Joel Spolsky (CEO of Stack Overflow) on Startups, Programming and Developer Culture
Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. During this chat, Joel will talk about his experiences scaling startups and what it takes to build a developer-centric culture in the workplace. Joel is a globally recognized expert on software development and is known by developers around the world for his website Joel on Software. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers, including Trello, which recently spun out into its own company. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles. Stay connected to our community! Subscribe- / subscription_c. . GA Facebook- / gnrlassembly GA Twitter- / ga GA LinkedIn- / gene. . GA Online- https://generalassemb.ly/ At General Assembly, we are creating a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love, by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing.

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