{"id":341557,"date":"2017-05-22T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1493707"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T01:30:48","slug":"how-culinary-school-and-gaming-helped-former-teacher-mannah-kallon-land-a-career-in-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/how-culinary-school-and-gaming-helped-former-teacher-mannah-kallon-land-a-career-in-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"How culinary school and gaming helped former teacher Mannah Kallon land a career in coding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ruben Harris<\/span> Contributor<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor<\/a>, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Startups<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

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It was Mannah Kallon\u2019s love for food and gaming that ignited\u00a0the former chef\u2019s career in coding.<\/p>\n

During culinary school and on a\u00a0tour of the South (which he\u2019ll discuss in our latest episode of breaking into startups),\u00a0the longtime gamer played A LOT of video games and even taught himself how to make an one\u00a0that could potentially get kids excited about learning Math.<\/p>\n

The onetime culinary school attendee, became excited about prospects in education and embarked on a career teaching\u00a0in New York\u2019s famous Harlem neighborhood. Other educators at the school wanted to learn his secrets for getting students excited about math.<\/p>\n

Their interest sparked his own passion for coding and gave him the insight that his Philosophy major and passion for symbolic logic, could be put to a different\u00a0use in the technology industry.<\/p>\n

So Kallon left education behind, became the coder he wanted to be by taking classes at DevBootcamp and took a job at the personal shopping and style service, Stitch Fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason why we started the Breaking Into Startups Podcast was not just to share these stories, but also to provide you with an unbiased page of resources that we recommend for you to use at your own discretion and you can go to\u00a0breakingintostartups.com\/resources<\/a>\u00a0to get discounts when you apply to bootcamps like Dev Bootcamp<\/a> and similar programs.<<\/p>\n

If\u00a0you want to prepare yourself before you apply, make sure you sign up to our 5 step challenge at\u00a0breakingintostartups.com\/challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\" It was Mannah Kallon’s love for food and gaming that ignited\u00a0the former chef’s career in coding. During culinary school and on a\u00a0tour of the South (which he’ll discuss in our latest episode of breaking into startups),\u00a0the longtime gamer played A LOT of video games and even taught himself how to make an one\u00a0that could potentially get kids excited about learning Math.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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