Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur

Engineers make great entrepreneurs. So a startup that has two engineers as its founders must be twice as good, right? Not exactly.

On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we talk to Jake Lumetta, founder & CEO of ButterCMS. A serial entrepreneur, Jake found success (and failure) with numerous startups before striking it big with ButterCMS.

He joins us today to discuss practical advice for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, like knowing when to step away from the keyboard and handover the codebase, why building a B2B startup is so much easier than building a B2C, and why two engineers founding a company together isn't always a good idea.

Episode Highlights:

• (2:41) Introduction
• (3:58) Lessons in entrepreneurship
• (17:15) Talking to customers
• (18:52) Transition from engineer to CEO
• (24:00) Stepping away from coding
• (25:14) Building B2B vs B2C
• (30:05) Worst mistakes you can make as a founder

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