CodeNewbie Ep. 39 - From Coding To Venture Capital (Andrew Chen)
He knew how to code, but when he graduated school, Andrew Chen decided to go into venture capital. Since then, he’s used his technical background to become an advisor and investor in many tech startups, including Dropbox, Product Hunt, and AngelList. He talks with us about how he leveraged his coding skills to being a tech advisor, how he’s maintained a solid blog for over eight years, and why you don’t have to be a great coder to build something great.
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- Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Product Hunt
- Ryan Hoover
- Y Combinator
- Front
- CodeNewbie Slack Community
- K Cups
- Eric Reis
- WordPress
- AngelList
- Wanelo
- Dropbox
- Drew Houston
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Linode
- Discourse
- Joshua Porter
- Randi Komisar
- The Monk and the Riddle
- Archie search engine
- Veronica search engine
- Gopher
- Minimum Viable Product
- BASIC
- SquareSpace
- Growth Hacking Is The New VP Marketing
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen is a writer and entrepreneur focused on mobile products, metrics, and user growth. He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, AppSumo, Barkbox, Cardpool (acq. by Safeway), Dropbox, Frankly (TSX.V:TLK), Gravity (acq. by AOL), Grovo, Kiva, Product Hunt, Qualaroo, Qik (acq. by Skype), Secret, Wanelo, and ZenPayroll.