YK Sugishita left Google in Montreal as a full-time software developer. He enjoyed his full-time work but decided to leave the job to focus on his YouTube channel.
When he told his friends about leaving the company, they thought he left the company to follow his passion. But that was not what he was doing. If following passion was why he stopped working at google, he would be a stand-up comedian.
He left google to fill the gap in the market he found. Earlier before Sugishita started working at Google, he started a YouTube channel called CS Dojo, which focused on mainly software engineer job interviews. He got more than 100,000 views and 5000 subscribers when he had uploaded on ten videos on the channel.
During that same time, he started coaching people on how to go through software engineer job interviews. The lessons Sugishita learned through this experience was that he began to see the difference between what people wanted and what they were getting. To him it was sort of like a gap in the market.
People wanted to see high-quality videos about software engineer interviews but they could not find them anywhere else. That was the reason for the many views of his videos.
Many people wants someone to teach them how to get through software engineer interviews one-on-one but they could not find anyone to do that for them easily and smoothly.
And that’s how they found Sugishita to help them. Because he was starting to feel the gap between what people wanted and what they were getting, he was able to grow his YouTube channel faster.
Through the channel, he was able to thousands of people. That’s when he came up with the idea to help them full-time.
