S9 Bonus: Luka Yancopolis, Grapevine

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Luka Yancopoulos lives in New York City, and believes whole heartedly in doing well by doing good. He grew up in the early 2000's, where the focal point was environmentalism and doing good in the world. He is an active botanist, and though there isn't much "soil to toil" in NYC, he spends his weekends filling the planter boxes with plants, on his block and around the neighborhood. For Luka, COVID caused immediate awareness of supply chain issues. He and his buddies kicked over stones around these problems, specifically into the medical supply chain, and discovered a whole list of things needing to be addressed to support medical professionals in their buying. This is the creation story of Grapevine. 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	We had everyone cold calling, basically for the first three months after launching the product,
0:07.0	and cold calling people and trying to ask for feedback on our platform.
0:11.6	Here's the concept.
0:13.0	Is it something you'd be interested in?
0:14.4	If it's not, what would you be interested in?
0:17.4	Trust me, doing that isn't the best use of time because you're going to get a lot of nose
0:22.2	and you're going to spend a lot of time dialing.
0:23.9	But the amount that you can learn by trying to battle test your product and not just living in a world of your own imagination,
0:30.6	but living in the world of your customer's imagination, right?
0:33.6	That's really valuable.
0:34.8	That is time well spent.
0:36.9	My name is Luke Highencopolis and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Great Vine Technologies.
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.
1:00.3	Just 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.
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