Howdy listeners, today we are kicking off a new series for the month of July called

The Touchledge of Treehouse. The team at Treehouse is on a mission to diversify the tech

industry through accessible education, unlocking opportunity, and empowering people to achieve.

In our series, we will be talking to leaders and students

in the program to learn about how Treehouse has impacted their lives, businesses, and careers.

Well, today I have Jason Gilmore on the show on Code Story. He is the CEO of Treehouse. He's a principal at Zenon and a startup advisor. He spent many

years as an engineer, a consultant, and a conference leader, as well as contributed content

to prominent tech sites. Jason, thank you for being on the show today. Thank you, Noah. I'm

excited to be here. Before we get into Treehouse and how you came about

getting involved with Treehouse, tell me in my audience a little bit more about you. Sure. Again,

my name's Jason Gilmore. As you mentioned, Noah, I guess an engineer at heart. I've spent

the vast majority of my career over 20 years working in software,

also working on the tech education side of things. So on the software side, I spent many years

as a consultant and contractor working with companies in the publishing industry, architectural and design, environmental

industry, and so forth. Also, I've always had an interest in education, helping fellow

programmers understand programming languages and databases and so forth. Because of that, I took an interest in

writing and just started putting my writing out there, a little PHP and MySQL tutorials.

That turned into an opportunity to write a book for A Press. That kind of became a passion of

mine book writing, and I've wound up

writing nine books in the 20 years since. Started a conference, again, related to that

interest in education. That's called Codemash. I co-founded it with two friends back in

2006, I think. So it's been around for 13 or 14 years now. If I were to really

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