The Start

Karolina Szczur is a designer, developer and photographer living in Kraków, Poland. Karolina started working at a very young age as a fortuneteller for an online future teller company - randomly, we …

Jen Mussari is a freelance lettering artist and illustrator. She’s never worked for anyone else and plans on keeping it that way. Her skills and fine-arts background helped her produce great work for…

Chatting with Karl proves our lives can take us anywhere, and each destination has a purpose. In Karl’s life he’s worked in two professions, music and development. He’s worked in Australia, Europe an…

Lara Hogan is a Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy.

A lot of Lara can be summed up in one word - commitment. Her level of decisiveness is definitely admirable and something I hope to a…

Patrick & Nick, hosts of The Start, reflect on Season 2. We talk about our favorite episodes, reoccurring themes throughout the season and moments of that really stuck with us. We also chat about our…

Having grown tired of the usual interview format, she politely asked us to break away from the norm and we happily obliged. We talked about Hazelton, Pennsylvania, her vacation in Europe, books she’s…

As a kid, Christine would travel two hours away to visit her dad during the weekends and summer. She lived in Norway and often found herself in front of the computer, where she spent hours online wit…

As a kid, Meng designed and sold clothes for the Sims computer game, which led her to pursue a career in fashion through Parsons. In class they drilled the idea of iteration into her head, helping he…

The story starts with Rameet selling candy and burned CDs at school in order to earn some extra income...for his stock portfolio. From there he moved on to designing flyers for his mom’s real estate …

Wells Riley is a product designer at Envoy and a creator of the exceptional Hack Design and Startups, This Is How Design Works. Wells prides himself respecting the craft of design; understanding that…

What do you get when passion meets opportunity, meets Instagram? Ask Brian DiFeo. Brian took his passion for connecting people and combined it with his ability to recognize a new medium and a market …

Loren’s life can be summed up with two words: life experiences. He’s built his own products, worked for a successful start up and currently works as a freelancer and mentor for the designer fund.

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“Why do we have grades? Why do we have homework?” These are the types of question Avi Flombaum would ask his teachers. He just didn’t buy into the education system and now he’s on a mission to disrup…

As a kid, Drew helped his dad run the first ever mail-order comics catalogue by packaging up goods to be shipped, sometimes to the actors of Starwars and other movie stars (yes, Nicholas Cage). While…

Jackie’s love for the boy-band Hanson and passion for tech drove her to build websites on an old, burnt computer. Like most at the time, she started by copy-and-pasting code for fan sites until she l…

Nick and Patrick talk give a recap on the first season of The Start. Things that worked, things that didn't, and a little background about themselves and how this podcast got started.

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Dan was once offered food in exchange for his design services and that's when he realized how much he loved design. Instead of waiting for things to be made, Dan went ahead and created the products h…

Oddly enough, while Aubrey is a designer, he started writing HTML and CSS by hand in with a friend in detention. Early on in his career he took advantage of small opportunities like the Cooper City B…

Samira's grandmother taught her the fundamentals of penmanship at a young age, which later became a love for lettering now seen throughout her work. As a kid she loved to design for herself and famil…

Even though Jon liked design as a kid his focus was always on music; his dreamed of becoming a Rockstar. At one point in his life he was kicked out of school and ended up at a vocational school (or a…