S10 Bonus: Josh Ho, Referral Rock
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Josh Ho was into tech at a young age. In high school, which was around the time of bulletin boards and AOL online, he had to code a way to connect windows to the internet using TCP/IP. Outside of tech, he is married with a family. He notes that because he is in tech, people perceive him to be younger in age. He plays handball, and has been into the sport since he was younger.
Prior to his current venture, Josh had a SaaS product he attempted to launch that didn't work out. While he was getting his car worked on at a dealership, he noticed patrons being referred to salesmen in real time - and he started to think, who manages this sort of thing for other businesses?
This is the creation story of Referral Rock.
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| 0:00.0 | I can actually recall I was driving to a handball tournament. So, you know, these things always |
| 0:06.0 | happen when you're in the car, right, or on vacation or whatnot. And actually, I know the customer. |
| 0:12.1 | It was click funnels. And little did I know how big they were. The software did what it was |
| 0:17.7 | supposed to do. But at the same time, I think it was probably running off of a VM, |
| 0:22.0 | a single VM with a single database all on the same VM. I got a call from Micah, and he's like, |
| 0:28.0 | the servers keep going down. And of course, I'm in the car. This is annoying. So this was definitely a |
| 0:33.1 | big failure on me. But what I discovered was also, you know, I had a database connection leak. |
| 0:40.1 | My name is Josh Ho. I'm the founder and CEO of Referral Rock. |
| 0:46.7 | This is Code Story. |
| 0:49.4 | A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. |
| 0:52.3 | It's six months moonlighting. |
| 0:53.9 | 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 | Just 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. |
| 1:09.0 | Keeping scalability top of mind. |
| 1:11.6 | All that infrastructure is a pain. |
| 1:12.8 | Yes, we've been fighting it as a group. |
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