S4 Bonus: Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp (Replay)

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school, teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet. He is a pilot, and owns his own plane, which happens to be a Cirrus. He spends an hour a day studying or practicing flying, and even takes his wife and dog up every now and again, when there is something worth flying to and they can make the oxygen work for then dog. He attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from Amazon, Google and other cloud focused infrastructure companies. As you could guess, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school, and he was able to gain access to vast resources through his computer lab and research projects. It was these projects put the ideas in his head, on what he could make in order for infrastructure to work better. This is the creation story of HashiCorp. 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	You know, I had no intention, like literally zero intention of ever building a business around these tools.
0:09.0	I thought they were just going to be open source and free.
0:12.0	And at best, they would help my resume to get a better job.
0:16.0	Like, that was going through my mind in college.
0:20.0	And so I didn't try to build this mega generic tool that solved everyone's problems.
0:25.7	I built Vigran and my MVP was, I want a really awesome VM-based development workflow for Ruby on Rails,
0:33.2	because that's what I do every day.
0:35.1	And that's sort of how it formed.
0:38.8	I'm Mitchell Hashimoto.
0:40.4	I'm the founder and CTO of HashiCorp.
0:47.9	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries
0:53.1	who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel Lab Park, and today how Mitchell Hashimoto created the tool set to create consistent workflows across your infrastructure.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:21.6	Mitchell Hashimoto started programming in middle school,
1:24.6	teaching himself how to code through open source libraries and zip files he could download on the internet.
1:30.2	He's a pilot and owns his own plane, which happens to be a Cirrus. And he spends an hour a day studying or
1:36.7	practicing flying and even takes his wife and dog up every now and then, when there's something worth
1:42.0	flying to, and they can make the oxygen work for the dog.
1:46.5	He attended college at the University of Washington in Seattle, which was located equidistance from
1:52.4	Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other cloud-focused infrastructure companies.
1:57.9	As you can imagine, there was a huge focus on this topic while he was at school,
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