Today's episode is a fascinating discussing with Mitchell Hashimoto, cofounder of HashiCorp, who recently returned to the role of independent contributor after stints as both CEO and CTO. We talk about his journey learning to write software, how he came up with the idea for Terraform, and why he prefers slinging code to executive roles. The post Moving from CEO back to IC: A chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on his love for code (Ep. 412) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
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