Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi talks with Kara Swisher about how he discovered his love for programming, and how Steve Jobs' death spurred him to create a non-profit that would spread that love to others. He argues that, just as students learn chemistry but don't all become chemists, education should reform to make young people digitally literate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's sponsor is Audible.com, which is more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken word
0:05.8	audio products.
0:07.1	Get a free audiobook of your choice at audible.com slash decode.
0:13.2	Recode radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:19.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:22.9	You may know me as the leading bidder in the effort to buy Yahoo, but in my spare time I
0:27.7	talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key
0:32.1	players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:35.6	Today in the red chair, we have someone I have known for a very long time, I feel rather
0:39.8	old, I think we've known each other for 20 years.
0:42.1	We have Hadi Partovie, the CEO and co-founder of code.org, a nonprofit that wants more people
0:47.8	to be learning computer science, which has become a big deal lately, just mentioned in
0:51.8	the President's State of the Union address than also some initiatives he's announced recently.
0:56.2	His goal is to make learning programming as normal a part of education, as learning how
0:59.9	to spell or do math.
1:01.9	Welcome, Hadi.
1:02.9	Thank you so much, Cara, for having me on the show.
1:04.5	We're going to talk a little bit about that, but I want people to get a night of your
1:06.9	background.
1:07.9	This is something you came to more recently, but you've been long, I met you when you
1:12.2	were doing a music thing for Facebook, correct, or before that, even before that, in Microsoft.
1:16.9	So explain a little bit of your backgrounds, people have an sense of where you came from.
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