S8 Bonus: Kaj Pedersen, AstrumU

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has had tons of exposure to cultures and countries, which he is fond of. Outside of tech, he married with a family, and loves climbing, being a proclaimed mountaineer. When he isn't climbing he likes to read a broad array of books, and scuba dive - of which, he mentioned Fiji was the coolest dive. In 2017, the founders of AstrumU kicked off the idea to build a company focused on creating equity to the value of education for everyone, by tracking hard and soft skills at the individual level. Though he couldn't join the company at that time, Kaj eventually joined in 2019 to take the initial idea to 1.0 conception. This is the creation story of AstrumU. 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 have a philosophy focusing on what's needed now, what's coming up next, and what is the future going to look like.
0:08.0	The roadmap is the intent.
0:09.6	It's not actually a clear sign of execution.
0:13.6	And so we've been talking about how we focus on the market.
0:16.9	And in many cases, one of the things that's driven us, this is important for MVP,
0:21.7	is learning from our lessons. Our failures teach us just as much as our successes. The key is
0:28.1	knowing how to very quickly learn from those mistakes and translate them into lessons that can be
0:34.3	successful. I always say to the team, we're going to braid things,
0:37.6	but we have to fix them cheerfully. My name is Kai Pedersen. I'm the CTO with Astrom-U.
0:46.7	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing at 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 up pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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