Interview with Master Inventor Angie Jones who has over 25 patents

Interview with Master Inventor Angie Jones who has over 25 patents Contact Angie: Website: https://angiejones.tech Twitter: https://twitter.com/techgirl1908 YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/angieluvboo/videos Angie's bio: Angie Jones is a Java Champion and Senior Director who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, writing tutorials and technical articles on http://angiejones.tech, and leading the online learning platform, Test Automation University. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the US and China. In her spare time, Angie volunteers with Black Girls Code to teach coding workshops to young girls in an effort to attract more women and minorities to tech. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• --------- Contents of this interview -------- 00:03 - Interview starts 00:50 - Du'An introduces Angie 06:10 - How did you get started in tech? 11:21 - We need more representation of people that not only will give you the game but put you in the game 12:51 - How do you find out if your idea is patent worthy or if there is an existing patent for that idea? 15:46 - Should you patent your business name? 20:17 - It's the idea that you patent you don't necessarily have to create the app 21:14 - What is the cost to create a patent 24:00 - If you work for an organization and you do a patent, who owns the patent? Who gets paid for it? 24:50 - Do you have like a patent wall where your patent plaques are? 26:39 - You are an HBCU grad and went to school for business, what got you into software engineering? 30:48 - What's the tech space like for someone who wants to go to HBCU? 36:14 - With the way everything is changing, would you recommend someone going to college to learn on their own? 38:47 - What language would you recommend for someone that wants to get into software engineering? 40:39 - What motivates your creativity? 45:49 - What about us creating our own? At what point do we work together to create our own and not look for jobs? Thoughts on entrepreneurship in the tech space for black people? 48:22 - What words of encouragement for those that wanna be themselves and also keep their job? 52:33 - What are your thoughts on big data and the use of Machine Learning in application to numerous industries? 55:46 - How do you determine what company you gonna work for? 59:36 - What's the difference between a patent and a provisional patent? 01:00:12 - Do you plan on getting another patent? 01:02:33 - Any encouraging words you wanna give the people before we go? 01:03:19 - Outro Du'An Lightfoot on Social Media: https://twitter.com/labeveryday DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!