Lunch with Joe Dubon
Joe and I met at a Brunch N’ Hack a few months ago. Joe was patient with people, his questions were inquisitive and ultimately drove towards, “How do we build this?” I enjoy doers and invited him to lunch where I was treated to a locally owned latin restaurant. We’ve had a few more since then, developed parts of Tech Lunch together, and decided to give the idea its first spin.
We sat down with massive sandwiches at Rubicon Deli, started talking about the new tech bubble, now with blockchain instead of AI or data science, and we couldn’t help but notice how these tech bubbles always reanimate people searching for a “Technical Co-founder” 😂 Y’all know what we mean, someone uses that four letter word “idea”, gets all excited, says they need one simple thing, and next thing you know you’re in 3 hour meetings on a Friday going into happy hour 🙄⌚
After we caught our breath from laughing, we recognized why we do this, that our best resource in these uncertain times is a strong network. In many ways, we can quantify the value of community and demonstrate just how significant it is. Community might be what we need in these uncertain times, a community network may be the safety net when there are supply chain shocks, pandemics, housing crises, or many other unpredictable external threats to a healthy community.
Change won’t come overnight.
Joe is building Americoders, an IRL EdTech Web3 startup offering non-age biased in-real-life software engineering workshops: “Our goal is to make computer science more inviting and engaging. We want to diversify and expand the reach of technology education.” For example, they use tools like EarSketch to “Make Beats, Learn Code.” 😎
“Tech Lunch” has it’s first sponsor, EDAWN, and we look forward to sponsoring our first lunch next month 💸 Joe and I couldn’t help but talk about the potential of Tech Lunch. What can be done with an open source database of conversations people are so proud of, they present their conversations for peer review and recognition? We imagined a portal where anyone can sponsor people whose energy permeates the communities they visit, people who spark imagination into action, people who invigorate entrepreneurship.
Joe and I had one idea. We hope you’ll join the conversation at Tech Alley, and help build community.
