Möbius Prize 2020 - Encounters - Patrick Balestra
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Patrick Balestra recounts his path from Ticino and USI to working as an iOS engineer at Spotify, describing how he turned an early passion for Apple technology into a career. He explains that he started exploring technology at 12, cultivated it as a hobby, won Apple’s WWDC Student Scholarship three times and attended two Silicon Valley conferences, which helped lead to his hiring at Spotify within about ten years.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:36Personal journey
- 4:05First steps with tech and Apple
- 8:17Early apps and learning
- 10:02Apple conference and early success
- 12:29From hobby to profession
- 13:52Work experiences and failures
- 14:55Working at Spotify
- 16:40Reflections and conclusions
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