• Matt joined Vercel's developer education orbit when Lee Robinson was leading that work and Jared Palmer was involved in his team. 13:00
  • He was already thinking about TypeScript education before joining Vercel. 13:23
  • His desire to teach came from missing the teaching work he had done before becoming a developer. 14:01
  • Advanced TypeScript became his topic because making XState type-safe exposed him to difficult type-system patterns. 14:23
  • Short TypeScript tips on Twitter grew his audience from roughly 4,000 to 10,000 followers. 14:52
  • Matt took a three-day-a-week Vercel contract so he could keep testing the TypeScript course idea. 15:18
  • He worked at Vercel during the Turbopack launch and helped write initial documentation. 17:07
  • A pre-release sale for Total TypeScript earned roughly 30 to 40 times his Vercel compensation, making the course the clear choice. 17:51