I took some classes, but I built little businesses when I was in college. Nicholas: As a self-taught programmer, I didn’t study computer science. Can you tell me a bit about that transition? I built it into a fan site where people could submit content, so it was kind of a content management system in the mid to late ‘90s.īeier: I saw you studied electrical engineering and computer engineering at university and you worked at Microsoft for a few years, then you jumped into the startup world. The first thing I ever built was a website that was dedicated to Windows CE, the Microsoft Palm Pilot-like devices.
I started by taking existing projects, mostly Perl scripts, and changing things to see what would happen.
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My parents got us internet access super early-dial up initially but not even a 56K modem, whatever came before it.īoth my older brother and I taught ourselves how to program when we were kids. I had an older brother and a younger brother and we each had our own computers when we were 10 or 11 years old, in our own rooms. My dad had computers at his office, and when he got a new computer he would bring the old one home. Nicholas: I got my first computer when I was around 10 years old, in the early ’90s. See the second post here.īeier: How did you get into software, and what was the first technology you used? Prior to starting Divvy, Nicholas was the CTO of DoubleDutch, a provider of cloud-based geosocial mobile applications, where he helped scale the engineering team from two to 40 engineers.Ĭommit co-founder Beier Cai sat down with Nicholas to talk about the early days of Divvy Homes and DoubleDutch and what it was like writing the first lines of code. Nicholas Clark is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Divvy Homes, a property-technology startup that helps renters become owners.
In our First Line of Code series, Commit co-founder Beier talks to prominent tech founders and tech leads building the next generation of companies to hear their experiences and lessons learned from their early days.
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