S9 E30: Adam Jacob, System Initiative

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Adam Jacob grew up in Vancouver, but now lives North of San Francisco. He's married with a teenage daughter, and grew up in the era of the internet that was bulletin based. He likes music, specifically heavy metal. He was raised on 80's hair metal, but also enjoys modern and Swedish metal, of which your host is very familiar. He also loves cats, and at one point, had a bengal, which is a cross between a tiger and a domestic cat. Previously, Adam was the creator of Chef, and has spent many years building a successful platform, extending DevOops value with automated security and compliance. He and his now cofounder reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional approaches in the space - and decided build a new tool, to enable engineers to tackle complex infra and app management without compromising control. This is the creation story of System Initiative. 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	It's taken us five years to build it.
0:02.0	And there's a couple of reasons for that period of time.
0:05.0	What we wanted was an order of magnitude better experience than what you could have doing it with the existing tooling.
0:11.0	And the existing tooling is pretty good.
0:13.0	If you think about trying to be an order of magnitude better, there's just a lot you have to account for.
0:17.0	I like to think about software development a little more like art than like science. Like it's a thing
0:21.5	that we're creating because what's what we want to see. And then we're observing how other people
0:26.0	react to it. And it's in that conversation that the art shapes itself. And so the first MVP's of
0:31.9	System Initiative started with trying to build systems where we could infer as much about the infrastructure as possible.
0:39.8	My name's Adam Jacob. I'm the CEO and co-founder of System Initiative.
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.
1:02.0	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.
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