Hi Will! Love this podcast even after the first 5 minutes of episode 1 season 1.
I have one question - since the podcast focuses on the pipeline to tech, how do you reach to the type of audience that this advice is intended for?
Really looking forward to listening to more episodes!
@haleyparty great question Haley! (First, thanks for the love!). My hope is that the stories reach two audiences 1) specifically minority founders and engineers who don't feel like they can change the world with their ideas, and 2) parents/kids who never considered tech as an option for lack of exposure.
What I'm counting on is that by producing fantastic content featuring people who are those rock stars creating the products we're using everyday, and you sharing it ;) that we can reach those who are left out of the conversation.
@rrhoover of course, they're all fantastic :), but to be honest - my absolute favorite is the Makinde Adeagbo (of Pinterest) episode 1/10 from Season 1. Then, the Charles Hudson is great - so is the Michael Seibel... crap. I've failed.
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@rrhoover the Charles Hudson episode is great. The Erin Teague one is too!
This is how the podcast started, I wrote a blog post (http://www.will-lucas.com/blog/u...) where I had these lines:
"It’s not enough to tell a black youth to work hard and they can realize their dreams. Sure, there are some outliers. What makes the difference though, particularly in technology, is for young black boys and girls to see someone who looks like them building a big company, employing hundreds or thousands of people, or realizing a liquidity event. Without a black Mark Zuckerberg, this is hard stuff."
The mistake in the above though, if you didn't notice it on your own, is that I neglected to reference our own success stories; people like Paul Judge, Ken Coleman, and Kathryn Finney.
This podcast is my effort to fix that mistake so everyone will know their names, and that they'll never be excluded from the conversation of tech heroes.
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