S7 E6: Jon Darbyshire, SmartSuite

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jon Darbyshire is joined at the hip with his wife, in life and in business. They have been doing business together for 22 years, along with having 2 older kids, out in the world doing their own thing. He loves to do anything outside, and claims to be at Newport beach almost every day. After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, he sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. He started to think there must be a way to have one operating system for all of these tools. This is the creation story of SmartSuite. 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	For us, one of the early decisions that was the most difficult to make was kind of the tech stack that we would use to build our no-code platform.
0:08.0	We don't use a single database, we use two or three different databases on the back end based on the type of data that we need to pull from.
0:15.0	Our front end is all React, React Native. We have mobile Python and, you know, kind of everything in between
0:22.1	from a tech stack. But that took us probably four to five months to kind of hone in as we
0:29.2	tested different types of things and how they might fit together. The hardest part for us was,
0:34.4	you know, where do you start to build such a massive product?
0:42.6	My name is John Darbyshire, and I'm co-founder and CEO of SmartSuite.
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.
1:04.0	I'm your host, Noel Aaparte.
1:12.6	And today how John Derbyshire created the system that allows you to build any process, any project on one platform.
1:14.7	All this and more.
1:16.0	On Coat Story.
1:23.6	John Dabeshire has joined the hip with his wife in life and in business.
1:27.8	They've been doing business together for 22 years, along with having two older kids out in the world doing their own thing. He loves to do anything outside and claims to be at
1:32.6	Newport Beach almost every day. After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies,
1:39.2	he sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with them.
1:43.8	What he noticed was
1:44.6	that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product.
1:49.5	He started to think there must be a way to have one operating system for all of these tools.
1:55.6	This is the creation story of SmartSuite.
2:02.6	SmartSuite is a company that helps any organization manage processes and projects on a
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