The Importance of Programming in Startups

Our guest on episode 377 of the show is John Coogan, technologist, YouTuber, and co-founder of Soylent and Lucy. He has been an entrepreneur for a decade across multiple companies, and has brought forward marketing, ecommerce strategy, engineering, and finance to where he worked.

Aside from his company work, he has become a great storyteller on his YouTube channel of over 240000 subscribers, where he showcases stories or happenings in the technology space, discussing companies or leading figures at those companies, as well as the direction of upcoming technologies like artificial intelligence.

On this episode, we discussing his founding efforts, what makes for value in companies, and how to bring a compelling story through content creation that informs and entertains.