1 hr 16 min

Ep. 81: How Ruben Harris Used the Power of Stories to Break Into Startups freeCodeCamp Podcast

    • Technology

In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Quincy Larson interviews Ruben Harris, who runs Career Karma, a social network for people interested in attending coding bootcamp. He also hosts the Breaking into Startups Podcast.
Ruben just finished Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, where he and his team raised their first round of venture capital funding.
Ruben grew up in Atlanta and worked in finance. He met his future co-founders - Ukrainian-born brothers Artur and Timur Meyster - years ago. The three of them agreed to spread out, get jobs in different industries, then later regroup to build a startup together.
Ruben shares his insights on coding bootcamps. He also shares what he learned going through Y Combinator. And he talks about his close bond with his co-founders.
Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubenharris
Follow Quincy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ossia
Subscribe to the Breaking Into Startups podcast: https://breakingintostartups.com/
Ruben interviews Quincy way back in 2017 (50 minute listen): https://breakingintostartups.com/quincy-free-code-camp/
Ruben interviews Gary V (an episode he mentions during this interview): https://breakingintostartups.com/76-gary-vaynerchuk-ceo-vaynermedia/

In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Quincy Larson interviews Ruben Harris, who runs Career Karma, a social network for people interested in attending coding bootcamp. He also hosts the Breaking into Startups Podcast.
Ruben just finished Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, where he and his team raised their first round of venture capital funding.
Ruben grew up in Atlanta and worked in finance. He met his future co-founders - Ukrainian-born brothers Artur and Timur Meyster - years ago. The three of them agreed to spread out, get jobs in different industries, then later regroup to build a startup together.
Ruben shares his insights on coding bootcamps. He also shares what he learned going through Y Combinator. And he talks about his close bond with his co-founders.
Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubenharris
Follow Quincy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ossia
Subscribe to the Breaking Into Startups podcast: https://breakingintostartups.com/
Ruben interviews Quincy way back in 2017 (50 minute listen): https://breakingintostartups.com/quincy-free-code-camp/
Ruben interviews Gary V (an episode he mentions during this interview): https://breakingintostartups.com/76-gary-vaynerchuk-ceo-vaynermedia/

1 hr 16 min

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