From "self-taught developer" to technical co-founder | Zain Allarahkia of Pipe.com

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https://dub.sh/BbjrncD Zain Allarahkia https://twitter.com/zallarak https://za1.co/ Highlight https://www.highlight.io/ https://twitter.com/thejaykhatri https://twitter.com/chrisesplin https://twitter.com/highlightio Channels @highlight-io Summary Zain, Chris, and Jay all broke into software in different ways. Zain and Chris both started in finance and transitioned after the Great Financial Crisis. Jay discovered hackathons in college and became obsessed with building, eventually interning at Google Deep Mind in Britain. Zain started off with lower-level languages, teaching himself methodically with books. Chris taught himself on-the-job, initially automating his job with PHP and gradually transitioning into a software engineering career. 00:00 Cold open 00:54 Introduction 02:53 Programming background 06:49 University experience 13:52 PHP is the ultimate productive language 26:49 New programming tools 32:56 LLMs