S8 Bonus: Sharekh Shaikh, CleverX

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sharekh Shaikh has an interesting background, having grown up (almost) on a farm in India, within a small town. He spent most of his time with animals and pets, more than people, and followed his father around as he travelled for work. He is big into motorbikes and reading philosophy, specifically stoics, and tends to read the older books over newer podcast or material. He's also trying to learn piano, but admits he's struggling in that arena. When Sharekh was working for Gartner, he faced a problem around fraud, using online services for research. When he thought more about this, he decided he wanted to build a platform fueling market research... built on transparency and trust. This is the creation story of CleverX. 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 initially started, we built a very bad MVP using PHP WordPress just to test the idea out.
0:08.8	And we got a few customers.
0:10.3	Four or five research companies started using the platform.
0:12.9	And then we decided that we have to build something which is scalable, where thousands of research online surveys or calls can happen every week on the platform.
0:20.3	And we hired our first two developers who were JavaScript people.
0:24.6	So our code bases are mostly node and react.
0:28.6	And on top of it, we have other tools for search or for payments.
0:31.6	We've added Algolia.
0:33.6	Some AI is going to come into play there.
0:35.6	And we also have things like Stripe,
0:37.7	bank account connections and things of that sort.
0:40.8	My name is Sharik Sheikh. I'm the founder of Cleverick.
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.
0:53.7	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	Just 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.
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