S8 E6: Bryce Crawford, Meow

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Bryce Crawford had a pretty simple path into tech. He attended school at Vanderbilt, originally wanting to be a history major. But after observing his Dad's role in tech sales, he thought the industry looked like a good way to make money. He's worked for Capital One, Gemini and Facebook, specifically on Instagram shops. Outside of work - he keeps on coding, while trying to exercise, stay in shape, and travel when time permits. Fun fact - he claims to have an addiction to Indian food, and tends to eat at the same restaurant 2-3 times a week. Bryce and his co-founder wanted to start something together for a long time - but didn't have any good ideas. However, they noticed that there was a ton of disruption and advancement in fintech, and specifically, the majority of folks don't like their financial services provider. They aimed to change that... for business customers, through treasury management. This is the creation story of Meow. 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 initial MVP took several iterations, but what we did start with was building like this general purpose B2B suite.
0:09.4	What goes into that? It's having multi-user accounts with different roles and permissioning.
0:14.7	It's having a know-your-customer, know-your-business process that is required to be compliant with AML laws.
0:21.5	As interest rates started to rise, we saw this big opportunity to help customers get
0:26.5	their cash balances off zero percent interest.
0:29.4	And we thought that treasury bills would be pretty interesting for a corporate treasury.
0:34.1	From the time we started thinking about treasury bills to actually shipping
0:38.5	the product was really only about six weeks. I'm Bryce Crawford, CTO, and co-founder of me now.
0:46.7	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting. There's nothing like 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.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as we grew.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
1:15.9	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
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