S9 E1: Matt Levine, CacheFly

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And during that time, he started to dig into computers, and became hooked. He started several businesses in High School, and later founded eFront. Outside of tech, he is married with a couple of kids, and likes top lay golf. While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN. This is the creation story of CacheFly. 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 I have a friend, Richard, and if anybody knows Raz, they'll appreciate the story.
0:08.1	But I would basically just message him four lines of code over AOL Instant Messenger every day.
0:13.5	And then he would tell me how bad it is.
0:15.5	And I gamified making him rewrite the program four lines of code at a time.
0:19.9	And at the end of it, I had a working
0:21.5	load balancer, but I really just sent terrible code to Richard. And he would be like,
0:24.8	you're an idiot. Do this. And I was like, what about this? He's like, oh my God, that's the
0:27.7	worst thing I've ever seen. Do this instead. I'm Matt Levine. I'm the founder and CTO at Cashfly.
0:36.5	This is Code Story.
0:39.0	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:42.0	It's six months moonlighting.
0:43.5	There's nothing at the backhand.
0:45.4	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:48.0	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:49.9	It took many goes to get right.
0:51.5	Who built the teams that have their back.
0:54.2	The company is its people.
0:56.0	The teams help each other achieve.
0:57.0	Most proud of our team.
0:58.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:01.0	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:02.0	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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