Podcast appearances and mentions of chris farmer

In this episode of The Observatory, Chris Farmer joins the show to discuss the power of the universe and the importance of listening to your intuition. Chris Farmer is a board member and artist coordinator with the Jung Society of Utah. Hear about the Jung Society of Utah's history, how the universe woke up Chris, how it almost burned down, and the day he realized he had a special connection with the universe. You will also learn the universal double-check, the power of intuition, and Chris's experience with marriage and work.Timestamps[01:42] The history of the Jung Society of Utah[06:48] How Chris started paying attention to his intuition[08:18] Chris Farmer's background information[12:40] How Chris started getting curious about life[15:35] How the universe woke up Chris[21:00] How the world burned in front of Chris[27:34] The universal double-check[34:19] Is intuition real or not?[46:17] The day Chris realized he had a personal relationship with the universe[50:41] How Chris got to Salt Lake from Idaho[58:02] Chris's first experience with alcohol[58:11] Chris's experience with divorce[01:04:25] Chris's experience with the other marriage[01:19:00] How Chris started working in San Francisco[01:24:50] The secret grow room dungeonNotable quotes:“I naturally delight in connecting people with what feels like the sunshine of the universe.” - Chris Farmer [08:46]“The universe meets you exactly where you are and doesn't care what belief system you are in.” - Chris Farmer [15:54]“Everything is energy, and the physical follows the energy. Whatever is happening, there is an energy to it.” - Chris Farmer [32:52]“The universe makes things just as painful as it has to to get you to do something different.” - Chris Farmer [01:15:29]“The world is limitless, but we always think it's not.” - Chris Farmer [01:18:53]Relevant links:Chris Farmer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianwestphotos/Website: https://jungutah.org/Subscribe to the podcast: Apple Podcast

Op 29 juni 1978 komt er een brief binnen bij de familie van Peta Frampton. Ze is met haar vriend, Chris Farmer, op reis. Het is een droomreis, door Centraal Amerika. Peta beschrijft de boottrip die ze aan het maken zijn, langs de kust van Guatemala. Het is lekker weer, schrijft Peta. Een beetje bewolkt. Het leven gaat langzaam, volgende week trekken we weer verder. Peta belooft dat ze snel weer zal schrijven. Ze is ook een hele trouwe brievenschrijver, elke twee weken rolt er wel een brief door de bus bij haar familie. Maar na deze brief wordt het stil. Voor goed. Waar zijn Chris en Peta gebleven? Het zou veertig jaar duren voordat hun familie achter de gruwelijke waarheid zouden komen. Wil je deze podcast steunen? Nou dat kan! Koop mijn nieuwe boek

Thirteen years ago, when Chris Farmer founded early-stage venture firm SignalFire with data analysis at the core of its investment strategy, many were skeptical about the approach — conventional wisdom dictated that nascent companies didn't have enough data to make investment algorithms effective. “This was a very radical idea, and everyone thought I was crazy.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

En 1978, Duane Boston a accueilli sur son bateau un couple britannique, Peta Frampton et Chris Farmer pour une expérience de deux semaines. Leurs corps ont tous les deux été retrouvés flottant dans l'eau, à 200m de la côte du Guatemala, mutilés et alourdis par des pièces de moteur.00:00 Intro01:56 Sponsor04:15 1. Un couple parfait08:11 2. Le début d'une aventure17:55 3. Sans nouvelles24:24 4. Duane Boston29:35 5. Quand une disparition devient un meurtre35:42 6. L'acharnement d'une soeur40:53 7. Toute l'histoire52:55 8. Des enfant marqués à vie1:00:59 9. L'arrestation d'un tueur en sérieLivre Dead in the water : https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Water-Penny-Farmer/dp/1786069660 Podcast Paradise : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071k0jv Attention, cette vidéo peut contenir des images ou des propos qui sont déconseillés aux plus jeunes. Chanson Intro : Danse of questionable tuning - Kevin MacLeod Vidéo Intro par https://www.instagram.com/frenchyartist/ ♥Suis-moi sur les réseaux sociaux: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/victoria.charlton/ FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/victoriacharltonofficiel TIKTOK : https://www.tiktok.com/@victoriacharltonn EMAIL : victoriacharltonpro@gmail.com ♥Podcast Over n Out : APPLE PODCAST : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/over-n-out/id1545187858?uo=4 SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/show/6OgK35AojAk4emWYfq5sk8 ♥Podcast Post-Mortem : SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/show/1m0Yx1jAOos8ewx5o2OgJA QUB RADIO : https://www.qub.ca/radio/balado/post-mortem-avec-victoria-charlton-saison-1-roxanne-luce Logiciel de montage : Final Cut Pro Monteur : Sebastian Messinger Camera : Canon G7X Tout commentaire incitant à la haine ou au manque de respect sera supprimé. Je veux que mon espace commentaire soit positif et amical ☺ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, Payton and Garrett delve into the tragic case of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, two college students in search of adventure. However, their quest takes a devastating turn when they encounter the wrong individual, leading to the loss of their lives. NEW MERCH!https://mwmhshop.com/ SOCIALS, DISCOUNT CODES, AND MORE, https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband Case sources: “Dead in the Water” by Penny Farmer BBC.com - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-48067812 The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/12/19/two-tourists-were-killed-at-sea-the-boats-owner-has-been-arrested-nearly-40-years-later/ Variety.com - https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/raw-tv-set-crime-documentary-dead-in-the-water-amazon-prime-video-1235812596/ TheCinemaholic.com - https://thecinemaholic.com/christopher-farmer-and-peta-frampton-murders-how-did-silas-boston-die/ InvestigationDiscovery.com - https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/evil-lives-here/two-young-california-boys-forced-to-watch-their-father-kill-couple-during-sailboat-trip Sportskeeda.com - https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/evil-lives-here-id-what-happened-chris-farmer-peta-frampton The Sun - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8994642/paradise-bbc-podcast-murder-guatemala/ The Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6002523/A-British-couple-hitching-yacht-turned-tale-horror.html Medium.com - https://medium.com/a-place-to-vent/a-less-than-perfect-life-195a063ce4b4 LittleThings.com - https://littlethings.com/entertainment/woman-finds-brothers-suspected-killer-facebook-37-years-later Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of our fave breweries back home in Australia is Banks Brewing (formerly known as Mr. Banks Brewing), and since it's been a few years since we last touched base, we were well overdue. Founder Chris and Cee chatted about Banks' recent name change and rebrand, the state of the Australian craft beer scene, why quality is the new hype, whether Australia has "hype chasers" like North America, the origin of the Oat Cream IPA in Australia, why LUKR pours are amazing, how the Aussie excise tax works, their shared love of third wave coffee, why breweries in Australia are closing, and how beer distribution works Down Under. Cee got into two beers from Banks - 60% Of The Time It Works Every Time Triple IPA, and Don't Chase Me I'm Full Of Chocolate Pastry Stout. Chris didn't drink as two double-digit ABV brews at 1pm wouldn't be so good on a work day. This was fascinating - cheers! BAOS Podcast Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube | Website | Theme tune: Cee - BrewHeads

12-11-23 show- Trop Rock Christmas show #1 of 3. Interview with former Beach Boys musical director, Chris Farmer. Island Troy in studio with Christmas sing alongs. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/a1a-media-network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.We're excited to be joined by Chris Farmer, Founder and CEO of SignalFire, a firm that was founded nearly a decade ago with the goal of disrupting the way Venture Capital is done.Unlike traditional VC firms, SignalFire has been built more like a company than a traditional asset manager, as it leverages a robust purpose-built data platform to augment its unique service model to entrepreneurs.During our conversation, we spent a lot of the time talking about his views on building a next-generation venture capital fund and the organizational design that goes behind it.About Chris Farmer:Chris Farmer is the Founder and CEO of SignalFire. He was previously a Venture Partner at General Catalyst Partners, supporting notable companies such as Alation, Coinbase, Stripe, and Venmo. Prior to this, Chris served as a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners specializing in digital media and mobile investments.In addition to his venture capital experience, Chris has demonstrated his entrepreneurial prowess by spearheading the turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless-enabled SaaS company.His career began on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company, and he holds a B.A. from Tufts University.In this episode, we discuss:(02:13) The inspiration to start SignalFire after stints at iconic firms like General Catalyst and Bessemer(04:42) Being a tech company that happens to also invest in other tech companies?(07:21) How Chris uses data to source and evaluate new deals(16:53) Balancing a founder's past performance and their future potential(22:13) Thinking about OKRs and KPIs when starting a different sort of firm(26:28) Why hasn't venture itself seen more innovation as an industry(30:00) How he recruited and found the right team for this new model(33:30) Why data was able to help the firm to avoid the pitfalls of the recent bullrun market(38:58) Balancing data and FOMO as a firm(43:30) What the market will look like over the next 12-18 monthsI'd love to know what you took away from this conversation with Chris. Follow me @SamirKaji and give me your insights and questions with the hashtag #ventureunlocked. If you'd like to be considered as a guest or have someone you'd like to hear from (GP or LP), drop me a direct message on Twitter.Podcast Production support provided by Agent Bee  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ventureunlocked.substack.com

Subscriber-only episodeThis episode is about a young adventurous couple, two brothers, just kids when they witnessed their father (who was once suspected being the Golden State Killer) commit murder, and a sister who never stopped thinking about her brother. In July 1978, two bodies were found floating off the coast of Guatemala. They proved to be a young couple from the U.K., Christopher Farmer and Peta Frampton. They had been beaten, tortured, and killed, their bodies weighted down with heavy engine parts and thrown into the dark ocean while still alive. For almost 40 years their murders remained unsolved, until Chris' sister, Penny, tracked down the killer through Facebook. Leave us a voice message https://www.judgycrimegirls.comSources: Dead in the Water by Penny Farmer https://a.co/d/d8qPeJR https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paradise/id1453834514https://pennyfarmer.co.uk/gallery-caribbean-murdershttps://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/haunting-story-two-little-boys-16012404Thanks for listening! Subscribe here: For Bonus Friday Episodes! (You'll also get a shout out on the show, a handwritten thank you from your ladies, and 20% off our merch! Follow us on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

This week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Sam Chaudhary, the founder of ClassDojo, and Chris Farmer, the founder and CEO of SignalFire, a venture firm that recently announced a $900 million fund to back tech startups. This interview is structured a bit differently as it was actually recorded as a TechCrunch Live session, our weekly show that focuses on helping people start better venture backed businesses.We'll hear from the trio about:What an outsider advantage looks like in startups, per a top investorWhy ClassDojo doesn't see itself as an edtech companyHow Sam landed early traction with a difficult-to-capture consumerHow both Sam and Chris are thinking through the AI question brewing in every officeIf you want to check out the full video of today's conversation, including a round of Pitch Practice hosted by Matt Burns, head to our YouTube channel and stay tuned for more TechCrunch Live!As always, the full Equity crew will be back on Friday, but you can keep up with us in the meantime @EquityPod.For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity's Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7:00 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotifyand all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together and more!

Today's interview was led by TechCrunch Senior Reporter and edtech expert, Natasha Mascarenhas. Natasha spoke to Sam Chaudhary, the founder of ClassDojo, who spent eight years building the edtech consumer app that focuses on student classrooms, before introducing a formal revenue model. Joining Sam is his investor Chris Farmer, the founder and CEO of SignalFire, a seed-stage venture firm that recently raised $900 million across four new funds.Sam and Chris spoke to us about:How Sam played the long-game in edtech and what he'd do differently if he had to do it all over againWhy SignalFire chose to navigate the edtech space, specifically the connection between kids and consumersHow Chris sees investing in companies that aren't rushing to monetizeThe "outsider advantage" and its tension with insider knowledgeWe closed out the show with a new batch of founders for Pitch Practice. And as always, if you want to check out the full video of today's conversation, head to our YouTube channel and stay tuned for more TechCrunch Live!The TechCrunch Live Podcast drops at 6:00 a.m. PT every Monday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast,Spotify and all the casts.

The Federal Trade Commission has started the process of updating the Funeral Rule, which regulates how our profession operates and provides specific rights to consumers seeking burial and cremation services.  In this episode, host, Gabe Schauf, is joined by NFDA's General Counsel, Chris Farmer, to share what is being discussed, why it matters, and the importance of funeral professionals getting involved in the process.

Live Sports – The Next Streaming WarTHE DIGITAL SEATS REVOLUTIONBy Keith Teare • Issue #316 An average sports stadium can hold 50-100,000 fans. But teams have millions and sometimes billions of fans. What is the true value of the rights to stream games? This week Amazon bought UK Champions League rights. Can we expect more money to come for sports rights and who should own them?ContentsLive Sports — The Next Streaming WarEssays of the Week* Will China Build Your Next Car?* China EV Battery Breakthrough* Howard Morgan's Amazing Career* Critiquing Crypto Promoters* Startup Workforce Trends from Carta* Does VC Investing Violate Crypto Ethics* Software Salaries — Europe and USA* Web3 Use Cases Part IIGood News* Sequoia raising $2.25bn?* EF raises $158m Series C* Plural launches €250m Entrepreneur Led Fund* Long Term Stock Exchange Raises $100m* Normalyze Series ABad News* A16Z slows pace of investments* VCs advise company sales* Substack cuts 13 jobs* Unity loses 4% of workforceStartup of the Week* PaveTweet of the Week* BlockFi sold for $25m after raising $1.2bn?EditorialSoftware is about to eat live sports. The signs have been coming for some time. Apple pioneered the trend by buying the rights to Friday night baseball and MLS soccer. It is rumored to be interested in Sunday Ticket for NFL streaming.Now Amazon is strongly favored to buy the rights to one of the biggest football competitions in the world — the UEFA Champions League — in one of its biggest markets — the UK. This follows the deal announced in March, an 11-year deal, valued at $1bn (£824m) annually, for Amazon to broadcast live NFL football in the US.These deals highlight the next stage in the competition between broadcast, cable, and satellite networks on one side and streaming giants on the other. Live sports and live news are the only significant content that consumers want and streamers historically did not have.The value of live sports to a rights owner is that it compels sports fans to buy subscriptions to services that host their favored events.Rupert Murdoch pioneered the approach with Sky Sports when building out his BSkyB franchise. It required every football (soccer) loving home to install a satellite dish and set-top box. And they did.Now Apple and Amazon are playing their game and have very deep pockets for doing so.The key to understanding how to play the game is to understand its value. I am familiar with the English Premier League so using it as an illustration here are the facts.The EPL has 20 teams. Between them, they have over 2 billion global fans who have 380 games per season. That is a total market available of 760 billion viewers. The EPL is currently planning to sell the rights for £10.5 bn ($14.2) for 3 years:For the 2022 to 2025 rights cycle, The Times says international deals will be worth UK£5.3 billion (US$7.1 billion), up 30 per cent, while domestic deals bring in UK£5.1 billion (US$6.9 billion), with commercial partnerships taking the total to UK£10.5 billion (US$14.2 billion).That makes $4.73 bn per year. On a per viewer/game basis that is point six of a cent per viewer/game in revenue.* Games Per Week 10* Total Fan base 2,000,000,000* Number of Weeks 38* Total viewer/games 760,000,000,000* Rights per year $4,730,000,000* Revenue per viewer/game $0.006Of course, the rights buyers monetize the games at a multiple of their cost, by selling subscriptions and advertisements. The total value of the league measured in income is unknown. But clearly, it is well over $4.73bn a season. Perhaps 9–10 times that.The income goes to the rights buyers, not to the League.So if streamers gain control of the EPL, how much might it be worth?Let us assume that 50% of the fan base watches one game a week and pays $1 a game. That would be as follows:* Total Fan Base 1,000,000,000* Number of weeks 38* Games Per Week Per Fan: 1* Viewer Games Per Week 1,000,000,000* Price per game: $1* Weekly Revenue: $1 billion* Seasonal Revenue: $38 billion* Revenue per viewer/game $1So at 1 game per week, at $1 a game, streaming could generate $38 billion per season. In reality, the price per game can be higher and most fans would watch more than one game per week.The untapped fortune here is what I call digital seats. Liverpool FC can fit under 70,000 fans into its Anfield stadium. But over 500,000,000 would pay to watch live games. Double that for Manchester United. Streamers can create these digital seats. Over time they can deliver a better than stadium experience to those seats.This means that the price Amazon is paying for European football is very small compared to the opportunity.Beyond that, the EPL itself should probably retain the rights and offer ticket-based streaming directly to fans globally. In that case, the revenue would come back to the EPL and not be placed into the hands of middlemen.The real promise of streaming is to cut out the middlemen and simply pay for production and transport, as a cost. Movies, TV series, News, and Sports will all go that way. This week Amazon is shining a light on this.VideoThat Was The Week's video cast streams live each Friday. The recorded version is available only to subscribers. Subscribe here.Live Sports — The Next Streaming WarAmazon close to deal over Champions League rights in UKUS retailer and streaming giant set to split UK rights with BT Sport, while BBC to broadcast highlights in new Match of the Day editionAmazon is close to securing a groundbreaking deal to broadcast live Champions League football in the UK from 2024, with highlights returning to terrestrial TV for the first time in nearly a decade in a midweek BBC Match of Day show.The US internet retailer and streaming giant, which already has a broadcast portfolio spanning Premier League football, tennis and rugby, is understood to be set to split the UK rights with existing holder BT Sport in a new deal with the governing body, Uefa, running from 2024 until 2027.Continue reading…www.theguardian.com • ShareEssays of the WeekChina Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?RUMORS OF AN Apple electric car project have long excited investors and iPhone enthusiasts. Almost a decade after details of the project leaked, the Cupertino-mobile remains mythical — but that hasn't stopped other consumer electronics companies from surging ahead. On the other side of the world, people will soon be able to order a vehicle from the Taiwanese company that mastered manufacturing Apple's gadgets in China. Welcome to the era of the Foxconn-mobile.In October 2021, Hon Hai Technology Group, better known internationally as Foxconn, announced plans to produce three of its own electric vehicles in collaboration with Yulon, a Taiwanese automaker, under the name Foxtron. Foxconn, which is best known for assembling 70 percent of iPhones, has similar ambitions for the auto industry: to become the manufacturer of choice for a totally new kind of car. To date it has signed deals to make cars for two US-based EV startups, Lordstown Motors and Fisker.Foxconn's own vehicles — a hatchback, a sedan, and a bus — don't especially ooze Apple-chic, but they represent a big leap for the consumer electronics manufacturer. Foxconn's ambitious expansion plan also reflects a bigger shift across the auto world, in terms of technology and geography. The US, Europe, and Japan have defined what cars are for the last 100 years. Now the changing nature of the automobile, with increased electrification, computerization, and autonomy, means that China may increasingly decide what car making is.If Foxconn succeeds in building a major auto-making business, it would contribute to China becoming an automotive epicenter capable of eclipsing the conventional powerhouses of the US, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. Foxconn did not respond to requests for an interview.The automobile industry is expected to undergo big transformations in the coming years. An October 2020 report from McKinsey concluded that carmakers will dream up new ways of selling vehicles and generating revenues through apps and subscription services. In some ways, the car of the future sounds an awful lot like a smartphone on wheels.That's partly why there's no better moment than now for an electronics manufacturer to try car making, says Marc Sachon, a professor at IESE Business School in Barcelona, who studies the automotive industry.www.wired.com • ShareChina's CATL Announces 1,000-Km / 620-Mile CTP 3.0 EV BatteryThe company says its energy density is 255 Wh/kg and that it will debut in 2023, although it did not mention for which application.insideevs.com • ShareThe Petty Pleasures of Watching Crypto Profiteers FlounderBehind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic.I'm talking about two clips in particular, both of which were posted by Liron Shapira, a tech investor and writer, and a critic of crypto and Web3. The first is of Packy McCormick, a newsletter writer, investor, and advisor to A16z's crypto venture-capital team. I urge you to watch this clip before reading any further (but I'll also summarize parts of it below):McCormick is questioned by Zach Weinberg, a crypto skeptic who asks McCormick to reason through why a given problem might be better solved with a Web3 or blockchain-based project. McCormick offers up the example of a blockchain-based real-estate transaction, which he says hasn't been done yet but is touted as one of Web3's “promised” examples. Property buying outside of the blockchain is a long, onerous process, McCormick argues. He suggests that, “theoretically, you could make all these things NFTs … you could transact very quickly, borrow against them in the global market as opposed to going to Bank of America to take out your mortgage. You have a more open system that people are able to transact in more creative ways in.”Weinberg stress-tests this particular scenario (putting your house on the blockchain) first by asking: What would happen in a decentralized mortgage market if a mortgage lender couldn't get its money back? McCormick responds, essentially, that the lender could take legal action via the courts. They go back and forth a bit about smart contracts, and at every turn Weinberg pushes McCormick with some version of the same question: What makes this blockchain version better than the current system? McCormick has no answer. Here's a transcript of the end of their exchange:newsletters.theatlantic.com • ShareCompensation report: The state of startup compensation, H1 2022For most startups, payroll is the primary driver of cash burn. And with inflation and economic unease on the rise, knowing trends within compensation is critical. How can a founder balance the need to conserve capital with the imperative to grow? How can leaders pay employees fairly through boom and bust cycles?At Carta, we see it as our responsibility to share the insights that come from an unmatched amount of data about the private market. That includes data on startup headcount, payroll and equity metrics, salary medians, and remote work. We created this compensation report from data using more than 127,000 employee records from startups that use Carta Total Comp, the premier compensation management platform for private companies.Key trends:* Remote hiring soars: In 2019, about 35% of new hires were based in a different state than the primary company headquarters. So far this year, that number has ballooned up to 62%.* Geo-adjusting is the norm: The vast majority of companies (84%) take employee location into account when deciding on compensation packages.* Engineering is a key hire: Engineering accounts for nearly half of payroll spend in companies valued between $1 and 10 million.* Terminations rise: Across all of Carta's platform, involuntary terminations made up 29% of departures in May 2022 (the rest were employees leaving their jobs by choice). That's nearly double the 15% termination share recorded in August of 2021.Note: If you're looking for compensation benchmarks against companies like yours, you can also download the addendum to this report to get an extended dataset.www.carta.com • ShareDoes Venture Capital Investment Violate the Ethos of Crypto? Sequoia Says No — Ep. 367unchainedpodcast.com • ShareThe Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and EuropeUpdate: dozens of hiring managers confirmed this trimodal model applies to all global markets: from the US, through Asia to Latin America as well. Also see TechPays.com for data recorded for a growing number of countries in the three tiers. (Watch this article as video narrated by me, withblog.pragmaticengineer.com • ShareWeb3 Use Cases: The FutureWill web3 justify the hype?Today, real people are spending real money to use real products, even if some seem silly or circular.But the real question isn't whether there are any use cases, but whether there will be use cases that, collectively, are worth the hype.In other words, will web3 produce use cases that justify all of the venture dollars, investment, and talent dedicated to the space? I think it will. That's what today's essay is about.There are two time-scales on which I'm excited about web3's potential: the next few years and the next few decades.If there is another bull cycle in the next few years, I think it will happen on the backs of real products that people use at scale, not speculation. When those hit, speculation will follow, but that will look more like a traditional tech bull run than pure speculation. These products are on the way — the applications are coming and the infrastructure continues to improve.In the next few decades, I believe that web3 infrastrastructure will become the fabric of much of what we do online and in our financial lives. I also believe that the experiments web3 protocols are running in economic design, incentive alignment, and governance will jump out of the internet and impact “real-world” institutions.Today, I'll dive into some of the future use cases and potential benefits I'm excited about.The Next Few DecadesSo let's begin with the future. If all of this pans out, so what?www.notboring.co • ShareGood NewsSequoia Capital Targets $2.25 Billion for Two U.S. VC FundsSequoia Capital, defying the tech market sell-off that's chilled startup fundraising, is asking investors to commit money to two new U.S.-focused funds, according to two people familiar with the matter.The Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm behind Airbnb and DoorDash expects to dedicate $1.5 billion to a U.S. growth fund focused on more mature companies, the people said. It's also planning a $750 million fund focused on earlier-stage deals, one of the people said. The firm expects to close the new funds in July.They're the latest of what Sequoia is calling “sub-funds,” launched after the firm overhauled the structure for its U.S. and European business. In a bid to make it easier to hold stock in companies after their initial public offerings, Sequoia set up an evergreen main fund called the Sequoia Capital Fund. The firm is now inviting investors in that fund to place their money in these new sub-funds.www.theinformation.com • ShareWhy we've raised our $158M Series C to invest in the next generation of co-founders — Entrepreneur FirstEntrepreneur First (EF) is the best place in the world to find a co-founder and start a startup from scratch. We are excited to announce we've raised a $158 million Series C round from a global alliance of some of the world's top technology founders and investors. They include: Patrick and John Collison, co-founders of […]www.joinef.com • ShareWise's Taavet Hinrikus among four co-founders in group seeking to disrupt traditional venture capital in the regionPlural launches €250mn entrepreneur-led fund for European tech start-ups — Financial TimesFour European entrepreneurs have launched a €250mn fund to back tech start-ups across the region, seeking to disrupt the traditional venture capital model by creating a peer-to-peer investment platform. Called Plural, the new fund's co-founders are Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of the international payments company Wise; Ian Hogarth, the co-founder of Songkick; Sten Tamkivi, the co-founder of Teleport; and Khaled Helioui, the former chief executive of Bigpoint. The group aims to invest in more than 25 start-ups over the next 18 months, taking early-stage stakes of between €1mn and €10mn. If successful, Plural will enlist dozens more entrepreneurs as investors and raise bigger funds to boost the European start-up sector. The move comes during a tech downturn which has led many VCs to slow investment, complaining that it has become difficult to value start-ups at a time of turmoil in public and private markets. But Hinrikus, who last year floated Wise in London at a valuation of close to £9bn, said the fund was a response to the European start-up sector beginning to mature like Silicon Valley, with one generation of successful entrepreneurs backing the next.www.ft.com • ShareStock-Exchange Startup Gets $100 Million Investment Funded by Walton Family Member — The Wall Street JournalThe Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley firm trying to push for sustainable investing, said it raised $100 million in June from James Walton, part of the famed family associated with Walmart Inc. WMT -0.16%▼The investment comes as traditional venture-capital firms are pumping the brakes on funding startups right now, wary of taking on new risk when the markets and economy appear to be in a tenuous position. Companies are instead having to strike deals at big discounts to their prior funding rounds, cut costs or look to less common investors, such as corporations, to write checks.Mr. Walton, the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, is a philanthropist and conservationist, a co-leader of the social impact fund Wend Collective. He and The Space Between, the venture fund with which Mr. Walton partnered to provide the funding, started discussions with the exchange months ago.The exchange was talking to Mr. Walton, TSB and several other investors about a Series C funding round this winter when the markets “dropped out on us,” said LTSE founder and chief executive Eric Ries. Other investors who said they would participate in the funding round backed out, skittish from a stock market roiled by soaring inflation, a war between Russia and Ukraine, and a swift retreat from fast-growing companies, including most tech stocks.www.wsj.com • ShareNormalyze's multicloud management tools aim to tighten security and lower cost | VentureBeatData security has become more complex due to the proliferation of data, an explosion of microservices, rapid cloud adoption, hybrid work environments, compliance, remote work and more.“Today's enterprises find their data scattered throughout their various cloud environments with limited visibility of where sensitive data resides. It's a massive problem that current cloud security offerings aren't equipped to handle,” said Amer Deeba, cofounder and CEO at Normalyze.“We built Normalyze to classify and secure sensitive data across all public clouds,” Deeba said. Normalyze announced today that it's coming out of stealth with $22.2 million in series A funding. This round brings the company's total funding to $26.6 million to date.“Our graph-powered platform is a hub that connects all data with assets, identities, accesses, misconfigurations and vulnerabilities to help security teams continuously discover sensitive information, determine attack paths and automate remediation efforts to secure it,” said Ravi Ithal, Normalyze cofounder and CTO.venturebeat.com • ShareBad NewsEven A16z Is Slowing Its Investing PaceAndreessen Horowitz is one of the most-recognized venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and it just keeps growing. But amid a broader pullback in venture investment, the firm also appears to be slowing down its investing pace this quarter, at least compared to where it was last year.To be clear, a16z hasn't hit the brakes. In fact, it's still one of the most active investors in the United States, according to Crunchbase data, along with Tiger Global Management.It's just not investing at the same rapid pace it adopted last year, according to our data.The firm has participated in 46 funding rounds totaling around $2.5 billion so far in the second quarter, the lowest levels since before 2021, Crunchbase data shows. The number of rounds it has participated in and the amounts raised in those funding rounds is also down quite a bit from the first quarter of this year, when the firm participated in 62 funding rounds that totaled around $6.1 billion.Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to a request for comment or to verify our data.news.crunchbase.com • Share‘Put up the for-sale sign,' more VCs tell founders as market sours — PitchBook News & AnalysisAfter years of telling their portfolio companies to grow at all costs, investors are dishing out an entirely different type of advice.Cut expenses, borrow venture debt, or raise additional capital at a flat or even slightly lower valuation than the previous round.But if after trying to take those steps the startup is still at risk of running out of cash in 12 months or less, then some investors are telling companies to resort to even more drastic measures: try to sell to a strategic buyer at a discount rather than risk going out of business.“I've called founders [to say], ‘I think you should sell,'” said Chris Farmer, a partner and CEO at early-stage firm SignalFire. “A sale could be attractive to founders because they don't have to lay off everyone, and investors can get some or all their money back. It's a soft landing.”Some startups that are short on capital are trying to raise a financing round and run a sale process simultaneously, said Wayne Kawarabayashi, a partner and head of M&A at Union Square Advisors, a technology-focused investment bank.“There are a lot of these dual-track conversations now,” Kawarabayashi said.So far, there haven't been many low-priced acquisitions in this market cycle. But we may soon see more sales like that of Tile, in which investors barely make their money back. Tile, a developer of tracking devices for personal items, was sold to Life360 for $205 million. Prior to the January sale, the company had raised a total of $150 million from investors like Bessemer, GGV and Khosla Ventures, according to PitchBook data.pitchbook.comSubstack cuts 13 jobs to avoid raising more venture capital — TechCrunchThe newsletter platform Substack laid off 13 employees today, mostly in HR and writer support roles.Co-founder and CEO Chris Best informed the company after holding meetings with the affected employees. The meetings also included founders Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Sethi. That's probably a better way to deliver the news than some other companies' approaches (cough, Coinbase), but the news is still rough for a company that raised $65 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) just last year. Even then, we were skeptical about how the company managed to earn a $650 million valuation so soon.Like several other companies that boomed in a time when venture capital flowed more freely, Substack must figure out how to survive in a hostile economic time.Substack reportedly tried to raise another venture round as recently as last month, but the platform chose not to take on more funding. According to The New York Times, Substack earned about $9 million in revenue in 2021, which comes from the 10% cut it takes from writer subscriptions. Aside from a 3% credit card processing fee, that means that Substack writers are earning around $90 million a year — though the top 10 writers earn $20 million of that pile of cash. These figures would have made it challenging for the company to raise at a higher valuation than its last round.techcrunch.com • ShareUnity lays off 4 percent of its workforce to realign its resourcesUnity has laid off hundreds of employees in its offices across the globe, according to Kotaku. The video game software development company known for its popular game engine has reportedly let around 300 to 400 staffers go so far. Layoffs are still ongoing, sources said, so those numbers may be higher by the time the company is done. Unity has confirmed to Engadget that it's “realigning some of [its] resources,” which has led to the dismissal of approximately 4 percent of its entire workforce. That's consistent with the report that it has let around 300 people go, since its LinkedIn page lists 8,048 employees.The company told Engadget:“As part of a continued planning process where we regularly assess our resourcing levels against our company priorities, we decided to realign some of our resources to better drive focus and support our long-term growth. This resulted in some hard decisions that impacted approximately 4% of all Unity workforce. We are grateful for the contributions of those leaving Unity and we are supporting them through this difficult transition.”While the mass dismissal affects Unity's entire workforce, Kotaku said it's mostly concentrated on its AI and engineering divisions.www.engadget.com • ShareStartup of the WeekPave, whose software analyzes HR data to help companies close pay and equity gaps, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.6B valuation and acquired rival Option ImpactAllison Levitsky / Protocol:Option Impact, a benchmark compensation product from Advanced-HR, has a new owner. — Pave, a fast-growing Option Impact competitor …www.techmeme.com • ShareTweet of the Week This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thatwastheweek.substack.com/subscribe

Chase Rushing has had sections in three of Brandon Negrete's most famous videos - Forever Now, The Meantime and Road To Nowhere. He was also a regular visitor to California and stayed with the likes of Carl Sturgess, Brandon Campbell and Aaron Feinberg. He basically lived every teenager skater's dream. Fast forward to 2022 and he has been involved with the launch of Mesmer, providing the artwork that appears on the soul plate, wheels, insole and booklet for the John Bolino pro skate. Chase talked about growing up skating in and around Dallas, the period where Chris Farmer came to stay and they became friends, his experiences of filming and hanging out with Brandon Negrete and much more. You can also watch Platform on YouTube - www.youtube.com/wheelsceneblading We have a range of soft goods available in our online shop - https://wheelscene.bigcartel.com Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wheelsceneblading Instagram: wheelscene

One part of funeral service that many don't often think about is the liability side, especially when it comes to cremation. In this episode, Berto and Justin host their first round table with three incredible guests: Poul Lemasters, attorney and funeral director with Lemasters Consulting and cremation counsel with ICCFA, Michael Elliott, senior legal counsel and CCO with Carriage Services, and Chris Farmer, founder of the Farmer Firm and newly announced General Counsel with the NFDA. 

Ben and Law are back talking about the latest blading news. Them expands to more clothing and coffee, custom parts, Chris Farmer, new Gawds skates and much more.

Leadership is an essential skill needed in many areas of life. Corporations are especially interested in developing leaders. They often have training and mentoring programs to encourage leadership development. So, what do you need to be a leader? Well, several skills and qualities are needed. But one is self-control. Listen to the words of Chris Farmer, a corporate coach in the United Kingdom, "But there is one leadership quality which is of the highest importance. It is important because this leadership quality is the prerequisite of many other subsidiary leadership qualities. The quality I am referring to is the quality of self control."* In fact, Farmer goes on to declare five areas where self-control is required for a business leader. Can you guess the five areas? They are control over thoughts, temper, fear, speech and bad habits. I think the one most people overlook would be control over fear. But think about it. Leaders often have to lead others through uncertain times and situations. This emphasis on leadership reminds me of Titus 1:8. Paul speaks of the qualities needed for a leader in the church. He wrote, "Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined."(NIV) See, self-controlled leaders are also important in the church! Today, let God's Spirit lead you to develop control over your thoughts, temper, fear, speech and bad habits! *Chris Farmer, "Leadership Qualities: Self Control," Corporate Coach Group, https://corporatecoachgroup.com/blog/leadership-qualities-self-control. Please provide feedback and suggestions at: https://www.sparkingfaith.com/feedback/ Bumper music “Landing Place” performed by Mark July, used under license from Shutterstock.

Murder cases that take nearly four decades to solve are rare and usually reserved for when there is no idea as to the identity of the perpetrator.The brutal killings of Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer in Latin America in 1978 should have seen the suspect Silas Duane Boston arrested and convicted quickly – especially as there were two witnesses: his sons.But a case such as this doesn’t get a podcast – the BBC’s Paradise – devoted to the tale if things are straightforward. Far from it, in fact.Boston’s sons were young and scared of their father, only coming forward decades later. Law enforcement agencies, armed with snippets of information about the disappearance of Peta and Chris, did not put the pieces together for years.BBC journalists Dan Maudsley and Stephen Nolan tell the story of Chris and Peta, Silas and his sons, and the investigation – uncovering many new details and discoveries along the way.Their journey takes them to a crime convention, lawyer and police offices in the US, the homes of Chris and Peta’s family members in England and a trip to the region where the murders took place, including a graveyard as Dan and Chris’s sister search for the graves of the victims.Listeners will soon realise that Dan’s work on the Paradise case is not over, as he explains in this episode of MetaPod.

Erick is one of the most active filmmakers in the scene. With multiple video projects behind him, he was able to take the legacy of Joe Navran and Rachard Johnson and elevate it. We talked to him from how a kid who was passionate about blading started attending the best pros by skipping class and taking a 3/4 hour bus ride to reach them and skate an hour with them until he created video projects with the biggest names in the scene. From Montre Livingstone to Chris Farmer, from Abdiel Colberg to Nick Lomax. We also talked about BladerGang's philosophy, how they run a team of athletes for the Runtz brand and how they are creating new video projects in the meantime.

A loving sister solves the murder of her brother, Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton, through Facebook. Nearly 40 years after they disappeared from Silas Boston's boat off the coast of Guatemala.

In this episode, Gemma and James discuss the unsolved 2017 Delphi murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, and the paradise backpacker murders of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, off the coast of Guatemala in 1978

In this episode, we introduce you to all of the DQMH Trusted Advisors (except Neosoft Technologies who unfortunately was a last minute cancellation) . We talk to Fabiola De La Cueva from Delacor about what a DQMH Trusted advisor actually is. We hear from Joerg Hampel from Hampel Software Engineering, Sam Taggart from SAS Workshops, Matthias Baudot from Studiobods, and Olivier Jourdan from Wovalab, about their experiences with DQMH for LabVIEW, and what it means to be part of the DQMH Trusted Advisors network. It's an extra long episode this one, but each guest has a lot to offer. I hope you enjoy it! Hosted by Chris Farmer from Wired-in Software

A new film by Karsten Boysen & Benjamin Buttner. Shot in Benjamin Buttner. Featuring: Richie Eisler, Scott Quinn, Chris Farmer, Josh Glowicki, Joe Atkinson, David Sizemore, Dominik Wagner, Chris Smith, and Carson Starnes You can buy "Formosa" by The Cayenne Project here: http://thecayenneproject.com/ How was did you guys met? how did you guys get into making videos? why Taiwan for Formosa? how do you make the money to fly 12 guys? what's coming next for the cayenne crew? All of these and a lot more questions were answered by Karten and Benjamin during this 77-minute skate talk via Google Hangouts with two of the most influential skating individuals in 2018. This Podcast was uploaded originally on July 25th, 2018 on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Oo5sfNd33DA --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ricardolino/support

For our latest episode Mr Wolf was begging us for a birthday treat, so who better to jump on board than Chris Farmer from Mr Banks Brewing Co.Chris joined us for a full episode, featuring a brand new segment, the return of an old favourite and for the first time ever our Patreon supporters joined us live and even got in on the after party!Apologies for a couple of audio difficulties in this episode, we are still recording from our homes at the moment!Check us out on socials @stepbrewersContribute to our Patreon! - https://bit.ly/2QkjkJg

Since we've got the hang of this whole Skype podcasting thing, we figured it was time to branch out so we got hold of BAOS alumni and mate Chris Farmer from Mr. Banks Brewing in Melbourne, Australia, and brought him back. You may remember Chris from episode #75 of the OG podcast series, and damn, has he come a long way since then. Chris was always ahead of the curve in Australia with the hazy IPAs, lactose beers, and pastry stouts, but over the last two years, Mr. Banks has dominated, becoming one of the Top 2 hype haze breweries in the country. Since it was 10am in Melbourne, Chris crushed some coffee but we got stuck into a new nano IPA for Pride from Muskoka Brewery, and a saison from Melbourne's own La Sirène. Cheers! BAOS Podcast Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube | Website | Theme tune: Cee - BrewHeads

It's all fun and games until someone spikes the sangria with LSD! Chris Farmer is back and we are talking about Gaspar Noe's Climax, and boy did we have a lot to talk about. As a group of dancers (led by Sophia Boutella) hold a party in an abandoned school to unwind, things get downright trippy, as they discover they've all been drugged without their knowledge. As events play out, secrets are revealed, tensions run high, and all some of them can do is dance through their trip, while others are just trying to survive the night, in one of the most maddeningly creative films we've ever seen.

Wait wait, we have more. In this episode, Mailgun’s Product Manager, Chris Farmer brings you up to speed on how you can send your emails at the right time with, Send Time Optimization. Is it better to send in the late morning, early afternoon or early evening? Tune in now!

FIRST NEW TANGE EPISODE OF THE DECADE!!!! After our episode on the Michael Bay Netflix film 6 Underground, I KNEW I had to bring back my good buddy Chris Farmer to discuss the the Bad Boys franchise, and have a SPOILER-HEAVY conversation about the latest installment, Bad Boys For Life!

This week we’re heading to Paradise for some and Hell for others. Brought to us by the BBC Paradise is the story of a British Couple found dead just off the coast of Belize. How did a young Doctor and his Lawyer girlfriend end up tied to motor parts? This is the story of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton and how their goal to see the world came to an early end when they boarded a boat set for Paradise with Silas Duane Boston and his two young boys. If you enjoy this episode please take a moment to follow Paradise on social media and subscribe to them wherever you’re listening to Podcast Junkie. ParadiseTwitter Podcast JunkieTwitterDiscordPatreonFacebookInstagram

Welcome back to TFR for another Cram Session. In these special releases, we have aggregated the takeaways and tips from previous episodes. In this installment, we will be recapping the following episodes:   138. How to Angel Invest Like the Best, Part 1 (Jason Calacanis) 139. How to Angel Invest like the Best, Part 2 (Jason Calacanis) 142. Beacon: An Engineering Systems Approach to Investing, Part 1 (Chris Farmer) 143. Beacon: Modernizing the VC Firm, Part 2 (Chris Farmer)   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/  for all of our other episodes.   Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

Netflix giving Michael Bay a blank check to do an action movie is like giving a 10 year-old a handgun. . . you're not sure what's gonna happen, but you're pretty sure it'll make the papers! In 6 Underground, Ryan Reynolds recruits of a team of independent operatives to take down a ruthless dictator, and as you can expect, absolute "Bay-hem" ensues! This week, I'm joined by self-professed Michael Bay lover Chris Farmer, and we do a DEEP deep dive into this . . . "cinematic gem" of a film.

The SignalFire founder says his intelligent database is the future of venture capital.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Back in 1978 the bodies of two British backpackers were found in the sea off the Guatemalan coast in central America. It was obvious that Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton had been been murdered, but for nearly 40 years nobody was arrested over their killings. In 'Paradise', Stephen Nolan and Dan Maudsley try to get to the truth of who killed Chris and Peta. We play some of Episode 2 of Paradise from BBC Radio 5 Live called Death In Paradise.

This is a study of the brutal torture and murder of the author's brother and his longtime girlfriend 40 years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the coast of Guatemala and proved to be the remains of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, respectively a medical graduate and a law graduate, aged 25 and 24, from Greater Manchester. They had been beaten, tortured, and killed, their bodies weighted down and dumped in the sea from the yacht on which they had been crewing. For nearly 40 years, no one was charged with these savage murders, even though the name of the yacht, the Justin B., and its owner, an American named Silas Boston, were known.But this is also the story of how Chris' sister, Penny Farmer, and her family tracked down the killer and assembled the evidence against him until eventually, in December 2016, Boston was arrested in the United States and charged with two counts of maritime murder. He pleaded not guilty, but among the evidence that Chris Farmer's family, aided by police forces in both the UK and the United States, as well as the FBI, had so patiently collected, was the eyewitness testimony of one of Boston's two sons who, aged 13 and 12, had been present when the murders took place.Regrettably, Boston will now never face justice, for he effectively took his own life in prison in April 2017. But for the families of Chris and Peta, they have at least the satisfaction of knowing that, through their own efforts over many years, their killer did not escape being made to face his crimes. DEAD IN THE WATER: Bringing Down My Brother's Killer After His 39 Years on the Run-Penny Farmer

In 1978 the bodies of a young male and female couple were found hogtied and drowned off Guatemala’s Caribbean coast. Nine months later they were identified as British graduates Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer. Police in Manchester, England quickly focused in on an American called Silas Duane Boston who had offered to sail Chris and Peta from Belize to Costa Rica on board his boat, the Justin B. Boston’s boat never reached Costa Rica and he fled back to California with his two young sons soon after the murders. So why did it take 38 years to arrest him – and how could he maintain his innocence when both his boys were telling the FBI they saw him do it? As 5 live journalist Dan Maudsley and BBC presenter Stephen Nolan investigate, this open and shut case only becomes more complicated. Find out more about the case here: www.bbc.co.uk/paradise

Chris Farmer, Founder and CEO of SignalFire speaks with Eniac Ventures’ Vic Singh on his early background as an investor and how he flipped the traditional venture model on its head with data-driven insights and a founder-centric thesis. In this episode, Chris discusses, after years of research, what led him to build SignalFire on top of infrastructure that powers the fund and empowers their founders through data, talent and their expansive advisory network. SignalFire aims to offer founders maximum impact by opening doors to the expertise and services they need to move the needle through their many-to-many approach. He also speaks to their unique team, complete with engineers and data scientists, and how they are consistently building products and innovating their services. Chris also digs into their barbell approach to investing, typically starting with an early stage - their sweet spot - and then being able to come back in with support during later stages, bringing their unique offerings to the table to complement the traditional firms. Additionally, he talks through how the firm has scaled, what sectors they are currently interested in, their deal sourcing strategy and his advice for founders on finding the right investment partners. SignalFire’s portfolio includes Uber, Lime, Zume Pizza to name a few. Prior to SignalFire, Chris was a Partner at General Catalyst and Bessemer Venture Partners. Follow Send comments to seedtoscale@eniac.vc and tweet us @seedtoscale.

Chris talks about how Shane Coburn contacted him to be on Mindgame, how and who helped develop his skating style, and we watch his section from KFC 3.

February is the worst month of the long, long Canadian winter so Cee skipped town to head back home to Melbourne, Australia, and there was no way he'd jump on a plane for 20 hours and not get in a few podcasts. Cee linked up with Chris from Seaford's Mr. Banks, a forward-thinking brewery with a brand spanking new tap room, a fantastic lineup of beers and a bloody good NEIPA. What a legend. Beers Reviewed: Mr. Banks Hop Punk Session IPA; Mr. Banks Wheeze The Juice NEIPA; Mr. Banks IPA; Mr. Banks IIPA. This episode is brought to you by High Season Co. - @highseasonco // highseasonco.com Theme tune: Cee - BrewHeads // bit.ly/CeeBrewHeads Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube! // bit.ly/BAOSYouTube

Today's episode addresses sensitive subject matters. Jason discusses the news about Louis CK and how prevalent harassment and assault are in the comedy community. Jason then shares information and thoughts on suicide and suicide prevent due to the loss of his dear friend from college who recently committed suicide. We want to share information about suicide prevention with you in hopes that we, as a community, can help prevent such a tragedy. If you are having thoughts of suicide please contact the suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-8255. They provide free, confidential support 24 hours a day. For more information you can go to these links: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/ https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Please do not hesitate to speak with someone. You do not have to go through this alone. This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Chris Farmer. Chris was a son, a brother, a friend, a husband, and a father. He will be missed dearly. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Today we publish part two of the interview with Chris Farmer of Signal Fire Ventures. In this segment we address: Why he's using Beacon to make VC investments when their are numerous other applications that may have more economic value How he's created an engaged, active advisor network that are also LPs in the fund What characteristics the best advisors share Chris' thoughts on the surge in micros VCs and how that has impacted the asset class Chris' advice for founders raising initial capital Wrap-up of Key Takeaways & a Tip of the Week Guest Links: Signal Fire Ventures Chris on Twitter Signal Fire on Twitter Techcrunch Article:  Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry Part 1 of the interview w/ Chris Key Takeaways: 1- Deconstructing Beacon   Beacon is a connected platform that starts w/ sourcing but also does monitoring, context, diligence, syndication and most importanty, per Chris, portfolio support.  It's a data platform that looks like a Bloomberg terminal for the startup industry.  They started building it seven years ago and they employ a full-blown engineering team of data scientists and tech engineers.  Beacon tracks a vast array of data on 6M different companies.  And Chris started with first principles, asking "what are the KPIs that the management teams of these companies are measuring?"... those are the same elements we should measure with Beacon.  It analyzes items including customer behavior, frequency, engagement, CLV, consumer transactions, financial flows, quality of those flows, news sentiment and also team construction and quality, just to name a few.   And signal fire's platform isn't just for the investors.  There is a UI for advisors and most importantly founders as well.  Founders can utilize heir robust SaaS recruiting platform to address the key need of early stage companies... recruiting top talent.  With Beacon, Signal Fire has set out to tech enable the entire value chain of a venture firm from end-to-end.  Early indications from folks in my network are that it's an impressive platform indeed.     2- The Prepared Mind   Signal Fire did not coin the concept of "the prepared mind" but Chris does follow it.  The approach that came out of Accel has an emphasis on heavy research on existing domains.  The creation of market maps that help visualize the landscape and reveal opportunities.  In a previous episode, David Cowan discussed his approach to the Space vertical that leverages this methodology.  And in Chris implementation, he is constantly refining the maps.  He meets with LP experts and founders to go much deeper and broader than they could do w/ data alone.  The result is that Signal Fire is often much less bullish on the en vogue sectors and vice-a-versa.  Their investment in pizza making robot company, Zume, certainly illustrates their fresh perspective on an oft-ignored industry.   3- The Common Thread of Success    I asked Chris for a common thread that he's noticed across successful startups.  And I really enjoyed his response.  The common thread in winners are those companies that are doing things full-stack. They are creating an end-to-end solution that is vertically integrated.  Where a company can be it's own customer in order to provide a better solution for the end consumer.  I discussed this concept w/ Charles Hudson in a previous episode.  We talked about finding the place within the vertical supply stack that enforces discipline on the chain and drives the most value.  Chris point was compelling in that he looks for startups that own the chain, not just a part of it.   Tip of the Week:  Tail Wags Dog -- The Affinity Investor     To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

Chris Farmer of Signal Fire Ventures joins Nick to discuss his firm and their platform, Beacon, a robust data engine that reveals the best sector, market and startup investment areas. We address questions including: Can you start off with the firm's thesis and your main focus at SignalFire? You talk about the four big founder pain points that you've observed... what are they?. Number one pain point is Hiring top engineers...  Tell us about his Data platform, Beacon, and how it addresses this pain point? Sourcing and analysis tool that helps show you where to focus? Can you give me an example of what you see when you look at a sector, sub-sector or even at the company level? Does this data really exist with very early-stage startups or nascent sectors, before they've really emerged and have traction? Sources? I've worked for companies that had a difficult time getting one database to talk to another.  Can you really source unstructured data, from limitless sources and structure it in a way where it's streamlined, uniform, single record and can be used to drive insights? Do you think about data that is empirical and fixed vs. data points that can be influenced... and if you find an strong startup profile that is missing a couple of key elements that can be influenced, will you engage and attempt to address those factors w/ the founder? I've looked over the consumer and enterprise sector lists where you invest... and it's a pretty broad list.  Can you really have a data engine that works well for such a varied and broad landscape? Essentially a sector by sector sensitivity and regression analyses?   To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.

In an awesome studio in down town Los Angeles I get to talk with the Feet crew. We sit around a 50s dinner table and talk all about the upcoming Feet dvd. I talk to Lonnie Gallegos, Joey Lunger, Brian Weis and Chris Farmer.  Talking Points   Studio Space Guest Intros The Westminster House Texas Killerboots Rob G's Energy  Feet Update Natural/Unnatural Editing without Music Brian Aragon Weird Things Real Mushroom blading Popping Cherries Libras Obi Regions Rob G on IG Live "Brother Time"   Chris Farmer Chat Viberlux Jeans Promodel Boots (CF.4, 5 & 6) JC Rowe NES inspired skate box design B-Love Xsjados to USD transition Beginning of Xsjado development 3 piece soul to 1 piece souls Skate Exploring  Anti to Flat Wheel Bite is Real  Mook, Kizer, Youth Skate Boot sizing The World is FLAT -Senate DAP Australia Tim Ward Fakie Bladers Feet IV Follow: @FeetBlading

Joining the podcast today is Dr Chris Farmer, Intensivist and former president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.  Chris has presented widely on the topic of developing and maintaining competency throughout our careers, and shares his insights in this terrrific interview

“It’s all friendly love over here… at the shopping mall there’s a hundred little kids, even grandma and grandpa on skates.”

Chris Farmer is a General Partner @ SignalFire, as he describes, 'the most quantitative fund in the world.' Chris has also assembled 50 other on-demand advisors to aid portfolio companies including Slack CEO, Stewart Butterfield, AltSchool Founder, Max Ventilla and Pinterest President, Tim Kendall. SignalFire's portfolio includes the likes of Uber, ClassDojo and Rocksbox just to name a few. Prior to SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner @ General Catalyst where he aided the development of their seed program. Prior to General Catalyst, Chris spent 4 years as a VP @ Bessemer Venture Partners. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Chris made his way into the world of venture and came to be Founding Partner @ Signal Fire? 2.) Why does Chris believe the VC industry has not changed in the last 40 years? Why are the old guard of VCs worried for the evolution? 3.) Why does Chris believe data and tech will be centre to the revolution that is happening in VC? How will data be used to enhance the VC value add to startups in the coming years? 4.) From interviewing over 500 Founders, what was the most common challenges and problems founders face today? How should VCs be positioning themselves to provide additional value? 5.) What does Chris believe boards are so inherently inefficient? What would Chris like to see change in the world of boards? How does Chris position himself in terms of, board to partner ratio? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Chris' Fave Blog: Above The Crowd: Bill Gurley Chris' Fave Book: The Success Equation Chris' Most Recent Investment: Frame.io As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Chris on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. So many problems start with your head: stress, depression, anxiety, fear of the future. What if there was some kind of exercise you could do, that would help you get your head in shape. That’s where the Headspace app comes in. Headspace is meditation made simple. The Headspace app provides guided meditations you can use whenever you want, wherever you want, on your phone, computer or tablet. They have sessions focused on everything from dealing with stress and depression, to helping you eat more mindfully. So download the Headspace app and start your journey towards a happier, healthier life. Learn more at headspace.com/20vc. That’s headspace.com/20vc. Xero is beautiful, easy-to- use online accounting software for small businesses. With Xero, you can easily manage your accounting anytime, anywhere from your computer or mobile device.When you add Xero to your small business you are able to: Send online invoices and get paid faster. Get an instant view of your cash flow. Track your payroll and keep tabs on your inventory. Partner with your accountant and bookkeeper in real time whenever you like. You can also customize your Xero experience with over five hundred business apps, including advanced solutions for point-of- sale, time tracking, ecommerce and more. Sign up for a free thirty-day trial at Xero.com/20vc. 

The 2015 Blading Cup took place Nov. 7 in downtown Santa Ana. Host Brian Krans takes you through his weekend, including skating in the Veterans Cup, helping build a street course, and getting a black eye. Featuring interviews and commentary from Jeff Stockwell, Sean Darst, Ben Weis, Alex Wick, Ariel Surun, Ivan Narez, Jason Reyna, Sayer Danforth, Chris Farmer, Victor Arias, Steven Johns, and more. You can support this podcast by pledging to Patreon (patreon.com/citizenkrans) or shopping at RockTownPress.com (rocktownpress.com).

We hope your 4th of July weekend was a blast! It’s my pleasure to introduce the first in a series of half hour, documentary style skating videos distributed online and available for free, exclusively through the Rolling Revival podcast. Our Video Producer Quinn Feldman has worked tirelessly capturing and editing the lives of five skaters. Each of which represents a unique kind of talent, diversity and style. Here’s what Quinn had to say about the feature. The idea behind this series is that we’re all from different places and backgrounds, have different skill levels, but the common bond we share is we all go out and skate and have fun with our friends. These videos are spontaneous and unrehearsed days of skaters going out for the love of skating. My overall goal was to not only entertain our core audience but also to put a personality to the rollerblader. A lot of times we watch an edit and we recognize that the skater is good and we’re impressed but it doesn’t put a face on the skater.” Featuring full days from: Anthony Williams (CA), Sean Knight (Canada), Mikey Blair (MI), Andrew Scherf aka Beef (AZ) and Ryan Googins (MN). The video also includes skating from: Iain and Colin McLeod, Ranier Piramide, Michael Obedoza, Brett Dasovic, Brett Hammond, Jake Moreau, Jeph Howard, Quinn Feldman, Ryan Santos, Brian Weiss, Ryan Roux, DP, Chris Farmer and many more. We at Revival recognize the responsibility to establish greater culture and vision within the skating community. As important as it is to focus on competitive feats, progress in rollerblading means not only looking to the future, but doing so with nostalgia for the past. We’ve had a lot of fun over the years, and our hope is that every rollerblader gets to share in “the worldwide clique”. My thanks to Quinn for working so hard and producing something of a first in rollerblading videos. We'll have a DVD ISO available tomorrow, so you can burn your own DVD copy and distribute this video all your own. Another first, in a history of firsts, only on Revival.