The Stack Overflow podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming. Hosted by Paul Ford and Ben Popper, the series features questions from our community, interviews with fascinating guests, and hot takes on what’s happening in tech. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. It’s best known for being the largest, most trusted online community for developers and technologists. More than 100 million people come to Stack Overflow every month to ask questions, help solve coding problems, and develop new skills.
Going from engineer to entrepreneur takes more than just good code
In today’s podcast, Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy reflect on Cara’s founder journey.
Cara shares her experiences living in New York and San Francisco— and why she and her co-founder ultimately located Stashpad in North Carolina.
She elaborates on the exact steps that she took to pivot her startup following limited initial interest in V1 of the product.
Despite being in the Bay Area and working at Twilio, she was struggling to meet people because her full brain power was going to her products.
She shares what it was like for her and her co-founder to hire Stashpad’s first employees.
The group discusses Stashpad’s pathway to monetization in the context of developers wanting free tools.
Follow, Ceora, Matt, Cassidy, and Cara.
Marchingband gets today’s lifeboat badge for their answer to the question about running C or C++ code from Node.js in an efficient way.