Breaking Into Startups

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The Breaking Into Startups Podcast is a platform where we feature stories of people who broke into tech from non-traditional backgrounds. Curious about how startups work, how to get a job without a degree or what technical and non-technical careers are out there? We have news for you - tech fields are booming and you don’t need the best technical degree in information technology to break in and get a six figure job in technology. Our podcast gives you an inside look at the most disruptive startups by sharing success stories of people from all walks of life, including college drop outs, professional and student athletes, army veterans, teen parents, corporate folks, investment bankers, consultants, venture capitalists who acquired new skills and found jobs in technology. Our guests attended coding bootcamps and immersive programs like Hack Reactor, App Academy, General Assembly, Dev Bootcamp, Flatiron School, Iron Yard, Tradecraft and more. After graduating they found well paying jobs in big time startups focusing on education, medicine, financial services, healthcare, AI, machine learning, automation, sharing economy and more. If you listen to 500 Startups, Learn to Code With Me, Twenty Minute VC, This Week In Startups, Startup Radio, Startup Podcast, The Tim Ferris show, Startup School Radio, Course Report or other tech stuff news, then this podcast is for you my friend.

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#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma
Mar 31, 2021
#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers
Aug 13, 2020
#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response
Jul 27, 2020
#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful
Apr 21, 2020
#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader
Mar 04, 2020
#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix
Dec 30, 2019
#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini
Dec 03, 2019
#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp)
Oct 14, 2019
#118: Darrell Silver - CEO of Thinkful
Sep 30, 2019
#117: Chok Ooi - CEO of Kenzie Academy
Sep 23, 2019
#116 - FFTSquad – A Career Karma Squad of Highly Motivated People Breaking Into Tech Together
Jul 15, 2019
#115: Angela Ceresnie - CEO of Climb Credit on Helping to Finance People's Career Transitions
Jul 01, 2019
#114: Phaedra Ellis - CEO of Promise on How to Build Power and Take Control of Your Career
May 27, 2019
#113: Tonio DeSorrento - Income Sharing Agreements Explained by CEO of Vemo
Apr 16, 2019
#112: Chasing your Dreams with Young Guru & Rodney Sampson
Apr 09, 2019
#111: Ameer Brown - Coding Bootcamp Graduate who is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe
Mar 23, 2019
#110: Dan Rosensweig - CEO of Chegg, the Playbook for the Modern Day Student
Feb 12, 2019
#109: Cameron Yarbrough - CEO of Torch, on the Importance of Mental Health & Coaching
Feb 05, 2019
#108: Dan Sommer, CEO & founder of Trilogy Education, workforce accelerator for leading universities
Dec 23, 2018
#107: Rich Smith - How A College Dropout Became A Senior Engineer at Netflix
Dec 11, 2018
#106: Balaji Srinivasan - CTO of Coinbase, How Everyone Can be an Investor
Nov 29, 2018
#105: Rick O'Donnell - CEO of Skills Fund, Providing Financing to Coding Bootcamp Students
Nov 19, 2018
#104: Leanne Pittsford - Founder of Lesbians Who Tech & Tech Jobs Tour
Oct 31, 2018
#103: Madelyn Tavarez - How a Part-time Bootcamp helped her Become an Android Engineer
Oct 24, 2018
#102: Austen Allred - CEO of Lambda School
Oct 09, 2018
#101: Avi Flombaum - Co-Founder of Flatiron School
Oct 02, 2018
#100: David Harris - How an App Academy graduate became a Software Engineer at Omada Health
Sep 20, 2018
#99: Iris Nevins - Teacher Who Became a Software Engineer at Mailchimp
Sep 12, 2018
#98: Galvanize's acquisition of Hack Reactor - Al Rosabal & Shawn Drost
Sep 02, 2018
#97: Ryan Carson - CEO of Treehouse on How You Can Start Learning to Code
Aug 28, 2018
#96: Building Reddit, Posterous.com & Initialized Capital with Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan
Aug 17, 2018
#95: Jacob Hsu - CEO of Catalyte, Guaranteeing Career Transitioners Engineering Jobs
Aug 10, 2018
#94: Raul Moas - Bringing Tech Jobs to Miami with The Knight Foundation
Jul 26, 2018
#93: Saif Ishoof - How College Students Should Prepare for the Future of Work
Jul 15, 2018
#92: Marlon Nichols - Deep Dive on Venture Capital with the Co-Founder of Cross Culture VC
Jul 04, 2018
#91: Laurence Bradford - Founder of Learn To Code With Me
Jun 24, 2018
#90: Daniel Barragan - An Enterprise Account Executive's Playbook to Landing a Job
Jun 14, 2018
#89: Evan Fried - First Employee at Checkr & Head of Customer Success
Jun 05, 2018
#88: Erika Balbuena - Head of Strategic Initiatives at Twilio.org
May 28, 2018
#87: Aline Lerner - CEO of Interviewing.io on How to Reinvent a Technical Interview
May 19, 2018
#86: Special Report - Congressional Black Caucus's Tech 2020 Initiative on Future of Work
May 10, 2018
#85: Michael Ellison - CEO of CodePath.org, Helping Engineers Advance their Careers
May 04, 2018
#84: Joe Musselman - Founder of The Honor Foundation, Helping Special Forces Vets Break In
Apr 21, 2018
#83: John Maeda - Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic
Apr 15, 2018
#82: Wendy Padua & Tami Forman - How Returnships help Mothers & Parents Get Back Into the Workforce
Apr 08, 2018
#81: Melissa Hereford - How to Win in a Salary Negotiation
Apr 02, 2018
#80: Jason Mayden - CEO 0f Superheroic and Former Designer at Jordan Sneaker
Mar 22, 2018
#79: Ghazal Asif - VP of Worldwide Channels Sales at App Dynamics
Mar 07, 2018
#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community
Mar 03, 2018
#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness
Feb 24, 2018
#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia
Feb 19, 2018
#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom
Jan 31, 2018
#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr
Jan 12, 2018
#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer
Dec 30, 2017
#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)
Dec 18, 2017
#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat
Dec 02, 2017
#70: Dan Burrill - Director of Inside Sales at Twillio
Nov 09, 2017
#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU
Nov 01, 2017
Nick Caldwell - VP of Engineering at Reddit
Oct 20, 2017
#67: Bangaly Kaba - Journey to a Product Manager Role at Facebook & Instagram
Oct 11, 2017
#66: Rocio Lopez - A Product Designer & a DACA Recipient is Standing Up for All DREAMers
Oct 01, 2017
#65: Zac Otero - From the Meat Factory's Floor to becoming a Salesforce Admin
Sep 22, 2017
#63: Saron Yitbarek - Self-taught Engineer & Founder of CodeNewbie Podcast
Sep 08, 2017
#62: Mandy Cole - VP of Sales of Startups such as Living Social, Zenefits and Stella & Dot
Aug 31, 2017
#61: Gabe Moncayo - Founder of Always Hired who Helps People Get Into Sales
Aug 20, 2017
#60: Matthew Tran - Youtube Personality & Founder of Engineered Truth Youtube Channel
Aug 11, 2017
#59: Dr. Carol Langlois - How Self Esteem & Empowerment are Changing the Ratio through Hackbright
Jul 30, 2017
#58: Tiger Shen - An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree
Jul 25, 2017
#57: Kelvin Lightner - Tax Consultant from Deloitte Become A Software Engineer at Intuit
Jul 16, 2017
#56: Mike Slagh - How a US Navy Veteran Started a Company to Help Veterans Break Into Tech
Jun 29, 2017
#55: Pavan Ravipati - Deep Dive on Software Engineer vs. Sales Engineer
Jun 14, 2017
#54: Erica Prenga - How a Graphic Design Major became an Experience Engineer at Adobe
Jun 02, 2017
#53: Ysiad Ferreiras - How a kid from the Bronx became the VP of Sales at Hustle
May 30, 2017
#52: Kristin Parke - How a Music & a Biology major became a Security Hacker
May 23, 2017
#51: K. Mannah Kallon - an Educator who became an Engineer at Stitch Fix
May 19, 2017
#50: Jessica Uelmen - A Hardware Engineer who became a Product Manager at Fitbit
May 14, 2017
#48: Chloe Condon - An Actress who Quit her Job as an Office Manager and Became a Software Engineer
May 09, 2017
#47: Wayne Neale - Founder of GrowthX Academy
May 05, 2017
#46: Niv Dror - How Leaving Finance Led Niv to Become Head of Social at Product Hunt
Apr 29, 2017
#45: Kenny Tran - How an App Academy & Hack Reactor Alum skipped college and became an Engineer
Apr 26, 2017
#44: Anthony Pompliano - How an Army Sergeant became a Product Manager at Facebook
Apr 21, 2017
#43: Soroush Mehraein - How a switch from Industrial to Software Engineering led to a job at Uber
Apr 20, 2017
#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy
Apr 15, 2017
#41: Kim Han - Biz Dev Deep Dive: from Tango to Business Development at Square
Apr 11, 2017
#40: Quincy Larson - Founder of Free Code Camp, Community of 1,000,000+ People Learning How to Code
Apr 09, 2017
#38: Nimit Maru - Founder of Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper
Apr 03, 2017
#39: Carly Robinson - Chicago Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack
Apr 02, 2017
#37: Natasha Vianna - Teen Mom who led the #NoTeenShame Campaign & became Head of Community at Honor
Mar 30, 2017
#36: Austin Belcak - Career Coach and Virtual Career Mastery Summit Founder
Mar 27, 2017
#35: Everette Taylor - How a 17-year-old who was homeless in HS rose to become the CMO at Skurt
Mar 22, 2017
#34: Michael J Walker - How a Marketing Exec Became an Engineer at 51 Years Old
Mar 20, 2017
#33: Stevon Cook - From Public Housing to bringing Tech Training through Mission Bit
Mar 16, 2017
#32: Carlos González de Villaumbrosia – Product School Founder on How to Become a Product Manager
Mar 12, 2017
#31: Kenyatta Leal - Surviving San Quentin Prison By Walking The Last Mile into a Job in Tech
Mar 08, 2017
#30: Yan Fan - How a Bootcamp Grad is teaching Syrian Refugees How to Code
Mar 06, 2017
#29: Charlie Harrington - From Finance to Biz Dev before finally becoming an Engineer at LendUp
Mar 01, 2017
#28: Rodney Urquhart - How a 16-year-old High School Dropout became a Software Engineer at Slack
Feb 25, 2017
#27: Jotaka Eaddy - From Senior Advisor at NAACP to Head of Government Affairs at a Tech Startup
Feb 19, 2017
#26: Charles Pridgen - Account Executive at Loggly & Founder of BPN
Feb 17, 2017
#25: Ty Olatoye - How to Build Genuine Relationships & Land a Job
Feb 13, 2017
#24: Divine - The journey from going in and out of prison to Breaking Into Tech
Feb 07, 2017
#22: Idalin Bobe - Community Organizer who broke into Tech and became a Tech Activist
Feb 05, 2017
#23: Rita Henderson - Who broke into startups as a Teen Mom
Feb 05, 2017
#21: Mo Woods - Ball is Life: Pro Basketball Player (6' 10" in) who became a Designer
Jan 31, 2017
#20: Nick DeWilde - Program Director at Tradecraft which teaches Biz dev, Product Design and Growth
Jan 28, 2017
#19: Matthew Dean Brooks - An Artist who became a Software Engineer
Jan 25, 2017
#18: Preethi Kasireddy - How Investment Banker & a VC quit her job to became a Software Engineer
Jan 23, 2017
#17: Ina Herlihy - How a young journalist hustled her way into Growth Marketing
Jan 18, 2017
#16: Edgar Pabon - Army Captain who became an Engineer at Amazon Music
Jan 16, 2017
#15: Kush Patel - Founder of App Academy
Jan 11, 2017
#14: Chia Lin - From a Pastry Chef at a Michelin Star Restaurant to a Product Designer at a Startup
Jan 09, 2017
#12: Shawn Drost - Founder of Hack Reactor
Jan 03, 2017
#13: Elaina Koros - Content Strategist who hustled her way into Facebook
Jan 03, 2017
#11: Richard Purcell - Sales Director who worked his way up from an entry level role
Jan 01, 2017
#10: Melanie Araujo - Designer and Founder of Front & Center that helps people break into tech
Dec 28, 2016
#9: Ben Creasy - Alaskan Government Official turned Software Engineer
Dec 27, 2016
#8: Neil Shah - Quit his Finance job to help Homeless folks get Jobs
Dec 21, 2016
#7: Max Rencoret - Deep dive into Growth Marketing and building a product
Dec 15, 2016
#6: Nico Roberts - Consultant who became Head of Customer Success
Dec 14, 2016
#5: Meghan Schofield - How she became a UX designer coming from a traditional background in art
Dec 11, 2016
#4: Haseeb Qureshi - Professional Poker Player turned Software Engineer
Dec 03, 2016
#3: Kevin Lee - Founder of Product Manager HQ where he teaches people how to become PMs.
Dec 02, 2016
#2: Emily Racioppi - Sales Account Executive compares sales in startups vs. corporate
Nov 28, 2016
#1: Albrey Brown - Self-taught Engineer who founded Telegraph Academy to teach people how to code.
Nov 27, 2016