Matt Van Itallie is the son of a math teacher and a coder - so this explains why he now uses code as data. He is a proud Boy Scout, making it of course to Eagle Scout and beyond. After being a management consultant, he found his way to ed tech, and fell in love with improving code. Outside of technology, he is married with 3 amazing kids. He likes to run, play ultimate frisbee, and has a wicked cool collection of minor league baseball hats.Sitting a room with the head of Sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself?This is the creation story of Sema.SponsorsSpeakeasyLinkshttps://www.semasoftware.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvi/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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I could have done better. We went a little bit too broad in the first iteration and built, let's say, half versions or partial versions of many things when what we should have done is build full versions of fewer things. My name is Matt Van Italy. I'm the founder and CEO of SEMA.
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Matt Van Italy is the son of a math teacher and a coder, so this explains why he now uses code as data. He's a proud Boy Scout, making it, of course, to Eagle Scout and beyond. After being a management consultant, he found his way to EdTech and fell in love with improving code. But outside of technology, he's married with three amazing kids.
He likes to run, play Ultimate Frisbee, and has a wicked cool collection of minor league baseball hats. Sitting in a room with the head of sales, Matt noticed that there were systems like Salesforce that were built to assess the state and future opportunity for business. He then thought, where are these systems for the code itself? This is the creation story of SEMA.
I was working at a software company and sitting in the C-suite meeting and the chief revenue officer stood up and said, it's time for the weekly update on sales. And boop, pushed a button on Salesforce, the CRM we were using and shared stats and said, and here's how the individual sales team members are doing. Boop, pushed another button on Salesforce.
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