Welcome back to the FreeCodeCamp podcast. I'm Quincy Larson teacher and founder of FreeCoteCamp.org.

And today we're talking with Sam Cromby. He is a software engineer and prolific contributor to the FreeCodeCamp Open Source Project.

And he left his job at Microsoft, got into Y Combinator, the San Francisco startup incubator.

And he is kind of currently in startup pivot hell trying to figure out how to effectively deploy the half million dollars

he's raised. Sam, how's everything going? It's great. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I was reflecting

on New York City? Yes, that's right.

Okay, awesome.

And I can hear like a little bit of construction outside. If anybody's wondering what that noise is, it's just a bustling, busy city, right? It's allowed. It's everything's happening. Yeah. So what were you going to say before I rudely put it in? No. well i was just speaking of new york um I think it was probably a little under two years ago that we did our first podcast in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Library.

I don't know if you remember that.

Oh, yeah, I can't forget.

Like, the Brooklyn Bridge is an engineering marvel to this day, like 100 years later, maybe 120 years

later.

I don't know when it was built, but the thing is massive and there's this entire kind of like enclave underneath it.

I can't remember what it's called.

There's like some acronym, but underneath the Brooklyn Bridge and there's like, you know, food trucks and it's a cool area to walk around.

And the Brooklyn, we didn't actually end up publishing that episode because you were like, I'm not sure

what I'm doing in life right now.

And here we are.

This is a good time capsule.

And now we are, you know, about a year and a half later and stuff has changed quite a bit

for you.

Yeah.

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