S8 Bonus: Andrew Kahl, BackBox

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Kahl has spent 30 years in tech, and has had many wonderful experiences. He graduated in 1992, and actually accidentally entered the industry, when he came across a job ad for Compaq. He's been in tech ever since, all around the building of things. Outside of tech, he is marred with 2 daughters - one of which he just sent to college, and one in high school. Along side of that, they have 3 overly energetic German shepherds. Andrew was part of a private equity group, which acquired BackBox in late 2021. He stepped in as CEO, maintaining the technology team in Israel and bringing the GTM team to the US. Taking over a fantastic product, Andrew set his sights on growing the company. This is the creation story of BackBox. 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	We came in with a growth mindset, and I know that's a bit of an overused term, but we said,
0:06.0	look, there's an opportunity to grow this business, not only globally, but specifically in North America.
0:12.0	So we've got to change how we do things.
0:14.0	Number one was define what are our goals, what do we want to do, what's the culture we want to have?
0:19.0	And then some people self-selected out, some people
0:22.4	we had to non-self-select out. The biggest thing was I needed people that understood what a
0:27.7	growth-oriented company looks like. And it's not just growth for the sake of growing, but growth-oriented
0:32.9	means you have to understand how all the pieces need to work together.
0:42.2	My name is Andrew Call, and I'm the CEO of Backbox Software.
0:48.5	This is Code Story.
0:52.3	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:53.7	It's six months moonlighting.
0:55.4	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:58.2	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
1:00.2	I don't exactly know what to do next. 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.
1:07.5	She was proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as we grew.
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