Podcast appearances and mentions of Brian Acton

Tech Bro NonsenseFormer Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AIbillionaire tech tycoon and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt comments to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce: "What we need from you is we need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever. It needs to be there, and it needs to be there quickly.""Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation... an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030. If [China] comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting.”Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has argued that its alleged scraping of over seven million books from the pirated library LibGen constituted "fair use" of the material, and was therefore not illegal.Meta's attorneys are also arguing that the countless books that the company used to train its multibillion-dollar language models and springboard itself into the headspinningly buzzy AI race are actually worthless. Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books' individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM's performance "by less than 0.06 percent on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise." Thus there's no market in paying authors to use their copyrighted works, Meta says, because "for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange," as quoted by Vanity Fair — "but none of [the authors'] works has economic value, individually, as training data." Other communications showed that Meta employees stripped the copyright pages from the downloaded books.Tellingly, the unofficial policy seems to be to not speak about it at all: "In no case would we disclose publicly that we had trained on LibGen, however there is practical risk external parties could deduce our use of this dataset," an internal Meta slide deck read. The deck noted that "if there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues."Lauren Sánchez in Space Was Marie Antoinette in a Penis-Shaped RocketKaty Perry Boasts About Ridiculous Rocket Launch While NASA Is Scrubbing History of Women in Space“It's about a collective energy and making space for future women. It's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth.”Last month, the Orlando Sentinel first reported, NASA scrubbed language from a webpage about the agency's Artemis missions declaring that a goal of the mission was to put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon; just a few days later, NASA Watch reported that comic books imagining the first woman on the Moon had been deleted from NASA's website.A webpage for "Women at NASA" is still standing, but pictures of women and people of color — astronauts, engineers, scientists — have reportedly been removed from NASA's real-world hallways amid the so-called "DEI" purge. Per Scientific American, the word "inclusion" has been removed as one of NASA's core pillars. And as 404 Media reported in February, NASA personnel were directed to remove mentions of women in leadership positions from its website.OpenAI NonsenseOpenAI Is Secretly Building a Social NetworkOpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform, which The Verge reports is intended to resemble X-formerly-Twitter — the social media middleweight owned by CEO Sam Altman's arch-nemesis, Elon MuskOpenAI updated its safety framework—but no longer sees mass manipulation and disinformation as a critical riskOpenAI said it will stop assessing its AI models prior to releasing them for the risk that they could persuade or manipulate people, possibly helping to swing elections or create highly effective propaganda campaigns.The company said it would now address those risks through its terms of service, restricting the use of its AI models in political campaigns and lobbying, and monitoring how people are using the models once they are released for signs of violations.OpenAI also said it would consider releasing AI models that it judged to be “high risk” as long as it has taken appropriate steps to reduce those dangers—and would even consider releasing a model that presented what it called “critical risk” if a rival AI lab had already released a similar model. Previously, OpenAI had said it would not release any AI model that presented more than a “medium risk.”Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI millions, Sam Altman saysBeing nice to your AI chatbot requires computational power that raises electricity and water costsAltman responded to a user on X (formerly Twitter) who asked how much the company has lost in electricity costs from people being polite to their models: “Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know,” the CEO wrote.AI models rely heavily on energy stored in global data centers — which already accounts for about 2% of the global electricity consumption. Polite responses also add to OpenAI's water bill. AI uses water to cool the servers that generate the data. A study from the University of California, Riverside, said that using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to three bottles of water — and even a three-word response such as “You are welcome” uses about 1.5 ounces of water.Antitrust NonsenseTrump DOJ's plan to restructure Google hurts consumers, national security, says exec: 'Wildly overbroad'Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs: "We're very concerned about DOJ's proposal. We think it would hurt American consumers, our economy, our tech leadership, even national security. The proposed reform from DOJ "would result in unprecedented government overreach that would harm American consumers, developers, and small businesses — and jeopardize America's global economic and technological leadership at precisely the moment it's needed most."8 revelations from Mark Zuckerberg's 3 days on the witness stand in Meta's antitrust trialThe FTC alleges Meta "helped cement" its illegal monopoly in the social media market with its acquisition of Instagram and the messaging app WhatsApp more than a decade ago.8 revelations:Antitrust worries surfaced years agoTwo years before the FTC initially sued Meta over allegations that it violated US competition laws, Zuckerberg considered breaking Instagram out into its own company to avoid potential antitrust scrutiny, according to a 2018 internal email revealed by the government at trial."I wonder if we should consider the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company," Zuckerberg wrote in the email to company executives. "As calls to break up the big tech companies grow, there is a non-trivial chance that we will be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp in the next 5-10 years anyway." If a break up were to happen, Zuckerberg wrote, history showed that companies could end up better off.Asked about this view at trial, Zuckerberg said, "I'm not sure exactly what I had in mind then."A 'crazy idea' to boost Facebook's relevanceZuckerberg's "crazy idea" for Facebook in 2022 involved purging all users' friends. The CEO — fearful that Facebook was losing cultural relevance — made the proposal in a 2022 email to the social network's top brass."Option 1. Double down on Friending," Zuckerberg wrote in the message. "One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone's graphs and having them start again."Sheryl Sandberg wanted to play Settlers of CatanZuckerberg once offered to give Sheryl Sandberg, the former COO of Meta, a tutorial in the board game Settlers of Catan.The lesson offer came up in 2012 messages in which the two discussed the fresh $1 billion purchase of Instagram, partially redacted missives presented by the FTC during Zuckerberg's testimony showed."We would love it. I want to learn Settlers of Catan too so we can play," Sandberg told Zuckerberg in the message. He responded: "I can definitely teach you Settlers of Catan. It's very easy to learn."Meta's rivalry with TikTok has only just begunDuring his testimony, Zuckerberg hammered home Meta's argument that the tech giant faces massive competition from other apps, especially TikTok."TikTok is still bigger than either Facebook or Instagram," Zuckerberg testified. "I don't like it when our competitors do better than us. You can sort of bet that I'm not going to rest until we are doing quite a bit better than we are doing now.”Facebook Camera app struggles were a source of worryInstagram's early rise shook Zuckerberg. As his company struggled to mount its response with the Facebook Camera app, the CEO began to lose his patience."What is going on with our photos team?" Zuckerberg wrote in a 2011 message to top executives, as revealed by the FTC in court. Zuckerberg then described a number of individuals, whose names were redacted, as being "checked out." He added another person didn't want "to work with this team because he thinks this team sucks."In May 2012, Facebook launched a photo-sharing app called Facebook Camera, which aims to make it simpler for the social network's users to upload and browse photos on smartphones. Only weeks after Facebook spent $1 billion on a similar photo-sharing app called Instagram. Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat for $6 billionZuckerberg's failed bid to buy Snapchat was highlighted by the government to bolster its argument that Meta sought to maintain its dominance in the social media market through acquisitions rather than competition.Facebook isn't really for friends anymoreWhile under questioning by the FTC, Zuckerberg said that Facebook had greatly evolved since he launched the platform more than 20 years ago and that its main purpose wasn't really to connect with friends anymore.The FTC argues that Meta monopolizes the market for "personal social networking services.""The friend part has gone down quite a bit," Zuckerberg testified. He said the Facebook feed has "turned into more of a broad discovery and entertainment space."Not impressed by WhatsApp cofounderZuckerberg wasn't too impressed with one of WhatsApp's cofounders after a 2012 meeting he had with company leadership."I found him fairly impressive although disappointingly (or maybe positive for us) unambitious," Zuckerberg wrote in an email to colleagues after the meeting, it was revealed at trial.Jan Koum and Brian Acton cofounded WhatsApp in 2009. Zuckerberg said in his testimony that he thinks he was referring to Koum. Asked about his email, Zuckerberg seemed uneasy. He said that Koum was clearly smart but that he and Acton were staunchly opposed to growing their messaging app enough to be a real threat to Facebook. Zuckerberg would go on to buy WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion.Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms adds former Trump advisor to the board days before an antitrust showdown with the FTCMeta Platforms is further boosting its lineup of heavy hitters with the additions of Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick to the mix. Powell McCormick was the former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump during his first term. Married to Republican Senator Dave McCormick, former CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge fundsStakeholder/shareholder activism NonsenseBP suffers investor rebellion at first AGM since climate strategy U-turnBP suffered an investor rebellion on Thursday after facing shareholders for the first time since abandoning its climate strategy at a meeting marred by protest.About a quarter of shareholders (24.3%) voted against the chair, Helge Lund, which marked the first time in at least a decade that more than 10% of BP's shareholders voted against the re-election of the chair.The outgoing chair told shareholders that the company had “pursued too much while looking to build new low-carbon businesses” but that “lessons have been learned”.BP's CEO Murray Auchincloss (2.7% against), repeated his previous claim that BP's optimism in the global green energy transition was “misplaced”, and that the board's “one simple goal” was to “grow the long-term value of your investment”.Mark Van Baal, the founder of the green activist investor group Follow This, said shareholders had “made it clear that weakening climate commitments is unacceptable”. He added: “This historical result serves as a wake-up call to BP's board and emphasises investor expectation for robust governance mechanisms and genuine leadership on ESG issues.”Starbucks CEO faces major backlash after details of his work routine are revealed: 'Ill-conceived decision'A press release from the National Center for Public Policy Research reported on the hypocrisy of Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's transportation practices when considering the company's public commitment to eco-friendly practices.Niccol travels regularly from his home in Newport Beach, California, to Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle, Washington, via private jet. Each 2,000-mile round-trip commute releases nearly nine tons of carbon dioxide.The National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project's director Stefan Padfield pointed out the discrepancy of policy and practice during his presentation of Proposal 8 requesting an annual report on emissions congruency. He noted that each round trip made by Niccol "is roughly the annual energy-consumption footprint of the typical American household."This analogy paints a vivid picture of the hypocrisy between Starbucks' public environmental commitments and the practices of the CEO. Gaps are apparent. Target CEO Cornell meets with Sharpton to discuss DEI rollback as civil rights leader considers boycottCEO Brian Cornell met with the Rev. Al Sharpton in New York on Thursday as the retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slowdown in foot traffic that began after it walked back key diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the civil rights leader told CNBC Wednesday.The meeting, which Target asked for, comes after some civil rights groups urged consumers not to shop at Target in response to the retailer's decision to cut back on DEI. While Sharpton has not yet called for a boycott of Target, he has supported efforts from others to stop shopping at the retailer's stores.“You can't have an election come and all of a sudden, change your old positions,” Sharpton told CNBC in a Wednesday interview ahead of the meeting. “If an election determines your commitment to fairness then fine, you have a right to withdraw from us, but then we have a right to withdraw from you.”IBM Informs Staff of DEI Retreat as Trump-Era Scrutiny GrowsEmployees were told of the changes earlier this week, in a memo that cited “inherent tensions in practicing inclusion.” Legal considerations and shifting attitudes to DEI were among the factors for the company. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna discussed the changes in his monthly video update to employees Thursday.Anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck said he first contacted the company in February to question its policies. IBM confirmed it discussed its changes with Starbuck.The company (-10% gender influence gap) also disbanded a diversity council that represents the views of employee groups as part of its reevaluation.Exxon Faces No Shareholder Proposals for First Time in 25 YearsThe absence of requests in Exxon's proxy statement comes a year after the company sued two climate-focused investors to remove what it described as their “extreme agenda.” It also tracks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to back guidelines that make it easier for corporations to block votes on shareholder resolutions at their annual meetings.Exxon said in a statement late Monday that it received only one proposal this year and the SEC agreed it should be discarded because “it tried to micromanage the company.”Occidental Petroleum Corp., Valero Energy Corp. and Dow Inc. are other companies with no shareholder proposals up for vote at this year's annual meetings.Exxon said this year marks “the first time in recent history that our proxy includes zero proposals from activists.” It was just four years ago that a small fund scored a victory over Exxon, placing three directors on the company's board.Climate activist shareholder group Follow This pauses big oil campaignClimate activist shareholder group Follow This said on Thursday a lack of investor appetite has forced it to suspend its nearly decade-long campaign seeking stronger commitments from major oil and gas producers to emission cutsHarley-Davidson slams activist investor, saying its campaign is messing up its CEO searchIn early April, H Partners' Jared Dourdeville, who had been a Harley director since 2022, abruptly resigned from the board, saying among other things that Harley had “cultural depletion” because of its work-from-home policies and the exit of several senior leaders. And that was not his only point of contention with the rest of the board.Investment firm H Partners, a major investor with 9.1% of Harley's shares, in an open letter filed on Wednesday, urged fellow shareholders to remove three longtime directors from Harley's eight-member board at its annual meeting in mid-May by withholding votes for them. H Partners said the board had not held Harley CEO Jochen Zeitz accountable for what it called his repeated “strategic execution failures” and “severe underperformance.”CEO/Chair Zeitz (2007, 30%)Lead DIrector Norman Thomas Linebarger (2008, 13%)Sara Levinson (1996, 20%)"We believe Mr. Zeitz, Mr. Linebarger, and Ms. Levinson should be held accountable for the destruction of shareholder value,"Harley's bylaws stipulate that directors who win less than 50% of votes in an election must tender their resignations.Harley announced last week that Zeitz, CEO since 2020 and board member for 18 years, would resign but stay in his role until a successor is found. H Partners wants him out now.That followed a letter issued a day earlier by Harley-Davidson, which accused H Partners of “publicly campaigning” against it and saying that those efforts are also “adversely impacting the CEO search process and ongoing execution of the Hardwire strategic plan,” referring to a turnaround plan it launched in 2021.Harley said that it began a CEO search late last year after Zeitz expressed interest in retiring and has interviewed three potential CEOs, including one supported by Dourdeville, but declined to offer any the job. The company has also said that Dourdeville had cast only one vote against the majority during his time as a director and that as recently as November 2024 he had expressed support for Zeitz.Harley-Davidson faces board fight from H Partners amid calls for CEO to exit soon

Wer ambitioniert ist, erlebt im Berufsleben zwangsweise nicht nur gute Momente, sondern auch Rückschläge. Aus der Zusammenarbeit mit hunderten ambitionierten Ingenieuren haben wir eines gelernt: Ingenieure, die aus etwas Negativem, etwas Positives gewinnen können, sind nicht nur besonders ausgeglichen und zufrieden - sondern in der Regel auch erfolgreicher. Show Notes: >> IntraMBA | Mentoring für Ingenieure: ⁠intra.mba⁠ >> Mentornotes Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mentorwerk.de/mentornotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ >> Tim Schmaddebeck auf LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hier klicken⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ >> Buchempfehlungen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mentorwerk.de/buecher⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stichworte zur Folge: Ambitionierte Ingenieure, Rückschläge, Berufsleben, persönliche Entwicklung, beruflicher Erfolg, Mentorwerk GmbH, Wachstumsstrategien, negative Ereignisse, positive Wendungen, Farmergeschichte, Resilienz, Flexibilität, Post-It Geschichte, 3M, Dr. Spencer Silver, Art Fry, Innovation, Klebstoff, WhatsApp, Jan Koum, Brian Acton, Facebook, Milliarden-Dollar-Deal, Walt Disney, Kreativität, Medienunternehmen, Kansas City Film Ad Company, Animationsstudio, Erfolgsgeschichten, Chancen erkennen

Welcome to Episode 66 of the Drag Drive Repeat Show presented by Summit Racing. Tonight's show has a Guest Co-Host! Mr Adam Dorey will be with me tonight to talk about drag and drive events, like the two that happened last weekend and the two more we are adding to the 2024 season list, Carl Stancell 3rd and Brian Acton are on to recap Drop the Hammer, and Greg Jones and Jonathan Stonecipher are on to discuss their upcoming trip to Sick Summer and Greg's RMRW Class Winning Nova! 

Welcome to Episode 53 of the Drag Drive Repeat Show presented by Summit Racing! Tonight we have updates for The Circuit 2024 event, Adam Dorey is on to discuss going FULL Time as an announcer, and Brian Acton is on to discuss drag and drive racing in the 8.500 Class!

WhatsApp, che che ne diciamo è stato rivoluzionario... E sì, lo so. Io di solito ne parlo male, ma è un po' per scherzare perché in realtà è stato quello che ha portato il concetto di applicazione di messaggistica su larga scala. Fino ad allora, se ci pensate, cosa c'erano? Gli MMS che costavano, gli SMS e le chat che invece andavano via web da computer, però non l'insieme di tutte le cose. Invece, Jan Koum e Brian Acton, ex dipendenti di Yahoo, hanno cominciato a pensarci e a tirar fuori qualcosa già nel 2009.Tutti i miei link: https://linktr.ee/br1brownFonti:Jan Koum: biografia del fondatore di Whatsapp | StartUp MagazineThe History Of WhatsApp – FeedoughThe History of WhatsApp: Founders, Funders, and TimelineWhatsApp | History & Facts | BritannicaWhatsApp vs. Telegram – FeedoughTELEGRAM - INSTAGRAM Se ti va supportami https://it.tipeee.com/br1brown

Welcome to the Drag-N-Drive Show Episode 26 presented by Summit Racing for 8/16/2023 Eric is on site at Nostalgia Nights helping the team  Roadkill Nights was a huge success for drag and drive racers - Mikael Borgrren repeated his Small Tire class win for the second year in a row! And Joe Barry took Second in the Big Tire class. Congrats to the other drag and drive racers that made the Top 8 in each Class Small Tire - David McKenna, Alan Robinson, Nick Ryan, Adam Wright, Johnny Hopewell Big Tire - Dave Schroeder, Ayden Bailey, Alex Taylor Nostalgia Nights starts tomorrow morning.  Bunker Hill Dragstrip in Bunker Hill, IN for racing on Thursday. Driving 70-80 miles to Muncie for racing Friday evening. Then back to Bunker Hill for Saturday. Midwest Drag Racing Series I am headed east tomorrow to help at the points race for the Summit Racing Midwest Drag Racing Series. This is a traditional race weekend. I'll be working the live stream equipment on Friday and Saturday. You can find the event on FloRacing.  Pine Pass Shootout - August 25-28 - Prince George, BC - 150 cars, 5 classes 32 days until Hot Rod Drag Week! This year's Drag Week is going to be awesome! We have decided to follow a few classes specifically instead of trying to gather a bunch of random content. I am not sure on which classes I'll follow but I do know one of them will be the Street Race Small Block Power Adder class. Dustin and Steve Trance are returning to attempt a Three-Peat. Brian Acton and Jay Blanchard are coming back with one thing on their mind, to win. They have won three other 8.50 classes this year, while Trance hasn't been able to do much testing….. Mark Campbell is returning as well. That's all the guys that ran 8.50s during the 2022 event.  This is the first time they have scheduled three days of track use!  Friday is tech/registration/cruise day. So people get to enjoy the drive more Tombstone will be the historic town and token stop. At the historic 4 Deuces Saloon.  Thank you for tuning in to the Drag-N-Drive Addiction Podcast! Drag-N-Drive Addiction is your Source for News and Entertainment in the Drag and Drive Community.  We host two weekly live streams on Youtube and Facebook that are edited for podcasts on your favorite podcast app.  The Drag-N-Drive Show is a long format episode with coverage, news and results from drag and drive events worldwide. The Show is typically 2 hours with guest interviews.  The Drag-N-Drive News is your new Saturday morning drag and drive community updates. We provide updates for upcoming and current events, spotlight a racer or vehicle in the Sweet Patina Built for Drag-N-Drive segment, and have a few laughs during the Howards Cams Comedy Segment.  Thank you for listening and we appreciate the support. Please click that follow button and stay up to date on one of the fastest growing segments within the automotive industry! You can find more at our website as well - drag-n-drive.com Thank you for tuning in to the Drag-N-Drive Addiction Podcast! Drag-N-Drive Addiction is your Source for News and Entertainment in the Drag and Drive Community.  We host two weekly live streams on Youtube and Facebook that are edited for podcasts on your favorite podcast app.  The Drag-N-Drive Show is a long format episode with coverage, news and results from drag and drive events worldwide. The Show is typically 2 hours with guest interviews.  The Drag-N-Drive News is your new Saturday morning drag and drive community updates. We provide updates for upcoming and current events, spotlight a racer or vehicle in the Sweet Patina Built for Drag-N-Drive segment, and have a few laughs during the Howards Cams Comedy Segment.  Thank you for listening and we appreciate the support. Please click that follow button and stay up to date on one of the fastest growing segments within the automotive industry! You can find more at our website as well - drag-n-drive.com

The journey to the pinnacle of corporate success is often romanticised as a straightforward climb. However, the reality is a treacherous ascent fraught with trade-offs and sacrifices. This episode examines the diverse motivations that drive individuals up the corporate mountain, from the allure of higher pay and prestige to the intrinsic satisfaction of impacting an organization. We look at the stories of industry titans like Marissa Mayer and Brian Acton, whose career choices reflect the spectrum of motivations and the varied definitions of success. While Mayer's intense work ethic propelled her to the top of Yahoo, Acton's decision to step down post-WhatsApp's acquisition by Facebook highlights the value he places on personal life and philanthropy. The episode underscores the importance of critical thinking and strategic career planning, likening the corporate journey to navigating a pyramid where opportunities narrow as one ascends. We draw inspiration from the careers of Sheryl Sandberg and Tim Cook, whose strategic moves and long-term planning exemplify the power of a well-thought-out career trajectory. Furthermore, we delve into the significance of mindset, aspirations, and motivation in career progression. We discuss how a growth mindset, as advocated by Carol Dweck, and intrinsic motivations can lead to greater job satisfaction and success, as evidenced by the careers of Mary Barra and Howard Schultz. Finally, we address the crucial aspect of making informed choices on the corporate ladder. Balancing trade-offs, aligning decisions with personal values, and maintaining a work-life balance are pivotal. We take cues from Susan Wojcicki's approach to leadership, which integrates her role as YouTube's CEO with her commitment to family and personal life. In conclusion, "The Corporate Ascent" is a guide for the ambitious professional. It's an episode that doesn't just chart the path to the top but also provides the wisdom to traverse it with one's values intact, ensuring that the summit reached is one of personal as well as professional fulfillment.

The Drag-N-Drive Show Presented by Summit Racing - Episode 15 We discuss all things The Circuit - how many racers, who went fast, the carnage and the route stops! Jay Blanchard and Brian Acton come on to talk about their experiences and winning their class. Chris Story, the official photographer of The Circuit, comes on to talk about his experience and his 3rd gear burnout at a route stop. Jesse Fox of 3g Video comes on and talks about his experience at The Circuit and sleeping in his Volvo wagon For more information about Drag-N-Drive® events and news: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.dragndrive.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/dragndrive⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/drag_n_drive/⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@DragNDriveAddiction⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@dragndrive.com

Mike Narx from Drag-N-Drive and Narxoleptic Customs is hosting a weekly live stream on YouTube with Eric White of Motorsports Paparazzi and 815 LSx Swaps. This week Mike and Eric talk about attending The Circuit Drag-N-Drive® event and talk to racers Brian Acton and Jay Blanchard (Jay Wire Solutions) about winning their class, talk to photographers Chris Story (Chris Story Foto) and Jesse Fox (3g Video). Motorsports Paparazzi: Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089498642372⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBkvf3ltG68yhaVPMIrokzA⁠⁠⁠⁠ Drag-N-Drive: Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/dragndrive⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/drag_n_drive/⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@DragNDriveAddiction⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drag-n-drive.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ 815 LSx Swaps: Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/815LSxSwaps⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/815_lsx_swaps⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/c/815lsxswaps⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://815lsx.com/⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/motorsportspaparazzi/support

Mike Narx from Drag-N-Drive Addication and Narxoleptic Customs is hosting a weekly live stream on YouTube with Eric White from 815 LSx Swaps and Motorsports Paparazzi. This week the guys talk about their trip to PRI 2022 in Indianapolis and also talk to Jay Blanchard from Jay Wire Solutions about being a co-pilot for Brian Acton on Drag-N-Drive® events! For more information about Drag-N-Drive® events and news: www.dragndrive.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dragndrive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drag_n_drive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragNDriveAddiction TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dragndrive.com

The President of the Rotary Club in Guernsey, Brian Acton talks to Kit Hannah about its centenary year, plans to celebrate the landmark anniversary, the work Rotarians do, and why young members are needed to ensure that work can continue.  ★ Support this podcast ★

Jan Koum nasce a Kiev, ma sarà in California che la sua vita avrà una svolta. Tutto grazie a Brian Acton e un amico russo, il primo a cui racconta di "whatsapp" la sua rivoluzionaria idea comunicativa

Signal, the app, is synonymous with security. The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform is a go-to for discerning people who want to keep their communications private. Just remember to turn on the vanishing messages feature. But it's CEO is stepping down. Moxie Marlinspike is out and Whatsapp's Brian Acton is in.Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox is on the show this week to talk to us about the changes at Signal, the history of end-to-end encryption, and what Marlinspike thinks of web3. It's also the subject of his article, WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal.Cox sticks around for Cypher where we discuss the incredible news that marijuanna may be able to help prevent COVID-19, why PS5 restock accounts are helping people find COVID-19 tests, and how someone scraped massive amounts of personal data from a database used by private investigators.We're recording CYBER live on Twitch. We record the show on Wednesdays at 4pm EST. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Signal, the app, is synonymous with security. The end-to-end encrypted messaging platform is a go-to for discerning people who want to keep their communications private. Just remember to turn on the vanishing messages feature. But it's CEO is stepping down. Moxie Marlinspike is out and Whatsapp's Brian Acton is in.Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox is on the show this week to talk to us about the changes at Signal, the history of end-to-end encryption, and what Marlinspike thinks of web3. It's also the subject of his article, WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal.Cox sticks around for Cypher where we discuss the incredible news that marijuanna may be able to help prevent COVID-19, why PS5 restock accounts are helping people find COVID-19 tests, and how someone scraped massive amounts of personal data from a database used by private investigators.We're recording CYBER live on Twitch. We record the show on Wednesdays at 4pm EST. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as CEO of Signal, and Brian Acton is stepping up. For now. Y Combinator is getting more generous with the investment it makes in its cohort companies. Carriers aren't pleased with Apple's iCloud Private Relay service. And another day, another headline like: the Associated Press is getting into NFTs.Sponsors:do.co/trhWix.comLinks:Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal (The Verge)Y Combinator's New Deal Sparks Fear in Seed Investors (The Information)T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US [U] (9to5Mac)Apple Highlights Services in 2021, Recaps Upcoming Features Like IDs on iPhone (MacRumors)The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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WhatsApp's initial dream of safe, encrypted, ad-free private messaging is far from intact…In 2009, WhatsApp's creators Brian Acton and Jan Koum shared a passion for creating a free, global instant messaging app without the nuances that plague its current, Meta-owned definition of ‘encryption'. Needless to say that Acton & Koum have started their own ventures since WhatsApp's takeover. So what changed? What's keeping users on the app in spite of its public misgivings, and what might the future hold for the platform? Learn the illuminating history behind WhatsApp on this episode of Disconnected.This episode of Disconnected covers:The moral compass that guided WhatsApp's original ownersHow the monetisation model evolved with Facebook's takeover of WhatsAppThe power of ‘network effect', and why it keeps us on the platformWhat Facebook/Meta have planned for the future of the appLinks and references at: https://disconnectedpodcast.com/

WhatsApp Pussy Cat? Today Fred and Jethro talk all about WhatsApp, the background, how it's used, and what to look out for. What Is It? WhatsApp Messenger Who Built It? Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former Yahoo! employees, wrote the first version in 2009 Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion Who Is Using It? Lots and lots of people … Roughly 2 billion monthly users worldwide WhatsApp has users in 109 countries How Are People Using It? Group chats (up to 256 people) Broadcast feature (message to multiple people, reply just to sender) Video Calls (w/ filters) Text Messages Share Videos, Photos, and Audio Messages What Are the Risks Parents Should Consider? No real enforcement of 16+ age rating Potential contact from strangers (no verification of user identity) Multiplatform service (kids can move from device to device) Multiple tools to “hack” WhatsApp Disappearing Messages (Status Feature) Cyberbullying (particularly in group chats) Grooming Live Location Access to Inappropriate Content – It only takes a few seconds to find links to public WhatsApp groups with Hoaxes and Misinformation Some limits on forwarding messages to groups Malware (particularly on PCs and Macs) Sharing of data between WhatsApp and Facebook Multiple security breaches and software flaws Anecdotes and Headlines 2021–08–15 Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp? https://prestonbyrne.com/2021/08/15/did-america-just-lose-afghanistan-because-of-whatsapp/ 2021–08–07 WhatsApp CEO calls out Apple over Child Safety tools announcement https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/07/whatsapp-ceo-calls-out-apple-over-child-safety-tools-announcement/ 2021–08–04 Warning issued to anybody who uses WhatsApp as loophole could see strangers access your messages https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news/whatsapp-urgent-warning-loophole-hackers–21220126 2021–07–19 Biology teacher, 57, at £40,000-a-year boarding school is struck off after sending naked shower ‘selfie' to an 18-year-old schoolgirl he told ‘aroused him' over explicit WhatsApp texts https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article–9803385/Biology-teacher–57-struck-sending-naked-shower-selfie–18-year-old-schoolgirl.html 2020–10–24 ‘She's no longer hurting or afraid': Devastated family say final farewell to girl, 12, who killed herself after being hounded with abuse on school laptop during lockdown by bullies who labelled her ‘lesbian emo freak' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article–8874807/Northumberland-suicide-Loved-ones-say-goodbyes-cheeky–12-year-old-schoolgirl.html 2018–12–20 WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/ 2018–09–26 The problem with ‘dark social' https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/09/26/whatsapp/ 2018–07–19 WhatsApp introduces new limits on message forwarding in an effort to stop deadly lynchings in India https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article–5971935/India-issues-fresh-warning-WhatsApp-lynching-deaths.html 2015–06–15 Sexting, webcams and naked Whatsapp contests: The secret online lives of children https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11674931/Sexting-webcams-and-revenge-porn-Secret-online-lives-of-our-children.html Resources 2021–06–24 Is WhatsApp Safe? 5 Scams, Threats, and Security Risks to Know About https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-security-threats-whatsapp-users-need-know/ 2021–05–10 15 phone apps parents should be aware of: Are any of these on your child's phone? https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/05/10/pender-sheriffs-office-warns-parents-dangerous-phone-apps/4871525001/ 2020–11–16 Three most dangerous WhatsApp settings that could get you hacked, scammed or exposed https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/13211541/dangerous-whatsapp-settings-hacking/ 2020–03–07 Is WhatsApp Safe for Kids? Here's What Parents Need to Know https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/consumer/family-safety/is-whatsapp-safe-for-kids-heres-what-parents-need-to-know/ n.d. WhatsApp https://www.net-aware.org.uk/networks/whatsapp/ n.d. WhatsApp: a guide for parents and carers https://parentinfo.org/article/whatsapp-a-guide-for-parents-and-carers n.d. WhatsApp Messenger Common Sense Media https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/whatsapp-messenger

Le podcast "Il était une fois l'entrepreneur" est l'ex podcast "l'apprenti", le podcast des histoires d'entrepreneurs. Jan Koum ? Vous connaissez ? Un peu car c'est celui qui a créé l'application Whatsapp. Et pourtant, il était ukrainien, pauvre, parlant un mauvais anglais. Je vous raconte cette histoire totalement extraordinaire qui a amené Jan Koum de l'hiver ukrainien au soleil californien, des toilettes de Fastiv au bar de Los Altos avec Mark Zuckerberg. Jan Koum est né en 1974 en Ukraine encoure sous la coupe de l'URSS. Puis se parents, juifs et pauvres, décident d'émigrer vers les états-unis après la dislocation de l'URSS. Mais son père reste derrière et meut d'un cancer. Jan part avec sa mère et vit des aides de l'état en Californie les 1ères années. Puis il découvre l'informatique et se passionne pour le code. Il devient rapidement un Hacker et intègre des groupes de sécurité informatique. Il rejoint Yahoo avec son ami Brian Acton. Il y reste 7 ans. Puis les 2 amis quittent Yahoo en 2009. Après la découverte de l'iphone et des applis, Jan crée Whatsapp, une appli qui met à jour les statuts des personnes connectées. Mais cela ne marche pas. Par contre, les personnes utilisent Whatsapp comme une messagerie... et Jan Fait un pivot. Il est rejoint rapidement par Brian qui l'aide à lever de l'argent. Whatsapp connait une croissance fulgurante en 2011 et 2012 et se finance par des petites levées de fonds. Finalement Mark Zuckerberg sympathise avec Jan Koum et en 2014, lui fait une offre: 19 milliards de dollars + un siège au board de Facebook. L'enfant pauvre ukrainien est riche mais quittera Facebook en 2018. Inspire Média, le média des histoires d'entreprises et d'entrepreneurs. Notes Jan Koum, ukrainien et pauvre Deux rencontres déterminantes: Brian Acton et l'informatique La création de Whatsapp Whatsapp: croissance et un mail Jan Koum: vente et revanche

See their public Notion doc which got me very interested: https://www.notion.so/Comm-4ec7bbc1398442ce9add1d7953a6c584They are hiring: https://www.notion.so/commapp/We-re-hiring-b0a4cef3f8b34b8c91e3236c98aabcb3Watch the video version if you prefer that (there is some screensharing at the end): https://youtu.be/lWCOruAWpW4---Transcriptswyx: [00:00:00] Some of you might know that I do some angel investing on the side and I keep a cold email address open for that purpose. So a few weeks ago I was called emailed from someone trying to raise money for an end to end encryption startup. And that's something that I don't normally play in because they don't know anything about encryption.So I almost turned this down except I click through and read their notion doc. And it's the most comprehensive and concise pitch I've ever received through a cold email. So I took the meeting and this conversation with Ashoat is what happened. He's building Comm, which is an end to end encryption startup, but his go to market is an alternative end to end self hosted version of discord, focused on privacy.Of course. The long term vision is that it could replace Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook, Mint, 1Password, and so on. If he gets this key server protocol right, and successful, he gets some kind of market adoption. So that's a very big if, but the upside is also huge. And whenever you encounter one of these things, that becomes a very interesting angel investment because you'll probably lose your money, but if it succeeds, it succeeds very big.He's looking to hire senior engineers and a product and a design lead. So stick towards the end for those hiring and collaboration details. If you are interested, all right. Enjoy. Yeah, good to meet you too, man. It was very impressive. Your notion doc. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:01:26] Thanks. I'm glad you read it. A lot of folks kind of skim through so it's great to see that you want in detail.Wait, so, so you wanted to record this right? Was that swyx: [00:01:35] yeah. Literally it's just like adjusting. I think it would be interesting to either share if you want to, if you. Don't mind sharing. We can always cut stuff out if you're not comfortable with it or you can just keep it to yourself and then look back in four years or something and think about how things have changed.It's always nice to request stuff. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:01:54] Yeah. Yeah. I'm when you say shared, do you have like a social media thing that you want to share? Yeah, I have, swyx: [00:01:59] I have a YouTube or an F a personal podcast where I recorded conversations that are interesting with people. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:02:05] Yeah. I'm honestly, I'm down. I'll tell you, I've done.I've done this pitch like a hundred times now, so I'm pretty good at it. So I'm pretty comfortable being recorded. Let me ask this, what's your setup? I sometimes record meetings. I use green, but I think that's more for I don't know getting transcripts to share with the team and stuff like that.I don't know. What do you usually use? swyx: [00:02:23] For recording. Yeah. I mean, I've, because zoom is going to kick out two audio sources. Then I might edit in audacity for echo or like noise or whatever. And then the scripts for cutting out ums and AHS and word gaps and stuff like that.Sometimes if a conversation needs a lot of VR rearranging, I might have to like, so I did this one episode where. There was the two guys talking about a concept, tofu, MOFU, and BOFU, top of funnel, middle funnel, and bottom of funnel. And they'd collected to define it until the end of the episode.He spent the entire epistle talking about it and I had to go cut the thing and then put it on top and then, Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:03:03] yeah. Okay. Okay. I got it. I got it. It sounds like you have a more, much more professional setup than I do. So, I mean, whatever works for you, swyx: [00:03:10] it's immature. Put with a little effort put in. I think people can get along way towards instead of just dumping raw audio, which most people seem to do.Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:03:19] Cool.  swyx: [00:03:20] Yeah. Cool. So I read through it, I read through your thing, which is why, I, it seems like you've practiced this for a bit. You have a really interesting background. I've always wanted to visit as a Biogen. Like when I saw backhoe, I was like, wow. I recognize that for me, I was memorizing it Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:03:33] just some background.I think we Armenian and there is huge ethnic tension between Armenia is or vagina. You can. Think of my family more as refugees. Yeah. Were like Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan. We actually can't visit us every Shawn. If an Armenian person with an Armenian name tries to visit as her vagina, they won't let you in, my parents have not been able to visit their home since they were kicked out.So yeah. It's a weird background, but yeah. Just that swyx: [00:03:58] I'd share that. Yeah. Cool. That's cool. Lots of history. The, obviously the most famous Armenian I know is a Sonoma session on the Conan show. Who is that? I Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:04:08] don't know who that is. swyx: [00:04:10] Yeah. She's Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:04:12] yeah. Okay. She's like his production assistant or something.swyx: [00:04:15] Just straight up assistant. Yeah. But I think now she's a little bit more into it since then. She's he turns his staff into celebrities. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:04:22] Oh, that's cool. That's cool. I only seen some secondhand Conan material floating around. I don't want it. swyx: [00:04:27] Well, they visited Armenia and they learned a bit about the history and the genocide there and all that.So, It's heavy stuff. I didn't obviously pay super close attention to the police history, but I know that there's a, there's some heavy stuff going on. Okay. And then you joined Facebook super the it's just like a really inspiring story, man. And that's pretty cool.I'm unclear on, you said you worked on comms for four years. I'm unclear on like when that transition happens, why it happens? Because it takes a certain. Awakening to quit Fang and start work on something. So fringe, I think it's been, Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:04:59] I don't know. I don't know. Pretty fruit and share.Yeah. Yeah. So, so a couple of things, first, when I say I've been working on calm for four years, I actually only got the idea for this like whole antenna Christian platform. About a year ago. So when I say been working on it for four years, I mean, as well, the code base I'm working with has been around for four years and I've been pretty actively working on it.But before it was common, something called squad cat, which is basically this app I built for my friend group, it's like a slacker friend group with an integrated calendar. And specifically the star was my burning man camp were like 200 people and we have this problem. We've tried like Slack, we've tried discord.You have this problem where we were simultaneously very scammy. We like shoot the shit, have fun, But we also have all these deadlines and all this project collaboration that needs to happen. And on these platforms it's often very difficult to separate signal from noise.It feels like they're built to be, just span out everything. You're thinking. And there aren't a lot of tools there to say, I want to follow this. Or I want to make sure, I get updates here, but maybe I'll only check this channel when I'm on the toilet or something, and they're getting better.They're rolling off features, but I still feel like it's like a second kind of priority. It's not something that's really at the forefront. So that's a large part of why I built squad cab. The other kind of side of it is I use different my own friend group here in New York. And yeah, I've been working on it for a while, but off and on, honestly.And only about a year ago, And I, when I started working on the antenna encryption layer, which I always wanted to do, it's something that kind of the, the pandemic happened that was stuck at home. I was like, what am I going to do? And I decided to work on that antenna encryption layer only then when I really got the idea for comm.And since then also we were really pivoting a lot of the apps. So there's been a calendaring focus and now it's being put to the side and being framed as the first app. And there's actually meant to be like, any number of apps that you can install to your community.You had this, the other question you can ask, like what, what made me leave Facebook? So, I guess, I guess it's probably best to start with the story of how I joined Facebook. So. I guess I was like a wide-eyed college student. Background is I actually, I've always been, I love kind of social.And my programming, has always kinda been from that angle. My whole family is actually programmers like my mom and my dad, my uncle and my cousin and my sister, everyone. It's kinda crazy. And I learned how to program pretty young, but I found most of it boring. Like my P my parents gave me Kane R when I was 12.And it's read through it, read some, a calculator, command, prompt apps. And I was like, this is not fun. And honestly, I really only got into it when I discovered PHP and forms. That's what really got me excited. And this is like circle like 2000, 3004. And all my early programming was like modding forms.So I had this From where I had all my friends on come online, we like hung out there. I like skinned it and then started adding these like different mods. I actually, at the time, there's this model of posting for hosting which, you probably don't remember unless you were spending all the time back then, but basically the idea is you go on a forum, you post a bunch, they'll give you free hosting for your own website.Right. And so we started doing that and we offered like a lot of features and got pretty popular pretty quickly. For a while we were, if you Googled free hosting, the first site was his directory and we were listed this number one on that directory. So we were like the largest free host for a long time.This is a lot of my kind of college years, actually more high school. And then early college was like also building on automating that, that kind of hosting service. And we actually we scaled it to intense amount. Like we scaled to the point where, so we use this control panel C panel. There were. We had more accounts on our server than they did when they did the load testing.Like they had like internal load testing. They did, we had all this like customization we did to make that happen. So anyways, long story short, I was really into social, always having into social and Facebook came out for high schoolers, got really into it. I started posting everything on Facebook and which is, I guess, common back then.And I wrote several browser extensions for Facebook and one of them added a search box to your profile. And that one got pretty popular. Right. And I personally used it because I. Facebook. And I always wanted to like, have a conversation with somebody like, wait, like I want to share this article with you.And I would forget who wrote it or what, where it was from. And so I would want to search my own profile and I used to just click see more posts manually until I found it. So that's what my browser extension did. I wrote in like a weekend. And it would just click see more posts for you, whatever.So anyways, that guy got me noticed by Facebook and noticed I like applied through like the college program. And then the recruiter I'd mentioned this, the recruiter, and she said it was cool anyways. So I got an internship there, his sophomore year. This is 2011. So give you some background.Facebook at the time was like one, two story building. There was technically two buildings, but like most of engineering was in product and design was in this one building. Right. And it was just, it was, it felt crazy. Like it felt I mean, Facebook was already huge at the time. Right. And it felt every, and there's no politics.Everyone was like working together. Everyone knew each other. It was. Felt like a pretty magical place. And on my second day there was a hackathon and some this hackathon I'm like, okay, I'm going to do, I'm going to take the search thing that I built and I'm gonna make it happen for real.So I got a little team together. We got nowhere on that first day. Like it turns out it's way harder to build a search index. Than it is to click this, let me make this look, browser extension that click see more posts, but I kept on working on it every day. Like after, after work, I worked on it a bit more and made a little bit more progress.And probably what made me fall in love with the company was halfway through my internship. My managers told me to forget about my assigned intern project. Then I could just work on my hackathon thing. So yeah, it was like a kid. I was like, that was so amazing. Right. So I didn't ever left Facebook. I like kept working there.I worked on the project alone for a year, so I was so on this project building the surgeon X for a year. And after a while actually became a major strategic priority for the company. There was a goal to create like a whole like search and expert posts. And it was amazing. We built at the time, the largest index in the world, but that's on authority of the Google engineers we poached.So it was like the entire search team was working on this. I was a very small part, there's each like genius C plus plus people like my mentor, read the entire sequence plus 11 spec to give you an idea. A single replica of our index is 25 racks in a data center. And each of them was outfitted with these like fusion IO cards.Which were at the time, like the thing there was some sort of in between Ram and hard drive or it's like a, yeah, it was like a precursor to flash drives, I guess it was a kind of flash drive, but we bought out all of the flashcards. There were some Taiwanese company we bought all of them.It was so expensive anyways. So this is a background after that I worked at kept working on Facebook. I wanted to try something new. So we, I moved to New York. Started a new team called public conversations at the time, every time Mark posted on Facebook, he just got standing comments. So you wanted to make this better.And I always had this passion for discourse. So I wanted to improve the quality of discourse on Facebook. So I was our, that was our team motto. We were improving the quality of discourse on Facebook initially from the common ranking stack, which we built out initially was just like ripped off from Reddit.We built out all of this like natural language processing, deep learning stuff that I honestly don't have. Full understanding of but that team was amazing. It was great to, I was engineering manager also vaguely the PM cause we never managed to staff with him. But so what made me leave Facebook?I'll tell you is It was a confluence of things and it, at the time, like it was a very difficult decision, but it also felt like a very clear decision. And what I mean by that is basically with all we had this team going public conversations seem that I loved. And after several reorgs, we were in an org called media.And Mark got really excited about live video in 2016. And so he did this company-wide lockdown and then he rotated our entire org to work on live video. So my perspective, I, I'm no issues with live video. Like I'm, it's sure. It makes sense as a company priority, but it's not my passion, so there was that there was also, this happened at the same time as my four year vest. Right. And so all these factors pointing to like this is probably the time to leave. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah. I had a pretty I, my final meeting with my director, I was like tearing up and stuff.It was pretty intense in retrospect, probably more intense than it needed to be. But this is a business decision. swyx: [00:12:19] Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they like, th they were a big part of your growth, right? From college. Like you, you didn't have to finish college too.And then you worked at one of the fastest green companies on earth. Like it's a big part of your identity that you're leaving behind. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:12:32] Absolutely. I felt, yeah, like it's hard to overstate, like Facebook, to me, wasn't really a company. It was like the only company I've ever worked at. It was like, to some extent, like it's exaggerating, but there was an aspect of being like a, like a family in the sense that like I had done this internship with all these interns in 2011 and we all felt pretty connected and we'd saved the company and it like, yeah, I dunno.I don't think it was good that it felt this way to me, but that's how it felt. Let's put it that way. I just, swyx: [00:12:57] I, I love a little, a few of the tippets here. First of all, working on the thing that you think should exist and then eventually the company comes around and recognizes it that I think that's a very common thing I see in smart people that like, you should just ignore what people will tell you is the priority and think for yourself.And obviously you should do your job, but then also you have to have some leadership there and then people will eventually recognize it. And then the second thing is the way the market tends to lock down the company at critical stages. I'm sure you were there for the mobile pivot as well.Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:13:25] yeah. That was huge people. People forget it now, but there was a time when Facebook wasn't. Yeah, there was a time when Facebook wasn't guaranteed. There's a time when, after Facebook IPO, the stock went down, like everyone was saying, Facebook's not going to make it. Which in retrospect, like nobody, nobody could see that being a concern now, but yeah.swyx: [00:13:45] Yeah. Well then yeah. Anyway it's pretty cool. And yeah it's cool to hear another story about that. But okay. Let's bring it a little bit closer to time. So then you left did you have a clear idea of what you were going to do? Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:13:54] No. Well, so, background about me is that I'd held a job since I was 14.So I had have like multiple jobs, like grocery store bagger, like a teaching assistant at Kumon, like all this, like PR like internships and so I just been working forever. So I wanted to basically try, spend some time not working. So I, and I did post Facebook, did he have some traveling, did some like other cool projects.I worked on this really cool actually burning man project where we built this like 16 foot tall dome that had 7,500 LEDs that animated with the music. So that was a really cool problem. Just like between the processing audio and the like led stuff. It was really fun. I worked with a close friend of mine who was like a hardware expert, so he was able to build all the hardware and I was able to do all like the software.No was like a multi-year project. But yeah also working on squad cow that app I talked about and yeah, just a lot of source stuff.  swyx: [00:14:42] And then I guess, so you're pivoting constantly. You got you started with more like a collaboration thing, then it was more of a calendar thing.And now it's more focused on chat. What is it based on, what is this like a product instinct that you're having, or is there a community that you're closely connected to? That's giving you all this feedback? Is it just friends. Yeah. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:15:01] Well, so, so I wouldn't say I'm pivoting constantly. I mean, honestly, the app was a passion project and wasn't really like a startup where was with a startup, you're like, you're trying to find something to hit send.You're trying to like pivot until you find it. I started this thing with this kind of focus on calendaring and focus on collaboration. Just things that we needed as a camp. And in terms of the pivot to calm that all happened a year ago. So that all happened with a year ago.I start working and I think cryption. I realized I can't build the antenna encryption layer. It literally was impossible. I would have to roll back a bunch of my features. And then I start thinking and realize, okay, actually it's impossible to build most apps with antenna encryption. You can only build these like simple chat apps, which is great.And I'm a huge fan of signal, but that's all we can do today. Right. And so from there, I realized, okay, you know what, in the future, the only way we're going to get to privacy by default, the only way we're going to get to antenna, encryption, being something that scales is that people have their own servers.Right. And so once I had that realization, I worked backwards of okay what's the most likely thing that's going to hit. That's going to get an install base of key servers going, because I think whoever builds this first installed base of key servers is going to be really well positioned to capture this market.And that's what led me to pivoting the app. swyx: [00:16:10] Can I I need to, because I don't think I understand this very well. So you can do it entering a question for Chad. I don't understand what that the material difference is between chat and every other type of app, because it's just the transport layer.LikeAshoat Tevosyan: [00:16:23] Yeah, that's exactly right. It's just a transport layer and that's limitation. Right? So the average app you see out there, it looks, let's take Slack. As an example, Slack is built with it's a client server model, right. And this is how apps have been built since the Dawn of time. Since back in 2004, when I was writing PHP apps, actually it was mostly server back then, but there's always been a server layer.Right. And what does the server layer do? Right. Well, classic stuff includes like executing search query is like ranking, right? Does a lot of stuff. Right. Fundamentally, usually with a client server model, you have a thin client. The kind of client that, when it starts up connects to the server and asks the server, what do I need to display?The server tells it everything. And the client just like only keeps around what it needs in the cash. The next time it connects, it gets to that same background and end to an encrypted chat app is nothing like this. Right? An antenna encrypted chat app takes all that server stuff. Puts it onto the client.And then the server is just a message broker. And all the server does is, you say, I want to send a message to user X. It receives that message, queues it up. And then when user XX connects it, flushes that queue, that's all that's going on. Right. And the reason for that fundamentally is because antenna encryption is about being able to guarantee to the user.That the app developer doesn't have access to their data and not just the app developer, also governments also service providers, but really it's about the app developer. Right. And with a server layer like Slack has Facebook has like Dropbox has obviously the app developer has access to your data.Right. And you, the only thing you can really do with that encryption is you can put cipher text up there, but all the typical stuff that a server needs to do with the exception of maybe backup, most of it requires actually having access to that plain text. And that's why apps like signal apps, like WhatsApp.Have basically no server layer. Right. swyx: [00:18:01] Okay. So, does that also mean that, I mean, let's say there's an existing history, your database of documents and stuff. Like when I first connected, I have to download the full thing. Is Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:18:10] this what do you mean? Sorry, is this for an app? swyx: [00:18:13] No Maybe an athletic signal, but I'm just talking generic.Like how do you deal with data? Right. Cause you're just saying like just the queue now. Meaning that you know what? I don't know how to to me, this is obvious, like in the client server model, the server keeps all the state. Right. So now when a state, when a service, just to just the queue, there's no state on the server, essentially.There's a little bit of state with tracking hoots who sings, what? But that big if I were to build notion yeah. Encrypted, where does the database go? Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:18:41] Great question. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, so there's a, there's several kinds of points to talk about here. So with something like signal or WhatsApp that uses the double ratchet protocol, which is the protocol that signal introduced that preserves a principle called forward secrecy.There, it gets much more difficult to back up encrypted data. Now I'll go into that in a second, but as a default, if you build something like for instance, Keybase take, took this approach of giving up on forward secrecy and using a single symmetric key. For an entire chat room. If you take that approach, you actually can back up data.You can backup cipher text, right? Because signal and WhatsApp don't take that approach. Their server has no backup and that's crucial to understand if you've ever tried backing up your WhatsApp data, the way it works is you go through a menu tree and then you pick iCloud or depending on if you're iOS or Android, iCloud or Google drive, it keeps you have to keep the app open while it like.Serializes encrypts everything. Actually, it doesn't, it's plain text, so there's no encryption, but it takes it and then uploads it and you keep the app open while that's happening. And now you've backed up your data as of that day. If you have some more messages the next day, and then you lose your phone, those messages are gone.If you don't want to spend all this time with the app, open, waiting for it to upload, then there's no backup. I don't know. I don't have the numbers. My guess is most users do not back up their WhatsApp as for signal, no backup. That's just not how they do it. So you've probably had this experience.I don't know if you've ever gotten a new phone and you see your signal chats are missing. Oh, yeah, I have. swyx: [00:20:09] So I have two phones and when I switch SIM cards, just for international travel and stuff like that I can see that the WhatsApp doesn't transfer over. So yeah, that, that makes a lot more sense.Now. I never really questioned why I thought it was just a poor UX decision, but now it's in my spicy it's with a necessary part of the intended question. So is this a fundamental thing? Is that, is this something you're trying to solve where you're just saying this is. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:20:28] So the backup thing isn't like super fundamental, so, okay.So it might be worth talking about some alternative approaches, right? So, so the two of them might be worth talking about our matrix. Are you familiar with matrix? swyx: [00:20:39] Not really, I was going to ask about it because it's the other big end-to-end chat thing. Yeah, Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:20:44] yeah. Matrix is super cool. They have in a lot of ways, similar model to what we're doing.They have this idea of you have a home server and that your home server tracks your data. And they're a little bit more focused on kind of interoperability and allowing different any different client that you want to use can use the same kind of matrix protocol. But crucially there, the big difference is, for antenna encryption on the matrix platform.It's still client-based right. So your home server doesn't have access to your plain text. That makes sense, because the way they set up home servers, you find a home server provider on the internet somewhere. It's like some service provider, right? So you don't want to just give access to your data to that provider.Right. But matrix has a protocol, an antenna encryption protocol that actually is pretty similar to double ratchet for licensing reasons because they didn't want to use the, a, the BS, sorry, the the GPL license. They built their own and then BSD licensed it. They it's called Megal, but it's pretty much ripped off from from double ratchet.So very similar with forward secrecy. So the way forward secrecy works and the way double ratchet works is every single message that you send has a different encryption key. And that's important to understand, right? So you might think you have just like one encryption key if you and I are having a chat, right.We're just encrypting each message with that same key. Or maybe we each have our own, we encrypt it with that key. That's not what's going on. Actually, each message has its own key. And the ratchet part of double ratchet is every time you send a message, that key gets ratcheted and a new key is created.Right. And why it's called double ratchet is because every time, so let's say I send you four messages, then you send a re a message back. There's a new Diffie-Hellman that occurs. Are you familiar with Diffie-Hellman? Okay. Okay. Backtrack a little bit. So did the Holman is a definitive cryptographic protocol.It was pioneered and then maybe the seventies or eighties, and basically what it does, is it you can imagine two people in a crowded, like a bizarre, let's say you're, somewhere in, in I dunno, Istanbul. And there's a thousand people around you can yell at each other.Like what person a is a secret in the air person. It's not a secret, just like some something, they all, something personally VL something in the air. And from that point on these two individuals can communicate in public encrypted, completely secret in a way that no one else can understand what they're talking about.And they went into this without any prior secrets either. So they met in this spot, they yelled these things out and now they have a secret way of communicating. So if you home is how like TLS works. Like when we go to HTTPS websites, like it's a backbone of everything, right?So when you have anti-corruption defeat divvy home, and it allows you to random individuals to be able to create this like encrypted channel with each other. So with double ratchet and new defi home and occurs every single time, Some like the conversation is switched. Like every time I start talking a new Diffie-Hellman occurs and every time you start talking a new Diffie-Hellman occurs, that's the first ratchet.The second ratchet is every time you send a message, there's a deterministic ratchet. One that both sides can like predict, like to say, okay, this message now gets ratcheted into this key into the scheme to the key. Okay. So all this background is to point out that in order to be able. So, so the default way you would imagine a backup would occur and the default way a backup occurs for an app like messenger is I send you a message before, before Facebook messenger even sends it to you.It backs it up, right? It takes that message and it stores in its database, right? It's a really easy, transparent, automatically backing up. You don't have to manually back anything up. You don't lose your data since the last backup. It's great. Right? The issue is because every single one of these messages has a different key.And because obviously those keys aren't being exposed to that server. Now the server can back up the cipher text, but that cipher text is useless without the keys. And so to really back everything up, you need the clients now to take this giant bundle of keys that they've created to encrypt all of that and to back it up.And that's what matrix does. And matrix has this. You can go on there, GitHub, there's an issue there, and this is a longstanding issue, right? If you log into a web browser for the first time, it freezes the web browser for 10 minutes, because what's happening is it's downloading all of these keys onto your client so that now you can actually get the backup and actually scroll up in your chat history.Right. So that's one approach and it has its limitations. The another approach is will Keybase does, Keybase also tries to solve a, a similar problem with like large chats and they basically gave up on, on Ford secrecy. So their approach is are every chat has a single symmetric key.Right. If you get added to that chat, you get handed that same symmetric key. There's a thousand people. They all have the same symmetric key. It changes. There is some stuff where if someone leaves they need to change the key, there are ways to rotate the keys, but basically ultimately the point of the system is such that, you can join a chat, you can scroll up, see all the history without having to download all these, secondary keys.Their approach is very controversial. In terms of the, like the cryptographic kind of constraints that they're giving up on. It's hard to argue that their form of antenna Christian is as secure as everyone. Else's, they're pretty much the only platform that gave up on Ford secrecy.Everyone else uses double ratchet. It's the standard. So. I usually don't get that deep into this stuff, but yeah it, to really deeply understand why it is, why backup is as broken as it is for antenna encryption today, you really have to understand it from all these angles and then pointing the dimension beyond this as backup is the easy part.So I talked about like search, I talked about ranking backup is by far the easiest problem to solve, right. Trying to build like some homomorphic encryption way for a ranker to be able to see cipher texts and then to still extract interesting features from that cipher text that it can rank.It's like an unsolved problem. I don't imagine it will be solved anytime in the next 20 years, fundamentally to do server stuff, you usually need access to plain text data, and that's the crossroads we're at until we solve that problem. It's, we're going to have simple chat apps on antenna, encryption, and nothing else.Okay. swyx: [00:26:29] But you're trying to go beyond that with the kinds of key server. So, so to be clear, neither matrix, I keep it Keybase do the local key server thing, whatever that is. And I still, I still don't know what it is. And I also wanted to know if there's any desktop equivalent. Cause it seems this is a mobile focused solution. So I was wondering if there's a desktop analogy that we can look at is currently functioning. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:26:51] So I wouldn't say it's a mobile focused solution, so, okay. So what's a key server. A key server is your own personal data operating system, your own personal kind of like private data cloud today.The world we live in. You have a bunch of accounts. Do you have an account with Facebook? You have an account with Slack, you have account with Google, they all maintain these walled gardens, where your data is stored, right. And they have control of your data. Maybe they'll say you have some control, whatever.Ultimately like you defer to them to manage your digital life. The queue server flips that around. And the key server model, your data is on your device. It's controlled by you and you authorize Facebook, Google, et cetera, to use your key server. And to, either store some data on there or, to enable you to communicate with maybe it's a social app.So you can like chat with your friends, but all of that stuff you allow them to to do that. And crucially the key server controls where that code runs. Right. So you can't, as an app developer, you can't actually have a standalone app, an iOS app with a setup as it is, because that would mean that you could take that data and exfiltrate it, send it to some logging service and analytics service.So it's basically this whole like closed platform that controls. Your data and how it works. And the goal is ultimately to take the cloud and actually to replace it with a federated network of key servers, right. These key servers talk to each other. So a couple of crucial things to understand about a key server.First of all, what, it's not a database and this is important to understand. So a lot of people assume, okay, so this thing has all of your data, right? It actually, it doesn't need to, it can just have your keys. The important thing is right. That it has your keys. Because you can take whatever data you want and you can encrypt that data with their keys and put it out somewhere else in the cloud, you can store it in some IPFS or whatever distributed.It doesn't happen. You don't have to be distributed. Right. The important thing is that this is just a cash, basically. Like you ask it to do operations for you. It pulls down the information it needs and does that stuff and sends the response back. Right? So we're trying to replace not the database layer, but we're trying to replace the cloud code, which is, I guess, these parts terminology, if you remember parse, but like this idea of code that runs in the cloud server layer code, that's what we're ultimately trying to replace.And we're trying to take that and move it to. In an environment that is controlled by the user. So another thing that, can be confusing as like, where does this thing run? Right? So another thing it's that this is not a key server is not a encryption as a service. And what I mean by that is, w we are not offering you, we're not offering a service to run this key server for you.We can't do that because crucially the key server needs access to airplane, text data. So if we're running your key server for you. We have your plain text data, right? So we don't do that. And it's actually, it's up to the user to figure out where they want to run their key server as a default.We offer initially when we launched, we're going to have two ways to do that way. Number one is to take a spare laptop, some laptop that you're not using to plug it into a wall socket, keep it on 24 seven. And that becomes your key server. Right? Option number two is to deploy something to the cloud.And this is we're borrowing Google outline, VPNs approach, where. They basically Google out on weekend, lets you download this like manager thing to your laptop and then it walks you through the process of deploying a VPN to the cloud and you can deploy it to AWS, to Google cloud and even to digital ocean.So our we'll have a similar model where you can deploy to whatever account you want. Obviously, Amazon will have access to your data. Whether that matters to you, I think is depends on the person. I'll say this, like it's not Amazon or Google's business model to be reading your data.I'm pretty sure that they tell you that they don't read your data. And I think only in the case of a government order, would that become relevant? And so I'll say this we're not trying to build like this, like super we were trying to build a world with privacy by default.That's what we're going for. Right. And I, I think having your own kind of platform out in Amazon or a Google, like it is privacy by default it's a system where your data isn't being harvested, where data is and being monitored at all times. It's not quite the same as maybe what a spy would want or like a criminal would want or whatever else.And maybe for those users, they probably want to keep using signal or her Maybe they'll have a key server on a, a laptop at home, but what we're trying to do is build something for the average user to get away from this world where you're just being tracked all the time, yeah. swyx: [00:31:01] A couple of questions. So when you say things like it will replace Dropbox, Facebook and so on. Yeah. So something like the how much, so as a Let's say I'm I'm I wanna, I want to start the next Dropbox. I'm going to start the next Facebook and I want to build it with the premise of let's just say the key servers or anything, and I want to interact with all these, how much control do I have on changing the schema?Cause that's, I think that's ultimately what I want, right? If I can only get what the user gives me, then my pace of development is very slow. Does that make sense? Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:31:30] Yeah, no you're absolutely right. Yeah. I mean, so in terms of a typical app, when you're developing in typical app, you have access to all this stuff that you do.Yeah. Well, this model you don't right. And so there, there's a couple kinds of ways around that. One thing that you could do is as an app developer, you could say, okay, in order to use my app, you have to friend me. On comp. So you have to take, you have to actually friend Milo corporate account, and that will allow Congress to actually say, okay, we can send data to this because we limit who you can communicate with based on your social graph.Right? So you could imagine a world where basically most apps, because the app developer just needs some logging data to be able to move forward. We'll ask you to authorize the app to actually send data out. Right. Right. And that's a trust relationship that you have to have between the app developer and the user w we want to do is to make that explicit.Right. And I also think that, depending on the application, right? So something like Dropbox, I'll say, it doesn't have to be too complicated. Like it's ultimately like this like file storage thing. And I think ideally if I was picking between an app that was maybe it was app development like finished in mostly several years back.And they just had something that works and they don't need to constantly be like getting all my data. I would probably prefer that to an app that's maybe being like, constantly evolved, but is, has this like kind of leak in there. Right. But probably depends on the app. Right. So if you imagine maybe like a social app, I probably would make that trade off in a different direction, given that, It's harder to iterate on a social app like that.So it probably depends on the application. What kind of data you're putting on the application, all this kind of stuff. But the important thing is users should be aware of it and the users should have control. Yeah. swyx: [00:33:08] So, but to be clear, the vision is that other people will build all these apps on top of calm rather than calm building all of these things.Right? Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:33:16] Yeah. So, well, so w we, we don't believe we can launch this as a platform. So, if we just throw this thing out there and just say, Hey, write apps for it. It's a hard sell because we don't have users and, users want to see apps. So we're starting by actually building out what we think of is like a killer app.And that's this like discord competitor, and the thinking there is, Discord, it's been so successful and it's Testament to this desire for private chat communities. Right. But discord is built a product for gamers, right. And it's really good for gamers. And what gamers need is like time in the moment, kind of real-time chat, right.But that's not what everyone needs. And you have so many communities. And I have so many communities on discord now that needs something different. I have all these blockchain communities, all these, get hub developer communities that probably need something that's more structured, that's more asynchronous.Right. It's more collaborative. And so. The way I look at it as this court is bound to get unbundled. There's no way in five years that we don't have like 10 discords. Right. And we're starting by basically building the anti discord exists. We're trying to take the opposite kind of angle, build something that's very complimentary to the score.And so I think there's a real need in the market for this. And I think the end of the antenna encryption is a huge plus, especially given we're targeting these initial kind of blockchain developer get hub nerds. And the hope is that these are also gonna be the first people to actually build apps in our platform.Right. But yeah, I mean, your point is correct. Like we, ultimately, this is meant to be a platform. And when we get there, like the hope is that we'll have users building apps on our platform rather than us being this like singular app developer. swyx: [00:34:37] And that's fantastic. And I often reflect on how.A lot of times people who want to build platforms end up building product first, and sometimes the product just takes off way more than that. That's cool.  And Oh, which right. Like then it just proves the viability of the platform and more people will come on and build on platform, which is great for you.It just, it does spit your attention a little bit, but whenever you're pretty committed to this how much have you built already? Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:34:55] So I don't know, probably not too much. So we have an app and that happens is actually, pretty mature. It, given that I've been working on it for a long time, so we have an iOS and an Android app website, but all this key server stuff I'm talking about really has not been built out.We're just getting started on that stuff. So the, I mean, this company really got started in January. We have one employee besides me, so we're really not much of it has been built. swyx: [00:35:17] Gotcha. Can I see, because I don't think I saw it. You sent me, so all I have is this notion thing. Oh yeah.I saw the, yeah, I don't think I saw any fighter or app or anything. Okay. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:35:28] So yeah. It's all good hub. swyx: [00:35:31] I'll share my screen just in case anyone is watching. Yeah, no, this is cool. I always like to start things for people. Oh Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:35:39] yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. Yeah. So, so this is as it is, it's mostly like just the team collaborating on this thing.So it's not yeah we tried using that a while. Okay. That swyx: [00:35:52] since it comes and goes, I find it very useful if you commit to it. But then sometimes, stuff happens Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:35:59] Like notion mostly for that kind of like coordination stuff. swyx: [00:36:02] So basically not much to show like publicly about your there's just active development going on.Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:36:06] Yeah. I mean, so you can see the squat Cal app now, but that's what currently what this currently builds too. So yeah. It's squad call.org. There it is. But this is yeah this design has been, this is where I'm like 2018. You can see even the Android still has the Does it doesn't have the, what's it called full screen device?It looks a little old, but basically, yeah. I mean, so we have this app spot calendar. We're continuing to release the thing as squat cow, because we don't want to use a new use the name calm until we actually built out the Anton encryption layer. We want to be able to tell users right. That this is Truly private.And so we don't want to besmirch the brand with like fake end to end encryption. So we're basically continuing to use a squad count name until we get to a point where we have the antenna Christian figured out. But the Rebos under the name comm now. swyx: [00:36:50] Got it. Okay, perfect. I mean, look don't be embarrassed about it.This is what early stage is. Totally. You should be shipping stuff. You're embarrassed by it. But like what's the, so what's like the game plan for the next, the near term. Because it's, it really seems like this is going to hinge on. I guess this getting adoption within the communities that, that you want to adopt?I will say that I raised my eyebrow. When you said that you think this code will be unbundled because I think this court has a huge network effect. I don't know how to overcome it. I've. I'm invested in circle and we're trying to bridge people from this court to circle and it's just seems like discord is just way more active anyway, just cause people already in it.And so starting a new app is difficult, but then I think I said this to you in my email, like starting a new app is difficult, but if you pull it off in a, that's a hugely defensible mode. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:37:33] Yeah. Yeah. I mean, no, you're super right. I mean, in terms of putting our investor hats on, I'd say this is the kind of thing that's like.Much less likely to hit than most startups. But if it does hit, it's like a, it's like a huge thing. Right. And I'll say this, I have deep confidence in the kind of two, two kind of principles. The first is that the world's going towards privacy, that, people are increasingly wherever their digital footprint, increasingly desire to have control over their own privacy and their own data.And that, people, I think the world is moving towards like a world where you have privacy by default. And the number two thing that I have high degree of confidence on is that the only way we can scale antenna corruption, the only way we can get to a world with privacy by default is with something like key servers.People have to have. They're one kind of server. Right? And so I hold these two things near and dear everything else like this discord idea is just an attempt to just, it just it's something that we're trying to, we're trying out. And if it doesn't work we'll try to pivot and try to find something else in terms of like, why I'm optimistic about it.I'll S I'll say, there's a whole thing I gave the whole spiel. I gave you where I look at this as NC. Discord like being hacked in into a lot of use cases that really just wasn't built for. And I think in particular, the community is I've been talking about these like blockchain developers and these GitHub people.They're obsessed with this kind of vision of decentralized community. Like they're already in our cult of having control of their data, it rather than deferring that to some corporation. Right. So I think there's a huge appeal there. And I'm hoping those two things we'll work together.The other side of it is, we consider three other angles of how to build this thing and they have some limitations that the, this court approach doesn't one of the biggest advantages of the discord approach is that only admins need to set up a key server. Right. Cause setting up a key server, it's like a pretty high friction process.I talked about it earlier, either have a spare laptop or you deploy something to the cloud and maybe your super nerd is going to be down to do that initially. But the average user is like just one installed app, and so with this kind of discord approach, only the admin needs to do it.And the average user just sets it up on their phone, just like any other kind of app. And there's one of thing. Oh yeah. The social layer. So basically. Another big advantage of this or this kind of discord approach, as opposed to some of the other projects we've talked about.So ultimately antenna corruption, it's it's a social thing. It's about enabling to users to be able to communicate with each other, without having some intermediary have access to that data. Right? So in order for us to be able to do that, to be able to guarantee to a user that any app that they install on our platform is end to end encrypted for us to make that guarantee.We need to control all aspects of that app and we have to control where it runs and we can't let the app developer have access to internet. Right. And that means we have to provide the social air and for us to be able to do that when you can bootstrap a social craft. And so it's another kind of big advantage of this discord approach that a lot of the other purchases just don't have.But yeah, I mean, I'll tell you're totally right. Like the most likely reason this thing fails is we fail to get traction with our app. Yeah, it's swyx: [00:40:11] cool. Yeah. I mean this, I think I love the ambition. I love the mission. And you're totally right to focus in on, on, I guess, your words, the cult of people who really wants to control the data and have the technical competency to set this thing up, because I think people want privacy first, but the.Every time you trade off UX  that's a large chunk of the cock published and you just shut off. So it's a it's a challenging thing. What can, what can I, you reached out to me talking about introductions. I'm probably not going to invest at this stage because I don't really understand this as, as well as I should, but I mean, I'm really impressed by your storytelling and your background.And I mean, I think this is a. It's one of those things where if it goes well, it goes really well. And I'm always open to ideas like that. But who can I introduce you to what kind of help are you looking for? Yeah. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:40:55] So the number one thing I'm trying to figure out right now is hiring.So, we have me, we have one employee, but he's straight out of college. And we have a team in Poland. But like really I need to find kind of two personas. One is like kind of CTO, character, 10 X engineer. He replaced me. Right. And I'm doing all this code review, like right before this call, I was doing code review.And I just I don't have time to do all this stuff. And so I need to find someone who can build out the first version of all this key server tech and own that. And then the other kind of side, I need to find somebody who's like a design product guru, somebody who can like.Own this product definition. Cause I have some experience with product. I spent my life working on social products, but in terms of like design, I'm like, I can I'm not good at designing things super well. So I need somebody who can partner with me on that and also a lot of other, a lot of their hats that need to be worn stuff like kind of community manager, UX researcher.So the number one way you could help me is if you know anybody who could be a good fit for either of these roles, or if no one comes to mind, if people who might know people. So second orders. So whoever you could think of who, who might know somebody. swyx: [00:41:56] And do you have you have you applied to any of the accelerators, like the YCS of the world, but th there can be more than that.Right? So the Techstars is also an Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:42:04] option. Yeah. So, so I spent a good amount of time considering some accelerators. I ultimately decided against all of them right now, a couple kinds of concerns, one with this whole kind of like pandemic situation. Like they're all trying to do remote and I just don't know if I can really get to that level of confidence about somebody who just like from zoom, and I don't know if I that the magic, the collaborative magic is it going to, is going to spark? And before we go into these, they always ask for 7% and 7%. I mean, I've already raised some money. I don't think my investors are super, would be super excited about that.And I also myself would have to really justify that pretty strongly and swyx: [00:42:38] redacting some details about fundraising here, per request. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:42:41] So, yeah, so I'd say honestly, fundraising quite well. I think it's Testament to, this is like a moment for encryption right now. And I think there's a lot of money floating around.And I think I've gotten pretty good at the storytelling and then the selling, but the part that I'm really struggling on is hiring, which is weird because, I come from a technical background, but I've already tried all my friends and I've tried their friends and yeah. So whatever you can do to help there I'd really appreciate it.swyx: [00:43:03] Yeah. I'll keep it. I'll keep this in mind. I don't know. One comes to mind like right now I, I have, well where I work at Temporal and we're in a process of trying to hire a design lead ourselves. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:43:15] Yeah, it's hard, but swyx: [00:43:16] This is a very different opportunity and we can both co-exist and I'll just make sure to route people to you when their sort of profile matches up I was also going to suggest.I didn't know. I didn't know you're this far advanced in the fundraising because I was going to suggest talking to people like Brian Acton or Mike Krieger to invest. Cause they're pretty Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:43:31] active angels. I would love to talk to either of those people. Yeah, literally both, both those people are people that I would love to get connected to and haven't been able to find like an, like a, Oh yeah.Okay. swyx: [00:43:42] So. Yeah,  Mike is a co- investor in Supabase. So, what I should do is I should introduce you to, this is going to be a w because I'm two degrees separation from him. So, I'll introduce you to Paul cobblestone, who is the CEO of super base who Mike invested in. And so if he can probably get you that warm intro Mike seems like he's just.Investing in everything. So I think he'll at least take a call from you just because of your background and this is something that he's interested in Brian and I have zero connections to, I'm just, I just think that he's very interested in it. Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:44:11] Yeah, exactly. No. Brian Acton obviously makes a lot of sense.And yeah. So yeah, if I could find anybody from that WhatsApp team would be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Also mostly Marlin spike. If you know anyone who knows Moxie. swyx: [00:44:25] Moxie. I don't know, Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:44:25] Moxie. Oh, sorry. This the founder of signal. swyx: [00:44:28] Okay. Got it. Is this is how far out of death. I am like, I'm not super close.I just, I know it's a thing and I know some people tend to initially but cool. No, no one comes to mind. don't want to over promise you, but I thought this was really compelling. And I thought, at least the least I can do is have this, have your story straight. So when I tell it to people at least get to help you pitch these things and hopefully send people your way.I think you're, I think you were working on really cool stuff. I mean, that's, I'm a little bit jealous cause you have the space to experiment, and you're passionate about this. And, even if this immediate thing doesn't work out you'll find something else that they clicked.So this is pretty Ashoat Tevosyan: [00:45:02] cool. Awesome. Yeah. Thanks. I appreciate the vote of confidence.

Which privacy service deserves your trust? Often you will hear things like good security or if the code is open source. But as always, it has a lot to do with money. Who pays in the end? In today's episode we welcome no other than TheHatedOne (Privacy YouTuber), who joins us to discuss business models. Why are they important? How can a service be financially sustainable? And out of Signal and GrapheneOS, which one does a great job while the other is set up in a questionable manner to say the least. Show Notes - Accompanying Blog Post: https://safing.io/blog/2021/05/06/how-weak-business-models-destroy-everything-we-fight-for/ - https://world.hey.com/jonas/how-money-dictates-design-decisions-5e866cd9 Support - Use the Portmaster for Free, Forever: https://safing.io/portmaster/ - Give Us a Star on GitHub: https://github.com/safing/portmaster/ - Tell Two Friends about Safing TheHatedOne's YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHatedOne/ David's Socials - https://twitter.com/davegson/ - https://github.com/davegson/ - https://reddit.com/u/davegson/ Signal & MobileCoin Sources - https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/ - https://signal.org/blog/update-on-beta-testing-payments/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mo8o7c/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mow3ac/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mo0bck/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mm6nad/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mrespr/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mneh5r/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26726246 - https://ndtv.com/india-news/co-founder-brian-acton-to-ndtv-where-signal-scores-over-whatsapp-2351616(from minute 7:00 Brian Acton talks about Business Models) Music Credit All music composed by Philter. Intro Song: "Sunrise". Outro Song: "Sunset"

En este episodio hablaremos de 5 MENTIRAS que por alguna razón te creiste y te están limitando, atrasando y desempedrando. También hablaremos sobre como puedes hacer un "switch" en el discurso, para superarlas. PRIMERA: “No tengo Tiempo” Con casi total seguridad podría afirmar que varias veces al día te repites la frase de «el tiempo no me da” Miras el calendario y piensas que nunca es el día propicio, el momento ideal para cambiar tu vida y empezar a hacer realidad tus sueños. Miras al calendario y piensas que te falta tiempo para empezar ese negocio, para cambiar d etrabajo o para tomar esa decisión ¿Y sabes la verdad? El problema no está en el reloj, ni esta en las 40 cosas que tienes que hacer….el problema eres tu. Porque no te están dando cuenta de que el “no tengo tiempo” es solo una excusa que te impide alcanzar sus sueños. Nunca vendrán mejores momentos. Sencillamente no existen buenos o malos momentos. Asi que el tiempo se HACE, se saca, se busca.. y no necesitas mas tiempo cuando tienes ganas….. Te tengo que decir que las personas MAS EXITOSAS que he conocido en mi vida son las que menos tiempo libre tienen…..porque cuando lo tienen se ocupan en algo para mejorar Asi que esa mentira que ocupa tu cabeza y que vas por la vida repitiéndola sin parar, sacala YA!!!  Y cambiala por:  "Salud y Vida es lo que necesito para hacer que las cosas sucedan” SEGUNDA: "No tengo Dinero para hacer eso que quiero hacer" Esta es otra gran pero gran mentira ..Te invito a que busques un poco sobre la historia de tantos y tantos emprendedores que hoy dia son millonarios y vivieron en sus incios en extrema pobreza… como Oprah y  Jan Koum es el cofundador del sistema de mensajería instantánea Whatsapp, adquirido por Facebook en 2014 Tratando de salir adelante, Jan migró de Ucrania a los EE. UU. con su madre, cuando solo contaba con 16 años, dejando atrás a su padre. Este hombre tiene una historia fascinante porq  se interesó desde joven por la tecnología, y por eso se esforzó en trabajar todas las horas que pudo para ahorrar e ir a la universidad con 18 años. Tras varias entrevistas de trabajo finalmente fue aceptado en Yahoo donde conoció a Brian Acton, con quien crearon la famosa aplicación WhatsApp. Asi que querida mia si toda esa gente pudo… tu también puedes aunque tengas 0 en tu cuenta de banco….haz un plan y cambia esa mentira por:  Declaro que voy a lograr eso cueste lo que me cueste. TERCERA: Yo quería hacer eso pero ya se me hizo demasiado tarde. Quien te dijo a ti que ya es demasiado tarde…? Si hoy dia la gente cas vez se cuida mas y vive mas…..no te creas esa mentira…. Siempre es un buen momento….  Te recuerdo que Jonh Biden logro ser el presidente de Estados Unidos a los 78 anos… sip.. a esa edad que tu pensarías que básicamente tienen tus abuelos, hay un hombre que no se rindió hasta que lo logró Cambia esta frase por: "Mas vale tarde que nunca" CUARTA: YO NO SIRVO PARA ESO…. Quien te dijo que los seres humanos venimos con un Manual de especificaciones para lo que podemos o no ser útiles? Volvemos a caer en la trampa de la sociedad de esteriotipar…. Y ponerle sellos a la gente ¿Ruso, árabe, chino? ¿Violín, guitarra? ¿Física cuántica? Esta probado que Nuestro cerebro está preparado para aprender cualquier cosa, por difícil que sea, y además lo hace de forma rápida. Al menos, al principio. Algunos expertos establecieron el periodo de aprendizaje más productivo en las primeras 20 horas de contacto con una materia, y tiene que ver con la capacidad de respuesta y el interés que muestra nuestro cerebro ante nuevos estímulos. Cambialo por: Yo no se hacerlo pero estoy segura que aprenderé. QUINTA: SI HAGO TAL COSA.. LA GENTE PENSARA XXX de mi. EN SERIO? Deja de pensar en lo que piensen y digan los demás.. al fin del dia.. alguien te paga las cuentas? Alguien paga tu casa? NADIE…. Al final eres tu o tu  Cambialo: Voy a hacerlo porque YO LO QUIERO…. Supera las Mentiras que te repites todos los dias y te atrasan. Cambia tu Mindset y verás como cada dia es el mejor de tu vida.

C'est l'application de messagerie instantanée la plus utilisée au monde, selon des chiffres qui datent de février 2021, avec 2 milliards de membres. C'est aussi le service qui a coûté le plus cher à Facebook, car il a fallu débourser 19 milliards de dollars pour mettre la main dessus. Même les autres géants de la tech, comme Google, Apple, Amazon ou Microsoft, n'ont pas dépensé autant d'argent en une fois pour une telle prise. Vous l'avez reconnue : c'est de WhatsApp dont il s'agit. Lancé en 2009 par Jan Koum et Brian Acton, le programme s'est imposé comme un incontournable de la discussion pour un très grand nombre de personnes — même si, ces derniers temps, des voix se sont élevées contre les plans de Facebook visant à resserrer ses liens avec sa filiale, avec une polémique qui est en cours sur les futures conditions du service. l'expression « What's Up ? » (« Quoi de neuf ? ») qui a servi de socle, en remplaçant « Up » par « App », à la sonorité proche, et pour signifier que c'est une application mobile dont on parle. C'est tout ! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aziz-mustaphi/message

Whatsapp hat angekündigt, mehr Daten an den Mutterkonzern Facebook abzuführen. Viele Nutzer wollen deshalb den Dienst verlassen und setzen auf Alternativen. Das hat selbst der Whatsapp-Gründer Brian Acton getan. Heutiger Gast: Ruth Fulterer, Technologie-Redaktorin Weitere Informationen zum Thema: https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/telegram-signal-threema-die-besten-whatsapp-alternativen-ld.1596289 Hörerinnen und Hörer von «NZZ Akzent» lesen die NZZ online oder in gedruckter Form drei Monate lang zum Preis von einem Monat. Zum Angebot: nzz.ch/akzentabo

In 2008 reisde Brian Acton met zijn vriend Jan Koum door Zuid-Amerika. Ze hadden ontslag genomen bij Yahoo. Ze speelden frisbee op het strand. Ze dachten na: wat te doen met het leven? Terug in Amerika startte hij met Koum WhatsApp.

In 2008 reisde Brian Acton met zijn vriend Jan Koum door Zuid-Amerika. Ze hadden ontslag genomen bij Yahoo. Ze speelden frisbee op het strand. Ze dachten na: wat te doen met het leven? Terug in Amerika startte hij met Koum WhatsApp.

In this episode everyone introduces themselves, and we tell Brian Acton's story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/interesting-people/message

In an exclusive interview, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton opens up about walking away from more than $850 million dollars at Facebook, and why with all the money in the world he's betting on privacy. In this candid interview, Brian says he hopes his work at privacy non-profit Signal Foundation will help usher in a new era of free expression. Acton speaks openly about how users should navigate privacy in a tech era where trust has been tarnished, and responds to calls to break up big tech. The notoriously private founder also speaks about his upbringing - from "shoveling shit" far from the Silicon Valley promised land, Acton explains how growing up doing the "non sexy' jobs led him to success, and why time is his most valued asset. First Contact explores the complicated dynamics of money and happiness, privacy and protection, and the pursuit of free expression in a world where our data has become currency. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The cofounder of WhatsApp and the Signal Foundation thinks the use of encrypted communications tools will only increase in the future. “There's a global education that's happening,” says Brian Acton, who left WhatsApp in 2018 and now chairs the non-profit foundation, which promotes open-source, end-to-end encryption in messaging. “Back in the ‘90s, we all got the same hoax emails, and we all learned to ignore them.

After SEVERAL weeks of being on a hiatus (finally wrapped the Miami Vice podcast!) I'm back with more hot takes and permanently back for these daily podcasts. To kick things off this week I spent some time over the weekend really thinking about Brian Acton's advice to delete Facebook and really look at my reliance on their apps. Naturally, this lead me to review my usage of WhatsApp and how to diversify myself away from the FAANG services. Over the weekend I took some time to set up a XMPP/Jabber server with great success! This was a fun way to experiment and I think I'm going to stick with the self-hosted chat, that was incredibly easy to set up. XMPP Server - Prosody IM Read more Get more hot takes, deeper dives and inside information on tech and how it connects to humans. obscurednarration.com Blog RSS Get behind the scenes Twitter - @domcorriveau Instagram - @domcorriveau Reviews and more tech news on my YouTube https://www.youtube.com/dominiccorriveau Music "Werq", "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Subscribe Podcast RSS Miami Vice Podcast Back in 1984, Miami Vice changed the TV landscape not only for the decade, but for generations of police drama’s since. Miami Vice’s cultural impact on TV was not only with police drama’s, but bringing in the best of popular music with each and every episode. Go With the Heat is a serial podcast going an episode at a time and digging into the cultural phenomenon that is Miami Vice from the perspective of hosts who have never seen an episode prior to starting this podcast. gowiththeheat.com

Episode 117 : Whatstabook est le grand projet de Facebook pour 2019. L'unification des ses trois grandes plateformes de messagerie : Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct Message et WhatsApp. On vous explique dans cette épisode ce que pourrait être cette unification et ce qu'elle peut provoquer pour les utilisateurs comme pour les marques ! Nous faisons un peu de Social Media fiction ! Facebook possède trois des plus importantes messageries instantanées de la planète : WhatsApp, Instagram et Messenger, qui représentent 2,6 milliards d’utilisateurs actifs dans le monde. Mais voilà, ces applications ne communiquent pas entre elles. Et figurez vous que Mark Zuckerberg a un grand projet : unifier les infrastructures de ces mastodontes du chat. Le programme devrait être achevé d’ici à la fin de cette année ou au début de 2020 Attention, il ne s’agit pas de fusionner les applications… ##Zuckerberg rassure sur les questions de sécurité. 
Un écosystème crypté de bout en bout## Zuckerberg a également ordonné que les applications incorporent toutes un cryptage de bout en bout. Une étape majeure qui empêche les messages d'être vus par quiconque, à l'exception des participants à une conversation. Dans un communiqué, Facebook a déclaré vouloir "créer les meilleures expériences de messagerie possibles; et les gens veulent que la messagerie soit rapide, simple, fiable et privée. ##Une initiative qui soulève des questions de confidentialité## Le plan d'intégration soulève des questions de confidentialité en raison de la manière dont les données des utilisateurs peuvent être partagées entre les services.  WhatsApp n’a actuellement besoin que d’un numéro de téléphone lorsque de nouveaux utilisateurs s’inscrivent. Contrairement à Facebook Messenger et à Instagram, WhatsApp ne stocke pas les messages et conserve un minimum de données utilisateur.  En revanche, Facebook et Facebook Messenger demandent aux utilisateurs de fournir leur vraie identité.  Faire correspondre les utilisateurs de Facebook et Instagram aux comptes WhatsApp permettrait au Groupe Facebook de détenir à peu près toutes les infos de contacts d’une personne… Marc Rotenberg, président et directeur exécutif de l’EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), a déclaré vendredi que le changement serait "un résultat terrible pour les utilisateurs d'internet". Il a exhorté la Federal Trade Commission, l' autorité de contrôle de la confidentialité des États-Unis , à "agir maintenant pour protéger la vie privée et préserver la concurrence." ##Facebook face aux lois antitrust## Le représentant Ro Khanna, démocrate de Californie, a critiqué le changement pour des raisons antitrust. "C'est pourquoi les acquisitions d'Instagram et de WhatsApp par Facebook auraient dû faire l'objet de beaucoup plus d'attention, ce qui apparaît désormais clairement comme une fusion horizontale qui aurait dû déclencher un contrôle antitrust", a-t-il déclaré dans un message publié sur Twitter . "Imaginez à quel point le monde serait différent si Facebook devait concurrencer Instagram et WhatsApp." ##Facebook souhaite accroître encore davantage la fidélisation de ses utilisateurs## En assemblant l'infrastructure des applications, Facebook espère accroître son utilité et maintenir l'engagement des utilisateurs pour son écosystème.  Cela pourrait réduire l'appétit des gens pour les services de messagerie concurrents, comme ceux proposés par Apple et Google.  Une ouverture vers de nouveaux produits publicitaires ? ##Zuck affirme son autorité## L’année 2018 a été très compliquée pour Mark Zuckerberg et les rumeurs de son éviction au post de CEO de Facebook sont de plus en plus récurrentes. Avec cette annonce, Zuck impose son autorité sur les unités qu’il avait autrefois promis de laisser évoluer indépendamment du géant Facebook. Au moment des acquisitions, M. Zuckerberg avait promis à WhatsApp et à Instagram une grande autonomie par rapport à leur nouvelle société mère.  Nous avons maintenant une explication aux récents départs des fondateurs d’Instagram et WhatsApp. Les fondateurs de Instagram, Kevin Systrom et Mike Krieger, ont quitté la société brusquement l'automne dernier. Les fondateurs de WhatsApp, Jan Koum et Brian Acton, sont partis pour des raisons similaires. . . . Le Super Daily est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs. Nous sommes une agence de content marketing et social media basée à Lyon. Nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs. Contact : bonjour@supernatifs.com

Pour cette 100ème, l'émission détaille les actualités sous forme de quizz ! Guillaume Vendé pose une question sur le podcast Tech Café. Pour répondre chaque participant doit envoyer “buzz” sur le chat skype. Le premier qui répond juste peut choisir parmis les cinq thèmes proposés. Guillaume Poggiaspalla posera ensuite une question façon “qui suis-je ?” dans le thème choisi en faisant allusion à une news récente. Celui qui buzze et trouve en premier la news peut en parler et la développer comme bon lui semble, tout le monde pourra ensuite éventuellement réagir. Réagissez sur techcafe.fr Soutenez Tech Café sur Patreon Discutez avec nous sur Telegram ! Thème “Société” Réseaux sociaux, politique, vie privée, usages, roqueforts, rumeurs, mensonges, vérités : c’est le thème Société ! Je vous vois. Je vous vois la nuit, je vous vois en relief, je connais votre visage dans ses plus petits détails. Je vous reconnaîtrais entre mille, même avec des lunettes, même avec une barbe de 4 jours, j’ouvre la porte de tous vos secret, à vous, vous seul ? Parce que si je vous vois, je balance tout, que vous le vouliez ... ou non. Désormais utilisé par le FBI pour déverrouiller le téléphone des suspects... je suis ? Face ID ! Le FBI Oblige un suspect à déverrouiller son Smartphone avec Face ID. Je suis un géant. Une hydre aux mille têtes, je suis partout, vous pouvez tout me demander, j’ai tout ce dont vous aurez besoin, tout que vous pouvez désirer. Et je vous l’apporte grâce à un million de bras. Je vaux mille milliards de dollars et j’exauce vos vœux en un clic. Le client est mon roi mais je reste l’empereur inflexible de mes 500 000 sujets, qui doivent me servir diligemment car je ne tolère aucune contestation sur mon territoire. Les syndicats ne passeront pas par moi... je suis ? Amazon ! Comment Amazon veut tuer les revendications syndicales. Je suis né le 17 février 1972 dans le Michigan mais j’ai grandi en Floride, je suis informaticien et entrepreneur. Avec mon ami Koum, nous avons eu la chance et le talent de créer une application de messagerie qui a eu suffisamment de succès pour être rachetée 19 milliards de dollars en 2014. J’ai du succès mais aussi des valeurs, des valeurs qui en ont beaucoup car elles m’ont coûté 850 millions de dollars... je suis ? Brian Acton ! Le cofondateur de whatsapp claque la porte de Facebook. Thème “Pognon” Le fric, le pèze, la maille, l’oseille, les ronds, les sous, le blé, les radis : c’est ici ! Je suis né il y a 20 ans même si ma conception remonte à 1996 à Stanford. Mes deux papas ont l’idée de s’inspirer de la façon dont sont organisées les publications scientifiques en fonction de leur nombre de citations. Dès décembre 98, j’intègre la liste des 100 meilleurs sites au monde, je pèse aujourd’hui presque 800 milliards de dollars et en 2016 mon Index ne comportait pas moins de 100 000 milliards de pages web. Je suis le moteur de recherche numéro un et je suis près à payer très cher pour le rester, j’aurais même versé des milliards à Apple en 2018 je suis… ? Google ! Le prix de Google pour être sur l’iPad et l’iPhone. Je suis né en Afrique du Sud, j’ai été Canadien avant de devenir Américain en 2002. J’ai commencé un doctorat en physique énergétique à Stanford que j’ai laissé tomber pour fonder zip2 avec mon frère Kimbal. La vente de zip2 à Compaq à permis de fonder X.com qui, comme son nom ne l’indique pas, est une banque en ligne qui à permis l’achat de paypal qui fait ma fortune. Fondateur de SpaceX, de Tesla. J’ai la quarantaine flamboyante et le sourire enjôleur mais je reste traumatisé par Terminator. Je tweete beaucoup trop pour mon propre bien et la SEC vient de me taper sur les doigts je suis… ? Elon Musk ! Elon Musk écope d’une grosse amende, mais reste à la tête de Tesla. Thème “Matos” Le hardware, les appareils, les machines, les bécanes, c’est la fête aux gadgets ! Je suis noir et j’ai un touché velours. Ma famille s'agrandit avec moi, je suis le benjamin,

This week, we saw the two founders of Instagram abruptly leave, so Casey Newton comes on the show to talk about all that drama and what it might mean for Facebook’s prized possession. Then, Dan Seifert joins us to talk about all of the cameras that were announced at Photokina this year, plus all the models that were announced before the show even started. Finally, Liz Lopatto comes on for an impromptu This Week In Elon to discuss the fact that the SEC has filed a lawsuit against Mr. Musk, which happened just before we started recording the show. 1:28 - Instagram founders resign from Facebook 5:00 - 5 times Facebook messed with Instagram 20:43 - Whats App co-founder Forbes interview 22:32 - Former boss of Facebook Messenger calls Brian Acton “low class” 32:31 - Photokina 2018 recap 38:39 - Zeiss camera with built-in Adobe Lightroom 51:16 - Paul’s weekly segment “Space Egg” 56:07 - This week in Elon Musk: Live Edition™ with Liz Lopatto 1:09:52 - Oculus Quest Also, in case you missed it, Nilay talked to Google AMP’s Malte Ubl about how he’s trying to make the mobile web better. You can listen to that in the Vergecast feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to episode 153! Last week’s episode was about are we born with entrepreneurial genes or do we learn the traits? What’s the difference between Employees and entrepreneurs. Have you ever been rejected or fired from a job? I was fired from my very 1 st job cleaning a autobody shop for my Brothers friend Scott. I will quickly share the story with you. Maxum Corporation - Inspiring Greatness Show Notes: http://maxumcorp.com.au/podcasts/ 

Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5 billion. http://bit.ly/qlearly120 Google is buying Lytro for about $40M. http://bit.ly/qlearly117 Travis Kalanick is buying a new company that rehabs real estate and will run it as CEO. http://bit.ly/qlearly118 WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook. http://bit.ly/qlearly119 CryptoKitties raises $12M from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. http://bit.ly/qlearly121 Snowden Leak Suggests NSA Is Extensively Tracking Bitcoin Users. http://bit.ly/qlearly122

ZDF sieht deutliche Zustimmung für öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk Die Schweizer stimmen am 4. März über die Abschaffung der Rundfunkgebühr ab. Das ZDF sieht hierzulande eine klare Akzeptanz für das duale Rundfunksystem. Auch der ARD-Vorsitzende Ulrich Wilhelm wies darauf hin, dass in ganz Europa derzeit über den Stellenwert des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks diskutiert werde. Auf die Frage, ob man für Qualitätsinhalte nicht allein auf die Kräfte des Marktes vertrauen sollte, ergebe seine Analyse ein eindeutiges Nein. WhatsApp-Mitgründer investiert 50 Millionen Dollar in Signal-Stiftung Der Verkauf an Facebook hat Whatsapp-Mitgründer Brian Acton zum Milliardär gemacht. Nun spendiert er 50 Millionen US-Dollar für eine neue Stiftung, in der er gemeinsam mit Programmierer Moxie Marlinspike den Kryptomessenger Signal voranbringen will. Signal betreibt einen eigenen komplett verschlüsselten Kurzmitteilungsdienst und stellt die Technik auch anderen Firmen zur Verfügung. Ziel der Stiftung sei es, den Datenschutz für alle und überall sicherzustellen. Mit der Stiftungs-Struktur solle der Druck herausgenommen werden, profitabel zu sein. IMDB darf Alter nennen Ein 2016 erlassenes Gesetz Kaliforniens verpflichtete die Filmdatenbank IMDB dazu, Altersangaben über Personen zu unterdrücken, wenn die Person in der Unterhaltungsbranche arbeitet, ein zahlender Kunde ist und die Unterdrückung der Information begehrt. Damit sollte potenziellen Arbeitgebern erschwert werden, Personen schon aufgrund ihres Alters nicht einzustellen. Doch dieses Gesetz verstößt laut einem US-Bundesbezirksgericht gegen die in der US-Verfassung verbriefte Redefreiheit und wurde daher aufgehoben. 40 Jahre GPS-Satelliten Das erste Satellitennavigationssystem Transit wurde ab 1958 von der US-Marine entwickelt. Es sollte unter anderem auf Schiffen der Navy eingesetzt werden, um Interkontinentalraketen ins Ziel zu leiten. Die Empfänger für das System waren allerdings zu groß, um auch einzelne Soldaten damit auszurüsten. Daher begannen US-Militärs 1973 mit der Entwicklung des handlicheren Global Positioning System, kurz GPS. 1978 flog dann der erste GPS-Satellit ins All. Diese und alle weiteren aktuellen Nachrichten finden sie auf heise.de

Our guest today is Brian Acton, CEO of BMWC Constructors. He went to Purdue University where he studied Construction Engineering and Management. Brian has worked at BMWC for 32 years and has been the CEO since 2010. BMWC is consistently an Engineering News Record’s top contractor. In our conversation today we talk about Indiana basketball, the importance of fraternities, and the best strategies for recruiting young project managers and superintendents . We hope you enjoy the conversation.

This week, Allan is out of town at another Developer Summit, but we have a great episode coming This episode was brought to you by iX Systems Mission Complete (https://www.ixsystems.com/missioncomplete/) Submit your story of how you accomplished a mission with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or iXsystems hardware, and you could win monthly prizes, and have your story featured in the FreeBSD Journal! *** Headlines WhatsApp founder, on how it got so HUGE (http://www.wired.com/2015/10/whatsapps-co-founder-on-how-the-iconoclastic-app-got-huge/) Wired has interviewed WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, about the infrastructure behind WhatsApp WhatsApp manages 900 million users with a team of 50, while Twitter needs around 4,000 employees to manage 300 million users. “FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability. We find managing FreeBSD installations to be quite straightforward.” “Linux is a beast of complexity. FreeBSD has the advantage of being a single distribution with an extraordinarily good ports collection.” “To us, it has been an advantage as we have had very few problems that have occurred at the OS level. With Linux, you tend to have to wrangle more and you want to avoid that if you can.” “FreeBSD happened because both Jan and I have experience with FreeBSD from Yahoo!.” Additional Coverage (http://uk.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-built-using-erlang-and-freebsd-2015-10) *** User feedback in the SystemD vs BSD init (https://www.textplain.net/blog/2015/problems-with-systemd-and-why-i-like-bsd-init/) We have a very detailed blog post this week from Randy Westlund, about his experiences on Linux and BSD, contrasting the init systems. What he finds is that while, it does make some things easier, such as writing a service file once, and having it run everywhere, the tradeoff comes in the complexity and lack of transparency. Another area of concern was the reproducibility of boots, how in his examples on servers, there can often be times when services start in different orders, to save a few moments of boot-time. His take on the simplicity of BSD's startup scripts is that they are very easy to hack on and monitor, while not introducing the feature creep we have seen in sysd. It will be interesting to see NextBSD / LaunchD and how it compares in the future! *** Learn to embrace open source, or get buried (http://opensource.com/business/15/10/ato-interview-jim-salter) At the recent “All Things Open” conference, opensource.com interviewed Jim Salter He describes how he first got started using FreeBSD to host his personal website He then goes on to talk about starting FreeBSDWiki.net and what its goals were The interview then talks about using Open Source at solve customers' problems at his consulting firm Finally, the talks about his presentation at AllThingsOpen: Move Over, Rsync (http://allthingsopen.org/talks/move-over-rsync/) about switching to ZFS replication *** HP's CTO Urges businesses to avoid permissive licenses (http://lwn.net/Articles/660428/) Martin Fink went on a rant about the negative effects of license proliferation While I agree that having too many new licenses is confusing and adds difficulty, I didn't agree with his closing point “He then ended the session with an extended appeal to move the open-source software industry away from permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses like the GPL” “The Apache 2.0 license is currently the most widely used "permissive" license. But the thing that developers overlook when adopting it, he said, is that by using Apache they are also making a choice about how much work they will have to put into building any sort of community around the project. If you look at Apache-licensed projects, he noted, "you'll find that they are very top-heavy with 'governance' structures." Technical committees, working groups, and various boards, he said, are needed to make such projects function. But if you look at copyleft projects, he added, you find that those structures simply are not needed.” There are plenty of smaller permissively licensed projects that do not have this sort of structure, infact, most of this structure comes from being an Apache run project, rather than from using the Apache or any other permissive license Luckily, he goes on to state that the “OpenSwitch code is released under the Apache 2.0 license, he said, because the other partner companies viewed that as a requirement.” “HP wanted to get networking companies and hardware suppliers on board. In order to get all of the legal departments at all of the partners to sign on to the project, he said, HP was forced to go with a permissive license” Hopefully the trend towards permissive licenses continues Additionally, in a separate LWN post: RMS Says: “I am not saying that competitors to a GNU package are unjust or bad -- that isn't necessarily so. The pertinent point is that they are competitors. The goal of the GNU Project is for GNU to win the competition. Each GNU package is a part of the GNU system, and should contribute to the success of the GNU Project. Thus, each GNU package should encourage people to run other GNU packages rather than their competitors -- even competitors which are free software.” (http://lwn.net/Articles/659757/) Never thought I'd see RMS espousing vendor lock-in *** Interview - Brian Callahan - bcallah@devio.us (mailto:bcallah@devio.us) / @twitter (https://twitter.com/__briancallahan) The BSDs in Education *** News Roundup Digital Libraries in Africa making use of DragonflyBSD and HAMMER (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2015-October/228403.html) In the international development context, we have an interesting post from Michael Wilson of the PeerCorps Trust Fund. They are using DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD to support the Tanzanian Digital Library Initiative in very resource-limited settings. They cite among the most important reasons for using BSD as the availability and quality of the documentation, as well as the robustness of the filesystems, both ZFS and HAMMER. Their website is now online over at (http://www.tandli.com/) , check it out to see exactly how BSD is being used in the field *** netflix hits > 65gbps from a single freebsd box (https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/655120086248763396) A single socket server, with a high end Xeon E5 processor and a dual ported Chelsio T580 (2x 40 Gbps ports) set a netflix record pushing over 65 Gbps of traffic from a single machine The videos were being pushed from SSDs and some new high end NVMe devices The previous record at Netflix was 52 Gbps from a single machine, but only with very experimental settings. The current work is under much more typical settings By the end of that night, traffic surged to over 70 Gbps Only about 10-15% of that traffic was encrypted with the in-kernel TLS engine that Netflix has been working on with John-Mark Gurney It was reported that the machine was only using about 65% cpu, and had plenty of head room If I remember the discussion correctly, there were about 60,000 streams running off the machine *** Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 has been released (http://lumina-desktop.org/lumina-desktop-0-8-7-released/) A very large update has landed for PC-BSD's Lumina desktop A brand new “Start” menu has been added, which enables quick launch of favorite apps, pinning to desktop / favorites and more. Desktop icons have been overhauled, with better font support, and a new Grid system for placement of icons. Support for other BSD's such as DragonFly has been improved, along with TONS of internal changes to functionality and backends. Almost too many things to list here, but the link above will have full details, along with screenshots. *** A LiveUSB for NetBSD has been released by Jibbed (http://www.jibbed.org/) After a three year absence, the Jibbed project has come back with a Live USB image for NetBSD! The image contains NetBSD 7.0, and is fully R/W, allowing you to run the entire system from a single USB drive. Images are available for 8Gb and 4Gb sticks (64bit and 32bit respectively), along with VirtualBox images as well For those wanting X, it includes both X and TWM, although ‘pkgin' is available, so you can quickly add other desktops to the image *** Beastie Bits After recent discussions of revisiting W^X support in Mozilla Firefox, David Coppa has flipped the switch to enable it for OpenBSD users running -current. (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20151021191401&mode=expanded) Using the vt(4) driver to change console resolution (http://lme.postach.io/post/changing-console-resolution-in-freebsd-10-with-vt-4) The FreeBSD Foundation gives a great final overview of the Grace Hopper Conference (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/10/conference-recap-grace-hopper.html) A dialog about Compilers in the (BSD) base system (https://medium.com/@jmmv/compilers-in-the-bsd-base-system-1c4515a18c49) One upping their 48-core work from July, The Semihalf team shows off their the 96-core SMP support for FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX (ARMv8 architecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5aDEt18mw) NYC Bug's November meeting will be featuring a talk by Stephen R. Bourne (http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2015-October/016384.html) New not-just-BSD postcast, hosted by two OpenBSD devs Brandon Mercer and Joshua Stein (http://garbage.fm/) Feedback/Questions Stefan (http://slexy.org/view/s21wjbhCJ4) Zach (http://slexy.org/view/s21TbKS5t0) Jake (http://slexy.org/view/s20AkO1i1R) Corey (http://slexy.org/view/s2nrUMatU5) Robroy (http://slexy.org/view/s2pZsC7arX) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

In questo episodio parliamo della perseveranza e come sia stata efficace per Brian Acton, il co-fondatore di WhatsApp. © 2015 Giuseppe Franco