Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership What are you optimizing for?
Saron Yitbarek is the founder and CEO of CodeNewbie — one of the most supportive community of programmers and people learning to code. Saron hosts the CodeNewbie podcast, Command Line Heroes from Red Hat, and she’s also the creator of Codeland Conference taking place on July 22 this year in New York City. We talk through getting started, lessons learned, mental health, developing and running a conference…but our conversation begins with a pivotal question asked of Saron…“What are you optimizing for?”
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In the latter part of the show, Adam mentioned to Saron that we will buy five “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland, so that we here at Changelog can help support 5 people to attend the conference who otherwise could not afford to attend. Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland.
Also, listen to the end of the show for a special preview of our newest podcast BRAIN SCIENCE!!
- The one question that will change your life
- Codeland Conference
- Learn more about “Pay it forward” tickets to Codeland
- CodeNewbie.org
- CodeNewbie podcast
- Command Line Heroes
- The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek
- Our newest podcast ~> BRAIN SCIENCE!!
- [Book] Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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