Today on the show, we have the founder and CEO of Akita Software and now head of product at Postman, Dr. Professor Jean Yang. Jean has a super interesting background, a former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a focus on programming language research.
She then went on to found Akita Software, which was focused on solving hard problems around the API observability space. And last year, the company was acquired by Postman. And during the interview, we covered a lot of ground talking about Jean's academic experience, motivations for starting a company, and the problem Akita set out to work on.
01:05 Intro
06:40 Software as a Social Problem
12:10 Over engineering
20:44 Motivation
25:22 The problems
32:10 Existing methods to solve
36:21 Some other similar systems
36:21 Packet to Reconstruction
39:43 Aha moments for customers
41:33 Why sell to Postman
47:23 Would you do it again?
52:03 Rapid Fire
