S8 Bonus: Reza Farahani, WFHomie

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Reza Farahani has a background in engineering, and was heavily influenced by his family. In particular, his Uncle was a fighter jet engineer, which he thought was the coolest job in the world. He graduated from Waterloo, and became a data scientist - but eventually moved towards entrepreneurship. Outside of tech, he lives in Ontario and loves to rock climb and boulder. He enjoys the community aspect of the sport, and has access to gyms and outdoor boulders where he lives. He also passionate about food, enjoying Greek and Turkish food in Greek Town where he lives. Reza and his co-founder wanted to engage workers who were working remote - productivity, mental health, etc. And they believed that these parameters were vectors in measuring the performance of remote teams. This is the creation story of WFHomie. 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	From the perspective of what you are developing and what we are developing, we are hiring for a long-term purpose.
0:06.2	Like we are not hiring what we can do in the next two weeks or two months.
0:11.2	My thought process, like, I'm hiring this person for the next two years, at least.
0:16.2	We want people for long term, so it was really important for us, not to how you center deep.
0:20.8	It's like you have the base to learn a lot of skillset.
0:23.4	And we are going to iterate.
0:25.0	I'm semi-technical.
0:26.5	I get junior people and I kind of manage them.
0:29.3	That didn't go well because at the same time, I'm a founder of a company.
0:33.8	So I need to do sales.
0:34.8	I need to do accounting, you know, contracts, all of those
0:38.1	ones. My name is Reza Farahani, co-founder and president at work from home.
0:46.6	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on 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	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
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