
How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Interview)
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This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.
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Featuring:
- Zach Latta – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Invest in the future hacker generation
- hackclub.com
- Hack Club Bank
- hackclub/sprig
- Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
- Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
- Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
- Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
with Quincy Larson - SSH Tron
- The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
- ToorCamp
Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:28Sponsor: DevCycle
- 4:04Start the show!
- 7:49Thanks Quinn and Tom
- 10:06Hack Club in our transcripts
- 11:40Let's get into Zach's story
- 14:07I started Bro'ing people
- 15:45$25K started it all
- 19:37Sponsor: Postman
- 23:15Yo! Bro!
- 24:39I donated $5k to my cousin's Bro app
- 27:48Silicon Valley is too real
- 28:44The future of tech for young people
- 32:53The future of AI and openess
- 38:44The Hack Club structure
- 44:26Hack Club afterschool
- 46:59How do you reach schools and teens?
- 49:20Can older folks get involved?
- 54:02It's best to not be a school program
- 58:16Sponsor: Rocky Linux
- 1:00:43Getting started
- 1:05:29Slack vs Discord for Hack Club
- 1:09:42Remote Hack Clubs
- 1:14:16Running a 25,000+ online community
- 1:20:49What's next?
- 1:23:04Is there incubation in Hack Club?
- 1:27:54Wrapping up
- 1:31:23Outro