First Block: Interview with Julianna Lamb, Co-Founder & CTO of Stytch

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First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder & COO Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey - and what they learned from that experience.
In partnership with Index Ventures, this episode features Julianna Lamb, Co-Founder & CTO of Stytch. Stytch helps developers secure and scale their applications with authentication and fraud prevention. Akshay sits down with Julianna to discuss the founding story of Stytch, how her role as CTO has evolved over time, the early days of finding product-market-fit, building out their engineering team, and much more.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:02 Origin Story
05:05 Getting to Product-Market-Fit
08:38 Fundraising
10:33 Co-Founder Relationship
14:16 Building EPD Teams
27:52 Evolving Role of CTO
32:08 GTM Partnership
38:54 Open Source
40:01 Day in the Life of Julianna Lamb
42:17 Notion for Startups Special Offer