Ben Awad is a YouTuber, software engineer, and the founder of VoidPet.com. He has 500k YouTube subscribers, 800k TikTok followers, and is known for his legendary coding tutorials and humorous and authentic videos. We discussed numerous topics. Check the timestamps below for topics and enjoy the audio, or you can watch the video over on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/BKhV-kPavnk 

Ben's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bawad 
Ben's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@benawad 
Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/benawad 
Ben's startup: https://voidpet.com/ 
Ben's GitHub: https://github.com/benawad 
Ben's Discord: https://discord.gg/benawad 
Ben's programmer outfit: https://youtube.com/shorts/-P418Qerexs?feature=share 

00:00 Teaser 
00:40 Intro (Guest & Co-host)
03:40 Ben's first line of code
06:00 Turning down FAANG and Leetcode
11:33 Layoffs / Finding jobs
13:15 Skin in the game
13:58 Interviews are broken
16:44 Advice to technical content creators
22:05 Being authentic online
27:57 Coding on Twitch vs YouTube
30:10 Why you should create on TikTok
33:25 Hating Android development / Loving React
36:00 Tech stack
38:18 GitHub Copilot
39:35 Tech stack again
40:39 Deno
42:30 The AI discussion
44:10 VoidPet (Ben's startup)
49:40 Rejected by YC / fundraise vs bootstrap
56:29 Career advice to newbies
1:00:09 Ben's drip
1:01:42 Saffron App
1:04:29 Ben's mentors
1:06:25 Wrap up 

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