S8 Bonus: Alex Bovee, ConductorOne

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alex Bovee is first and foremost a family man. Time outside of his life as a founder is dictated by his family. He's married with 2 kids, and can be found shuttling kids to soccer or dance practices in his spare time. During COVID, he was able to pickup guitar, using YouTube to teach himself. His family got him a super nice Taylor acoustic that he plays on today. Alex spent some time at Okta, and what he noticed was cloud forward companies struggled with managing identify access and governance. This left companies wasting money on users, and in an insecure state. He saw a big opportunity in this space, and with his co-founder, decided to tackle this problem head on. This is the creation story of ConductorOne. 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	One mistake I made specifically as a founder was prematurely scaling in things that weren't scaling
0:07.9	or that weren't ready to scale. And I did that actually a little bit on the go-to-market side,
0:13.9	probably about a year and a half into the company, didn't sort of recognize that, hey,
0:18.6	look, we've got early customers and everything's going great, but do we have massive runaway product market fit? No, not yet. I didn't understand
0:27.2	that. I didn't understand what the implications of that were we scaled up a lot on process
0:31.9	and a lot on people. I think that was a really hard lesson and just realizing that you really have to earn that right.
0:40.7	I'm Alex Bovey, CEO and co-founder at Conductor 1.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
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