From Basement to Boardroom: Why Gamers Are Poised to Become the Next Generation of Tech Leaders

That was the experience of Tech Elevator coding bootcamp graduate Kyle Pierson, who recently began his career as a software developer for LMI. He calls video games a "stepping stone" toward his coding career. As a child, he remembers asking his dad to look up cheat codes for Twisted Metal 2 online. "When he found a webpage that contained those codes, I realized that the computer was like a library where I could get anything I wanted," he says. This innate curiosity led to him wondering how computer programs worked.