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The Times Tech Podcast

Ruben Harris: "A backwards version of the Wu-Tang clan”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ruben Harris, co-founder of Career Karma, to talk about starting out as a cellist (3:10), why music convinced him to get into business (6:50), buying a one-way ticket (8:55), his first tech job (11:00), working in political technology (17:30), how starting a podcast led to his startup (18:50), quitting his job (20:30), creating Career Karma (22:00), on whether coding boot camps work (23:50), income-sharing agreements (26:15), how work is changing (28:20), being black in Silicon Valley (30:15), his worst day (34:30), and addressing the laptop shortage (36:20).

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0:00.0

At the University of Southampton, they won't just teach you.

0:03.8

They'll challenge, support and empower you.

0:06.5

Visit an Open Day to see why they're targeted by top employers

0:09.7

and to find out how their incredible research and mind-blowing facilities will shape your learning.

0:15.7

Hi, I'm Joshie, a math student here at Southampton.

0:18.7

Open Days really help me pitch your living here.

0:20.6

You can chat to students like me, meet our brilliant academics, explore the campuses,

0:24.4

and get a real feel for what it's like studying here.

0:26.7

Book your place.

0:27.7

Search Southampton Open Days.

0:32.5

Yo, technology.

0:35.3

What is it all about?

0:36.9

I quit my job. And about? I quit my job.

0:38.3

And then when I quit my job, I'll say that's when we decided to go all the way in.

0:42.3

And then my co-finders decided that they were going to go shortly after I quit my job.

0:46.3

And then we applied to our combinator and got rejected. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

1:07.6

I am your host, Danny Forts and the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday

1:11.7

Times. Thank you for tuning in in this wildest of weeks. Now, I'm just going to take a wild

1:17.5

guess and assume that you are getting your fill of politics this week elsewhere. I know I

1:22.5

certainly am. I've got not nearly enough of sleep, staying up watching the elections. I'm recording this on Wednesday morning.

1:29.5

So I'm a little groggy, but given just the blanket coverage going on out here and overseas and kind of everywhere,

1:37.1

and just a general madness, we are going to stay away from the election, election check, at least for this week.

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