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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Rens ter Weijde lives in Amsterdam with his 3 month old daughter, who he enjoys very much. And, he considers himself quite lucky cause his girlfriend does most of the work. He's an avid kitesurfer, and he likes to be outdoors on the water. He started wave surfing and did it for 8 years, but found it incredibly difficult. He switched to kite surfing 6 years ago, and finds it much more enjoyable. He was a strategy consultant for 10 years, but then he hit a wall at one point and decided to move on to something new... and that new thing was AI. When he attempted to break into the space and become educated, he had to manually string together courses and content by himself. As he went through this process, he thought this process can be optimized, or done in a better way. This is the creation story of KIMO. 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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And I had to pitch to win.

0:03.0

And my pitch was horrible, right?

0:05.0

It just didn't go.

0:06.0

I misspoke.

0:07.0

I wasn't really prepared.

0:09.0

I got nervous with all the makeup artists and the whole scene.

0:12.0

On day one, we, and with we, I mean, Chris, my co-founder and myself,

0:17.0

we sort of agreed that, hey, we're not into this game to build the next content

0:22.3

platform or something which doesn't really solve the issue. Because in our minds, there was

0:27.1

enough content for almost everything already. So we're either really going to solve this

0:31.5

mathematically in a way that's fully scalable or we don't. And then we just call it quiz.

0:38.2

My name is Rster Weiden.

0:40.2

I'm the CEO and co-founder of Kimo.

0:47.9

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 and build and lead a team that has your back.

1:02.3

I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today how Rinster Wighton created a way to corral the internet learning into a personalized re-skilling journey.

1:13.7

All this and more on Code Story.

1:19.5

Rince Dervide lives in Amsterdam with his three-month-old daughter, who he enjoys very much.

1:24.7

And he considers himself quite lucky because his girlfriend does most of the

1:28.2

work. He's an avid kite surfer, and he likes to be outdoors on the water. He started wave surfing

1:33.3

and did it for eight years, but found it incredibly difficult. He switched to kite surfing six years

1:37.8

ago and finds it much more enjoyable. He was a strategy consultant for 10 years, but then he hit a wall

1:43.1

at one point, decided to move on to something new, and that new thing was AI.

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