S8 Bonus: Shai Ber & Elad Ben-Israel, Monada & Winglang

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Shai Ber is 40 years old, living in Tel Aviv. He loves to travel, hike, and eat new kinds of food. He loves to swim at the beach often, but he admits, tech consumes a large amount of his life - and he likes it that way. Elad Ben-Israel is also from Tel Aviv, and is 43 years old - and he jokingly claims that he is the responsible adult in the company. Outside of tech, he enjoys attending burning man, and making sure he gets his workout in, About year ago, Shai and Elad started a company to make using the cloud easier. As they went about thinking how best to do this, they struck gold in the thought of creating an expressive programming language. This is the creation story of Monada and Winglang. 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 convention says you need to be very agile and you need to have a very narrow MVP.
0:06.0	And for us, we kind of went the other way around.
0:09.0	So we're building this programming language and we're also building the standard library of the programming language.
0:15.0	It's an abstraction over the main cloud services.
0:19.0	So it's a very big surface area.
0:21.7	It's starting to become usable, which is very exciting, right?
0:24.7	Like it's a year in, we're starting to be able to actually build real things with Wing that do stuff.
0:30.9	So I feel like it's a very classic MVP exercise, but it's just that the baseline is pretty high.
0:37.1	I'm Alad, Venezuela.
0:38.6	I'm Shaibir.
0:39.8	And we're the creators of Wingling and founders of Munada.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	Six months of moonlighting.
0:53.6	There's nothing on the bedcaps.
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.
1:07.5	She was proud of our team.
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