S8 Bonus: Rickard Hansson, Weavy

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Rickard Hansson is 48 years old to date, but started tinkering with his Commodore 64 when he was young. Later in life, he fell in love with building things and distributing it - IE building for others. He built his first commercial product at 15, which was a CRM built in Pascal. Outside of tech, he is a father of 3 and is a movie buff in his spare time. His favorite movie is a story about a tree diver, called Le Grand Blue or "The Big Blue". In the past, Rickard was running his company named Incentive, making tools for internal teams to collaborate. What they noticed was that there was a major shift towards utilizing third party tools to improve productivity, while developers of said tools had a hard time keeping up. He and his team decided to create the tooling to help them better compete. This is the creation story of Weavy. 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	When we started this in 2019, this whole idea, basically with the thesis saying, you know, collaboration is not an app.
0:06.6	Collaboration is a feature.
0:08.1	It was like an early bet.
0:09.6	It's not like people were asking for it.
0:11.5	But we had like good feeling like this is going to happen.
0:14.0	People want to work more contextually.
0:15.7	We want to be more productive within the app they're using.
0:18.8	And the product team is not going to have nor the skill set or the time to build this kind of features, at least good enough.
0:25.6	So people will love them.
0:26.6	So everything, how we built it from our customer journey, signing up, how you consume it as a developer.
0:33.6	Everything is like, you know, teed up for scaling.
0:35.6	But our challenge is like to get the message out.
0:39.7	This is Ricardo Hanson, CEO and co-founder of Weeby.
0:46.7	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 at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what you do next.
1:00.4	She took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.8	The company is its people.
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