0:31.8	things that we couldn't sell, we'll learn from that and grew as a result.
0:35.1	So it aligns with our core path, which is failed, learn, grow.
0:38.4	My name is Valentin Vasiliath.
0:40.3	I am the co-founder and CTO of Fingerprint.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries, who share in the critical minds 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 Laphardt, and today how Valentin Vasilio took his open source repo to the next level and created a device ID platform to prevent fraud.
1:13.8	All this and more. OnCode story.
1:20.9	Valentin Vasiliev has always been interested in the open source world. His GitHub account
1:25.8	was created way back in 2008 when they started.
1:28.3	He's always dreamt about contributing to Ruby on Rails since he developed with it in the past.
1:33.3	Outside of tech, he loves cycling, road and mountain, and enjoys good coffee in online shooting games.
1:38.3	He's married with two kids and loves living in the Midwest, specifically Chicago.
1:42.3	Post-getting his green card, Valentin wanted to experiment with the open-source library he
1:47.8	created, which it's worth noting, was starred 6,000 times.
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