#20: Nick DeWilde - Program Director at Tradecraft which teaches Biz dev, Product Design and Growth
A San Francisco-native, Nick deWilde was so certain he wanted to make movies but he ended up taking on a different path that impacts people’s lives. Nick is now the Program Director at Tradecraft, an ...
28 Jan 201749min
#19: Matthew Dean Brooks - An Artist who became a Software Engineer
Transitioning from arts to engineering was not a smooth ride for Matt Brooks, but he never allowed obstacles to get in the way because he was willing to embrace failures. Matt started out as a fine ...
25 Jan 201731min
#18: Preethi Kasireddy - How Investment Banker & a VC quit her job to became a Software Engineer
After excelling at Goldman Sachs and top venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Preethi Kasireddy decided she wanted to leave “the best job in the world” to become a software engineer. In her blo...
23 Jan 201743min
#17: Ina Herlihy - How a young journalist hustled her way into Growth Marketing
Ina Herlihy is a San Francisco local who knows what’s it like to hustle your way to get the thing that you want right at a very early age. She is passionate about journalism and was an editor-in-chief...
18 Jan 201731min
#16: Edgar Pabon - Army Captain who became an Engineer at Amazon Music
Edgar Pabon is a New York-native who, prior to his current position as a software engineer at Amazon Music, was a rapper, a communications degree graduate, and an active duty military. He knew that ...
16 Jan 201738min
#15: Kush Patel - Founder of App Academy
Kush Patel is the Founder of App Academy, which is considered to be the MIT of coding bootcamps. Prior to breaking into startup, Kush previously worked at hedge funds until he finally decided to pursu...
11 Jan 201745min
#14: Chia Lin - From a Pastry Chef at a Michelin Star Restaurant to a Product Designer at a Startup
Born and raised in Taiwan, Chia Lin has traveled far and wide. She came to Tennessee when she was 11, moved to California in high school and college, and lived in Tokyo for a year. Her love of food an...
9 Jan 201743min
#12: Shawn Drost - Founder of Hack Reactor
Shawn Drost is the Co-Founder of Hack Reactor, a coding bootcamp founded in 2012 along with his college friends Tony Phillips, Marcus Phillips, and Douglas Calhoun with the primary motive to set peopl...
3 Jan 201748min
