S9 Bonus: Craig Sellars, Self

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Craig Sellars grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, and was interested in technology at an early age. He went to Georgia Tech to get his degree, and after spending many years in industry, he jumped into the blockchain in 2013. Outside of tech, he used to do competitive, 4 way formation sky diving. He mentioned this was like synchronized swimming - but in the air. Nowadays, he enjoys long road trips into the sunset. Craig has created well known solutions in the blockchain space, notably the Tether stable-coin and the first ever NFT platform, now known as Vatom.com. Throughout his tenure in this space, he has learned that you – the user – are the most valuable asset in the world.. And in learning that, he wanted to pursue building the standard of internet identity. This is the creation story of Self. 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Luckily, the blockchain component is actually optional. We're taking what we can from that
0:05.3	technology and applying those benefits to identity. We've been operating, I guess, in stealth for
0:10.4	two to three years, and our plan is to have the MVP out to the market before the end of this
0:14.5	year, with a closed beta happening a little bit earlier. Internally, we're using open source
0:19.3	toolkits that we develop ourselves and try and leverage the open source toolkits that are out there.
0:24.5	We build each day knowing that we could throw away yesterday's great idea in favor of today's great idea.
0:30.1	I have the philosophy of fail early, fail often, but also fail gracefully.
0:34.4	You're doing well as a team if you can do that, overcome those obstacles and then pull together a better solution
0:39.1	than where you started.
0:40.8	I'm Craig Sellers, co-founder and CEO of Self.
0:46.8	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 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	It took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	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 our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.