S8 Bonus: Alfredo Ramirez, Vyopta

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Alfredo Ramirez is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, which instilled in him positive beliefs around faith, family, community and hard work. Way back, his father bought him an Apple 2 computer, which started him on his software development journey. Outside of tech, he is married with kids, and loves spending time outdoors with them - hiking, water sports, snow skiing and shooting trap. All of these things allow him to relax, recharge and clear his head. Fifteen years ago, Alfredo and his co-founders started their current venture during the 2008 financial crisis. After relying on the services side of their business, they headed towards building a single platform around digital collaboration, one that is reliable, a better user experience, and the analytics to go with it. This is the creation story of Vyopta. 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	The primary driver for the approach we took in starting our business was, okay, we're in a horrible financial global economic state.
0:08.0	What can we do to minimize risk for our initial investors, which were just the co-founders?
0:14.6	It was starting it as a services business.
0:17.3	Rather than starting with let's go gas and develop an MVP, let's just go ahead
0:22.8	and generate some revenue to get some customers on board. We probably got a little too
0:26.9	comfortable and maybe complacent with the services business. And we finally had enough customers
0:33.2	under our belt where we felt the product that we pivoted the business around. We had enough
0:37.4	of a customer base that we could go in and upsell that. I am Alfredo Ramirez, co-founder and CEO
0:42.5	at Biopta.
0:46.7	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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