{"podcast":{"title":"Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders","slug":"code-story","podcast_index_feed_id":735330,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/ac5e79a4-0405-49a3-af2c-02c37f0b3879","website_url":"https://codestory.co/","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/5/14/20/c82c3282-f0a8-4b37-b210-96f7da10be1e_4061-b148-29cd200c3504_full_1568830220-artwork.jpg","author":"Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO","episode_count":793,"summary":"Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product-market fit, and navigated early-stage growth. We explore: Early engineering decisions and MVP development Landing the first customers Pricing and go-to-market experiments Scaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks Hiring the first team Lessons learned from growing a startup From first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story"},"episode":{"title":"S12 E11: Brian Carbaugh, Andesite","slug":"s12-e11-brian-carbaugh-andesite","published_at":"2026-03-24T10:00:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/s12-e11-brian-carbaugh-andesite","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story","url":"https://codestory.co/podcast/e11-brian-carbaugh-andesite/","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/f5e92429-a111-4e68-8667-170fa5629d55/stream.mp3","summary":"Former CIA operative Brian Carbaugh discusses leveraging AI to solve the critical cybersecurity workforce shortage. He shares how Andesite aims to 10x human impact in high-stakes, regulated environments.","meta_description":"Learn how Brian Carbaugh is using AI to combat cybersecurity burnout and workforce attrition at Andesite, drawing from his experience in the CIA.","key_points":["Main idea: Using AI to augment, not replace, cybersecurity practitioners to combat industry-wide burnout","Practical takeaway: Build a diverse, low-ego team to avoid echo chambers and foster innovation","Failure mode: Rigidly adhering to a product roadmap in a rapidly changing technological landscape","Strategic insight: Treat early enterprise customers as advisors to ensure product-market fit in regulated sectors","Founder mindset: Resilience and 'chief energy officer' leadership are essential to surviving the startup lifecycle"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":60000,"title":"The 10x Workforce Challenge","summary":"The genesis of Andesite: addressing the need to maximize efficiency within the intelligence community."},{"start_ms":420000,"title":"Solving Cybersecurity Burnout","summary":"Using technology to support practitioners and fill the growing gap in the cyber workforce."},{"start_ms":600000,"title":"Building the Product Vision","summary":"How the core technical leadership began translating government needs into a scalable product."},{"start_ms":820000,"title":"The Importance of Humility and MVP","summary":"Avoiding the echo chamber by prioritizing user resonance and diverse perspectives during early development."},{"start_ms":1180000,"title":"Targeting Highly Regulated Industries","summary":"Designing a platform capable of serving national security, finance, and critical infrastructure."},{"start_ms":1370000,"title":"Recruiting for Resilience","summary":"Identifying talent capable of thriving in the fluid and dynamic environment of a startup."},{"start_ms":1730000,"title":"Leadership and Culture","summary":"Applying lessons from high-performing intelligence teams to build an empowering company culture."}],"topics":["Cybersecurity","Artificial Intelligence","Startup Leadership","Workforce Automation","National Security","Product Strategy","Team Building","Entrepreneurship"],"duration_seconds":2039,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/code-story/episodes/s12-e11-brian-carbaugh-andesite/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/s12-e11-brian-carbaugh-andesite.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}