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Y Combinator's CEO cold-called businesses from the Yellow Pages to pitch web design, landing his first tech job at $7 to $10 an hour building municipal websites. He biked to the office in San Jose.
Y Combinator's CEO cold-called businesses from the Yellow Pages to pitch web design, landing his first tech job at $7 to $10 an hour building municipal websites. He biked to the office in San Jose.
We had our first computer was an IBM PC XT. I got really addicted to the internet and then I thought, well, maybe I can make money. Back then there was this thing called the Yellow Pages that they'd throw on your doorstep and that's how you would find businesses. And I thought, okay, the Yellow Pages is probably my link to making money somehow. So I just started cold calling, you know, seeing, hey, like, I know how to make web pages. Will anyone hire me? And sure enough, I ended up getting a job and riding my bike to the local web design firm that made city websites for like City of Pleasanton and Fremont and San Jose. And basically they paid me $7 and $10 an hour to work on
