S9 E19: Linus Hakansson, Gravitee

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Linus Hakansson finds that he has been in the tech industry so long, that it is difficult to separate himself from what he does professionally. He's a family man, with a 2.5 year old son, and enjoys spending time with them and raising is kid. Outside of that, he enjoys soccer, sports, and cooking Italian food. In fact, recently he bought a pizza oven and started making his own dough and pie. Linus has been working with API's since he started in the industry. In 2019, he was introduced to his current venture, as they wanted to create an open source API management software. After a couple of years, he partnered with the team, and then eventually - joined the company, to build something good. This is Linus' creation story at Gravitee. 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	In the beginning, when I joined Gravity, we were looking quite short-minded in terms of the roadmap.
0:07.0	What customers needed what at what date, and we typically had monthly release cycles where we were thinking about roadmap from a month-to-month perspective.
0:15.0	Then what we did is we started to be much more strategic.
0:18.0	So we set out a clear company mission. What do we want to achieve at
0:22.5	gravity? What do we want to bring to the table and to the world? What do we want to help companies
0:26.6	with? And then from that, I think it was my job to extract a couple of what we call it gravity
0:32.8	themes. So basically high-level product direction items that can be derived from that mission statement effectively.
0:41.1	I'm Linus Hackerson. I'm the field cTO at Gravity.
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 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	She 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 was up pain.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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