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From $50m VC-backed to $20k MRR notes app - Alex MacCaw, Reflect (prev. Clearbit)

Indie Bites

CHAPTER

Why You Shouldn't Go to University

I didn't go to university and went straight into work. I loved it because I found that all my friends that had gone to uni for something, three, four years after, I was three or four years ahead of them in a job. You can learn so much more by joining a startup. No one learns how to program a university. They just don't teach it. If you go to a computer science course, you'll notice that everyone has learned to program when they're free time, like hacking on various little projects. So you worked at both Twitter and Stripe after review. And there's someone who didn't have a computer science degree. How did you land those roles

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