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How to balance ambition and well-being in high-pressure environments with Matt Wright of Gaia Net.In this episode, I sit down with Matt Wright, a seasoned community builder and leader with a fascinating journey from making pizzas to driving global tech initiatives.Matt shares his unique perspective on leadership, shaped by his experiences in sports, emergency medical services, and the tech world. We dive deep into how these diverse experiences have molded his approach to team building and management in the fast-paced startup environment.Here's what we cover:* (00:36) Matt's journey from California to New York and his love for cultural diversity* (04:29) The birth of Matt's passion for community building in college* (11:00) Matt's unexpected leap into the world of hackathons and global tech events* (21:14) The importance of understanding your 'why' in career choices* (28:59) Matt's approach to leadership and building resilient teams* (35:50) The value of diversity in thought and culture within teams* (47:10) Matt's insights on finding mentors and being a mentor* (54:44) Balancing tough love and nurturing in leadership* (59:53) Creating a positive startup culture without the "grind" mentalityWhether you're a budding leader, a community builder, or someone navigating the complex world of startups, this episode is packed with practical wisdom and inspiring stories. Matt's journey reminds us that the path to leadership is rarely straightforward, but it's always enriching.Join us for a conversation that might just change how you think about your own leadership journey and the communities you're part of or hope to build.☀︎ About Matt:Throughout his career, Matt has much experience as a community growth expert with emphasis in emerging markets. He has been responsible for community development around various technology brands in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Mainland China, and three additional international startup ecosystems as AngelHack's Director of Community Development. While there, Matt contributed to the development of their global developer community that scaled from 50k to 100k members in two years, powered by 200+ global Ambassadors. Along with his team and the Community, Matt remotely organized 150+ hackathons for Fortune 500 companies such as Mastercard, Motorola, ABInBev, RBC, Barclays, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and UBS, all with the help of a variety of local tech partners, NGOs, universities, accelerators and government agencies that embrace startup culture.T: @mateo_venturesM: medium.com/@mateo_ventures

Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network, dives into the significance of liberty, sovereignty, and freedom in the decentralized web. Explore Greg's journey, the challenges he faced, and the importance of community in Web3. Learn about building a Web3 product, maintaining work-life balance for founders, and the differences between Web2 and Web3. Greg also shares his insights on open-source technology, decentralized AI, and the role of governments in AI decentralization. As cofounder and CEO of Akash Network, Greg has transformed the future of cloud computing. Prior to Akash, Greg founded AngelHack, the world's largest hackathon organization with over 100,000 developers across 50 cities worldwide. He launched his career at IBM and later designed Kaiser Permanente's first cloud architecture. We hope you enjoy Greg's conversation with hosts Kenzi Wang, Sachi Kamiya, and Diksha Dutta, where he talks in-depth about his Web3 X AI journey.

Prioritizing People and Planet Over Short-Term Profit – Ep722 Featuring Interview Guest, CEO of Diviners Movement, a Watson Fellow, Former Regional Manager at AngelHack, Ngan Jasmine Nguyen (Nguyễn Thúy Ngân); and Featuring Performance Guest, Singer-Songwriter, Alisun Solis on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 722, Titled, “Prioritizing People and Planet Over Short-Term Profit” Interview Guest: NGAN JASMINE NGUYEN; and Performance Guest: ALISUN SOLIS

“Being in a startup is tough. People that want to join a startup might think you will free up your time and achieve financial freedom, but there is actually a lot of grind behind the scenes.” --- Advent Phang   In this podcast episode, Advent shares personal stories of his entrepreneurial journey with HealthMetrics. He talks about the differences between being a CTO in a tech startup and a corporate company. Advent shares the challenges faced and lessons learned when building a tech startup.  To check HealthMetrics as mentioned in the podcast, here is the link:  https://healthmetrics.com/   Advent Phang is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at HealthMetrics, the award-winning corporate healthcare solution. Advent has more than 14 years of experience as a software solutions architect for gaming, oil and gas, travel and insurance industry. Among his previous accolades include emerging as world champion with his team at the prestigious global AngelHack competition in San Francisco, USA. With all his experiences and achievements, Advent is committed to revolutionising and improving HealthMetrics' services that comprise technology advancement and data security in providing the best solution to the clients.   If you enjoy the podcast, do leave us feedback on Apple Podcasts/ iTunes! It will help us understand our listeners better and help convince high profile guests to join us on the show. Follow our host, Derek Toh: Instagram: instagram.com/derektohc Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/derektoh Follow Hello Mentor!: http://hiredly.com/hellomentor

A seasoned open-source developer of 25+ years, Greg Osuri is the CEO and co-Founder of Akash Network, an open-source decentralized cloud that provides a fast, efficient, and low-cost application deployment. Prior to Akash Network, Greg founded AngelHack, the world's largest hackathon organization with over 200,000 developers across 164 cities across the globe. At AngelHack, he helped launch several developer companies including Firebase, which was acquired by Google in 2014. Greg launched his career at IBM and later designed Kaiser Permanente's first cloud architecture. As an expert in open-source, distributed systems, and blockchain development, and an applied economist, Greg is a featured international speaker and has spoken recently at events including Kong Summit, Block-Con, and Block to the Future. His work has been featured in top-tier publications including BeInCrypto, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Forbes, TechCrunch, and Yahoo! Finance. Greg was instrumental in the passing of California's first Blockchain law, providing the first expert-witness testimony at the Senate. About Akash Network: Akash Network, the world's first decentralized and open-source cloud, accelerates deployment, scale, efficiency and price performance for high-growth industries like blockchain and machine learning/AI. Greg's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregosuri

About Greg:As co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, Greg has transformed the future of cloud computing. Prior to Akash, Greg founded AngelHack, the world's largest hackathon organization with over 150,000 developers across 50 cities worldwide. A renowned open source, distributed systems, and blockchain developer and thought leader, and applied economist, Greg has helped launch multiple developer companies including Firebase, acquired by Google in 2014, while he was at AngelHack. He launched his career at IBM and later designed Kaiser Permanente's first cloud architecture. Greg is a frequently featured speaker, and was instrumental in the passing of California's first Blockchain law, providing the first expert-witness testimony at the Senate.About Akash Network:Akash Network, the world's first decentralized and open-source cloud, accelerates deployment, scale, efficiency, and price performance for high-growth industries like blockchain and machine learning/AI. Known as the "Airbnb for Cloud," Akash Network provides a fast, efficient, and low-cost application deployment. Developers leveraging Akash Network can access cloud computing at up to 3x less than the cost of centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Utilizing containerization technology, Akash Network leverages 85% of underutilized cloud capacity in 8.4 million global data centers, enabling anyone to buy and sell cloud computing. For more information visit: https://akash.network/.

Episode 57. Pitch Like A Crocodile Wrestler with Martin Barnes How do you connect when you only have 8 seconds of attention? How do you start your pitch like a sprinter? And what can you learn from a terrible TEDx experience? Welcome to The Storypowers Podcast, the show about the power of stories, the people who tell them and why you should be doing it too. I'm your host, keynote speaker and storytelling coach, Francisco Mahfuz. My guest today is Martin Barnes. Martin is a pitch coach with 20 years experience in London & Beijing working with tech company CEO's, Hollywood A-listers and director boards. His clients include Google, BMW, Chinaccelerator, AngelHack, and the NBA. You can find him at eightsecondstoconnect.com, and here are the free material he mentioned in the episode: https://eightsecondstoconnect.com/presentation-resources/. If you like the show, please leave us a rating on Apple podcasts, share it and SUBSCRIBE! The support is very much appreciated. And please send me your comments on what you'd like to hear on future episodes. You can connect with me on LinkedIn, where I post regularly, and on storypowers.com. You can also check out my book "Bare: A Guide to Brutally Honest Public Speaking" on Amazon.

Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO, co-founder AppFollow. Anatoly has specialized in mobile app development and promotion since 2009. Having started his career as a CTO with TochkaK, Anatoly joined Ostrovok.ru where he worked as the Head of Mobile Products for two years. In 2013 Anatoly won a hackathon hosted by AngelHack. At present he combines his business pursuits with teaching at Netologia online school, where he delivers lecture courses “Mobile Marketing” and “Mobile Product”. Anatoly is the undoubted leader of our team, with invaluable expertise in ASO and competitive app analysis. He is a huge fan of metrics and remote culture and is passionate about SaaS and startup development. He is also the one to shape the key aspects of company strategy and drive its implementation. FIND ANATOLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO, co-founder AppFollow. Anatoly has specialized in mobile app development and promotion since 2009. Having started his career as a CTO with TochkaK, Anatoly joined Ostrovok.ru where he worked as the Head of Mobile Products for two years. In 2013 Anatoly won a hackathon hosted by AngelHack. At present he combines his business pursuits with teaching at Netologia online school, where he delivers lecture courses “Mobile Marketing” and “Mobile Product”.Anatoly is the undoubted leader of our team, with invaluable expertise in ASO and competitive app analysis. He is a huge fan of metrics and remote culture and is passionate about SaaS and startup development. He is also the one to shape the key aspects of company strategy and drive its implementation.FIND ANATOLY ON SOCIAL MEDIALinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

In this episode we talk to Greg Osuri, the CEO of Akash Network. The DeCloud for DeFi, and the world's first decentralized cloud computing marketplace built with the help of Cosmos-SDK and Tendermint. Akash Decentralized Cloud is 'a faster, better, and lower cost cloud built for DeFi, decentralized projects, and high growth companies, providing unprecedented scale, flexibility, and price performance. 10x lower in cost, its serverless computing platform is compatible with all cloud providers and all applications that run on the cloud'. We spoke to Greg about decentralized cloud, of course and what are its benefits. About open-source and its efficiency. The stages in the development of cloud technology. Interoperability, scalability, composability... and a lot of other fancy, tech terms that Greg breaks down for much easier understanding. We talked about DeFi and flash loans. About SLA for AWS and alternative data providers. ‘Amazon tax’ and the ‘Burgers and fries’ business model. Gregs's Twitter (https://twitter.com/gregosuri) The projects and people that have been mentioned in this episode: | Tendermint (https://tendermint.com/) | Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/) | Akash Network (https://akash.network/) | Elastic search (https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/) | Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/) | Uniswap (https://uniswap.org/) | MyEtherWallet (https://www.myetherwallet.com/) | Equinix (https://www.equinix.co.uk/) | Nucypher (https://www.nucypher.com/) | Urbit (https://urbit.org/) | Angelhack (https://angelhack.com/) | Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/) | IBC (https://cosmos.network/ibc) | Solana (https://solana.com/) | Brian Fox (https://twitter.com/brianjfox) | Solomon Hykes (https://twitter.com/solomonstre) | If you like what we do at Citizen Cosmos: - Stake with Citizen Cosmos validator (https://www.citizencosmos.space/staking) - Help support the project via Gitcoin Grants (https://gitcoin.co/grants/1113/citizen-cosmos-podcast) - Listen to the YouTube version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI) - Read our blog (https://citizen-cosmos.github.io/blog/) - Check out our GitHub (https://github.com/citizen-cosmos/Citizen-Cosmos) - Join our Telegram (https://t.me/citizen_cosmos) - Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/cosmos_voice) - Sign up to the RSS feed (https://www.citizencosmos.space/rss)

Ask and you shall receive! ✨The day before I was introduced to Greg Gopman, I made an intention that I wanted to speak with someone that was an entrepreneur in the tech space who has benefited greatly from psychedelics. The next day, I was introduced to Greg and glad I was. Having started multiple tech companies, Greg talks about entrepreneurialism, his experiences with Peyote and San Pedro plant medicines, and how he has used psychedelics to help navigate his journey. Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe to this channel! Social Handles: Greg Gopman - @gregsstory on IG Trip On This - @triponthis_pod on IG, TW, and TikTok & /triponthispod for FB About Greg Gopman: Greg is a serial tech entrepreneur and journeyman, whose spent 7 years living in Silicon Valley and another 7 traveling the world. He's most known for building AngelHack, a global startup events company, which allows him to travel and throw events in 30 countries around the world. Enjoying Trip On This? Help support it! By donating to the show, it allows Kat to continue filming episodes, renting gear, sharing knowledge, building community around psychedelics, and ultimately creating free content that everyone can benefit from! The more awakened people in this world, the happy, healthier, and safer it is! Paypal Donations Link: PayPal Link Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/triponthis Thank you all for the continued support!

Jonas Wolf is an enthusiastic facilitator, entrepreneur and leadership coach with a track record of transforming lives by inspiring and empowering people, driving change, growth, and getting results for individuals, startups, and corporations alike. He draws on his rich background of working in 4 continents, with dozens of startups and corporates, launching his own business in Germany and the innovation agency AngelHack in China. Jonas’ purpose is to help people and their ideas to GROW in order to make a positive difference to the world. He believes that the world needs more purpose-driven, engaged, and optimistic leaders to contribute their ideas to the companies they work for or build. Jonas is honored to be recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. He co-founded the social impact movement ChallengePreneurs whose mission is to inspire leadership, empower future leaders to lead from anywhere, and to make a difference to one million people. -------------------------------------------- ChallengePreneurs LinkedIn Page https://www.linkedin.com/company/challengepreneurs Jonas' website: https://jonaswolf.coach

In this episode, I chat with Hassan Mirza, Marketing Manager at AngelHack, and the founder of HOUSE. Hassan is an advocate for the underrepresented and create HOUSE, a new community platform for queer trans people of color thriving at the intersection of tech and culture, to help promote talent from a community that is often discriminated against. We chat about his experiences as a queer man of color, the importance of diversity in the workplace, and how companies can do a better job at recruiting and retaining diverse talent.You can connect with Hassan on Twitter and LinkedIn:https://twitter.com/Hassanmirzahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/heyhass/

This is the forty-fourth episode of the Average to Savage podcast featuring entrepreneur Christina Lila Wilson. Paul Guarino talked with Christina Lila Wilson discussing her how she chose her career path, working at AngelHack, and the future of technology. Follow Christina Lila Wilson www.instagram.com/lilalive Powered by Current Wave Marketing www.currentwavemarketing.com

Dez Blanchfield talks with David Clark of David Clark Cause & Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, IBM VP Developer Technology, Open Source & Advocacy, about the Call For Code project, IBM’s role as founding partner, the collaboration with the UN Human Rights Office, American Red Cross, Linux Foundation, Angelhack, Cloud Native Computing Foundation & New Enterprise Associates. Call For Code aims to be the largest mobilisation of developers to create solutions to improve preparedness for natural disasters & relief. More info here => http://bit.ly/cfc000

Hackathons have been around for quite some time. Even in Sri Lanka, it's popular, particularly among the university crowd. We recently caught up with Ratish Narayanan, Regional Manager South Asia, AngelHack, to talk all things hackathon. Here's the latest of ReaderPod. Enjoy! In case you're confused about what AngelHack is: https://www.readme.lk/angelhack-sri-lanka-2017/

What up, Get Up Nation? My name is Ben Biddick, the Host of the Get Up Nation Podcast and Co-Author of Get Up: The Art of Perseverance with former Major League Baseball Player and CEO of Lurong Living, Adam Greenberg. Welcome to Episode 21! Recently, I had the honor and privilege of speaking with the brave and brilliant Christina Lila Wilson of AngelHack. Christina became disillusioned by the slow pace of the American non-profit space and hungered to have a more immediate, powerful impact in some of the most troubled, violent, and impoverished environments on our planet. She discovered and joined AngelHack and now travels the world helping some of the hungriest entrepreneurs and visionaries on earth create solutions for global problems such as coexistence, financial inclusion, women’s empowerment, rare disease, road safety, and access to education. AngelHack’s synchronization of the non-profit and technology worlds has helped Christina and those she serves make the impact they crave with speed and efficiency. Listen to Christina share how she refuses to be funneled into common silos of perspective and blends people of different ages, cultures, socioeconomic strata, and other categories. Together, they build practical, effective solutions while serving with power and passion. I hope you enjoy hearing how outdated paradigms of technology, progress, and business are being transcended by “warrior souls” who use their suffering and pain to defeat hopelessness with opportunity, intelligence, and hard work. Christina journeys where Silicon Valley is often too afraid to go and brings investors with her. End your work week with this powerful episode of the Get Up Nation Podcast that is built on a foundation of resilience and passionate service! www.angelhack.com www.getupnationpodcast.com Music: Awaken by Ethan Rank and First and Last by Josh Leake You Tube: bit.ly/2CzePma Facebook: @getupnationpodcast itunes: apple.co/2xZPeih Instagram: @getupnationpodcast Twitter: @getupnationpod Soundcloud: bit.ly/2gNLtXk iHeart Radio: ihr.fm/2Jr08DU Stitcher: bit.ly/2yzoklu Overcast: bit.ly/2zry0LS Spreaker: bit.ly/2l4pmR3 Acast: bit.ly/2z1P6AM Twitch: bit.ly/2I1aRpb Buy the book: amzn.to/2rt2lWN --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/get-up-nation-podcast/support

Chris Chuter: @Chris_Chuter Show Notes: 00:47 - Peeple: What is it? Why? 02:59 - Iterations and User Testing 13:32 - Complexity of Installation 17:26 - Device Integration 22:15 - Setup and Installation 25:35 - Laws and Building Codes 26:39 - Getting Started in this Space 31:29 - Ensuring Quality, Integration Testing, and Deployment Pipelines 33:18 - The Manufacturing Process Resources: If This Then That (IFTTT) Transcript: CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 82. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me is Elrick Ryan. Hello Elrick. ELRICK: Hey, hello. CHARLES: And today, we are going to be continuing our series on the Internet of Things and we have someone on the podcast today who's going to talk to us about the Internet of Things. His name is Chris Chuter and he is the CEO, inventor and founder of Peeple. Hey, Chris. CHRIS: Hey. How is it going? CHARLES: It's gone well. Thanks for coming on the program. Peeple, what is it? Why don't you give us a quick overview of the product? Obviously it pertains to IoT, what is it and how did you become involved with it? Let's delve into that. CHRIS: Yes, sure. Let me give you the elevator short version first then we can dive deeper. Peeple is caller ID for your front door. The idea is when you get a phone call and you don't answer the phone, what happens? It goes to your voicemail. You know someone called you. But today, if someone comes to your house, you have no idea that they came unless you're there. This is the central problem that we solved with Peeple. It's a little device, a hardware device, an Internet of Things device that fits over the peephole in your door in the inside of your house. When someone knocks or doors open, you get a push notification on your phone. You can open up the phone and you can see a live view of your peephole. In a nutshell, Peeple is a smart peephole. CHARLES: Is it more for the case when you're not home at all or do you find the people use it for what you would traditionally use a peephole. CHRIS: It depends on the person. Now, my personal use case is for keeping track of wandering kids and that's actually inspiration for this invention. I have two boys and when one of my boys was three years old, he managed to open the door, walk out, go on to the street and walk down to the end of the street. Now, I live in Austin and I live right off the edge of a very busy street. Now, my kid didn't die or anything like that. It's not a really sad story but a neighbor brought my kid home and it was one of those moments as a parent where you're like, "Oh my God. I'm a terrible parent." But being an inventor and an engineer, I was like, "I'm going to hook something up that just tells me when my door is opened or closed," and it morphed into this invention. We showed it to people at South by Southwest almost three or four years ago. That's when we realized we were on to something that didn't exist. It was just a little camera on the door. CHARLES: Tell me about those first versions. I'm so curious. It sounds like there's a lot of layers of functionality that you've been through, a lot of iterations so I'm curious about that. What's was that zero iteration look like? CHRIS: Version 0 was made in 24 hours. It was a hackathon for... I can't remember the name of it. There was a hackathon group that recently imploded and we won this hackathon. The hackathon thing was to make something... I'm not sure if this is for Internet of Things but we were all making that kind of stuff. I made this little Raspberry Pi demo with a little mini door and I had talked to my wife and this is how I was able to make this invention, to keep track the kid as I was busy doing other stuff but I talked her into giving me 24 hours to make this one thing. Then me and another guy, David we won this hackathon. We were like, "We've got to turn this into a real thing," because one of the awards of the hackathon was you go to Silicon Valley, you show this off and you do all this cool stuff with it. We were like, "We've got to actually turn this into something that's presentable." That was Version 0. It was just a little Raspberry Pi. CHARLES: Now, what were you doing to detect the state of the door? CHRIS: That's the crazy thing. The first version of the device had more sensors on it than the final version. The first version had everything. It had a doorbell, it had a knock sensor, it had a motion, it had a speaker that played Paul McCartney's 'Someone's Knockin' At The Door,' but it had an accelerometer. I threw everything in there the first thing and half of it worked for the hackathon demo but it was good enough to win. This is something that, I guess I could call wisdom now but the real thing I learned is you start with everything and then you narrow and get it more tuned and highly focused and more precise as a device, like the difference between the iPhone and the Samsung phones. One of them is to throw everything into it and then the iPhone is just really specialize into a few things really well. The next three years, we're pulling stuff out. CHARLES: What are some examples of that calling that you're describing where you're saying, "I'm to take this out? I'm going to take this out. I'm going to take that out." CHRIS: We got rid of things like the doorbell and some of the other sensors, mainly because it was just a wiring issue and as well as we wanted to keep track when the door was opened and closed. It didn't make sense to have the speaker on there at the time so we really focused more on the accelerometer and the knock sensor for the first version of Peeple. CHARLES: That is not the final version. Is it mostly just the accelerometer? What if someone doesn't knock? I assume there's some sort of detection that goes on with the camera. CHRIS: That's the next version. That's something that we've been working on right now, what we're going to be delivering. We have delivered our first, I would say Version 1.0 of Peeple devices to our customers. There's a thousand of these or so in the wild, all around the world and the next version we have added -- and I guess this my first real announcement of this -- a motion detection module. It's not a camera-based. It's more or less magic and it just works through the door. That's the most I'm going to say on it right now because we're probably the first hardware device that it's actually using this technology. ELRICK: That's an excellent pitch. Everyone loves magic. CHRIS: Yes, it's basically magic. It works through the door. ELRICK: As you were going to these iterations, were you doing like user testing to see what users wanted? Or did you internally say, "This doesn't make sense. Let's just take this out." CHRIS: Absolutely. That's the second part of this story. After this hackathon happened, we prepared to go on the road show to go and show it off to Silicon Valley but in the meantime, this hackathon group, I think it was called AngelHack, it imploded. One of their founders made all these disparaging comments about homeless people and what essentially happened is we lost the award. They said, "We're sorry. We can't give you the award," but we had spent about three months fine-tuning, making something pretty and putting a pitch together. I went in and I pitched at a TechCrunch Meetup in Austin and we came in second at that but during that meetup, I met one of the reporters and said, "You really need to talk to these guys in San Francisco called Highway1," so I did. We eventually ended up moving to San Francisco. Now, the reason I mentioned that to answer your question is they understand this idea of user testing, I think better than a lot of people. Even though they were focused on working on hardware and getting an IoT device that works out there, they were drilling it into our heads is, "You have to get this in people's homes now. I don't care how bad it is. I don't care if you have to hire people, to sit at a peephole and just look through it and pretend like there are hardware device. You got to do this and you have to find out what the problems are, what works. I want you to look at your biggest fears of this thing and you quash them and you do that before you put any Silicon down," so we did that as best we could. CHARLES: So you did that with the Version 0 and Version 1 devices? CHRIS: Exactly, just a Version 0, I have all these pictures. We put them in about 12 to 20 homes and we have these long extension cords powering this thing because we didn't have the batteries to figure out. We had these huge lag problems. It would take like 30 seconds to a minute before something would happen. We had all these issues but in the end, people were still like, "It had these issues. You couldn't do this," but the fact that I had a door log, a door diary as what we're calling it now, that's something I never had before. That's where your secret sauce is so we ran with that. CHARLES: Yeah. That's the kind of thing it never even occurs to you. CHRIS: Exactly. In the app, or at least the early versions of the app, is you have these versions like a calendar that are like, "Okay, I got 10 visits yesterday. I got 20 visits today. No one came to visit me today. I'm so sad," but I have a calendar of, I think it was May of last year when I got visited by three or four magazine salesman in one week so you could correlate that with, "Did we have any break ins?" or something like that. CHARLES: Yeah, it would be interesting to be able to share that data with your neighborhood or somehow coordinate that. one of things I'm curious about too is you did this user testing you were talking about, doing the wiring and the installation, it's a conversation that always comes up when you're talking about custom hardware because there's always the drive to be small, there's always the drive to be have a small form factor and then you have challenges of power like how do you power this device. How cumbersome is the installation onto someone's door? CHRIS: Yeah, we had it all. That's a big difference, I think between San Francisco or Silicon Valley and other towns is there's this acceptance and there's this readiness to participate in the tech scene. We did a call out for volunteers and we had no problems finding them. They didn't mind us coming to their house and hooking up these big, bulky things and just being real intrusive. The fact that we found these people and they were the key to this early stage of, "Do you become a product or do you not?" We were only there for four months but by the end of this time that we were there, there was this legitimate tangible feeling of we're not a prototype anymore. We're a product and we didn't have a product. It was just prettier but we could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don't think that would have happened had we not gone through this very painful experience with all these poor people that we inflicted our device on. CHARLES: This actually is fascinating because obviously, you're back in Austin now and I never heard of programs like that, like sign up to have someone come up and test it at some alpha stage prototype in your home. That sounds crazy and yet, it sounds like they were just going out of the woodwork. CHRIS: In San Francisco, it's not a problem. If I put the call out now, I probably have to really like, "Here's an Amazon gift card." I have to start doing a little bit of bribery. ELRICK: I think I would sign up just to see the cool tech. CHRIS: Yeah and those people exist. I think we don't have the means to really find them. That infrastructure already exists. In Silicon Valley, you just go down to Starbucks. CHARLES: There ought to be some sort of meetup for people who want to experiment with very early stage IoT devices here in Austin. Maybe, we'll have to look at it. If that doesn't exist, I would love being a guinea pig. I actually think there is an untapped willingness here but there's just not -- CHRIS: I think you need a critical mass of hardware people and hardware devices that are ready to be put in doors or put in the houses. There's definitely some in there. I have a lot of friends and there are hardware meetups that we go to but this stuff takes so long and it's so hard as hardware is hard. There's that small window of, "We got this little idea of a water sprinkler. Do you think anyone want to try it out?" or something like that and then the moments gone. Then six months later, there's another one. CHARLES: Yeah. I wonder if there's a way to really decrease that iteration cycle so that you can get feedback more quickly. I guess the problem is when you need a physical device, you just needed a physical device. CHRIS: We're talking about the Maker Movement and the MakerClub. If you're part of those, these people are hard to find. People that go to Maker Faires, that's the people you're looking for. CHARLES: Right. Now, transitioning because ultimately your target customer base is not makers, not people who are willing to put up with wires and cabling and people doing protracted installation. What does the kind of 1.0 product look like? Because what I'm curious is what immediately jumps to mind is this thing sounds like it's going to probably consume a lot of power. How do you get the power to that and what are the challenges and what are the tradeoffs that you have to make to try and get that power consumption down or get the installation complexity down? How complex is it today to install? CHRIS: I guess, I'll toot my own horn a little bit but I think we have one of the easiest IoT devices on the planet to install. You can possibly not even need tools. You can use your fingers but the biggest challenge for any IoT device is getting that home network connection. If there's been a few technologies through the years in which they've tried to fix this problem, basically just like self-pairing or things like that, like how Bluetooth can sometimes be really cumbersome. Now imagine that with Wi-Fi, it's the same thing but now you've got a password you've got to throw in there. That's really the only real hiccup with the installation on our device and we tried a few things. We went through about three different Wi-Fi chips before we settled on what we were using now. The first Wi-Fi chip was a TI one, which offered this nice pairing capability but it just didn't work half the time. Then we switched to a Broadcom chip, which was really solid and stable but turned out to be the most expensive component in the whole device so we had to get rid of that. The Wi-Fi issue was something we had to solve early because it goes also toward your power consumption. We have a camera and a Wi-Fi chip and both of those take up to 140 to 200 milliamps of juice when they're on. We had to be really smart of when this thing was going to be on and that's essentially when we went in parallel with the knock accelerometer. This device stays asleep most of the time and that's how we get the many months of battery life out of it. We put a rechargeable battery inside, it only turns on when it needs to and it's just hanging around waiting for an event for the rest of the time. Those were the things we were solving to get the Version 1. CHARLES: Now, it's waiting for some event but in order to receive the event, doesn't the accelerometer need to be on? Or is there some motion detector that --? CHRIS: That's a solved problem. good news was that accelerometers are extremely low power in the nano or picoamps but that's also another reason why the motion detection was going to be a hard problem because that is not, unless you're using what's called a PIR that is not a low power solution. CHARLES: Acronym alert. What is a PIR? CHRIS: It's an infrared proximity detection. That's how almost all motion detection cameras work. They have one hole for the camera and another hole for the PIR. The problem with these are is they don't work well in sunlight, outdoor-light and things like that in one of our use cases so we were kind of stuck. That's why we've recently come up with this new motion solution that doesn't rely on that technology -- the magic solution. CHARLES: All right. When we're going to find out about the magic solution? CHRIS: As soon as I ship this next version because it is being used in a few products but it's not really stateside yet and I want to save my thunder but it's something that I think is really cool. It really is magic. It's just amazing to me that it works. CHARLES: Well, I'm eager to see it. You were talking about Wi-Fi being one of the biggest challenges. That's a perfect segue. The connection to the network for something that we're always curious is discovering a new and interesting device is always a pleasure and then the next thought that almost funnels immediately after is how can I integrate this with other strange and wonderful devices to make something even more wonderful? A question we ask everybody is have you thought about how this might be a participant in an ecosystem so if there were other devices around the home, how would they even talk to the people? How might it offer information to someone looking to, maybe do some custom integration in their home? CHRIS: That's a lot of questions in one. Essentially, there's two ways of looking at it. You can look at it from your customer's perspective, what kind of customer do I think is going to have this or is going to use this the most. Back when we came up with this, there were a lot of do-it-yourself types and If This Then That protocol was out there but we really wanted to focus on something that was incredibly easy to use and didn't require you to program anything. I was really frustrated with the whole idea of Internet of Things because it almost implied that you had to be a programmer to use it. I didn't like that at that time. I've since come around to it because there's all these great tool kits out there. We initially looked at integrating with HomeKit. We thought they'd be perfect but what a lot of consumers don't realize is early HomeKit -- I don't believe it does that anymore -- made you modify your hardware to put in this special Apple hardware. When you're making a device, it is so hard just to get the hardware down. It's so expensive. To add anything or to put anything else in there, it's a huge friction point. It's really something that small startups just can't afford to do. A big Nest or a company like that have no problem but when you're making a one device, this is a big deal so we weren't able to really leverage something like HomeKit for an API. But we do have our own cloud-based API. We're RESTful API but it's just not documented and put out in a way where we want to have people programming it. But the good news is we did leverage several APIs when we were making things like the app and doing things like the push notifications and things like that. Now, it turns out that a lot of the case we used are now integrating with things like Alexa and other device protocols so we essentially get those for free. This whole ecosystem is forming around us. Just most important is to get your device out there because you have a vision for what the device will be used for. But then your customers tell you what the device is really useful for and that's when the real work starts. CHARLES: Right. I guess, it's true you have your first line of customers and I guess the use case what I was thinking of is me being a developer. I'm thinking what products could be built then using this as a component, so to speak. Have you'd given any thought to that or have anyone had approached you to say, "This is amazing. I'd like to build this meta product that integrates that," or is it kind of early days? CHRIS: Early on, that was the approach of the Internet of Things and it merged away from that in my experience. Early on, it was all about building blocks. You got to understand, these are old Zigbee Z-Wave programmers and that was the whole concept. Then it got turned on its head by, "I really have this problem that I need to solve and I don't want to have to make a bunch of building blocks to do this." For attacking it from the other side, like you're saying, building up into pieces, I really recommend you talk to the Twine guys -- super mechanical -- they're here in Austin as well. A year or so before, we came out with Peeple. They put out this device which was exactly what you're talking about. An Internet of Things type hub where you just add in all the pieces and then you integrate with everything. They can better give you a story of how that lifeline goes. CHARLES: Yeah, because it's always something you think about because you've got all these wonderful things. CHRIS: Yeah, some would say, an Internet of Things. CHARLES: Yup, or at least a floor plan. ELRICK: When someone gets a Peeple device, what is the full installation story and set up? What is the walkthrough for that? CHRIS: We have a little video of that. What you essentially do for Peeple when you're installing it on the peephole in your door, you unscrew the peephole. Now, the way Peeple's work is they need to handle doors that are variable width, depending on where you live. There's no real standard. All of the Peeple's work by having a shaft that you screw onto another side so it's basically two pieces. Now, one of those shafts holds this bracket that we include in the package. You screw that onto your door with the peephole holding it to the door, then you turn on the Peeple device and you connect it to your home Wi-Fi and then you're ready to go. That's it. CHARLES: That's the hardware side of the onboarding and then what about the software? How do I go and look at my door diary? CHRIS: You do this during the installation. You go to My.Peeple.io and there's a little button to add your Peeple device. UI-wise, it's one user interface among all the platforms whether your Android, iPhone or on a browser. You just go to that webpage and associate your account to your Peeple devices. You will have to log in. You can log in with Gmail, Facebook or just a regular email. Then you add your device and any time you go back to that page, it will show you only the videos from your device so you have a list of all the events from your Peeple device on that page or in that app. CHARLES: That is interesting. I'm looking at the videos right now online. Although my problem actually is I've got a glass door. CHRIS: Yes, we got you covered as well. CHARLES: You do? CHRIS: Yes. The reason you have a glass door or a peephole and many people don't realize this is it because it's required by law. If you ever plan to have run out your house as a multi-family unit, you have to have a peephole or a window surface to where people can look out. Once we figured that, that's when we realized we were onto something. The first versions of Peeple came with these little adhesive pads that we called gecko skin and this is where we learned a valuable lesson. No matter how sticky you make your stickers, they're not sticky enough. We included three of these little tabs in every device to put on a glass door, if you had glass so the Peeple device would work the same way for glass door, except that you would use a sticker, instead of unscrewing the peephole. The only problem with the stickers were is they were not sticky enough. If there was condensation or a weather event or something like that, these things would fall off so we made a modification. We found better stickers and I mailed those out to all the people. But this is why hardware is hard. You're going to make these mistakes. In all our testing, we didn't find this but of course, once you have a thousand testers, you find a little more. ELRICK: That's interesting that you brought up the laws about the peephole. Were there any particular building codes or anything of that nature that you guys had to be concerned about when having Peeple installed things on their doors that you had to figure out before shipping them out? CHRIS: Not really. The Texas property code is more geared among making landlords do the right thing. In case you're wondering, I think it's Texas Property Code 94-152 that covers this. There must be an external viewable portion for all multi-family units to the front entryway. Now, this is just the Texas law. We had to look this up in a few other states and it turns out there's one in San Francisco, there's one in Virginia but they're all different. But so far, we haven't had any issues with any property codes or building code issues. CHARLES: This has been an almost four-year odyssey for you that you've been on, right? CHRIS: Right. CHARLES: You've been involved in this scene and working with hardware probably for a long time even before that, it sounds like. For people who are just getting into it, because I feel like there's this wave cresting now, where these types of startups and these types of side projects and hobby projects are just starting to enter the mainstream. Do you have any advice for anybody who would want to get into this space? CHRIS: Well, that's a great question. Of course. Now, contrary to what you just stated, I didn't have much of a hardware background. I'm a software guy. I can personally attest to the pains of becoming a hardware guy. Now, the irony of this is I do have a master's degree in electronics engineering but electronic engineering is so huge. It's such a big field that you can spend your entire career not doing much hardware. But I always had the ability to go back and build some circuits but I would say the number one thing, if you're not a hardware guy is go to some of these meetups or get involved in a community and find yourself one, someone who has experience doing hardware because coming from the software room, you're used to this flexibility of changing a few lines of code and being everything changing. Now, when you get a hardware guy onboard and our hardware guy's name is Craig, when he comes to work -- CHARLES: Or gal. CHRIS: Yeah, or gal, of course. When they look at the same problems you're looking at, they're like, "Hold on a second. Let's step back. Let's test this." There's this quantitative slowing which you need to have as hardware because once you build a PCB, a circuit board, you are now stuck with that board for the next month or so because it takes a while to make another one so get that right before you jump around and do all these changes. My first advice would be is get help. There's no shame in going out there and you might be surprised. There are so many people out there that want to join in. If you have a good idea, there's plenty of people who want to contribute. CHARLES: Would you say that there are communities out there like the software communities where you have meetups? Some of the software meetups are just fantastic, where people are so welcoming and they're just so excited to share the information that they themselves are so excited about. CHRIS: Yes and there's the same thing as on the hardware side. You would definitely go to a few hardware meetups, there are several in Austin. There's at least one every week and it's a great chance for people to tell these kinds of stories. This is a maker type community so they welcome these ideas because that's what fuels their enthusiasm. Every time someone is doing something new, they want to hear it. That's the change now. This decade has happened to where you can go out and buy a few modules and make your little device. Then there's the next big step of turning it into going from prototype to hardware but you can get all those kinks out without having to make your own printed circuit boards, without having to have a huge firmware background. Just knowing a little bit of tech and a Raspberry Pi, you can test out your inventions at this early stage without having to invest all this money and these other things. There's never been a better time to do it. I would leave your listeners with is if you got something swirling around your head, get a Pi, get a little Arduino and do it. There's nothing stopping you. CHARLES: Yeah, it's shocking how affordable they are. CHRIS: I don't even touch on China, by the way but that's the next step. CHARLES: That's the great thought that I want to leave everybody with but I actually have more questions so we won't leave everybody with that. We'll keep on going because I want to talk about China and I want to talk about something that was in there. You've touched on it a couple of times when telling your story how you go from this just do it, get it out there, get it into people's homes, just get the Version 0 out, just buy an Arduino, slap together something terrible, that is at least one millionth of the dream that you have and you've taken your first step on that odyssey. That's a very common story in software. The way that we develop software too is have these agile methodologies and these techniques to reinforce them, testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment. How does that play out? A fascinating subject to me personally is how do you do that in the context of hardware. A question that I love to ask is how do you do things like ensure quality? How do you do integration testing? How do you have a deployment pipeline if you've got these Peeple devices out there on tens of thousands of doors globally? How do you push out a bug fix or a feature update? What's the automation around that look like? CHRIS: The over-the-air updates are your friend. If you're going to make a hardware device, I recommend making a Wi-Fi enabled device because then your firmware is not locked, then you can do over-the-air updates. That has been a lifesaver. We've done maybe a dozen software updates to our device to date, sometimes little changes, sometimes big changes. But what happens is any time the Peeple device wakes up, it says, "Hello, server," and the server says, "I got an update. First, let me give you all these images." Give me the code. The devices are constantly upgradable, just like you'd expect with software. Now, with some of these Bluetooth devices, you can't do that. You've got to go out the door being ready to go with no issues. It's a friction point to tell someone, "Your headphones can't work now. You need to plug it into a computer. You need to download this firmware upgrade. You need to update the firmware doing it by hand." That just isn't going to fly in today's consumer market so I would recommend if you can, make your device a hardware Wi-Fi device, get a Wi-Fi module in there and that opens up the world to you on doing a lot of these updates, to answer the last part of your question. CHARLES: You mentioned China, since you're touching on the manufacturing process or just the market over there or --? CHRIS: Yeah, be ready to fully commit. I've been to China, maybe four times now. I have a 10-year visa. It took a while to find the right partner and you've got to be boots on the ground in the factory for a couple of weeks just getting the whole line up. It's a whole another product when you're at the manufacturing stage. You're making all these little test things, they've got to hook up the boards to certain devices, they've got to put the firmware on it, they've got to do these things. It's a whole another job. That's why when you do these Kickstarter. They say, "We're going to be out in three months," and then six months later, "We're still working on it." I have a lot of empathy for this because I've lived it. You think, "I've got everything done. My hardware works. All I have to do is team up with someone to just make it and with them, we'll ship it." There's a whole another level to just a manufacturing piece and you can't really learned. There's no real textbooks to learn this because every factories are different. Our factory is right north of Shenzhen and we talked to some US manufacturers but they just weren't competitive to be in the discussion so you pretty much have to go overseas and then you have to sit down with them and just a little bit of communication difficulties can bring down a whole manufacturing line so it's very important that you're very hands on and you see your product all the way to package. ELRICK: That's interesting. I know of it but I never really thought about it because I was really not in that position. What are some of the higher level of things that you should look out for when evaluating a manufacturing partner? CHRIS: We talked to about a half a dozen before we decided on our manufacturing partner. The big one for me was cultural fit. I talked to some of the big ones like the one that makes the Apple phones, we talked to them for a while and I just found that I would say, "We would like to do this or we need this," and then the next week, they'd be asking a question, "What about this?" and I'm like, "Oh, you didn't understand what I was really asking," so you would lose weeks just by tiny misunderstandings. I found a manufacturing partner that has a subsidiary here in the US and my main contact grew up in the United States but he also goes to China every other week. Having that kind intermediary made everything so much easier. The communication was never an issue. I was able to get things done almost twice as quick with the other manufacturers I was talking to. In the end, they also came up with a great price so it turned out to be a win-win. I would recommend talking to the bigger manufacturers but spend a lot of time on the smaller ones and really figuring out is the communication up to snuff to really make your product. It's huge. CHARLES: What a story. I'm really glad that we got to have you on the podcast, Chris because you have the story that starts from literally slapping a Raspberry Pi and an accelerometer and speaker and apparently a bunch of other things on your front door and with an extension cord and walking a continuous path to where you're flying back and forth between China and Austin to inspect and ensure your assembly line and making a real product. It demonstrates that it can be done by the fact that you have done it so I think it serves as an inspirational case for a lot of people out there who might think that this is something that they might want to do. Or think that they're capable of. Thank you so much for coming and talking about Peeple. Everybody, you can go ahead and check it out. It's Peeple.io, right? CHRIS: That's correct. CHARLES: All right. Also, is there anything else that you'd like to announce other than the magic, which you're going to keep a lid on? CHRIS: Yes, I know I'd appropriately teased everyone about that but you can go to our website. If you go to Shop.Peeple.io, we're taking preorders for this next magical version, the Peeple Version 1.1, I guess I'll call it. I would like to add just before we go is if you're going to endeavor to do something like this, make sure you have a very understanding family because they couldn't have done it without a wife and kids that understood my craziness and allowed me to have just a complete mess of our house for, I guess, for three years now. CHARLES: Thanks again and thanks everybody for listening to this episode. You can get in touch with us on Twitter. We're at @TheFrontside and you can always find us on the web at Frontside.io and there's a contact form and we'd love to hear from you, for any reason whatsoever. Thanks, everybody and we'll talk to you next week.

Each year, AngelHack organizes over 100 hackathons spanning 94 cities and 44 countries.  While each AngelHack event features a different project depending on the innovation needs of the company for which it's organized, there is at least one constant: the promise of a lively, well-catered and diverse environment that's conducive to team-building and the creation of innovative ideas. For 36 hours straight, eager participants pair up and focus on the development of a prototype for which they will pitch to a panel of judges and vie for one of many possible prizes. Sabeen Ali, CEO of AngelHack, discusses the ins and outs of these hackathons, as well as what's on the horizon. Tune in to learn how to get involved and stay connected. Ali also discusses: The variety of prizes that participants can expect, including the opportunity to receive corporate funding for winning prototypes How the idea for an AngelHack hackathon is initiated, the factors that guide its organization and the demographics of participants The values that AngelHack runs on, including diversity, inclusion and the prioritization of the attendees' needs

O assunto de hoje é Hackaton com Marcia Golfieri, acompanhe. Compartilhe conhecimento! Catalista Corporativa, Desorganizadora Empresarial e Líder de Desenvolvimento de Ecossistema para pesquisa e Inovação no IBM THINKLab. Embaixadora do Angelhack no Brasil, trabalhou cerca de 13 anos para o desenvolvimento social como consultora de organizações públicas e privadas sem fins lucrativos, além de programas de responsabilidade social de empresas e na consolidação de políticas de inovação. Formada pela Faculdade de Direito da PUC/SP, Integrante e docente do Núcleo de Estudos Avançados do Terceiro Setor (NEATS) da PUC-SP, é atualmente membro da Comissão de Justiça e Paz de São Paulo, tendo integrado a Comissão dos Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência da OAB/SP, bem como a Comissão de Direito do Terceiro Setor da OAB/SP e a International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR). Co-autora do livro "É perguntando que se aprende a inclusão das pessoas com deficiência"​, organizado pelo Instituto Paradigma (São Paulo: Ed. Áurea, 2005) https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciagolfieri/ https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16246848/ Parceiros: -CrtlZeta (http://www.ctrlzeta.com.br) - Purple99 (https://purple99.com)

About the episode On the show today we have Sabeen Ali, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Angelhack - the world’s largest and most diverse hacker community. AngelHack, a female-owned, female-majority company helps drive open innovation of tech products, platforms and brands with extraordinary smarts, scale and speed via tech education, marketing and hackathons. Prior to AngelHack, Sabeen founded (and then sold) her own leadership training and organizational development company, Team Building ROI. She has also consulted for companies like Yahoo!, and Cisco. Sabeen is someone who i very much personally admire. I especially love how she is working to bridge the gap between the tech world and the social world, which have up until quite recently been very seperate. Even today, the social world can be very slow to adapt new technology, much to the sectors disadvantage. Sabeen is also someone who is very much a role model for getting more women in to technology and is also a champion of making this happen quicker. Angelhack is actually one of the case studies that I use quite often when people tell me that it is too difficult to have more women at a tech event or in their organisation. Anyway, I think it’s best we get in to the show so that Sabeen can tell you more about her work!   Favorite quote from episode: “Everything has the potential to change the world and create positive momentum” – Sabeen [21:55]   People/ items mentioned in this episode: UNited We Hack Angelhack Angelhack & World Bank Hackathon Lady Problems Hackathon Hacking The Hashtag – Taking Back #LadyProblems Angelhack’s Hackcelerator Sabeen’s TEDx Talk B Corporation Certification Benefit Corporations Tesla     Get in contact with Sabeen on Twitter or at her Website   Show notes “The average hackathon’s female participation rate is 4%” [03:25] Sabeen chats about what Angelhack does and how hackathons are a platform for innovation “We’ve been focusing on expanding the skillset of the people in our community and broadening their own understanding of what technology can do and what it can accomplish, and that’s brought us to a lot of inclusivity and social good events” [05:45] What is a hackathon and how does it work? [06:20] How does Angelhack use hackathons to create social impact? [09:45] Sabeen chats about four barriers for female entrepreneurs [14:25] Do Good Ventures & Hackcelerator Program [20:00] How does Angelhack measure impact? [22:20] “If you can do more, then do it” [26:10] Sabeen takes us through the journey of starting up Angelhack [30:55] The future of hackathons for the public sector [35:15] What Angelhack is working on now [38:30] Sabeen, what do you love about what you do? [40:00] How to get started in tech for good? [41:40] What’s next for Sabeen and for Angelhack? [46:20] Three Things [50:00]   What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Head to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or doinggoodpodcast.com to get involved in the conversation

Are you good at your job but want to do something more? Maybe you feel as if your skills should be used to inspire people and do something that matters? You probably have a lot of hustle in you, but maybe it’s being used for something that’s not that important to you? Today’s guest, Sarena Bahad, took her skills from advertising and other tech jobs such as being a part of AngelHack and Dev Booth Camp, and used them to create the Women In Tech Snapchat (which gets deeper than the top three shades to wear this season). In this episode you will… · Realize how Snapchat can be used as a positive narrative & business tool · Uncover the authenticity behind live social media · Learn the learning curve of Snapchat versus Instagram · Understand the importance of being surrounded by a boss squad · See how Sarena becomes centered · Know the importance of consistent self-care RESOURCES: She Did It Her Way Podcast She Did It Her Way Twitter She Did It Her Way Facebook Sarena's Twitter Sarena's Instagram WomenInTech Snapchat AngelHack Dreamers and Doers Justin Kan "Good to Great" by James Collins "The Sleep Revolution" by Ariannna Huffington INSIGHT: “Being successful in your career path and entrepreneurship doesn’t mean you need to work yourself to the bone, you should be working smarter, not necessarily driving yourself to unhealthy habits.” Sarena Bahad “I love the tech space because it’s such a space of abundance. Technology enables all industries now.” Sarena Bahad “If you use the digital landscape to help grow your career path you’re a woman in tech.” Sarena Bahad “I’ve always been business minded, but I’ve always been attracted to creative industries.” Sarena Bahad “I wanted to use this skill set to help inspire more people to do things that matter.” Sarena Bahad “There’s always been that burning desire, ‘ I really want to work on a projectthat’s important to me.” Sarena Bahad “Social media, especially with Snapchat, it’s a live component. There’s no really room for approvals. You just have to trust the creative and that’s part of the human story telling style of that platform.” Sarena Bahad “A lot of people still think of Snapchat as a silly selfie app but if you really use it to weave together a narrative it can be really powerful.” Sarena Bahad “ I think it’s important to be vulnerable and let people in on what you’re working on so there’s more collaboration.” Sarena Bahad “I’ve been very strategic about keeping a squad of women around me that are also working very hard and I’m a part of different entrepreneurial groups.” Sarena Bahad “Whenever you are having those days where there is that self doubt I’m so thankful that I have a community of strong women that I can reach out to and just reset.” Sarena Bahad “Sometimes what happens in the women in tech conversation is that we’re not sharing because there’s a fear of so much…” Sarena Bahad

Rania is no stranger to entrepreneurship having founded 2 other companies previous to ID4A. She is also a visiting speaker, mentor and Judge at AngelHACK and an active mentor and advisor for multiple emerging startups all while leading ID4A into the future of making products. She was also recently honored at White House and was nominated "Change Maker" at The United State of Women Conference for recognizing her contributions to support gender equality and women’s empowerment in education, business and technology. Seeing that long list of achievements which is just the tip of the iceberg for Rania, the biggest question that comes to mind is how does she do it all? The answer..a dynamic energy she has inside which pushes her into constant motion with the ultimate vision of making change, engaging with the world and teaching others around her.   

One of the most important skills a local small business owner must master is that of capturing and holding the attention of their ideal customer.  That topic is the subject of the book Captivology by Ben Parr, which won a 2016 Small Business Book Award in the category of marketing from Small Business Trends magazine. Ben is a widely acclaimed tech journalist who has advised many well-known brands including Lufthansa, Rebelmouse, and AngelHack.  He has served as the Co-Editor and Editor-at-Large of Mashable and has been named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30. In his book, Ben defines three types of attention that marketers must be aware of and take into account–immediate attention, short attention, and long attention.  He also identifies seven “triggers” that we can use to capture these types of attention. In my interview with Ben, we discuss how a local business owner can use these seven triggers to make their marketing more effective.

Sabeen Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of AngelHack. Today we are going to chat with Sabeen about her top 3 tips for women going into tech.The Top 3 for Entrepreneurs is a weekly podcast created for any business owner looking to get inspired, motivated and moving by asking successful entrepreneurs to share their Top 3 best tips. Stephanie Burns, founder of Chic-CEO.com, a global resource for female entrepreneurs, interviews today's most impressive entrepreneurs to talk about their challenges and the top 3 things they want you to know in order to be successful. www.chic-ceo.com/top3podcast