The Dock with Omar Waseem

EP 17 Ali Alobaidi: The Musician Who Dropped Out and Made $500k/Year as an Engineer

Mar 17, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Spending on Experiences

2min

Growing Up in Iraq

1min

The Memory of a Bus Trip to Iraq

5min

The Lucky Motherfucker

2min

The Rebellion of High School

2min

The Importance of Being Opinionated

3min

The Importance of Having Close Friends in College

2min

The Importance of Being an Outsider

3min

10.

How I Changed My Life

2min

11.

The Power of Friendship

2min

12.

The Importance of Following Your Mentor

2min

13.

How to Be a Great Individual Contributor

3min

14.

How to Find a React Co-Founder

6min

15.

The Importance of Safety in Engineering

3min

16.

The Wild Bull Market in the History of the World

2min

17.

How to Build a Successful NFT Website

2min

18.

The Penthouse: A New Jersey Startup's Story

3min

19.

The Imposter Moment

3min

20.

The Power of B2B SaaS

2min

21.

Building a B2B SaaS Company

3min

22.

How to Make Meetings More Natural

2min

23.

The Future of Management

4min

24.

How to Code to Get a Job

2min

25.

How to Find a Job in a Boot Camp

2min

26.

The Best Engineering Advice I've Ever Gotten

2min

27.

How to Be Remembered

2min

28.

How to Combine Music and Creativity for Kids

3min

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) sit down with Ali Alobaidi (@alialobai1 ), founder of Kanopy Labs and Napolean, to talk about growing up in Iraq, dropping out of college to start an engineering firm, buying a penthouse, and more...

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Links:

· Ali's Twitter

· The Dock

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

6:45 - Growing up in Iraq

21:05 - How He Learned To Code

30:50 - Starting His Own Firm

44:37 - Quitting the Agency for a Startup

1:00:05 - How Anyone Can Become an Engineer