S8 Bonus: Max Walker, Piton Labs

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Max Walker lives in Eastern Upstate NY (or Vermont light, as he calls it), with his grumpy, elderly cat. He comes from a tech background, graduating with a computer science degree, and working as a software engineer. Along the way, he fell in love with entrepreneurship, and dove into the startup world. Outside of tech, he is an avid rock climber, hiker, and loves super spicy food as a vegetarian. Max is a startup veteran, and given he had gone down the building and fundraising route, he wanted to do something a bit different. What he really loved was the building, messy beginning - so he built a business around that early stage. This is the creation story of Piton Labs. 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 tend to recommend that folks go really, really minimalist in terms of build as little as possible, as fast as possible.
0:08.0	If your product involves collecting a bunch of information from people and notifying other people, could you just do a Google form and an email blast to start out with?
0:16.0	How do you build as little as possible?
0:18.0	And it's a little bit funny for us because like, right, we get brought in to help build this stuff and it would be great for us if we could convince our clients
0:23.4	that they should build huge amounts of product because that would be a lot more revenue for us.
0:28.0	But realistically, we want to guide them towards the best possible solutions. Build as little
0:31.6	software as you can up front because a lot of it's going to get replaced, a lot of it's going to get changed, and then pick technologies that are boring.
0:39.8	My name is Max Walker.
0:41.0	I'm a co-founder and managing partner at Peton Labs.
0:46.8	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing like 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	It 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.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was up pain.
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