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Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org

By Eric Johnson
Vjeran Pavic for Re/code

Hadi Partovi talks with Kara Swisher about how he discovered his love for programming, and how Steve Jobs’s death spurred him to create Code.org, a nonprofit that would spread that love to others. However, educational reform is easier said than done.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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