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Tracy Lee - On Founding ThisDot and Building Communities #30


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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Tracy Lee.

Tracy Lee is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy focused on helping companies with digital transformations. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. 

She heads up Community Relations for Node.js at OpenJS Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at http://thisdot.co/labs.

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Episode Summary

"Everybody on the team has kind of rallied around this idea that we're making money, we're helping companies. And we love helping companies. But even better than that, we can take that money and actually invest it back into the community."

—Tracy Lee

In this episode we’ll cover:

  1. How Tracy started 3 companies while she was bored at her job
  2. Why are there are so few women in tech?
  3. How Tracy hires so many moms at ThisDotLabs and why moms have such a killer mindset.
  4. Why it's so important to start blogging and producing content about your journey as soon as possible. 


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