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070: Does It Help to be Desperate And Should You Learn Programming? Yes by Derek Sivers
Optimal Work Daily - Career, Productivity & Entrepreneurship
English - March 10, 2017 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.61 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Marketing best blog business daily day design ebook entrepreneur entrepreneurship finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
2 posts from Derek Sivers: does it help to be desperate, and his opinion on learning programming as an entrepreneur. Episode 70: Does It Help to be Desperate And Should You Learn Programming? Yes by Derek Sivers (Online Business). Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. The original posts are located here: and