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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S8 Bonus: Nooshin Alibhai & Eric Klimuk, Supportbench

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Nooshin Alibhai has a background in sales, event planning, and entrepreneurship. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys latin dancing, which is actually where she met her co-founder Eric. Eric Klimuk has also been in entrepreneurial roles throughout his life, starting companies early on in his life. Eventually, he dove into enterprise customer support, which led him to his current venture today. He attributes his love for salsa dancing as a major part of his professional successes, and has danced on ESPN. Both Nooshin and Eric enjoy spending time with family and friends, to help decompress from startup life. Erik spent many years in Customer Support, and found it incredibly difficult to deploy a new platform into his support group. He set out and built a toolset for the company he was at to use - and it went viral. When he figured out nothing existed in the market like this, he decided build something to the world This is the creation story of SupportBench. 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

The risk for us wasn't that we were putting our own personal money in, but in doing so, we started to hire and get office space.

0:11.0

We did it a little too quick and we had to sort of shut it down.

0:16.0

That was the biggest mistake ever.

0:19.0

I think the thing that we learned out of it was, I know for myself,

0:22.9

I didn't respect cash the way that I respect cash now. My cash was on the line. I didn't realize

0:28.8

how fast it could go when you let go just a little bit and make those mistakes.

0:34.6

I'm New Sheen Aliye, I'm the CEO.

0:37.9

I'm Eric Klimik.

0:39.1

I am the CTO.

0:40.7

And the two of us are the co-founders of Support Bench.

0:46.6

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 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.

1:02.2

Who built the teams that have their back.

1:04.7

The company is its people.

1:06.1

The teams help each other.

1:07.5

She was proud of her team.

1:09.0

Keeping scalability top of mind.

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