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Roham Gharegozlou is the Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, and a Board Member of the Flow Foundation. After founding Axiom Zen in 2012, he developed multiple award-winning products and companies, including Routific and Zenhub. During this time, his team introduced ERC-721 to mainstream audiences and coined the term "NFT" with CryptoKitties, one of the first blockchain games to gain widespread popularity. Under Roham's leadership, Dapper Labs developed NBA Top Shot, NFL ALLDAY, and Disney Pinnacle. He was also instrumental in developing Flow, a blockchain designed for mainstream adoption.Flow is now the home for consumer Web3, attracting major brands like Disney, Mattel, and Ticketmaster/LiveNation, with over 45 million user accounts on the network. With the biggest ecosystem fund in Web3 for supporting developers and projects building on Flow, the network was the L1 of choice for hackers at the most recent ETHGlobal hackathon. Roham holds BA, BS, and MS degrees from Stanford University.In this conversation, we discuss:- The origin story of Crypto Kitties & NFTs- Fungible vs non-fungible things in life- CryptoKitties new game- General Web3: Future of NFT market, blockchain-based IPs- The Crescendo Upgrade: Flow achieving EVM equivalence- What EVM equivalence means for Flow, and on a wider scale, for developers and users- How Flow is building web3's next killer app, and Crescendo's role in mobilizing that process- Making Cadence one of the best smart contract languages in the industry- DeFi on FLOW- Digital IP- Crypto in CanadaFlowWebsite: flow.comX: @flow_blockchainTelegram: t.me/flow_blockchainRoham GharegozlouX: @rohamLinkedIn: Roham Gharegozlou ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.   PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Lex chats with Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands -  a global leader in blockchain and gaming that is working to provide property rights for virtual assets via NFTs and related technologies. Yat discusses his journey into technology and gaming, as well as the intersection of gaming and decentralized finance. He shares his early experiences with technology, including writing MIDI software in the 1980s and discovering the power of online communities. Additionally, Yat discusses the shift from Web2 to Web3 and the importance of ownership and interoperability in gaming. He highlights the potential for virtual goods and NFTs to become platforms for building experiences and creating network effects. Yat emphasizes the need for trust and transparency in the gaming industry and the potential for Web3 to democratize ownership and create new opportunities for gamers. MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION Animoca Brands' Website: https://bit.ly/47Vv3UDYat's LinkedIn profile: https://bit.ly/3NvEtxT Topics: Web3, crypto, blockchain, DeFi, NFT, NFTFi, Metaverse, tokens, gaming, GameFi, Web2 Companies: Animoca Brands, Animoca, ConsenSys, Dapper Labs, CryptoKitties, Axiom Zen, Minecraft, Sandbox, Mocaverse ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT 

Sam Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen and Dapper Labs joins Chris Hobbs to for episode 75 of the Afternoon "T" Podcast. Sam Gharegozlou is a true innovator in the tech world, and his impact on the industry has been undeniable. With his passion for technology and entrepreneurship, he has been able to turn his vision into reality, co-founding multiple successful companies that are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in their respective industries. Dapper Labs, the blockchain-based company that Sam co-founded, is best known for creating CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, two of the most popular decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain. The company's mission is to make blockchain technology accessible and user-friendly, and they have become a leader in the crypto space. Axiom Zen, the tech studio co-founded by Sam, is a hotbed of innovation and creativity. The company specializes in developing cutting-edge technologies and products such as Zen Hub and Routific.

Roham Gharegozlou visits Google to discuss his company Dapper Labs, the detailed history of cryptocurrency, and where he sees it going in the near future. Roham Gharegozlou is the co-founder and CEO of Dapper Labs and a leader in blockchain and Web3 technology. He is often cited as the pioneer of NFTs, with CryptoKitties being the first viral NFT project that broke Ethereum in 2017. From those learnings, Roham launched Dapper Labs from Axiom Zen in 2018, aiming to drive mainstream adoption of decentralized technologies and to put a crypto wallet in every pocket. Today, Dapper Labs has made Web3 accessible for developers, creators, and users by designing Flow, a decentralized Web3 platform built for consumer-friendly dApps that now has more than 3.6 million accounts; releasing Dapper Wallet, the easiest way to get started on Web3; and launching dApps, including NBA Top Shot, UFC Strike, NFL ALL DAY, Seussibles, and more that are attracting millions to Web3. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/CryptoFuture to watch the video.

If you've heard of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), it's likely thanks to the work of Roham Gharegozlou. Roham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the NFT company that has created some of the most viral brands out there, from CryptoKitties to NBA Top Shot. Through his venture studio Axiom Zen, he started looking into crypto back in 2014. With a mission to bring play to crypto, Dapper Labs has been named one of the most innovative gaming companies by Fast Company and has created some of the most broadly used applications in the history of crypto. Roham shares how NBA Top Shot scaled to over one million users, why he thinks of NFTs as the next evolution of social media, and why entrepreneurship requires a healthy balance of optimism and paranoia. 

My guest today is Mack Flavelle. Mack is the founder of Big Head Club which is an NFT production studio. Mack was also on the Axiom Zen team which was the company that created CryptoKitties and the company that eventually became Dapper Labs. Our conversation has it all, we discuss: How the ERC721 standard was created The ideation and launch of CryptoKitties The creation of Dapper Labs His NFT production studio Big Head Club How the Oni Ronin NFTs are pushing the boundaries The issues with the NFT space Why he is not a huge fan of Play-to-Earn And so much more An awesome conversation with someone who is not afraid to speak their mind! Please enjoy my conversation with Mack https://twitter.com/bigheadmack https://twitter.com/bigheadhq

If you've heard of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), it's likely thanks to the work of Roham Gharegozlou. Roham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the NFT company that has created some of the most viral brands out there, from CryptoKitties to NBA Top Shot. Through his venture studio Axiom Zen, he started looking into crypto back in 2014. With a mission to bring play to crypto, Dapper Labs has been named one of the most innovative gaming companies by Fast Company and has created some of the most broadly used applications in the history of crypto. Roham shares how NBA Top Shot scaled to over one million users, why he thinks of NFTs as the next evolution of social media, and why entrepreneurship requires a healthy balance of optimism and paranoia. 

In this week's episode of the From Vendorship to Partnership podcast, Ross talks to Tyler Gaffney, CEO of ZenHub. Tyler has spent more than a decade in and around startups, including running a consultancy to help early stage businesses figure out how to go to market. One of his clients was Axiom Zen, which had started ZenHub as an internal tool initially, but it ended up gaining a lot of organic traction and became its own business. Tyler was drawn to ZenHub's exciting growth and leadership team, and was invited to join full-time as CEO about three years ago. Listen to the full episode to hear about Tyler's learnings from leading ZenHub and his advice to other founders, including paying attention to product-market fit over time, not falling into the trap of what you know best, and being willing to ask the tough questions. About Tyler and ZenHub: Tyler Gaffney is the CEO of ZenHub, Founder of Entrepid Partners, and former VP of Sales at WePay. ZenHub enables software teams at startups and scaleups to build better code, faster by providing a developer-friendly productivity management platform. ZenHub is the leading team productivity management suite in GitHub and is trusted by teams at over 6,900 companies and open source projects to help them work together to ship great code.

If you've been on Twitter or read any news about the world of crypto in the last 6 months, you've probably heard of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. At a basic level, an NFT is a digital asset that links ownership to unique physical or digital items, such as works of art, real estate, in-game items, music, or videos. Some of the most popular NFT projects include CryptoPunks, Art Blocks, Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoKitties, with more and more launching every day.In this episode, we sit down with Roham Gharegozlou. He's the founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the team behind CryptoKitties, Cheese Wizards, NBA Top Shot, Flow Blockchain, and more, and an early pioneer of the NFT movement. Formed in February 2018, Dapper Labs was spun out of Axiom Zen, a venture studio that Roham launched, to bring the benefits of decentralization to the first billion consumers through the power of play, fairness and true ownership. The company recently raised a funding round of $250 million at a $7.6 billion valuation.We covered a ton of topics including Roham's upbringing and early career, how he fell into crypto and NFTs, why he created CryptoKitties, his vision for the future, and much more.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

On today’s Tank Talk! We welcome Aaron Upright, co-founder of ZenHub to talk about “From Bootstrapped to Venture Backed.”Aaron’s Background:Aaron Upright is the cofounder of ZenHub a Vancouver and SF Based startup that was spun out of the incubator Axiom Zen which is also famous for starting Dapper Labs the creators of CryptoKitties and NBA TopShot. ZenHub is a powerful software platform that injects advanced project management functionality seamlessly into the GitHub interface, making centralized collaboration on GitHub faster, more visual, and less cluttered for engineers and developers. In this episode we discuss:01:45 ZenHub’s origins as a side project03:57 The aha moment05:52 The decision to pivot from side project to full time pursuit06:51 Axiom Zen as an incubator experience10:05 Getting ten paying customers on their first day12:16 The decision to focus on GitHub14:55 Bootstrapping for their first years16:49 The discipline required when you are self-funded18:56 How being a part of a larger ecosystem lessens the need for marketing20:17 Challenges of recruiting while bootstrapped25:09 Deciding to take VC money28:18 The size of the opportunity now with VC money30:21 ZenHub use cases32:20 Challenge of scaling culture34:47 The Vancouver startup ecosystemBook Aaron recommends:The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich CohenFollow Matt Cohen and Tank Talks here!Podcast production support provided by Agentbee.Agency This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tanktalks.substack.com

Mike Townsend interviews Roham Gharegozlou. Roham is the CEO of Dapper Labs and the founder of Axiom Zen, the award-winning emerging technology venture studio behind Dapper Labs. Dapper Labs is the creator of CryptoKitties, the world’s most popular consumer blockchain experience, with over 3M transactions on the Ethereum network – more than any smart contract that’s not a cryptocurrency exchange. Sponsors: Otter Labs www.hireotter.com - Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem www.redeeem.com - Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

In this episode, Felix is joined by Dieter “dete” Shirley, CTO at Dapper Labs. The team at Dapper Labs, a spin-off from Axiom Zen, are the creators of Cryptokitties and have spent recent years to create their own blockchain optimized for decentralized applications building on their learnings of writing some of the most widely used smart contracts. The podcast begins with Dieter going into his background in crypto and how Cryptokitties emerged out of a series of ideas his former company at Axiom Zen had for blockchain applications. We then talk about how Cryptokitties helped the team realize both the benefits and shortcomings of Ethereum and Solidity development. Dieter explains how Flow is designed from the ground up with composability and developer experience in mind. We go into detail as to how Flow is able to scale by having multiple separate node roles, the interplay between them, as well as benefits that Flow tooling and the programming language Cadence provide to developers. Finally, we wrap up with a discussion of the economics in a blockchain with multiple different roles. Flow Website: https://www.onflow.org/ Playground (live version of Cadence emulator): https://www.onflow.org/play   Flow Alpha Developer Program: https://www.onflow.org/flow-alpha Chorus One: https://chorus.one Chorus One Twitter: https://twitter.com/chorusone   Chorus One Telegram: https://t.me/chorusone

Benny Giang, Founding Team Member at CryptoKitties, shares what’s next in product management & blockchain. CryptoKitties is one of Canada’s fastest growing blockchain companies co-launched out of the Axiom Zen venture studio November 2017.Interview date: December 20, 2019Featured Speaker:Benny Giang, Founding Team Member at CryptokittiesBenny Giang is a founding team member of CryptoKitties and a Growth Product Manager at Dapper Labs. He has a background in psychology, user experience design and product marketing. He has worked on a wide range of startups including Lightship Works (industrial IOT), Toby (knowledge management platform), and Upright AI (AI for sales reps). In 2017 he co-created Toby, a Chrome extension that received awards from Product Hunt and the Google Chrome store. Toby was accepted into Y Combinator's Startup School and was one of the top startups within the cohort.Benny has been fascinated by cryptocurrencies since early 2016 and was an early supporter of Ethereum. He formally transitioned from working on Upright AI to blockchain products because he saw first-hand how people didn't have control of their own personal data specifically in the sales lead generation business. Benny played a pivotal role in launching CryptoKitties during its infancy to its current global success. He is exploring the intersection of cryptography, games, and art; all of which extend the interactivity of digital assets using smart contracts.Currently, he is leading the charge in expanding the imagination of non fungible digital assets to the world.About CryptoKitties: In CryptoKitties, users collect and breed oh-so-adorable creatures that we call CryptoKitties! Each kitty has a unique genome that defines its appearance and traits. Players can breed their kitties to create new furry friends and unlock rare cattributes.CryptoKitties is one of the world’s first blockchain games. ‘Blockchain’ is the technology that makes things like Bitcoin possible. While CryptoKitties isn’t a digital currency, it does offer the same security: each CryptoKitty is one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you. It cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed.Join Calgary's Startup Community: Startup Calgary’s free Community Membership will help you stay on top of community events, resources and updates. Members receive exclusive discounts and a free downloadable version of our Startup Community 101 deck. You can sign up here.Follow Startup Calgary on social media

In this episode, we speak with Alan Carr, co-founder of KittyCalc and Product Lead at CryptoKitties, and Bryce Bladon, Director of Communications at Dapper Labs. In addition to his work as a game designer and product manager for CryptoKitties, Alan also contributes to other projects at Dapper Labs. He is a Jack of all trades, master of dragons, and previously worked on entertainment experiences everywhere from Blizzard Entertainment to Asterism Books, his own self publishing imprint for young adult fiction. Bryce is an award-winning writer and content designer with a background in emerging technologies and helping people understand them. While at Axiom Zen, Bryce was a part of the team that brought CryptoKitties to market. CryptoKitties is a game centered around breedable, collectible, and oh-so-adorable creatures called CryptoKitties. Dapper Labs is a company aiming to reshape how we use and interact with digital worlds with projects including CryptoKitties, Cheeze Wizards and NBA Top Shot. We have a lively discussion with Bryce and Alan covering a lot of ground to unpack how Dapper Labs and CryptoKitties have been so successful in kicking off and driving the NFT and crypto collectible ecosystem. Notes [0:32] Polyient sponsorship intro. [1:12] Episode intro. [2:23] Background on Dapper Labs. [3:30] Alan’s background. [4:48] Bryce’s background. [5:26] The origin stories of CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs. [9:24] How the user base of CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs has evolved over time. [15:25] Overview of the markets for Dapper Labs, CryptoKitties, Cheeze Wizards and NBA Top Shot. [19:54] Approach to community governance and management to cultivate a following for each project. [22:31] Team organization across the different projects and how cross-pollination occurs. [28:03] Perspective on what the most critical skills are to have on a team to build successful products. [31:15] How the different teams run experiments, analyze results and communicate them to the rest of the organization. [37:12] Strategies for taking products to market. [41:48] What keeps Alan up at night with regard to CryptoKitties? [43:38] How is the world different five years from now because of Dapper Labs and CryptoKitties? [47:01] Where listeners can learn more about Alan, Bryce and the projects they work on. Links Alan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alanfalcon Bryce’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryceBladon Bryce’s Personal Website: http://brycebladon.com/ CryptoKitties Website: https://www.cryptokitties.co/ CryptoKitties Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptoKitties CryptoKitties Blog: https://medium.com/@CryptoKitties CryptoKitties Discord: https://discord.gg/cryptokitties CryptoKitties Open Positions: https://www.cryptokitties.co/careers Dapper Labs Website: https://www.dapperlabs.com Dapper Labs Twitter: https://twitter.com/dapper_labs Dapper Labs Blog: https://medium.com/dapperlabs Dapper Labs Telegram: https://t.me/dapper Cheeze Wizards Website: https://www.cheezewizards.com Cheeze Wizards Twitter: https://twitter.com/CHZWZRDS Cheeze Wizards Blog: https://medium.com/@CHZWZRDS Cheeze Wizards Telegram: https://discord.gg/6RxgZrZ NBA Top Shot Website: https://www.nbatopshot.com NBA Top Shot Twitter: https://twitter.com/nba_topshot Flow Website: https://www.withflow.org/ Flow Twitter: https://twitter.com/withflow_ KittyCalc Website: http://kittycalc.co/

In this episode, we sit down with Amy Ngai, Product Designer at CryptoKitties. If you’re living under a rock and don’t know CryptoKitties, it’s one of the first Ethereum-based decentralized apps to gain some degree of mainstream adoption. It’s a game developed by Axiom Zen centered around breedable, collectible and adorable cats that are one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you. In our conversation, we get an inside look at how the team behind this early success is tackling the challenges of designing intuitive experiences on top of blockchains, and get a peak at what is coming in the future. Amy has been at Axiom Zen since before CryptoKitties was born, so it was great hearing what other things they work on at the company. It provides some good insight into what ingredients are good for fostering the type of environment where a project like this can come to fruition. We also really enjoyed getting a chance to hear what it’s like behind the scenes of a project like CryptoKitties and how the team has grown and evolved over time. Hearing from user experience and design folks like Amy is critical at this stage of the crypto community’s development. We learned a lot from Amy about how the team thinks about user experience and design, as well as the approaches they are taking to overcome the notorious challenges of working with this technology. Check out this great discussion with Amy. Enjoy! Show Notes [1:07] Amy's background at Axiom Zen and how that led to crypto. [2:36] Overview of Axiom Zen and origins of CryptoKitties. [5:27] What is CryptoKitties and what inspired it? [9:03] How Amy's view of blockchain and design for blockchain has evolved as CryptoKitties has grown. [12:18] Big opportunities and challenges from a design perspective in crypto. [14:28] UX patterns and best practices Amy's observed thus far. [18:03] User research and testing at CryptoKitties. [22:31] Challenges with requiring users to interact with third parties like Coinbase and Metamask to use CryptoKitties. [24:17] Recruiting and running user tests given range of regulatory environments and technical aptitude. [26:20] Areas that CryptoKitties is looking to expand into in the future. [30:53] How CryptoKitties thinks about competition as well as community. [33:36] Team process and how it's evolved as team has grown. [36:57] Amy's day-to-day. [39:44] Size, composition and responsibilities of pods. [42:42] The role of community managers for dapps. [46:00] Tools used internally and externally. [46:48] How the team thinks about the regulatory environments. [52:03] Roadmap planning. [54:37] User tracking and metrics used by the CryptoKitties team. [57:09] Dynamics of open sourcing the CryptoKitties codebase and debating what is “decentralized enough”. [1:00:08] Interesting tidbit about Amy. Links https://www.cryptokitties.co/ https://twitter.com/cryptokitties https://discordapp.com/invite/cryptokitties https://www.zenhub.com/ https://www.axiomzen.co/

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christine Legge This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Christine Legge who is a computer software engineer who works for Google in New York. Previous employment includes Axiom Zen, and Vizzion, Inc. She and Chuck talk about her background, past and current projects, and her future goals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:07 – Hello! 1:10 – Chuck: You were on Episode 328 in the past. Tell us about yourself! 1:24 – Christine: I started working with Google about 2 weeks ago. In the past I worked in Vancouver, Canada. 2:05 – Chuck: Let’s start with how you got into programming? 2:14 – Christine: When I was in HS I wasn’t interested at all into computers. I wanted to do applied math in Toronto Canada for college. For engineering you have to take an introduction to programming in the 1st year. I had a 4-hour computer science course in the morning and I dreaded it. I dropped out 3 months later b/c I didn’t like the program. Surprisingly, enough, I did like the computer science course. I went back to Vancouver and I said to my parents that I wanted an office job. I went to the YMCA center and wanted to be hired. The man there asked if I had any interest in data entering, and I started working for him. I worked 4 hours a week with him where he taught me C+. I decided to go back to school for it. 5:37 – Chuck: What did you like about it? 5:43 – Christine: I liked the problem solving part of it. I like how you can break things down. The technology doesn’t interest me that much, but I like the problem-solving aspect. The guy wasn’t that up-to-date with the newest technologies either. 6:53 – Chuck: You have a 4-year degree in computer science. 7:05 – Yes that and statistics, too. 7:13 – Chuck: I was going to say “nerd.” How do you go from desktop applications to web apps? 7:25 – Christine: I worked with a company part-time and fulltime depending on the year/season. I didn’t know what web development was but I thought that THAT was computer science. I thought that if I knew how to do web development then I was going to be good to go. This company asked: What do you want to do? And I answered that I wanted to do web development b/c I thought that’s what I was lacking. I basically got thrown into it. I didn’t understand anything at all. It took me to write one line of CSS and it took 4 hours. 10:35 – Why did JavaScript attract you more so than C# or other languages that you’ve used? 10:43 – It’s simpler and you don’t need a lot of setup; from top to bottom. I am working in typescript, I like it even more, but I like how Java is more free to do what you want. I like functional programming in JavaScript. I like the big community for Java, and there are tons of applications for it. I really like how flexible the language is. You can do functional and oriented or you can combine the two. You aren’t constrained. 12:00 – Chuck: You get in, you work through JavaScript, were you only doing backend? 12:14 – Christine: Yep, backend. 13:00 –Chuck: I know you talked at the conference, and what are you most proud of? 13:14 – Christine: To be honest, no. My mentor (Pablo) at the last company – he wrote a book about D3. He started learning and writing the book. To me that I had thought that all these people are experts from the get go. I realized that everyone has to start somewhere to eventually become an expert. I do want to make an impact even outside of my job. I don’t have anything new that I’ve been working on. It’s a goal for me within the next couple of months. 15:30 – Chuck: I understand that. 15:36 – Christine: I haven’t found that balance, yet. When I gave that talk during Developer Week I was moving and stressed out. “I am NEVER doing this again!” It was over and it was very rewarding. People gave good feedback, and I would like to do that again. 16:56 – Chuck: People have different experience with that kind of stuff. People are interested in different things. So you’ve been working on moving and all that stuff right? What would you like to dive back into? 17:32 – Christine: Yes we are using Angular 2 and typescript and a Reactive Library. Angular is interesting to me. I would like to dive into the dependency injection in Angular. I really like typescript. 19:24 – Chuck: Have you looked at resources? 19:39 – Christine: I read the documentation so far. Like for React I just read the documentation but I haven’t found a central source just, yet. Not a single source. The docs are okay to get started but I haven’t found that they were enough. 20:50 – Chuck: This is about your story. I worked through the Tour of Heroes, and that helped me with Angular. It’s in the Angular Documentation. 21:23 – Christine: When you are starting at a new job I want to make sure I’m settled-in. And now I want to start thinking at a high-level of how these things work. I think the cool thing working here is that you can talk to the people who are working on Angular and get some insight that way. 22:27 – Chuck: People are usually very approachable. 22:34 – Christine: Yes, I agree. To be apart of the communities people want you to use their stuff. 22:48 – Chuck: Do you have another talk in mind when you are ready to give your next talk? 22:59 – Christine: Not sure. I have one thing on my list right now and that’s it. 23:42 – Chuck: I haven’t looked at RJX documentation but I think it’s pretty easy to pick-up. Ben who is the main developer RJX joined the team last year. 24:04 – Christine: It’s a lot of promises. When I figure it out that’s how something would work if it were a promise then I can usually get there. 24:25 – Chuck: Yeah. 24:38 – Christine: I kind of want to make connections in the office rather than me trying to do myself. I don’t want to waste time. Working on those connections would be good. 25:20 – Chuck: Let’s do some picks! 25:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! Links: React Angular Vue.js JavaScript Ember Elm jQuery Christine Legge’s LinkedIn Christine Legge’s Twitter Christine Legge’s GitHub Sponsors: Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Fresh Books Picks: Charles My Calendar Software – BusyCal and Google Calendar Google Calendar just started appointment slots Christine Podcast: The Pitch Podcast: How I Built This

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christine Legge This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Christine Legge who is a computer software engineer who works for Google in New York. Previous employment includes Axiom Zen, and Vizzion, Inc. She and Chuck talk about her background, past and current projects, and her future goals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:07 – Hello! 1:10 – Chuck: You were on Episode 328 in the past. Tell us about yourself! 1:24 – Christine: I started working with Google about 2 weeks ago. In the past I worked in Vancouver, Canada. 2:05 – Chuck: Let’s start with how you got into programming? 2:14 – Christine: When I was in HS I wasn’t interested at all into computers. I wanted to do applied math in Toronto Canada for college. For engineering you have to take an introduction to programming in the 1st year. I had a 4-hour computer science course in the morning and I dreaded it. I dropped out 3 months later b/c I didn’t like the program. Surprisingly, enough, I did like the computer science course. I went back to Vancouver and I said to my parents that I wanted an office job. I went to the YMCA center and wanted to be hired. The man there asked if I had any interest in data entering, and I started working for him. I worked 4 hours a week with him where he taught me C+. I decided to go back to school for it. 5:37 – Chuck: What did you like about it? 5:43 – Christine: I liked the problem solving part of it. I like how you can break things down. The technology doesn’t interest me that much, but I like the problem-solving aspect. The guy wasn’t that up-to-date with the newest technologies either. 6:53 – Chuck: You have a 4-year degree in computer science. 7:05 – Yes that and statistics, too. 7:13 – Chuck: I was going to say “nerd.” How do you go from desktop applications to web apps? 7:25 – Christine: I worked with a company part-time and fulltime depending on the year/season. I didn’t know what web development was but I thought that THAT was computer science. I thought that if I knew how to do web development then I was going to be good to go. This company asked: What do you want to do? And I answered that I wanted to do web development b/c I thought that’s what I was lacking. I basically got thrown into it. I didn’t understand anything at all. It took me to write one line of CSS and it took 4 hours. 10:35 – Why did JavaScript attract you more so than C# or other languages that you’ve used? 10:43 – It’s simpler and you don’t need a lot of setup; from top to bottom. I am working in typescript, I like it even more, but I like how Java is more free to do what you want. I like functional programming in JavaScript. I like the big community for Java, and there are tons of applications for it. I really like how flexible the language is. You can do functional and oriented or you can combine the two. You aren’t constrained. 12:00 – Chuck: You get in, you work through JavaScript, were you only doing backend? 12:14 – Christine: Yep, backend. 13:00 –Chuck: I know you talked at the conference, and what are you most proud of? 13:14 – Christine: To be honest, no. My mentor (Pablo) at the last company – he wrote a book about D3. He started learning and writing the book. To me that I had thought that all these people are experts from the get go. I realized that everyone has to start somewhere to eventually become an expert. I do want to make an impact even outside of my job. I don’t have anything new that I’ve been working on. It’s a goal for me within the next couple of months. 15:30 – Chuck: I understand that. 15:36 – Christine: I haven’t found that balance, yet. When I gave that talk during Developer Week I was moving and stressed out. “I am NEVER doing this again!” It was over and it was very rewarding. People gave good feedback, and I would like to do that again. 16:56 – Chuck: People have different experience with that kind of stuff. People are interested in different things. So you’ve been working on moving and all that stuff right? What would you like to dive back into? 17:32 – Christine: Yes we are using Angular 2 and typescript and a Reactive Library. Angular is interesting to me. I would like to dive into the dependency injection in Angular. I really like typescript. 19:24 – Chuck: Have you looked at resources? 19:39 – Christine: I read the documentation so far. Like for React I just read the documentation but I haven’t found a central source just, yet. Not a single source. The docs are okay to get started but I haven’t found that they were enough. 20:50 – Chuck: This is about your story. I worked through the Tour of Heroes, and that helped me with Angular. It’s in the Angular Documentation. 21:23 – Christine: When you are starting at a new job I want to make sure I’m settled-in. And now I want to start thinking at a high-level of how these things work. I think the cool thing working here is that you can talk to the people who are working on Angular and get some insight that way. 22:27 – Chuck: People are usually very approachable. 22:34 – Christine: Yes, I agree. To be apart of the communities people want you to use their stuff. 22:48 – Chuck: Do you have another talk in mind when you are ready to give your next talk? 22:59 – Christine: Not sure. I have one thing on my list right now and that’s it. 23:42 – Chuck: I haven’t looked at RJX documentation but I think it’s pretty easy to pick-up. Ben who is the main developer RJX joined the team last year. 24:04 – Christine: It’s a lot of promises. When I figure it out that’s how something would work if it were a promise then I can usually get there. 24:25 – Chuck: Yeah. 24:38 – Christine: I kind of want to make connections in the office rather than me trying to do myself. I don’t want to waste time. Working on those connections would be good. 25:20 – Chuck: Let’s do some picks! 25:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! Links: React Angular Vue.js JavaScript Ember Elm jQuery Christine Legge’s LinkedIn Christine Legge’s Twitter Christine Legge’s GitHub Sponsors: Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Fresh Books Picks: Charles My Calendar Software – BusyCal and Google Calendar Google Calendar just started appointment slots Christine Podcast: The Pitch Podcast: How I Built This

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christine Legge This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Christine Legge who is a computer software engineer who works for Google in New York. Previous employment includes Axiom Zen, and Vizzion, Inc. She and Chuck talk about her background, past and current projects, and her future goals. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 1:07 – Hello! 1:10 – Chuck: You were on Episode 328 in the past. Tell us about yourself! 1:24 – Christine: I started working with Google about 2 weeks ago. In the past I worked in Vancouver, Canada. 2:05 – Chuck: Let’s start with how you got into programming? 2:14 – Christine: When I was in HS I wasn’t interested at all into computers. I wanted to do applied math in Toronto Canada for college. For engineering you have to take an introduction to programming in the 1st year. I had a 4-hour computer science course in the morning and I dreaded it. I dropped out 3 months later b/c I didn’t like the program. Surprisingly, enough, I did like the computer science course. I went back to Vancouver and I said to my parents that I wanted an office job. I went to the YMCA center and wanted to be hired. The man there asked if I had any interest in data entering, and I started working for him. I worked 4 hours a week with him where he taught me C+. I decided to go back to school for it. 5:37 – Chuck: What did you like about it? 5:43 – Christine: I liked the problem solving part of it. I like how you can break things down. The technology doesn’t interest me that much, but I like the problem-solving aspect. The guy wasn’t that up-to-date with the newest technologies either. 6:53 – Chuck: You have a 4-year degree in computer science. 7:05 – Yes that and statistics, too. 7:13 – Chuck: I was going to say “nerd.” How do you go from desktop applications to web apps? 7:25 – Christine: I worked with a company part-time and fulltime depending on the year/season. I didn’t know what web development was but I thought that THAT was computer science. I thought that if I knew how to do web development then I was going to be good to go. This company asked: What do you want to do? And I answered that I wanted to do web development b/c I thought that’s what I was lacking. I basically got thrown into it. I didn’t understand anything at all. It took me to write one line of CSS and it took 4 hours. 10:35 – Why did JavaScript attract you more so than C# or other languages that you’ve used? 10:43 – It’s simpler and you don’t need a lot of setup; from top to bottom. I am working in typescript, I like it even more, but I like how Java is more free to do what you want. I like functional programming in JavaScript. I like the big community for Java, and there are tons of applications for it. I really like how flexible the language is. You can do functional and oriented or you can combine the two. You aren’t constrained. 12:00 – Chuck: You get in, you work through JavaScript, were you only doing backend? 12:14 – Christine: Yep, backend. 13:00 –Chuck: I know you talked at the conference, and what are you most proud of? 13:14 – Christine: To be honest, no. My mentor (Pablo) at the last company – he wrote a book about D3. He started learning and writing the book. To me that I had thought that all these people are experts from the get go. I realized that everyone has to start somewhere to eventually become an expert. I do want to make an impact even outside of my job. I don’t have anything new that I’ve been working on. It’s a goal for me within the next couple of months. 15:30 – Chuck: I understand that. 15:36 – Christine: I haven’t found that balance, yet. When I gave that talk during Developer Week I was moving and stressed out. “I am NEVER doing this again!” It was over and it was very rewarding. People gave good feedback, and I would like to do that again. 16:56 – Chuck: People have different experience with that kind of stuff. People are interested in different things. So you’ve been working on moving and all that stuff right? What would you like to dive back into? 17:32 – Christine: Yes we are using Angular 2 and typescript and a Reactive Library. Angular is interesting to me. I would like to dive into the dependency injection in Angular. I really like typescript. 19:24 – Chuck: Have you looked at resources? 19:39 – Christine: I read the documentation so far. Like for React I just read the documentation but I haven’t found a central source just, yet. Not a single source. The docs are okay to get started but I haven’t found that they were enough. 20:50 – Chuck: This is about your story. I worked through the Tour of Heroes, and that helped me with Angular. It’s in the Angular Documentation. 21:23 – Christine: When you are starting at a new job I want to make sure I’m settled-in. And now I want to start thinking at a high-level of how these things work. I think the cool thing working here is that you can talk to the people who are working on Angular and get some insight that way. 22:27 – Chuck: People are usually very approachable. 22:34 – Christine: Yes, I agree. To be apart of the communities people want you to use their stuff. 22:48 – Chuck: Do you have another talk in mind when you are ready to give your next talk? 22:59 – Christine: Not sure. I have one thing on my list right now and that’s it. 23:42 – Chuck: I haven’t looked at RJX documentation but I think it’s pretty easy to pick-up. Ben who is the main developer RJX joined the team last year. 24:04 – Christine: It’s a lot of promises. When I figure it out that’s how something would work if it were a promise then I can usually get there. 24:25 – Chuck: Yeah. 24:38 – Christine: I kind of want to make connections in the office rather than me trying to do myself. I don’t want to waste time. Working on those connections would be good. 25:20 – Chuck: Let’s do some picks! 25:30 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial! Links: React Angular Vue.js JavaScript Ember Elm jQuery Christine Legge’s LinkedIn Christine Legge’s Twitter Christine Legge’s GitHub Sponsors: Cache Fly Get A Coder Job Fresh Books Picks: Charles My Calendar Software – BusyCal and Google Calendar Google Calendar just started appointment slots Christine Podcast: The Pitch Podcast: How I Built This

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