Name: Making $30,000/month coding at 18 with no degree
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:52:53.000Z
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This is an episode off Let you go live a show where I'm interviewing interesting people on a variety of topics.

Finished, Really Stab software engineer at Airbnb A Previously was a baseball.

And today's upon this going to tell us how you learned to code when he was 12.

So, um, you're a staff senior staff software engineer right now, and, um, I'm just curious.

When how old were you when you started programming?

Well, because I when I was in Canada, I didn't speak English.

But on the very lightest things, like, I would install Lennox over and over again, I would use Juarez so I would find illegal software, install it on my computer that started around Guys don't use illegal software anymore.

Now it's not a good Yeah, You're gonna get malware.

I'd say, like I started using linens when I was maybe 12 or 13 and then I really liked forums.

So before the age of Facebook, it's funny, because when I would actually Facebook came around like, Why would anyone want to use it?

But you know, everyone like who wants that?

So I I would go on that would create these little forums.

And, uh, you know, some of the forms were like homework for our class forums, other former, uh, hosting forums.

So, like, how do you make websites forms and looked at it all kind of began.

But to really be fair, I think a lot of people think that when people say I program when I was 12 it's like all a man, they're geniuses, right?

But I'll tell you that almost everyone I've met who actually said they programmed when they were 12 like myself, didn't actually program at all like I didn't know what an array waas until I was 17 or a hot.

So it took me quite a while to I understand.

Uh, you know, could you please elaborate on that?

You know, when people say that their programming at 12 they're not really programming.

So what did you exactly do you from that age of 12 to 17?

And I guess, in a different definition of what programming is, So here's what you do it right, you just get interested in things.

So for you, and then you try to solve it.

Uh, how do you Do you understand what your salt eso in the example.

You know, uh, I would want to make maps for, like, counter strike, So I now I don't even remember how I did this.

But like, I, like, puts put something together to make my own maps.

Then, uh, I wanted to customize my forums, so I wanted to make a really nice, uh, you know, used Photoshopped tights on the lens flare on something and put it in.

Uh, so then I figured out How do I use template languages, too, to mit customize my forums.

So around 13 14 I like figured out the magic of dumela, which is the word press of a long time ago.

And, uh And based on that, what I would do is okay.

Like, Okay, imagine, like, you just have this thing and you're able to just follow a few tutorials and you can turn it into anything you want.

But at the same time, I would ask myself these questions like, Wait, we like who?

So you basically, from what I hear from your story, you were really motivated by figuring things out bigger and problems out on building things.

Yeah, I'd say it's a combo that, like, an initial motivation of that, but I don't.

So I would say, like, I you also can't keep it a little fair.

I'm not quite like the scientist, like, there are some people that just want to learn, right, But for me, I have all these.

I would tell my friend like okay, We're gonna create, like, a secret layer of like we're gonna make become millionaires at 14 like Zack and Cody in the Disney TV show, right?

Or like, you know, like I would look at the, you know, I wanted Thio succeed in business too.

So a lot of the times, I would think about that.

I would think about enemy and like, Hey, like, I want I wanna make my own enemy website.

Other people could see my, you know, Seattle me on my website.

Right, So there wasn't a component, but, uh, there's a lot of fun and adventure and explore that.

Yeah, and that, I think, is an amazing MIT motivation.

You know, you mentioned that you weren't motivated by just learning, but you were motivated.

Thio solve problems or, like, view cool in the community of your friends or whether it be a business motivation to make money.

I think finding that extra motivation to build something that your passionate about that you want to make happen for one reason or another is actually amazing and learning how to code and learning programming.

That point, actually, plug for this gentleman.

The fact that you Yeah, meet Stefan's a hero.

My one of my here is So what happened is he said how?

Everyone, um, complains about the cost of tuition for universities, but no one applies to scholarships.

In fact, there are some scholarships where there's they can't even award anyone because no one applied.

And they said, Hey, look, I paid for Stanford by doing that, So I thought to myself, You know what?

So I ended up applying to a bunch of scholarships on the one of these scholarships.

There was a grant from the government and the government gave me about Canadian government from the Canadian government.

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