Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React. 

He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships.

• Why are you starting a company [00:00:35]
• DevRel and community are immeasurable [00:03:30]
• Extractive relationships in DevRel and community [05:58]
• Swag and broken trust [00:06:50]
• Transactional relationships [00:09:07]
• Fear about trying something new [00:11:28]
• Trying something new; an exercise in empathy [00:17:13]
• Carl's past failed company [00:18:25]
• New web technologies you're excited for [00:21:34]
• Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls [00:22:27]
• Chronological Snobbery and jQuery [00:24:18]
• React as a middle aged man [00:26:02]
• React compared with Qwik's design goals [00:28:27]

• (00:00) - Introduction