הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Breaking Into Startups (2024)

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#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma 39:06

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Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian tech entrepreneur who founded Brightstar which was later sold to Sprint after they reached $10 billion in revenue, becoming the largest Hispanic-owned business in US history. Currently, Claure serves as Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International and Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Claure ove…

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#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma 39:05

3y ago39:05

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Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian tech entrepreneur who founded Brightstar which was later sold to Sprint after they reached $10 billion in revenue, becoming the largest Hispanic-owned business in US history. Currently, Claure serves as Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International and Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Claure ove…

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#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers 1:05:24

3+ y ago1:05:24

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Not only a true believer in the power of networking, Erik Torenberg definitely walks the talk. Erik is big on community building and networking. He is known for organizing huge events as well as intimate meetups called On Deck, where they allow people to get to know each other on a personal level instead of a professional level. Back in Michigan, E…

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#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers 1:05:23

3+ y ago1:05:23

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Not only a true believer in the power of networking, Erik Torenberg definitely walks the talk. Erik is big on community building and networking. He is known for organizing huge events as well as intimate meetups called On Deck, where they allow people to get to know each other on a personal level instead of a professional level.Back in Michigan, Er…

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#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response 1:02:26

3+ y ago1:02:26

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Jake Schwartz is the co-founder and chief executive officer of General Assembly, a global company advancing the future of work. Jake leads GA's growth, creating sustainable talent pipelines for businesses, and building transparent career pathways to the most transformational work. In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, about 33 million Americans have …

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#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response 1:02:25

3+ y ago1:02:25

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Jake Schwartz is the co-founder and chief executive officer of General Assembly, a global company advancing the future of work. Jake leads GA's growth, creating sustainable talent pipelines for businesses, and building transparent career pathways to the most transformational work. In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, about 33 million Americans have …

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#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful 50:13

4y ago50:13

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Dan Friedman is the Co-Founder of Thinkful, a coding bootcamp that provides online courses Software Engineering, Design and Data Science courses. Dropping out of Yale, Dan is proof that you don't need a college degree or certain qualifications to find your way to success. Thinkful is the first coding bootcamp that came out and created offerings for…

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#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful 50:12

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Dan Friedman is the Co-Founder of Thinkful, a coding bootcamp that provides online courses Software Engineering, Design and Data Science courses. Dropping out of Yale, Dan is proof that you don't need a college degree or certain qualifications to find your way to success. Thinkful is the first coding bootcamp that came out and created offerings for…

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#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader 53:15

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Vaibhav Sahgal is the Head of Growth at Reddit, Inc. which has 500 million unique users around the world. Prior to this, he worked at Zynga for 8 years as a product manager. He led teams building games like Words with Friends, Cityville, and Mafia Wars. Vaibhav immigrated from India to the U.S. to get a degree in Computer Science at Purdue Universi…

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#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader 53:14

4y ago53:14

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Vaibhav Sahgal is the Head of Growth at Reddit, Inc. which has 500 million unique users around the world. Prior to this, he worked at Zynga for 8 years as a product manager. He led teams building games like Words with Friends, Cityville, and Mafia Wars.Vaibhav immigrated from India to the U.S. to get a degree in Computer Science at Purdue Universit…

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#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix 1:27:22

4+ y ago1:27:22

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kesha Lake is a member of the Career Karma community from Atlanta. She joined Career Karma in the beginning of 2019. Less than a year later, she got a job as a remote software engineer at Stitch Fix. Today, she talks about her life as a mother, her transition from nursing to tech, her bootcamp journey, and her job se…

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#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini 1:09:52

4+ y ago1:09:52

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Jerrick Warren has an inspiring story of breaking into the Blockchain Tech Startup Gemini coming from a background in medicine. He went from joining the Career Karma community, to getting accepted into Lambda School to getting a Software Engineering job in a year!Today, he shares with us the many struggles he had to overcome and how Career Karma he…

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#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp) 1:19:07

4+ y ago1:19:07

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#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp) by Breaking Into Startupsעל ידי Breaking Into Startups

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#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful 51:49

4+ y ago51:49

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Darrell Silver is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thinkful. Their mission? To build the world’s next workforce. Since its inception in 2012, Thinkful has graduated thousands of students. Founded based on two elements – transparency and return on education – Thinkful has recently been acquired by Chegg. Together, they continue to help transform how people…

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#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy 56:28

4+ y ago56:28

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Coming to the states with two suitcases and a pocketful of dreams, Chock Ooi is currently the CEO of Kenzie Academy. Chok is a startup veteran working at places like Loopt and AgilityIO, and is a 500 Startups mentor. He has a background in Finance and Technology at Goldman, Bank of America, and BNP Paribas during the financial crisis.Today, Chok ta…

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#116 - FFTSquad – A Career Karma Squad of Highly Motivated People Breaking Into Tech Together 1:35:23

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Today, we have a special group of people joining us who go by the #FFTSquad. #FFTSquad is a group of people on Career Karma who are working together to help each other grow, learn how to code and switch careers into tech. They were with us early from the very beginning. In fact, a lot of the members of the FFT Squad were part of Career Karma before…

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#115: Angela Ceresnie - CEO of Climb Credit on Helping to Finance People's Career Transitions 54:05

5y ago54:05

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Angela Ceresnie is the CEO of Climb Credit. She has experience working in and starting multiple startups. She has led teams at Citibank and American Express. Interestingly, she studied computer engineering at the University of Michigan with a technical background. Today, Angela talks about skill-building and the work she's doing at Climb Credit as …

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#114: Phaedra Ellis - CEO of Promise on How to Build Power and Take Control of Your Career 1:02:30

5y ago1:02:30

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Phaedra Ellis is the CEO of Promise, a startup that uses technology for good in the process to change the criminal justice system.Prior to this, she was the leader of the South Bay Labor Council, managing over 110,000 members. Before that, Phaedra was also the CEO of Green for All and is known as a music industry icon for having helped Prince get h…

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#113: Tonio DeSorrento - Income Sharing Agreements Explained by CEO of Vemo 52:28

5y ago52:28

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Tonio DeSorrento is a New York-native who spent time in the Marines as a captain. He has also worked at several institutions including SoFi. Currently, he serves as the CEO of Vemo Education, a leading provider of income share agreements, which is an innovative financing model not only for coding bootcamps, but also for traditional universities. Th…

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#112: Chasing your Dreams with Young Guru & Rodney Sampson 55:02

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Rodney Sampson is the CEO of OHUB while Young Guru is widely known as Jay-Z's DJ. On today’s episode, Ruben joins Rodney & Young Guru to discuss how and why they came together and why they're passionate about creating opportunities for people outside of tech. OHUB has also partnered with Flatiron School, to give $1M in scholarships to people with c…

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#111: Ameer Brown - Coding Bootcamp Graduate who is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe 53:41

5y ago53:41

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Ameer Brown is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe. He talks about what it takes to be a successful engineer at Adobe. Outside of work Ameer also organizes parties. He also covers how that helped him take it to another level hosting parties in multiple cities. From being a journalism major, he suddenly left his job, flew to LA, and applied to Gene…

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#110: Dan Rosensweig - CEO of Chegg, the Playbook for the Modern Day Student 50:28

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Dan Rosensweig is the CEO of Chegg, an American education company with the aim to provide education that is less expensive, more available, more affordable, and more relevant. On the podcast, Dan explains how it's their responsibility to learn from, listen to, and build for young people.He was formerly the COO of Yahoo! and CEO of Guitar Hero. He's…

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#109: Cameron Yarbrough - CEO of Torch, on the Importance of Mental Health & Coaching 26:28

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Cameron Yarbrough is the CEO of Torch and one of the best leadership and executive coaches in the world. In this episode, Cameron talks about coaching for everyone! How Torch got its start and the problems that many CEO’s as well as startup employees have when they are faced with pressure.על ידי Breaking Into Startups

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#108: Dan Sommer, CEO & founder of Trilogy Education, workforce accelerator for leading universities 59:25

5+ y ago59:25

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Dan Sommer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trilogy Education Services. Dan has launched partnerships with over 37 of the world's leading universities, providing alternative forms of education on their campuses.smarturl.it/trilogy_learn_moreThey have instructors teaching 200 classes every week. They have thousands of students who have completed Trilogy…

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#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix 1:07:57

5+ y ago1:07:57

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Announcements: Watch the video recording of this episode on Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rg8SHeq1NsRich Smith is a Senior UI engineer at Netflix but did you know this was his 17th job? Today, he talks about how he started hustling as early as 4th grader and eventually discovered his interest in coding! On the episode he covers a lot of t…

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#106: Balaji Srinivasan - CTO of Coinbase, How Everyone Can be an Investor 1:10:20

5+ y ago1:10:20

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Balaji Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase. Prior to that, he was a co-founder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Today, he talks about his insights into traditional education vs. alternative education, as well as numerous concepts on technical debt, voice vs. exit, idea maze, idea vs. education, and more!Balaji…

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#105: Rick O'Donnell - CEO of Skills Fund, Providing Financing to Coding Bootcamp Students 51:44

5+ y ago51:44

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Rick O’Donnell is the Founder and CEO of Skills Fund, a place that provides people with an opportunity to acquire skills and they also provide financing for students as they're doing a career transition.Prior to Skills Fund, Rick worked as an Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies as well as the Director for the Depar…

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#104: Leanne Pittsford - Founder of Lesbians Who Tech & Tech Jobs Tour 49:17

5+ y ago49:17

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There are half a million open tech jobs, and yet, diversity in tech continues to be a problem. The key is in building relationships and connecting people with the right companies that need their skills the most.Leanne Pittsford is the founder of Lesbians Who Tech, the largest LGBTQ community of technologists in the world with over 40,000 members. S…

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#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer 1:01:59

5+ y ago1:01:59

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Our guest on the podcast has a remarkable story. Madelyn Tavarez did a part-time bootcamp, while holding a full-time job. She taught herself how to code. And became a software engineer at Pinterest now building products for hundreds of millions of people. She is also a Dominican Republic-native who grew up in Washington Heights and due to her own d…

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#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School 1:00:18

5+ y ago1:00:18

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Austen Allred is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lambda School. Recently coming out of Y Combinator, Lambda now has thousands of students. Prior to this, he served as a Growth Expert at LendUp. Lambda School is an online bootcamp that gives students the tools and training they need to launch their career in software engineering at no upfront cost. Their …

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#101: Avi Flombaum - Co-Founder of Flatiron School 59:17

5+ y ago59:17

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Avi Flombaum is a lifelong educator. He is the Co-Founder of Flatiron School, which grew to thousands of students and got acquired by WeWork. Prior to starting Flatiron School, Avi also built several companies.Avi’s philosophy believes that education should mold and flex to the needs of the student. On this episode, he shares his insights about the…

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#100: David Harris - How an App Academy graduate became a Software Engineer at Omada Health 1:45:57

5+ y ago1:45:57

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Moving from Atlanta to the Bay Area, from being a writer, artist, to mathematician, David Harris completed App Academy and became a software engineer. By combining hard work and the power of networking, David ultimately landed a full-time job at Omada Health. In this episode, David talks about his struggles and how he hustled his way to success. He…

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#99: Iris Nevins - Teacher Who Became a Software Engineer at Mailchimp 1:37:27

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In 2017, Iris Nevins decided to leave her work as a teacher in Florida to attend a bootcamp in the Bay Area - but it was not without its own struggles. Iris believes that when you’re on your path, no matter the road blocks, serendipitous things will happen.In 2018, Iris landed a job as a software engineer at MailChimp, an Atlanta-based marketing au…

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#98: Galvanize's acquisition of Hack Reactor - Al Rosabal & Shawn Drost 52:10

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Galvanize and Hack Reactor have now merged to become bigger and better in the bootcamp space. With the merger, Shawn who is the Cofounder of Hack Reactor and a returning guest on the Podcast, is now serving as SVP of Strategy and Innovation. Galvanize has eight campuses across the U.S. including San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Austin, Denver (2), …

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#97: Ryan Carson - CEO of Treehouse on How You Can Start Learning to Code 34:21

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Ryan Carson is the Founder and CEO of Treehouse. He grew up in Colorado and is currently in Portland. Today, he talks about the future of education, work, and more!Treehouse is an online school that teaches adults how to code and build apps so they gain a super power. Running for 8 years now, they've taught over 850,000 people how to code, with cur…

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#96: Building Reddit, Posterous.com & Initialized Capital with Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan 53:24

5+ y ago53:24

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Today, we have two amazing people behind the widely successful early stage venture capital firm, Initialized. Today, they discuss the power of coaching, the cryptocurrency space, building teams and community, and some tech trends to watch out for.Dubbed as "Mayor of the Internet," Alexis Ohanian is the Co-Founder of Reddit, Breadpig. He was a forme…

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#95: Jacob Hsu - CEO of Catalyte, Guaranteeing Career Transitioners Engineering Jobs 46:42

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It all started when Jacob Hsu immigrated from Taiwan at an early age! Fast forward to now, Jacob spends his time between San Mateo and Baltimore while he’s building and managing his team as the CEO of Catalyte. An ex-banker, Jacob went on to create two startups, one of which is Symbio, a product development and R&D outsourcing services company. In …

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#94: Raul Moas - Bringing Tech Jobs to Miami with The Knight Foundation 40:33

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A melting pot of different cultures, Miami is now seeing a dramatic shift in its career ecosystem geared towards technology and startups. But a little more work is needed for the educational landscape to align with the rapidly growing tech space. Raul Moas is currently the Miami Program Director for the Knight Foundation, a national foundation with…

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#93: Saif Ishoof - How College Students Should Prepare for the Future of Work 1:06:42

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Miami-native Saif Ishoof is the VP of Engagement at Florida International University and a leader in the Future of Work. He started up a nonprofit called City Year Miami and has run family business prior to it. He got his JD from the University of Miami. We wanted to highlight the importance of radio, part of the reason this podcast got started. Un…

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#92: Marlon Nichols - Deep Dive on Venture Capital with the Co-Founder of Cross Culture VC 51:27

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Marlon Nichols is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Cross Culture Ventures, along with co-founder Troy Carter. Marlon previously served as a Partner at Intel Capital. He has worked with several startups, invested in companies like Mayvenn, Gimlet Media, Blavity, Airspace Technologies, Codeverse, and many others.Marlon is huge on CULTURE when it …

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#91: Laurence Bradford - Founder of Learn To Code With Me 38:45

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From economic development to a career in tech, Laurence Bradford is a software engineer and she’s now working as a product manager at EdTech startup Teachable, which is an online course platform.Aside from being a contributor at Forbes, she also runs a podcast called, Learn to Code With Me, which now has over a million downloads. She runs a blog wi…

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#90: Daniel Barragan - An Enterprise Account Executive's Playbook to Landing a Job 29:27

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Daniel Barragan was the first sales rep at Zoom that was able to rise all the way up to the top of the ranks on the Enterprise team. He helped the company grow to over 700,000 accounts in six years, reach a billion dollar valuation, get into 90% of the top universities, and expand into different verticals. What started out as just being a beta prod…

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#89: Evan Fried - First Employee at Checkr & Head of Customer Success 52:52

6y ago52:52

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A lot of times in startups, roles are not defined. And although we wear many hats, sometimes it never gets solidified. Today, Evan talks about his humble beginnings. Born in Alaska, he sold his cream puff and shaved ice business that he put up in high school. He then studied Philosophy and Business in Seattle, until finally moving to SF to hustle h…

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#88: Erika Balbuena - Head of Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org 59:34

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After the recording of the podcast, Erika joined the Impact Team at Amazon Cloud Services. Prior to that, at the time of the episode recording, Erika was the Head of Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org. Before that, she also worked for TaskRabbit. Erika has not only in tech for a long time, she served on several boards and she also has deep experie…

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#87: Aline Lerner - CEO of Interviewing.io on How to Reinvent a Technical Interview 1:02:25

6y ago1:02:25

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Aline Lerner is the CEO and Co-Founder of interviewing.io, a platform for engineers that practice technical interviews and land jobs at the top tech companies. Millions of people have read her writing and thousands of engineers sign to work with her platform each month. You can easily check her out in TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and other publications.F…

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#86: Special Report - Congressional Black Caucus's Tech 2020 Initiative on Future of Work 1:49:25

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In May 2015, the Congressional Black Caucus launched CBC TECH 2020 to bring together the best minds in the tech, non-profit, education and public sectors to chart a path forward to increase African American inclusion at all levels of the technology industry. Since the launch of CBC TECH 2020 in May of 2015, the following companies have added Africa…

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#85: Michael Ellison - CEO of CodePath.org, Helping Engineers Advance their Careers 1:01:52

6y ago1:01:52

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Michael Ellison is currently the Chief Operating Officer of CodePath where he leads product, operations, and business development. CodePath is an education technology startup that has a reputation for excellence in training engineers with the skills that they need for cutting-edge tech jobs.Running for four years now, CodePath has worked with over …

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#84: Joe Musselman - Founder of The Honor Foundation, Helping Special Forces Vets Break In 55:50

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Joe Musselman was spending his time in the military working with Navy SEALs and upon finishing his service, he started The Honor Foundation to help special operation forces who have left service to transition and find jobs in tech.Joe has supported over thousands of people with over 200 employee partners who have raised funding from people all over…

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#83: John Maeda - Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic 47:30

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John Maeda is the Global Head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic. Previously, he was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins where he founded the design and tech report that's read by people all over the world.Fascinated with the idea of remote working, John is an inspiration in the design world currently serving on the boards of Sonos and Wi…

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#82: Wendy Padua & Tami Forman - How Returnships help Mothers & Parents Get Back Into the Workforce 1:01:23

6y ago1:01:23

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If you're a mom or you know some moms who want to know what it takes to break back into tech after you've been out of work for several years, this is a must-listen episode.Today's guest is Wendy Padua who has been out of work for 16 years and is not part of the marketing team at Zendesk. We also have Tami Forman on the show today. She's the Directo…

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