Mentorcam March - Benjamin Balazs

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! Topic: All Things Product Bio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati, enabling businesses to increase data transparency and make people's lives more efficient. Benjamin has founded 4 startups based around the idea of empowering individuals - some failed spectacularly, some are successful. Questions: What makes a solid MVP for a startup? What is technical debt and when do you pay it? How do you find product market fit? When do you factor in scalability for a solution? How much of product building is art vs. science? Book a call on Mentorcam by accessing the link below: https://mentor.cam/ - Use Promo Code CODE Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. We're kicking off another episode with our friends over at MentorCam.
0:06.5	As a reminder, Mentor Cam gives you access to high-profile advisors and experts for one-on-one advice.
0:13.4	For more information, go to codstory.co-slash-M-T-O-R-C-A-M to learn more.
0:21.7	Use the discount code, code, C-O-D-E, all one word, to get 20% off your first mentorship
0:28.4	session.
0:29.9	Well, today I have another special guest on the podcast.
0:33.6	We have Benjamin Belas, co-founder and CTO of Mentor Cam.
0:38.2	He's a self-taught coder from the age of 15.
0:41.3	He's designed and developed apps for Lamborghini, for Visa, for Maserati.
0:45.8	And he started up several startups as well around empowering individuals.
0:50.0	Benjamin, thank you for being on the show today.
0:51.9	Thank you very much for having me.
0:53.5	Really excited to jump into all things product.
0:57.4	Before we jump into that, tell me a little bit about you.
1:00.6	Tell me in the audience about you.
1:03.0	Born and raised in Hungary, my dad has a software hardware company.
1:07.8	They actually renovate theaters.
1:14.2	Me starting coding when I was at like 1415 was not a strange thing, although back then was definitely a strange thing in the eyes of everyone else.
1:22.1	So I remember for Christmas, I asked my parents to buy me this book, the Flash Bible, it was called.
1:30.1	It was two books. I got that. I remember it was, I think, $40. And I just started taking
1:38.3	those books to school instead of the books that I was supposed to take. And that's how I got
1:43.9	started.
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