S4 Bonus: Erik Fogg, ProdPerfect

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could guess, Erik is not the tech guy - but, he does know enough to be dangerous. He loves to work with his hands, and has a professional history in solving old problems in new ways. Speaking of working with his hands, he likes to create comic con gear (at the time of the recording he had a captain America shield made out of an old satellite in his office). He's also a huge comic book and sports card collector, and he actually mentors several startups involved in pricing & liquidity around collectibles. Outside of that, he hosts a podcast around the topic of politics, polarization, and tribalism. Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since. This is the creation story of ProdPerfect. 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	So what's the scalability problem?
0:02.2	It's that there are edge cases we run into that require literal engineers to intervene in deploying our service to the customer.
0:10.5	So here's a good example.
0:12.0	Part of what proper work needs to do is fill in test data.
0:16.0	So like when we're building this test into a test environment, the data set there is radically different
0:20.9	from it than it is on production.
0:22.5	So that test data needs to get filled in through yes and check process because we don't
0:27.0	even know how they set up their test data environment.
0:29.0	It's crazy.
0:30.6	Like there's a reason nobody else is doing this because the deeper you get into it, the more
0:34.2	you're like, these people are nuts for even trying.
0:37.3	And we are.
0:38.9	I'm Eric Fogg, co-founder and COO of ProD Perfect.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Labart, and today how Eric Fogg
1:06.1	is helping revolutionize software testing, powered by your customers.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:19.6	Eric Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes.
1:25.3	It was at that point that he punted over to mechanical engineering.
1:28.6	So as you could guess, Eric is not the tech guy, but he does know enough to be dangerous.
1:34.0	He loves to work with his hands and has a professional history in solving old problems
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