S7 E1: Ian Small, Evernote (Replay)

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Ian Small is a Canadian, and claims that is the most important thing about him. Tech started for him when he was 12 years old, when he got a bad grade on a homework assignment, bought the manual, and became an expert on the machine. Outside of tech, he likes to do home renovation. As he says it, when there is a power tool in your hand, that could potentially cut your arm off, you tend to focus on it. Ian joined Evernote in 2018, to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind a wall of technical debt, which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow and thrive in current times, they had to get out from underneath these problems. This is his creation story, at Evernote. 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	MVP is sort of an interesting term in this concept.
0:04.0	We did have an MVP, but it was like the maximum viable product.
0:08.0	Because Evernote was a big, complicated, super powerful application,
0:13.0	and there were five different flavors of it on five different platforms.
0:17.0	You know, TechDed is not a novel concept.
0:20.0	You know, there are some pretty well-established approaches to figure out how to go through this.
0:25.4	The challenge really was that most of those approaches are designed to help you pay down and restore a balance in the background.
0:35.4	And we'd gotten to the point where there wasn't any background left.
0:40.5	I'm Ian Small, CEO of Evernote.
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, Noel Apar.
1:04.5	And today how Ian Small stepped into the world of Evernote to increase innovation and product velocity.
1:13.6	All this and more on code story.
1:20.6	Being small is a Canadian and claims that is the most important thing about him.
1:24.6	Tech started for him when he was 12 years old,
1:26.6	when he got a bad grade on
1:28.0	a homework assignment, bought the manual, and became an expert on the machine. Outside of tech,
1:33.1	he likes to do home renovation. As he says it, when there's a power tool in your hand that could
1:37.8	potentially cut your arm off, you tend to focus on it. Ian joined Evernote in 2018 to solve a big problem. The company was stuck behind
1:46.7	a wall of technical debt which was blocking its way to innovation. In order for the company to grow
1:52.0	and thrive in current times that had to get out from underneath these problems. This is his
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