Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur | ButterCMS Jake Lumetta
04/18/23 • 35 min
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Engineers make great entrepreneurs. So a startup that has two engineers as its founders must be twice as good, right? Not exactly.
On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we talk to Jake Lumetta, founder & CEO of ButterCMS. A serial entrepreneur, Jake found success (and failure) with numerous startups before striking it big with ButterCMS.
He joins us today to discuss practical advice for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, like knowing when to step away from the keyboard and handover the codebase, why building a B2B startup is so much easier than building a B2C, and why two engineers founding a company together isn't always a good idea.
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- ButterCMS is hiring: https://buttercms.com/
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Engineers make great entrepreneurs. So a startup that has two engineers as its founders must be twice as good, right? Not exactly.
On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we talk to Jake Lumetta, founder & CEO of ButterCMS. A serial entrepreneur, Jake found success (and failure) with numerous startups before striking it big with ButterCMS.
He joins us today to discuss practical advice for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, like knowing when to step away from the keyboard and handover the codebase, why building a B2B startup is so much easier than building a B2C, and why two engineers founding a company together isn't always a good idea.
Show Notes:
- ButterCMS is hiring: https://buttercms.com/
Support the show:
- Subscribe to our Substack
- Leave us a review
- Subscribe on YouTube
- Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn
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