How Dakota Snow Built a Tech Career Engine (Without Burning Out)

​If you’ve ever fallen into the YouTube rabbit hole of “how to get into tech,” chances are you’ve seen Dakota Snow - aka The Bearded IT Dad, breaking things down with zero fluff and all heart.

​But here’s the kicker: behind his viral videos and thriving online community is a wildly scrappy system built for long-term momentum. No full-time team. No growth hacks. Just consistent content, real community, and a flywheel that actually works.

​In this session, Dakota’s pulling back the curtain on how he went from side-hustler to full-time creator and coach, plus how he moved his entire community off a platform he didn’t own and survived to tell the tale.

​What you'll learn:

• ​How his YouTube-to-membership funnel works without feeling salesy

• ​Why “help-first” content still wins (and how to make it convert)

• ​What a self-hosted, sustainable content system looks like when you're doing it solo

​It’s part operations, part community-building, part “wow I should be doing this” and it’s all real talk.

​Come for the beard, stay for the systems.