P10: The Problem with Family Culture 👨👩👧👦 in the Workplace… (Chris Castiglione of One Month)
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Background:
Chris Castiglione of One Month reveals major issues that he faced while developing his online coding courses… Find out how he was able to right the ship & start a community with over 50,000 entrepreneurs who are turning their ideas into reality…
Being a teacher at heart, Chris calls himself the Dean at OneMonth.com. He is also the Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and currently the host of the On Books podcast and Learn to Code Podcast.
One Month training classes consist of the most entertaining, easy-to-follow video lessons with some of the best online teachers as well as on-demand mentors to answer questions or help you troubleshoot. The Company Mission is to change people's lives all over the world by delivering high-quality educational content at a fraction of the cost of traditional universities at scale through online learning.
Chris cares very deeply about the environment and he is attracted to people with positive energy.
Time-Stamped Show Notes:
- [0:07] Christopher Castiglione is a teacher at heart and is the co-founder and dean at One Month. He teaches people about coding in a fun way.
- [1:29] One Month started in 2013 and they currently have seven employees and offer twenty courses.
- [5:05] Chris offers some tips for managing a remote workforce. He also shares some of the tools they use to manage the remote workers.
- [9:41] The blockers methodology is explained by Chris.
- [11:12] What makes One Month different from the competitors? Chris discusses what they can do for you in a short amount of time.
- [14:48] Right after college, Chris went to Japan to teach English. He never wanted to become a teacher but he loved the idea of empowering people through his teachings.
- [15:32] In 2005, Chris started teaching people in coworking space about HTML. It eventually grew until he got the idea of creating One Month.
- [21:07] Going through Y Combinator and receiving a lot of funding, Chris started his own startup company.
- [25:17] According to Chris, there’s a lot of opportunities and potential in the ed-tech and online education field today.
- [30:35] There were a lot of challenges of growing the company in the early days.
- [33:54] Using the word “family” within the company became very toxic for Chris and his co-founder.
- [37:26] Chris provides some examples of how they brought down their company expenses.
- [39:32] Starting a weekly newsletter and podcast contributed hugely to their growth.
- [41:10] Chris talks about co-founder relationships and issues working with co-founders.
- [44:26] Six years of running the company and Chris still loves doing what he does, which he never anticipated in the beginning.
Fabulous 4 Questions:
- 📖📚 Favorite Books? Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand, Sapiens by Yuval Harari, & Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- 🙌😎 Favorite Amazon.com purchase? Webcam Shield
- 🌱💸 Favorite Tool that's GROWN your Business? Loom (Easier) & Growth (for Podcasts and Medium)
- 💭💡 BIGGEST Challenge keeping your Business from GROWING? Finding the right market fit
Key Point from the Interview:
- “I was never thinking of becoming a teacher, I was a music major, like I wasn’t trying to become a teacher by any means. But I had this kind of magical moment teaching English in Japan and I was like… I love this feeling of helping empower people.”
Resources Mentioned:
- Email: [email protected]
- Twitter: @castig
- LinkedIn: @castig linkedin.com/in/castig
- Facebook: castiglione
- Instagram: @castig
- Castig.org
- OneMonth.com
- Learn to Code in One Month Podcast
- Codecademy
- Y Combinator
- Contributor at HuffPost
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