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Snapchat made its name with silly augmented-reality filters, or lenses, as it calls them. In recent years, it’s expanded into shopping, enabling users to try on clothing, jewelry and makeup in the app. The company, now called Snap, has started selling this technology to other businesses. Snap announced this week that it’s pushing AR tools into the real world, bringing AR mirrors to some Men’s Wearhouse and Nike stores in the U.S. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino went to the company’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California, to try the tech out, and spoke with Carolina Arguelles Navas, Snap’s head of AR product strategy, and Brian Cavanaugh, director of project management and business development at Fishermen Labs.
Snapchat made its name with silly augmented-reality filters, or lenses, as it calls them. In recent years, it’s expanded into shopping, enabling users to try on clothing, jewelry and makeup in the app. The company, now called Snap, has started selling this technology to other businesses. Snap announced this week that it’s pushing AR tools into the real world, bringing AR mirrors to some Men’s Wearhouse and Nike stores in the U.S. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino went to the company’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California, to try the tech out, and spoke with Carolina Arguelles Navas, Snap’s head of AR product strategy, and Brian Cavanaugh, director of project management and business development at Fishermen Labs.
Meet Eden Chen, co-founder of creative agency Fishermen Labs and new technology startup Pragma. He's a serial founder, having started multiple projects, companies, organizations and experiments in the seven-ish years I've known him.I've not met anyone with such a variety of passions, combined with the will to start them up. How does he have the stamina and curiosity to do it all?On top of all that, he's a humble, giving person, with a passion to serve the community around him and give back however he can. In short, I'm in awe of the guy, and I hope you will be too.Find him online at:https://twitter.com/edenchenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/edechen/Commercials in this episode include:NXTLVL, Eden's own non-profit endeavor, which trains under-resourced youth with social media advertising skills and even hooks them up with their first job: http://mcnayr.com/nxtlvlSneaky Sasquatch, one of my favorite games in the Apple Arcade subscription service: https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/ Special thanks to:Jason Crow, editorChris Billings, original music: http://www.christopherbillings.com/Kailey Howell, podcast art Thanks for listening. Follow along at: KingofNetworking.com
Eden Chen thinks Christians should take more risks. After navigating his own vocational journey, from processing a call to the pastorate to now launching multiple ventures in the LA-area, he's determined to help Christians find solace in the sovereignty of God. In this episode of the CFWLA Podcast, Chen shares a bit of his own story, makes a plea for Christians to lean into the messiness of risk, and speaks to what he's learned about faith in his work as an entrepreneur. BIO Eden Chen is founder of Fishermen Labs and Common Foods, and investor at CE Capital and CE Foundation. He has been featured on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list and resides in Los Angeles. QUOTABLE On Living Distinctly in the Workplace: (25:18-26:12) “If you just do good work and you're successful then you're still no different than everyone else. Everyone wants to do good work and be successful. So you have the protestant work ethic, but there's still no distinctive. Some of the guys that are non-Christian entrepreneurs that I work with work more excellently than Christians, and it would be a sin for Christians to work that hard. There's a level of limits where Christians cannot get to that level of work ethic. So you're not going to win people to Christ by just being excellent. Because someone will always be more excellent than you.” On Handling Success and Failure as an Entrepreneur: (37:13-37:49) “Especially when you find success, that's when it's really dangerous. Because then you're like, ‘Look at what I've built, and look at what I've done.' If you're an entrepreneur and you fail, then you probably have to go to the Lord. But if you're successful, you don't go to the Lord unless you are very intentional.” On Risk Taking and the Parable of the Talents: (39:30-40:10) “For the people that have more abilities, there's more that's required of them. With blessing comes responsibility. But it's the opposite that I typically see.”
Fishermen Labs, Common Foods, and Sonar TeamsIn 2014, Eden Chen launched Fishermen Labs, a company specializing in app and website development, and virtual reality and augmented reality for brands and startups. His clients include Sony, United Nations, HTC, Qualcomm, Quintiles, NFL and NBC. He also founded Knife and Fox, a design studio for brands and startups. Chen was recently in Forbes 30 Under 30.https://www.linkedin.com/in/edechen/
Today on the Creative South Podcast, I talk with Bryce Komae. Bryce is the Design Lead for Fishermen Labs, a Los Angeles based mobile app development studio. We talk about him starting college as a gerontology major, before switching to studying business after chemistry kicked his butt, teaching himself design while working on a documentary that turned into a non-profit, Designing for Virtual and Augmented Realities and the exciting challenges that come with emerging tech, and more.
The son of a journalist and a classical music composer, Eden Chen started his young adulthood as a video game playing, shoplifting, failing high school student. Then he found Jesus. By the time he was ready to graduate college he had already started his own hedge fund. Almost 10 years later, the life long learner is in the midst master life pivot-- a member Forbes 30 Under 30 club; part owner in CTRL Collective, a co-working space with close to 5 locations in the works; and the co-founder of Fishermen Labs, specializing in digital products like AR, VR, and design. On Innovation Crush, Eden discusses his dynamic career path, pivoting from finance to digital development, to full on entrepreneurship, to client service work, and more... and the threads that tie them all together. Recorded live at www.sae.edu
Today we are spotlighting Eden Chen of Fishermen Labs. Fishermen Labs is a Los Angeles based product development agency specializing in VR, AR, AI, web, mobile app development, and data driven performance marketing. This episode is powered by BetaList.com, where you can discover tomorrow's startups today and Make in LA, empowering you and your business by making hardware not hard. Connect with us at wearelatech.com/podcast and tweet @WeAreLATech and @EspreeDevora. What is Your Ask From the Community? If you're interested in tech in LA, just get out there and meet people. Come by CTRL Collective.
Mobile App Building and Development as Dush Ramachandran speaks with Eden Chen, the cofounder of Fishermen Labs. Fishermen Labs is a Los Angeles based mobile app development studio specializing in web, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile app development.