Welcome back, everyone, everyone, to the Op Show show where we bring you the trials and tribulations,

the automations and collaborations from the world of DevOps and the greater developer experience.

I'm your host Tristan Pollock and as always with the CTO.aI founder, Kyle Campbell.

In our best show yet we have Noah Labhart, not Lambert, not to be confused with the famous country singers of our age.

The CTO and founder of Variable, as well as the podcast host of Code Story, an amazing podcast that dives into behind the scenes code from a lot of startup founders.

Noah, thank you for coming on the show. Welcome. Great to have you here. Thanks, glad to be here. Thanks for the Lambert check there in the beginning. I

certainly appreciate that, that consideration. You nailed it.

Yeah, totally nailed it. I'll make sure to put that down as a hashtag for the show, Lambert Check.

So, yeah, tell us a little bit about your story, you know, how you got into working on startups, how you started the podcast would be great.

It really interesting to hear about both of those and to kick us up.

Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I spent a lot of time in the corporate world before I jumped

out into entrepreneurship. I worked at Alcon Laboratories for eight years, did the tech IT thing,

learned a lot, was well taken care of, but always had the entrepreneurial itch.

I just wanted to jump out and do my own thing.

I have a lot of family members who have their own businesses, and so it's kind of in my blood a little bit too.

And so in 20, what year was it, 2016, 2015, excuse me, decided to jump out.

My extremely beautiful and supportive wife agreed that we could leave all of the benefits of corporate America behind and give this entrepreneur thing shot.

So we did and jumped out and started an agency, a mobile dev agency and, I ran that for a few years. Started out

as just me and ended up growing it to, you know, 15-ish contractors that worked with me on different

projects. And it was really great. Got to work. I basically got to build startup solutions.

And after doing that for a couple of years, I was like, I want to build my own, my own startup

solution. I want to do my own product, but I don't have any ideas. I'm not the idea guy. I'm the executor.

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