#116 - FFTSquad – A Career Karma Squad of Highly Motivated People Breaking Into Tech Together
Breaking Into Startups15 Heinä 2019

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

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 the app even came out. Here are their names: Meet the FFT Squad: Melanie Harris (Ms. CEO, Lady Savage) Jennifer Weaver (J-Smooth) Elisabeth Earley (Lady Boom) Benjamin Earley (Benny Boom) Tyrone Smith (Fly Ty) Elise Spain (Famous Amos) Levar Morris (The Wizard) Jennifer Carney (J-Chill) Gregory Jordan (Papa Smurf) Kesha Lake (Rose Code) For those of you who may not know, Career Karma was started by Artur, Ruben & Timur as a result of us breaking into tech and launching the Breaking Into Startups Podcast together. Today, Career Karma is a community that matches people to the best coding bootcamps and gives them support for the rest of their careers. The FFT Squad is a living testament that developing your technical skills can totally change your life. No matter who you are, what color you are, what race you are, or what religion you are – you DEFINITELY can do this!

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#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School

#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School

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 Sch...

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

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

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 severa...

2 Loka 201859min

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

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

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 networkin...

20 Syys 20181h 45min

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

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

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 ...

12 Syys 20181h 37min

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

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

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 s...

2 Syys 201852min

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

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

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...

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

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

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 co...

17 Elo 201853min

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

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

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...

10 Elo 201846min