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Office Hours – Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, investing, tRPC, and Qwik with Tejas Kumar
Season 1
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
- (00:35) - Why are you starting a company
- (03:30) - DevRel and community are immeasurable
- (05:58) - Extractive relationships in DevRel and community
- (06:50) - Swag and broken trust
- (09:07) - Transactional relationships
- (11:28) - Fear about trying something new
- (17:13) - Trying something new; an exercise in empathy
- (18:25) - Carl's past failed company
- (21:34) - New web technologies you're excited for
- (22:27) - Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls
- (24:18) - Chronological Snobbery and jQuery
- (26:02) - React as a middle aged man
- (28:27) - React compared with Qwik's design goalsc
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