Today we’re talking to Eric Crane, Co-Founder of Flatfile. We discuss why making a decision about your tech stack is deeper than you think; responding to the no-code movement with an agile yes-code mentality; and why taking time off can be just what leaders need to be more effective at work.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

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About Eric Crane:

After more than a decade of experience across enterprise software, early stage startups, and scaling businesses, Eric Crane co-founded Flatfile with David Boskovic to solve the ubiquitous challenge of conducting a data transaction with a human in the loop. Flatfile has since enabled more than 1 million data onboardings across dozens of industry segments under Eric’s leadership making him an undeniable expert in this space.

About Flatfile:

When David Boskovic and Eric Crane worked together as product managers they faced an all too familiar challenge – onboarding customer data. It was time to (yet again) build a custom data importer. The data onboarding process could be described as laborious, inefficient, tedious and generally headache-inducing.

Why try and build a solution if a best in class version was available? The problem was, there wasn’t. A lightbulb moment occurred!

We started this company because we believe that humans shouldn’t have to struggle to use the data that drives our work forwards. At Flatfile, we’re creating beautiful, human-centric experiences to remove the barriers between people and data. We’re automating every repetitive and painstaking process involved in teaching machines what data is and where it should go. As a team, we follow a first principles approach to problem solving and employees are empowered to make decisions with total ownership over the areas in which they lead.

Every role at Flatfile has value and we value each role as a “million dollar” one. We’re a team of thoughtful designers, talented craftspeople, experienced engineers, and more! Most of all, we’re regular human beings. We wake up every day and work together tackling one of the final frontiers in technology – a job that’s equally challenging and fun.