S8 E12: Stephanie Mertz, Eisen

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Mertz is into software development because she likes to create something from nothing - IE the blank canvas nature of coding. Outside of tech, she loves to garden, grow her own vegetables, and build things out of wood. She also has as beehive, which she claimed was a fantastic way to observe the natural creative process - and decompress from a screen. Stephanie and her co-founder were drawn to solving problems for the behind the scenes processes - aka the boring business stuff. When digging into these problems, they kept running into the fact that no one really had a solid escheatment process... and eventually, they decided to tackle it. This is the creation story of Eisen. 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	One thing I reference really often is Cunningham's Law.
0:06.0	It's the law that it's a lot easier to critique things that you can see.
0:11.0	It's a lot faster to get to someone to tell you why something's wrong than if you post a question on the internet asking for the right answer.
0:19.0	I do that a lot in my work where I will build out a mock.
0:23.0	I will build out something quick.
0:24.8	And I'll put that in front of someone because it is a lot easier for them to say, why not?
0:29.1	And then I can come back and build something that works well as opposed to trying to have a
0:33.3	conversation around what's going to be the best approach here, which I think can be a little
0:37.2	amorphous sometimes to get really good input.
0:40.3	My name is Stephanie Mertz.
0:42.0	I'm the CTO and co-founder of Eisen.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	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	She took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
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