Cory Althoff
Founder at Self-Taught Media
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory Althoff is a founder, author, and product marketer with 11 years of experience building businesses and content that scale; his books The Self-Taught Programmer and The Self-Taught Computer Scientist have sold 200,000+ copies in eight languages without a traditional publisher. He grew CompTIA’s data products revenue fivefold in a year and led global go-to-market and demand forecasting for a 15-person ops team, blending technical fluency with commercial rigor. Cory built a profitable media and education business with a course of 175,000+ students and a blog reaching 100,000+ annual readers, and helped launch a #1 podcast that drove over a billion social views. Now based in Los Angeles, he runs Hard Stop, a marketing agency focused on making content that actually gets seen, and is writing The Self-Taught Marketer to codify his growth playbook. An MBA from USC Marshall complements his developer roots at eBay and Thuuz, giving him a rare mix of engineering, storytelling, and GTM leadership.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Political Science, B.A., Political Science at Clemson UniversityMba, Business Administration and Management, General, Mba, Business Administration and Management, General at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at USC Marshall School of Business
English
Github Skills (21)
netlify-functions10
computer-vision10
netlify9
vonage9
opentok9
python9
machine-learning9
tokbox9
python-sdk9
nuxt-module9
vue8
nuxt8
pytorch7
sdk7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
calthoff/self_taught
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
This repository contains the exercises for "The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally."
Contributions:98 commits, 1 PR, 231 pushes in 3 years 6 months
pythoncomputer-visionmachine-learningpython-3self-taught
calthoff/goselftaught
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Code examples for goselftaught.com
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
golang
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