{"id":7914,"date":"2016-05-16T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T16:39:03","slug":"whys-othman-laraki-important-if-im-an-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/whys-othman-laraki-important-if-im-an-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why’s Othman Laraki Important If I’m an Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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I’m here to take notes of the stuff that really works. It’s not watered down and a lot of it is massively unpopular because it’s hard and counterintuitive.<\/div>\n
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That’s my attention getter. If you wanna leave this blog post, I won’t judge you. This blog post will end with a June 30, 2010 tweet that bookends the horrible<\/i> truth: as a dual degree Stanford MIT person, you’re still going to need to recruit users manually<\/i>, at first and do things that don’t scale.<\/u>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/16\/16, 8:14 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
There is nothing more massively unpopular that saying: “Yup w\/your CS degree that you’ll make $190k\/yr…, also learn to sell\/cold call” \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nThe year is 2016++ Re\u00a0hashtag\u00a0#cs183s<\/a>‘
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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/16\/16, 8:12 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
What a well timed retweet,\u00a0@roelofbotha<\/a>! Re\u00a0#vcSecrets<\/a>. Distribution is 20 CS “lectures” inside the hashtag\u00a0#cs183s<\/a>‘<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nThe year is 2016<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nCEO of Duck9, Larry (@6502838008<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/16\/16, 8:16 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
“Othman Laraki.” From Professors Tom Kosnik\u00a0@tjkosnik<\/a>\u00a0and Rebecca Hwang\u00a0@rhwang12<\/a>‘s\u00a0#ENGR145<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nThe year is 2010
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6\/30\/10, 2:21 PM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
More good stuff\u00a0#E145<\/a>\u00a0@othman<\/a>\u00a0More\u00a0#streetSmart<\/a>(s) Othman Laraki is wearing @basesEvents polo too. Nice \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/td>\nSarah Kay Hoffman (@sarahkayhoffman<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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8\/19\/10, 10:09 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
RT @LarryChiang<\/a>: Street smart #csMajorCEO<\/a> (@StanfordEng<\/a>) Othman Laraki speaking at #sessf<\/a> #140conf<\/a>. BookSmart + StreetSmart = awesome<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Cross the Chasm From The Right<\/p><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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