Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! 

Topic: All Things Product

Bio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati, enabling businesses to increase data transparency and make people's lives more efficient. Benjamin has founded 4 startups based around the idea of empowering individuals - some failed spectacularly, some are successful.

Questions:

• What makes a solid MVP for a startup?
• What is technical debt and when do you pay it?
• How do you find product market fit?
• When do you factor in scalability for a solution?
• How much of product building is art vs. science?

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Mentorcam - Book your mentor session with promo code CODE for 20% off! 

Topic: All Things Product

Bio: Benjamin Balazs is the Co-founder & CTO of Mentorcam. At the age of 15, Benjamin taught himself how to code and hasn't stopped since. Before co-founding Mentorcam, he single-handedly designed and developed apps for companies like Lamborghini, Visa, and Maserati, enabling businesses to increase data transparency and make people's lives more efficient. Benjamin has founded 4 startups based around the idea of empowering individuals - some failed spectacularly, some are successful.

Questions:

• What makes a solid MVP for a startup?
• What is technical debt and when do you pay it?
• How do you find product market fit?
• When do you factor in scalability for a solution?
• How much of product building is art vs. science?

Book a call on Mentorcam by accessing the link below:

https://mentor.cam/ - Use Promo Code CODE

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Async and await with subprocesses
• Typesplainer
• ASV
• perflint
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/275

Airis McCottry Gill, Executive Director, Employee Experience and Organizational Management at the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs joins the show to discuss her thoughts on the recent Executive Order for Customer Experience and how she sees it impacting the EX landscape in government. We also talk about why the development of journey maps has changed the approach to EX at the department, how she has enabled a culture centered around data, and her advice to women in the government technology space.

Panos Siozos and his co-founders go back 25 years or more. They all studied Computer Science together in Greece and did their post graduate studies on educational tech. His hobbies have been on pause for the past few years, given the growth of his business, but his main passion is his family, and his 8 year old daughter. They are building a 3d printer together, and tend to create using lots and lots of legos, including lego animation. His family helps him to see the power of learning something, and recites that learning is something that no one can ever take away from you.

During their post graduate studies, Panos and his co-founders built many products in the learning space, as they were crafty and could implement the things they were imagining. During their time, they shared the passion to create products that impacted the masses, and enabled them to learn better.

This is the creation story of LearnWorlds.

Sponsors

• Immediate
• Orbit
• Postmark
• Stytch
• Verb Data
• Webapp.io

Links

• Website: https://www.learnworlds.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siozos/

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The team pays tribute to Microsoft’s Visual Studio, an IDE and source code editor that turns 25 this month.

Read Simon Willison’s article on how companies can financially support the open-source contributors they rely on. 

Learn more about open source’s diversity problem, and how to address it, here and here.

Why are K-pop NFTs so unpopular with fans? The Atlantic digs in.

ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto: Moving from CEO back to IC.

Thinking about starting or joining a DAO? In the last of a three-part share focusing on how DAOs work, Nigerian creator, scientist and knowledge worker Justin Irabor offers a handy take about whether or not you should. OP-ED: How African Digital Currency Innovation Found Roots in a Village by Michael Kimani for Kenyan Wallstreet (kenyanwallstreet.com/sarafu-communi…al-currencies/) EDITORIAL DISCLAIMER: While the Celo Community Fund supports this UNAJUA Series, African Tech Roundup maintains complete editorial oversight. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the African Tech Roundup or the presenting sponsor, Celo Community Fund. SUPPORT US: Value our work? Then, join our Patreon Community (www.africantechroundup.com/patreon/) and help the African Tech Roundup platform remain single-mindedly focused on serving Africa's tech and innovation ecosystem with robust independent insight and learning content.