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Breaking Into Startups — 119 episodes

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

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

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

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#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful

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#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU

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Nick Caldwell - VP of Engineering at Reddit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#47: Wayne Neale - Founder of GrowthX Academy

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

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

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

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

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#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#15: Kush Patel - Founder of App Academy

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

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

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#12: Shawn Drost - Founder of Hack Reactor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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