André Eriksson is the CEO and Founder of Encore. Encore is a startup building the next generation platform for rapid backend development in Go. In this episode, André takes us through his journey from creating interface mods for World of Warcraft to becoming a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify and finally running his own company.
00:00 Introduction
03:15 What is André Doing Today?
12:50 First Memory with a Computer
24:27 Interests / Projects in Highschool
26:40 Studying Computer Science in University
37:26 Deciding to Join The Workforce
47:00 Discovering Go at Spotify
58:45 First Go Project with Utility
1:01:50 Leaving Spotify for Encore
1:05:40 The Next Steps for Encore
1:13:20 Revenue Model with Open Source
1:16:05 Thoughts on Languge Models and A.I
1:24:14 Contact Info
Connect with André:
Twitter: André Eriksson (@_eandre) / TwitterTwitterhttps://twitter.com › _eandre
Encore : https://encore.dev/
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Encore : https://encore.dev/
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/
André’s Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjz9WrXeOW0
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