How a reluctant entrepreneur gained 500k users and instant profitability – with Gregg Pollack

Gregg Pollack, Code School, Consulting, Educational Company, Hiring, Subscription (Membership) Model

Joining me is an entrepreneur who says that he didn’t start out wanting to become an entrepreneur but he ended up building a great company.

Gregg Pollack is the founder of Code School which teachers coding skills to software developers. I invited him here to tell us how he did it.

Gregg Pollack

Code School

Gregg Pollack is the founder of Code School which provides continuing education for software developers.

You can see his talk here.

 

Andrew: Hey there freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder of Mixergy.com home of the ambitious upstart.

Gregg: Jazz hands.

Andrew: No. Jazz fists.

Gregg: I don’t do jazz hands there. That’s why I never got into jazz.

Andrew: Joining me is an entrepreneur who says that he didn’t start out wanting to become an entrepreneur but he ended up building a great company. Gregg Pollack is the founder of code school which teachers coding skills to software developers. He also does amazing jazz hands. My interview with him is sponsored by AndrewsWelcomeGate. What’s AndrewsWelcomeGate?

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