S8 Bonus: Mike Long, Kosli

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Mike Long describes himself as near really sitting still. He was born in Australia, but when he was 9 years old, he moved to Scotland. Post school, he worked in England, then Norway, then China... and now back to Norway. Early on his career, he worked in the Oil & Gas building larger robots for the industry. Outside of tech, he enjoys spending time with his family and taking long walks in the forest with his dog. At his previous company, Mike was the CTO of a DevOps consultancy company. He realized that they would see the same problem over and over again in regulated environments - businesses needed a process to follow to ensure changes were tracked, and they could in turn, "keep the receipts" for proof of changes. This is the creation story of Kosli. 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	It's like if you go and buy a coffee in the coffee shop, you ask for coffee, you pay for your coffee, you walk out with your coffee and that's great. You don't need a receipt because you got what you wanted. But if you were to buy coffee for the office, then it's suddenly something you're going to expense. There needs to be some kind of proof that you spent the money. and then it goes into the official accounts for the
0:21.0	company and that receipt needs to have a life cycle because it's got tax implications.
0:26.1	There's a whole story around it. So not everybody drinking coffee needs receipts, just like not
0:30.5	everyone making software needs receipts. But if you need it to prove something in a legal context later,
0:37.3	then absolutely the receipts are essential.
0:41.1	Hi, I'm Mike Long. I'm the CEO of Cosley.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	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	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	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.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
1:15.9	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
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