From the Academy floor in Bali to Microsoft, Warsaw.
Marco is an EX EPIC Academy graduate. He just landed a role at Microsoft in Warsaw — and his first move was to sit down and record what the academy actually gave him.
Not the brochure version. The real version: the habits, the failures, and the specific ways building live work in Bali compounds into something a company like Microsoft will hire you for.
What he said he actually learned
The video is short and unscripted, but the pattern Marco describes is the one every graduate repeats:
- Ship before you're ready. The academy's cadence forces you to produce real artifacts, weekly. That muscle is exactly what a fast-moving team like Microsoft hires against.
- Think agentically. Not waiting for a brief — framing problems, scoping them, and using AI as a collaborator to move in hours, not weeks.
- Build in public, with peers. Canggu's community of operators from 26 nations means you're never building in a vacuum. Marco's network walked out the door with him.
- Real work beats rehearsed theory. Every module runs against a live venture. The portfolio you leave with is the interview.
Why this matters if you're deciding
Marco came in looking to level up. He left with a Microsoft offer and a video explaining how he got there. That's the proof the academy trades in — outcomes, not promises.
If you've been waiting for a sign that the AGI-shifted job market rewards builders over credential-holders, this is it: a graduate, in his own words, occupying a seat at one of the biggest companies on earth.
Come build the same way.