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Breaking Into Startups — 119 episodes
#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix
#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini
#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp)
#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful
#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy
#116 - FFTSquad – A Career Karma Squad of Highly Motivated People Breaking Into Tech Together
#115: Angela Ceresnie - CEO of Climb Credit on Helping to Finance People's Career Transitions
#114: Phaedra Ellis - CEO of Promise on How to Build Power and Take Control of Your Career
#113: Tonio DeSorrento - Income Sharing Agreements Explained by CEO of Vemo
#112: Chasing your Dreams with Young Guru & Rodney Sampson
#111: Ameer Brown - Coding Bootcamp Graduate who is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe
#110: Dan Rosensweig - CEO of Chegg, the Playbook for the Modern Day Student
#109: Cameron Yarbrough - CEO of Torch, on the Importance of Mental Health & Coaching
#108: Dan Sommer, CEO & founder of Trilogy Education, workforce accelerator for leading universities
#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix
#106: Balaji Srinivasan - CTO of Coinbase, How Everyone Can be an Investor
#105: Rick O'Donnell - CEO of Skills Fund, Providing Financing to Coding Bootcamp Students
#104: Leanne Pittsford - Founder of Lesbians Who Tech & Tech Jobs Tour
#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer
#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School
#101: Avi Flombaum - Co-Founder of Flatiron School
#100: David Harris - How an App Academy graduate became a Software Engineer at Omada Health
#99: Iris Nevins - Teacher Who Became a Software Engineer at Mailchimp
#98: Galvanize's acquisition of Hack Reactor - Al Rosabal & Shawn Drost
#97: Ryan Carson - CEO of Treehouse on How You Can Start Learning to Code
#96: Building Reddit, Posterous.com & Initialized Capital with Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan
#95: Jacob Hsu - CEO of Catalyte, Guaranteeing Career Transitioners Engineering Jobs
#94: Raul Moas - Bringing Tech Jobs to Miami with The Knight Foundation
#93: Saif Ishoof - How College Students Should Prepare for the Future of Work
#92: Marlon Nichols - Deep Dive on Venture Capital with the Co-Founder of Cross Culture VC
#91: Laurence Bradford - Founder of Learn To Code With Me
#90: Daniel Barragan - An Enterprise Account Executive's Playbook to Landing a Job
#89: Evan Fried - First Employee at Checkr & Head of Customer Success
#88: Erika Balbuena - Head of Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org
#87: Aline Lerner - CEO of Interviewing.io on How to Reinvent a Technical Interview
#86: Special Report - Congressional Black Caucus's Tech 2020 Initiative on Future of Work
#85: Michael Ellison - CEO of CodePath.org, Helping Engineers Advance their Careers
#84: Joe Musselman - Founder of The Honor Foundation, Helping Special Forces Vets Break In
#83: John Maeda - Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic
#82: Wendy Padua & Tami Forman - How Returnships help Mothers & Parents Get Back Into the Workforce
#81: Melissa Hereford - How to Win in a Salary Negotiation
#80: Jason Mayden - CEO 0f Superheroic and Former Designer at Jordan Sneaker
#79: Ghazal Asif - VP of Worldwide Channels Sales at App Dynamics
#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community
#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness
#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia
#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom
#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr
#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer
#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)
#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat
#70: Dan Burrill - Director of Inside Sales at Twillio
#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU
Nick Caldwell - VP of Engineering at Reddit
#67: Bangaly Kaba - Journey to a Product Manager Role at Facebook & Instagram
#66: Rocio Lopez - A Product Designer & a DACA Recipient is Standing Up for All DREAMers
#65: Zac Otero - From the Meat Factory's Floor to becoming a Salesforce Admin
#63: Saron Yitbarek - Self-taught Engineer & Founder of CodeNewbie Podcast
#62: Mandy Cole - VP of Sales of Startups such as Living Social, Zenefits and Stella & Dot
#61: Gabe Moncayo - Founder of Always Hired who Helps People Get Into Sales
#60: Matthew Tran - Youtube Personality & Founder of Engineered Truth Youtube Channel
#59: Dr. Carol Langlois - How Self Esteem & Empowerment are Changing the Ratio through Hackbright
#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree
#57: Kelvin Lightner - Tax Consultant from Deloitte Become A Software Engineer at Intuit
#56: Mike Slagh - How a US Navy Veteran Started a Company to Help Veterans Break Into Tech
#55: Pavan Ravipati - Deep Dive on Software Engineer vs. Sales Engineer
#54: Erica Prenga - How a Graphic Design Major became an Experience Engineer at Adobe
#53: Ysiad Ferreiras - How a kid from the Bronx became the VP of Sales at Hustle
#52: Kristin Parke - How a Music & a Biology major became a Security Hacker
#51: K. Mannah Kallon - an Educator who became an Engineer at Stitch Fix
#50: Jessica Uelmen - A Hardware Engineer who became a Product Manager at Fitbit
#48: Chloe Condon - An Actress who Quit her Job as an Office Manager and Became a Software Engineer
#47: Wayne Neale - Founder of GrowthX Academy
#46: Niv Dror - How Leaving Finance Led Niv to Become Head of Social at Product Hunt
#45: Kenny Tran - How an App Academy & Hack Reactor Alum skipped college and became an Engineer
#44: Anthony Pompliano - How an Army Sergeant became a Product Manager at Facebook
#43: Soroush Mehraein - How a switch from Industrial to Software Engineering led to a job at Uber
#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy
#41: Kim Han - Biz Dev Deep Dive: from Tango to Business Development at Square
#40: Quincy Larson - Founder of Free Code Camp, Community of 1,000,000+ People Learning How to Code
#38: Nimit Maru - Founder of Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper
#39: Carly Robinson - Chicago Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack
#37: Natasha Vianna - Teen Mom who led the #NoTeenShame Campaign & became Head of Community at Honor
#36: Austin Belcak - Career Coach and Virtual Career Mastery Summit Founder
#35: Everette Taylor - How a 17-year-old who was homeless in HS rose to become the CMO at Skurt
#34: Michael J Walker - How a Marketing Exec Became an Engineer at 51 Years Old
#33: Stevon Cook - From Public Housing to bringing Tech Training through Mission Bit
#32: Carlos González de Villaumbrosia – Product School Founder on How to Become a Product Manager
#31: Kenyatta Leal - Surviving San Quentin Prison By Walking The Last Mile into a Job in Tech
#30: Yan Fan - How a Bootcamp Grad is teaching Syrian Refugees How to Code
#29: Charlie Harrington - From Finance to Biz Dev before finally becoming an Engineer at LendUp
#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack
#27: Jotaka Eaddy - From Senior Advisor at NAACP to Head of Government Affairs at a Tech Startup
#26: Charles Pridgen - Account Executive at Loggly & Founder of BPN
#25: Ty Olatoye - How to Build Genuine Relationships & Land a Job
#24: Divine - The journey from going in and out of prison to Breaking Into Tech
#23: Rita Henderson - Who broke into startups as a Teen Mom
#22: Idalin Bobe - Community Organizer who broke into Tech and became a Tech Activist
#21: Mo Woods - Ball is Life: Pro Basketball Player (6' 10" in) who became a Designer
#20: Nick DeWilde - Program Director at Tradecraft which teaches Biz dev, Product Design and Growth
#19: Matthew Dean Brooks - An Artist who became a Software Engineer
#18: Preethi Kasireddy - How Investment Banker & a VC quit her job to became a Software Engineer
#17: Ina Herlihy - How a young journalist hustled her way into Growth Marketing
#16: Edgar Pabon - Army Captain who became an Engineer at Amazon Music
#15: Kush Patel - Founder of App Academy
#14: Chia Lin - From a Pastry Chef at a Michelin Star Restaurant to a Product Designer at a Startup
#13: Elaina Koros - Content Strategist who hustled her way into Facebook
#12: Shawn Drost - Founder of Hack Reactor
#11: Richard Purcell - Sales Director who worked his way up from an entry level role
#10: Melanie Araujo - Designer and Founder of Front & Center that helps people break into tech
#9: Ben Creasy - Alaskan Government Official turned Software Engineer
#8: Neil Shah - Quit his Finance job to help Homeless folks get Jobs
#7: Max Rencoret - Deep dive into Growth Marketing and building a product
#6: Nico Roberts - Consultant who became Head of Customer Success
#5: Meghan Schofield - How she became a UX designer coming from a traditional background in art
#4: Haseeb Qureshi - Professional Poker Player turned Software Engineer
#3: Kevin Lee - Founder of Product Manager HQ where he teaches people how to become PMs.
#2: Emily Racioppi - Sales Account Executive compares sales in startups vs. corporate
#1: Albrey Brown - Self-taught Engineer who founded Telegraph Academy to teach people how to code.