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Ep. 39 - From Coding To Venture Capital (Andrew Chen)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

He knew how to code, but when he graduated school, Andrew Chen decided to go into venture capital. He talks with us about how he leveraged his coding skills to being a tech advisor, and why you don’t have to be a great coder to build something great.

Transcript

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0:43.7

I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:49.5

So we talk a lot about coding on the show, after all, it is called Code Newby, but I wanted to look

0:54.5

into the business side of code a bit. So today, I am so excited to have Andrew Chen on the show.

1:00.7

He is an investor and advisor to many tech startups, including Dropbox, Angel List and Product Hunt,

1:06.6

you know, no big deal. Andrew, you want to say hi?

1:09.6

How's it going? Glad to be on. So glad to have you. I'm big deal. Andrew, you want to say hi? How's it going? Glad to be on.

1:12.1

So glad to have you. I'm so excited. So I hear the word tech advisor thrown out, you know,

1:18.8

a lot. What does it mean to be a tech advisor? Yes, yeah, there's a huge spectrum.

1:24.9

But, you know, typically what advisor is for a startup is somebody who's, you know,

1:31.7

helping a startup because they have a very specific set of skills. You know, usually it tends to be

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