#12 Katrina Walker, CEO & Founder of CodeOp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann

Katrina Walker is the CEO & founder of CodeOp, Barcelona's first coding school for women and the TGNC community. Prior to that, Katrina worked on the central data science team at eDreams. Being originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she immigrated to Barcelona in 2016 to explore the rising tech scene from a data science perspective. Katrina comes from a multidisciplinary background starting first as a social worker for the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States. She has carried out social research with institutes such as the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Ber'Sheva Israel as well as presented on "Pedagogy and Postmodernism" at the University of Florence, Italy. Katrina Walker, CEO & Founder of CodeOp | Making It Real Podcast with Jan Brinckmann | Episode #12 00:00 How did you get started in the entrepreneurship space? 03:08 Triggering moment to start the venture 04:15 Lead time from validation to launch 04:55 How did you approach your validation? 05:46 About CodeOp's start and vision 07:47 When did you decide to incorporate? 08:32 Were you considering bootstrapping the company? 10:44 Tips to find the perfect investors 12:15 About ‘Women in Tech’ support 12:45 Solo-founding vs co-founding a company 14:00 How did you structure the core task areas of your company? 15:31 How do you get your board members committed and get the speed on the ground internally? 17:33 Mistakes while building CodeOp 20:13 How did you approach to take CodeOp globally? 23:01 CodeOp approaching Latin America as an international market 23:42 How does CodeOp's business model actually work? 26:10 Personally, how do you live entrepreneurship? 27:39 Learning how to use external advice 29:12 About the skill of decision-taking 30:08 What do you enjoy personally most in entrepreneurship? 33:31 What's next for CodeOp?