S9 E2: Juan Barroso, Salsa

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Juan Barroso lives in the Bay Area but was born in Venezuela. He didn't grow up with technology around him, as his father was a farmer, and his mother was a seamstress. Neither went to University, but they made sure to push Juan to attend university and focus hard on his studies. It was during University that he fell in love with programming. Outside of tech, he likes to try new things, and doesn't stick with one hobby for too long (other than traveling). Right now, he is into mountain biking and snowboarding. Juan has been in payroll for many years, and during his tenure, he got the opportunity to build many engines and solutions for the industry. He realized that though one engine worked for one customer, others wouldn't be happy with it. He wondered if a payroll framework could be built, to allow developers to build their own. This is the creation story of Salsa. 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 the first thing that I did, I built an MVP to do product discovery.
0:06.5	So it took me six to eight weeks, and with this MVP, I validated the idea.
0:10.9	I talked to a bunch of founders and SaaS companies, and I got a lot of, oh my God, that's so cool.
0:16.2	I would love to use it.
0:17.1	So once the idea was validated, and I found a design partner, we went out
0:23.6	and we raised money. And when we close our first round, we hired the team, we throw away the
0:30.9	MVP, so we did a second one. My name is Juan Barrosso and CTO and co-founder at Tulsa.
0:40.3	This is Code Story.
0:43.1	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:46.2	It's six months moonlighting.
0:47.5	There's nothing out of the backcats.
0:49.5	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:52.1	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:53.5	It took many goes to get right.
0:56.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
0:58.0	The company is its people.
1:00.0	The teams help each other achieve.
1:01.0	Most proud of our team.
1:03.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:05.0	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:07.0	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:08.0	Total waste of time.
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