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title: "Disrupting Higher Ed with Unibuddy's Tech Stack"
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# Disrupting Higher Ed with Unibuddy's Tech Stack

Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders — S3 E7: Disrupting Higher Ed: The Tech Stack and Growth Playbook of Unibuddy with Kimeshan Naidoo Press Play to Listen While You Browse S3 E7: Disrupting Higher Ed: The Tech Stack and Growth Playbook of Unibuddy with Kimeshan Naidoo Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders 0:00 25:01 1× Kimeshan Naidoo grew up in a small sugar can farming town, on the east coast of South Africa. At 12 years old, he found an old python book, installed Python... and started to teach himself how to code. Five years ago, he moved to London to study for his masters in Computer Science at UCL. He is a triathlete, completing his first triathlon last year - and is planning to complete an olympic triathlon and eventually, an iron man race. He and his co-founder both moved from different countries to London, but didn't really know what to expect. They met up for a coffee to discuss an idea, which immediately spoke to Kimeshan - as he lived out the problem they were trying to solve when he moved to London. They decided to move forward and build a platform that embeds chat capabilities for high school or prospective university students to chat with current students at a particular school. In fact, Naidoo built the first version as his dissertation project. This is the creation story of Unibuddy. Links https://unibuddy.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimeshan/ Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Amazing tools we use: If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast . Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain , sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart . Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Pocket Casts , Google Play , Breaker , Youtube , or the podcasting app of your choice. Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Latest Season of the Podcast is Sponsored By