Board Member
Jesse Farmer
Formerly @devbootcamp & @everlane.
Formerly @devbootcamp & @everlane.
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Experience
Founder
Employee
Board Member
Education
About
Achievements
· From 2007-2009, built multiple Facebook apps with 10M+ MAU
· From 2009-2012, co-founded Everlane where I built the founding engineering + product team and launched the initial version of the website which generated a waitlist of 300,000 customers in a single month.
· From 2012-2014, co-founded Dev Bootcamp, where I built the curriculum development and internal engineering teams as we expanded from one campus (SF) to three campuses (SF/Chicago/NYC) before being acquired by Kaplan.
· Helped start Mission Bit (http://www.missionbit.com/), an SF-based non-profit that runs free after-school computer science classes for SF and Oakland public school students. I was a member of the board from 2013-2018.
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
The Hard Thing About Hard Things (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DQ845EA)
What's your favorite non-business book?
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert (https://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas/dp/0465046746)
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Teaching and helping people get jobs
What's your super power?
Being startingly even-keeled
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
Email me at [email protected] and mention this profile