S9 E6: Melissa Pancoast, The Beans

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Pancoast is originally from Miami, but now lives in California. She still loves Florida, being outside skiing or rowing. The latter was a huge part of her life from middle school through grad school, and she is hoping to get back into it soon. She's married, and runs outside as much as possible. In fact, she has completed several half and full marathons, including the Boston Marathon. Prior to her current venture, Melissa was a part of the group called "caring professionals", as a teacher in New York City. She studied how people feel about money at Oxford, and took her learnings, created a program, and decided to build a software company around it. This is the creation story of The Beans. 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	It's our job to always be finding the right people. We talked about getting the right people
0:06.1	on the bus earlier. Whether you're getting the right people on the cap table or on your team,
0:10.9	your primary job as a founder is to find and retain talent, find and retain capital, those kinds
0:16.4	of things. And so I would strongly recommend that you nourish and support your network and really pay attention to it.
0:23.9	Understand how important it is to the success of your business.
0:27.3	And also that when things are hard because they will, without a doubt, be harder than you could ever imagine,
0:35.8	that the answer is always to reach out to that network,
0:38.7	not to hide.
0:39.9	My name is Melissa Pancoast and I'm the founder and CEO of the Beans.
0:46.6	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing at 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.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	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 was a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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