🤔 Breaking into tech: What most people get wrong

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What's the formula for breaking into tech? (TL;DR: There isn't one.)

Y Combinator
#116 - Domonique Fines and Cadran Cowansage

The best PMs don't always make the best founders. Superhuman's founder Rahul Vohra explains the differences.

Below The Line With James Beshara
#49 — Rahul Vohra

 

Turner Novak explains how TikTok's scary-good algorithm takes away the stress of finding a fan base on the platform.

Invest Like The Best
Turner Novak [Invest Like the Best, EP.182]

David Choe comments on our society's culture of not asking for help, and why that's not okay.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#1518 - David Choe

The Coronavirus pandemic might be far from over, but rent freezes in Houston are. How are residents dealing with this?

The Journal
Why Evictions Are Starting Again

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