http://localhost:4000/blog/podcast-ep7-pipe-co-founder-zain-allarahkia
Zain Allarahkia
https://twitter.com/zallarak
https://za1.co/
Highlight
https://www.highlight.io/
https://twitter.com/thejaykhatri
https://twitter.com/chrisesplin
https://twitter.com/highlightio
Channels
@highlight-io
Summary
Zain, Chris, and Jay all broke into software in different ways.
Zain and Chris both started in finance and transitioned after the Great Financial Crisis. Jay discovered hackathons in college and became obsessed with building, eventually interning at Google Deep Mind in Britain.
Zain started off with lower-level languages, teaching himself methodically with books.
Chris taught himself on-the-job, initially automating his job with PHP and gradually transitioning into a software engineering career.
00:00 Cold open
00:54 Introduction
02:53 Programming background
06:49 University experience
13:52 PHP is the ultimate productive language
26:49 New programming tools