S2 E16: Kyle Campbell, CTO.ai

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Kyle Campbell is a native Canadian and high school dropout growing up in Nova Scotia. He's been working with technology since he was eight years old. Learning computers, building websites, and even starting an online record label. A husband and a dad, he loves the outdoors, camping and motorbikes, and frequently hits the trails with a group of tight-knit campers. After moving into entrepreneurship post-high school, he worked his way up through the ranks of several companies in the Vancouver area, and founded his own companies along the way, one of which got acquired by Zillow. Post that Kyle started to consider the current complexity of the infrastructure and DevOps landscape, Cloud, Kubernetes containers, et cetera. So he set out with the mission to make DevOps successful, easy to use, and bring developer tools to where development happens by enabling developer shortcuts. 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	This episode of Code Story is sponsored by Ladder.
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0:51.0	And that came with a greater deal of overhead than I probably even would have expected when I wrote the business plan back in 2016.
0:58.3	But now that we've made it through that transition and that focus, and we are now a very product-led organization, I can't look back and say I would do it any differently.
1:06.9	I don't think we'd have the product and the momentum in the community that we have now without that.
1:11.9	But I do know that it maybe would have been easier to just stay very product focused
1:15.6	and continue to give ourselves permission to throw away early iterations.
1:19.9	And I think that's what helps companies and startups to iterate into market
1:23.6	without carrying a ton of technical debt behind them.
1:28.0	My name is Kyle Campbell. I'm founder and CEO of CTO.A.I.
1:37.8	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
1:47.0	and build and lead a team that has your back.
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