David Friedberg Started Kadanga By Teaching Himself How to Code

Name: David Friedberg Started Kadanga By Teaching Himself How to Code
Uploaded: 2022-05-15T22:00:44+00:00
Duration: 24 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this brief first‑person account, David Friedberg explains how he taught himself PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build Kadanga, an online research…

15 May 2022 · 0 min

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In this brief first‑person account, David Friedberg explains how he taught himself PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build Kadanga, an online research Q&A site that generated revenue. He notes that Kadanga’s concept resembled Google’s then‑existing Google Research service, and he credits the experience of creating and monetizing Kadanga as a key factor in securing his subsequent role at Google.

Before I joined Google, I started another business, which was kind of like a research Q&A site online called Kadanga, K-A-D-A-N-G-A. So I basically taught myself like PHP and JavaScript and HTML and CSS, and I programmed the whole site myself, and it actually made money. Google had a service at the time called like Google Research or something. It was very similar to this. And so I got the job at Google, I think in part because of that experience.