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Breaking Into Startups

Breaking Into Startups

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#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma

Published: March 31, 2021, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 23 seconds

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#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response

Published: July 27, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 25 seconds

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#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful

Published: April 21, 2020, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 12 seconds

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#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader

Published: March 4, 2020, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds

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#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 22 seconds

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#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 52 seconds

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#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp)

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 6:26 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 7 seconds

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#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 49 seconds

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#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 28 seconds

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#116 - FFTSquad A Career Karma Squad of Highly Motivated People Breaking Into Tech Together

Published: July 15, 2019, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 23 seconds

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#115: Angela Ceresnie - CEO of Climb Credit on Helping to Finance People's Career Transitions

Published: July 1, 2019, midnight
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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#114: Phaedra Ellis - CEO of Promise on How to Build Power and Take Control of Your Career

Published: May 27, 2019, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds

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#113: Tonio DeSorrento - Income Sharing Agreements Explained by CEO of Vemo

Published: April 16, 2019, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 28 seconds

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#112: Chasing your Dreams with Young Guru & Rodney Sampson

Published: April 9, 2019, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 2 seconds

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#111: Ameer Brown - Coding Bootcamp Graduate who is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe

Published: March 23, 2019, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 41 seconds

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#110: Dan Rosensweig - CEO of Chegg, the Playbook for the Modern Day Student

Published: Feb. 12, 2019, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 28 seconds

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#109: Cameron Yarbrough - CEO of Torch, on the Importance of Mental Health & Coaching

Published: Feb. 5, 2019, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 28 seconds

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#108: Dan Sommer, CEO & founder of Trilogy Education, workforce accelerator for leading universities

Published: Dec. 23, 2018, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds

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#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix

Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 8:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 57 seconds

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#106: Balaji Srinivasan - CTO of Coinbase, How Everyone Can be an Investor

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 20 seconds

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#105: Rick O'Donnell - CEO of Skills Fund, Providing Financing to Coding Bootcamp Students

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds

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#104: Leanne Pittsford - Founder of Lesbians Who Tech & Tech Jobs Tour

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 17 seconds

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#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 59 seconds

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#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 18 seconds

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#101: Avi Flombaum - Co-Founder of Flatiron School

Published: Oct. 2, 2018, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 17 seconds

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#100: David Harris - How an App Academy graduate became a Software Engineer at Omada Health

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 57 seconds

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#99: Iris Nevins - Teacher Who Became a Software Engineer at Mailchimp

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 27 seconds

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#98: Galvanize's acquisition of Hack Reactor - Al Rosabal & Shawn Drost

Published: Sept. 2, 2018, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 10 seconds

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#97: Ryan Carson - CEO of Treehouse on How You Can Start Learning to Code

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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#96: Building Reddit, Posterous.com & Initialized Capital with Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan

Published: Aug. 17, 2018, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds

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#95: Jacob Hsu - CEO of Catalyte, Guaranteeing Career Transitioners Engineering Jobs

Published: Aug. 10, 2018, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 42 seconds

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#94: Raul Moas - Bringing Tech Jobs to Miami with The Knight Foundation

Published: July 26, 2018, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 33 seconds

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#93: Saif Ishoof - How College Students Should Prepare for the Future of Work

Published: July 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 42 seconds

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#92: Marlon Nichols - Deep Dive on Venture Capital with the Co-Founder of Cross Culture VC

Published: July 4, 2018, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 27 seconds

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#91: Laurence Bradford - Founder of Learn To Code With Me

Published: June 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 45 seconds

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#90: Daniel Barragan - An Enterprise Account Executive's Playbook to Landing a Job

Published: June 14, 2018, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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#89: Evan Fried - First Employee at Checkr & Head of Customer Success

Published: June 5, 2018, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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#88: Erika Balbuena - Head of Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org

Published: May 28, 2018, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds

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#87: Aline Lerner - CEO of Interviewing.io on How to Reinvent a Technical Interview

Published: May 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 25 seconds

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#86: Special Report - Congressional Black Caucus's Tech 2020 Initiative on Future of Work

Published: May 10, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 25 seconds

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#85: Michael Ellison - CEO of CodePath.org, Helping Engineers Advance their Careers

Published: May 4, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds

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#84: Joe Musselman - Founder of The Honor Foundation, Helping Special Forces Vets Break In

Published: April 21, 2018, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds

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#83: John Maeda - Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic

Published: April 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds

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#82: Wendy Padua & Tami Forman - How Returnships help Mothers & Parents Get Back Into the Workforce

Published: April 8, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 23 seconds

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#81: Melissa Hereford - How to Win in a Salary Negotiation

Published: April 2, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 3 seconds

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#80: Jason Mayden - CEO 0f Superheroic and Former Designer at Jordan Sneaker

Published: March 22, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 9 seconds

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#79: Ghazal Asif - VP of Worldwide Channels Sales at App Dynamics

Published: March 7, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds

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#78: Ana Diaz-Hernandez - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community

Published: March 3, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 22 seconds

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#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness

Published: Feb. 24, 2018, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 25 seconds

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#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds

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#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr

Published: Jan. 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 54 seconds

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#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer

Published: Dec. 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes

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#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 43 seconds

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#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat

Published: Dec. 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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#70: Dan Burrill - Director of Inside Sales at Twillio

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 24 seconds

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#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU

Published: Nov. 1, 2017, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds

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Nick Caldwell - VP of Engineering at Reddit

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds

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#67: Bangaly Kaba - Journey to a Product Manager Role at Facebook & Instagram

Published: Oct. 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds

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#66: Rocio Lopez - A Product Designer & a DACA Recipient is Standing Up for All DREAMers

Published: Oct. 1, 2017, midnight
Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds

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#65: Zac Otero - From the Meat Factory's Floor to becoming a Salesforce Admin

Published: Sept. 22, 2017, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds

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#63: Saron Yitbarek - Self-taught Engineer & Founder of CodeNewbie Podcast

Published: Sept. 8, 2017, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 54 seconds

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#62: Mandy Cole - VP of Sales of Startups such as Living Social, Zenefits and Stella & Dot

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 4 seconds

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#61: Gabe Moncayo - Founder of Always Hired who Helps People Get Into Sales

Published: Aug. 20, 2017, midnight
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds

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#60: Matthew Tran - Youtube Personality & Founder of Engineered Truth Youtube Channel

Published: Aug. 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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#59: Dr. Carol Langlois - How Self Esteem & Empowerment are Changing the Ratio through Hackbright

Published: July 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 22 seconds

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#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree

Published: July 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 33 seconds

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#57: Kelvin Lightner - Tax Consultant from Deloitte Become A Software Engineer at Intuit

Published: July 16, 2017, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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#56: Mike Slagh - How a US Navy Veteran Started a Company to Help Veterans Break Into Tech

Published: June 29, 2017, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds

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#55: Pavan Ravipati - Deep Dive on Software Engineer vs. Sales Engineer

Published: June 14, 2017, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 57 seconds

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#54: Erica Prenga - How a Graphic Design Major became an Experience Engineer at Adobe

Published: June 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 14 seconds

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#53: Ysiad Ferreiras - How a kid from the Bronx became the VP of Sales at Hustle

Published: May 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 58 seconds

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#52: Kristin Parke - How a Music & a Biology major became a Security Hacker

Published: May 23, 2017, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds

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#51: K. Mannah Kallon - an Educator who became an Engineer at Stitch Fix

Published: May 19, 2017, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds

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#50: Jessica Uelmen - A Hardware Engineer who became a Product Manager at Fitbit

Published: May 14, 2017, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 36 seconds

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#49: Yusuf Soomro - An 18-year-old College Dropout who Became a Software Engineer at Omada Health

Published: May 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds

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#48: Chloe Condon - An Actress who Quit her Job as an Office Manager and Became a Software Engineer

Published: May 9, 2017, midnight
Duration: 52 minutes 13 seconds

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#47: Wayne Neale - Founder of GrowthX Academy

Published: May 5, 2017, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 58 seconds

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#46: Niv Dror - How Leaving Finance Led Niv to Become Head of Social at Product Hunt

Published: April 29, 2017, midnight
Duration: 59 minutes 7 seconds

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#45: Kenny Tran - How an App Academy & Hack Reactor Alum skipped college and became an Engineer

Published: April 26, 2017, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds

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#44: Anthony Pompliano - How an Army Sergeant became a Product Manager at Facebook

Published: April 21, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 24 seconds

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#43: Soroush Mehraein - How a switch from Industrial to Software Engineering led to a job at Uber

Published: April 20, 2017, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds

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#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy

Published: April 15, 2017, midnight
Duration: 51 minutes 48 seconds

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#41: Kim Han - Biz Dev Deep Dive: from Tango to Business Development at Square

Published: April 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 30 seconds

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#40: Quincy Larson - Founder of Free Code Camp, Community of 1,000,000+ People Learning How to Code

Published: April 9, 2017, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds

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#39: Carly Robinson - Broadway Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack

Published: April 3, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 15 seconds

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#38: Nimit Maru - Founder of Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper

Published: April 3, 2017, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 45 seconds

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#39: Carly Robinson - Chicago Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack

Published: April 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 15 seconds

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#37: Natasha Vianna - Teen Mom who led the #NoTeenShame Campaign & became Head of Community at Honor

Published: March 30, 2017, midnight
Duration: 40 minutes 20 seconds

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#36: Austin Belcak - Career Coach and Virtual Career Mastery Summit Founder

Published: March 27, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 37 seconds

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#35: Everette Taylor - How a 17-year-old who was homeless in HS rose to become the CMO at Skurt

Published: March 22, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 59 seconds

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#34: Michael J Walker - How a Marketing Exec Became an Engineer at 51 Years Old

Published: March 20, 2017, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 7 seconds

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#33: Stevon Cook - From Public Housing to bringing Tech Training through Mission Bit

Published: March 16, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 21 seconds

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#32: Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Product School Founder on How to Become a Product Manager

Published: March 12, 2017, midnight
Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds

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#31: Kenyatta Leal - Surviving San Quentin Prison By Walking The Last Mile into a Job in Tech

Published: March 8, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds

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#30: Yan Fan - How a Bootcamp Grad is teaching Syrian Refugees How to Code

Published: March 6, 2017, midnight
Duration: 32 minutes 27 seconds

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#29: Charlie Harrington - From Finance to Biz Dev before finally becoming an Engineer at LendUp

Published: March 1, 2017, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 3 seconds

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#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack

Published: Feb. 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 53 seconds

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#27: Jotaka Eaddy - From Senior Advisor at NAACP to Head of Government Affairs at a Tech Startup

Published: Feb. 19, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 54 seconds

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#26: Charles Pridgen - Account Executive at Loggly & Founder of BPN

Published: Feb. 17, 2017, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes

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#25: Ty Olatoye - How to Build Genuine Relationships & Land a Job

Published: Feb. 13, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 37 seconds

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#24: Divine - The journey from going in and out of prison to Breaking Into Tech

Published: Feb. 7, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 51 seconds

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#23: Rita Henderson - Who broke into startups as a Teen Mom

Published: Feb. 5, 2017, midnight
Duration: 55 minutes 43 seconds

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#22: Idalin Bobe - Community Organizer who broke into Tech and became a Tech Activist

Published: Feb. 5, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 29 seconds

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#21: Mo Woods - Ball is Life: Pro Basketball Player (6' 10" in) who became a Designer

Published: Jan. 31, 2017, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes

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#20: Nick DeWilde - Program Director at Tradecraft which teaches Biz dev, Product Design and Growth

Published: Jan. 28, 2017, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 5 seconds

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#19: Matthew Dean Brooks - An Artist who became a Software Engineer

Published: Jan. 25, 2017, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds

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#18: Preethi Kasireddy - How Investment Banker & a VC quit her job to became a Software Engineer

Published: Jan. 23, 2017, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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#17: Ina Herlihy - How a young journalist hustled her way into Growth Marketing

Published: Jan. 18, 2017, midnight
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds

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#16: Edgar Pabon - Army Captain who became an Engineer at Amazon Music

Published: Jan. 16, 2017, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 8 seconds

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#15: Kush Patel - Founder of App Academy

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds

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#14: Chia Lin - From a Pastry Chef at a Michelin Star Restaurant to a Product Designer at a Startup

Published: Jan. 9, 2017, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds

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#13: Elaina Koros - Content Strategist who hustled her way into Facebook

Published: Jan. 3, 2017, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 16 seconds

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#12: Shawn Drost - Founder of Hack Reactor

Published: Jan. 3, 2017, midnight
Duration: 48 minutes 1 second

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#11: Richard Purcell - Sales Director who worked his way up from an entry level role

Published: Jan. 1, 2017, 9:57 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 22 seconds

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#10: Melanie Araujo - Designer and Founder of Front & Center that helps people break into tech

Published: Dec. 28, 2016, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes

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#9: Ben Creasy - Alaskan Government Official turned Software Engineer

Published: Dec. 27, 2016, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes

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#8: Neil Shah - Quit his Finance job to help Homeless folks get Jobs

Published: Dec. 21, 2016, midnight
Duration: 56 minutes 32 seconds

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#7: Max Rencoret - Deep dive into Growth Marketing and building a product

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, midnight
Duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds

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#6: Nico Roberts - Consultant who became Head of Customer Success

Published: Dec. 14, 2016, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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#5: Meghan Schofield - How she became a UX designer coming from a traditional background in art

Published: Dec. 11, 2016, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds

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#4: Haseeb Qureshi - Professional Poker Player turned Software Engineer

Published: Dec. 3, 2016, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 23 seconds

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#3: Kevin Lee - Founder of Product Manager HQ where he teaches people how to become PMs.

Published: Dec. 2, 2016, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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#2: Emily Racioppi - Sales Account Executive compares sales in startups vs. corporate

Published: Nov. 28, 2016, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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#1: Albrey Brown - Self-taught Engineer who founded Telegraph Academy to teach people how to code.

Published: Nov. 27, 2016, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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