Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.
And one of my favorite entrepreneurs who I’ve gotten to know, because I live here in San Francisco, is Anthony, the founder of Hack Reactor. I just invited him over for scotch. Then he came over to my house for dinner. I just loved his business model. The business model behind Hack Reactor was, “Hey, the world needs more developers. I’m going to create developers. I’ll actually do it in this obsessive way.” I’m an obsessive person so I get it.
His obsessive way was let’s bring them in to one place to have them sit here and treat it kind of like a cult, the cult of development, the cult of get your work done, and make them live and breathe this and if they do that, if they buy into this world, they’re going to become phenomenal developers and...