Engineer and Creator Varun Rana, discusses optimising content performance on different channels, being vulnerable in the tech industry and using personal experience to go viral. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Varun's Links: https://linktr.ee/the_varunrana Show Notes 00:30 Michigan background 03:15 Struggling in UMichi…

Co-Founder of Taro Rahul Pandey, discuss his tech career growth as a Meta Tech lead, sharing his advice on Youtube to 75k+ subscribers and minimizing regret to go all in on Taro. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Rahul on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/ Subscribe to Rahul's Youtube: https://w…

Founder and CEO at Backscoop Amanda Cua, discuss not going to college, how she came to start Backscoop and scaling to 10,000+ subscribers. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Amanda on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-cua/ Backscoop - https://www.backscoop.com/ Show Notes 00:30 Growing up in the Phili…

Creator and APMM at Google Lillian Zhang, discuss landing her dream job at Google, balancing that with content creation and figuring out brand negotiations to earn $47K in her first year. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Lillian's socials at: https://beacons.ai/lillianzhang Show Notes 00:45 Growing up in Bay Area…

Cofounders of Clearspace, Royce Branning and Oliver Hill, discuss building a company together after only knowing each other for 4 weeks, doing things that don’t scale with phone checks at social events and turning a no from Y Combinator into a yes. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Royce on Twitter at: https://twi…

Cofounder/CEO of FeatureForm Simba Khadder, discusses the virtual feature store, balancing building open source while catering to enterprise customers and the impact the 80:20 rule has had in propelling his career forward. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Simba on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simba-k/…

Engineering Manager at Datadog and creator David Xiang, discusses being one of the first tech youtubers (earning over 4 million views), his book Software Developer Life and reflections on staying technically relevant throughout his over 13 year career. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow David on LinkedIn at: https:…

Cofounder/CEO of Locofy AI and my former CPO Honey Mittal, discusses studying in the National University of Singapore on scholarship without even applying, lessons learnt from over 10 years of building and being CPO at 3 previous startups and now raising over $7M for Locofy. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Honey…

Creator of Instafest and Head of Product at Drumify, Anshay Saboo discusses going viral in highschool with the Grades App, scaling Instafest to over 100 million views, and navigating numerous offers landing on building out Drumify. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Anshay on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AnshayS…

Founder/CEO of Carbonlink. Mitchell Morrison discuses his growth as a nontechnical student founder, lessons from raising a seed round and the importance of carbon credits. Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_fA5lTlmiQzNBQ Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Follow Mitchell on Twitt…

Founder/CEO of 365. Jim Bisenius discuses honing technical skills without a formal education, how his previous startup Singlelink got acquired, and raising money from Jason Calacanis for 365. Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_fA5lTlmiQzNBQ Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSet Foll…

Founder CEO of Skilldeck (Like Linktree, but for Projects) Tim Wijaya discuses the serendipity he's got from just showing up, how he filters hiring at such an early scale and being able to balance hustle and taking time to rest. -- Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_fA5lTlmiQzNBQ Follow Wilson on Twitter a…

Cofounder/CEO of Wallex (a SEA based fintech startup) and my former boss Hiro Kiga, discusses his learnings working as a VC, lessons from the early days of building Wallex and deciding to go the path of acquisition versus raising more rounds of funding. -- Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_fA5lTlmiQzNBQ F…

Presidential Scholar at USC's Iovine and Young Academy and my good friend Andy Hsu, discusses the experience of serving in the Taiwan Army, his journey as a product designer landing a UX design internship at Amazon and sharing learnings in the public realm on twitter. -- Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_…