S10 E19: Simmi Singh, Hook Music

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Simmi Singh grew up in Australia, when her parents migrated from India. She studied law and finance at university, and then went into investment banking during some tumultuous times. Eventually, she got interested in tech, and worked for teams at Intuit, Saavn, and Spotify, during the times of the Anchor acquisition and launching features around video podcasts. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 kids. She loves to travel, watch movies, and to do craft projects, as building is a key theme in her life. While Simmi was at Spotify, a prior colleague of hers approached her about a product he was building. When she heard the details of what was being built, she felt that it was the culmination of all of our professional experiences and she had to jump on board. This is the creation story of Hook Music. 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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1:40.7	Okay, team, we have two months to build this thing, and I was very focused on time.
1:46.9	You can either be flexible with time or the resources like the team or the scope.
1:53.8	I think I was probably a lot more fixated on time being a fixed factor
1:59.8	without taking into account at that early stage, like the actual scope
2:05.5	and like what that actually meant in terms of building. I was probably pushing back more than I
2:11.9	probably needed to. I think the way that the team probably reacted in that instance was they
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