S9 Bonus: Raven Jiang, Arc

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Raven Jiang grew up in Singapore before heading over to the states for college. He came to the US for undergrad because he grew up reading science fiction, and liked the idea of working with technology. He plays multiplayer video games, which helped to shape how he viewed technology and the advancements in that ecosystem. He enjoys Japanese food, and in fact, traveled to Japan regularly while living in Singapore. Raven and his co-founders met in business school, and observed an interesting opportunity in the market. They wanted to apply consumer finance technology to create a seamless revenue financing experience. Over time, they added to create a fintech platform to accelerate your startup. This is the creation story of Arc. 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 MVP definitely focused a lot more on onboarding the customer and aggregating their data.
0:06.0	So I think a lot of the trade-off there was deciding what makes that cut, right?
0:12.0	What do we actually need to start to onboard customers to give them a reasonable level of comfort
0:18.0	that they are working with this random new startup that is trying to collect all
0:21.8	their financial information. Building out the right UI, building out the right integration so that
0:27.8	as much of it can be automated and going through third party O-Off and things like that.
0:32.9	Rather than, hey, send us a spreadsheet of all your financial data. I think that was their initial focus.
0:39.9	My name is Raven Jiang, and I'm the CTO and co-founder at Arc.
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 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	She 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.
1:06.2	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 is a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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