S7 Bonus: Mike Malone, Smallstep

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Mike Malone is a nerd from way back (his words, not mine). In the 6th grade, he bought a Borland C book and learned how to code. Back when Napster was round, he hosted an open Nap server in his basement, and ran a few things on IRC. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a Business Information Systems degree, and worked for Accenture for a hot second... then joined a 3 person startup, and hasn't looked back since. He's married with 2 kids, and a dog - and he claims he collects hobbies, which is another way of saying he likes to try new things. Mike's career has tracked along side the development of the cloud. He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems, and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information. He and his team saw an opportunity here, and set out to fix the problem. This is the creation story of Smallstep. 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	There's a lot of stuff that still just isn't exposed, like a lot of capability that the underlying technology has that just isn't exposed in the UI.
0:09.0	Partly due to resource constraints and partly due to the complexity of exposing functionality in a UI.
0:16.0	One of our goals is always simplicity and intuitiveness. In some cases, making things an option is like a cop-out.
0:23.3	Our MVP, we didn't have billing implemented.
0:25.7	We had a free trial period.
0:27.9	So we figured, hey, we don't need billing implemented to launch
0:31.5	because we have a 30-day free trial period,
0:33.2	so we can just launch and we'll just get billing done before 30 days is up.
0:37.1	We'll be good.
0:42.7	My name is Mike Malone and I'm the founder and CEO at Small Step.
0:59.2	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 and build and lead.
1:01.1	A team that has your back.
1:12.9	I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today help Mike Malone, free to the platform to automate your certificates and make security easy for all developers.
1:16.0	All this and more on code story.
1:26.9	Mike Malone is a nerd from way back. His words, not mine. In the sixth grade, he bought a Borland C book and learned how to code.
1:29.0	Back when Napster was around, he hosted an open NAP server in its basement and ran a few things on IRC.
1:35.0	He graduated from Virginia Tech with a business information systems degree and worked for Accenture for a hot second.
1:41.8	Then joined a three-person startup and hasn't looked back since.
1:45.3	He's married with two kids and a dog, and he claims he collects hobbies, which is another
1:49.8	way of saying he likes to try new things.
1:53.0	Mike's career has tracked alongside the development of the cloud.
1:57.1	He witnessed the security problems alongside distributed systems and felt the pains of having to manage sensitive information.
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