S9 E28: David Cauthron, Outpave

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

David Cauthron grew up in Dallas, TX and attended UTD for undergrad. Post that, he spent 22 years at Texas Instruments - who makes a whole lot more than calculators - serving in numerous roles in IT, the latter being e-commerce. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, and really enjoys spending time with his family - going to Disney, biking and running. In addition to this, he plays Minecraft with the kids, and attending gymnastics meets and Boy Scout campouts. David was contacted by his current founder and friend, who was going through an intra-prenuership program at SAP. After winning the program, but having the program shut down, he asked David if he was available to start a company and create the Concur for small to medium businesses. This is the creation story of Outpave. 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	I did the thing you probably would never set out to do is I picked technologies that I had no idea how to implement at the time.
0:10.4	So my background was in Java development. I did architecture development for a number of years at TI.
0:17.6	But when we come to this, we really looked at what is the customer problem we need to solve and how do we scale it? And we needed to pick technologies that would do both.
0:25.9	Java equals scale, but it's generally very single node scaling depending on how you architected.
0:32.7	And we really are, we're looking at something that was a newer platform, easier develop on,
0:36.9	and we could easily
0:38.6	hire into.
0:40.3	My name is David Cothran.
0:41.8	I am CTO and co-founder at Outpave.
0:46.6	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing like 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.
1:04.5	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 up pain.
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