S7 E28: Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California, His journey to technology started in 7th grade, when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio, breaking his friends computers along the way. He studied aerospace engineering in college, but enjoyed tech and pogromming way more and joined the LA development community 12 years ago. Outside of tech, he plays beach volleyball, hikes, and enjoys little vacations here and there. Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution, specifically for salons and spas - so called self care businesses, traditionally underserved. They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a 6 person salon. This is the creation story of Boulevard. 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	You know, we hit the pavement, so to speak, on fleshing out that MVP. And what's kind of fascinating
0:07.7	is that the initial approach we thought we were taking towards building this company was fixing
0:14.5	that consumer problem. Me as a consumer, I wanted a much easier way to book appointments. And so
0:19.3	that was day one, what we started focusing
0:21.8	on. And quickly, we realized that it's actually not possible for that customer app to exist in today's
0:29.8	world because none of the back-end solutions that salons and spas use is powerful enough to
0:35.5	power that type of experience.
0:42.5	My name is Sean Stavropoulos and I'm a co-founder and the CTO at Boulevard.
0:57.3	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 a team that has your back.
1:02.2	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Sean Stavropoulos
1:06.3	built the platform for you to manage your appointment-based self-care-based business.
1:13.5	All this and more. OnCote Story.
1:19.3	Sean Stavropoulos grew up in Southern California.
1:22.5	His journey to technology started in seventh grade when he started programming for fun in Visual Studio,
1:27.2	breaking his friend's computers along the way.
1:29.7	He studied aerospace engineering in college, but enjoyed tech and programming way more
1:33.6	and joined the L.A. development community 12 years ago.
1:37.0	Outside of tech, he plays beach volleyball, hikes, and enjoys little vacations here and there.
1:42.7	Sean and his co-founder had an idea to build a modern appointment scheduling solution,
1:47.3	specifically for salons and spas, so-called self-care businesses, traditionally underserved.
1:53.4	They interviewed owners and built and built until they had a solution to power a six-person salon.
2:00.7	This is the creation story of Boulevard.
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