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Bereket Engida

Open-Source Creator → Founder

Bereket taught himself programming in his bedroom in Addis Ababa before building Better Auth. He talks candidly about scaling an open-source library to millions of downloads, navigating Y Combinator as a solo founder, and his recent acquisition by Vercel.

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