Ruben Harris

Skurt is the truth! Whole team is an inspiration to me and can't wait until you come out here to the Bay. Shout out to the homie @everette for doing some of the best marketing for a startup that I have ever seen :)

"Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street", is what many people are starting to say about the reason why so many Business Schools are starting to focus on tech and entrepreneurship. On today's episode, we have a conversation with Preethi Kasireddy, who used to work as an Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs, worked in Venture Capital at Andreessen Horowitz, and quit her job to become a Software...

Student loans / financial aid are issues that plague people all over the world, especially those of us from black and brown communities. On todays Breaking Into Startups Episode, Edgar Pabon started looking into joining the Military when he had a financial aid hiccup during his last semester so that he could finish paying for school. Before that he had a run in with the police that led to him...

Coding Bootcamps are not cheap. What if someone told you that it was free... would you do it? Would you quit your job, move across the country and spend 80-100 hours a week learning how to code for 3 months so YOU can become a software engineer? What if someone told you that the average salary of a bootcamp graduate is SIX FIGURES. Would you do it then? If you answered YES, to any or all of the...

In a Michelin Star kitchen, you’re expected to crush it, day in and day out. We met Chia Lin after Nick DeWilde told us about this amazing article she wrote about how she went from being a Pastry Chef to being a Product Designer. http://bit.ly/BreakingIntoStartupsEp14 Working in the kitchen taught her to appreciate the people that we often take for granted making the food. Not just the Chef....

Facebook has been hiring a lot of writers lately and everyone's asking whether they're turning into a media company. While that's debatable, today's Breaking Into Startups episode features Elaina Koros, Content Strategist at Facebook HQ, where she uses research to help design products. http://bit.ly/BreakingIntoStartupsEp13 She also talks about how writing helped her cope with bullying growing...

Coding Bootcamps are a hot topic for good reason: Our current education system can't keep up with the pace of technology and programs like Hack Reactor are giving people the skills they need to prepare for jobs of the future. On today's Breaking Into Startups episode, Shawn Drost (Founder of Hack Reactor), is going to cover the application process, how to get accepted, advice for people looking...

As we were scrolling through the "New Year, New Me" memes on Instagram this morning, we thought it would be appropriate to share Melanie Araujo's episode where she talks about how she went from working at KARMALOOP.com to buying a one-way ticket to San Francisco to become a Designer. http://bit.ly/BreakingIntoStartupsEp10 The Tech industry has an obsession with Founders and Engineers, for good...