S4 E13: Troy Goode, Courier

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and loves to go outside, to the park, and spend time with his family. His parents had a boat when he was growing up, and they lived in a rural area. He used to sail down (as a spectator, not a sailor) a nearby river in Virginia. As he got older, he missed the simple peace yet required work that came with sailing - so he picked it back up as an adult. He's worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. He figured it out it was not only difficult to build... but every developer was recreating this in their solution. He decided to build it one last time. This is the creation story of Courier. 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 our customers have a bunch of different templates, a template for each of the kinds of different
0:06.1	notifications they send.
0:07.7	In each one of those, they have to kind of set up the rules.
0:10.3	Like, here are the channels that we support.
0:11.8	We support push.
0:12.6	We support Slack.
0:13.5	We support email, whatever.
0:15.1	Let's say you have 40.
0:16.0	Let's save 100.
0:16.7	Let's say you have 200 templates.
0:17.7	Who wants to do that over and over again? So I abstracted those
0:21.3	rules out into something called a delivery strategy. So you can go create a delivery strategy,
0:26.2	and then you could attach that delivery strategy to these templates. So you only have to do it
0:30.4	once. Amazing. I was sure that customers are going to be so thankful for this. Nobody understood
0:37.4	it at all.
0:39.8	I'm Troy Good.
0:40.8	I'm the founder and CEO of Courier.
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.
1:02.4	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how Troy Good created the smartest and fastest way to deliver notifications.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.4	Troy Good is based in San Francisco, this family of three kids.
1:25.4	They are ages 10, 8, and 2, so they're back in diapers. He finds family
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