Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 293 | Debo Olaosebikan - Serving Billions
Guest:
Debo Olaosebikan talks with Dave Rael about shooting for the stars, lessons from physics, learning from mistakes, thinking positively, and delivering solutions
Debo Olaosebikan is the CTO and co-founder of Gigster. He worked formerly at IBM where he worked on theoretical/computational frameworks for analyzing experimentally observed transitions in spin transfer devices in collaboration with Yaroslaw Bazaliy and Barbara Jones He has a Ph.D. and Masters from Cornell where he worked on building world's first electrically activated silicon laser. Hme went from Nigerian rapper to co-founder of high flying Silicon Valley startup in just three short years and was a part of the Y-combinator class of 2015.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Debo Olaosebikan
- - Sources of Debo's lofty goals
- - Physics in Nigeria and Debo's scientific origin
- - Debo, the poet and musician
- - The intent and implementation of Gigster
- - Gigster and dealing with uncertainty and innovative ways of using data to manage risk
- - Debo's role as Gigster
- - The impact of building technology
- - Roles in creation and the importance of authenticity
- - Debo's story of failure - going too general in building a network
- - Debo's book recommendation
- - How Debo stays current with what he needs to know
- - Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Debo
Resources:
- Gigster
- Gigster on Twitter
- Gigster on Facebook
- Newton's Law's
- Relativity
- Richard Feynman
- Lev Landau
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Volume Set) - Richard Phillips Feynman
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics - Leonard Susskind
- Roger Dickey - Gigster co-founder with Debo
- TaskRabbit
- Grand Unified Theory
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
Debo's book recommendation:
Debo's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Have an attitude of anything is possible and start from a positive lens
- Think before you build
- Work backward from the impact you want to make
