S9 Bonus: Blake Burch, Shipyard

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music professor, specifically in percussion. But eventually, he moved over to the tech world. But, outside of tech, he plays board games, in the strategy realm, and named one that I hadn't heard of called Terra Mystica. Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a product of its own. This is the creation story of Shipyard. 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	So our biggest initial hurdle was how do you take an internal technology and make it something that other people externally can use.
0:08.1	And there's a lot of hurdles that go along with that.
0:09.9	Like you've built in too much conjoined business logic and it's too attached to your internal databases.
0:15.6	And now it needs to be able to connect to everyone's databases.
0:19.0	But that was the initial journey, proving it out across the clients that we had at that
0:23.1	agency, and then figuring out how do you take this and then make it available to any data
0:27.9	team at any of those companies or other companies and not really focusing so much on the
0:32.6	marketing use cases specifically.
0:35.1	My name is Blake Birch, and I'm the co-founder and CEO at Shipyard.
0:43.1	This is Code Story.
0:45.9	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:48.9	It's six months moonlighting.
0:50.4	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:52.3	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:55.0	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:57.0	It took many goes to get right.
0:58.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:01.0	The company is its people.
1:03.0	The teams help each other achieve.
1:04.0	Most proud of our team.
1:05.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:08.0	All that infrastructure is a pain.
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