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ποΈ 17 January 2020
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0:00.0 | What's up everybody? This is Cortland from Andy Hackers.com, and you're listening to the |
0:11.5 | IndieHackers podcast. On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, |
0:15.6 | and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes. How did they get to where they are today? |
0:20.0 | How did they make decisions, both at their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn to build our own profitable internet businesses. Today, I'm here with Pete McLeod of no CS degree. Pete, what's up? Really good to join you. I've been a big fan of indie hackers for about two years now. I think I first heard about you guys from the Scots Cheap Flights interview. Oh, yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, yeah. Awesome, very inspiring. So, yeah, it's a huge honor to be on. So thanks for having it. It's my honor to have you on. You're the founder of a company called No CS degree, which you started in order to show yourself and others that you don't need a computer science degree in order to succeed as a software developer. |
1:04.3 | So tell us a little bit about how it works. |
1:05.8 | Sure. |
1:06.6 | So basically I interview developers that don't have the conventional four-year computer science |
1:13.7 | screen. |
1:14.6 | And a lot of people are perhaps, they've been a waitress in the past, or they've been working |
1:19.5 | in a bar, and now they've gone to either boot camp or they've taught themselves |
1:23.9 | code in the evenings after work. |
1:25.8 | Basically, it's just a blog where I show those stories. |
1:29.4 | But what's really good is it's showing people an example where you don't have to be the kind of Mark Zuckerberg, you know, perfect score student, you know, learned coding when you're six years old kind of person to get into coding. |
1:44.1 | So, for instance, |
1:46.2 | one person I interviewed was a waitress and she was like learning code in your spare time |
1:51.2 | every evening. And now she's doing great in a development role. Another person I interviewed, |
1:57.7 | probably possibly my favorite story, Ben Ford, was in the Royal Marines, |
2:02.8 | and while he was on active jury on a warship, he learned a code with like a beat-up laptop |
2:09.2 | and a book by Python and like no internet, no searching on Stack Overflow. He learned on his |
2:15.7 | way in ActiveG. So on a warship. Yeah, there's like a ton of |
2:20.5 | cool stories like that. So it's really interesting for me to hear how people have changed |
2:25.0 | their lives through learning code, really. One of the similarities between your business and |
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