E7: Jaren Glover of Robinhood on code, capital, and culture
How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color, and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play Bond in the next 007 movie. Episode resources Jaren's favorite new consumer apps: Stadium Live, Compound, Bighead, Realtime, and Cappucino.fm Rebekah Cox's Ambition and Higher Standards essays Searching "Kelsey Hightower" on YouTube returns magical technical content, in Jaren's words aphyr's notes on distributed systems The Remarable Story of Risk A Short History of Financial Euphoria The Defiant Ones on HBO The Black Godfather on Netflix