S9 E27: Neil Patel, Axiom

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Neil Patel has always been a hacker - electronics boards, radios, etc. - being interested in how things work, mechanically or digitally. He learned hard work at his Father's convenience store, while also reading every computer magazine on the rack. He is a pharmacologist by study, but landed in tech cause he is passionate about it. Outside of tech, he loves architecture and design. He also loves to read, in particular sci fi, and enjoys eating Gujarati food, which is purely vegetarian food with tons of flavors. Prior to 2020, Neil and his team was attempting to build tooling around understanding the data around events. After a while, they realized that no matter what was done on top of an event store, you couldn't realize value without storing all events. So they pivoted, and focused on fixing the data store problem first. This is the creation story of Axiom. 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	The data store we were building was very novel in architecture, and at the time we felt like
0:06.3	as long as we did these three things, we would have it done within a certain number of months,
0:11.5	basically. And we were trying to go for the ingest, we'll be brand new and we'll do it like
0:17.2	this. Storage will only use object storage. Queries will only use
0:20.9	serverless. And exactly how you'd expect engineers to behave, we were like, and we'll get it
0:25.5	done within six months, right? Or eight months or whatever it was. The reality, though, was
0:29.8	that for the API and the front-hand side, we just ate the tech debt and we just repurposed
0:36.3	it to make it work in that time frame.
0:39.6	I'm Neil Jagdish Patel and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Axin.
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.
0:53.7	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	It took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	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.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
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