How did you get into tech?
Oleg from FirstHR
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Share your story about how you got into the tech industry.
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Alex Gordon-Furse@giomate
I started buying and selling on ebay when i was 13 and learned quickly about the insane scalability that tech-enabled platforms brought to even basic things like a marketplace
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IntroJoy
By coincidence. :)
Honestly, I didn't do well in my 12th grade and had very few options left for graduate studies. Out of all of them, I decided to choose CS Engg.
I started loving it, and here I am.
Now, when I reflect, I feel like everything in life is destiny.
I was at Walt Disney in the 90s and was automating TV ratings data analysis using Visual Basic. More and more Internet companies approached us for Disney content, and I started getting pulled into meetings as an Internet enthusiast. We had lots of ideas for startups but eventually focused on the worst one: online vitamin retail.
@toby_rowland Why the worst? This market is fine now. Although it was probably too early then.
@oleg_eltsov :-D we were trying to send packages to ppl thru the post, they didn't quite fit thru the letterbox, so they all came back. The world wasn't ready for non-book etail in the 90s.
Completely by accident.
One of our clients asked us to help develop an app. We found a team to take on the development, and then quickly discovered that we were pretty good at putting together a team ourselves.
Launching soon!
Back in the 90s, I worked as a customer support rep for a forex trading platform still in the MVP stage. At the end of every business day, I logged into customer databases and manually ran SQL statements to delete trades meeting a variety of criteria. Taught myself to code and built a small app that automated this process, so I could leave early. 😆