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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sam Partee started out his love for tech/engineering by working on cars. After many y ears of working on cars, and even starting his own car stereo installation business, he decided that cards were finite and moved onto computers. He fell in love with the space, and the rest is history, filled with super computers, AI, distributed training, Redis and the lot. Outside of tech, he loves to take long hikes with his snowy husky.

Sam and his team built a prior solution, an agent to solve bugs for you. They ran into a litany of problems, but eventually figured out that there was a dire need for an authorization for the activities that agents wanted to do on your behalf. Fast forward, and they are working with Anthropic to define these auth protocols.

This is the creation story of Arcade.

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1:52.2	Okay, guys, I got a serious update for you.
1:54.8	You heard me talk about CMA and the product roadmap radar.
1:58.4	I just caught up with Matt, who's the founder there, and he gave me
2:00.8	the latest on what they are building. And my mind is blown. The team at SEMA are taking things
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