Today we learn about how someone can learn how to code and get into the tech sphere when you may not have a technical background or degree. Vaibhav Namburi has started a development agency and became a well sort after developer when he graduated from a completely unrelated field. We also dig into his agency and how he was able to grow it so rapidly without just one short year.

Key Learnings & Topics:

- How can you find the shortest pathway for getting over the initial hump of learning code and make it much easier for yourself

- How Vaibhav was able to get his first software development job after self-learning coding after graduating from an unrelated field

- Why you should chase a good boss and not a good company

- How do you enable yourself to be able to learn on the job really quickly and rapidly

- Getting feedback on your code from external people using interesting tricks suggested by Vaibhav

- Making the leap from traditional employment to self-employment

- Why is Five2One named the way it is and the humble beginnings of the software product development shop

- We discuss our first sale stories as these are always really interesting and how they help us learn a lot about ourselves

- How to scale an efficient team for the long term and how it will make or break your company

- How Laddr is currently trying to revolutionise the ways that recruitment is being conducted for technical team members

Links:
- Vaibhav’s Development Agency: www.five2one.com.au/
- Laddr - Developer Portfolio: www.laddr.com/
- Vaibhav’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhavnamburi
- Built to Sell: amzn.to/31XRw1r
- Getting to Yes: amzn.to/31UebvD
- Split the Difference: amzn.to/321gddk
- How to Win Friends and Influence People: amzn.to/321gxsy

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