The man who told me I didn’t have what it takes asked me to save his dying company. He didn’t know me. At fourteen I taught myself to code on a $40 laptop while he toasted my sister as ‘the one…
My father told me I would never make it in tech. He said it at the dinner table on a Tuesday when I was fourteen, holding a laptop I’d saved up for with babysitting money. He said it again at Thanksgiving when I told the family I wanted to study computer science. He said my … Read more