Veteran-Founded Businesses You Need to Know

By: - April 11, 2018

#VetsWhoCode – Retool. Retrain. Relaunch.

Approximately 250,000 service members are leaving the military every year, starting new jobs, seeking education and/or new skill set training. This was the case for U.S. Air Force veteran Jerome Hardaway, who stumbled into his journey to become a software engineer when he took a marketing job to pay the bills, and was asked to update a website. He had never done that before—but he needed this first job, and figured he would figure it out. Jerome’s transition story could have been labeled successful at that point, but he decided to make it his mission to help other veterans break into web development and help fill the nation’s technical skills gap with America’s best. In 2014, he founded the nonprofit Vets Who Code, which builds squad-size classes of veterans into programmers by offering a free 14-week cohort (twice a year), where they virtually learn JavaScript in the evenings (the most popular computer language in the world).

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