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Alex Kessinger (Stitch Fix) and David Noël-Romas (Stripe)

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Early Exposure to Computers and Programming

Early exposure to computers at a young age led to fascination with hacking, but the realization that programming was essential to serious hacking shifted the focus towards learning programming languages. Starting with basic programming languages like QBasic involved manually typing code from books into a text editor, which may not be a common practice in the next few decades.

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