# She Didn't Have a Roadmap. Just an Obsession With Learning | Esty Scheiner

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Podcast: [The TrailBLAZER Pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-trailblazer-pod-7056782)
Published: 2026-04-21T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

What happens when a girl with no tech background, no resources, and no roadmap decides to teach herself to code, and ends up at Google, Y Combinator, and building her own AI compliance company? Esty Scheiner, founder and CEO of Shiboleth, joins me for one of the most honest and inspiring founder conversations on the show. Esty opens up about teaching herself to code in high school with almost no resources, landing a spot at Google's prestigious Security Summer Institute, doing coding exercises in a notebook during seminary with no internet access, dropping out of NYU at 19 to manage a 6-person R&D team. This episode goes deep on imposter syndrome, what it really means to be a founder, the emotional toll of pivoting an idea you built from scratch, how to say "I don't know yet" without losing credibility, and why your starting point has nothing to do with your ceiling.

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