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In this episode of the FocusCore Podcast, host David Sweet interviews Carlo La Porta, Managing Director of Mpowered Sales about the challenges of disengagement in large Japanese firms. Carlo discusses his 35-year career in Japan, his book on generational management issues, and the importance of empowering employees. He shares insights on the evolution of Japanese business practices, the differences in management styles among generations, and the issue of low employee motivation. Carlo outlines his six-step delegation process and emphasizes the need for better communication and delegation to enhance team performance. He also highlights the plans for expanding MPowered's training programs to help improve leadership and productivity in Japanese SMEs.In this episode you will hear:The evolution of Japanese business practicesThe key to successful delegation and leadershipCarlo's unique journey and what keeps him dedicated The roots of motivation and how to nurture it in the workplaceHow delegation can boost team performance and drive changeCarlo's approach to Mission Command and Servant LeadershipAbout Carlo La Porta:Carlo La Porta is  the Motivation Architect and Managing Director of Empowered Sales K.K. He has built his 35-year career around designing and delivering business solutions in Japan. Drawing on his experience in multinational, multilingual, and multicultural organizations, as well as fully Japanese environments fluent in both local and western business practices. He believes in empowering teams to perform at their best. This conviction led him to establish MPowered Sales K.K. dedicated to evaluating. Employee work life quality and productivity with a focus on Japanese SMEs. Carlo has also written a book in Japanese focusing on people management issues in Japanese environments due to the generation gap. The book is entitled in Japanese, “The Reiwa Era Leadership Revolution” and uh, of course that can be found on Amazon and it's been very, uh, popular with male managers in their forties and fifties. Carlo has held roles at KPMG consulting, bearing point, low end down Masai, which is now aiming Japan and Thompson Financial Services. He's worked with such prestigious clients as IKK Brita, Ong, NTT Urban Develop. Bent, MHI and Luxottica among many others. He's a graduate of Tokyo University where he focused on international trade in Japanese. He holds an N1 Japanese language certification, which means he speaks nipon, go very well, as well as a plethora of other languages, including English, Italian, French, German, and he's lived in Japan for three decades and calls it. The latest FocusCore Salary Guide is here: 2025 Salary Guide Connect with Carlo La Porta:Website: https://mpoweredsales.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlolaporta/Connect with David Sweet:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdavidsweet/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/focuscorejp Facebook: :https://www.facebook.com/focuscoreasiaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/focuscorejp/ Website:

Gafas traductoras de MetaTraducción en tiempo real llega a las Ray-Ban Meta en todo el mundo  Por Félix Riaño @LocutorCoMeta lanzó una función de traducción en tiempo real para sus gafas inteligentes Ray-Ban, una de las apuestas más ambiciosas de la empresa en su camino hacia la integración total entre lo digital y lo cotidiano. Esta tecnología, que hasta hace poco parecía sacada de una película de ciencia ficción, permite que personas que hablen distintos idiomas —como inglés, francés, italiano o español— mantengan conversaciones fluidas sin necesidad de intérpretes ni aplicaciones externas.Basta con ponerse las gafas y activar la función: el sistema detecta el idioma, lo traduce y lo transmite al usuario en tiempo real, directamente al oído. Además, no requiere conexión a internet si se han descargado previamente los paquetes de idioma, lo que resulta ideal para viajeros que cruzan fronteras o exploran zonas sin señal.Como parte de esta misma actualización, Meta ha comenzado a desplegar funciones visuales que reconocen objetos, alimentos y monumentos con solo mirarlos. Esta capacidad transforma las gafas en una especie de guía turística inteligente. Todo este paquete de mejoras llega sin costo adicional para quienes ya son usuarios, lo que refuerza la estrategia de Meta por consolidar un ecosistema tecnológico más atractivo y completo.  Unas gafas de sol que te traducen lo que dice otra persona, sin necesidad de sacar el teléfono. Así es la nueva función de las Ray-Ban Meta, que a partir de ahora están disponibles con traducción instantánea para todos los usuarios, después de un periodo limitado solo en ciertos países. Esta tecnología permite entender y responder en cuatro idiomas principales: inglés, francés, italiano y español.También se anunció que las gafas se lanzarán pronto en México, India y Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Meta AI ahora está disponible en siete nuevos países europeos y permitirá reconocer objetos y lugares con solo mirarlos. ¿Estamos ante el inicio de un nuevo tipo de comunicación global sin barreras  No todo el mundo está feliz con unas gafas que pueden grabar, traducir y reconocer lo que estás viendo  Imagina estar en un mercado de París, sin saber francés, pero con las Ray-Ban Meta puestas. Un vendedor te habla y las gafas traducen sus palabras al instante, directo a tu oído. Tú respondes en español, y tu mensaje aparece en la pantalla del teléfono del vendedor, ya traducido. Esta función de traducción en vivo no necesita conexión a internet si descargas el idioma antes de salir.Además, las gafas capturan fotos, reproducen música y permiten hacer preguntas a Meta AI sobre cualquier cosa que veas. Puedes preguntar qué especie de flor estás mirando o qué plato típico está frente a ti. Con solo decirlo en voz alta, recibes una respuesta natural, sin tener que usar comandos especiales. Esto convierte a las gafas en asistentes personales visuales y auditivos, al estilo de Star Trek, pero en el bolsillo.  El despliegue de estas funciones no fue tan fácil como parece. En Europa, Meta tuvo que enfrentar restricciones legales estrictas sobre privacidad. Las gafas graban audio y video, y aunque tienen una luz que indica cuándo están activas, muchas personas podrían no darse cuenta. Las autoridades europeas exigieron a Meta más garantías sobre el uso de datos recolectados por las gafas. Además, los defensores de derechos digitales advierten que esta tecnología podría ser usada para vigilancia encubierta o reconocimiento facial sin consentimiento.También preocupa la dependencia del ecosistema de Meta: la traducción en vivo está vinculada al uso de su app móvil, lo que refuerza el control de la empresa sobre la experiencia del usuario. Mientras la tecnología avanza, la pregunta sigue abierta: ¿podremos confiar en una IA que está literalmente sobre nuestros ojos?  Pese a las críticas, Meta sigue apostando por estas gafas como su producto estrella en el camino hacia una realidad aumentada completa. Las nuevas funciones no solo se centran en traducir. Ahora también puedes pedirle a Meta AI que te recomiende vinos, que te diga si puedes sustituir la mantequilla por otro ingrediente, o que reconozca monumentos históricos. El despliegue incluye siete nuevos países europeos: Alemania, Austria, Bélgica, Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia y Finlandia.En América, las gafas llegan pronto a México, un mercado estratégico por su población bilingüe y el turismo. También se amplía el acceso a servicios de música como Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music y Shazam, lo cual convierte las gafas en una especie de DJ personal. Todo esto se suma al uso de WhatsApp, Messenger y ahora Instagram, desde las mismas gafas.  Las gafas Ray-Ban Meta, desarrolladas en alianza con Luxottica, están disponibles desde 299 dólares y ofrecen funciones avanzadas de fotografía y video. Su cámara de 12 megapíxeles graba en resolución 1080p a 60 cuadros por segundo.Tienen micrófonos direccionales, altavoces con sonido direccional que evitan filtraciones molestas y una batería que dura hasta 36 horas con su estuche. Vienen en nuevos modelos como el Skyler Shiny Chalky Gray con lentes Transitions, que se oscurecen al sol y se aclaran en interiores. También es posible añadirles lentes de prescripción. Con apenas 50 gramos de peso, estas gafas se sienten como unas normales, pero con superpoderes digitales. A diferencia de modelos como las Echo Frames de Amazon, las Meta ofrecen traducción sin conexión y un asistente visual integrado.  Las Ray-Ban Meta ahora traducen en tiempo real, reconocen objetos y reproducen música, todo desde tus gafas. Síguelas con atención y escucha más sobre estas tecnologías en el pódcast Flash Diario en Spotify: Flash Diario en SpotifyLas gafas Ray-Ban Meta ahora traducen idiomas sin conexión, reconocen objetos y reproducen música. El futuro está en tu cara.BibliografíaZDNet Reuters Meta Newsroom The VergeConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/flash-diario-de-el-siglo-21-es-hoy--5835407/support.

TalkLP host Amber Bradley sits down with Luxottica's Millie Kresevich, Senior Director of Asset Protection and Mike Jessee, Senior Vice President of Asset Protection to talk working relationships, leadership, tech, 2025 and beyond. Listen now to hear how to build successful working relationships that span years – after Amber puts them on the spot about their own working relationship.  Millie also explains her philosophy for focusing on what they can control while boosting team retention.  And what is Mike looking for in a solution provider? Check it out to find out!  Connect with Millie here and Mike here.

Today we are breaking down EssilorLuxottica, a global leader in the eyewear industry, formed by the merger of Essilor and Luxottica in 2018. Today the business sports a nearly $130 billion market cap. EssilorLuxottica represents a vertically integrated business, encompassing design, manufacturing, distribution, and retail operations across both vision care and eyewear fashion segments. To break down EssilorLuxottica, I am joined by Swetha Ramachandran who manages the Artemis ‘leading consumer brand' strategy and is co-manager of the ‘global select' and ‘global focus' strategies.  Swetha analyzes the strategic rationale behind the merger, assessing how it shaped the company's competitive advantages.  We discuss the economics of prescription lenses, high-fashion sunglasses, and iconic brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley. We also explore the impact of emerging technologies like Smart Glasses, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and evolving consumer preferences on the eyewear market, as well as the competitive impact of upstarts like Warby Parker. Please enjoy this breakdown of EssilorLuxottica. Subscribe to Colossus Review For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Octus, formerly Reorg, is the essential credit intelligence and data provider for nearly 40,000 professionals across the world's leading buy side firms, investment banks, law firms and advisory firms. By surrounding unparalleled human expertise with embedded AI technology, data and workflow tools, Octus unlocks powerful truths that fuel decisive action in financial markets. Visit octus.com to learn how rigorously verified intelligence is delivered at speed to create a complete picture across the entire credit lifecycle.  —- Business Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Business Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes (00:00:00) Welcome to Business Breakdowns (00:04:24) Essilor Luxottica: A Unique Business Model (00:05:08) Market Leadership and Revenue Breakdown (00:08:13) The Merger: Essilor and Luxottica (00:10:18) Financial Performance and Strategic Investments (00:12:22) Challenges and Competitive Landscape (00:18:37) Global Operations and Market Strategy (00:21:04) Innovations and Future Prospects (00:22:36) Financial Analysis and Capital Allocation (00:26:11) Competitive Pressures and Market Position (00:28:47) Geographic Footprint and Strategic Growth (00:30:44) Acquisitions and Strategic Endeavors (00:32:38) Partnerships and Technological Integration (00:35:13) Summary and Key Takeaways (00:41:36) Lessons from EssilorLuxottica

Episodio registrato live durante il Festival "Chora Volume 2". Riccardo Haupt parla insieme ad Andrea Guerra, CEO del Gruppo Prada e uno dei manager italiani più importanti nel panorama internazionale, analizzando gli scenari geopolitici più caldi del momento, con un focus particolare su innovazione e competitività delle aziende del nostro Paese. Dopo l'esordio in Marriott e la scalata in Luxottica, dove ha ricoperto il ruolo di AD per 10 anni, Guerra ha preso le redini di Eataly come presidente esecutivo. A seguito di una breve esperienza come consigliere strategico per il governo Renzi, è tornato nel settore privato nel gruppo LVMH, guidando prima Hospitality Excellence e poi Fendi e Loro Piana. Questo podcast e gli altri nostri contenuti sono gratuiti anche grazie a chi ci sostiene con la membership. Per sostenere il nostro lavoro e ricevere contenuti esclusivi iscriviti alla membership su membership.willmedia.it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bundle tickets for AIE Summit NYC have now sold out. You can now sign up for the livestream — where we will be making a big announcement soon. NYC-based readers and Summit attendees should check out the meetups happening around the Summit.2024 was a very challenging year for AI Hardware. After the buzz of CES last January, 2024 was marked by the meteoric rise and even harder fall of AI Wearables companies like Rabbit and Humane, with an assist from a pre-wallpaper-app MKBHD. Even Friend.com, the first to launch in the AI pendant category, and which spurred Rewind AI to rebrand to Limitless and follow in their footsteps, ended up delaying their wearable ship date and launching an experimental website chatbot version. We have been cautiously excited about this category, keeping tabs on most of the top entrants, including Omi and Compass. However, to date the biggest winner still standing from the AI Wearable wars is Bee AI, founded by today's guests Maria and Ethan. Bee is an always on hardware device with beamforming microphones, 7 day battery life and a mute button, that can be worn as a wristwatch or a clip-on pin, backed by an incredible transcription, diarization and very long context memory processing pipeline that helps you to remember your day, your todos, and even perform actions by operating a virtual cloud phone. This is one of the most advanced, production ready, personal AI agents we've ever seen, so we were excited to be their first podcast appearance. We met Bee when we ran the world's first Personal AI meetup in April last year.As a user of Bee (and not an investor! just a friend!) it's genuinely been a joy to use, and we were glad to take advantage of the opportunity to ask hard questions about the privacy and legal/ethical side of things as much as the AI and Hardware engineering side of Bee. We hope you enjoy the episode and tune in next Friday for Bee's first conference talk: Building Perfect Memory.Show Notes* Bee Website* Ethan Sutin, Maria de Lourdes Zollo* Bee @ Personal AI Meetup* Buy Bee with Listener Discount Code!Timestamps* 00:00:00 Introductions and overview of Bee Computer* 00:01:58 Personal context and use cases for Bee* 00:03:02 Origin story of Bee and the founders' background* 00:06:56 Evolution from app to hardware device* 00:09:54 Short-term value proposition for users* 00:12:17 Demo of Bee's functionality* 00:17:54 Hardware form factor considerations* 00:22:22 Privacy concerns and legal considerations* 00:30:57 User adoption and reactions to wearing Bee* 00:35:56 CES experience and hardware manufacturing challenges* 00:41:40 Software pipeline and inference costs* 00:53:38 Technical challenges in real-time processing* 00:57:46 Memory and personal context modeling* 01:02:45 Social aspects and agent-to-agent interactions* 01:04:34 Location sharing and personal data exchange* 01:05:11 Personality analysis capabilities* 01:06:29 Hiring and future of always-on AITranscriptAlessio [00:00:04]: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of SmallAI.swyx [00:00:12]: Hey, and today we are very honored to have in the studio Maria and Ethan from Bee.Maria [00:00:16]: Hi, thank you for having us.swyx [00:00:20]: And you are, I think, the first hardware founders we've had on the podcast. I've been looking to have had a hardware founder, like a wearable hardware, like a wearable hardware founder for a while. I think we're going to have two or three of them this year. And you're the ones that I wear every day. So thank you for making Bee. Thank you for all the feedback and the usage. Yeah, you know, I've been a big fan. You are the speaker gift for the Engineering World's Fair. And let's start from the beginning. What is Bee Computer?Ethan [00:00:52]: Bee Computer is a personal AI system. So you can think of it as AI living alongside you in first person. So it can kind of capture your in real life. So with that understanding can help you in significant ways. You know, the obvious one is memory, but that's that's really just the base kind of use case. So recalling and reflective. I know, Swyx, that you you like the idea of journaling, but you don't but still have some some kind of reflective summary of what you experienced in real life. But it's also about just having like the whole context of a human being and understanding, you know, giving the machine the ability to understand, like, what's going on in your life. Your attitudes, your desires, specifics about your preferences, so that not only can it help you with recall, but then anything that you need it to do, it already knows, like, if you think about like somebody who you've worked with or lived with for a long time, they just know kind of without having to ask you what you would want, it's clear that like, that is the future that personal AI, like, it's just going to be very, you know, the AI is just so much more valuable with personal context.Maria [00:01:58]: I will say that one of the things that we are really passionate is really understanding this. Personal context, because we'll make the AI more useful. Think about like a best friend that know you so well. That's one of the things that we are seeing from the user. They're using from a companion standpoint or professional use cases. There are many ways to use B, but companionship and professional are the ones that we are seeing now more.swyx [00:02:22]: Yeah. It feels so dry to talk about use cases. Yeah. Yeah.Maria [00:02:26]: It's like really like investor question. Like, what kind of use case?Ethan [00:02:28]: We're just like, we've been so broken and trained. But I mean, on the base case, it's just like, don't you want your AI to know everything you've said and like everywhere you've been, like, wouldn't you want that?Maria [00:02:40]: Yeah. And don't stay there and repeat every time, like, oh, this is what I like. You already know that. And you do things for me based on that. That's I think is really cool.swyx [00:02:50]: Great. Do you want to jump into a demo? Do you have any other questions?Alessio [00:02:54]: I want to maybe just cover the origin story. Just how did you two meet? What was the was this the first idea you started working on? Was there something else before?Maria [00:03:02]: I can start. So Ethan and I, we know each other from six years now. He had a company called Squad. And before that was called Olabot and was a personal AI. Yeah, I should. So maybe you should start this one. But yeah, that's how I know Ethan. Like he was pivoting from personal AI to Squad. And there was a co-watching with friends product. I had experience working with TikTok and video content. So I had the pivoting and we launched Squad and was really successful. And at the end. The founders decided to sell that to Twitter, now X. So both of us, we joined X. We launched Twitter Spaces. We launched many other products. And yeah, till then, we basically continue to work together to the start of B.Ethan [00:03:46]: The interesting thing is like this isn't the first attempt at personal AI. In 2016, when I started my first company, it started out as a personal AI company. This is before Transformers, no BERT even like just RNNs. You couldn't really do any convincing dialogue at all. I met Esther, who was my previous co-founder. We both really interested in the idea of like having a machine kind of model or understand a dynamic human. We wanted to make personal AI. This was like more geared towards because we had obviously much limited tools, more geared towards like younger people. So I don't know if you remember in 2016, there was like a brief chatbot boom. It was way premature, but it was when Zuckerberg went up on F8 and yeah, M and like. Yeah. The messenger platform, people like, oh, bots are going to replace apps. It was like for about six months. And then everybody realized, man, these things are terrible and like they're not replacing apps. But it was at that time that we got excited and we're like, we tried to make this like, oh, teach the AI about you. So it was just an app that you kind of chatted with and it would ask you questions and then like give you some feedback.Maria [00:04:53]: But Hugging Face first version was launched at the same time. Yeah, we started it.Ethan [00:04:56]: We started out the same office as Hugging Face because Betaworks was our investor. So they had to think. They had a thing called Bot Camp. Betaworks is like a really cool VC because they invest in out there things. They're like way ahead of everybody else. And like back then it was they had something called Bot Camp. They took six companies and it was us and Hugging Face. And then I think the other four, I'm pretty sure, are dead. But and Hugging Face was the one that really got, you know, I mean, 30% success rate is pretty good. Yeah. But yeah, when we it was, it was like it was just the two founders. Yeah, they were kind of like an AI company in the beginning. It was a chat app for teenagers. A lot of people don't know that Hugging Face was like, hey, friend, how was school? Let's trade selfies. But then, you know, they built the Transformers library, I believe, to help them make their chat app better. And then they open sourced and it was like it blew up. And like they're like, oh, maybe this is the opportunity. And now they're Hugging Face. But anyway, like we were obsessed with it at that time. But then it was clear that there's some people who really love chatting and like answering questions. But it's like a lot of work, like just to kind of manually.Maria [00:06:00]: Yeah.Ethan [00:06:01]: Teach like all these things about you to an AI.Maria [00:06:04]: Yeah, there were some people that were super passionate, for example, teenagers. They really like, for example, to speak about themselves a lot. So they will reply to a lot of questions and speak about them. But most of the people, they don't really want to spend time.Ethan [00:06:18]: And, you know, it's hard to like really bring the value with it. We had like sentence similarity and stuff and could try and do, but it was like it was premature with the technology at the time. And so we pivoted. We went to YC and the long story, but like we pivoted to consumer video and that kind of went really viral and got a lot of usage quickly. And then we ended up selling it to Twitter, worked there and left before Elon, not related to Elon, but left Twitter.swyx [00:06:46]: And then I should mention this is the famous time when well, when when Elon was just came in, this was like Esther was the famous product manager who slept there.Ethan [00:06:56]: My co-founder, my former co-founder, she sleeping bag. She was the sleep where you were. Yeah, yeah, she stayed. We had left by that point.swyx [00:07:03]: She very stayed, she's famous for staying.Ethan [00:07:06]: Yeah, but later, later left or got, I think, laid off, laid off. Yeah, I think the whole product team got laid off. She was a product manager, director. But yeah, like we left before that. And then we're like, oh, my God, things are different now. You know, I think this is we really started working on again right before ChatGPT came out. But we had an app version and we kind of were trying different things around it. And then, you know, ultimately, it was clear that, like, there were some limitations we can go on, like a good question to ask any wearable company is like, why isn't this an app? Yes. Yeah. Because like.Maria [00:07:40]: Because we tried the app at the beginning.Ethan [00:07:43]: Yeah. Like the idea that it could be more of a and B comes from ambient. So like if it was more kind of just around you all the time and less about you having to go open the app and do the effort to, like, enter in data that led us down the path of hardware. Yeah. Because the sensors on this are microphones. So it's capturing and understanding audio. We started actually our first hardware with a vision component, too. And we can talk about why we're not doing that right now. But if you wanted to, like, have a continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone. It would get interrupted by calls and you'd have to remember to turn it on. And like that little bit of friction is actually like a substantial barrier to, like, get your phone. It's like the experience of it just being with you all the time and like living alongside you. And so I think that that's like the key reason it's not an app. And in fact, we do have Apple Watch support. So anybody who has a watch, Apple Watch can use it right away without buying any hardware. Because we worked really hard to make a version for the watch that can run in the background, not super drain your battery. But even with the watch, there's still friction because you have to remember to turn it on and it still gets interrupted if somebody calls you. And you have to remember to. We send a notification, but you still have to go back and turn it on because it's just the way watchOS works.Maria [00:09:04]: One of the things that we are seeing from our Apple Watch users, like I love the Apple Watch integration. One of the things that we are seeing is that people, they start using it from Apple Watch and after a couple of days they buy the B because they just like to wear it.Ethan [00:09:17]: Yeah, we're seeing.Maria [00:09:18]: That's something that like they're learning and it's really cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:09:21]: I mean, I think like fundamentally we like to think that like a personal AI is like the mission. And it's more about like the understanding. Connecting the dots, making use of the data to provide some value. And the hardware is like the ears of the AI. It's not like integrating like the incoming sensor data. And that's really what we focus on. And like the hardware is, you know, if we can do it well and have a great experience on the Apple Watch like that, that's just great. I mean, but there's just some platform restrictions that like existing hardware makes it hard to provide that experience. Yeah.Alessio [00:09:54]: What do people do in like two or three days that then convinces them to buy it? They buy the product. This feels like a product where like after you use it for a while, you have enough data to start to get a lot of insights. But it sounds like maybe there's also like a short term.Maria [00:10:07]: From the Apple Watch users, I believe that because every time that you receive a call after, they need to go back to B and open it again. Or for example, every day they need to charge Apple Watch and reminds them to open the app every day. They feel like, okay, maybe this is too much work. I just want to wear the B and just keep it open and that's it. And I don't need to think about it.Ethan [00:10:27]: I think they see the kind of potential of it just from the watch. Because even if you wear it a day, like we send a summary notification at the end of the day about like just key things that happened to you in your day. And like I didn't even think like I'm not like a journaling type person or like because like, oh, I just live the day. Why do I need to like think about it? But like it's actually pretty sometimes I'm surprised how interesting it is to me just to kind of be like, oh, yeah, that and how it kind of fits together. And I think that's like just something people get immediately with the watch. But they're like, oh, I'd like an easier watch. I'd like a better way to do this.swyx [00:10:58]: It's surprising because I only know about the hardware. But I use the watch as like a backup for when I don't have the hardware. I feel like because now you're beamforming and all that, this is significantly better. Yeah, that's the other thing.Ethan [00:11:11]: We have way more control over like the Apple Watch. You're limited in like you can't set the gain. You can't change the sample rate. There's just very limited framework support for doing anything with audio. Whereas if you control it. Then you can kind of optimize it for your use case. The Apple Watch isn't meant to be kind of recording this. And we can talk when we get to the part about audio, why it's so hard. This is like audio on the hardest level because you don't know it has to work in all environments or you try and make it work as best as it can. Like this environment is very great. We're in a studio. But, you know, afterwards at dinner in a restaurant, it's totally different audio environment. And there's a lot of challenges with that. And having really good source audio helps. But then there's a lot more. But with the machine learning that still is, you know, has to be done to try and account because like you can tune something for one environment or another. But it'll make one good and one bad. And like making something that's flexible enough is really challenging.Alessio [00:12:10]: Do we want to do a demo just to set the stage? And then we kind of talk about.Maria [00:12:14]: Yeah, I think we can go like a walkthrough and the prod.Alessio [00:12:17]: Yeah, sure.swyx [00:12:17]: So I think we said I should. So for listeners, we'll be switching to video. That was superimposed on. And to this video, if you want to see it, go to our YouTube, like and subscribe as always. Yeah.Maria [00:12:31]: And by the bee. Yes.swyx [00:12:33]: And by the bee. While you wait. While you wait. Exactly. It doesn't take long.Maria [00:12:39]: Maybe you should have a discount code just for the listeners. Sure.swyx [00:12:43]: If you want to offer it, I'll take it. All right. Yeah. Well, discount code Swyx. Oh s**t. Okay. Yeah. There you go.Ethan [00:12:49]: An important thing to mention also is that the hardware is meant to work with the phone. And like, I think, you know, if you, if you look at rabbit or, or humane, they're trying to create like a new hardware platform. We think that the phone's just so dominant and it will be until we have the next generation, which is not going to be for five, you know, maybe some Orion type glasses that are cheap enough and like light enough. Like that's going to take a long time before with the phone rather than trying to just like replace it. So in the app, we have a summary of your days, but at the top, it's kind of what's going on now. And that's updating your phone. It's updating continuously. So right now it's saying, I'm discussing, you know, the development of, you know, personal AI, and that's just kind of the ongoing conversation. And then we give you a readable form. That's like little kind of segments of what's the important parts of the conversations. We do speaker identification, which is really important because you don't want your personal AI thinking you said something and attributing it to you when it was just somebody else in the conversation. So you can also teach it other people's voices. So like if some, you know, somebody close to you, so it can start to understand your relationships a little better. And then we do conversation end pointing, which is kind of like a task that didn't even exist before, like, cause nobody needed to do this. But like if you had somebody's whole day, how do you like break it into logical pieces? And so we use like not just voice activity, but other signals to try and split up because conversations are a little fuzzy. They can like lead into one, can start to the next. So also like the semantic content of it. When a conversation ends, we run it through larger models to try and get a better, you know, sense of the actual, what was said and then summarize it, provide key points. What was the general atmosphere and tone of the conversation and potential action items that might've come of that. But then at the end of the day, we give you like a summary of all your day and where you were and just kind of like a step-by-step walkthrough of what happened and what were the key points. That's kind of just like the base capture layer. So like if you just want to get a kind of glimpse or recall or reflect that's there. But really the key is like all of this is now like being influenced on to generate personal context about you. So we generate key items known to be true about you and that you can, you know, there's a human in the loop aspect is like you can, you have visibility. Right. Into that. And you can, you know, I have a lot of facts about technology because that's basically what I talk about all the time. Right. But I do have some hobbies that show up and then like, how do you put use to this context? So I kind of like measure my day now and just like, what is my token output of the day? You know, like, like as a human, how much information do I produce? And it's kind of measured in tokens and it turns out it's like around 200,000 or so a day. But so in the recall case, we have, um. A chat interface, but the key here is on the recall of it. Like, you know, how do you, you know, I probably have 50 million tokens of personal context and like how to make sense of that, make it useful. So I can ask simple, like, uh, recall questions, like details about the trip I was on to Taiwan, where recently we're with our manufacturer and, um, in real time, like it will, you know, it has various capabilities such as searching through your, your memories, but then also being able to search the web or look at my calendar, we have integrations with Gmail and calendars. So like connecting the dots between the in real life and the digital life. And, you know, I just asked it about my Taiwan trip and it kind of gives me the, the breakdown of the details, what happened, the issues we had around, you know, certain manufacturing problems and it, and it goes back and references the conversation so I can, I can go back to the source. Yeah.Maria [00:16:46]: Not just the conversation as well, the integrations. So we have as well Gmail and Google calendar. So if there is something there that was useful to have more context, we can see that.Ethan [00:16:56]: So like, and it can, I never use the word agentic cause it's, it's cringe, but like it can search through, you know, if I, if I'm brainstorming about something that spans across, like search through my conversation, search the email, look at the calendar and then depending on what's needed. Then synthesize, you know, something with all that context.Maria [00:17:18]: I love that you did the Spotify wrapped. That was pretty cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:17:22]: Like one thing I did was just like make a Spotify wrap for my 2024, like of my life. You can do that. Yeah, you can.Maria [00:17:28]: Wait. Yeah. I like those crazy.Ethan [00:17:31]: Make a Spotify wrapped for my life in 2024. Yeah. So it's like surprisingly good. Um, it like kind of like game metrics. So it was like you visited three countries, you shipped, you know, XMini, beta. Devices.Maria [00:17:46]: And that's kind of more personal insights and reflection points. Yeah.swyx [00:17:51]: That's fascinating. So that's the demo.Ethan [00:17:54]: Well, we have, we can show something that's in beta. I don't know if we want to do it. I don't know.Maria [00:17:58]: We want to show something. Do it.Ethan [00:18:00]: And then we can kind of fit. Yeah.Maria [00:18:01]: Yeah.Ethan [00:18:02]: So like the, the, the, the vision is also like, not just about like AI being with you in like just passively understanding you through living your experience, but also then like it proactively suggesting things to you. Yeah. Like at the appropriate time. So like not just pool, but, but kind of, it can step in and suggest things to you. So, you know, one integration we have that, uh, is in beta is with WhatsApp. Maria is asking for a recommendation for an Italian restaurant. Would you like me to look up some highly rated Italian restaurants nearby and send her a suggestion?Maria [00:18:34]: So what I did, I just sent to Ethan a message through WhatsApp in his own personal phone. Yeah.Ethan [00:18:41]: So, so basically. B is like watching all my incoming notifications. And if it meets two criteria, like, is it important enough for me to raise a suggestion to the user? And then is there something I could potentially help with? So this is where the actions come into place. So because Maria is my co-founder and because it was like a restaurant recommendation, something that it could probably help with, it proposed that to me. And then I can, through either the chat and we have another kind of push to talk walkie talkie style button. It's actually a multi-purpose button to like toggle it on or off, but also if you push to hold, you can talk. So I can say, yes, uh, find one and send it to her on WhatsApp is, uh, an Android cloud phone. So it's, uh, going to be able to, you know, that has access to all my accounts. So we're going to abstract this away and the execution environment is not really important, but like we can go into technically why Android is actually a pretty good one right now. But, you know, it's searching for Italian restaurants, you know, and we don't have to watch this. I could be, you know, have my ear AirPods in and in my pocket, you know, it's going to go to WhatsApp, going to find Maria's thread, send her the response and then, and then let us know. Oh my God.Alessio [00:19:56]: But what's the, I mean, an Italian restaurant. Yeah. What did it choose? What did it choose? It's easy to say. Real Italian is hard to play. Exactly.Ethan [00:20:04]: It's easy to say. So I doubt it. I don't know.swyx [00:20:06]: For the record, since you have the Italians, uh, best Italian restaurant in SF.Maria [00:20:09]: Oh my God. I still don't have one. What? No.Ethan [00:20:14]: I don't know. Successfully found and shared.Alessio [00:20:16]: Let's see. Let's see what the AI says. Bottega. Bottega? I think it's Bottega.Maria [00:20:21]: Have you been to Bottega? How is it?Alessio [00:20:24]: It's fine.Maria [00:20:25]: I've been to one called like Norcina, I think it was good.Alessio [00:20:29]: Bottega is on Valencia Street. It's fine. The pizza is not good.Maria [00:20:32]: It's not good.Alessio [00:20:33]: Some of the pastas are good.Maria [00:20:34]: You know, the people I'm sorry to interrupt. Sorry. But there is like this Delfina. Yeah. That here everybody's like, oh, Pizzeria Delfina is amazing. I'm overrated. This is not. I don't know. That's great. That's great.swyx [00:20:46]: The North Beach Cafe. That place you took us with Michele last time. Vega. Oh.Alessio [00:20:52]: The guy at Vega, Giuseppe, he's Italian. Which one is that? It's in Bernal Heights. Ugh. He's nice. He's not nice. I don't know that one. What's the name of the place? Vega. Vega. Vega. Cool. We got the name. Vega. But it's not Vega.Maria [00:21:02]: It's Italian. Whatswyx [00:21:10]: Vega. Vega.swyx [00:21:16]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:29]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:40]: We're going to see a lot of innovation around hardware and stuff, but I think the real core is being able to do something useful with the personal context. You always had the ability to capture everything, right? We've always had recorders, camcorders, body cameras, stuff like that. But what's different now is we can actually make sense and find the important parts in all of that context.swyx [00:22:04]: Yeah. So, and then one last thing, I'm just doing this for you, is you also have an API, which I think I'm the first developer against. Because I had to build my own. We need to hire a developer advocate. Or just hire AI engineers. The point is that you should be able to program your own assistant. And I tried OMI, the former friend, the knockoff friend, and then real friend doesn't have an API. And then Limitless also doesn't have an API. So I think it's very important to own your data. To be able to reprocess your audio, maybe. Although, by default, you do not store audio. And then also just to do any corrections. There's no way that my needs can be fully met by you. So I think the API is very important.Ethan [00:22:47]: Yeah. And I mean, I've always been a consumer of APIs in all my products.swyx [00:22:53]: We are API enjoyers in this house.Ethan [00:22:55]: Yeah. It's very frustrating when you have to go build a scraper. But yeah, it's for sure. Yeah.swyx [00:23:03]: So this whole combination of you have my location, my calendar, my inbox. It really is, for me, the sort of personal API.Alessio [00:23:10]: And is the API just to write into it or to have it take action on external systems?Ethan [00:23:16]: Yeah, we're expanding it. It's right now read-only. In the future, very soon, when the actions are more generally available, it'll be fully supported in the API.Alessio [00:23:27]: Nice. I'll buy one after the episode.Ethan [00:23:30]: The API thing, to me, is the most interesting. Yeah. We do have real-time APIs, so you can even connect a socket and connect it to whatever you want it to take actions with. Yeah. It's too smart for me.Alessio [00:23:43]: Yeah. I think when I look at these apps, and I mean, there's so many of these products, we launch, it's great that I can go on this app and do things. But most of my work and personal life is managed somewhere else. Yeah. So being able to plug into it. Integrate that. It's nice. I have a bunch of more, maybe, human questions. Sure. I think maybe people might have. One, is it good to have instant replay for any argument that you have? I can imagine arguing with my wife about something. And, you know, there's these commercials now where it's basically like two people arguing, and they're like, they can throw a flag, like in football, and have an instant replay of the conversation. I feel like this is similar, where it's almost like people cannot really argue anymore or, like, lie to each other. Because in a world in which everybody adopts this, I don't know if you thought about it. And also, like, how the lies. You know, all of us tell lies, right? How do you distinguish between when I'm, there's going to be sometimes things that contradict each other, because I might say something publicly, and I might think something, really, that I tell someone else. How do you handle that when you think about building a product like this?Maria [00:24:48]: I would say that I like the fact that B is an objective point of view. So I don't care too much about the lies, but I care more about the fact that can help me to understand what happened. Mm-hmm. And the emotions in a really objective way, like, really, like, critical and objective way. And if you think about humans, they have so many emotions. And sometimes something that happened to me, like, I don't know, I would feel, like, really upset about it or really angry or really emotional. But the AI doesn't have those emotions. It can read the conversation, understand what happened, and be objective. And I think the level of support is the one that I really like more. Instead of, like, oh, did this guy tell me a lie? I feel like that's not exactly, like, what I feel. I find it curious for me in terms of opportunity.Alessio [00:25:35]: Is the B going to interject in real time? Say I'm arguing with somebody. The B is like, hey, look, no, you're wrong. What? That person actually said.Ethan [00:25:43]: The proactivity is something we're very interested in. Maybe not for, like, specifically for, like, selling arguments, but more for, like, and I think that a lot of the challenge here is, you know, you need really good reasoning to kind of pull that off. Because you don't want it just constantly interjecting, because that would be super annoying. And you don't want it to miss things that it should be interjecting. So, like, it would be kind of a hard task even for a human to be, like, just come in at the right times when it's appropriate. Like, it would take the, you know, with the personal context, it's going to be a lot better. Because, like, if somebody knows about you, but even still, it requires really good reasoning to, like, not be too much or too little and just right.Maria [00:26:20]: And the second part about, well, like, some things, you know, you say something to somebody else, but after I change my mind, I send something. Like, it's every time I have, like, different type of conversation. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. I think that's something that I found really fascinating. One of the things that we are learning is that, indeed, humans, they evolve over time. So, for us, one of the challenges is actually understand, like, is this a real fact? Right. And so far, what we do is we give, you know, to the, we have the human in the loop that can say, like, yes, this is true, this is not. Or they can edit their own fact. For sure, in the future, we want to have all of that automatized inside of the product.Ethan [00:26:57]: But, I mean, I think your question kind of hits on, and I know that we'll talk about privacy, but also just, like, if you have some memory and you want to confirm it with somebody else, that's one thing. But it's for sure going to be true that in the future, like, not even that far into the future, that it's just going to be kind of normalized. And we're kind of in a transitional period now. And I think it's, like, one of the key things that is for us to kind of navigate that and make sure we're, like, thinking of all the consequences. And how to, you know, make the right choices in the way that everything's designed. And so, like, it's more beneficial than it could be harmful. But it's just too valuable for your AI to understand you. And so if it's, like, MetaRay bands or the Google Astra, I think it's just people are going to be more used to it. So people's behaviors and expectations will change. Whether that's, like, you know, something that is going to happen now or in five years, it's probably in that range. And so, like, I think we... We kind of adapt to new technologies all the time. Like, when the Ring cameras came out, that was kind of quite controversial. It's like... But now it's kind of... People just understand that a lot of people have cameras on their doors. And so I think that...Maria [00:28:09]: Yeah, we're in a transitional period for sure.swyx [00:28:12]: I will press on the privacy thing because that is the number one thing that everyone talks about. Obviously, I think in Silicon Valley, people are a little bit more tech-forward, experimental, whatever. But you want to go mainstream. You want to sell to consumers. And we have to worry about this stuff. Baseline question. The hardest version of this is law. There are one-party consent states where this is perfectly legal. Then there are two-party consent states where they're not. What have you come around to this on?Ethan [00:28:38]: Yeah, so the EU is a totally different regulatory environment. But in the U.S., it's basically on a state-by-state level. Like, in Nevada, it's single-party. In California, it's two-party. But it's kind of untested. You know, it's different laws, whether it's a phone call, whether it's in person. In a state like California, it's two-party. Like, anytime you're in public, there's no consent comes into play because the expectation of privacy is that you're in public. But we process the audio and nothing is persisted. And then it's summarized with the speaker identification focusing on the user. Now, it's kind of untested on a legal, and I'm not a lawyer, but does that constitute the same as, like, a recording? So, you know, it's kind of a gray area and untested in law right now. I think that the bigger question is, you know, because, like, if you had your Ray-Ban on and were recording, then you have a video of something that happened. And that's different than kind of having, like, an AI give you a summary that's focused on you that's not really capturing anybody's voice. You know, I think the bigger question is, regardless of the legal status, like, what is the ethical kind of situation with that? Because even in Nevada that we're—or many other U.S. states where you can record. Everything. And you don't have to have consent. Is it still, like, the right thing to do? The way we think about it is, is that, you know, we take a lot of precautions to kind of not capture personal information of people around. Both through the speaker identification, through the pipeline, and then the prompts, and the way we store the information to be kind of really focused on the user. Now, we know that's not going to, like, satisfy a lot of people. But I think if you do try it and wear it again. It's very hard for me to see anything, like, if somebody was wearing a bee around me that I would ever object that it captured about me as, like, a third party to it. And like I said, like, we're in this transitional period where the expectation will just be more normalized. That it's, like, an AI. It's not capturing, you know, a full audio recording of what you said. And it's—everything is fully geared towards helping the person kind of understand their state and providing valuable information to them. Not about, like, logging details about people they encounter.Alessio [00:30:57]: You know, I've had the same question also with the Zoom meeting transcribers thing. I think there's kind of, like, the personal impact that there's a Firefly's AI recorder. Yeah. I just know that it's being recorded. It's not like a—I don't know if I'm going to say anything different. But, like, intrinsically, you kind of feel—because it's not pervasive. And I'm curious, especially, like, in your investor meetings. Do people feel differently? Like, have you had people ask you to, like, turn it off? Like, in a business meeting, to not record? I'm curious if you've run into any of these behaviors.Maria [00:31:29]: You know what's funny? On my end, I wear it all the time. I take my coffee, a blue bottle with it. Or I work with it. Like, obviously, I work on it. So, I wear it all the time. And so far, I don't think anybody asked me to turn it off. I'm not sure if because they were really friendly with me that they know that I'm working on it. But nobody really cared.swyx [00:31:48]: It's because you live in SF.Maria [00:31:49]: Actually, I've been in Italy as well. Uh-huh. And in Italy, it's a super privacy concern. Like, Europe is a super privacy concern. And again, they're nothing. Like, it's—I don't know. Yeah. That, for me, was interesting.Ethan [00:32:01]: I think—yeah, nobody's ever asked me to turn it off, even after giving them full demos and disclosing. I think that some people have said, well, my—you know, in a personal relationship, my partner initially was, like, kind of uncomfortable about it. We heard that from a few users. And that was, like, more in just, like— It's not like a personal relationship situation. And the other big one is people are like, I do like it, but I cannot wear this at work. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, I think I will get in trouble based on policies or, like, you know, if you're wearing it inside a research lab or something where you're working on things that are kind of sensitive that, like—you know, so we're adding certain features like geofencing, just, like, at this location. It's just never active.swyx [00:32:50]: I mean, I've often actually explained to it the other way, where maybe you only want it at work, so you never take it from work. And it's just a work device, just like your Zoom meeting recorder is a work device.Ethan [00:33:09]: Yeah, professionals have been a big early adopter segment. And you say in San Francisco, but we have out there our daily shipment of over 100. If you go look at the addresses, Texas, I think, is our biggest state, and Florida, just the biggest states. A lot of professionals who talk for, and we didn't go out to build it for that use case, but I think there is a lot of demand for white-collar people who talk for a living. And I think we're just starting to talk with them. I think they just want to be able to improve their performance around, understand what they were doing.Alessio [00:33:47]: How do you think about Gong.io? Some of these, for example, sales training thing, where you put on a sales call and then it coaches you. They're more verticalized versus having more horizontal platform.Ethan [00:33:58]: I am not super familiar with those things, because like I said, it was kind of a surprise to us. But I think that those are interesting. I've seen there's a bunch of them now, right? Yeah. It kind of makes sense. I'm terrible at sales, so I could probably use one. But it's not my job, fundamentally. But yeah, I think maybe it's, you know, we heard also people with restaurants, if they're able to understand, if they're doing well.Maria [00:34:26]: Yeah, but in general, I think a lot of people, they like to have the double check of, did I do this well? Or can you suggest me how I can do better? We had a user that was saying to us that he used for interviews. Yeah, he used job interviews. So he used B and after asked to the B, oh, actually, how do you think my interview went? What I should do better? And I like that. And like, oh, that's actually like a personal coach in a way.Alessio [00:34:50]: Yeah. But I guess the question is like, do you want to build all of those use cases? Or do you see B as more like a platform where somebody is going to build like, you know, the sales coach that connects to B so that you're kind of the data feed into it?Ethan [00:35:02]: I don't think this is like a data feed, more like an understanding kind of engine and like definitely. In the future, having third parties to the API and building out for all the different use cases is something that we want to do. But the like initial case we're trying to do is like build that layer for all that to work. And, you know, we're not trying to build all those verticals because no startup could do that well. But I think that it's really been quite fascinating to see, like, you know, I've done consumer for a long time. Consumer is very hard to predict, like, what's going to be. It's going to be like the thing that's the killer feature. And so, I mean, we really believe that it's the future, but we don't know like what exactly like process it will take to really gain mass adoption.swyx [00:35:50]: The killer consumer feature is whatever Nikita Beer does. Yeah. Social app for teens.Ethan [00:35:56]: Yeah, well, I like Nikita, but, you know, he's good at building bootstrap companies and getting them very viral. And then selling them and then they shut down.swyx [00:36:05]: Okay, so you just came back from CES.Maria [00:36:07]: Yeah, crazy. Yeah, tell us. It was my first time in Vegas and first time CES, both of them were overwhelming.swyx [00:36:15]: First of all, did you feel like you had to do it because you're in consumer hardware?Maria [00:36:19]: Then we decided to be there and to have a lot of partners and media meetings, but we didn't have our own booth. So we decided to just keep that. But we decided to be there and have a presence there, even just us and speak with people. It's very hard to stand out. Yeah, I think, you know, it depends what type of booth you have. I think if you can prepare like a really cool booth.Ethan [00:36:41]: Have you been to CES?Maria [00:36:42]: I think it can be pretty cool.Ethan [00:36:43]: It's massive. It's huge. It's like 80,000, 90,000 people across the Venetian and the convention center. And it's, to me, I always wanted to go just like...Maria [00:36:53]: Yeah, you were the one who was like...swyx [00:36:55]: I thought it was your idea.Ethan [00:36:57]: I always wanted to go just as a, like, just as a fan of...Maria [00:37:01]: Yeah, you wanted to go anyways.Ethan [00:37:02]: Because like, growing up, I think CES like kind of peaked for a while and it was like, oh, I want to go. That's where all the cool, like... gadgets, everything. Yeah, now it's like SmartBitch and like, you know, vacuuming the picks up socks. Exactly.Maria [00:37:13]: There are a lot of cool vacuums. Oh, they love it.swyx [00:37:15]: They love the Roombas, the pick up socks.Maria [00:37:16]: And pet tech. Yeah, yeah. And dog stuff.swyx [00:37:20]: Yeah, there's a lot of like robot stuff. New TVs, new cars that never ship. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking like last year, this time last year was when Rabbit and Humane launched at CES and Rabbit kind of won CES. And now this year, no wearables except for you guys.Ethan [00:37:32]: It's funny because it's obviously it's AI everything. Yeah. Like every single product. Yeah.Maria [00:37:37]: Toothbrush with AI, vacuums with AI. Yeah. Yeah.Ethan [00:37:41]: We like hair blow, literally a hairdryer with AI. We saw.Maria [00:37:45]: Yeah, that was cool.Ethan [00:37:46]: But I think that like, yeah, we didn't, another kind of difference like around our, like we didn't want to do like a big overhypey promised kind of Rabbit launch. Because I mean, they did, hats off to them, like on the presentation and everything, obviously. But like, you know, we want to let the product kind of speak for itself and like get it out there. And I think we were really happy. We got some very good interest from media and some of the partners there. So like it was, I think it was definitely worth going. I would say like if you're in hardware, it's just kind of how you make use of it. Like I think to do it like a big Rabbit style or to have a huge show on there, like you need to plan that six months in advance. And it's very expensive. But like if you, you know, go there, there's everybody's there. All the media is there. There's a lot of some pre-show events that it's just great to talk to people. And the industry also, all the manufacturers, suppliers are there. So we learned about some really cool stuff that we might like. We met with somebody. They have like thermal energy capture. And it's like, oh, could you maybe not need to charge it? Because they have like a thermal that can capture your body heat. And what? Yeah, they're here. They're actually here. And in Palo Alto, they have like a Fitbit thing that you don't have to charge.swyx [00:39:01]: Like on paper, that's the power you can get from that. What's the power draw for this thing?Ethan [00:39:05]: It's more than you could get from the body heat, it turns out. But it's quite small. I don't want to disclose technically. But I think that solar is still, they also have one where it's like this thing could be like the face of it. It's just a solar cell. And like that is more realistic. Or kinetic. Kinetic, apparently, I'm not an expert in this, but they seem to think it wouldn't be enough. Kinetic is quite small, I guess, on the capture.swyx [00:39:33]: Well, I mean, watch. Watchmakers have been powering with kinetic for a long time. Yeah. We don't have to talk about that. I just want to get a sense of CES. Would you do it again? I definitely would not. Okay. You're just a fan of CES. Business point of view doesn't make sense. I happen to be in the conference business, right? So I'm kind of just curious. Yeah.Maria [00:39:49]: So I would say as we did, so without the booth and really like straightforward conversations that were already planned. Three days. That's okay. I think it was okay. Okay. But if you need to invest for a booth that is not. Okay. A good one. Which is how much? I think.Ethan [00:40:06]: 10 by 10 is 5,000. But on top of that, you need to. And then they go like 10 by 10 is like super small. Yeah. And like some companies have, I think would probably be more in like the six figure range to get. And I mean, I think that, yeah, it's very noisy. We heard this, that it's very, very noisy. Like obviously if you're, everything is being launched there and like everything from cars to cell phones are being launched. Yeah. So it's hard to stand out. But like, I think going in with a plan of who you want to talk to, I feel like.Maria [00:40:36]: That was worth it.Ethan [00:40:37]: Worth it. We had a lot of really positive media coverage from it and we got the word out and like, so I think we accomplished what we wanted to do.swyx [00:40:46]: I mean, there's some world in which my conference is kind of the CES of whatever AI becomes. Yeah. I think that.Maria [00:40:52]: Don't do it in Vegas. Don't do it in Vegas. Yeah. Don't do it in Vegas. That's the only thing. I didn't really like Vegas. That's great. Amazing. Those are my favorite ones.Alessio [00:41:02]: You can not fit 90,000 people in SF. That's really duh.Ethan [00:41:05]: You need to do like multiple locations so you can do Moscone and then have one in.swyx [00:41:09]: I mean, that's what Salesforce conferences. Well, GDC is how many? That might be 50,000, right? Okay. Form factor, right? Like my way to introduce this idea was that I was at the launch in Solaris. What was the old name of it? Newton. Newton. Of Tab when Avi first launched it. He was like, I thought through everything. Every form factor, pendant is the thing. And then we got the pendants for this original. The first one was just pendants and I took it off and I forgot to put it back on. So you went through pendants, pin, bracelet now, and maybe there's sort of earphones in the future, but what was your iterations?Maria [00:41:49]: So we had, I believe now three or four iterations. And one of the things that we learned is indeed that people don't like the pendant. In particular, woman, you don't want to have like anything here on the chest because it's maybe you have like other necklace or any other stuff.Ethan [00:42:03]: You just ship a premium one that's gold. Yeah. We're talking some fashion reached out to us.Maria [00:42:11]: Some big fashion. There is something there.swyx [00:42:13]: This is where it helps to have an Italian on the team.Maria [00:42:15]: There is like some big Italian luxury. I can't say anything. So yeah, bracelet actually came from the community because they were like, oh, I don't want to wear anything like as necklace or as a pendant. Like it's. And also like the one that we had, I don't know if you remember, like it was like circle, like it was like this and was like really bulky. Like people didn't like it. And also, I mean, I actually, I don't dislike, like we were running fast when we did that. Like our, our thing was like, we wanted to ship them as soon as possible. So we're not overthinking the form factor or the material. We were just want to be out. But after the community organically, basically all of them were like, well, why you don't just don't do the bracelet? Like he's way better. I will just wear it. And that's it. So that's how we ended up with the bracelet, but it's still modular. So I still want to play around the father is modular and you can, you know, take it off and wear it as a clip or in the future, maybe we will bring back the pendant. But I like the fact that there is some personalization and right now we have two colors, yellow and black. Soon we will have other ones. So yeah, we can play a lot around that.Ethan [00:43:25]: I think the form factor. Like the goal is for it to be not super invasive. Right. And something that's easy. So I think in the future, smaller, thinner, not like apple type obsession with thinness, but it does matter like the, the size and weight. And we would love to have more context because that will help, but to make it work, I think it really needs to have good power consumption, good battery life. And, you know, like with the humane swapping the batteries, I have one, I mean, I'm, I'm, I think we've made, and there's like pretty incredible, some of the engineering they did, but like, it wasn't kind of geared towards solving the problem. It was just, it's too heavy. The swappable batteries is too much to man, like the heat, the thermals is like too much to light interface thing. Yeah. Like that. That's cool. It's cool. It's cool. But it's like, if, if you have your handout here, you want to use your phone, like it's not really solving a problem. Cause you know how to use your phone. It's got a brilliant display. You have to kind of learn how to gesture this low range. Yeah. It's like a resolution laser, but the laser is cool that the fact they got it working in that thing, even though if it did overheat, but like too heavy, too cumbersome, too complicated with the multiple batteries. So something that's power efficient, kind of thin, both in the physical sense and also in the edge compute kind of way so that it can be as unobtrusive as possible. Yeah.Maria [00:44:47]: Users really like, like, I like when they say yes, I like to wear it and forget about it because I don't need to charge it every single day. On the other version, I believe we had like 35 hours or something, which was okay. But people, they just prefer the seven days battery life and-swyx [00:45:03]: Oh, this is seven days? Yeah. Oh, I've been charging every three days.Maria [00:45:07]: Oh, no, you can like keep it like, yeah, it's like almost seven days.swyx [00:45:11]: The other thing that occurs to me, maybe there's an Apple watch strap so that I don't have to double watch. Yeah.Maria [00:45:17]: That's the other one that, yeah, I thought about it. I saw as well the ones that like, you can like put it like back on the phone. Like, you know- Plog. There is a lot.swyx [00:45:27]: So yeah, there's a competitor called Plog. Yeah. It's not really a competitor. They only transcribe, right? Yeah, they only transcribe. But they're very good at it. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:33]: No, they're great. Their hardware is really good too.swyx [00:45:36]: And they just launched the pin too. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:38]: I think that the MagSafe kind of form factor has a lot of advantages, but some disadvantages. You can definitely put a very huge battery on that, you know? And so like the battery life's not, the power consumption's not so much of a concern, but you know, downside the phone's like in your pocket. And so I think that, you know, form factors will continue to evolve, but, and you know, more sensors, less obtrusive and-Maria [00:46:02]: Yeah. We have a new version.Ethan [00:46:04]: Easier to use.Maria [00:46:05]: Okay.swyx [00:46:05]: Looking forward to that. Yeah. I mean, we'll, whenever we launch this, we'll try to show whatever, but I'm sure you're going to keep iterating. Last thing on hardware, and then we'll go on to the software side, because I think that's where you guys are also really, really strong. Vision. You wanted to talk about why no vision? Yeah.Ethan [00:46:20]: I think it comes down to like when you're, when you're a startup, especially in hardware, you're just, you work within the constraints, right? And so like vision is super useful and super interesting. And what we actually started with, there's two issues with vision that make it like not the place we decided to start. One is power consumption. So you know, you kind of have to trade off your power budget, like capturing even at a low frame rate and transmitting the radio is actually the thing that takes up the majority of the power. So. Yeah. So you would really have to have quite a, like unacceptably, like large and heavy battery to do it continuously all day. We have, I think, novel kind of alternative ways that might allow us to do that. And we have some prototypes. The other issue is form factor. So like even with like a wide field of view, if you're wearing something on your chest, it's going, you know, obviously the wrist is not really that much of an option. And if you're wearing it on your chest, it's, it's often gone. You're going to probably be not capturing like the field of view of what's interesting to you. So that leaves you kind of with your head and face. And then anything that goes on, on the face has to look cool. Like I don't know if you remember the spectacles, it was kind of like the first, yeah, but they kind of, they didn't, they were not very successful. And I think one of the reasons is they were, they're so weird looking. Yeah. The camera was so big on the side. And if you look at them at array bands where they're way more successful, they, they look almost indistinguishable from array bands. And they invested a lot into that and they, they have a partnership with Qualcomm to develop custom Silicon. They have a stake in Luxottica now. So like they coming from all the angles, like to make glasses, I think like, you know, I don't know if you know, Brilliant Labs, they're cool company, they make frames, which is kind of like a cool hackable glasses and, and, and like, they're really good, like on hardware, they're really good. But even if you look at the frames, which I would say is like the most advanced kind of startup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was one that launched at CES, but it's not shipping yet. Like one that you can buy now, it's still not something you'd wear every day and the battery life is super short. So I think just the challenge of doing vision right, like off the bat, like would require quite a bit more resources. And so like audio is such a good entry point and it's also the privacy around audio. If you, if you had images, that's like another huge challenge to overcome. So I think that. Ideally the personal AI would have, you know, all the senses and you know, we'll, we'll get there. Yeah. Okay.swyx [00:48:57]: One last hardware thing. I have to ask this because then we'll move to the software. Were either of you electrical engineering?Ethan [00:49:04]: No, I'm CES. And so I have a, I've taken some EE courses, but I, I had done prior to working on, on the hardware here, like I had done a little bit of like embedded systems, like very little firmware, but we have luckily on the team, somebody with deep experience. Yeah.swyx [00:49:21]: I'm just like, you know, like you have to become hardware people. Yeah.Ethan [00:49:25]: Yeah. I mean, I learned to worry about supply chain power. I think this is like radio.Maria [00:49:30]: There's so many things to learn.Ethan [00:49:32]: I would tell this about hardware, like, and I know it's been said before, but building a prototype and like learning how the electronics work and learning about firmware and developing, this is like, I think fun for a lot of engineers and it's, it's all totally like achievable, especially now, like with, with the tools we have, like stuff you might've been intimidated about. Like, how do I like write this firmware now? With Sonnet, like you can, you can get going and actually see results quickly. But I think going from prototype to actually making something manufactured is a enormous jump. And it's not all about technology, the supply chain, the procurement, the regulations, the cost, the tooling. The thing about software that I'm used to is it's funny that you can make changes all along the way and ship it. But like when you have to buy tooling for an enclosure that's expensive.swyx [00:50:24]: Do you buy your own tooling? You have to.Ethan [00:50:25]: Don't you just subcontract out to someone in China? Oh, no. Do we make the tooling? No, no. You have to have CNC and like a bunch of machines.Maria [00:50:31]: Like nobody makes their own tooling, but like you have to design this design and you submitEthan [00:50:36]: it and then they go four to six weeks later. Yeah. And then if there's a problem with it, well, then you're not, you're not making any, any of your enclosures. And so you have to really plan ahead. And like.swyx [00:50:48]: I just want to leave tips for other hardware founders. Like what resources or websites are most helpful in your sort of manufacturing journey?Ethan [00:50:55]: You know, I think it's different depending on like it's hardware so specialized in different ways.Maria [00:51:00]: I will say that, for example, I should choose a manufacturer company. I speak with other founders and like we can give you like some, you know, some tips of who is good and who is not, or like who's specialized in something versus somebody else. Yeah.Ethan [00:51:15]: Like some people are good in plastics. Some people are good.Maria [00:51:18]: I think like for us, it really helped at the beginning to speak with others and understand. Okay. Like who is around. I work in Shenzhen. I lived almost two years in China. I have an idea about like different hardware manufacturer and all of that. Soon I will go back to Shenzhen to check out. So I think it's good also to go in place and check.Ethan [00:51:40]: Yeah, you have to like once you, if you, so we did some stuff domestically and like if you have that ability. The reason I say ability is very expensive, but like to build out some proof of concepts and do field testing before you take it to a manufacturer, despite what people say, there's really good domestic manufacturing for small quantities at extremely high prices. So we got our first PCB and the assembly done in LA. So there's a lot of good because of the defense industry that can do quick churn. So it's like, we need this board. We need to find out if it's working. We have this deadline we want to start, but you need to go through this. And like if you want to have it done and fabricated in a week, they can do it for a price. But I think, you know, everybody's kind of trending even for prototyping now moving that offshore because in China you can do prototyping and get it within almost the same timeline. But the thing is with manufacturing, like it really helps to go there and kind of establish the relationship. Yeah.Alessio [00:52:38]: My first company was a hardware company and we did our PCBs in China and took a long time. Now things are better. But this was, yeah, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that. Yeah.Ethan [00:52:47]: I think that like the, and I've heard this too, we didn't run into this problem, but like, you know, if it's something where you don't have the relationship, they don't see you, they don't know you, you know, you might get subcontracted out or like they're not paying attention. But like if you're, you know, you have the relationship and a priority, like, yeah, it's really good. We ended up doing the fabrication assembly in Taiwan for various reasons.Maria [00:53:11]: And I think it really helped the fact that you went there at some point. Yeah.Ethan [00:53:15]: We're really happy with the process and, but I mean the whole process of just Choosing the right people. Choosing the right people, but also just sourcing the bill materials and all of that stuff. Like, I guess like if you have time, it's not that bad, but if you're trying to like really push the speed at that, it's incredibly stressful. Okay. We got to move to the software. Yeah.Alessio [00:53:38]: Yeah. So the hardware, maybe it's hard for people to understand, but what software people can understand is that running. Transcription and summarization, all of these things in real time every day for 24 hours a day. It's not easy. So you mentioned 200,000 tokens for a day. Yeah. How do you make it basically free to run all of this for the consumer?Ethan [00:53:59]: Well, I think that the pipeline and the inference, like people think about all of these tokens, but as you know, the price of tokens is like dramatically dropping. You guys probably have some charts somewhere that you've posted. We do. And like, if you see that trend in like 250,000 input tokens, it's not really that much, right? Like the output.swyx [00:54:21]: You do several layers. You do live. Yeah.Ethan [00:54:23]: Yeah. So the speech to text is like the most challenging part actually, because you know, it requires like real time processing and then like later processing with a larger model. And one thing that is fairly obvious is that like, you don't need to transcribe things that don't have any voice in it. Right? So good voice activity is key, right? Because like the majority of most people's day is not spent with voice activity. Right? So that is the first step to cutting down the amount of compute you have to do. And voice activity is a fairly cheap thing to do. Very, very cheap thing to do. The models that need to summarize, you don't need a Sonnet level kind of model to summarize. You do need a Sonnet level model to like execute things like the agent. And we will be having a subscription for like features like that because it's, you know, although now with the R1, like we'll see, we haven't evaluated it. A deep seek? Yeah. I mean, not that one in particular, but like, you know, they're already there that can kind of perform at that level. I was like, it's going to stay in six months, but like, yeah. So self-hosted models help in the things where you can. So you are self-hosting models. Yes. You are fine tuning your own ASR. Yes. I will say that I see in the future that everything's trending down. Although like, I think there might be an intermediary step with things to become expensive, which is like, we're really interested because like the pipeline is very tedious and like a lot of tuning. Right. Which is brutal because it's just a lot of trial and error. Whereas like, well, wouldn't it be nice if an end to end model could just do all of this and learn it? If we could do transcription with like an LLM, there's so many advantages to that, but it's going to be a larger model and hence like more compute, you know, we're optim

È stata presentata l'edizione 2024 dell'Osservatorio Artificial Intelligence del Politecnico di Milano. “È andata a maturazione l’ondata di GenAI e il mercato dei progetti è cresciuto quasi del 60% arrivando ad un valore di 1.2 miliardi di euro” spiega Giovanni Miragliotta, Direttore dell’Osservatorio. Il rapporto fotografa anche alcune criticità tra cui “la scarsa attrattività del Paese per i talenti che si occupano di IA, le difficoltà delle PMI nell’adozione di queste tecnologie, il valore medio dei finanziamenti raccolti dalle startup”. Con Nicola Gatti, docente di Informatica e Intelligenza artificiale al Politecnico di Milano, torniamo sul valore innovativo delle novità introdotte da DeepSeek.Ci occupiamo di tecnologie indossabili perché i Nuance Audio, gli occhiali Luxottica che aiutano a mettere a fuoco l’audio e a sentire meglio, hanno ottenuto le autorizzazioni per essere venduti negli Stati Uniti e in Europa senza prescrizione medica. “Parliamo di 5 microfoni, 2 altoparlanti e una batteria ma soprattutto di un processore capace di far girare un algoritmo che permette di amplificare solo cosa guardiamo e restituircelo in tempo reale senza latenza”, spiega Federico Buffa, Chief Product and Marketing Officer di EssilorLuxottica.GFK ha pubblicato i dati sull’andamento della Consumer Technology nel corso del 2024 e allora facciamo il punto con Fabrizio Marazzi, responsabile delle ricerche di mercato per l’Italia in GfK.In questi giorni sta facendo discutere la pubblicazione da parte della Commissione Europea delle linee guida sulle pratiche di intelligenza artificiale esplicitamente vietate dall’AI Act. Ne parliamo con Valentina Frediani, avvocata esperta di diritto e tecnologia, Ceo e fondatrice dello studio legale Colin & Partners.E come sempre in Digital News le notizie di innovazione e tecnologia più importanti della settimana.

Send Bidemi a Text Message!Click here to enroll in the Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) course. Use promo code TBPSALE for 20% off before January 31, 2025.In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Greg Ross-Munro, a third generation programmer, and the founder and CEO of Sourcetoad, a custom enterprise software engineering firm with offices in the USA and Australia. Sourcetoad's team of developers have built applications and games for clients like Viking Cruises, Jackson Hewitt, Procter and Gamble, Luxottica, the US Special Forces, and dozens of startups.Greg has participated, judged, organized, and sponsored almost every event of note in the Tampa Bay startup scene including Tampa Bay Bar Camp, Startup Weekend, Startup Bus (where he is also on the Board of Directors), Ignite, WaVE, and the Tampa Bay Entrepreneurship Gala. Additionally, he has been a regular and willing mentor of many young entrepreneurs while serving as a regular guest speaker at USF and UT.Greg grew up in Africa, and has lived and worked in Japan. He delights in good Scotch whisky and suffers from a dark sense of humor, and an incomprehensible patience with beautiful but temperamental British sports cars.Support the show

What comes to mind when you hear Top Gun and Tom Cruise? What about aviator shades and Ray-Ban? Whether you’re flying, driving or even walking to your next meeting, we aim to entice you to put on your sunny shades as you turn into this conversation as we speak to the parent company of Ray-Ban, EssilorLuxottica. Speaking of EssilorLuxottica, the company was formed in 2018 by the combination of Italian frame manufacturer and luxury eyewear specialist Luxottica, as well as French optical lens producer Essilor in a deal worth 46 billion euros. Fast forward to the present, EssilorLuxottica prides itself as a global leader in design, manufacture and distribution of lenses, frames and sunglasses, with over two centuries of experience behind the company. Its eyewear brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Costa, Vogue Eyewear and more. EssilorLuxottica is an interesting company to look at for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most important reason is its long term partnership with Meta to develop smart eyewear technologies. To this end, EssilorLuxottica had in April 2024 launched its second generation smart glasses with Meta, where users can engage in video calls with WhatApp and Messenger to share their views with others in real time. EssilorLuxottica also confirmed Meta’s interest to buy a stake in the company in July. But what are the opportunities when it comes down to wearable technology? Meanwhile, EssilorLuxottica agreed to purchase Supreme for US$1.5 billion to move into the streetwear segment. It also bought a 5 per cent stake in camera maker Nikon Corporation – but where do these developments fit in the bigger picture for the eyewear maker? On Under the Radar, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Alessio Smiderle, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), APAC & Greater China, EssilorLuxottica.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Source: Excerpts from "Business Engineering - The Foundational Discipline For The Modern Business Person" by FourWeekMBALink: https://businessengineer.ai/p/business-engineering-book-workshopI. Foundational Business ConceptsPorter's Diamond Model: This section introduces Porter's Diamond Model, a framework for analyzing why certain industries in specific nations achieve international competitiveness. It explains that factors beyond traditional economic theory, such as firm strategy and supporting industries, contribute to a nation's competitive advantage.Minimum Viable Product (MVP): This section explores the concept of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), emphasizing the importance of quickly testing and iterating on a product to determine its viability in the market. It also cautions against oversimplifying the MVP definition and provides examples of successful MVP implementation.Investor Relations in Blockchain: This section highlights the significance of economic incentives in blockchain protocols and the role of investor sentiment in the success of blockchain projects. It stresses the importance of monitoring investor response to the evolving blockchain ecosystem.Business Acumen & First-Principles Thinking: This section defines business acumen as the ability to comprehend and navigate business opportunities and risks effectively. It emphasizes the importance of developing this skill and introduces first-principles thinking as a method for breaking down complex problems into fundamental elements.Bounded Rationality: This section delves into the concept of bounded rationality, which posits that human decision-making is limited by cognitive capabilities and environmental factors. It explores the ecological and cognitive aspects of bounded rationality and how it challenges traditional economic models of rational decision-making.The 10X Attitude: This section advocates for adopting a "10X attitude," which involves striving for tenfold improvement rather than incremental gains. It emphasizes the importance of an audacious vision, creative problem-solving, and a first-principles approach to achieve significant success.X-Shaped People: This section argues that the traditional "T-shaped" skillset, while valuable, is insufficient for achieving ambitious goals. It proposes the concept of "X-shaped" individuals, who possess deep expertise in multiple areas combined with strong leadership and authoritative skills.II. Business Strategy & GrowthMapping the Context with Psychosizing: This section introduces psychosizing market analysis, a method for estimating market size based on the psychographics of the target audience. 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It outlines different growth profiles: gain, expand, extend, and reinvent, each with its own strategic considerations and risks.Organizational Structures: U-Form vs. M-Form: This section contrasts two primary organizational structures: U-form (unitary) and M-form (multidivisional). It explains the advantages and disadvantages of each structure, providing examples of companies that effectively utilize each model.Strategy Lever Framework & the Blue Sea Strategy: This section introduces the Strategy Lever Framework, which focuses on identifying a profitable niche to launch a product and create a feedback loop for rapid improvement. It also introduces the "Blue Sea Strategy," which emphasizes finding a minimum viable audience within an existing market rather than seeking to create an entirely new market.The Importance of Niche and Minimum Viable Audience (MVA): This section stresses the significance of starting with a niche market to validate a product and establish a feedback loop for rapid iteration. It defines the minimum viable audience (MVA) as the smallest customer segment that can sustain a business during its initial growth phase.III. Business Model AnalysisSpotify Case Study: Ad-Supported & Premium Models: This section analyzes the Spotify business model, highlighting its two-sided marketplace approach and the interplay between its ad-supported and premium subscription services. It discusses the challenges and opportunities of maintaining a free product offering while ensuring the sustainability and scalability of the overall business model.Grubhub Case Study: Valuation & Market Dominance: This section examines the Grubhub business model, focusing on its key value drivers: restaurant relationships, diner acquisition, technology, and trademark. It analyzes Grubhub's valuation, its growth strategy through mergers and acquisitions, and its position as a leading player in the food delivery market.Blockchain-Based Business Models & Steemit Case Study: This section explores the emergence of blockchain-based business models, using Steemit as a case study. It explains the Steemit platform's use of cryptocurrency (Steem, Steem Power, and Steem Dollars), its reward system for content creators and curators, and its potential to disrupt traditional social media and content monetization models.Bundler Model & Microsoft Case Study: This section introduces the bundler business model, where companies leverage their distribution networks to group multiple products or services into a single offering. It uses Microsoft as a case study, analyzing how the company has bundled products like Windows and Office to dominate the PC software market and extract maximum value from its customer base.Distribution-Based Models & Aldi Case Study: This section discusses distribution-based business models, where a company's success hinges on its ability to establish and control key distribution channels. 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It emphasizes that a business model encompasses more than just monetization; it's about value creation for multiple stakeholders and the ability to adapt and innovate over time.One-For-One Model & TOMS Shoes Case Study: This section examines the one-for-one business model, where companies donate a product or service for each sale made. It uses TOMS Shoes as a case study, analyzing how the company has successfully integrated social impact into its business model, using it as a key driver of marketing, sales, and brand loyalty.IV. Building and Scaling BusinessesGitLab Case Study: DevOps Platform & Open Core Model: This section analyzes the GitLab business model, focusing on its open-core approach to providing a comprehensive DevOps platform. It highlights the company's mission, vision, and core values, emphasizing its commitment to empowering developers and organizations to build better software.Grammarly Case Study: Freemium Model & Value Differentiation: This section examines the Grammarly business model, highlighting its freemium approach to offering grammar and writing assistance. It analyzes the company's core values, its focus on user experience, and its strategy of providing a valuable free service while incentivizing users to upgrade to premium features.DuckDuckGo Case Study: Privacy-Focused Search & Value Proposition: This section analyzes the DuckDuckGo business model, emphasizing its differentiation from Google through a privacy-focused approach to search. It discusses the company's monetization strategy through untracked advertising and affiliate marketing, highlighting the growing importance of user privacy as a key value proposition.Razor & Blade Model & Dollar Shave Club Case Study: This section explores the razor and blade revenue model, where companies sell a base product at a low margin to drive demand for high-margin consumables. It uses Dollar Shave Club as a case study, analyzing how the company disrupted the traditional razor market by flipping the model and offering a subscription service for affordable blades.Retail Business Model: Dynamics & Considerations: This section provides an overview of the retail business model, highlighting its direct-to-consumer approach, higher margins, and associated risks. It discusses factors such as local competition, wholesale price fluctuations, and the importance of building customer relationships for long-term success.WeWork Case Study: Shared Workspace & Market Opportunity: This section examines the WeWork business model, analyzing its approach to providing flexible, shared workspaces and its target market of entrepreneurs and businesses. It discusses the company's value proposition of cost savings, community building, and its ambitious growth strategy.Franchising Models: Types & Strategies: This section explores different types of franchising models, including business-format franchising, traditional franchising, and social franchising. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of each model, providing examples of companies that have successfully implemented each approach.McDonald's Case Study: Heavy-Franchise Model & Real Estate Strategy: This section analyzes the McDonald's business model, highlighting its heavy reliance on franchising and its unique approach to real estate ownership. It discusses how McDonald's maintains control over its brand and product quality while leveraging the entrepreneurial spirit of its franchisees.Brunello Cucinelli Case Study: Luxury Brand & Ethical Capitalism: This section examines the Brunello Cucinelli business model, focusing on its positioning as a luxury brand that emphasizes craftsmanship, creativity, and ethical values. It analyzes the company's unique approach to "humanist capitalism" and its commitment to social responsibility.Business Incubators: Types & Roles in Supporting Startups: This section provides an overview of business incubators and their role in supporting the growth of startups. It differentiates between various types of incubators, including non-profit, corporate, private investor, and academic incubators, highlighting their specific goals and methods.Apple Case Study: Innovation, Ecosystem, and Market Disruption: This section analyzes the Apple business model, emphasizing its focus on product innovation, ecosystem creation, and market disruption. It discusses how Apple has consistently challenged industry norms, creating new product categories and transforming the way consumers interact with technology.Marketplace Business Models: Types & Dynamics: This section introduces the concept of marketplace business models, where platforms connect buyers and sellers to facilitate transactions. It differentiates between two-sided, three-sided, and multi-sided marketplaces, providing examples of each type and highlighting the importance of network effects in their success.Luxottica Case Study: Vertical Integration & Brand Portfolio: This section examines the Luxottica business model, highlighting its vertical integration strategy, its acquisition of prominent eyewear brands, and its control over the entire value chain, from design and manufacturing to retail distribution.Bootstrapping vs. External Funding: Factors to Consider: This section discusses the key considerations when deciding between bootstrapping and seeking external funding for a business. It explores factors such as market size, growth potential, control over the company, and the founder's risk tolerance in making this crucial decision.Market Sizing Techniques: TAM, SAM, SOM, and Bottom-Up Analysis: This section introduces various techniques for estimating market size, including the TAM-SAM-SOM framework and the bottom-up approach. It explains the importance of market sizing for both businesses and investors in evaluating opportunities and making informed decisions.Source: The Business Engineer Almanack by FourWeekMBAThe Business Engineer Almanack acts as a compilation of business principles, fallacies to avoid, and thinking frameworks. It challenges conventional business wisdom and encourages readers to adopt a more nuanced and critical approach to decision-making and problem-solving. The Almanack emphasizes the importance of:Challenging Assumptions & Embracing Uncertainty: The Almanack encourages readers to question common business assumptions, recognize the limitations of traditional models, and develop strategies for navigating uncertainty and complexity.Experimentation & Iteration: The Almanack emphasizes the importance of rapid experimentation, data-driven decision-making, and continuous iteration in developing successful business models and strategies.Human-Centered Approach: The Almanack stresses the significance of understanding human behavior, motivations, and cognitive biases in designing effective business models and creating value for customers.Long-Term Thinking & Sustainability: The Almanack advocates for balancing short-term gains with long-term sustainability, considering the ethical implications of business decisions, and building organizations that create value for all stakeholders.The Almanack serves as a practical guide for aspiring and experienced business professionals, providing a framework for critical thinking, problem-solving, and navigating the complexities of the modern business world.

In this episode, we explore the dynamics of leadership and career growth in the eye care field, featuring insights from Alessandro Baronti, a veteran of the optical industry with over three decades of experience working with global brands like Luxottica, The De Rigo Group, and Marcolin. Baronti's leadership journey is marked by his authentic approach, passion for mentorship, and ability to inspire transformative change. Through his lens, we'll explore how leadership in eye care can drive innovation, improve patient care, and shape the future of eye health.

Bienvenue sur Influence Corner, le podcast à la croisée des chemins entre marques et influenceurs Comment construire un bon storytelling ?C'est le sujet que j'aborde aujourd'hui avec Yael KUSH Global PR du groupe franco-italien Essilor-Luxottica : spécialistes des verres de lunettes dont les plus connus sont Varilux. Yael est connue pour être une experte du storytelling, ses expériences en agence puis au sein du célèbre média Aufeminin racheté par TF1 lui ont permis de diversifier ses approches pour créer de la crédibilité et de la respectabilité à travers des leaders d'opinion. Dans cette conversation,Yael partage : Les ingrédients pour construire un bon storyteling, élément essentiel à toute stratégie d'influence. Sa manière de travailler avec les influenceurs pour incarner profondément le messageL'agilité nécessaire pour adapter sa stratégie d'influence à l'échelle mondiale. N'hésitez pas à partager autour de vous cet épisode et soutenir le podcast, en laissant 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcast et Spotify ça m'aide énormément pour le référencement !Besoin de poser les bases de votre stratégie digitale : cliquez ici et choisissez la formule qui vous convient le mieux. Bonne écouteMyriam Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

On last week's Meta earnings call, Zuckerberg reported that demand for the Ray-Ban 'Smart Glasses' was “...still outpacing our ability to build them.” Either demand is through the roof (not seeing it), or the capacity to produce them is still developing (likely). Regardless, it appears optical-based assisted intelligence is here to stay in one form or several. On Episode 51 of the SaaS Brand Strategy Show, Dustin and Mike dig into the recent acquisitions and investments in and around the emerging category, including: Luxottica's acquisition of Supreme for $1.5 billion and Meta's investment in Luxottica The potential strategic rationale behind these moves, such as gaining access to digitally native consumers and the metaverse Concerns about VF Corp's ability to maintain the authenticity and appeal of acquired brands like Supreme The importance of staying connected to a brand's core community and maintaining its "soul" as it grows The role of wearable technology and personalized AI experiences in the future of consumer engagement Is the Face Tech category a true complement or the latest turn on, tune in, drop out distraction?

Adam & Adir discuss how Essilor Luxottica built the world's best monopoly, Inflation in Sports Star Salaries, chat to Rich List Star Correspondent John Stensholt and the incredible power of Apple and Google

This week, we delve into Meta's partnership with Luxottica and the future of smart glasses, examine the implications of CrowdStrike's recent software glitch, and explore Howard's DGEN Economy index and its performance. JC provide's insights on market rotations from tech to financials and small caps, the resurgence of regional banks and transportation stocks, and Riley explains this week's Trends with No Friends pick for an underfollowed stock—TE Connectivity. — This episode is brought to you by Chart Art. The best trade ideas and analysis from the Stocktwits community. Delivered daily by 8 pm ET: https://chartart.stocktwits.com/ — Skip Ahead: (00:00) Meta to buy Luxottica? (07:35) Is the market correcting? (12:59) The size of the internet today (15:15) Challenges for OpenAI (23:51) JC's chart pick: large-, mid-, and small-cap financials (27:40) Howard's picks: Gold, Solana, and Bitcoin (32:44) The bullish nature of election years (36:45) A look back on TwF bets (38:20) CrowdStrike's software glitch and implications  (47:23) Other ATH's: healthcare, transportation, and more (54:26) TE Connectivity: An underfollowed gem (58:46) Howard's DGEN portfolio  (01:04:28) Stocktoberfest (01:05:25) StockTwits' new earnings call feature — Referenced: • Meta in talks to buy 5% stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, WSJ reports: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/meta-explores-stake-ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-ft-reports-2024-07-18/ • AI: OpenAI's variable costs at AI Scale. RTZ #428: https://michaelparekh.substack.com/p/ai-openais-variable-costs-at-ai-scale?r=swr&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true • Gary Marcus's Tweet: https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/1816116071226868085 • Ben Thompson on the Crowdstrike crash: https://x.com/stratechery/status/1815393309084537292 • Howard's Degenerate Economy Index: https://gothematic.com/index/degencom?utm_source=www.howardlindzon.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=an-update-on-the-degenerate-economy-and-some-rules-and-advice • Stocktwits Calendar (tune in to listen to earnings calls live): https://stocktwits.com/markets/calendar • Stocktoberfest: https://stocktoberfest.stocktwits.com/ — Where To Find Howard and Friends: • Howard - https://stocktwits.com/howardlindzon • JC - https://stocktwits.com/allstarcharts • Phil - https://stocktwits.com/ppearlman • Michael - https://stocktwits.com/MParekh • Riley - https://stocktwits.com/coloradoriley • Production and Marketing - https://penname.co/ — Trends with Friends is brought to you by Stocktwits: https://stocktwits.com/ — Disclaimer: All opinions expressed on this show are solely the opinions of the hosts' and guests' and do not reflect the opinions of Stocktwits, Inc. or its affiliates. The hosts are not SEC or FINRA registered advisors or professionals. The content of this show is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Please consult with your financial advisor before making any investment decision. Read the full terms & conditions here: https://stocktwits.com/c/uncategorized/2024/02/21/stocktwits-newsletter-disclaimer/

Subscribe to the Throwing Fits Substack. Let's get dirty. This week, Jimmy and Larry linked for a loose weekend pod on welcoming everyone to our new Rec Center, it's finally time to really talk about jellies, the pod even inspires our fits too, the art of tasteful lowkey matching, Supreme gets flipped again this time to evil Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica and speculative scenarios of what happens next, imagining Hypebeast VR, Ray-Ban as a cautionary tale, the 2024 Republican National Grindr Meetup Convention, Online Ceramics break up and a brief history of streetwear graphic design language before we end on a robust discussion of all the things we've had to pretend to care about both professionally and personally over the years for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: Supreme, video games, Jordans, indie rap and rock, Star Wars, Marvel movies and, yes, even The Lord of the Rings. Apologies in advance.

Sino e Dom tornano con un nuovo episodio discutendo dell'abbandono di Biden alla rielezione in seguito alla pressione dei democrats e dei donatori del partito, cosa succede ora e possibili scenari futuri nelle elezioni USA, il bug di Crowdstrike che ha mandato in tilt tutti i computer Windows di Microsoft in giro per il mondo con ingenti danni economici e disagi, il rischio sistemico di fragilità informatiche e la croce e delizia di oligopoli. Passano poi a discutere di Luxottica: lo stake di Meta nell'azienda, l'acquisizione di Supreme e il mondo della moda. In fine serie televisive che spettacolarizzano le tragedie e possibili errori nei processi, e chaos alle feste popolari. Apri il link per sottoscrivere ad un piano Zencastr usufruendo dello sconto Expatriati del 30% https://zen.ai/u1PcslG4r8g7s1ZYsg35qw

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Sometimes, we need to leave the lingo to the professionals!J5 and Josh Peas return to The BlkPrint this week with new passport stamps, new weight loss (from food poisoning) and a laundry list of moments to catch up with in the community. Hear Josh share his experience in London while attending this year's Wireless Festival, including some special shoutouts to the artists pushing the genre forward overseas! Also tune in for the very latest changes in Young Thug's YSL trial, Supreme's game changing sale to Luxottica, the excitement in the gaming industry after EA Sports' release of 'College Football 25' and our TV updates for 'Love Island', 'The Bear' and more. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Sophie Boulanger, co-founder of BonLook, dives into how the company shook up Canada's eyewear scene. Sophie talks about her entrepreneurial path, inspired by her family and shaped by her experiences at L'Oreal Canada and Luxottica. They delve into BonLook's inception and strategic decisions, including cutting out middlemen, expanding store presence, and picking prime locations, along with insights on hiring for retail. Finally, Sophie discusses why she sold BonLook, her future aspirations, and her intention to remain active in tech and entrepreneurship.- - - - - - - - - - - -BonLook website https://www.bonlook.ca/BonLook Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bonlook/Sophie Boulanger https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-boulanger-19b2b71/- - - - - - - - - - - -Show Notes:02:44 From corporate to eyewear entrepreneur04:57 Disrupting the eyewear industry10:51 Challenges and innovations in online retail13:09 The strategic shift to brick-and-mortar stores21:19 Building a successful retail team25:43 The financial anatomy of a retail store29:05 Optimizing sales per square footage30:22 Navigating challenges of underperforming stores32:06 The importance of real estate and lease negotiations35:10 Reflecting on a successful exit strategy- - - - - - - - - - - - Links DiscussedL'Oreal https://www.loreal.com/Luxottica https://www.essilorluxottica.com/Oakley https://www.oakley.com/Ray Ban https://www.ray-ban.com/Vogue Eyewear https://www.vogue-eyewear.com/LensCrafters https://www.lenscrafters.ca/SunglassesHut https://www.sunglasshut.com/Warby Parker https://warbyparker.com/- - - - - - - - - - - - Additional Episodes You Might Enjoy:How Slowtide Turned Towels Cool and Built a Multi-Million Dollar Business in the ProcessHow Product Seeding Helped Scent Lab Garner Millions in Earned MediaHow Deux Harnessed TikTok to Challenge Incumbents like Pillsbury, Nestle and Hostess- - - - - - - - - - - - Past guests on the Pop Up Report include Lanny Smith (Actively Black), Drew Green (Indochino), Ryan Babenzien (Jolie Skin Co). - - - - - - - - - - - - The Pop Up Report interviews DTC and CPG founders to uncover how they fostered and scaled their communities to create profitable businesses. Gain a deeper understanding of the tools, tactics and retention strategies that build true customer loyalty.Subscribe to the Pop Up Report on Substack or YouTube for more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thepopupreport.com

Sylvia Dennis-Wray, originally hailing from Perry, GA but raised in Linden, NJ, embarked on a remarkable journey that has touched the lives of many. Her career began in the corporate realm, where she held pivotal positions in renowned companies such as Schering-Plough Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, and Luxottica. However, her life took a different turn when she returned to Georgia in 2005, igniting her entrepreneurial spirit and opening a restaurant business alongside her husband, Orville "Scottie" Wray. During the formative stages of her business venture, life threw a significant challenge her way when her mother, Ruby Dennis, suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm. Sylvia stepped into the role of her mother's caregiver, demonstrating her unwavering commitment to family and responsibility. Sylvia's ongoing efforts continue to uplift and inspire those around her, earning her numerous accolades and recognitions, including the "2021 Southern Crescent Women in Business Non-Profit of the Year Award," "2022 National Women's History Month Award," and the "2023 Top 50 Southern Crescent Women of Influence." Sylvia Dennis-Wray is not just a remarkable individual; she is a true force for good in her community and beyond. Welcome to Women, Wealth & Entrepreneurship with Ariel Shaw, MBA! We want to increase your bottom line and create generational wealth that lasts way beyond you! It's 2024, the year of Reinvention & Domination. Our 2024 Media Participants Include Kenya Simmons of Kenya Simmons Real Estate & T&J Industries Development & Contracting, Monique Gibson of Our Rising Angels Personal Care Home, LLC;Demetria Winters of Black Butterfly Queens Life Coaching; Yvette D. Best of Best Services Unlimited LLC; Mica Williams of Mica Williams State Farm Agency; and Alicia Williams of The Dazzling Diva Collection. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalwomeninbusines/message

You can't think of eyewear now without the brand Warby Parker coming to mind.    But it wasn't always that way.    Before Warby Parker reigned supreme, Luxottica owned a monopoly over the eyewear industry. So how did Warby Parker manage to defy the odds and capture the loyalty of a nation?   Aidan's revealing Warby Parker's masterclass playbook in undercutting the competition, aligning internal values with public perception, and creating a frictionless funnel that enforces brand loyalty.    Tune in to find out how Warby Parker went total beast mode to disrupt an entire industry. Dare we say… you might even look at eyewear marketing through a new lens?   Digital marketers, start working smarter with Wix Studio, THE web platform for agencies and enterprises.  After you deliver in record time, Wix Studio's built-ins, like automatic redirects, help sites stay optimized for long-term growth. Less repetition, more growth. Visit https://www.wix.com/studio for more information Follow Aidan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidanbrannigan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BranniganAidan TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aidan_brannigan   Follow Daniel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themarketingmillennials/featured Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Dmurr68 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-murray-marketing   Sign up for The Marketing Millennials newsletter:  www.workweek.com/brand/the-marketing-millennials   Daniel is a Workweek friend, working to produce amazing podcasts. To find out more, visit: www.workweek.com  

This is episode #320 and today's guest is Mike Duda, Managing Partner at Bullish. Peloton, Harry's, Warby Parker, Casper, Birchbox… these are all iconic direct-to-consumer brands that have all disrupted various categories that were ripe for disruption. Take Warby Parker, the eyewear company that disrupted Luxottica's business which pretty much owned the whole market from eyewear brands to storefronts. Or Casper, the company that made the process of purchasing a mattress much more enjoyable. A common thread for all of these companies is Bullish. One-part consumer investment firm, one-part strategic agency, Bullish blends capital, consulting and creation to design the most remarkable businesses in the world. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * A discussion on the state of the state of the consumer market and a dive into Function of Beauty, a personalized shampoo DTC company. * Mike's background story and initial career through the ranks in the agency world. * A sincere nod of appreciation to First Round Capital for starting office hours for startups and how they were helpful to both of us starting our own businesses. * The story of Bullish and how they set out to build a different firm through its project based work and investments. * What it's like building a Super Bowl commercial for a brand. * The investment criteria for Bullish and what he means by a “chip on the shoulder” entrepreneur. * And so much more.

Passion Gabourel v. Luxottica of America, Inc.

My guest today is Jawad Bisbis. After starting his marketing career at Procter & Gamble, Jawad has held senior roles at 7Eleven, Focus Brands, Coca Cola, and Luxottica, right up to his current role as global VP of marketing at Ball Corporation. He holds a master's degree from KEDGE business school in France and is fluent in Arabic and French.

Medioriente: violata la tregua, riprendono gli scontri. Ci colleghiamo con Gerusalemme dove c’è Giampaolo Musumeci, che questa settimana trasmette con “Nessun Luogo è Lontano” proprio dalla capitale israeliana. Cop28: raggiunto accordo sul sostegno ai paesi più poveri. Oggi a Dubai i capi di Stato. In collegamento con noi Ferdinando Cotugno, giornalista del Domani. In testa alla classifica delle buone notizie della settimana c’è la sperimentazione della settimana lavorativa di quattro giorni da parte di Luxottica. Ne parliamo con Cristina Casadei del Sole 24 Ore.

Alla Cop28 (che si tiene a Dubai non in Arabia Saudita) hanno reso operativo il fondo Loss and Damage, Cervinia non cambierà nome alla fine e in Nepal hanno fatto passi avanti queer. Le multe ricordate che vi arrivano per posta, Luxottica farà lavorare i suoi dipendenti 4 giorni a settimana con la stessa paga e New York non sarà più a prova di Spider-Man. Questo e altro nella puntata di oggi, buona giornata!

After a 16 year career building out digital commerce capability for companies in pillars such as CPG, Luxury, Beauty and Apparel, Katharine McKee founded Morphology Consulting, a digital commerce consultancy that creates long term profitable growth for their clients by helping them understand and adhere to algorithmic systems online. A Forbes Next 1000 honoree and veteran in digital commerce, Katharine is a leader in ecommerce and an expert on systems, who focuses on building profitable growth models for brands and retailers. To date, Katharine has overhauled the digital go-to-market for more than 50 brands, including Fortune 500's such as Coty, Luxottica and IPG Media Brands and has sustainably increased client's revenue up to 600% YoY. On this episode, Katharine speaks with Priya Jain about how she got her start in e-commerce and what her career path might have looked like had she not lost her athletic scholarship due to injury.

“Simplifying the complex is hard - really distilling the essentials, making your thoughts and rationale as strong as possible. Make sure that it says something about you.” Jawad Bisbis is the Global VP of Marketing at Ball Corporation where he leads marketing and partnerships for Ball's aluminum cup business. Jawad was previously 7-Eleven's VP Proprietary Beverages, where he oversaw the coffee, fountain and frozen business across 10,000 stores nationwide. Before joining 7-Eleven, Jawad was a VP of Marketing at Focus Brands, a foodservice chain where he provided marketing leadership across more than 50 international markets and 2000 stores.  Jawad also worked for Luxottica as Group marketing director for the Middle-East & Africa business, and  fifteen years with The Coca-Cola Company in diverse markets and roles. Jawad started his marketing career with Procter & Gamble where he held various brand management positions. He holds a Master's Degree from Kedge Business School in France and is fluent in Arabic and French. Jawad is  married with two children, and when he's not working, he enjoys watching soccer, playing tennis, and mentoring college and early career youths in underserved communities.  You'll enjoy this candid conversation about cultivating a different point of view and pushing yourself to being a lifelong learner.

Ce vendredi 14 juillet 2023, Pascale Seivy, team manager chez ODDO BHF Private Bank, et Alain Pitous, senior advisor ESG, se sont penchés sur les titres Xylem et Luxottica, dans On achète ou on vend ? dans l'émission C'est Votre Argent présentée par Marc Fiorentino. C'est Votre Argent est à voir ou écouter le vendredi sur BFM Business.

Greg Ross-Munro and his company Sourcetoad create software for some of the biggest companies in the world, helping them design API management systems,  financial tools, and customer facing apps. Join Jim and Greg as they explore how non-tech companies can transform themselves into tech-enabled businesses. This transformation isn't about implementing technology because you think you need to. This requires a purposeful approach that aligns technology solutions with your strategic goals. 3 Key TakeawaysKnow Your Clients' Customers: How well do you know your clients' customers? Don't solely focus on your client because they're paying you. The success of their customers is tied to your success. Make it a goal to understand the desires, expectations, and pains of your clients' customers. Get Out Of Your Company's Way: In the early stages, a founder is instrumental to a company's success. But as the company matures, they can be its biggest impediment. Many people reject that the “founders' dilemma” applies to them, after all—it's only other companies this applies to

I've built Concave Brand Tracking from nothing into a six-figure market research company that counts amongst its clients Dell, Anheuser-Busch, Luxottica, Toyota, and Moet Hennessy. I have done this primarily by positioning both the company and myself as the world's foremost expert in the niche field of product placement data analysis.

This week we discuss Private Equity buying New Relic and review the Gartner MQ for APM like no one else. Plus, some thoughts on yogurt, fruit and almonds… Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 416 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxODnsIekJo) Runner-up Titles How big are your almonds? It's under consideration The Olympics of Monitoring Putting Hats on Cats Stanley Nickels for Monitoring The 3 Fines It's just crazy enough [that] it might work I was told the test was log management IDC is the thin balogna Rundown New Relic is getting bought so let's overanalyze the APM MQ WSJ News Exclusive | Software Company New Relic in Talks to Be Sold (https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-company-new-relic-in-talks-to-be-sold-8079db4e) 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - For APM and Observability (https://www.dynatrace.com/monitoring/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-application-performance-monitoring-observability/) IDC APM marketshare from 2021 (https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US49596822&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY) Relevant to your Interests Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/kustomer-meta-spin-out/) Harvard's Famous Study on Happiness Might Surprise You - Meetup Blog (https://www.meetup.com/blog/harvards-famous-study-on-happiness-might-surprise-you/) Historical software multiples at IPO (https://twitter.com/glennsolomon/status/1658873511233093632) Introducing the ChatGPT app for iOS (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-chatgpt-app-for-ios) Luxottica confirms 2021 data breach after info of 70M leaks online (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/luxottica-confirms-2021-data-breach-after-info-of-70m-leaks-online/) Redpanda CEO on business source (BSL) over open source (https://youtu.be/Yp2KtNRAzxA) Australian stock exchange says software overhaul won't involve blockchain (https://www.reuters.com/markets/australian-stock-exchange-says-software-overhaul-wont-involve-blockchain-2023-05-19/) Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) agreed to buy Giphy (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-fba83bc3-5b15-4374-8a3d-8d2829b1d001.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1) The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023 (https://www.theverge.com/23734104/microsoft-build-2023-ai-bing-copilot) Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/microsoft-launches-fabric-a-new-end-to-end-data-and-analytics-platform/) Alibaba misses revenue estimate, approves cloud unit spinoff (https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alibaba-fourth-quarter-revenue-rises-2-2023-05-18/) Laid-off Big Tech workers are getting invited to return—on unfavorable terms (https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2023/05/12/laid-off-big-tech-workers-are-getting-invited-to-return-on-unfavorable-terms?cid=31524316.162675&mblid=bfd7ff44f422&mid=eb84400822928b8efbb6c2dcb0460be6&utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew) Nonsense A Texas A&M-Commerce Rodeo Instructor failed his entire class due to a basic misunderstanding of how "Chat GTP" works (https://softwaredefinedtalk.slack.com/archives/C04GSN7U5S9/p1684426841082349) The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World will take its final voyage (https://twitter.com/ScottGustin/status/1659276676889473050) Opening 100 pppts at once? 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We're taking a critical look at one of the most important parts of a patent case: claim construction. Michael Friedland, co-chair of Knobbe Martens' litigation practice group, is uniquely qualified to help us unpack claim construction, advocacy, and the importance of natural language—utilizing plain and ordinary meanings when urging proposed constructions of disputed claim language. In this episode, Jeff Harty and Michael Friedland discuss: The role of claim construction in a patent dispute. Balancing the simplification of technology so a judge can understand it without simplifying to the point of inaccuracy. Knowing your audience and changing your approach to the court. The role of expert testimony in claim construction (and when not to use an expert). Key Takeaways: Keep it clear, keep it simple, and work together with the court to sort out any confusion regarding the relevant technology and to adopt the proper interpretation of the claim language. Start giving claim construction serious thought when you first look into the case, even before it is filed. A good brief can help somebody pick which claim construction to use and help them get it right. The simpler claim construction is often the one that wins. An expert is someone outside your control and can cause confusion when it wasn't necessary based on the record you already have. “I want whatever we are doing to seem simple, natural, and not contrived.” —Michael Friedland   About Michael Friedland: Mike has three decades of intellectual property enforcement experience and is the co-chair of Knobbe Martens' litigation practice group. Since 2000, he has represented clients in more than 200 intellectual property cases in courts in California and 21 other states.Focused on patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters, Mike's cases have spanned a range of industries and technologies, including consumer products, semiconductors, tactical products, medical devices, computer software, apparel, restaurants, and financial services.He has represented brand-name companies including Oakley, Luxottica, ITT, Makita, Pacific Life Insurance Company, Carl's Jr., Microsemi, NASCAR, Daytona International Speedway, Game Show Network, Razor, Volcom, Specialized Bicycle, Mexicana Airlines, and SRS Labs.Mike is the secretary of the Harvard Law School Association and a member of its executive committee. He is a co-founder and former president of the Harvard Law School Association of Orange County. He is a member of INTA's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Mike has taught as an adjunct professor at the Whittier School of Law and served as a JAG officer with the California State Military Reserve. He worked as a reserve deputy with the Orange County Sheriff's Department for 16 years, retiring as a lieutenant.Connect with Michael Friedland: Website: https://www.knobbe.com/ Website: https://www.knobbe.com/attorneys/michael-friedland Email: michael.friedland@knobbe.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-friedland-43a76a1/ Connect with Jeff Harty: Website: https://nyemaster.com/attorney-directory/jeffrey-d-harty/Email: jharty@nyemaster.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-harty-5a9a1643/

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In episode 293, Kestrel welcomes Jenna Hanson and Jon Hershman, the cofounders of Revival Eyewear, to the show. Offering an extensive collection of deadstock vintage glasses and sunglasses, Revival Eyewear is dedicated to reminding us that it's possible for old things to be elevated in both quality and style.  “I fell in love with the glasses and the idea that these were vintage but brand new. I had never in my life heard of that concept — deadstock, new old stock. It was so fascinating to me. At Jon's shop in PB, I would take them out of their cases and just be like — what is this? This is a YSL from the 1970s, it has its original packaging, I can't believe this exists.” -Jenna Another niche (yet massive) realm of the fashion industry that we rarely discuss is the GLASSES industry. I'm talking sunglasses and eyeglasses – which I would say are a very integral part of the world of fashion and style. This week's guests started a company where they sell unworn deadstock frames from the ‘60s to the ‘00s. If they were made so long ago, how were they never worn? Where have they been sitting, waiting to find a face to wear them? Well, we get into that. Also, we get into the mud about the powerful Italian conglomerate that owns SO MANY PIECES of the eyewear industry – from insurance companies to eyewear brands to manufacturing to retail eyewear stores. It's amazing the stronghold this megacompany has on today's eyewear industry. Just as we talk about with the fast fashion industry, the eyewear industry has lost much of its quality luster. We often refer to the planned obsolescence of our era, and how — “They just don't make them like they used to.” Well, my guests actually have the knowledge to articulate what makes vintage glasses so different from their current counterparts. What has changed in how they're made today, and what aspects of craftsmanship made them so elevated back n the day? We also touch on the massive waste that the glasses industry is generating, considering the materiality and disposable approach to manufacturing them today. It's wild to think that the styles made today may never be considered *deadstock* or deemed worthy to resell.  Quotes & links from the conversation: “Meet the Four-Eyed, Eight-Tentacled Monopoly That is Making Your Glasses So Expensive”, article in Forbes, that explores some of the power of Luxottica “Eyeglass Start-Up Ready to Battle Industry Titan, Sets Sights on Online Growth”, article in Yahoo Finance, that explores some of the power of Luxottica “We went to a conference last year called Vision Expo, and it was literally just Luxottica everywhere — so they own lenses, they own the lens manufacturer, they own the frame, they own the insurance, they own the places to sell the glasses. I don't know how it gets any more monopoly than that. They own LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Target Optical, Pearl Vision, they own the big online store EyeBuyDirect, they own the insurance company EyeMed, and then, just about all of the brands that are inside of a LensCrafters or Sunglass Hut like RayBan, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples - everything basically that you can find inside those stores, they also own those brands.” -Jenna & Jon (20:58) Revival Eyewear Follow Revival Eyewear on Instagram >

Présentation de l'invitée : Ahlem signifie à la fois « rêve » en arabe et « le monde » en éthiopien : un prénom annonciateur de grande chose pour Ahlem Manai-Platt, fondatrice de la marque éponyme. Fondée en 2014, AHLEM propose des lunettes d'exception fabriquées à la main en France, par une poignée d'artisans au talent et au savoir-faire aussi exceptionnels que remarquables. Guidée par l'intuition, le bon sens et surtout la confiance inébranlable en son produit et en ceux qui le fabrique, AHLEM a su séduire en quelques années seulement, une clientèle exigeante et soucieuse d'un savoir-faire alliant esthétique et technicité. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Ahlem Manai-Platt revient sur tout son parcours, ses débuts dans le milieu de la mode, sa culture tunisienne, le succès quasi-immédiat de sa marque, ce qui fait la spécificité de ses lunettes et son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français. « Je ne cherche jamais à ce que l'on me tape sur l'épaule pour savoir si ce que je fais est bien, tu dois toujours avoir confiance en ce que tu fais. La confiance est ton armure. » Ce que vous allez apprendre dans cet épisode : Ahlem Manai-Platt se présente Ses débuts chez Acne puis Miu Miu Ses workshops pour la Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin Sa culture tunisienne Les débuts de sa marque Son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français La particularité de ses lunettes Des clientes prestigieuses comme Beyoncé, Kendall Jenner ou encore Jessica Alba Ses différents milestones Son programme Reframe L'importance d'avoir confiance en soi et en ce que l'on fait Ses inspirations Qui elle souhaiterait entendre dans ce podcast « Pour la plupart des gens, AHLEM ne signifie rien : ceux qui achètent nos lunettes le font uniquement pour la qualité du produit. » « Dans l'inconscient collectif, le lourd renvoie au luxe, mais le poids n'est pas toujours un dénominateur de qualité : nous avons créé des outils qui nous permettent de proposer des lunettes extrêmement légères qui ne vous pèsent pas, ne vous marquent pas et qui, au contraire, vous accompagnent. » « Le jetable ne m'intéresse pas : je crée des lunettes sans concession qui peuvent continuer à être portées, même après 10 ans et si jamais vous n'en voulez plus, on vous les rachète. » N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire à la newsletter de Entreprendre Dans La Mode, les industries créatives et l'art de vivre sur www.entreprendredanslamode.com. Aussi, si vous souhaitez me contacter ou me suggérer de nouveaux invités, vous pouvez le faire sur Instagram sous le pseudonyme @entreprendredanslamode. Enfin, le plus important : laissez-moi un avis sur Apple Podcast ou iTunes, 5 étoiles de préférence ; cela m'aide à faire connaître le podcast à plus de monde et me motive à faire de meilleures interviews ! Merci de soutenir ce podcast et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! Références : AHLEM : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/ Agence CAPA : https://www.capacorporate.com/ Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin : https://pretaporter.com/ Acne studios : https://www.acnestudios.com/fr/fr/home Miu Miu : https://www.miumiu.com/fr/fr.html Colette : https://www.colette.fr/ SILMO Paris : https://www.silmoparis.com/ Luxottica : https://www.luxottica.com/en CFDA : https://cfda.com/members/profile/ahlem-manai-platt Reframed : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/pages/reframed Magna Presse : https://magnapresse.fr/ Aesop : https://www.aesop.com/fr/fr/

Présentation de l'invitée : Ahlem signifie à la fois « rêve » en arabe et « le monde » en éthiopien : un prénom annonciateur de grande chose pour Ahlem Manai-Platt, fondatrice de la marque éponyme. Fondée en 2014, AHLEM propose des lunettes d'exception fabriquées à la main en France, par une poignée d'artisans au talent et au savoir-faire aussi exceptionnels que remarquables. Guidée par l'intuition, le bon sens et surtout la confiance inébranlable en son produit et en ceux qui le fabrique, AHLEM a su séduire en quelques années seulement, une clientèle exigeante et soucieuse d'un savoir-faire alliant esthétique et technicité. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Ahlem Manai-Platt revient sur tout son parcours, ses débuts dans le milieu de la mode, sa culture tunisienne, le succès quasi-immédiat de sa marque, ce qui fait la spécificité de ses lunettes et son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français. « Je ne cherche jamais à ce que l'on me tape sur l'épaule pour savoir si ce que je fais est bien, tu dois toujours avoir confiance en ce que tu fais. La confiance est ton armure. » Ce que vous allez apprendre dans cet épisode : Ahlem Manai-Platt se présente Ses débuts chez Acne puis Miu Miu Ses workshops pour la Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin Sa culture tunisienne Les débuts de sa marque Son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français La particularité de ses lunettes Des clientes prestigieuses comme Beyoncé, Kendall Jenner, Jessica Alba ou encore LeBron James Ses différents milestones Son programme Reframe L'importance d'avoir confiance en soi et en ce que l'on fait Ses inspirations Qui elle souhaiterait entendre dans ce podcast « Pour la plupart des gens, AHLEM ne signifie rien : ceux qui achètent nos lunettes le font uniquement pour la qualité du produit. » « Dans l'inconscient collectif, le lourd renvoie au luxe, mais le poids n'est pas toujours un dénominateur de qualité : nous avons créé des outils qui nous permettent de proposer des lunettes extrêmement légères qui ne vous pèsent pas, ne vous marquent pas et qui, au contraire, vous accompagnent. » « Le jetable ne m'intéresse pas : je crée des lunettes sans concession qui peuvent continuer à être portées, même après 10 ans et si jamais vous n'en voulez plus, on vous les rachète. » N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire à la newsletter de Entreprendre Dans La Mode, les industries créatives et l'art de vivre sur www.entreprendredanslamode.com. Aussi, si vous souhaitez me contacter ou me suggérer de nouveaux invités, vous pouvez le faire sur Instagram sous le pseudonyme @entreprendredanslamode. Enfin, le plus important : laissez-moi un avis sur Apple Podcast ou iTunes, 5 étoiles de préférence ; cela m'aide à faire connaître le podcast à plus de monde et me motive à faire de meilleures interviews ! Merci de soutenir ce podcast et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! Références : AHLEM : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/ Agence CAPA : https://www.capacorporate.com/ Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin : https://pretaporter.com/ Acne studios : https://www.acnestudios.com/fr/fr/home Miu Miu : https://www.miumiu.com/fr/fr.html Colette : https://www.colette.fr/ SILMO Paris : https://www.silmoparis.com/ Luxottica : https://www.luxottica.com/en CFDA : https://cfda.com/members/profile/ahlem-manai-platt Reframed : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/pages/reframed Magna Presse : https://magnapresse.fr/ Aesop : https://www.aesop.com/fr/fr/

Présentation de l'invitée : Ahlem signifie à la fois « rêve » en arabe et « le monde » en éthiopien : un prénom annonciateur de grande chose pour Ahlem Manai-Platt, fondatrice de la marque éponyme. Fondée en 2014, AHLEM propose des lunettes d'exception fabriquées à la main en France, par une poignée d'artisans au talent et au savoir-faire aussi exceptionnels que remarquables. Guidée par l'intuition, le bon sens et surtout la confiance inébranlable en son produit et en ceux qui le fabrique, AHLEM a su séduire en quelques années seulement, une clientèle exigeante et soucieuse d'un savoir-faire alliant esthétique et technicité. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Ahlem Manai-Platt revient sur tout son parcours, ses débuts dans le milieu de la mode, sa culture tunisienne, le succès quasi-immédiat de sa marque, ce qui fait la spécificité de ses lunettes et son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français. « Je ne cherche jamais à ce que l'on me tape sur l'épaule pour savoir si ce que je fais est bien, tu dois toujours avoir confiance en ce que tu fais. La confiance est ton armure. » Ce que vous allez apprendre dans cet épisode : Ahlem Manai-Platt se présente Ses débuts chez Acne puis Miu Miu Ses workshops pour la Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin Sa culture tunisienne Les débuts de sa marque Son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français La particularité de ses lunettes Des clientes prestigieuses comme Beyoncé, Kendall Jenner ou encore Jessica Alba Ses différents milestones Son programme Reframe L'importance d'avoir confiance en soi et en ce que l'on fait Ses inspirations Qui elle souhaiterait entendre dans ce podcast « Pour la plupart des gens, AHLEM ne signifie rien : ceux qui achètent nos lunettes le font uniquement pour la qualité du produit. » « Dans l'inconscient collectif, le lourd renvoie au luxe, mais le poids n'est pas toujours un dénominateur de qualité : nous avons créé des outils qui nous permettent de proposer des lunettes extrêmement légères qui ne vous pèsent pas, ne vous marquent pas et qui, au contraire, vous accompagnent. » « Le jetable ne m'intéresse pas : je crée des lunettes sans concession qui peuvent continuer à être portées, même après 10 ans et si jamais vous n'en voulez plus, on vous les rachète. » N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire à la newsletter de Entreprendre Dans La Mode, les industries créatives et l'art de vivre sur www.entreprendredanslamode.com. Aussi, si vous souhaitez me contacter ou me suggérer de nouveaux invités, vous pouvez le faire sur Instagram sous le pseudonyme @entreprendredanslamode. Enfin, le plus important : laissez-moi un avis sur Apple Podcast ou iTunes, 5 étoiles de préférence ; cela m'aide à faire connaître le podcast à plus de monde et me motive à faire de meilleures interviews ! Merci de soutenir ce podcast et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! Références : AHLEM : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/ Agence CAPA : https://www.capacorporate.com/ Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin : https://pretaporter.com/ Acne studios : https://www.acnestudios.com/fr/fr/home Miu Miu : https://www.miumiu.com/fr/fr.html Colette : https://www.colette.fr/ SILMO Paris : https://www.silmoparis.com/ Luxottica : https://www.luxottica.com/en CFDA : https://cfda.com/members/profile/ahlem-manai-platt Reframed : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/pages/reframed Magna Presse : https://magnapresse.fr/ Aesop : https://www.aesop.com/fr/fr/

Présentation de l'invitée : Ahlem signifie à la fois « rêve » en arabe et « le monde » en éthiopien : un prénom annonciateur de grande chose pour Ahlem Manai-Platt, fondatrice de la marque éponyme. Fondée en 2014, AHLEM propose des lunettes d'exception fabriquées à la main en France, par une poignée d'artisans au talent et au savoir-faire aussi exceptionnels que remarquables. Guidée par l'intuition, le bon sens et surtout la confiance inébranlable en son produit et en ceux qui le fabrique, AHLEM a su séduire en quelques années seulement, une clientèle exigeante et soucieuse d'un savoir-faire alliant esthétique et technicité. Dans ce nouvel épisode, Ahlem Manai-Platt revient sur tout son parcours, ses débuts dans le milieu de la mode, sa culture tunisienne, le succès quasi-immédiat de sa marque, ce qui fait la spécificité de ses lunettes et son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français. « Je ne cherche jamais à ce que l'on me tape sur l'épaule pour savoir si ce que je fais est bien, tu dois toujours avoir confiance en ce que tu fais. La confiance est ton armure. » Ce que vous allez apprendre dans cet épisode : Ahlem Manai-Platt se présente Ses débuts chez Acne puis Miu Miu Ses workshops pour la Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin Sa culture tunisienne Les débuts de sa marque Son attachement viscéral au savoir-faire français La particularité de ses lunettes Des clientes prestigieuses comme Beyoncé, Kendall Jenner ou encore Jessica Alba Ses différents milestones Son programme Reframe L'importance d'avoir confiance en soi et en ce que l'on fait Ses inspirations Qui elle souhaiterait entendre dans ce podcast « Pour la plupart des gens, AHLEM ne signifie rien : ceux qui achètent nos lunettes le font uniquement pour la qualité du produit. » « Dans l'inconscient collectif, le lourd renvoie au luxe, mais le poids n'est pas toujours un dénominateur de qualité : nous avons créé des outils qui nous permettent de proposer des lunettes extrêmement légères qui ne vous pèsent pas, ne vous marquent pas et qui, au contraire, vous accompagnent. » « Le jetable ne m'intéresse pas : je crée des lunettes sans concession qui peuvent continuer à être portées, même après 10 ans et si jamais vous n'en voulez plus, on vous les rachète. » N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire à la newsletter de Entreprendre Dans La Mode, les industries créatives et l'art de vivre sur www.entreprendredanslamode.com. Aussi, si vous souhaitez me contacter ou me suggérer de nouveaux invités, vous pouvez le faire sur Instagram sous le pseudonyme @entreprendredanslamode. Enfin, le plus important : laissez-moi un avis sur Apple Podcast ou iTunes, 5 étoiles de préférence ; cela m'aide à faire connaître le podcast à plus de monde et me motive à faire de meilleures interviews ! Merci de soutenir ce podcast et à bientôt pour un nouvel épisode ! Références : AHLEM : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/ Agence CAPA : https://www.capacorporate.com/ Fédération Française du Prêt-à-Porter Féminin : https://pretaporter.com/ Acne studios : https://www.acnestudios.com/fr/fr/home Miu Miu : https://www.miumiu.com/fr/fr.html Colette : https://www.colette.fr/ SILMO Paris : https://www.silmoparis.com/ Luxottica : https://www.luxottica.com/en CFDA : https://cfda.com/members/profile/ahlem-manai-platt Reframed : https://www.ahlemeyewear.com/pages/reframed Magna Presse : https://magnapresse.fr/ Aesop : https://www.aesop.com/fr/fr/

Josh Loubek is a pioneer of the new school freeskiing movement. He had a solid pro career when the sport was developing and will forever be looked at as a true pioneer. In part 1 of the podcast, we discuss what happens when pro skiing ends, the transition to becoming a sales rep, judging, founding the AFP, the Sochi Olympics, and more. Glenn Mittendorfer asks the Inappropriate Questions Josh Loubek Show Notes Part 2: 4:00: Speaking to the Boise State Football team, contests, and heli-skiing with Plake     11:00:  The end of being pro, becoming an Oakley rep, the start-up cost, life on the road, money, and awards 21:30: Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories, and sugar. Puffin Drinkwear: Be the hit of every party and gathering with the coolest and cutest drink accessory ever created. Get 20% off with the code powellmovement Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better 24:15: DTC, Luxottica, Armada, growing the brand and product input. 33:00: When things go wrong, sub reps, judging, legends, becoming the go-to guy in the wild west, and becoming the head judge   41:00: Stanley:  Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast Outdoor Research: The best outerwear ever built just got better. Get 25% off all OR products with the code POWELL25 Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there 43:45: Judging range, the hard parts about being a judge, the IFSA, and the F=founding of the AFP 51:00: The FIS, the Sochi Olympics, quitting drinking, and founding Niima 63:00: Inappropriate Questions with Glenn Mittendorfer

The ability to tell compelling stories can make or break a leader. When a leader is skilled in storytelling, it is easier to express your message to your team and to your clients, and build credibility for yourself, your ideas and your organization. But, how do you tell a compelling story? Is there a fail-safe formula or a structure that we all can follow?We continue our interview series with Paul Smith, one of the world's leading experts on organizational storytelling. In this episode, Paul teaches us how we can organize our thoughts and ideas and create a story structure that can refine our leadership message into an effective story. Listen now and learn how you can inspire and motivate your team and convert clients with your storytelling and lead your business to success.Key Points From This Episode: How can a story structure help craft a better story? Why leaders need a structure for stories they're going to tell.Types of story structureWhy the traditional presentation structure of introduction-body-structure will not work for storytelling.Eight questions to guide the leader when structuring a story.How the 8-question approach works for other types of stories as well. Why the order of storytelling is important.How does a leader prepare for storytelling?Tweetables:“Give your audience a reason to listen to you.”“Spend time cultivating your story so that they're ready to go when you need them.”“The worst time to tell a story is when you don't have a good story to tell.”Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Lead With A Story websitePaul Smith on LinkedInLead With A Story by Paul SmithSell With A Story by Paul SmithParenting With A Story by Paul SmithThe 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell by Paul SmithAbout Paul SmithPaul Smith is one of the world's leading experts on organizational storytelling. He's one of Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018, and the author of three Amazon #1 bestsellers: Lead with a Story (now in its 11th printing, and published in 7 languages around the world), Sell with a Story, and The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell; in addition to Parenting with a Story and his newest work, Four Days with Kenny Tedford. He's a former executive at The Procter & Gamble Company and a consultant with Accenture prior to that.As part of his research on the effectiveness of storytelling, Paul has personally interviewed over 300 CEOs and executives in 25 countries and documented over 3,000 individual business stories. That's allowed him to reverse engineer what works in storytelling and what doesn't. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Time, Forbes, and Success Magazine, among others.Paul has trained executives at international giants like Google, Hewlett Packard, Ford Motor Company, Bayer Medical, Novartis, Abbott, Progressive Insurance, Luxottica, Walmart, and Kaiser Permanente, among dozens of others. A 20-year veteran of P&G, Paul worked most recently as director of consumer and communications research for the company's $6 billion global paper business where he led a research team across four continents. He also held leadership positions in corporate finance, manufacturing plants, and sales working closely with major global retailers like Walmart, Costco, Asda, and Sam's Club.Paul holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio.

Jeni and Ellie take this one down deep into the rabbit hole! The ladies discuss their husband's food aggression after Jeni reveals that she caught her husband hiding his snacks. Jeni purchased a new pair of glasses this week, which sparked a conversation about Luxottica, whom Jeni has deemed the "Eyeglass Mafia." They also discuss this season of Yellowstone and reveal how they feel about it. This leads them into a conversation about the Hillsong Exposed documentary streaming on Discovery Plus. Hang on tight because this one takes many turns!We have Podcast Merch! Check Out Our Designs Here!Use coupon code HU2022 for 15% off.Please subscribe so you don't miss an episode, and as always, send in your questions or comments to Jeni@honestlyunfilteredpodcasts.comConnect with us on Social Media: Facebook.com/HonestlyUnfilteredPodcastInstagram.com/TheHonestlyUnfilteredPodcastTwitter.com/iAmJeniThomasCheck out our website and blog at www.honestlyunfilteredpodcasts.comDo you like what you hear? Buy Us a Coffee!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpChartable - https://chartable.com/privacyPodcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Doug Zarkin is the VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Pearle Vision, the $600 million global optical franchise. In 1961, Dr. Stanley Pearle opened his first store in Savannah, Georgia, and in 2004, Luxottica (the giant Italian eye-care conglomerate) acquired Pearle Vision. Doug has been the CMO of Pearle Vision for 10 years – about three times the average tenure of a CMO. He has returned Pearle Vision to Stanley Pearle's original brand inspiration, thereby inspiring his organization and accelerating the brand's growth. Doug is a seasoned marketer. He began his career in the advertising industry, working at Lintas, Saatchi, and Grey Advertising, before moving to the client side. He has worked at Avon, Victoria Secret's PINK, Warnaco (famous for the Calvin Klein brand), and the Kellwood Company.In this episode, Doug talks to Jim about the most challenging brand he has worked on and what he learned from that experience. Plus, he explains the importance of staying close to the consumer and why you need to think small to win big. Check out the first edition of The CMO Podcast Magazine.In it, host Jim Stengel talks to marketers and executives about how to become an inclusive leader and the ways they're promoting DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion).This includes discussions about initiatives they're implementing in their company, how they're succeeding, and why DE&I is vital to their bottom line. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A transformational Global Senior Executive with extensive experience leading well-known consumer-facing brands spanning multinational public companies to owner-operator and founder-led organizations. Strong track record of driving results in general management, omnichannel, merchandising, consulting, and strategy development. A clear communicator and developer of high-performing teams and a cross-functional collaborator with global teams, vendors,  customers, and investors. Known for solving problems, creative rebranding, commitment to the customer, and positioning businesses for innovative growth and potential sale.  SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS  Extensive turnaround experience in the omnichannel consumer sector.  Experience working with private equity including both sell and buy-side.  Implemented ERP, warehouse management, and new web platforms. Deep experience in product development,  sourcing, and manufacturing.  Recipient of leadership and product design awards including Women in Business Honoree - Minneapolis/St Paul  Business Journal, (2019) and Corporate Leadership Award, Melanoma Research Foundation (2018). • Member of private and non-profit boards of directors.   RELEVANT SKILLS  Strategic Planning & Execution, Growth Leadership, Change Management, P & L Management, Forecasting,  Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Supply Chain Management, Lean Process Improvement, M & A, Integration  Strategies, Retail & Industrial Channel Management, Organization Development, Global Partnership Development,  Board of Directors, Product Innovation, Private Equity (PE), Transformational Leadership  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  HEARTLAND AMERICA, Greater Minneapolis, MN  Chief Executive Officer 2021 – present  In business for 40+ years, Heartland America is a private consumer-based company with investors that sells a full range of end-of season retail products through catalog, phone, and digital to consumers nationwide. 130 employees, ~ $50M annual revenue.  Hired to develop strategies and plans to turn around, stabilize, and grow the business. Report to the BOD Chair.  KCREICHENAU CONSULTING, Minneapolis, MN   Founder and CEO 2019 - present Support companies and PE firms to evaluate businesses with a focus on growth, opportunities, and customers.  Work with multiple private equity firms to help with due diligence and identify opportunities for multiple companies in the consumer space. Successfully conducted a business unit analysis for CEO/Board to decide how to grow a division of a  $300M consumer-based company.  COOLIBAR, Minneapolis, MN  Chief Executive Officer 2014 – 2019 This mission-driven brand has introduced numerous innovative fabric technologies, raised standards in sun protective ratings, and designed a variety of UPF 50+ apparel. In 2016 the business was acquired by Olivarius Hospitality.  Recruited to succeed the founder in 2014 to reposition the company for the next phase of growth.   EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP | STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT | CORPORATE ALIGNMENT | EXIT STRATEGY • Collaborated with the BOD and senior leaders to develop strategy and implantation plans, budget, and portfolio. Kendra Reichenau – page 2  Led the business turnaround with a successful transaction to new ownership in 2016.  Deployed significant change management and prioritization methods including new systems, implementation, ERP  integration, warehouse, and web platform.  Led global growth including 200 retail and luxury resort wholesale accounts. Attained Double-digit growth for three consecutive years, with 100% growth in year five.  OPERATIONS | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT  Increased from 45 FTE employees to 100 global employees; added in-house production offices in Thailand and India. • Migrated 50% of all production away from agents to in-house to improve margins, quality, and supply chain. • Achieved strong growth by prioritizing e-commerce and Amazon businesses.  Focused on growing new wholesale channels and strengthening core business, as well as identifying new product categories and brand partnerships.  Built a strong online community through social media with a focus on education and support. Grew customer engagement by 300%.  KOHLER COMPANY, Kohler, WI  President, McGuire Furniture - San Francisco, CA 2011 – 2013 One of the largest privately-operated global firms with 48 divisions and ~$6.5B in annual revenue.  Led turnaround, management, and growth of an international, omnichannel luxury furniture company in wholesale,  retail, manufacturing, and design. Managed a 300-member global team.  Re-invigorated a 60-year-old heritage company known for high quality and beautiful design. • Managed full P&L for two manufacturing plants, three unions, and 120 wholesale partners globally. • Grew successful e-commerce and digital strategy.  Won multiple design awards for new product launches.  Created a strong foundation of sales and products for the successful sale of the company in 2015.  LUXOTTICA GROUP. Milan, Italy  Senior Vice President and General Manager - N3L Optics - Orange County, CA 2007 – 2011 Luxottica is a global leader in eyewear, with over 5,800 optical and sun retail stores in North America, Asia-Pacific, China, and Europe with a strong brand portfolio including Ray-Ban, the best-selling sun and prescription eyewear brand globally.  Reported directly to the CEO of Oakley. Managed 70 employees with full P&L responsibility. • Developed and launched an interactive, multi-branded sports performance sunglass retail concept. • Grew the business to 10 locations when successfully transferred over to the Sunglass Hut division. • Attained + 20% YoY store increase on 10% less inventory (2010).  Created the branding, defined the consumer, and developed the PR/marketing strategy to drive awareness in national and local markets. Drove all assortments and visuals, and ensured field support and training.  Senior Vice President and GMM - Sunglass Icon, division of Oakley, Inc.  Responsible for the general management of a 125-retail inline and kiosk sunglass store chain. • Created the vision for all marketing, merchandising, and field training and execution.  Negotiated new terms and relationships with the vendor community.  Improved margin by 1.5 pts. Grew revenue by 6% to over $80M business.  Led the migration of all 125 locations to be re-branded under Sunglasses Hut name and systems once Oakley was purchased by Luxottica.  REICHENAU CONSULTING, San Francisco, CA  Interim Executive and Consultant - San Francisco, CA 2004 – 2007 Worked with Board Members at Oakley, CEO of Gymboree, President of Dockers, and CEO of Crescent Jewelers to review existing product development processes, identify business opportunities, and implement organizational change. Acting VP of Design for Dockers Women's - Focused on improving fit and defining the design process by calendar month. Acting GMM for Crescent Jewelers - Created a marketing plan, new brand image, and visual standard for all stores.  Reduced inventory by 20%; improved sales by 10%.  Acting Head of Merchandising for Janeville (Gymboree) – Defined and clarified the customer, streamlined the product fits, and the go-to-market processes.  GAP, INC., San Francisco, CA - Senior Director and Divisional Merchandise Manager - Women's NORDSTROM, INC., Seattle, WA - Vice President, Brand Manager, Halogen   ARTHUR ANDERSEN/KPMG, San Francisco CA - Manager   EDUCATION  SCRIPPS COLLEGE, Claremont, CA - Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science  AWARDS AND RECOGNITION  Women in Business Honoree - Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal - 2019  Corporate Leadership Award - Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) – 2018  Several Design Awards for Product Launches - KOHLER COMPANY - McGuire Furniture  PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS  CHIEF (National Executive Women's Group) – Selected Member 2022  BOARD OF DIRECTORS  Board Member- WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN, Minneapolis, MN (2021 – present)  Board Member; Executive Committee - CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL, Minneapolis, MN (2015 - 2021) Board Member; Chair, Marketing Committee - IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY - Cristo Rey (2009-2013)