Lanyards on gold chains, a wing bar, and the swaggiest nerds you’ll ever meet, Render(ATL) is the premier software engineering conference and cultural experience. And in this episode, its founder and senior software engineer at MailChimp, Justin Samuels, joins Sherrell to speak about the drive for diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the software space as well as his own journey to tech.

From slinging My Space pages for $20 to studying the science of food to scaling Render(ATL) at an explosive rate, don’t miss this short and sweet episode to catch all the lessons Justin Samuels has learned and is still learning, on his path in entrepreneurship.

KEY POINTS:

• Justin Samuels’s journey to tech
• How the idea for Render was born
• Why Justin Samuels believes in being whole-heartedly unapologetic
• Business is booming! But with growth comes challenges
• You can’t win every battle, so mitigate the bleeding instead
• Is it possible to scale and be sane?

QUOTABLES:

“When you own a business, you got to learn not to work in the business but work on it. You get to a point where I'm hustling harder turns to I’m hustling smarter.”

“When your business explodes everybody wants your time and money, trying to ask you questions about everything. There are times when you got to really remember why you began this thing and hold that close to you.”

GUEST RESOURCES:

Culture meets Code at: enterrender.com

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