Podcasts about Intertrust

As energy systems become more decentralized, the complexity of managing trusted devices and other components connected to the grid continues to grow. According to the U.S. Department of Energy's Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Roadmap (January 2025), utilities across the country are experiencing increased interconnection requests for distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar, battery storage, and EV charging systems. This shift brings a mounting challenge: securing and authenticating an expanding web of edge devices without compromising system integrity.How do we ensure trust across a sprawling, multi-vendor energy infrastructure that is increasingly targeted by cyber threats?In this episode of Pro AV Today, host Ben Thomas welcomes Julian Durand, the Chief Security Officer & SVP of Product Management, and Ali Hodjat, the VP of Product Marketing at Intertrust. They discuss how energy providers can manage and secure trusted devices across complex grid networks. The conversation focuses on the intersection of cybersecurity, device authentication, and the evolving expectations of both energy providers and consumers.Key Takeaways from the Episode:Zero trust architecture is essential to securing distributed energy networks, which are increasingly vulnerable due to the proliferation of unvetted, third-party hardware.Endpoint protection is lagging in many operational technology (OT) environments, with legacy protocols and air-gapped systems often failing to meet modern cybersecurity expectations.A universal trust model, such as the Trusted Energy Interoperability Alliance (TEIA), is being developed to help align OEMs, utilities, and consumers around a common framework for device certification and data governance.Julian Durand is a cybersecurity and product management executive with over two decades of experience launching and scaling technologies across mobile, IoT, SaaS, and PaaS platforms. He has led global teams at Nokia, Qualcomm, and Intertrust, where he spearheaded innovations in eSIM, embedded security, telematics, and decentralized trust systems—holding ten patents with several more pending. Durand is CISSP-ISSAP certified, has held multiple P&L leadership roles, and is a recognized thought leader and frequent speaker on cybersecurity and product strategy.Ali Hodjat is a senior product marketing leader with over 17 years of experience driving go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and sales enablement across broadcast, streaming, and media technology sectors. In addition to leading initiatives at companies like Intertrust, Telestream, and Verimatrix, he has deep expertise in content protection, DRM, and video security technologies, including forensic watermarking and authentication systems. Hodjat combines strong technical knowledge in media cybersecurity with proven leadership in cross-functional collaboration, competitive analysis, and strategic content development to deliver measurable business impact.

Title: Dave Maher: Digital Security, CTO Intertrust   Description: David Maher has over 30 years of experience in secure computing and is responsible for Research and Development at Intertrust. In addition, he is currently President of Seacert Corporation, a certificate authority for the Internet of Things, President of WhiteCryption Corporation, a developer of application security software, and Co-chairman of the Marlin Trust Management Organization which oversees the world's only independent digital rights management ecosystem. Before joining Intertrust in 1999, Maher was chief scientist for AT&T Secure Communications Systems, Head of the Secure Systems Research Department, and security architect for AT&T's Internet services platform. After joining Bell Labs in 1981, he developed secure communications, information vending, and e-commerce systems. He was Chief Architect for AT&T's STU-III secure voice, data, and video products used by the White House and Department of Defense for top-secret communications. In 1992, Maher became a Bell Labs Fellow in recognition of his accomplishments in communications security. Maher holds dozens of patents in secure computing; has published papers in the fields of mathematics and computer science; and has consulted with the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Maher holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University. He has taught electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science at several institutions.   CTO of Intertrust Dave Maher, was recently selected to join the nation's leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative established by NIST. Dave can discuss the electric demands of AI and what innovative energy resource will save the electric grid.   Topics: VPP = Virtual Power Plants AI Safety Institute Consortium Using AI to optimize energy systems Hash Functionality Blockchain Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto Hal Finney Stuart Haber Diffie–Hellman Soviet Union Transatlantic cable US-UK wartime communications Secure Systems Design Cyber attack prevention Data Communication Digital Communication Zero Trust Architectures Quantum Computing Operational Technology Systems SCADA = Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition TEIA = Trusted Energy Interoperability Alliance GCHQ = Government Communications Headquarters NSA = National Security Agency Asset Protection Dual Use Technologies   Check him out here: Dave's email address: dpm@intertrust.com Intertrust Website: https://www.intertrust.com TEIA Website: https://www.trusted-energy.org   Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking Sean's classes at www.heatspring.com/sean

Na recordjaren tijdens de coronapandemie staan de marges van wijnhandelaren inmiddels onder druk. Weet de sector een antwoord te vinden op toenemende klimaatproblemen, oplopende kosten en inflatie? Peter van Houtert, voorzitter van de Koninklijke Vereniging Nederlandse Wijnhandelaren (KVNW) is te gast in BNR Zakendoen. Macro met Mujagic   Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.   Lobbypanel   De NS schrijft rode cijfers en dreigt met prijsverhogingen. En:  arbeidsongeschikt of juist weer terug aan het werk? Dan moet je je eerst door een moeras aan regels ploeteren. Dat en meer bespreken we om 11.10 in het boardroompanel met:   Helene Vletter, Hoogleraar Financieel recht en Governance bij de Erasmus Universiteit en onder meer commissaris bij Intertrust en NN Group  Lizzy Doorewaard, commissaris bij onder andere Esso Nederland en de NPO.  Luister l Lobbypanel Contact & Abonneren   BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.    Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you have been following Silicon Valley and tech news, you might be wondering what the future of tech startups in general are and what trends venture capitalists are following nowadays. Our guest, Paul Martino, might be able to answer those questions for you. Paul Martino is the founder of eight companies including Tribe; one of the world's first social networks, and aggregate knowledge a big data advertising company. Paul holds over a dozen patents on core social networking concepts, content targeting and recommendation systems. This is a fun, fascinating and deeply insightful conversation with one of our favorite thinkers in the tech startup world. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. Paul Martino on Venture Capital, Fundraising, and Market Sentiment The conversation begins with Paul Martino and Christopher Lochhead talking about the challenging environment for venture capitalists. Paul Martino acknowledges the tough 18 months, highlighting a temporary upswing but anticipating further challenges. Christopher shares mixed signals from CEOs, noting a tough market despite some positive indicators. Paul observes a significant change in fundraising capital availability in Q2, attributing it to increased confidence with NASDAQ's rise. As Christopher mentions entrepreneurs preferring angel investors over traditional VCs due to difficulties and lowered valuations, Paul disapproves of VC complacency during tough times and assures entrepreneurs that committed VCs like him are open for business, emphasizing their entrepreneurial mindset. He also understands the logic behind entrepreneurs relying on existing investors during market uncertainty. Paul Martino on the impact of market downturn on early- and late-stage companies They then continue to discuss the challenges faced by late-stage companies dealing with overvalued situations. Paul emphasizes the distinction between a down round and a recap, suggesting that a down round, while not ideal, is manageable. He also stresses the importance of CEOs accepting a realistic valuation to issue new options and retain employees, criticizing those who let ego hinder practical decisions. Christopher raises concerns about companies with significantly reduced growth rates, questioning their true value. Paul gives a hypothetical example of a $10 billion company dropping to $3 billion, highlighting the need for companies to adapt and not shy away from necessary adjustments to move forward. Paul Martino on San Francisco's decline and potential for recovery The conversation shifts to the topic of the decline of vibrant cities like San Francisco and Portland. Paul observes the eerie emptiness in once-bustling areas, expressing concern for the loss of the lively environment. Lochhead shares similar sentiments, reminiscing about the exciting times they experienced during previous boom periods. They discuss the root causes of these issues, focusing on policy changes like Prop 47 and Prop 57 in California that decriminalized theft under $1,000, leading to increased crime rates. Paul believes it will take a new generation of pragmatic leaders to address institutional problems and revive cities, estimating a 20-year timeframe for San Francisco's recovery. The conversation highlights their shared disappointment in witnessing the decline of the cities they once knew. To hear more from Paul Martino and the future of tech startups, download and listen to this episode. Bio Paul Martino is a Managing General Partner at Bullpen Capital. Paul is the founder of eight companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust; Tribe (one of the world's first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul's early online gaming innovations in multi-play...

Andrea is joined by Intertrust CEO Talal Shamoon. Talal talks about adaptability in business, why the absence of strict hierarchy can be an advantage and why your team and the tools you give them are one of the greatest assets for any CEO. Talal is an entrepreneur by nature and talks about how this has aided his success and gives his thoughts on different CEO archetypes including detailed feedback on Elon Musks' leadership style. KEY TAKEAWAYS Intertrust has transformed what they see to be one of the biggest modern business problems, allowing competitors to cooperate without having to collaborate. Silicon Valley is not so much about the company or the idea it's about the team that works together. Frequently, people who have complementary skills work together and move from company to company. Intertrust has remained a very agile company despite its size and age, it's always adapted to fit the needs of consumers and to take opportunities. Talal has set up the company structure to have less hierarchy, if someone knows more than him, he listens to them. Intertrust pays attention to its size, if they get too big they assess and have sold parts in the past. They find that once they get past the 150-employee mark they meet different challenges. Life isn't easier as a CEO if you treat others with respect and run an ethical business. Elon Musk is often criticised, but he leads from the front and has the ability to help anyone get their job done when they're struggling. Hiring very specialised people and matching your team effectively to the problem you want to solve, means you can solve problems that others may feel are impossible. As a leader, you need to give your team the right tools so they can succeed. Talal never makes decisions by himself, he has a group of people that he trusts to help him work through them. BEST BITS “This company is very rare, it's been evergreen it's entire life” “There's no real hierarchy we organise around problems that need to be solved” “To create shareholder value I have to ensure the team remains the best team in the world” “You team around tasks and problems you don't create a hierarchy” “Companies like Motorola and Nokia had to die for companies like Apple and Samsung to be born” “It's teams and tools” “I never make decisions by myself… I don't hold the truth, I don't own the truth, no one owns the truth” “Ultimately the best way to learn is from other people” VALUABLE RESOURCES Like the show? Please leave or write a review on your favorite podcast platform! Let Andrea know your thoughts or share your comments via LinkedIn or via email For more information on Andrea's work and access to other valuable resources, please visit the website    If you don't want to miss any episode and receive the full article in your inbox, subscribe today to our blog Need more? Book a 30 min call here: https://calendly.com/andreapetrone/strategy. ABOUT THE GUEST Talal Shamoon became Intertrust's CEO in 2003.  Under his leadership, Intertrust has grown from a small R&D and licensing company to a global leader in trusted computing products and services, licensing, and standardization.  Today, Intertrust's inventions enable billions of licensed products worldwide and its products are globally deployed.  He joined Intertrust in 1997 as a member of the research staff, and then held a series of executive positions, including Executive Vice President for Business Development and Marketing.  An electrical engineer and computer scientist by training, Talal was a researcher at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ, where he focused on digital signal processing and content security.  He sits on several company boards – he is a member of the board of directors at Intertrust and on the advisory board of Iron Pillar.   A recognized inventor, published author, and frequent public speaker,with a Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. ABOUT THE HOST My name is Andrea Petrone. I'm a Human Performance and Leadership Advisor, Executive Coach and International Speaker. I help leaders and their teams to change their mindsets and master their leadership capabilities so they can achieve extraordinary performance. I've been in the corporate world for more than 20 years working globally - in 6 countries and 3 continents - for medium-large companies.

Sten Tamkivi is the co-founder of Plural Platform, a venture fund established in 2021 with a focus on investing in early-stage technology startups across Europe. With his extensive experience as an entrepreneur and executive at companies such as Teleport and Skype, Sten is a firm believer in the importance of a tolerant, open, and creative society that fosters entrepreneurship. Through Plural Platform, Sten seeks to identify and invest in the most promising and innovative companies across the European continent, that have the potential to become market leaders.Rainer Sternfeld is an engineer and entrepreneur turned investor with over two decades of experience building technology businesses and products across Silicon Valley, Europe, and Japan. He was the co-founder & CEO of Planet OS (acquired by Intertrust) and moved to Estonia in 2019 to build NordicNinja – the largest Japanese VC fund in Europe – to help founders scale globally. Rainer is passionate about sustainability, empowering communities, and backing mission-driven founders tackling global challenges. In this session, we'll cover some of the most prominent topics and questions that start-up founders face today, including:How to make your first hires a success?How to grow your initial team from 0 to 100 employees?How to hire talent globally from the beginning?What are the make-or-break decisions that will lead your start-up to success?When to hire your first external C-level expert?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I am joining forces with Rainer Sternfeld and Tomosaku Sohara, the powerhouse Managing Partners of NordicNinja. This unique joint venture between Japan and Estonia is at the forefront of cultivating an international, collaborative tech environment, and we can't wait to dig into this fascinating partnership. Rainer Sternfeld, a seasoned founder turned investor, has spent the last 20 years building tech businesses across continents. As the co-founder of Planet OS, a climate tech company acquired by Intertrust, Rainer has established a solid foothold in the intersection of tech and sustainability. With his extensive experience and unique perspective, he is a crucial link between Japan, Europe, and the U.S., strengthening ties and fostering a harmonious tech ecosystem. Our second guest, Tomosaku Sohara, brings his profound knowledge in investment and clean technologies to the table. As a former leader of investments at JBIC IG Partners and having financed cleantech and mobility projects across the globe, Tomosaku is deeply embedded in the tech sector, focusing on climatetech, energy, and blockchain applications. In this conversation, we'll explore the fascinating synergy between Japan and Europe, the unique opportunities and advantages of founder-led venture capital firms, and the imperative digital and sustainable transformations happening in our world today. The collaboration of Rainer and Tomosaku exemplifies the power of cross-continental teamwork in creating a sustainable future. Through the innovative work of NordicNinja VC, we'll delve into how technology can bridge the gaps between nations and propel us towards a future that is both digitally advanced and ecologically responsible. So, gear up for this eye-opening episode as we delve into the tech world's cutting-edge innovations and the transformative power of global collaboration. From Japan to Estonia, from AI to climate tech, and everything in between, this is one episode of Tech Talks Daily you won't want to miss!

Bagger- en offshoreconcern Van Oord heeft naar eigen zeggen ‘één van de meest turbulente jaren' achter de rug. Hoe is Van Oord er dan toch in geslaagd na een verliesjaar weer zwarte cijfers te schrijven? Pieter van Oord, topman van bagger- en offshoreconcern Van Oord, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen, live vanaf Trends in Export vanuit de Onderzeebootloods in Rotterdam.  Macro met Edin Mujagić  Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Boardroompanel  Tata Steel raakt in opspraak vanwege gelekte interne appjes over klimaatdemonstranten. Wat zegt dat over het bestuur van de staalfabrikant? En: Banken en verzekeraars hebben steeds meer moeite om een accountant te vinden. Dat en meer bespreken we om 13.00 in het boardroompanel met:  - Rob van Eijbergen, Hoogleraar integriteit aan de VU en organisatieadviseur  - Helene Vletter, Hoogleraar Financieel recht en Governance bij de Erasmus Universiteit en onder meer commissaris bij Intertrust en NN Group.  Luister l Boardroompanel  Inzichtgesprek   Oorlog in Europa, Brexit, Trump en een corona-pandemie. De wereldhandel heeft nogal wat voor kiezen gehad de afgelopen jaren. Wat is de staat van de internationale handel, en hoe doet Nederland het? Te gast is Peter van Bergeijk, hoogleraar Internationale Economie aan de Erasmus Universiteit.  Zakenpartner  Ze studeerde Economie en Corporate Finance aan de Rijksuniversiteit van Groningen waarna ze begon als bankier op de Zuidas. Tijdens deze functie kreeg ze de mogelijkheid om een jaar naar Mumbai te gaan. Na het zien van de barre omstandigheden waarin de Mumbiaase bevolking leefde besloot ze het roer om te gooien en richtte ze in 2010 de stichting Tiny Miracles op.     Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 12:00 tot 14:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail en Twitter. Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tata Steel raakt in opspraak vanwege gelekte interne appjes over klimaatdemonstranten. Wat zegt dat over het bestuur van de staalfabrikant? En: Banken en verzekeraars hebben steeds meer moeite om een accountant te vinden. Dat en meer bespreken we in het boardroompanel van BNR Zakendoen  Panelleden  Presentator Thomas van Zijl gaat in gesprek met het boardroompanel, dat deze keer bestaat uit:  - Rob van Eijbergen, Hoogleraar integriteit aan de VU en organisatieadviseur  - Helene Vletter, Hoogleraar Financieel recht en Governance bij de Erasmus Universiteit en onder meer commissaris bij Intertrust en NN Group. Abonneer je op de Podcast  Ga naar de pagina van het boardroompanel en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast, Spotify en elke donderdag live om 13:00 uur in BNR Zakendoen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Intertrust's CEO, Talal Shamoon, joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. He shares his beginnings as an engineer in the academic and research world to moving to Silicon Valley, building a product around a need in the early days of the Internet. Today Talal still finds inspiration in a higher order mission and providing solutions for practical problems.

In season 3 episode one of The IoT Podcast, host Tom White speaks with Intertrust's Chris Kalima and Julian Durand to discover how to create trust throughout the IoT data supply chain and the key to achieving seamless interoperability in zero-trust environments, even at scale. Sit back, relax, tune in and be the first to discover... (00:00) The IoT Podcast Intro (00:28) Shout Out to our sponsor Akenza.io (00:43) Intro to Chris and Julian (06:56) What does Intertrust do? (09:09) Interoperability in the EV market (13:39) EIPGRID partnership enabling trusted data for scale organisations (17:09) Why the old ways of securing networks does not work (20:02) Akenza.io 30-day free trial! (21:08) How can we address interoperability issues at scale? (27:43) What effect will the EU Data act have on businesses? (31:00) The evolution of data collaboration and data sharing (39:44) Question from the audience Thank you to today's episode sponsor Akenza.io, sign up for a 30-day free trial of their self-service platform: https://auth.akenza.io/register?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=5vmedia&utm_campaign=theiotpodcast ABOUT THE GUESTS Julian Durand is the VP of Product Management & CISO at Intertrust. He is an accomplished product owner, team leader, and creative inventor with more than 25 years of success in bringing breakthrough products to market at massive scale. He is a named inventor in Digital Rights Management (DRM), Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual SIM technologies, was the technical lead for the first music phone and pioneered vSIM and IoT businesses at Qualcomm. Connect with Julian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliandurand/ Chris Kalima is the VP of Product Management. He is an experienced product leader and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of applying his passion for technology and design to web-based products and applications. Connect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckalima/ ABOUT INTERTRUST Intertrust is a Silicon Valley-based software company specializing in trusted computing products and services. The company was founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur Victor Shear with the vision to enable trusted transactions across open networks. To date, Intertrust has scaled to a prominent enterprise in trusted distributed computing, building on a legacy of invention, and fundamental contributions in the areas of computer security and digital trust. Find out more about Intertrust: https://www.intertrust.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE IOT PODCAST: https://linktr.ee/theiotpodcast Sign Up for exclusive email updates: https://theiotpodcast.com/ Contact us to become a guest/partner: https://theiotpodcast.com/contact/ Connect with host Tom White: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom5values/  

Rainer Sternfeld on ettevõtja, investor, tippjuht, insener, ning mitmete kogukondlike ja ühiskondlike projektide algataja. Ta on Jaapani investeerimisfondi NordicNinja partner, mis investeerib Põhjamaade ning Baltimaade suure potentsiaaliga digi- ning rohetehnoloogia ettevõtetesse, mis aitavad meil vähendada maailma kollektiivset jalajälge. Ta on saatesarja „Globaalsed eestlased” algataja ning saatejuht, kes on koos tänaseks 9-liikmeliseks kasvanud toimetusega vedanud seda alates 2016.a. veebruarist. Raineri intervjueerijaks on sarja esimene külaline Sten Tamkivi ning sajanda saate avalikuks saamisega jõuab sari oma ettenähtud lõpuni – teekond, mis kestis 7 aastat. Raineri lugu on lugu loovusest ning õpihimust, muutuste algatamistest ning juhtimisest, inimeste aitamisest, tundlikust sotsiaalsest närvist ning sihikindlast pühendumisest. Viimase 20 aasta jooksul on ta asutanud või juhtinud mitmeid ettevõtteid ning organisatsioone, loonud uusi tiime ning tooteid ja teenuseid, töötades rahvusvaheliste kollektiividega nii Euroopas, Ameerika Ühendriikides kui Jaapanis. Lisaks on ta ka täiskasvanute programmeerimiskooli Kood / Jõhvi kaasautaja. Varasemalt on Rainer töötanud ABB Baltimaade arendusjuhina, kus ta vedas uusi initsiatiive ning rajati ka üle-eestline elektriautode kiirlaadijate võrgustik. Aastatel 2012-2019 elas ja töötas Rainer Räniorus Californias, kus juhtis enda kaasasutatud ettevõtet Planet OS, mille keskkonna- ning energeetikaandmeid töötleva pilvetehnoloogia omandas 2017. aastal küberturvalisuse ettevõte Intertrust. Selle käigus tegid nad koostööd nii energeetikaettevõtetete, akadeemia kui riigiasutustega, mh NASA-ga. Rainer osales nii Valge Maja avatud andmete ümarlaua töös kui Maailma Ookeaninõukogu juhatuse töös. Kui ta oli 24-aastane, osales Rainer kolme sõbraga Vabadussõja võidusamba ideekonkursil, mille nad ka võitsid ning mis suurte raskuste kiuste Vabaduse väljakule 2009.a. ka rajati. Raineril on TalTechist bakalaureusekraad tootearenduses ning magistrikraad mehhatroonikas. Oma tudengieas kaasasutas ta nii TTÜ Fotoklubi kui TTÜ Robotiklubi ning töötas TTÜ Mehhatroonikainstituudis insenerina mehitamata sõidukite uurimisrühmas. Selles saates räägime Lapsepõlvest 80ndate Sauel, esivanemate mälestustest ning mõjust Elektroonika, raamatute, USA taevakanalite ja muusika keskel kasvamisest Ülikooliõpingutest TalTechis Vabadussõja võidusamba loomisest ning kuidas ta seda täna vaatab 25-aastaselt ABB arendusjuhiks saamisest Planet OS-i rajamisest ning elust Räniorus „Globaalsete eestlaste“ podcast'i algusest, diasporaast ning kuidas eestlased on maailmameistrid koduigatuses Kood / Jõhvist ning haridusest NordicNinja partneriks saamisest Eestisse naasemisest ning Eesti tulevikust Liitu uudiskirjaga www.globaalsedeestlased.org, et uus saade jõuaks iga nädal sinu postkasti!

The Faultline Podcast welcomes its first guest, the legendary Intertrust CEO and godfather of DRM - Talal Shamoon.

Ian Lynch, Chief Commercial Officer at Intertrust Group,  spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about using technology (in-house or through partnering with start-ups) to serve private capital (PE and VC) and corporate, capital markets or wealth managers. Here is what they covered: Ian – what's your background? How did you get to what you do today? What does Intertrust provide? Corporate Client Services, Private Capital & Hedge Fund Services, Capital Markets and Private Wealth Your services include many smaller tasks, so I guess leveraging technology is the only way to do it at scale. So what's the technology behind your solution? What's your view on open innovation, or do you prefer to develop what you can in-house and the rest from well-established technology vendors? Can FinTechs help you? Overall, how do you distinguish yourself from your competitors? You work a lot with Private Capital players – I bet you have seen a steady increase in private capital vs. public over the years. Do you think this trend will also continue in the world of rising interest rates? Your clients are based worldwide - how do you deal with tax and other regulations? How do you make money? How big is your team, and where are you based? What's your favorite business book? Legacy - All Blacks, Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight, Jim Collins's Good to Great. Check out the related micro-course inspired by Jim Collins's Built to Last on Emeritus Insights, presented by Rudolf Falat.  Test way to reach out: LinkedIn - Ian Lynch.  

In this episode, Dr. Natasha Bajema, Director of the Converging Risks Lab, interviews Dr. David Maher who has more than three decades of experience in secure computing and currently serves as Chief Technical Officer of Intertrust.  Before joining his current company in 1999, Maher was chief scientist for AT&T Secure Communications Systems, Head of the Secure Systems Research Department, and security architect for AT&T's Internet services platform. Maher holds dozens of patents in secure computing; has published papers in the fields of mathematics and computer science; and has consulted with the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Maher holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University.  They discuss the intersection of data and national security, explore the challenges of data authentication, provenance, and disinformation, and examine technical solutions such as blockchain. This podcast builds upon work undertaken by the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) in collaboration with the European Leadership Network (ELN) to explore the impact of emerging technologies on nuclear decision-making and new approaches for mitigating risks. To read more about our work, please visit CSR's website. 

Sustainable transformation and overall net climate impact are in focus for Rainer Sternfeld, managing partner at a 100 million euro fund Japanese investment Nordic Ninja when he seeks investment opportunities among Nordic and Baltic startups.Sternfeld was the founder of climate data startup PlanetOS, bought by Intertrust in 2017.**A few key takeaways from Rainer Sternfeld:**"I am still very optimistic that Europe is still the best place for cleantech, Europe is still the best place to talk about clean energy, and we can figure it out rather easily. We don't have that many disagreements as maybe in other sectors, and we can afford it."**"You have a massive amount of energy going towards moving atoms, as we say, at Nordic Ninja. That 'moving atoms' means moving people, moving goods. And so when you move atoms, we have, by the way, I think about 40% of the capital allocated in our fund so far into reducing the amount of energy that is spent moving atoms or, or getting rid of moving atoms altogether, like in the case of Veriff, which is an exception." **"I don't eat meat, but I know that obviously, a lot of people eat meat, and they will be eating meat in the next decades to come, even though that is going to be reduced, reducing in terms of percentage share, they still will do that. So if we are going to have people eating meat, it should be done as efficiently as possible. Like, what if there was a way to reduce methane emission of cows, like 80%?Of course, I would support doing that even though I don't eat meat, right? It's still a net impact."**

De woningnood neemt toe en toch bouwen woningbouwcorporaties veel te weinig. Hoe komt dat? Henk Peter Kip, directievoorzitter van woningbouwcorporatie Mitros, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen. Kees de Kort Elke dag, even over twaalf, bespreekt presentator Thomas van Zijl met macro-econoom en commentator Kees de Kort de economische stand van zaken. Boardroompanel Steeds meer bedrijven trekken zich terug uit Rusland. En: Schiphol en Ballast Nedam bestoken elkaar met miljoenenclaims vanwege een mislukt bouwproject. Dat en meer bespreken we in het boardroompanel, met: - Jeroen Vercauteren, specialist in fusies en overnames verbonden aan Factor Bedrijfsovernames - Hélène Vletter-van Dort, hoogleraar Financieel Recht en Governance aan de Erasmus Universiteit en onder meer commissaris bij Intertrust en NN Group Luister | Boardroompanel Het vertrouwen in de wetenschap Topwetenschapper Hans Clevers is vertrokken naar de Zwitserse farmaceut Roche. In het inzichtgesprek is vandaag Ineke Sluiter, directeur van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, te gast. We spreken met haar over het voorkomen van belangenverstrengeling en het vertrouwen in de wetenschap. Zakenpartner Eerst was ze HR Advisor bij Accenture, daarna coachte ze sporters bij FC Groningen in de balans tussen trainen en herstellen en inmiddels heeft ze haar eigen succesvolle energiemanagementbureau uit de grond gestampt. De zakenpartner deze week is Lieke Wolfraad van OneWave. Contact & Abonneren BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 12:00 tot 14:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail en Twitter. Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steeds meer bedrijven trekken zich terug uit Rusland. En: Schiphol en Ballast Nedam bestoken elkaar met miljoenenclaims vanwege een mislukt bouwproject. Dat en meer bespreken we in het boardroompanel van BNR Zakendoen. Panelleden  Presentator Thomas van Zijl gaat in gesprek met het boardroompanel, dat deze keer bestaat uit:  - Jeroen Vercauteren, specialist in fusies en overnames verbonden aan Factor Bedrijfsovernames - Hélène Vletter-van Dort, hoogleraar Financieel Recht en Governance aan de Erasmus Universiteit en onder meer commissaris bij Intertrust en NN Group Abonneer je op de Podcast Ga naar boardroompanel en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast, Spotify en elke donderdag live om 13:00 uur in BNR Zakendoen.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het Verenigd Koninkrijk versoepelt de regels voor beursnoteringen om beursgangen weg te kapen van Amsterdam en New York. En: de biedingenstrijd om Intertrust lijkt ten einde. Dat en meer bespreken we in het beleggerspanel van BNR Zakendoen

TBAuctions heeft een nieuwe eigenaar. Wat is deze Duitse private-equitypartij van plan met het fusiebedrijf van de twee online veilinghuizen BVA Auctions en Troostwijk? Te gast is topman Herberth Samsom in BNR Zakendoen. Kees de Kort Even over twaalf bespreekt presentator Edwin Mooibroek met macro-econoom en commentator Kees de Kort de economische stand van zaken. Beleggerspanel Het Verenigd Koninkrijk versoepelt de regels voor beursnoteringen om beursgangen weg te kapen van Amsterdam en New York. En: de biedingenstrijd om Intertrust lijkt ten einde. Dat en meer bespreken we in het beleggerspanel met: Reinder Wietsma (portfoliomanager bij IBS Capital Management) en Koen Bender (Directeur Mercurius Vermogensbeheer). Luister l Beleggerspanel Met robots de hongersnood te lijf De wereldbevolking groeit en dus zijn bedrijven op zoek naar groente en fruitgewassen die steeds meer opbrengen. Een samenwerking van bedrijven denkt nu dé oplossing te hebben om volledig geautomatiseerd onderzoek te doen naar plantveredeling. Te gast: Arjan Hofman, algemeen directeur van Lab Services. Zakenpartner De zakenpartner van deze week is Elske Doets, eigenaar en directeur van Doets Reizen. Vandaag gaat ze vertellen hoe ze zich als reisondernemer door de coronacrisis geslagen heeft. Contact & Abonneren BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 12:00 tot 14:00 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail en Twitter. Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het Verenigd Koninkrijk versoepelt de regels voor beursnoteringen om beursgangen weg te kapen van Amsterdam en New York. En: de biedingenstrijd om Intertrust lijkt ten einde. Dat en meer bespreken we in het beleggerspanel van BNR Zakendoen  Panelleden  Presentator Thomas van Zijl gaat in gesprek met het beleggerspanel, dat deze keer bestaat uit:  - Reinder Wietsma (portfoliomanager bij IBS Capital Management)  - Koen Bender (Directeur Mercurius Vermogensbeheer)  Abonneer je op de Podcast  Ga naar Beleggerspanel en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast, Spotify en elke dinsdag live om 13:00 uur in BNR Zakendoen.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hij werd aangesteld door toenmalig president Trump, maar de jaren erna openlijk aangevallen door diezelfde Trump. Powell zou een 'krankzinnig' beleid voeren, aldus Trump. Week op week viel hij hem aan op Twitter of tijdens persconferenties. Powell bleef aan en moest tijdens de coronacrisis aan de bak. De Amerikaanse economie werd ondersteund met een enorme steunoperatie: maandelijks werd er voor meer dan 100 miljard dollar aan obligaties en leningen opgekocht. In de aflevering hoor je Bert Colijn (ING) en Han Dieperink (Auréus) over de herbenoeming van Powell. Wat betekent het voor beleggers en wat heeft het voor invloed op het Europees beleid? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wéér een nieuwe, Zuid-Afrikaanse coronavariant maakt zijn opmars en is inmiddels in België gearriveerd. Beleggers van Azië tot Amerika deden massaal hun aandelen in de verkoop. Gevolg: geen Black Friday maar Red Friday. "Toch is het niet verstandig om in paniek te gaan handelen", zegt Joost van Leenders van Van Lanschot Kempen. Wim Zwanenburg van Stroeve Lemberger is het met Joost eens. Er is op de wat langere termijn nog steeds geen alternatief voor aandelen. "Laat de storm maar even uitrazen", adviseert hij.Zit er nog meer in het vat voor de aandeelhouders van Intertrust, nu er een biedingsstrijd rond het bedrijf is losgebarsten? Die vraag komt aan de orde, net als onder ander de cijfers van Prosus en of Activision Blizzard nog wel een aantrekkelijk aandeel is.Aan het einde van de podcast hoor je een kort gesprek met Martijn Rozemuller van VanEckETF's, de partner van BeursTalk. Dat doen we elke twee weken, deze week bespreken we de ETF's van VanEck die belegt in Smart Home technologie. Luisteren dus!De gepresenteerde informatie door VanEck Asset Management B.V. en de aan haar verbonden en gelieerde bedrijven (samen "VanEck") is enkel bedoeld voor informatie en advertentie doeleinden aan Nederlandse beleggers die Nederlands belastingplichtig zijn en vormt geen juridisch, fiscaal of beleggingsadvies. VanEck Asset Management B.V. is een UCITS beheerder. Loop geen onnodig risico. Lees de Essentiële Beleggersinformatie of het Essentiële-informatiedocument. Meer informatie? www.vanecketfs.nl

Hij werd aangesteld door toenmalig president Trump, maar de jaren erna openlijk aangevallen door diezelfde Trump. Powell zou een 'krankzinnig' beleid voeren, aldus Trump. Week op week viel hij hem aan op Twitter of tijdens persconferenties. Powell bleef aan en moest tijdens de coronacrisis aan de bak. De Amerikaanse economie werd ondersteund met een enorme steunoperatie: maandelijks werd er voor meer dan 100 miljard dollar aan obligaties en leningen opgekocht. In de aflevering hoor je Bert Colijn (ING) en Han Dieperink (Auréus) over de herbenoeming van Powell. Wat betekent het voor beleggers en wat heeft het voor invloed op het Europees beleid? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marketwatcher Arend Jan Kamp bespreekt onder andere Intertrust, PostNL en de beursgang van Rivian. Dit doet hij ditmaal met senior analist Martin Crum, omdat Niels Koerts ziek op bed ligt. Gelukkig zijn Arend Jan en Martin de beroerdste niet en bellen ze hem om verhaal te halen over de koers van CM.com.

In de podcast van deze week praten Nico en Rowan onder andere over de plotselinge overname van Intertrust, de beursgang van Rivian en de stroom kwartaalcijfers van afgelopen week.

Hélène Vletter-van Dort is hoogleraar Financial Law & Governance en ze is dit aan de Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam. Ze is lid van de raad van commissarissen van NN Group en is sinds 2020 daar ook de vice-voorzitter. Ook is ze voorzitter van de raad van commissarissen bij Intertrust en non executive director en voorzitter van EFIC1, een special purpose vehicle gericht op de fintech sector. Buiten de financiële sector is Hélène onder andere lid van de raad van toezicht van de NPO. Voorheen was ze onder andere toezichthouder bij de Britse bank Barclays, lid van de Monitoring Commissie Corporate Governance Code en begon ze haar loopbaan bij advocatenkantoor Clifford Chance en later als wetenschapper bij de Universiteit Utrecht. Hélène is 56, is getrouwd, heeft volwassen kinderen en woont voornamelijk in Wassenaar.   ***  Volg Leaders in Finance via de website. Volg Leaders in Finance via Linkedin. *** Op de hoogte blijven van Leaders in Finance? Abonneer je dan op de nieuwsbrief. ***  Zou je graag een bepaalde gast willen zien bij Leaders in Finance of ken je iemand die je wil voordragen? Laat het ons weten via gasten@leadersinfinance.nl  ***  Vragen, suggesties of feedback? Graag! Via email: info@leadersinfinance.nl  ***   Als je de Leaders in Finance podcast leuk vindt, zou je dan een review willen achterlaten bijvoorbeeld bij Apple Podcasts? Of ons willen volgen bij Spotify. Veel dank, want sommige mensen gaan alleen luisteren naar deze podcast als ze weten dat er genoeg anderen zijn die het leuk vinden!  ***   Leaders in Finance wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Interim Valley, FG Lawyers, Odgers Berndtson en Roland Berger.    ------------------------------------ *** Zelf gaan podcasten? Podcast inzetten voor jouw organisatie? Vragen over Hosting? We willen best even meedenken, dus neem gerust contact op: info@leadersinfinance.nl  *** Interesse in een podcast serie over een specifiek inhoudelijk onderwerp voor jezelf of je medewerkers? Met Leaders in Finance Academy maken we series over specifieke onderwerpen in de financiële sector. Zo maakten we een serie over Anti Money Laundering en komende maanden volgen series over Bijzonder Beheer, Open Finance en Sustainable Finance. We horen graag van je: info@leadersinfinanceacademy.nl    *** Liever niet via een podcast luisteren maar in persoon? Leaders in Finance Events organiseert events voor finance professionals. Meer informatie is te vinden op: leadersinfinance.nl/events.   

In de podcast van De Aandeelhouder van deze week praten Rowan en Nico over de bedrijfscijfers die deze week langskwamen. Zo passeren ASML, Tesla, CM.COM en Intertrust de revue. Verder wordt er stilgestaan bij de beleggersdag van Just Eat Takeaway.

The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research's Faultline service, a weekly news service that examines the video market – focused on Pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the technology that supports them. Occasionally, our Rethink TV research wing stops by, to talk about upcoming forecasts and macroeconomic trends we're seeing. Hosted by Alex Davies, Tommy Flanagan, and Rafi Cohen, The Faultline Podcast hits the most important points from the last week's news. If you're in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you'll want to pay attention to. Find out more at: https://rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline/ We're on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/_Faultline_ And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/faultline/

A chance to hear from the brilliant Richard Fitzmaurice this week. Richard shares his experiences on leading a high-performing team and how surrounding yourself with talent is so key to success. We start with his university years and being brave about the path he ultimately took and along the way to the presence day, where he is not only leading the team at Intertrust Group, after a successful rebrand and positioning programme, he makes time to talk about the world- greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes (or "Ran" as he is to Richard!) and how they ended up having a successful side hustle together in the world of Rum. An engaging and inspiring person, Richard is very open and honest about what he has learnt from others and how that has served him so well in his career to-date.

Paul Martino is a venture capital investor and has raised 5 funds totaling over $350 million in capital. That money has been deployed into FanDuel, Grove, Ipsy, and SpotHero.   Before forming Bullpen, Paul was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy.   Prior to his investing career, Paul founded four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust) and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). He is the holder of over a dozen core patents covering social networking and big data.    In this episode, Paul and Aaron discuss the FanDuel success, his advice for startups going through tough times, and the different space that venture capital investors make their mark.   Sign up for a Weekly Email that will Expand Your Mind.   Paul Martino’s Challenge; Start every meeting on time   Connect with Paul Martino Linkedin Twitter Bullpen Capital Website paul@bullpencap.com If you liked this interview, check out episode 231 with Andy Rachleff where we discuss how to find non-consensus investing ideas that work.   Text Me What You Think of This Episode 412-278-7680 Underwritten by Piper Creative Piper Creative makes creating podcasts, vlogs, and videos easy.    How? Click here and Learn more.   We work with Fortune 500s, medium-sized companies, and entrepreneurs.   Follow Piper as we grow YouTube Instagram Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | Spotify 

The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research's Faultline service, a weekly news service that examines the video market – focused on Pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the technology that supports them. Occasionally, our Rethink TV research wing stops by, to talk about upcoming forecasts and macroeconomic trends we're seeing. Hosted by Alex Davies, Tommy Flanagan, and Rafi Cohen, The Faultline Podcast hits the most important points from the last week's news. If you're in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you'll want to pay attention to. Find out more at: https://rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline/ We're on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/_Faultline_ And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/faultline/

Ambriel Pouncy, has led brand development and organizational change initiatives for the past several years in both the fashion and tech industries. In her current role as the Global Director of People and Culture at Intertrust, she has developed various comprehensive people and culture initiatives to enhance Intertrust's thriving and inclusive culture. Ambriel has spent nearly a decade working as a change agent to drive inclusion, diversity, and to bridge the equity gap while encouraging representation of all people. Ambriel is a native of Alaska and graduate of Spelman College, she currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Inside sales is fast becoming Digital Sales as teams like yours adopt online channels to prospect, discover, sell and close business. Many companies now want inside sales people who can do more than make cold-calls. As a result, you need to look for a new breed of sales person with this 21st century skillset. So how do you lead this digital sales team in the current pandemic? How do you keep in touch with them, train them, coach them and motivate them? Frank Hattnann, Global Head of Sales at Intertrust and former Director of Digital Sales at Microsoft is your guest today to outline how he leads his remote sales teams in this digital environment. Check out the episode now #SDR #SaaS #InsideSales #salescoach

Kez went from Trinity College straight to being a Venture Capitalist in San Francisco, the heart of the action! She has now moved back this side of the pond and is the Head of Climate & Environmental Initiatives at a company called Intertrust - really cool job! Lots to learn from Kez as she talks about her career and evolution to date.

In Episode 18, Caroline Garnham talks to Alison Parry, Head of Private Wealth, Intertrust in Guernsey. Caroline puts to Alison ‘my hunch is that post Covid 19 we will see a renewed effort across the ‘globe' to soak the rich which could directly face your clients and your business - what are your views?' Hear what she says

In these lightning rounds, we discuss how the advertising industry is evolving to meet the demands of more cord cutters and why content protection for both OTT and broadcast continues to be paramount. We speak with Adobe, Intertrust and Roku.

You never write, you never call, you never send flowers “just because.” But that’s ok, we welcome you back to another scintillating episode of Radio Free HPC anyway. Henry is traveling on yet another business trip, lodged in the Washington, DC area, and not even in his favorite hotel chain. But his reputation as a team player goes back to his days in the bayou, Dan says. And he performs another skillful yet awkward segue from Henry’s swamp origins to the swamp-like nature of the internet, which brings us to our special guest.What’s true? What’s real? And how can we KNOW it?We welcome Dave Maher, CTO of internet security company Intertrust, to share with us his deep knowledge of digital communication, identity management, data rights management, cryptography and digital certificates, blockchain, and much else. This whole subject is very much in his wheelhouse.Dave gave us the run down on Intertrust and his other roles in the cybersecurity arena. Dan opens up the questioning with “Dave, do we really need security on the internet?” Dave, quick on the draw, responded “Well, we really haven’t had it for the last 20 years, so why start now?” which got the conversation off and running. Dave talked about the evolution of the internet and the rising need for security given that the internet has vastly changed since it began so long ago.The main topic of the conversation is authenticity and truth. With the rise of deepfakes (images or videos that are convincingly falsified), how do we know that what we’re seeing and hearing is created by who we think and is what we think?This leads to a deep conversation on ways we can verify content so that we know that it’s authentic. There are many ways of approaching it, but some implementation of blockchain seems to be a promising route.Listen to the pod and get hipped to this very important topic. Shahin keeps saying it's the grand challenge of our time. He might be right.Listen in to hear the full conversation* Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed * Follow us on Twitter * Sign up for the insideHPC Newsletter

Privacy experts discuss the General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, one year after the regulations went into effect with candid interviews from Twilio, Intertrust and Meeco - three companies who are going above and beyond to honor privacy globally. While the press tends to focus on companies who do not follow privacy standards, this episode focuses on the companies and professionals who go to great lengths to protect your privacy. 

In de nieuwste uitzending van NieuwBestuur Dutch Circular Leadership op New Business Radio stonden de toezichthouders centraal. Glenn van der Burg en Mildred Hofkes ontvingen in de studio Inge Brakman en Hélène Vletter - van Dort! In de negende aflevering stonden de toezichthouders centraal. Te gast waren Inge Brakman, Commissaris bij Funda, Shell Nederland en DSM Nederland, Voorzitter Monitoring Commissie Banken, Bestuurslid Persvrijheidsfonds en Voorzitter RvT bij het Rode Kruis; en Helene Vletter - van Dort, Hoogleraar Financial Law & Governance, Commissaris bij Intertrust en Commissaris bij NN Group. De columnist van deze aflevering van Nieuw Bestuur - Dutch Circular Leadership was Talitha Muusse, Generatie Expert, spreker, dagvoorzitter en oprichter van Blikverruimers, het eerste opleidingsprogramma in Nederland voor Young Professionals die toezichthouder of commissaris willen worden. Ook was er weer een speciale vertegenwoordiger van de jonge generatie met een brandende vraag aan deze twee toezichthouders. De wereld is in transitie: het tijdperk van maken, gebruiken en weggooien, van lineaire groei is eindig. Simpelweg, omdat we maar 1 planeet hebben. De beweging van lineair naar circulair is ingezet. Voor die transitie is een nieuwe manier van besturen nodig. Bij circulaire business, hoort een circulair bestuur. Hoe gaat de blauwdruk van het circulaire besturen er uit zien? Wat zijn de Nederlandse invalshoeken op het gebied van circulair besturen? Wie zijn de voorlopers, de game-changers binnen Nederland? Op 28 november 2019 organiseert NieuwBestuur de Dutch Circular Leadership Conference. In aanloop maken wij een reeks radioprogramma's, waarin telkens bestuurders uit één sector centraal staan, zoals zorg, onderwijs en energie. Deze aflevering van NieuwBestuur Dutch Circular Leadership werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door CIRCL.

Mike serves as Head of Data Science at Uber ATG and lecturer for UC Berkeley iSchool Data Science master’s program. Mike has led several teams of Data Scientists in the bay area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust and Takt, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale, and Chief Science Officer for Galvanize he oversaw all data science product development and created the MS in Data Science program in partnership with UNH. Mike began his career in academia serving as a mathematics teaching fellow for Columbia University and graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. His early research focused on developing the epsilon-anchor methodology for resolving both an inconsistency he highlighted in the dynamics of Einstein’s general relativity theory and the convergence of “large N” Monte Carlo simulations in Statistical Mechanics’ universality models of criticality phenomena. In this episode, Michael talks about how he accidentally got into data and his work with simulation. Then, Michael discusses his background in data science product development and data science education. He reveals all the mistakes he made with his transition from academics to industry. Later, Michael tells us what attracted him to data science education and how he balances industry projects with his teachings. Rapid growth is a challenge with technology management because your skillset will get rusty as the technology advances. Lastly, Michael talks fake news, bootstrapping, and Fake or Fact. In This Episode: [00:20] Michael accidentally got into data [02:15] About Michael Tamir [03:40] Transition to industry [06:40] Software engineering challenges [08:45] Data Science Education [15:15] Adaptive learning [17:15] Team management [19:05] Challenges with rapid growth [24:25] Fake news [27:25] Toughest challenge [28:50] Fake or Fact [31:20] Listener questions Mike's quotes from the episode: “You have to be really careful about what you do and what you do not teach in order to make sure students are successful in the long-term.” “Decisions are going to be best made by those who are closest to the ground.” “You’re not going to be the expert in every group you are managing.” “I take full responsibility for any failures with the algorithm.” “Most of my time is spent on my day job.” “Find out what you enjoy about data science skills; find the role that is looking for those skills.” “I enjoy the science and making sure we are asking the questions in a scientifically sound way.” Connect: Twitter - https://twitter.com/MikeTamir LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketamir/ Website - http://www.fakeorfact.org Now you can support Data Futurology on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology Thank you to our sponsors: UNSW Master of Data Science Online: studyonline.unsw.edu.au Datasource Services: datasourceservices.com.au or email Will Howard on will@datasourceservices.com.au Fyrebox - Make Your Own Quiz! And as always, we appreciate your Reviews, Follows, Likes, Shares and Ratings. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/datafuturology/message

In this episode, we catch up with the President & CEO of the company who won the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Global Content Protection Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award, where we talk about DRM and its ever-changing role in the video industry. Mark Donnigan: 00:00 This episode on DRM was so meaty, that we decided to jump right into a nine minute segment of Dror talking with Christopher Levy, who is President and CEO of BuyDRM, about how DRM technology fragmentation came to be, and the strategies behind DRM as a platform lock in. After this extended clip, we resumed the rest of the interview. You will definitely want to keep listening. Here's Dror and Christopher Levy. Dror Gill: 00:35 This is really an interesting trend you're talking about. On one hand, you have these silos, and the silos include the software platforms, the hardware devices, the content, and the DRM mechanism, which is made by a certain, by a specific company. Now, some of these companies have interest only in parts of this type of ecosystem. For example, Samsung have devices, they have a software platform, they don't have their own DRM, and they don't have much content of their own. So, now this collaboration with Apple is bringing more content, a lot more content, to Samsung devices, and bringing a lot more devices to Apple's content. We all know, all of you know, the rumors about Apple expanding their content service to be much wider than it is today, so it really makes sense. Dror Gill: 01:37 The topic you raise of which DRM will be used to enable this collaboration or cross-streaming of content between platform is really a very interesting issue. Another point you mentioned, which, you know, I can really resonate with, is the fact that standardization has happened across the video ecosystem in things, in components such as codex, packaging, controller mechanisms, manifests, things like that. And, DRM, although there have been attempts to standardize DRM, there has always been some internal component of that DRM that remained proprietary. That remained part of a closed, in siloed ecosystem such as PlayReady and Widevine, and this always struck me as kind of odd that everything else is standardized, and even the you know, mechanisms of exchanging keys in DRM's are defining DRM protocols. Dror Gill: 03:08 Everything is standardized but finally, the key. Those very large companies do not want to give up the key. The key is what they control, and it is the key of opening the content, but also the key to the whole ecosystem, and platform which enables their own platforms to grow. Dror Gill: 03:31 My question is, and referring to the fact that you also said that more and more layers or components of DRM are being standardized. Do you see somewhere in our near future that finally this content protection component will also be fully standardized, and in the same way that we're now having the harmonization of HLS and DASH with CMF, have harmonization of different DRM systems, and no single company would control those, this key to the industry? Christopher Levy: 04:10 You make a really good point that, you know, in essence DRM and Codec have had similar kind of evolutions over time. If you look specifically at the DRM industry, and not to make a short story long, but to kind of paint a picture of why we're at, where we're at, you've got an odd mix of singularities that it would seem would leave almost no possibility that there would be a marketplace for DRM where their companies would have to pay for it, or that companies would continue to invest in it. Christopher Levy: 04:46 I mean, if you fall way back to the beginning of the invention of DRM per se, as we know it, you fall way back to a meeting between Intertrust and Microsoft in, I think late 1999, where they agreed they were going to collaborate on some stuff. But then, at some point when Reciprocal launched, and decided that they were gonna partner close with Microsoft, Intertrust made an offer to Microsoft." Hey, give us two hundred and fifty million dollars, and license our technology," and a certain gentleman at Microsoft made the decision with his team to say, no. Only to later than lose a multi-billion dollar lawsuit to Intertrust, and Bill Gates wrote them a check that later allowed them then to go pursue every single company in the world that uses DRM. And so now, you've got Intertrust, who has a DRM, Marlin, that nobody uses in the U.S., only uses it in China, but Intertrust doesn't have a browser or an operating system. But, they own all the intellectual property around DRM, and so Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Sony, anyone in the world who touches DRM has had to take a license from Intertrust. Christopher Levy: 06:00 But, then Intertrust, wasn't able to be successful with their own DRM technology, because, as I mentioned, they're locked out when it comes to having a browser or an operating system. So, they actually have somewhat abandoned Marlin, and moved to support Google, Apple, and Microsoft's DRM's. But then, you look at them and you say, "Okay, what would drive these companies to integrate such, so they an be interoperable?" Because that's kind of what we're talking about here, is how are Samsung and Apple gonna interop, but how is that gonna help everyone? Including HEVC, and what you find out is, that you know, DRM was clearly created. When I say created, when it was commercialized by Apple, Google, and Microsoft, it was obviously done on two kinda bifurcated paths. Christopher Levy: 06:46 One, to satisfy potential looming lawsuits related to record labels, and studios, and artists, and creators, and content owners, pointing a finger at these large companies, saying your technology platforms are massive piracy platforms. Secondly, it was done as a platform play, to get you to use the platform. I mean if we look back at PlayReady. PlayReady was a technology that was completely driven to lock you in to using Windows based technologies, and Microsoft based technologies. Christopher Levy: 07:16 Now, if you pull that out, if you pull Intertrust, and Microsoft completely out of the DRM discussion, and you just look at Apple and Google, who really are driving the entire industry now. They both have been using DRM to date, and on both those paths. To satisfy the lawyers, and to satisfy the lock in, and that is just where we're at, but, now the market has gotten so saturated. Christopher Levy: 07:42 Google has not been successful selling devices. The Google Chromebook is a disaster. The Google Pixel phones are not selling as well as Google would expect they would sell, as the inventor, and owner of Android. So, now you get down to, okay, DRM previously was a legal thing, it was a lock in thing, but now, what is it? And I think what we're starting to see come to light is, that with the movement of common encryption, by you know, different various parties, the movement towards CMAF, the movement away ASCTR encryption, that was designed in PlayReady, into CBC encryption, we're really close to having a CMF, CMAF file, that using common encryption would have decryptors for Fairplay, PlayReady, and Widevine. Christopher Levy: 08:37 So, we're getting very close to that. A deal like this, that Apple and Amazon have struck. It really could be the gas to the match. I sense that there's gonna be a push through here, the technology, Apple's Fairplay has gotten a lot of deployment experience now, so there's a big community contributing back to Apple. Christopher Levy: 08:57 Apple has a very small team, if you knew the number of people working a DRM in Google and Apple, you would be shocked, and yet, they're converging. And, I think the reason they're converging, is that, you know, the consumer in the end, is dictating what they want, and consumers have made it very clear they want, you know, Samsung smart TV's. They want Apple TV's. They want Android tablets. They want Apple IPhones. Christopher Levy: 09:24 I think both of them now, are gonna take a little play out of Steve Jobs DRM playbook, and probably find a way to cross pollinate their businesses, because Apple's not in the search business, you know. They try and interact in the home marketplace, but Google already owns the home, outside of Alexa. So, it's interesting, you know, to just clearly take one stab at it. I would say that we are headed towards complete inter op ability and that has a lot of benefits. Christopher Levy: 09:57 It benefits operators, in cost reductions. It benefits consumers, in less confusion and playback stops. But mostly, it's gonna give Google a shot at, you know, exposing their offering to Apple's audience and vice versa. Announcer: 10:15 The Video Insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video as seen through the eyes of a second generation Codec nerd, and a marketing guy who knows what Iframes and macro blocks are. Here are your hosts, Mark Donnigan, and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 10:36 Let's rejoin the interview with Christopher Levy from BuyDRM. Christopher Levy: 10:41 To kind of just give a quick summary, the company is one of the dark horses of the content protection, and DRM business. We have a pretty well known brand as a company. We have extended our platform out pretty widely in the business. So we have a Multi-DRM platform called KeyOS, and we have a couple of different components of it. Christopher Levy: 11:03 We have the encryption tools, we have the licensing tools, and we have the player tools, and we're integrated with about fifty different encoder server player companies in the marketplace. We service some of the major brands that you might be familiar with, like BBC iplayer BBC sounds, Sony Crackle, Showtime OTT, Blizzard, Warner Brothers, and we do a lot of work that we're not really at the liberty to discuss. Christopher Levy: 11:30 But we do a lot of pre-release work as well. So, a lot of the focus in the business is on consumer media, but we also have a pretty significant business that's, you know, pre-release. So, Digital Daily, Screeners, Academy voters. We are very active in the Academy voter space. We currently host Apple Fairplay certificates for the five largest media companies in the world today. Some of which you're familiar with, I'm sure. Christopher Levy: 11:57 To kind of fast forward, the company is privately owned. We are profitable. We own the company, myself, and the Chairman, Ron Baker, is my partner in the business, and we have different development teams based around the world. We've got our core team in Riga, Latvia. We have a team in Moscow, and a couple of people in St. Petersburg, and then we also have some people in Paris that work on our Android and IOS SDK's and our CTO is in Vancouver, and the company and myself, and the sales marketing management teams are all based in Austin, Texas, and yeah. Christopher Levy: 12:34 Just to fast forward, we, late last year, for the first time ever, in the Frost and Sullivan Global Content Protection Report. This report is, you know, it's kind of a bigger picture report. It's kind of what they call content protection includes casts and DRM, so we are listed in the report with some of the heavy weights like you know NAGRA or Detto. But we were included in that report, and we ultimately were selected as the entrepreneurial company of the year for our variety of different business models. Christopher Levy: 13:07 You know, we pride ourselves on having a very strong core DRM platform. But, we also now license our technology, so we've expanded into India, and all over Europe. We have several large major gaming companies, media companies that now run our software in their own data center, in their own cloud. So, that kind of vision shift in the company, I think is what got us over the goal line with the award. Christopher Levy: 13:30 But, we're just you know, wrapping up one of our best years ever, if not our best year ever, last year. And, we're just kind of waiting to see all the different crazy announcements that come out of CES, you mentioned our team is there on site. But, I'm closely watching the announcements that Apple made about partnering with Samsung in LG, because it creates some very interesting possible synergies that all of us can benefit from. Mark Donnigan: 13:56 Definitely. We're tracking that very closely as well. I mean, let's start there. Christopher Levy: 14:03 Well, you know, the DRM industry at large is very interesting, because it has become a bit of the political third rail of digital media, as I'm sure you all know. At this point, each DRM technology is siloed into a global technology company. So, if you start left to right based on the kind of market, you know, availability of the product, you had Microsoft with PlayReady. PlayReady runs in IE and EDGE, and on Windows natively. You've got Google with Widevine that runs in Chrome, primarily on Windows and Android, but also runs in IOS. It's the one technology that runs on all three platforms, and you've got Apple's Apple Fairplay DRM, which really only works in Safari on MacOS, and Safari on IOS, and it works for tvOS. It will also work possibly on other products, we may find out here soon. Christopher Levy: 15:11 I have to be careful what I say, but to kind of track what's going on, you know this announcement that Apple made about being able to move their business offering over to other platforms, I think, was largely driven by the tipping point of the iPhone sales over the past couple of years. It's no secret that Apple's last couple of iPhone product lines have not sold that well, so that's created kind of a tipping point in the company where now, they're trying to figure out, okay, where do we go next? And clearly Apple has a massive media empire. Christopher Levy: 15:45 They're one of the first companies to ever have a license to just about every song, and movie, and TV show that consumers in America are familiar with. And, they obviously have a globally strong brand. But, because DRM has been a political silo, today, you know, iTunes doesn't appear on Android. It doesn't appear on Tizen. It's not on Ruku. It's not on Smart TV's. But, that is going to change, and the question is, how will it change? Christopher Levy: 16:13 And to kind of give an example, if you take a look at Roku, who has gone through a similar transition where they were a streaming puck company, they were a streaming stick company. Then, Amazon entered the streaming stick company, and entered with Amazon prime, and Roku then suddenly decides, now, it's a content company. But, it also wants to get eyeballs and users onto it's platform, regardless of the direction it's going, and so Roku had to go. To support YouTube, they had to work with Google to implement Widevine DRM on the Roku platform, which previously was a PlayReady, and Verimatrix platform, natively and solely, and so that model where Roku kind of stepped over the fence and implemented Google's DRM to get YouTube is an interesting example of maybe what's going on with Samsung. We don't totally know yet. What Samsung and LG are doing, and we have our feelers out, and of course, we've talked to Apple pretty extensively about it, because we have a very close relationship with Apple as one of their frontline partners in the industry. Christopher Levy: 17:18 But, I think it plays out one of two ways, and it is somewhat DRM dependent, and Codec dependent, because of the fact that Apple is either going to allow Samsung to distribute iTunes on their platform, or really Apple is gonna distribute, I say, because it's an open app marketplace. But, Apple has a decision to make, and it's, do they deploy it using WideVine, and reformat their application platform to use Widevine DRM instead of Fairplay, or does Samsung jump the shark and implement Fairplay? Christopher Levy: 17:54 Because at the core of all these DRM's, the encryption decryption components are almost identical. At this point, all three DRM's us AES one twenty in encryption. There are some various different tweaks there, with regards to, the encryption mode CBC, verses CBR, but we're starting to see some standardization. I'm sure you're familiar with, with around formats. I personally believe it could go either way, or it could go both ways, because if Samsung were to implement Fairplay on their newer platforms, that would create a whole new synergy between Samsung and Apple that, oddly enough, hasn't been destroyed by the multi-billion dollar IP lawsuits that have gone back and forth between the two of them as vendors and competitors. Christopher Levy: 18:40 But on the other hand, I could see, you know, Apple just wanting to push it out through Widevine, because if they got iTunes to work with Widevine, and I mean iTunes video is what I'm focused on, then the majority of the relatively, recently shipped Samsung TV's, more than likely, can all support iTunes. Which would be kind of cosmic shift in these siloed offerings that all fall back to DRM. Am I right? I mean, Apple's got iTunes on Fairplay. Google's got Google Play on Widevine. So, it's an interesting thing that's gonna happen. I am very curious myself. Mark Donnigan: 19:21 It does sound like really good news ultimately. It's interesting your observation about, you know, the platform lock in. I'm thinking back to when I was active in the DECE, which became the ultraviolet, you know, which, was really revolutionary at the time. Because, you know, back then, you consume content from a particular store, if that was Vudu, for example. You were locked into Vudu, right. You know if Vudu wasn't on a particular device, then I was also locked in to the devices I could watch it on. Mark Donnigan: 20:00 So,the consumer now is going to enjoy the benefit of this truly, any content, anywhere, on any device, at any time. You know, so, that's all very good things. You know Christopher, I was reading your blog and by the way, listeners should definitely go to the blog, why don't you tell them again, I just I don't recall the actual url. Tell them the address of your blog. Christopher Levy: 20:29 Yeah, it's really simple to remember it's: thedrmblog.com. Mark Donnigan: 20:35 That's it. Thedrmblog.com that's awesome. Yeah, kinda like thevideoinsiders.com, that's right. No, Christopher, I want to get your comment on, I think it's your latest post, where you're talking about HTML5, kind of the App-less approach, and you know, I appreciated the article. Mark Donnigan: 21:01 It was presenting a little bit of the pro's and the con's of, and I think you were doing it in the context of inflight entertainment. And, I know that people, if you're running a video service, if you're Amazon, if you're Netflix, you know, even if you're Vudu, Hulu, whatever, you know, they have to maintain up, hundred, you know, multiple hundreds of different player SDK's. You know, it's incredibly complex. So, the idea that you could perhaps, just scale that way back, and perhaps just go to an HTML5 app, is interesting. So, maybe you can share with the listeners, both, your thoughts, and the pro's and the con's, and give kind of a recap of that blog post. Christopher Levy: 21:48 You bet. And, I mean clearly, that obviously, is also effected by the evolution of Codec, and HEVC and others, but there's this trend, and the in-flight entertainment space is an interesting creature. I've spent the past two years researching this space because previously BuyDRM had a bunch of clients in the space, but they were through third parties. So, you know, we had a business with Lufthansa, Technology Solutions, where they were deploying our technology in Virgin Airlines, LL Airlines, Lufthansa Airlines. Christopher Levy: 22:24 They put the technology on Greyhound buses. Post Bus, which is the largest bus company in Germany, and we also have a little bit of business with companies like Global Eagle, and some others, and we started to look at, you know what's the opportunity for us to enter the space directly. Christopher Levy: 22:41 So, we started going, attending shows, and doing research, talking to people. So, the way that in-flight entertainment systems make it on airplanes is different than you might expect. The airline industry has about four conglomerates that all, kind of, control what you call, you know, in-flight experience. Now, the in- flight experience, you know, the video piece is what we're focused on, but it includes interiors. It includes catering. It includes environment. It includes wifi. It includes being green. Entertainment's one component of it, but it's locked in with all these other kind of aspects of the business, and so therefore, it's treated in a very, what I would say, in a very institutional manner. Christopher Levy: 23:19 To date, in-flight systems have been wired, and they're in your head rest, or it's a fold up screen if you're a business, and you're first class, it extends out a little booth you're in, and you're limited to watch videos that are in a dedicated platform that's hardwired on to the plane, and that was the experience. Christopher Levy: 23:38 Then, along came satellite. Then, along came in-flight wifi. And, IFEC, you know, in-flight entertainment. The connected version with wires, suddenly pivoted to in- flight entertainment overnight. Which means wireless, and then DRM became a big topic. But, what you started to see DRM really drive, was the issue of, do airlines want to maintain premium content apps for their clients so they can watch content? Or do they just want them to open their browser, and get on the wifi network, sign in, and then have access to all the content through a browser? Christopher Levy: 24:12 There's this trend in the business where a lot of companies have gone the direction of the browser, so like, if you get on a Southwest Airlines flight, you want to watch Dish TV live, you know, the implementation is there, on the plane. There's a dish receiver on the top of the plane that's got multiple different LMB's. Each channel is switchable. They got an encoder on the plane that takes the MPEG transport stream coming down over the dish, converts it, encrypts it, shoots it out of a server, on the plane to your browser. And that's easy, and it's fun. And it works, and it's especially effective for live TV. Christopher Levy: 24:47 Stepping away from that, when you start to talk about doing things that are more efficient, and I think where consumers are headed, which is downloads, offline playback, bring your own device, the browser kind of starts to die because it doesn't work offline well. It doesn't do downloads well, because each browser has a protected limited amount of storage on the device it's running for security reasons. And browsers, the implementation, most players in them are not that efficient, and so what you find is that the browser is quicker, it's faster, it's dirtier, it's cheaper, but it opens up the door for a bunch of fails on the consumer side. Which is, decreased battery life, forced to use streaming, which uses the wifi radio which is decreased battery life, increased overhead on the aircraft. Christopher Levy: 25:43 You don't get offline playback or download, so you can't download a stream and play it in a browser effectively offline. And lastly, consumers are very comfortable with their devices. Like, if I'm given the option of watching my ten point seven iPad pro with my bose qc thirty-five-two headphones, I'm gonna pick that every time over plugging some crappy, hand wiped headphones that hardly fit, that sound terrible, into a jack that's crackling, so I can watch a screen that has a four inch thick screen protector on it. Christopher Levy: 26:20 The airline industries are trying to figure out, okay, well what do we do, because we're not OTT operators, but how do we make clients happy? And so, they're caught in a dilemma right now. Now, you know, I see it going two ways. I frankly think the live TV will continue to be in the browser. Remember, DRM adds some overhead cause you gotta decrypt the content and add some CPU overhead therefore decrease battery life. Christopher Levy: 26:44 When you move to an app, I think apps are gonna be a lot more prevalent for VOD content and shifted viewing, and TV viewing. The last thing that's going on, that the airlines don't totally understand, and I've spent a lot of time trying to educate them about, and this is kind of a tangential issue, but I'm sure you can understand, is that every single passenger that's on an airplane, more than likely, and I said within a ninety percent or higher realm of operation, especially on International and business flights, have a Netflix, Itunes ,Google Play, Hulu account. And now, with DRM they can download all the movies and TV shows they want to their device, and just go on the plane, and have every blockbuster, every TV show, every highlight, every documentary, every podcast, that they want to. Access on their own device, and use it in their own way in their own time, in their own comfort. Christopher Levy: 27:42 So, that's kind of the big divide right now, is companies are trying to figure out, well, we can save time and money on not having to build IFE apps, and just go to the browser, but we lose a bunch of things that consumers might want. There's a couple of other things which are also driving that, and those are accessibility issues which I think, will drive a lot of companies be forced to maintain apps, and those accessibility issues. Christopher Levy: 28:03 Accessibility use on devices, you know, iPhone and Android have different functions for people that have disabilities or motor challenged, and aren't, you know, able to use the device the same way they would use an IFE platform where they gotta touch the screen in front of them, you know, reach up, and et cetera, et cetera. Christopher Levy: 28:24 Secondly is multi-track audio. Thirdly, is multi-language caption support. I think those are the three issues, are more gracefully handled within applications. Christopher Levy: 28:34 Lastly, I think applications are more likely to support advanced codecs, like HEVC, sooner. Because the applications are running on devices that are being modernized, updated, purchased more widely across a wider range of markets. And so, the people that design the player SDK's and apps, and the operating systems in the devices, are much more likely to embrace newer codecs like HEVC, then browser operators are. Because browsers update at a crawl. Christopher Levy: 29:09 So, I mean, Google is the fastest browser updater in the business. But then, if you look at Safari, and IE and Edge, it's like, you know, waiting for your Grandmother to mail your birthday present. You get it like, four months later. But you're happy you got it, so I think that's the last kind of hidden thing, is that you know, within premium apps on devices, in a bring your own device model there's a greater chance that you're gonna get higher quality content sooner with DRM than you would in a set top box, or in a seat back implementation. Mark Donnigan: 29:40 Yeah this is a really important discussion, I think for any of our listeners who are planning video services, and maybe, sort of haven't been able to do that next level of research and are thinking, "hey, you know, I can just appoint HTML five, it will reduce complexity, it will get me to market faster." Those are all true, but you have to know what you're also not gonna be able to deliver to your customer. Mark Donnigan: 30:07 One of the other things, that I didn't hear you say, maybe I missed it, but I know one hundred percent, you know to be true, is that content licensing in some cases prohibits for example, HD in a browser, or certain browsers or in certain configurations. So yeah, you may be able to deliver in to that browser, but you're limited to SD, you know? 480p or maybe 720p, but not 1080p, so you're not able to deliver even the full quality. Mark Donnigan: 30:41 Now, in-flight entertainment, the bandwidths are so low that you know, I think 1080p is not very common anyway, but the point is, is that those are even things that you have to think about. Christopher Levy: 30:53 Well, a researcher David McCannon, he's pretty famous, he's a young guy over in the UK who previously, was responsible for a pretty significant kind of white hat hack that started to turn ugly. He's a pretty brilliant guy. He published some stuff on Monday of last week that indicated that he had breached Widevine's level three DRM. Which is the lowest level of DRM, mostly used in the Chrome browser, now it appears that what he breached, wasn't exactly Google's technology, but a third party[inaudible 00:31:30] technology that Google was using to wrap up their content decryption module that sits inside Chrome. Christopher Levy: 31:37 But, it's a good example of where, devices, especially Android devices, you know, they have hardware in them that allows hardware assisted key management. So, they have a hardware manage black box that sits on the device that is basically impenetrable. And so, that's another benefit of using devices. Christopher Levy: 32:02 Apple has the same thing, so Fairplay on IOS, taps into a trusted computing module that's on the chip that's in the iPhone or iPad. Same thing with Android with Google's DRM, you can get level one Widevine playback for HD, and 4K content on the device and then you can cast that out to a much bigger screen if you want over Chromecast, or over Airplay for example. So that's, that's another example where, you know, apps are much more secure than play back in the browser. Christopher Levy: 32:34 So, what has to happen now is Google's gotta go modify, and what they're in the process of, from what I understand, of updating their content decryption module for Widevine and Chrome, so that their level three use, which is what most of the operators use, is safe. Christopher Levy: 32:51 But again, they're operating on a non-native platform to them. Windows, in the most cases. Widevine also runs in Chrome on, on, on MacOS, but in those browser models, browsers are sitting on top of operating systems that the operator doesn't always own, and so that's again another benefit to using Premium apps. Mark Donnigan: 33:15 This is an awesome lead in to a discussion about AV1, and DRM support. I don't know, have you had the chance to do some research around you know DRM support for AV1? Christopher Levy: 33:30 Yeah, I mean, we've been following it pretty closely. We are really closely aligned with some companies that are working pretty seriously on it, I mean. We're very aligned with Google, and Bitmovin, and Amazon and Intel, and some of the other people that are involved in it. Christopher Levy: 33:47 But again, the big question is, at what point does AV1 start to appear in content in browsers with DRM's? And I guess, the problem that we kinda have right now, is that that hasn't really happened, and they've done some kind of stuff playing around with Firefox, to play AV1 content. But really, it's gonna be up to, again, it's gonna be up to Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Right? Because they are the ones that own the DRM, and the browser, and so again, you've got a weird. It's not a simple economy of supply and demand, it's, there's this third, you know, Robby Botter's hidden hand that's influencing who is gonna implement what. Christopher Levy: 34:43 You've got HEVC, which is widely deployed, heavily proven in the marketplace. It's gone through some royalty and licensing politics that are pretty consistent that all codecs go through. I kinda wish sometime, the encoding business had the same oligarchy god that DRM has, where Intertrust can just licensed everybody and be done with it. Christopher Levy: 35:07 But, HEVC in comparison to AV1, in HEVC there are tons of documents on you know, Apple's developer page, Google's developer portal, Microsoft's developer portal. Showing how to use their DRM with HEVC on different platforms, and there are numerous, numerous gibset manufacturers as you well know, and which we provided you a list of, that support it. And also, its supported in a lot of the browsers already, if not all of them. Christopher Levy: 35:36 AV1, on the other hand, is kind of nowhere with any of that yet, but it seems to be, you know, a little less encumbered with the intellectual property issues. But frankly, I feel like as it gets closer to being deployed, and people start to really get their hooks in to it, we're probably going to see the same thing happen to AV1 that happened to HEVC. But, I think it's gonna happen before it ever gets widely deployed, in my opinion. Dror Gill: 36:06 You think, when you say the thing that's gonna happen are you referring to patent accusations or patent infringement? Christopher Levy: 36:21 Yeah, I try not to pick a side, because you know let's face it. If you picked our entire industry, the two most researched dollar intensive things are codecs and DRM. You could build a Codec, and at the end of spending millions, throw it in the trash, because it didn't scale. You could build a DRM, and in the end, because you weren't doing a freedom to operate analysis ahead of time, find out that you built a great technology, but it's never gonna see the light of day in the market because you are infringing on someone else's IP. Christopher Levy: 36:55 I think what's going on with HEVC is kind of normal, right? Like, all these companies invested in it. And clearly, they intend to see their return on the investment, and they're looking at what happened with H- two-sixty-four, the patent pull stuff, all the, the kind of facts that we all know that there's quite a few companies in the business that aren't reporting royalties properly, and have kind of jumped the shark there. Christopher Levy: 37:20 So, I think HEVC has a better chance than AV1, if I were to weigh the two. Just because, it's, you know, all the points I've mentioned; much further widely deployed, chip support, browser support, DRM support. AV1 doesn't have any of that, and it doesn't have the encumbrances of potential legal battles, yet. But, I don't know. What do you guys think is gonna happen, when it comes time to walk the aisle with AV1? Dror Gill: 37:46 Indeed, nobody is giving you identification against any patent lawsuits for AV1. The companies involved in developing the codec itself, have signed agreements that they will not switch other, or the users of AV1, but this doesn't mean that somebody else will not claim any IP rights on algorithms used in AV1. Dror Gill: 38:18 And, on the other hand, the conclusion that we reached is that, the fact, it is well know that AV1, right now, is much more computationally complex then HEVC. Right now, it's like a hundred times more complex, and even the people involved in AV1 development have told us that in the end, when everything is optimized, it will still be five to ten time more complex than HEVC. Dror Gill: 38:49 And, we think that one of the reasons for that is all of that side stepping of patents. All of these techniques, which to be efficient in terms of bitrate consumption, as HEVC, but cannot use the same tools, and therefore I have to go in very weird ways around those protected methods in order to achieve the same result. And this is part of the problem, and why it is so computationally complex. Dror Gill: 39:26 Recently, I've come up with yet another conspiracy theory after hearing that a lot of the decisions made, somebody wrote this in a blog post. A lot of the decisions that were made during the development of AV1 were driven by the hardware companies were members of the AOM. Christopher Levy: 39:47 I was just gonna say that, Dror, is that A. There's not free lunch whether it's physics, mathematics, which is you know, part of physics in technology, in relationships, in religion, and that doesn't surprise me. Christopher Levy: 40:02 But, what I was gonna point out, was Occam's razor says, "the simplest answer is more than likely, the answer," is correct. I would say, that is what's driving it, because let's face it, I mean, there's not a person working on it that doesn't benefit from that. I'm pretty sure that Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, all the other companies sell computing software, and technology and silicon, and intel, so I can't imagine why that wouldn't be the case. Christopher Levy: 40:32 But, you make a good point, that regardless of the fact that their trying to ignore the three laws of thermodynamics. I imagine they are, have a strategy for how they're going to sort that out, but the question is, will it really work? And, the only thing too, is if they don't adopt DRM into their message share pretty soon, and start showing examples of AV1 content with DRM, it's just gonna be another Ultraviolet. It's gonna be shiny. It's gonna sparkle. It's gonna have all the right looks and feels. It's got a cool logo. The stuff on the side is really cool, but will people use it, or is it just gonna be another augmented reality, virtual reality three-d, a year from now? Mark Donnigan: 41:14 You know, I sometimes find myself feeling a little agitated or sitting in a conference, and I'm listening to a panel, and I'm hearing either a panelist or even Mozilla, you know, saying, you know," it's coming, player support is coming. It's just months away. It's gonna be in the browser." And then they start, and I'm going, so, really? So, Sony pictures, and Warner Brothers is gonna allow you to play their movies inside a browser without DRM? Yeah. Let's see how that works. You know? Like? Then you've got up on the stage usually, or you hear speakers, and they're throwing off big service names, and Netflix is heavily behind AV1, so I am not naïve that Netflix is having these discussions, I'm sure. Mark Donnigan: 42:04 But the point is, that DRM is DRM. It has to be implemented. It has to, to work with the standards the content owners accept. But the fact that you don't hear DRM, it's sort of just... it's almost like, oh yeah, yeah. It's gonna be in the browser. It's gonna be supported. I'm like, that's just not how it works. It will come later. It's coming, don't worry about it.[inaudible 00:42:29] Christopher Levy: 42:28 I mean, nevermind the battle that was fought at the W3C by all the media companies just named, and a hundred more, along with Google, and Apple, and Microsoft to implement DRM in the browser, because they know that's where people want to view content on their computers, whether it be desktop or laptop. Christopher Levy: 42:46 But, they didn't do all the work, and engineering to get MSC and CDM's working to just all of the sudden, say, "see we're gonna throw it out the window because there's this new Codec in town." Mark Donnigan: 43:00 Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, wow. Well, I'm looking at our time here. This has been an amazing discussion Christopher, and we absolutely, need to have you back because we didn't get to talk about players, and I know you guys are active, and I know also in the player development. So, I think, Dror, what do you think? I think a part two should be players. Dror Gill: 43:24 You know, Mark, Christopher did make this analogy between Codecs and DRM in one of the first episodes we told. Like the story of the Codecs, how they've been developed and DRM is also really a fascinating story, and even more because it's beyond standards that spam dozens of companies. It's really a few companies holding the power, holding the key, and that's also the DRM key. In the whole industry, and how it's gonna develop in the future I think would be really interesting to see whether we are going for true standards, finally, and a much easier life for consumers to play their content anywhere, or do we still have few years of struggling? So, really, thank you very much, Christopher. Mark Donnigan: 44:16 Christopher, your website is Buydrm.com, correct? Christopher Levy: 44:23 That's correct, and the blog is thedrmblog.com and once you guys get this podcast up and done, we'll go ahead and feature it on the blog, and I just wanted to quickly mention that in the next couple of days, we're gonna have a new blog post come out about deploying secure SDK's. And, we tackle a lot of the issues we talked about here in a generalist way. We do talk about our own SDK players, but I'll notify you when that blog is up. I think your readers will find it interesting. Christopher Levy: 44:53 We're also have an HEVC update on our blog, but after today once you post the final edited blog, then we'll go ahead and roll out our update that I provided you with regards to kinda where the market's at as well. Mark Donnigan: 45:09 Awesome. Awesome. Sounds good. Okay, well, we want to thank you again for listening to this incredibly engaging episode of the video insiders and until next time, what do we say Dror? Encode on? Is that our new..? Dror Gill: 45:29 Encode on! Encode happily! Mark Donnigan: 45:30 Encode happily, we've got to come up with something. Dror Gill: 45:32 Yeah, we need to invent something like, you can never compress too much. Mark Donnigan: 45:36 That's right, you can never compress too much, but you must preserve all the original quality. Alright, have a great day everyone. Thank you for listening. Christopher Levy: 45:45 Thank you Announcer: 45:47 Thank you for listening to the Video Insiders podcast. A production of Beamer limited. To begin using Beamer's Codecs today, go to Beamer.com/free to receive up to one hundred hours of no cost HEVC and H.264 transcoding every month.

With digital interactions continuing to consume an ever-increasing portion of our personal and professional lives, the ability to determine the validity and authenticity of data is of critical importance. This week on State of Identity I sit down with the founder of Intertrust’s new project that utilizes a combination of blockchain technology and trusted assertions to create a digital trust infrastructure capable of scaling globally to meet this incredible challenge.

Host: Cameron D’Ambrosi – @dambrosi Linkedin Twitter   Guests: David Maher – CTO, Intertrust   Links: How to Trust a Digital Photo: a Blockchain Based Proposal The post TIDALs: A New Digital Trust Infrastructure appeared first on One World Identity.

Mike Tamir is the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG. He is a leader in data science, specializing in deep learning and distributed scalable machine learning, and he’s also a faculty member at UC Berkeley.   Mike has led several teams of Data Scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust and Formation, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale, and Chief Science Officer for Galvanize, where he oversaw all data science product development. He also created an MS degree program in Data Science in partnership with UNH.   Mike began his career in academia serving as a mathematics teaching fellow for Columbia University and graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. His early research focused on developing the epsilon-anchor methodology for resolving both an inconsistency he highlighted in the dynamics of Einstein’s general relativity theory and the convergence of “large N” Monte Carlo simulations in Statistical Mechanics’ universality models of criticality phenomena.   The focus of today’s conversation was on his fake news detection AI project called Faker Fact.   Show notes:   0:00 First, a life update from AJ. Read about his new opportunity in Portland here on his blog. 5:28 What is the evolutionary explanation for why a human’s capacity for careful, rational thought often takes a back seat to emotion? Explained in a comic on the project website. 6:17 Emotions often win over rational though, but as a result, it can be difficult to think clearly on issues we’re passionate about. 7:05 Why people should be aware of their emotional biases, even though it’s not our fault that we have them. 7:50 Why Facebook deleted over a billion fake accounts recently, and why fake accounts, clickbait, blatantly false content, and other forms of fake news are everywhere on social media. 9:10 What mechanisms can we put in place to counterbalance the parts of our nature that compel us to create and engage with content on an emotional level? 9:51 Since a majority of our information is second-hand, how do we distingush what’s really true? 11:44 How did Mike become motivated to pursue this problem, on top of his full time job at Uber ATG? 12:45 How can we tackle “fake news” without censorship? 16:40 Post-Walter Cronkite era, how do we create a sense of credibility and neutrality in our information? 21:00 Why would it be a mistake if the algorithm learned to only classify right or left wing content as fake news? 22:19 The algorithm only looks at the title and words on a page, not the url. 23:15 How Walt (the FakerFact AI) classifies different types of content. Satire, journalism, etc. 26:46 How do you strike the balance of entertainment and informativeness in content? 31:10 What features and characteristics defines each different category of content that Walt identifies? 36:16 What is Walt’s ideal use case? 36:55 You can use the FakerFact Chrome extension to view the “nutrition facts” of the page you’re reading. 37:42 How does research on run-on sentences and other grammatical choices help Walt understand and score an article? 40:34 What techniques were used to train the Walt AI? 42:41 A discussion on the use of wisdom of the crowds in algorithms. 45:30 What makes it difficult to use the wisdom of the crowds when answers are too closely correlated (because of political affiliations or the news cycle?) 46:47 Visit Humanetech.com for tips on regulating your daily notifications and escaping the “24-hour news cycle” to prevent media from controlling your emotions. 50:15 Rapid fire questions! 52:27 Mike’s advice to his 20 year old self. 52:40 What was his best investment in himself? 53:18 The Deep Learning Book a starting point for basic literacy in data science. 53:20 Mike, like lots of guests on this show, makes a distinction between things he believes but couldn’t prove right now, and believing things for no good reason. Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep22 AJ’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/ Mike’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miketamir/ Mike’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeTamir

Duncan Davidson is a multi-time billion-dollar company creator turned venture capitalist. He co-founded Bullpen Capital in Silicon Valley. In this episode, he talks with Christopher Lochhead about the coming robot apocalypse and what to do about it, the impact of universal basic income and whether we should have one, and why machines and people are going to live happily ever after. “There are people building these AI-assisted support systems… What it means is a truck driver who's at least an empathetic character can get plugged into this computer support system, totally different job, and very, very quickly become extremely successful.” - Duncan Davidson Three Things We Learned A history of the Luddites In the early days of automation, people who worked in garment factories lost their jobs when steam engines were installed to run the spinning machines. These people, called the Luddites, complained about their loss and asked for financial assistance for their trouble. The powers that be never listened to them, and they treated this with violence, prompting their exile to a foreign land as criminals. History repeats itself If we look at the history of technology since the Luddite situation back in the 1800's, there's a recurring trend. Every thirty years, a new technology comes along—the steamship, railroad, electricity, cars. People lose their jobs, and they lobby for their rights, but the authorities turn deaf ears to them, and life goes on in the new era. More jobs are created than displaced by new technology Ten times more jobs were created by automation than were lost by the Luddites. They did lose their specific jobs, but because of the new opportunities for other people, nobody else raised concerns. New technology often signals a wonderful time for humanity, and still, there are modern Luddites who will ask after what a truck driver is going to do now that he's lost his job. There has always been the debate of whether any new occurrence of technology will be different than the last. But looking into history's natural course, should we really concern ourselves with the feared robot apocalypse when it's bound to birth ten times more jobs than will be lost? Bio: Duncan Davidson is General Partner at Bullpen Capital where he focuses on forward-leaning technology investments. He is a serial entrepreneur who most notably founded Covad Communications (the leading independent DSL provider, went public and reached a market value of $9B) and Sky Pilot Networks (developer of outdoor wireless mesh systems, acquired by Trillium in 2009 for connectivity to smart meters). He served as the SVP of Business Development at InterTrust and led the IPO in 1999 and the second in 2000 (InterTrust reached a $9B market value in 2000). He spent four years as a managing director at VantagePoint Venture Partners where he focused on digital media and telecom investments including Widevine (acquired by Google) and Livescribe. Prior to Bullpen, he co-founded one of the first mobile social app companies, Xumii, later sold to Myriad Group and now powering over 200M users in the developing world. At Bullpen he focuses on SaaS, blockchain and IoT investments, and is an advisor to or sits on the boards of Drive Motors, Filament, Hologram, Illumeo, SpaceIQ, Verbling and Wag Labs. He received a Sc.B. in physics/math from Brown University, with Honors, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Michigan Law School, where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the Law Review. Links: http://bullpencap.com https://twitter.com/duncandavi https://twitter.com/bullpencap https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncandavi/

In this podcast Mike Tamir (@MikeTamir, Head of #DataScience) talked about building a data science AI team. He shared his AI project (FakerFact.org). He shared the lifecycle of an AI project and some things that leaders could keep in mind to help create a successful data science AI team. This podcast is great for leaders learning to build a strong AI workforce. TIMELINE: 0:28 Micheal's journey. 2:36 Micheal's current role. 3:18 AI and businesses. 5:28 Parameters to consider for AI adoption. 9:30 When do businesses invest in ML resources. 13:20 Tips for candidates in vetting data companies. 16:05 What's the faker fact? 20:45 Getting started on an AI product design. 24:58 Achieving accuracy in data. 27:40 AI the newsmaker and AI the fact-checker. 33:56 Tips for hiring the right data leader for a business. 35:32 Creating a great data science team. 37:19 Challenges in forming a data science team. 39:00 In job training to achieve technological competence. 44:00 Ingredients of a good hire. 47:35 Micheal's secret to success. 50:55 Micheal's favorite reads. 54:20 Key takeaways. Mike's Recommended Read: What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly https://amzn.to/2MaNiuN Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/building-data-science-ai-teams-by-miketamir-uberatg-futureofdata-podcast/ Mike's BIO: Mike serves as Head of Data Science at Uber ATG, UC Berkeley Data Science faculty, and head of Phronesis ML Labs. He has led teams of Data Scientists in the bay area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust and Takt, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale/Sears, and CSO for Galvanize, where he founded the galvanizeU-UNH accredited Masters of Science in Data Science degree and oversaw the company's transformation from co-working space to Data Science organization. Mike's most recent passion in research has involved applying Machine Learning techniques to help combat fake news through the FakerFact.org project About #Podcast: #FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future. Wanna Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ https://analyticsweek.com/ Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: #FutureOfData #DataAnalytics #Leadership #Podcast #BigData #Strategy

In this episode, Barbara Allen, head of employee incentives here at Stephenson Harwood and guest, Tania Bearryman, head of performance and reward management at Intertrust, the global trust, fund and corporate service provider are interviewed by our employment associate Richard Freedman. We find out the answers to the important questions facing employers around funding end-of-service gratuity under the UAE Labour Law.

Host Cameron D'Ambrosi, Intertrust's Rainer Sternfeld and Innogy's Florian Kolb discuss how to build trust between devices on the internet of things while building the decentralized power grid of the future.

Paul Martino is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Bullpen Capital, the fund that finds overlooked companies by understanding biases in venture capital. Paul has led several of Bullpen’s key investments including FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. Prior to forming Bullpen, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy. Before becoming an investor, Paul was the founder of four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust); Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Nuestar).  In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Paul made his way into early stage investing from founding and exiting 4 companies? What was the data that made Paul excited for venture? 2.) First has Paul witnessed the Series A Crunch? What does the crunch mean for founders? How should they navigate it and approach burn rates? How does this affect the fundraising time horizon? How does this affect how much startups should raise? 3.) How does the crunch affect valuation? How does this affect investor expectations of startups pitching them? How does Paul respond to Mike Maples' statement, 'bridge rounds are often because startups have simply not hit the metrics for Series A'? 4.) What would Paul most like to see change in the venture ecosystem? Why does Paul not believe there are enough innovative funds? Why is it so hard for innovative funds to raise from traditional LPs? 5.) What would Paul most like to see change in the LP ecosystem? What was the affect of Accel's Facebook fund on the LP community? Why is that such a problem? Items Mentioned In Today’s Episode:  Paul’s Fave Blog: Matt Ocko Paul’s Fave Book: The New Thought Police Paul's Most Recent Investment: Cleanify As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Paul on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. The Twenty Minute VC is proudly sponsored by Luma, Luma is the world’s first ever Surround WiFi system that brings speed, security and control to the home network. And Unlike traditional routers, Luma comes in a pack of two or three sleek devices to place in different rooms in your home. Luma then creates a mesh network that work together to create an outrageously-fast, ultra-secure Surround WiFi network.  Lastly, Luma’s app lets you easily see and control which devices, users and content are on your network. To buy your Luma, simply dead to getluma.com or amazon.com. 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.

Secret Handshake is an authentication protocol with non-standard and strong anonymity property: Namely, the secrecy of the *affiliations* (i.e. the certificates) of party A who engages in this authentication protocol with party B will be protected against any B* (i.e. a malicious party which pretends to be B) who does not meet A's authentication criteria. This strong secrecy and anonymity protection turns out to be possible, and quite efficiently so, based on various standard cryptographic assumptions. The talk will give an overview of the problem, the various solutions, and the several efficiency and security issues involved in making such anonymous authentication schemes practical. About the speaker: Stanislaw Jarecki is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is working on cryptography and fault tolerant distributed protocols. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT in 2001. His thesis work was on threshold protocols, which are protocols that enable shared computation of cryptographic functions in a distributed setting. Between MIT and UCI, Stanislaw worked as a researcher at Intertrust and then as a postdoc in the cryptography and security group at Stanford. His current work includes threshold protocols, affiliation-privacy in authentication protocols, robust cryptographic protocols, and theoretical issues like secure 2-party computation.

*Our guest today is* *Paul Martino* ( https://bullpencap.com/team/paul-martino ) *, Managing Partner of* *Bullpen Capital* ( https://bullpencap.com/ ) *, an early-stage, post-seed venture fund investing in technology companies that have been funded by super-angels and institutional seed funds. Some of their portfolio companies include FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy.* *Prior to founding Bullpen, Paul was a serial entrepreneur of companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust); Tribe (one of the world's first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). He is the holder of over a dozen core patents covering social networking and big data.He was also an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy.* *One book that impacted Paul professionally is* *Play Bigger* ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062407619?camp=1789&creativeASIN=0062407619&ie=UTF8&linkCode=xm2&tag=theconsumervc-20 ) *by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, and Christopher Lockhead. One book that impacted him personally is* *The Burden of Bad Ideas* ( https://amzn.to/2QYvKYb ) *by Heather MacDonald* *In this episode you will learn:* * *Why Paul became an entrepreneur? Why he ended up on the other side of the table and switched to venture capital? Why it's important for investors to have operational experience?* * ** * *Why investing at the post seed stage is an arbitrage opportunity? What are some of the challenges when investing in consumer vs. enterprise?* * ** * *Should founders be aware of signaling risk? What should founders be asking venture capitalists that are looking to invest? What is his diligence process and how does he analyze founders and opportunities? When should a founder switch from optimizing to profitability from growth? What makes the Philadelphia ecosystem interesting?* * ** * *One thing you would change when it came to venture capital? How does he feel about the cold email? What his latest investment is and why he's excited about it? One piece of advice for founders of consumer companies* * ** *You are welcome to follow along behind the scenes* *@mikegelb* ( https://twitter.com/MikeGelb ) *and* *@consumervc* ( https://twitter.com/ConsumerVc )