S8 Bonus: Matthew O'Riordan, Ably

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matthew O'Riordan is originally from South Africa. He left school and sort of fell into engineering, cause he just loved it. In fact, the craft brought him to the UK, where he saw more opportunity. Outside of tech, he likes adrenaline sports. He was a competitively skydiver, participating in free style routines, free-fly and vertical formation. He pointed out that it's a great way to clear your head, cause you can't think about anything else when you're skydiving. Matt unearthed interesting things as he was building prototype after prototype to solve real time experiences. He wanted to build a new generation of real time communication developer tools, that provide collaboration opportunity... and that just work. This is the creation story of Ably. 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	So we weren't actually building for scale. We were building to have a very small team with a very
0:04.4	scalable platform. So not scale of the organization, but scale of the platform. It was very naive.
0:11.4	I mean, it was very idealistic. You know, as soon as you start to sell to a developer in an
0:16.5	organization who has to sign up a budget, you're going to go through a procurement process.
0:20.9	And even though the developer is the person who's buying the technology, you know, there's
0:23.9	other people with the budgets and you need salespeople. And then you need people on support
0:27.1	because developers have problems and they want to speak to a human being. And then we need to
0:30.2	look after customers. We need customer success people. And so all of the things that we thought
0:34.7	we were designing to avoid, you know, very quickly came back
0:38.1	into the organization.
0:39.9	I am Matthew Reardon.
0:41.0	I'm the co-founder and CEO of Abley Real Time.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	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.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
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