Tech Founder Decisions and Challenges with Malcolm Matalka

Connect with Malcolm Matalka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolm-matalka-a6527382 Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/htpxkxyCX9I Beyond Coding Podcast with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Powered by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!⁠⁠! OUTLINE 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:25 - Where to dock your boat? 00:02:49 - Patrick's friends bought a boat 00:03:31 - Malcolm sold his house and bought a boat 00:05:52 - Relaxing on a boat 00:07:47 - Living small and minimalistic 00:09:22 - Taking the plunge twice 00:10:32 - Terrateam is a TACoS 00:11:47 - What is OpenTofu? 00:14:33 - Why people work on OpenTofu 00:16:05 - Terrateam and github actions 00:17:40 - Total cost of ownership 00:19:03 - The idea to start Terrateam 00:22:53 - Starting a business with a close friend 00:24:41 - Offering high quality support 00:25:44 - Full responsibility to choose the technology 00:28:13 - Choosing OCaml as backend language 00:31:16 - Ocaml solution directions 00:35:01 - Escape hatches 00:36:34 - Computers are really fast 00:38:10 - AI for developer productivity 00:41:55 - Generating the code doesn't reduce the bottleneck 00:44:25 - Productivity in a 2-man team 00:47:06 - Should engineers talk to customers? 00:49:39 - Offering flexibility and accommodating 00:52:59 - Rounding off