Breaking Into Startups

#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian tech entrepreneur who founded Brightstar which was later sold to Sprint after they reached $10 billion in revenue, becomi...

#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Not only a true believer in the power of networking, Erik Torenberg definitely walks the talk. Erik is big on community building and networking. He is...

#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Schwartz is the co-founder and chief executive officer of General Assembly, a global company advancing the future of work. Jake leads GA's growth...

#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Friedman is the Co-Founder of Thinkful, a coding bootcamp that provides online courses Software Engineering, Design and Data Science courses. Drop...

#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Vaibhav Sahgal is the Head of Growth at Reddit, Inc. which has 500 million unique users around the world. Prior to this, he worked at Zynga for 8 year...

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

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kesha Lake is a member of the Career Karma community from Atlanta. She joined Career Karma in the beginning of 2019....

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

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jerrick Warren has an inspiring story of breaking into the Blockchain Tech Startup Gemini coming from a background in medicine. He went from joining...

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

14 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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

#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Darrell Silver is the CEO and Co-Founder of Thinkful. Their mission? To build the world’s next workforce. Since its inception in 2012, Thinkful ...

#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy

23 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Coming to the states with two suitcases and a pocketful of dreams, Chock Ooi is currently the CEO of Kenzie Academy. Chok is a startup veteran worki...

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

15 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

01 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Ceresnie is the CEO of Climb Credit. She has experience working in and starting multiple startups. She has led teams at Citibank and American E...

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

27 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Phaedra Ellis is the CEO of Promise, a startup that uses technology for good in the process to change the criminal justice system. Prior to this, she...

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

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tonio DeSorrento is a New York-native who spent time in the Marines as a captain. He has also worked at several institutions including SoFi. Current...

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

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rodney Sampson is the CEO of OHUB while Young Guru is widely known as Jay-Z's DJ. On today’s episode, Ruben joins Rodney & Young Guru to discuss how...

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

23 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ameer Brown is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe. He talks about what it takes to be a successful engineer at Adobe. Outside of work Ameer also org...

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

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Rosensweig is the CEO of Chegg, an American education company with the aim to provide education that is less expensive, more available, more affor...

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

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Yarbrough is the CEO of Torch and one of the best leadership and executive coaches in the world. In this episode, Cameron talks about coachi...

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

23 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Sommer is the CEO and Co-Founder of Trilogy Education Services. Dan has launched partnerships with over 37 of the world's leading universities, pr...

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

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Announcements: Watch the video recording of this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rg8SHeq1Ns Rich Smith is a Senior UI engineer at...

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

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Balaji Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase. Prior to that, he was a co-founder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz....

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

19 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rick O’Donnell is the Founder and CEO of Skills Fund, a place that provides people with an opportunity to acquire skills and they also provide finan...

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

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There are half a million open tech jobs, and yet, diversity in tech continues to be a problem. The key is in building relationships and connecting peo...

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

24 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest on the podcast has a remarkable story. Madelyn Tavarez did a part-time bootcamp, while holding a full-time job. She taught herself how t...

#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School

09 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Moving from Atlanta to the Bay Area, from being a writer, artist, to mathematician, David Harris completed App Academy and became a software engineer....

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

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

02 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 Reac...

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

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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, w...

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

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we have two amazing people behind the widely successful early stage venture capital firm, Initialized. Today, they discuss the power of coachin...

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

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A melting pot of different cultures, Miami is now seeing a dramatic shift in its career ecosystem geared towards technology and startups. But a little...

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

15 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Miami-native Saif Ishoof is the VP of Engagement at Florida International University and a leader in the Future of Work. He started up a nonprofit cal...

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

04 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Marlon Nichols is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Cross Culture Ventures, along with co-founder Troy Carter. Marlon previously served as a Part...

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

24 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From economic development to a career in tech, Laurence Bradford is a software engineer and she’s now working as a product manager at EdTech startup...

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

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Barragan was the first sales rep at Zoom that was able to rise all the way up to the top of the ranks on the Enterprise team. He helped the com...

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

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of times in startups, roles are not defined. And although we wear many hats, sometimes it never gets solidified. Today, Evan talks about his h...

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

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After the recording of the podcast, Erika joined the Impact Team at Amazon Cloud Services. Prior to that, at the time of the episode recording, Erika ...

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

19 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aline Lerner is the CEO and Co-Founder of interviewing.io, a platform for engineers that practice technical interviews and land jobs at the top tech c...

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

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In May 2015, the Congressional Black Caucus launched CBC TECH 2020 to bring together the best minds in the tech, non-profit, education and public sect...

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

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Ellison is currently the Chief Operating Officer of CodePath where he leads product, operations, and business development. CodePath is an ed...

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

21 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Musselman was spending his time in the military working with Navy SEALs and upon finishing his service, he started The Honor Foundation to help sp...

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

15 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Maeda is the Global Head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic. Previously, he was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins where he founded th...

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

08 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a mom or you know some moms who want to know what it takes to break back into tech after you've been out of work for several years, this is ...

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

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa has been teaching negotiation tactics for the last 22 years. Today, Melissa Hereford is going to teach us how to negotiate, not only in term...

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

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jason is widely known as a global brand director for the Jordan Brand at Nike, where he led and contributed to the creation of several shoes for athle...

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

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ghazal Asif is the heading Channels Sales at App Dynamics and she shares her path into tech!

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

03 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ana Díaz-Hernández is the Head of Sales at interviewing.io, a platform for engineers that set technical interviews and land jobs at top tech compani...

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

24 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Prior to her current role as a rockstar product designer at Headspace, Vicki Tan holds an impressive portfolio having worked previously at Lyft and in...

#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Vaynerchuk does not need an introduction. For those of you who haven’t heard of him yet, he is not only a rockstar entrepreneur, he's an author...

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

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A San Jose-native, Heather Swan is the Chief Happiness Officer at Zoom, a video conferencing tool that works on any device. She started as an employee...

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

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Southern Californian-native, Ian Harriman is a rockstar salesperson. He started as a sales development representative until he rose up to the ranks of...

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

30 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we take a closer dive into getting internships and how you can leverage those to get full-time offers. Kyle Woumn is a fullstack engineer on t...

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

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Germany, Marco Morawec is the co-founder of The Firehose Project, an online coding school that helped over a thousand people learn how to code...

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

02 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Deng is a mentor who has helped several people break into tech. He is widely known as a software engineer at Snap Inc. Prior to tech, he was actua...

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

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Burrill is not just the inside sales boss at Twilio but he's also a seasoned executive having spent time with other amazing companies including Bo...

#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU

01 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Adam is a co-founder of MissionU where he is building a school for the 21st century. He is also a founder of Pencils of Promise that has built over 40...

Nick Caldwell - VP of Engineering at Reddit

20 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Caldwell is the VP of Engineering at Reddit and has been in the game for over fifteen years. He has worked for impressive institutions including ...

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

11 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bangaly Kaba shares his story on how he broke into product management from a non-traditional backgrounds in Education and Finance. Originally from the...

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

01 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rocio Lopez came to the U.S. as an undocumented minor and lived on the East Side of Palo Alto. For years, she and her family have gone through so mu...

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

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A Missouri-native, Zac Otero is a true testament that a four-year degree isn’t always an indicator of success. High school dropout, Zac Otero descri...

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

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From New York to San Diego, Saron has launched one of the biggest coding podcasts called CodeNewbie. The show has over 1.4 million downloads and liste...

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

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Atlanta, Mandy Cole is the founder of The Cole Method, a consulting firm that helps startups that have reached $1 million revenue to start lea...

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

20 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Gabe Moncayo is the CEO and Founder of AlwaysHired, a three-week teaching program focused on training sales development representatives. A Bay Area-na...

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

11 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Tran is the Founder of Engineered Truth, a YouTube channel with over 240,000 subscribers. He initially followed the traditional path, studying Ps...

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

30 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 Educati...

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

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

16 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

14 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

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

02 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Prenga is currently an Experience Developer at Adobe. Aware that she had a different learning style, she decided to quit college after her fourt...

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

30 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With Dominican roots, Ysiad Ferreiras grew up in the Bronx where fear was not unusual thing and where hard life would be an understatement. He has mad...

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

23 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kristin Parke is a hacker aka a security consultant at the NCC Group. She shares her journey into tech and how she transitioned from music to science ...

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

19 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From a chef to restaurateur to Math teacher to software engineer, Mannah Kallon has a pretty crazy and nontraditional background. That makes him an as...

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

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A self-confessed nerd and Sailor Moon enthusiast, Jessica Uelmen built her first HTML/CSS website at 13 years old and got involved with theater during...

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

09 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Based in San Francisco, Hackbright Academy is focused on teaching women how to code. We're recording several interviews with Hackbright graduates incl...

#47: Wayne Neale - Founder of GrowthX Academy

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wayne Neale is the Co-Founder of GrowthX Academy, a 12-week, onsite, immersive, full-time educational experience program focusing on careers in Sales,...

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

29 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Niv Dror currently runs social at Product Hunt and does their daily newsletter featuring the latest and coolest products. Prior to tech, Niv shifted f...

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

26 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kenny Tran is a passionate writer and coder. He chose to forego college and instead pursued his personal projects and his love of writing. After readi...

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

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano is best known for his hustle. Since early years, he's been coming up with business ideas and today he invests in companies an...

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

20 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

UK-born Soroush Mehraein moved to the United States and graduated from UC Berkeley. He studies Industrial Engineering and ended up doing consulting fo...

#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy

15 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Based in Boston, Dan Pickett founded a program called Launch Academy built around the premise of helping people become the best version of themselves....

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

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in Taiwan for 17 years, Kimberly Han moved to Seattle to go to College where she majored in Psychology while minoring in Dance. For majorit...

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

09 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Coming from a nontraditional background as an educator living in China for years, Quincy combined his passion for education and technology to launch F...

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

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Realizing the need for a more rigorous and accelerated curriculum for software engineers, Nimit Maru founded Fullstack Academy. He also founded its si...

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

02 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From dancing to coding, Carly Robinson left her theater career in New York and Chicago to break into tech. She attended Hackbright Academy and is now ...

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

30 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As a teen mom, Natasha Vianna had to deal with the stereotype that society has boxed her in. But she didn’t let this break her spirit. Natasha’s g...

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

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Belcak didn’t have it all figured out when he picked a Biology major in college and landed his first sales job in the medical field, both of ...

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

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Everette Taylor is not just any 27-year-old. Don’t be fooled by his age. To date, Everette built four companies including GrowthHackers.com, which h...

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

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For Michael Jay Walker, his career was more likely driven by the motivation to do what people thought he couldn't do, fearlessly working his way up th...

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

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Being a 3rd generation San Franciscan who grew up in public housing, Stevon has always been aware of the challenges of his community including the maj...

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

12 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It is his love of tech that got Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to immigrate from Spain to the United States. Being good at numbers and video games,...

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

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

One thing Kenyatta Leal knows is that while there’s no manual for surviving a life sentence, tapping into the power of visualization can definitely ...

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

06 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Born in China and raised in the U.S., Yan Fan knows that her coding skills are a superpower she can apply in any industry or role. Yan started out wor...

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

01 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A New Jersey-native, Charlie Harrington believes that you can’t find luck unless you take that courage to jump off the train and put yourself out th...

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

25 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rodney Urquhart grew up in a North Philly neighborhood ridden with gang violence and effects of the crack epidemic. After seeing people around him get...

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

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jotaka Eaddy is a concrete example that you can come from political and social activism, take those exact same skills, and use them everyday to help b...

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

17 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A Baltimore-native, Charles Pridgen majored in International Business and Finance, but realizing that he didn’t fit into the financial field he purs...

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

13 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Influenced by a strong Nigerian culture of excellence, education and faith, Ty moved from Arizona to San Francisco in search of that ONE opportunity t...