S8 E15: Alex Louisy, Upflow

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Alex Louisy is 37 years old, and came from a non tech family. In the past, he worked in investment banking, and then a small telco company. But, he was always drawn to tech entrepreneurship and eventually, he stepped into the possibilities in this world. Outside of tech, he is married with two kids, and enjoys being outside, gardening, and hiking through the forest outside of his small house. Alex spent many years in investment banking, financing large companies. He set out to try to provide B2B lending, and discovered that most people needed to borrow money because they weren't getting paid on time. He and his team decided to focus on this very simple problem, which uncovered huge opportunity. This is the creation story of Upflow. 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	There's not really any tool to do what we do right now.
0:05.5	When you talk to people, usually what they do is that they use a spreadsheet.
0:09.7	What I do in a spreadsheet is actually putting the list of invoices, trying to get the
0:13.1	larger invoice outstanding, and try to randomly hit like customers that haven't paid me
0:19.1	on time and try to figure out the process out of it.
0:21.6	What was interesting is that we somehow in the first iteration of the product, I think we got it wrong in the sense of like we focused a lot of efforts on
0:33.6	pains that we thought were like the massive pain, but it wasn't in the end.
0:39.6	My name is Alex Lizzie. I'm the co-founder and CEO at Upload.
0:46.6	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 to do next.
1:00.2	It 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.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was up the aid.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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