S9 Bonus: Berkay Atatop, Maestra

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Berkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but enable him to live a nomadic life. He split his college time in Turkey and America, and while he was stateside, he discovered hackathons - which is the origin spot for his current venture. Outside of tech, he played water polo for 10 years, and enjoys playing the guitar. He finds inspiration in bands like Pearl Jam, who is coming to Europe soon, which Berkay is excited about. After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond. This is the creation story of Maestra. 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	In the MVP, we always wanted to be the single source for customers to get their transcriptioning done.
0:07.0	But we always want to focus on the media side, media or audio or video side of things.
0:12.0	Right now, for my straight, anyone can come and upload their files and get their transcription,
0:18.0	subtitling, voiceover, translations, or all these things together,
0:22.8	and export their files.
0:24.6	For example, one of the other things that we were discussing was having a text translation feature.
0:30.3	We were considering expanding as much as we could to get as much traction as possible.
0:35.0	Maybe we will do that at some point, but we wanted to focus on the media side of things.
0:40.5	My name is Berkai Atatop,
0:42.0	and I'm the CTO of my strength.
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.
1:07.5	Most proud of her team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
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