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Hadi Partovi

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first: 2016-02-15
most recent: 2016-02-15
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Yeah, there's a huge delta. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts one million open jobs just in this field. If you look at the salaries, the average computer science degree is worth 40% more than an average college degree. The delta is as much as going to college versus high school. The same delta going into computer science.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've always, not always, but since I graduated from college, I remember thinking how great this field was that I was learning and how many doors it's opened for me as an immigrant and wondering why isn't that there aren't more people doing this? Why is it so hard to hire great engineers? Why aren't people just jumping over?”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we've been investing for almost 10 years before that, and I realized. I was just doing much better as an angel investor than I could have imagined. We'd been early in Facebook and Dropbox, and we'd also been investors in Zapost or Airbnb. These companies are doing super well. And I realized starting another startup to make money wasn't motivating for me. And in fact, if I wanted to make money, I'd focus on my angel investing. But that doesn't feel to me like something I wanted to do full time. And I really wanted to make an impact on the world.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say a number of things happened. Facebook has gone through a discovery process of figuring out what it wanted to do as a platform. So, in fact, every feature that we built stuff on was removed from the platform and replaced with something else, and that wasn't easy for us. Meanwhile, the music industry viewed our Presumed success. We hadn't made any money yet, but we were getting a lot of attention, and they viewed that as a threat. So between the changing platform and the music industry wanting to get a piece of the action plus the recession hitting at the same time, I like was basically”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Facebook had just crossed about 25 million users, and we were one of the fastest growing apps, and we were the leading music.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then I ran different groups within MSN. The biggest job I had there was running the entire MSN portal and all the content areas. And then after that, I joined my twin brother to run i like, which was a music discovery social network. But we became the fastest growing app on the Facebook platform in the very early days of the Facebook platform.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Had to do with voice recognition via the phone, but this was way before the days of things like Siri, it was basically you'd call a phone number and voice recognition when you're on a phone call. That was 1999, 2000 was before. And it was telling me.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. Yeah. Some might say those weren't good years, but at least the product at that time was hailed by all the reviewers, including by Walt, as the best browser. And at least my job was delivering a better, faster, lighter weight, cleaner browser. And in fact, one that better supported all the web standards. So I was extremely proud of my work through IE5 because we were all of those things. And it's been kind of a sad thing to watch Internet Explorer fade out of existence. So you left Microsoft.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the first time I joined Microsoft actually was out of college, and I ended up leading program management for the Internet Explorer team. And this was during the good years of Internet Explorer.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So getting into computer programming was for sure because of my dad. And then once I came to the United States, just the tech industry was just this land of opportunity and I ended up working at Microsoft and then doing multiple startups.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My father was a physicist, and he actually started a tech university, the main technology university of Iran. My mom was a computer science major, actually, but she actually, she hadn't worked for many years because of the Iranian revolution.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was in C. And in fact, I had to learn C for that summer job, which is pretty funny. But it's actually one of the things you recognize anybody who's done computer programming knows that it's not about learning one language. It's learning about how this stuff even works. And then you learn the language for the particular job”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first program I had to do was actually for an MIT research lab to make a Word processor to help them submit a grant application to the NIH.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'm actually not sure it was legal. We were just getting paid, but we were great programmers, and so we could, you know.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so my life, by the time I came to the United States, we really didn't have anything else that was fun to do in that country. And by the time I was in this country, my friends would be busing tables or working at gas stations during their summer jobs in high school. And I was working at MIT or at other tech companies.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I remember it because literally our neighborhood was right next to the TV station, so we were actually a target of bombing raids pretty much every night. So we'd spend most of our nights in the basement just waiting for the bombing to stop. And during that, you know, it's just not a great place to grow up. And my life changed. My dad brought home a Commodore 64 that he had gone to Italy and imported into the country. And he said, here's a computer. It doesn't have any games on it. But here's a book. And if you teach yourself how to code, you can make your own games.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we're identical twins. And when we were six years old, the country broke into a revolution and then war with the neighboring country of Iraq.”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, you know, I've been working as a tech entrepreneur for about 20 years, or really as a technologist. I grew up learning to code when I was young. From where?”
2016-02-15 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT