How do you transition from having zero coding skills to learning how to code while working a full-time job? What role does saving on rent play in the journey to building a highly profitable SaaS startup? Is wealth building an elusive goal for early stage founders, especially before the age of 30?

In this episode, Mina delves into these questions and more with Johnathan, the founder of a thriving B2B SaaS startup. Johnathan has quietly built and grown his business into a cash-generating success story that's flown under the radar. In fact, one of his customers urged him to promote his products because the customer consider the product "a life saver'.

These are some of Johnathan's favourite books that helped a lot in his journey (in no particular order):

1. The Well Grounded Rubyist

2. HTML & CSS - Jon Ducket

3. Javascript & jQuery - Jon Ducket

4. Ruby on Rails Tutorial

5. The Rails 5 Way

6. The Pragmatic Programer

7. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

8. Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

9. Domain-Driven Design

10. The Language of SQL

11. Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code

12. Your First Meteor Application

13. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

14. 99 Bottles of OOP

These are the top two Udemy courses Johnathan recommends:

1. Learn and Understand NodeJS
2. Vue - The Complete Guide (incl. Router & Composition API)

Guest: Johnathan, Founder of a B2B SaaS Startup.

Host: Mina Fung, Founder of Virtual FinPilot.

Mina is also an angel investor.

Disclaimer: Any discussions about capital allocation or asset class investments are for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice for the public or private markets.

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