S9 E14: Mike Bifulco, Craftwork

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshman CS classs. Coming out of school, he applied to 300 entry level jobs, interviewed for 15 of them, received offers for 3 - and turned them all down to start his own company. Outside of tech, he is into road cycling and enjoys the ritual, science and community around making - and enjoying - a good cup of coffee or espresso. He's also a musician, adding to the growing list of successful tech entrepreneurs who also are talented musicians. Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs? This is the creation story of Craftwork. 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	We're building a technical business and there's a lot of technology involved in what we're doing.
0:07.0	But the MVP for craftwork was, can we get someone to hire us to paint a room in their home?
0:12.0	It's that. That was it.
0:13.0	Really, there's a lot more involved in getting to that point, but one of the first things we did as we were researching the company
0:18.0	is we started to make relationships with skilled painters in Charlotte. We very quickly started working with our master painter. His name is Omar, who's been
0:24.9	painting homes for a very long time. He's extremely talented, and he has the gift of being able
0:29.3	to teach people very gracefully. And so what that meant was when we started painting last year in
0:34.4	January of 2023, myself and my co-founders were in the room that I'm actually recording this podcast
0:39.3	and learning how to paint.
0:41.4	My name is Mike by Fulco.
0:42.5	I'm CTO and co-founder of Craftwork.
0:46.8	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	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.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
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