Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Meet your instructors
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It's time to meet your instructors.
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This course is co-written and co-recorded by Michael Kennedy,
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that's me, from Talk Python
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and Matthew Makai, from Full Stack Python.
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We'll each be presenting various sections of this course,
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and looking inside our individual businesses,
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and that's why we wanted to take this moment,
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show you our picture, let you get used to our voice
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so you'll know who's presenting when.
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Let me tell you a little bit about myself.
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I'm Michael, hey nice to meet you,
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I'm really excited that you are taking my class.
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I created Talk Python To Me, the number one Python podcast
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which, within almost year and a half has had over 2 million downloads.
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That, in and of itself is a really interesting business story to cover
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and a large portion of my income
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actually comes from running the podcast day to day.
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When it makes sense, we'll look inside the software or the techniques
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I've used to start that podcast and make it successful.
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Of course, you are taking this course through Talk Python Training,
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and I started that as well and in the opening section I gave you
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a bit of an introduction there,
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but this part of my company was created in just a couple of weeks,
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and then the first course was created about a month after that,
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and many of the ideas and techniques in this part of my company
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the e-commerce, the mailing list, those sorts of things
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are definitely going to be covered in depth
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and you'll be looking inside of that software,
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seeing the source code I wrote to run my actual business,
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not just a bunch of demoware.
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Welcome to the course, I'm super excited to be sharing with you,
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it's a course I wanted to create for a long time,
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and I am honored to be creating with Matt Makai, from Full Stack Python.
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Thanks Michael.
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Hey folks, my name is Matt Makai, and I am the creator of Full Stack Python.
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And I am also a developer evangelist with Twilio.
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I started Full Stack Python back in 2012,
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because I had a bunch of junior developers on my team
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and I wanted to explain to them how to build and deploy web applications.
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It just expanded out from there.
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In 2014, I joined Twilio as a developer evangelist.
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I started out in Washington DC
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and now I am out here in San Francisco in the Bay area.
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Twilio makes it easy for developers to add communications,
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such as phone calling, messaging and video,
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into their web and mobile applications.
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The best part about this job is I get to help developers
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build and deploy their applications,
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just as I am going to explain some of the technical concepts
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throughout this course that will help you build and deploy your own business.
