Office Hours – Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, investing, tRPC, and Qwik with Tejas Kumar
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 inter
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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