#46: Niv Dror - How Leaving Finance Led Niv to Become Head of Social at Product Hunt
Breaking Into Startups29 Huhti 2017

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

Niv Dror currently runs social at Product Hunt and does their daily newsletter featuring the latest and coolest products. Prior to tech, Niv shifted from soccer to academics, majored in Finance, and worked for some of top hedge funds and VC firms. It wasn’t until witnessing the power of Twitter and getting inspired by the investor Chris Sacca, did Niv decide to get off the finance path and break into tech. In this episode, Niv talks about how he leveraged blog posts to meet the Who's Who of Silicon Valley, how to craft powerful cold emails, and a brief walk-through of his journey into tech, guided by his north star of offering value without expecting anything in return.

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

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

Gabe Moncayo is the CEO and Founder of AlwaysHired, a three-week teaching program focused on training sales development representatives. A Bay Area-native, Gabe grew up in a family with roots to South...

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

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

Matt Tran is the Founder of Engineered Truth, a YouTube channel with over 240,000 subscribers. He initially followed the traditional path, studying Psychology and Mechanical Engineering in college. He...

11 Elo 201744min

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

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

Dr. Carol Langlois is a lifelong educator who used to run the business program at USF. She was the Dean at Mills College and founder of Higher Education Specialists. She did a dissertation in female...

30 Heinä 201740min

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

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

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

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

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

Kelvin Lightner is a software engineer apprentice at Intuit and a graduate of Dev Bootcamp. Prior to tech, Kelvin has a double major in Legal Studies and Economics from UC Berkeley and he worked as a ...

16 Heinä 201756min

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

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

Mike Slagh is the Founder of Shift.org, a hiring pipeline for military veterans. Back in the military, Mike was a bomb technician and since finishing his service a little over a year ago, he started S...

29 Kesä 201747min

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

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

An East Bay-local, Pavan Ravipati grew up in a family of tech people. He initially took Film and Media in college, landed some corporate sales roles, and worked his way up but he ultimately found his ...

14 Kesä 201733min

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

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

Erica Prenga is currently an Experience Developer at Adobe. Aware that she had a different learning style, she decided to quit college after her fourth year of studying graphic design until she ultima...

2 Kesä 20171h 7min