Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React.  He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships. Why are you starting a company [00:00:35] DevRel and community are immeasurable [00:03:30] Extractive relationships in DevRel and community [05:58] Swag and broken trust [00:06:50] Transactional relationships [00:09:07] Fear about trying something new [00:11:28] Trying something new; an exercise in empathy [00:17:13] Carl's past failed company [00:18:25] New web technologies you're excited for [00:21:34] Zod and tRPC, type safety on network calls [00:22:27] Chronological Snobbery and jQuery [00:24:18] React as a middle aged man [00:26:02] React compared with Qwik's design goals [00:28:27] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reactiflux/message