Meet Teja Yenamandra
Founder & CEO of Gun.io ( @gunio )

• Gun.io - World-class engineering talent, on tap. 🤠 - http://gun.io
• Gun.io - X - https://x.com/gundotio
• Teja - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejayenamandra

Summary

Teja and Kyle discuss the early days of building a startup and the mindset required to be successful. They talk about the challenges of starting a business with limited resources and the need to be scrappy and resourceful.

Teja shares his experience of burning through savings and taking on personal debt to fund the business. They also discuss the importance of having a strong support system and a team that can cover different areas of the business.

Despite the challenges and doubts that arise along the way, Teja emphasizes the need to stay focused on the long-term vision and make decisions based on the potential for success rather than the probabilistic likelihood of failure. Teja reflects on his journey as the CEO of Gun.io and shares his vision for the future of the company. He discusses the importance of building a long-term business and setting it up for success beyond his own involvement.

Teja also emphasizes the value of meeting with people and listening to their feedback to continuously improve the product. He envisions Gun.io as a modular platform that can support various hiring needs and provide value to both companies and developers. Overall, Teja's goal is to create a company that lasts for the next 90 years.

What is this? What does the title of this podcast even mean? What is a Stacklist?

All these questions, and more, will be answered in this very short five minute introduction. I look forward to a long and wonderful journey of interviewing founders and entrepreneurs to understand how they started and grew a company from idea into reality.