The Dock with Omar Waseem How I Make a Living Off My Twitter Followers as an Engineer | Dillion Verma | EP32
Omar (@omarwasm) and Vishal (@vishalkolr) sit down with Dillion Verma (@dillionverma) to talk about winning the Vercel Accelerator program, why he switched from the medicine path to engineering, a bet that made $5k in 48 hrs, why he left big tech, his 10 day silent meditation retreat, his framework for making money from side projects, and much more....
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· Dillion's Twitter
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
4:32 - Switching From Medicine To Engineering
8:20 - How He Learned To Code
11:25 - Are Hackathons Oversaturated?
16:09 - Unlearning Big Tech
19:16 - How To Make Money From Side Projects
25:47 - Testing Demand For Your Product
28:01 - The Vercel Accelerator
35:37 - Leaving Big Tech
41:42 - How to Properly Use Twitter
45:04 - How To Jump From Big Tech To A Startup
46:44 - Reading Tweets
55:07 - 10 Day Silent Meditation Retreat