70: Youngest Amazon Engineer to building $1M Startup at 19 | Johnny Dallas , Founder of Zeet

Billion Moonshots

Johnny Dallas is the founder of Zeet. Zeet is a developer tool to help less experienced engineers easily deploy and scale their applications.

He broke into startups at 14 as a Software Engineer at Bebo (founded by Shaan Puri). A few years later, he was promoted as their Director of Operations, while still being a teenager. When Bebo got acquired by Twitch in 2019 he became the youngest engineer ever at Amazon. Then, he quit Amazon to start Zeet at 19.

We discuss his experience working with Shaan Puri, building various products, getting acquired by the biggest live streaming platform, managing high school & a full-time job & much more.

SPONSORS

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OUTLINE

(0:00) Origin Story

(6:46) First day in a startup as a 14 year old

(10:40) Rapid prototyping to find the next billion dollar idea

(12:45) Managing High school & writing code for a multi-million dollar startup

(16:35) Convincing parents to drop academics

(18:02) Shaan Puri - Frameworks king

(25:10) Director of Operations at 16

(30:02) Getting acquired by Twitch (Amazon)

(34:17) Interviewing for getting acqui-hired

(36:44) Learnings from building B2C products

(51:42) Lean Team at Zeet

CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga

GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_johnnydallas_

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonlyjo...

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