Ep 048, From Cowboys to Courses

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Noah Pryor realized early on that building GUIs in C was a losing battle, as was fielding support calls at 3 a.m. from drunken phone battery kiosk users. Noah pivoted into Ed Tech and we talk about how he enjoys the journey and the mission. Also discussed: Modern-day web scraping tools, dealing with DMCA requests, and what happens when you Rickroll yourself.

Age of empires: https://www.ageofempires.com/
Teachable: https://teachable.com/
Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/
Seat Geek: www.seatgeek.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve, the podcast for the rest of
0:11.6	the tech industry.
0:12.6	I'm your host Andrew Jalina.
0:15.2	Joining me this week is Noah Prior, CTO of Teachable, Noah, welcome to the show.
0:19.8	Hey, Andrew, thanks for having me.
0:22.0	Thank you for joining us, and if you could tell our listeners what got you interested
0:26.1	in technology, what kind of sparked it way back in the day.
0:29.8	So my parents started a very non-tech business when I was five or six.
0:34.2	They started a fair trade cowboy hat wholesaler, I guess I'll plug up SunBody.com and left
0:39.4	their previous nonprofit, which involved inheriting, stealing, leaving with a lot of old sort of
0:44.2	386, 486 type computers, 286s, there was like 1586, that was the Pentium, the Golden
0:50.2	Age.
0:51.2	So I started messing around with those.
0:52.2	There was just a lot in a room there for DOS and so forth, my dad is a big fan of
0:56.2	Debase 2, which was last updated in 1985, and it's like a combination database programming
1:01.0	language.
1:02.0	So, be my head against that for a little bit, and then sort of ended up making juicities
1:05.6	websites towards the end elementary school.
1:08.2	Mine was for Age of Empires, and making one for my cousin for Harry Potter, which was
1:13.3	much more popular.
1:14.3	Still a little upset about it.
1:15.6	I think he was just refreshing and juicing the stat count.
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