S8 Bonus: Srini Srinivasan, Aerospike

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Srini Srinivasan grew up in India, during a time when you could go do whatever you wanted during the summer. So he explored and experienced many things, tech and non-tech. He was very into sports and competition, and wanted to be a cricket super star. He didn't start coding until he went off to college, and interestingly enough, there were many startups formed from his class. In the early days, he really loved the Assembly language (which I can attest is not the norm!). Srini was working in a company focused on mobile and adtech related work. During this time, he discovered that all database tech existing were lacking. He and his co-founder decided that they were the right pair to build a better system. This is the creation story of Aerospike. 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	I think the one mistake in the early days we made was we started adding features very fast.
0:06.0	This was maybe in the 2013 timeframe.
0:09.0	Until then we had been more measured.
0:11.0	We got some funding, we got some people and so on, we had more resources, and we had a fairly robust way of figuring out what we needed to build.
0:19.0	We just did too much of the roadmap, too fast,
0:21.5	within an 18-month period. It ended up in a number of features being released in the 2013-14
0:28.3	timeframe, many of which were not complete. This caused fairly bad backlash. In fact,
0:33.3	if I would say set us back by at least a year or two and we need to recover from that.
0:38.7	My name is Sweeney Sweeney Svason.
0:40.6	I am the CTO and founder of Aerospace.
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	It 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.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
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