Published inLevel Up Coding·PinnedMember-onlyA Programmer Builds a $150,000,000 Product With His Girlfriend and No Business ModelWorked for a Couple of Years Without Any Employees — Otis and Elizabeth’s chandler loved reading books from a young age. But the problem was that not many people who had already read a book used to share their reviews anywhere online. There were no quality websites where people could write book reviews. It was difficult for anyone in this…Technology10 min readTechnology10 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·PinnedMember-onlyMeet Two Programmers Who Rejected a $1,000,000,000 Acquisition Offer From GoogleThe Insane Story to Inspire Young Programmers — Emmett Shear and Justin Kan had built several products in their lives. Most of those products failed to gain users and generated $0 in revenue. Only two of those various products stood out. The first product was sold for $265,000 on eBay. But the second product brought a $1 billion…Programming29 min readProgramming29 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·6 days agoMember-only3 Unpopular Methods to Crush Competitors Turned This Programmer Into BillionaireCheat Codes No Course Can Teach You — Quitting your job is difficult. Starting a company after quitting your job is hard. Taking the company to a billion dollars in revenue is the hardest. Marc Benioff did all three. He started his company Salesforce in 1999. At first, the company had $0 in revenue and many competitors. By…Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·May 25Member-only3 Dark Truths About How a Programmer *Exploited* His Competitors To Build a $167 B EmpirePowerful Ways to Take Your Business to the Next Level — Marc Benioff started his dream job in 1999. The first thing he has to do was to unlearn everything he has learnt from his previous job. In his earlier job, he learned: How to trust the rules too much and play it safe. How to be relaxed about competition because…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inThe Journey of Builders·May 18Member-onlyAn Engineer Turned US-Japan War Into a $28 Billion Tech Company — I Collected His Surprising StrategiesA Journey to Inspire Young Engineers — Back in 1936, David Packard was just like any other engineer. He was working for a company called General Electric. He wanted to start something on his own, but he had no idea how he was going to do it. In 1939, he started his first company, Hewlett-Packard (HP), with…Programming15 min readProgramming15 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·May 4Member-onlyI Devoted 2+ Hours Debunking 5 False Beliefs About Lists in Python — Steal This in 6 MinutesNothing Fancy — If someone asks you to make a list of all the electronic items in your house, you would say this: Smartwatch Mobile TV Laptop The other person who has asked you the question will understand. But for Python to understand the same list, you have to write it like this: …Python6 min readPython6 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Apr 23Member-onlyI Spent 14 Days Studying A Programmer Who Built a $167 B Company — Here Are His Weird Rules To Build a StartupSteal This Programmer Blueprint — Before 1999, Marc Benioff was just like any other programmer. Stuck in a corporate job. He wanted to do something different. But he had no idea what to do. In February 1999, he founded his first company, Salesforce. By 2009, he took Salesforce’s revenue from $0 to $1077 million. …Programming11 min readProgramming11 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Apr 7Member-onlyThree Programmers Turned a Dating Website Into a $1,650,000,000 Product in 2 Years Beating Google and MicrosoftA Journey To Inspire Young Programmers — Back in 2005, the Internet was not what it looks like today. Before 2005, people had just started using the Internet to: Communicate with each other using Gmail. Play basic browser-based games. Share blogs, photos and music. But a massive component of what the internet would look like in the…Programming18 min readProgramming18 min read
Mar 15Member-only11 Relational Database Terms Explained in Less Than 280 Characters Each With Hand-Drawn TablesClear and Concise Explanation — The relational model helps us understand data at a logical level. Relational databases are used in the vast majority of database products. But most programmers get confused by relational database terms. Here I have tried to explain eleven relational database terms that will help you understand database concepts correctly. 1. Relational Database A…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Feb 27Member-only3 Bold Decisions A Programmer Made Before Starting a $27.7 B Company Acquired by SalesforceStrange but Brave Decisions — Steward Butterfield completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy. After completing both degrees, he decided to pursue a PhD. One day he runs into one of his friends who recently completed a PhD in Philosophy. His life changed after meeting him. He ended up dropping the idea of completing…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
