The 1.01 Podcast

Engineer and Creator Varun Rana, discusses optimising content performance on different channels, being vulnerable in the tech industry and using personal experience to go viral.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetVarun's Links: https://linktr.ee/the_varunranaShow Notes00:30 Michigan background03:15 Struggling in UMichigan CS06:50 Openly vulnerable sharing 07:55 Theta Tau...

Co-Founder of Taro Rahul Pandey, discuss his tech career growth as a Meta Tech lead, sharing his advice on Youtube to 75k+ subscribers and minimizing regret to go all in on Taro.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Rahul on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/Subscribe to Rahul's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RahulPandeyrkpTaro -...

Founder and CEO at Backscoop Amanda Cua, discuss not going to college, how she came to start Backscoop and scaling to 10,000+ subscribers. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Amanda on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-cua/Backscoop - https://www.backscoop.com/Show Notes00:30 Growing up in the Philippines 01:35 Family business pressures 03:35 Choosing...

Creator and APMM at Google Lillian Zhang, discuss landing her dream job at Google, balancing that with content creation and figuring out brand negotiations to earn $47K in her first year.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Lillian's socials at: https://beacons.ai/lillianzhangShow Notes00:45 Growing up in Bay Area 01:45 Ending up at Cal03:50 Going through Google...

Cofounders of Clearspace, Royce Branning and Oliver Hill, discuss building a company together after only knowing each other for 4 weeks, doing things that don’t scale with phone checks at social events and turning a no from Y Combinator into a yes.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Royce on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/rbfashoFollow Oliver on Twitter at:...

Cofounder/CEO of FeatureForm Simba Khadder, discusses the virtual feature store, balancing building open source while catering to enterprise customers and the impact the 80:20 rule has had in propelling his career forward.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Simba on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simba-k/Featureform - https://www.featureform.com/Show...

Engineering Manager at Datadog and creator David Xiang, discusses being one of the first tech youtubers (earning over 4 million views), his book Software Developer Life and reflections on staying technically relevant throughout his over 13 year career.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow David on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dxiang/Sub to David on...

Cofounder/CEO of Locofy AI and my former CPO Honey Mittal, discusses studying in the National University of Singapore on scholarship without even applying, lessons learnt from over 10 years of building and being CPO at 3 previous startups and now raising over $7M for Locofy.Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Honey on LinkedIn at:...

Creator of Instafest and Head of Product at Drumify, Anshay Saboo discusses going viral in highschool with the Grades App, scaling Instafest to over 100 million views, and navigating numerous offers landing on building out Drumify. Follow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Anshay on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AnshaySabooInstafest - https://www.instafest.app/Drumify...

Founder/CEO of Carbonlink. Mitchell Morrison discuses his growth as a nontechnical student founder, lessons from raising a seed round and the importance of carbon credits.Subscribe to Wilson on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH59qgZdA_fA5lTlmiQzNBQFollow Wilson on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/WilsonLimSetFollow Mitchell on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/greymoitFollow...