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У цьому епізоді поговоримо про Ендрю Вілкінсона — канадського підприємця, мільярдера, співзасновника дизайн-агенції Metalab та холдингу Tiny.Ми говоримо про:- Історії мільярдерів, яхти, нерухомість та інше;– Чому більше грошей = більше проблем?– Як зростала MetaLab, і до чого тут Slack — і які уроки стояли за цим ростом;– Як психолог розібрав його життя на молекули — і що це змінило?- В чому полягає щастя?– Cписок анти-цілей... та багато іншого.Зворотній зв'язок та реклама: flow@kindgeek.comПідписатись на email розсилку: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://eepurl.com/iQh5ag⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/ygnatyuk_⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/gnatyuk.yuriy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Telegram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/yuragnatyuk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/y.gnatyuk/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Підтримати на ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/flowpodcast

Whether we admit it, like it, or believe it, we're in a relationship with AI.That's the first of many powerful reflections made by Sara Vienna, Metalab's Chief Design Officer, in her must-read manifesto about how design and product must evolve. Unlike the design leaders who speculate about AI's impact, Sara and her world-class team are years ahead. They are designing disruptive AI product experiences and leveraging AI to elevate their workflows. Sara's episode is one of the most important conversations we've had about the future of design and products.Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple PodcastsShe believes that AI will change how we work and what we build. Those who embrace the potential of AI will succeed in the oncoming disruption. But most importantly, the future of product+AI will be in making five mindset shifts:They're fundamentally principles for humanizing experiences. The hope is that AI will finally bridge the divide so products can deliver the value we've always wished was possible in the most humanized way possible. But there will be challenges in accomplishing this:* Most product orgs are built around the concept of delivery, not design excellence* Unlocking user data: Getting access to valuable data and knowing how to use it in a meaningful way are still more fantasy than reality* In every direction we turn, trust is being diluted* Design as we know it will need to be reborn to adapt to move from creating pixel-perfect interfaces to ones that adapt and spawn based on user interactionsAgain, I highly recommend listening to the entire episode.Thanks for reading Design of AI: Strategies & insights for product teams! This post is public so feel free to share it.Envisioning the future of design & productIf we extrapolate on Sara Vienna's vision of how design should change, a couple of core reality checks come to mind:* Today, we can't even conceptualize what products will be able to do tomorrow. Just like new AI tools are being released faster than we can read about them, more teams than ever are competing to deliver the use case & interaction model that will redefine a category. It's a race to an undefined & moving finish line.* The underlying models may be the heartbeat of future products, but design will always be the brain. Products plug into whichever model suits them best at a particular moment, usually based on cost and accuracy. But just like each of our minds brings a different lived reality and way of using knowledge, the models are less important than the strategy that's been designed into the product.* Fewer designers and product managers will yield immense power. AI automation platforms —like Make and Loveable— can effectively replicate more than half of products today. This percentage will grow until such a point that any product will soon be able to be cloned, undermining its competitive advantage. The designers and product managers working on the future of design will have the funding that enables them to compete in a global race that they're likely to lose because they don't know what competition they're actually facing. The rest of us will be working to keep the lights on.Big question: How should we be using AI, today?Photoshop celebrated its 35th birthday today and is a perfect reminder of how disruptive platforms eventually become part of the boring vocabulary of the everyday.GenAI platforms, like ChatGPT, are in their infancy. Everything seems equal parts novel and confusing. We're still unsure how to use this superintelligence, only that we should be using it. Photoshop's rise was similar: a platform that opened up so many possibilities but whose ultimate impact wasn't felt until it redefined the designer role many years later. What's happening today is that employees are smuggling AI into work and this makes sense given the recent McKinsey report that finds that leaders are slow to adopt because of risks and a lack of vision.Our research finds the biggest barrier to scaling is not employees—who are ready—but leaders, who are not steering fast enough.Anthropic, the maker of Claude, published their Economic Index report and found that AI use is most prevalent in computer & mathematical occupations. Their AI model is mainly used for programming and administrative tasks.What the data also show is that design and creative tasks aren't core use cases, yet. And rightfully so, large language models best serve requests about processing content and code, not pixels and ideas. A report about how generative AI is used in journalism showcases this by highlighting that even the creative tasks are largely operational ones, like resizing images and animating.This data highlights the divide in how leading organizations, like Metalab and Superside, leverage AI compared to the everyday user. While the average person uses Midjourney to generate stock art, leading designers automatically generate localized creative based on design systems and content guidelines.The reality is that product teams have three core workstreams:* Operations: Planning, organizing, editing, describing (e.g. Notion)* Creativity: Ideating, revising, collecting, analyzing (e.g. Cove)* Productivity: Deciding, planning, organizing, explaining (e.g. ChatGPT)Every designer, product manager, writer, producer, and researcher completes tasks in these three workstreams. And every one of you should be taking the time to break down your typical workflows into discrete activities so that you can explore what AI solutions can either augment or automate non-critical tasks.An example of this is how Kyle Soucy is using AI to streamline person and journey map creation. This type of knowledge work is considered sacred by traditionalists but as you can see in her article, she's broken down her workflow to find effortful tasks to be augmented/automated. We can question AI's accuracy all we want. We can challenge if models were trained ethically. And we can debate what percentage of your job may benefit from using AI. What will not change is the undeniable truth that the intelligence and capabilities of these models and tools will only improve. The sooner we embrace that truth, the better positioned we are to control our own fates. For example, a recent study evaluated AI vs. human-generated therapy responses from 13 expert therapists (clinical psychologists, counseling psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and a psychiatrist). The report found (questionable) data to indicate that users couldn't tell if a human or an AI made the responses. The AI also outperformed human therapists on empathy, professionalism, and cultural competence.We'll soon reach a point where generative AI can output designs that are indiscernibly human or automated. In this near-term reality, the role of designers must evolve or be replaced.A recommended action plan for how you should be using AI today:* Plan projects and workstreams using templates, resources, and added context* Communicate ideas and insights better by using AI to iterate and expand* Question the rationale, assumptions, and factors that impact the project goal* Compile inspiration, ideas, and information that will broaden your thinking* Analyze larger data sets and more sources than you could have before* Challenge your concepts by making variants and exploring new directions * Create more deliverables by automating localization, multiple formats, and generating content based on systemsIf you enjoy this content, please make sure to listen to the Design of AI podcast on Spotify and Apple. Make sure to follow us and rate the show if you like the show!Add me on LinkedIn if you want to ask any questions or discuss a project. This is a public episode. 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Welcome back to another episode of the Untalented Podcast. In this episode, we sit down with Arif Mansuri. Arif has worked at the most reputable businesses on the planet, the likes of JPMorgan, Metalab, Huge and so on. He has held pivotal roles at leading companies, contributing significantly to advancements in technology and innovation. Join us as we delve into Arif's journey, exploring his experiences, challenges, and the lessons he's learned along the way. Tune in for valuable insights on career growth, strategic thinking, and leadership in a rapidly evolving business landscape.

Eryk Salvaggio articulates myths animating AI design, illustrates the nature of creativity and generated media, and artfully reframes the discourse on GenAI and art.   Eryk joined Kimberly to discuss myths and metaphors in GenAI design; the illusion of control; if AI saves time and what for; not relying on futuristic AI to solve problems; the fallacy of scale; the dehumanizing narrative of human equivalence; positive biases toward AI; why asking ‘is the machine creative' misses the mark; creative expression and meaning making; what AI generated art represents; distinguishing archives from datasets; curation as an act of care; representation and context in generated media; the Orwellian view of mass surveillance as anonymity; complicity and critique of GenAI tools; abstraction and noise; and what we aren't doing when we use GenAI.  Eryk Salvaggio is a new media artist, Visiting Professor in Humanities, Computing and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an Emerging Technology Research Advisor at the Siegel Family Endowment. Eryk is also a researcher on the AI Pedagogies Project at Harvard University's metaLab and lecturer on Responsible AI at Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.   Addition Resources:  Cybernetic Forests:  mail.cyberneticforests.com The Age of Noise: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-age-of-noise/ Challenging the Myths of Generative AI: https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/  A transcript of this episode is here. 

Designers have become servants of “the process” so this episode features stories of people who are breaking the mold in the way they explore and prototype ideas.It includes insights from:Gabe Valdivia (Fractional design leader): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gabe-valdiviaDennis Muller (Designer + founder of Amie):https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/dennis-mullerGavin Nelson (Designing Linear mobile app):https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gavin-nelsonNikolas Klein (Designing Prototyping at Figma):https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/figma-prototypingMichael Wandelmaier (Former Head of Design at Metalab): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/michael-wandelmaierAnd lastly it features insights from Jenny Wen including her original blog post that inspired this episode (definitely bookmark this it's awesome)

Imagine you're asked to lead the design of a new project. It's complex, open-ended, and full of interconnected problems…How do you attack that ambiguity and get momentum quickly?This episode is an attempt to answer that question by unpacking tactics used by designers like:Jenny Wen (Original designer of Figjam): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/jenny-wenMichael Wandelmaier (Former head of design at Metalab): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/michael-wandelmaierAlex Cornell (Director of Design at Meta AI): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-cornellRich Arnold (Design leader at Vine, IG, and Coinbase): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/rich-arnoldAndrei Herasimchuk (first designer at Adobe and Figma): Episode coming soonJenny Wen's Eigenquestions Figjam template

It doesn't matter how good your designs are if they never get built. So this episode breaks down specific tactics you can use to become a better storyteller and get people excited to build your ideas. Michael Wandelmaier (former Head of Design at Metalab): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/michael-wandelmaier Gavin Nelson (designing the Linear mobile app): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gavin-nelson Ian Wharton (storytelling coach): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/ian-wharton Kathy Zheng (head of design at Optimism): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/kathy-zheng Yuan Wang (head of design at Maven): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/yuan-wang Alex Cornell (design lead for Gen AI at Meta): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/alex-cornell Noam Segal (senior research leader): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/noam-segal Femke (design lead at Gusto): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/femke Gabe Valdivia (independent designer): https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/gabe-valdivia Dive is where the best designers never stop learning

#actor #southafrica #podcast #gregkriek #kevinhart #meganfox #zachsnyder Join the MetaLab fam for ultra premium supplementation, code "JOSH15" - https://www.metalabsupps.com/ Greg Kriek was a 2024 Primetime Emmy® Awards contender for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series/Movie for his role alongside Kevin Hart in Die Hart 2: Die Harter. Competing against industry heavyweights like Barry Keoghan, Robert Downey Jr., and Taylor Kitsch, Greg solidified his reputation as one of South Africa's most internationally credited actors in his category. With over 95 screen credits, Greg is celebrated for his versatility and transformative performances. He starred as Dr. Tony Sinclair in the Emmy®-winning The Serengeti Rules and played Karl Stromberg in the Emmy-nominated Die Hart 2: Die Harter. In 2023, he won Best Supporting Actor at the Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles Annual Film Awards for his role in the Holocaust drama Trust. Greg's portfolio includes a key role in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon franchise, acting alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins, Charlie Hunnam, and Djimon Hounsou. Other notable projects include Fly Me to the Moon with Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum and Rogue opposite Megan Fox. Trained by top acting coaches like Larry Moss and Ivana Chubbuck, Greg has mastered a craft that transcends genres. His upcoming 2025 releases include seven major projects, such as a top-secret Amazon limited series, a western with Harvey Keitel, and two international features in Iceland and Cambodia. Having shared the screen with icons like Morgan Freeman and Olga Kurylenko, Greg continues to establish himself as one of Hollywood's most dynamic talents. Don't forget to like and subscribe FOR MORE INFO Greg Kriek - https://www.instagram.com/gregkriek/?hl=en Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/ Storytime Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/storytimepodcastjosh/ WATCH https://youtu.be/2xRAn3Umo_A

#southafrica #guncontrol #gunlicensing #firearmtraining Joining us in the studio is Mark Mulder from https://www.gunlicence.co.za/ to dive into the topics of gun control and firearm licensing in South Africa. We cover essential guidelines on when and where it's appropriate to use a firearm, the process of obtaining a license for self-defense, and the steps involved in purchasing a firearm for sport, personal safety, or more advanced applications. "Some of these mistruths are that you WILL go to jail if you shoot someone in self defence. As we will see in the video, this is utter nonsense. Although procedural based law does mean a case or inquest will be opened, you do not have a one way ticket to jail." Mark provides a detailed overview of various firearms, from semi-automatic rifles and sniper rifles to shotguns and revolvers, while Josh shares personal stories about situations where having a firearm could have impacted the outcome—for better or worse. Join the MetaLab fam for ultra premium supplementation, code "JOSH15" - https://www.metalabsupps.com/ Don't forget to like and subscribe FOR MORE INFO Mark Mulder - https://www.youtube.com/@gunlicence/videos Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/ Storytime Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/storytimepodcastjosh/ WATCH https://youtu.be/X2Rs-_pBRLs

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[This is a replay of episode #002] Andrew Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny, a venture capital firm that has helped to build over 25 profitable internet businesses over the last 15 years. He got his start founding MetaLab, one of the world's top design agencies. He has gone from working out of his apartment a little over a decade ago, to today overseeing a group of companies with over 300 employees and tens of millions in revenue. To support the costs of producing this podcast:  >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: www.navalmanack.com/  >> Buy a copy of The Anthology of Balaji: https://balajianthology.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage  >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the podcast to a friend >> Or at least give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners! 

Record your first video https://creators.riverside.fm/Codie and use code CODIE for 15% off an individual plan. In this episode, Codie Sanchez interviews Canadian entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson. They discuss his journey building companies like Metalab and Tiny, touching on key aspects of entrepreneurship such as delegation, handling failures, and managing stress. Andrew emphasizes learning from others, asking questions, and focusing on high-impact ventures. The conversation offers insights on handling fame, public perception, and resilience in business. Andrew highlights the importance of kindness, simplicity, and treating people equally in leadership. They also talk about influential books, the significance of relationships for happiness, and balancing work and personal life. 00:00 START  00:23 The Reality of Business: Challenges and Rewards 02:30 CEO Story Time: Lessons from Yoga 05:12 Steal My Rich Friend: Andrew Wilkinson 07:56 Building a Money Machine: Delegation and Systems 13:47 The Power of Questions: Learning from the Best 16:24 Finding Opportunities: The Unsexy Businesses 20:06 Lessons from Failure: The Path to Success 32:48 The Dark Side of Business: Dealing with Bad Actors 40:38 The Challenges of Fame: Public Life and Privacy 46:30 The Never-Ending Pursuit of Success 47:49 Craftsmanship vs. Business Expansion 50:15 The Paradox of Happiness 53:10 Managing Stress and Anxiety 56:50 The Importance of Relationships 01:09:06 Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs 01:20:30 Debrief and Reflections

In today's episode, we'll explore a free AI guide and engaging student assignments developed by the metaLAB (at) Harvard and made available through the AI Pedagogy Project. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Remember how Michael Wandelmeier told us Metalab hired a storytelling coach? Well that coach is Ian Wharton. He's an Apple Design Award winner, CEO of Aide Health, and he teaches storytelling techniques to teams like Dyson, BBC, Huge, etc.So this episode breaks down the key storytelling concepts that he shares in his course Sell the Idea. We talk about the importance of the inciting incident, how to empower others to share your ideas, and a lot more…But he also presents some compelling ideas about why designers are the most suited people to start companies that solve societal level challenges. All you need is a bias toward action. So if you've been considering starting your own thing, there's a lot we can learn from Ian's journey as a design founder.Ian's course Sell the Idea (use the code RIDD at checkout for 30% off)Ian's personal websiteIan's business Aide HealthMackinnon and Saunders (the stop motion company Ian worked with)

As climate change transforms the sonic landscape around us, it also proposes new solutions. Listen in on the surprising sounds of a changing world. We talk to the executive director of the new Institute for Climate, Sound and Society at the MetaLab at Harvard University about how sound can shape how we talk about climate change.

Episode 573: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Jeremy Giffon about how Tiny Capital turned $5M in equity into 30 profitable companies.  Want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5 — Show Notes: (0:00) Humble beginnings at Tiny Capital (4:40) Tiny's first acquisition (8:17) 50X return on Dribbble (10:14) Skip the cash flow statements (11:57) How to spot the opportunity (14:00) Chris's superpower (16:20) Stomaching aggressively low offers (17:46) Make an offer and stop talking (19:36) It's not you vs. them (22:06) "What would need to be true to make this deal?" (23:03) How to crush the cold email (25:15) Worst deal -- ignored red flags, lost everything (27:00) Best deal: Mealime (25X return) (29:16) Weirdest deal ($36.00 acquisition) — Links: • Tiny Capital - https://www.tiny.com/ • Dribbble - https://dribbble.com/ • Metalab - https://www.metalab.com/ • Mealime - https://www.mealime.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it's called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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Since the beginning of my design career, I've looked up to Metalab. So this interview is a special one because we get to learn from their Head of Design, Michael Wandelmeier. We go deep into how design works at Metalab and talk about specific strategies around: - Mike's go-to storytelling tactics - The importance of opinionated design - When they ignore constraints on a project - The unique way they map out user journeys - Tips for driving alignment on complex projects - How they use the “ridiculously early hypothesis” Dive is where the best designers never stop learning

Episode 120: Andrew Wilkinson is the co-founder and CEO of Tiny, a publicly traded holding company trying to be Berkshire Hathaway but for internet companies. In 2007, Andrew started a Canada-based design agency called MetaLab, which grew to $40-50 million in revenue & $20 million in profit. After trying and failing to launch other businesses, Andrew pivoted to buying businesses to grow his holding company. I'm going to read a story by Andrew about one of the businesses he tried to launch after MetaLab and his lessons from its spectacular failure.  Original Story: https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376985854229504007 Andrew's X Account: https://twitter.com/awilkinson Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! foundersjournal@morningbrew.com #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder's Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder's Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/  Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in to hear Chad and Sarah chat about OpenAi's new text-to-video tool, Sora, an update on the Indonesia general election involving AI images, and a conversation with Rich Ward, the Chief Design Officer of otter.ai. Rich shares his journey working with innovation consultancies, his experience working with founders at MetaLab, and his transition to lead design at Otter.ai because of its innovative approach to AI space and the integrity of its founders. Otter.ai, a Series B startup, aims to revolutionize how conversations are recorded, transcribed, and shared, leveraging proprietary AI technology for automatic speech recognition and offering features like meeting summaries. Richard expresses optimism about AI's potential to bring society closer together and encourages embracing AI tools to improve productivity and engagement in personal and professional contexts.Vurvey.ai

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - ⁠https://dtcnews.link/signup Today we're re-releasing the feature fireside chat with Andrew Wilkinson from Tiny from our last live event, C-Suite Mastermind in Victoria's BC. Andrew, who the Hustle dubbed "The Warren Buffet of Startups" is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, having ownership in over 40 businesses that operate in and around the DTC space. Attendees at C-Suite got to spend the day with Andrew asking him specific questions, with more than attendees getting to chat about investment/partnership. Wild! This talk is wide-ranging and covers Andrew's entire career, ranging from starting one of the top design firms in the world, Metalab, to starting Tiny, taking companies public, hiring and firing CEOS, and everything in between. You'll also hear: Why the Aeropress acquisition made sense and how the negotiations went down Bootstrapping vs taking angel, VC, and PE - and why grinders should remember to enjoy the ride! Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - ⁠https://dtcnews.link/signup⁠ Advertise on DTC - ⁠https://dtcnews.link/advertise⁠ Work with Pilothouse - ⁠https://dtcnews.link/pilothouse⁠ Follow us on Instagram & Twitter - @dtcnewsletter Watch this interview on YouTube - ⁠https://dtcnews.link/video

Rapid Rundown - Series 7 Episode 3 All the key news since our episode on 6th November - including new research on AI in education, and a big tech news week! It's okay to write research papers with Generative AI - but not to review them! The publishing arm of American Association for Advancement of Science (they publish 6 science journals, including the "Science" journal) says authors can use “AI-assisted technologies as components of their research study or as aids in the writing or presentation of the manuscript” as long as their use is noted.  But they've banned AI-generated images and other multimedia" without explicit permission from the editors”. And they won't allow the use of AI by reviewers because this “could breach the confidentiality of the manuscript”. A number of other publishers have made announcements recently, including the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors , the World Association of Medical Editors and the  Council of Science Editors. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/change-policy-use-generative-ai-and-large-language-models   Learning From Mistakes Makes LLM Better Reasoner https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20689 News Article: https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-unveils-lema-a-revolutionary-ai-learning-method-mirroring-human-problem-solving Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia, Peking University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University have developed a new technique to improve large language models' (LLMs) ability to solve math problems by having them learn from their mistakes, akin to how humans learn. The researchers have revealed a pioneering strategy, Learning from Mistakes (LeMa), which trains AI to correct its own mistakes, leading to enhanced reasoning abilities, according to a research paper published this week. The researchers first had models like LLaMA-2 generate flawed reasoning paths for math word problems. GPT-4 then identified errors in the reasoning, explained them and provided corrected reasoning paths. The researchers used the corrected data to further train the original models.     Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-023-00426-1#Sec8 Looks at chatbots from the perspective of students and educators, and the benefits and concerns raised in the 67 research papers they studied We found that students primarily gain from AI-powered chatbots in three key areas: homework and study assistance, a personalized learning experience, and the development of various skills. For educators, the main advantages are the time-saving assistance and improved pedagogy. However, our research also emphasizes significant challenges and critical factors that educators need to handle diligently. These include concerns related to AI applications such as reliability, accuracy, and ethical considerations." Also, a fantastic list of references for papers discussing chatbots in education, many from this year     More Robots are Coming: Large Multimodal Models (ChatGPT) can Solve Visually Diverse Images of Parsons Problems https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04926 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.04926.pdf Parsons problems are a type of programming puzzle where learners are given jumbled code snippets and must arrange them in the correct logical sequence rather than producing the code from scratch "While some scholars have advocated for the integration of visual problems as a safeguard against the capabilities of language models, new multimodal language models now have vision and language capabilities that may allow them to analyze and solve visual problems. … Our results show that GPT-4V solved 96.7% of these visual problems" The research's findings have significant implications for computing education. The high success rate of GPT-4V in solving visually diverse Parsons Problems suggests that relying solely on visual complexity in coding assignments might not effectively challenge students or assess their true understanding in the era of advanced AI tools. This raises questions about the effectiveness of traditional assessment methods in programming education and the need for innovative approaches that can more accurately evaluate a student's coding skills and understanding. Interesting to note some research earlier in the year found that LLMs could only solve half the problems - so things have moved very fast!     The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery: a Preliminary Study using GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07361.pdf By Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure Quantum researchers "Our preliminary exploration indicates that GPT-4 exhibits promising potential for a variety of scientific applications, demonstrating its aptitude for handling complex problem-solving and knowledge integration tasks" The study explores the impact of GPT-4 in advancing scientific discovery across various domains. It investigates its use in drug discovery, biology, computational chemistry, materials design, and solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The study primarily uses qualitative assessments and some quantitative measures to evaluate GPT-4's understanding of complex scientific concepts and problem-solving abilities. While GPT-4 shows remarkable potential and understanding in these areas, particularly in drug discovery and biology, it faces limitations in precise calculations and processing complex data formats. The research underscores GPT-4's strengths in integrating knowledge, predicting properties, and aiding interdisciplinary research.     An Interdisciplinary Outlook on Large Language Models for Scientific Research https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04929 Overall, the paper presents LLMs as powerful tools that can significantly enhance scientific research. They offer the promise of faster, more efficient research processes, but this comes with the responsibility to use them well and critically, ensuring the integrity and ethical standards of scientific inquiry. It discusses how they are being used effectively in eight areas of science, and deals with issues like hallucinations - but, as it points out, even in Engineering where there's low tolerance for mistakes, GPT-4 can pass critical exams. This research is a good source of focus for researchers thinking about how it may help or change their research areas, and help with scientific communication and collaboration.     With ChatGPT, do we have to rewrite our learning objectives -- CASE study in Cybersecurity https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06261 This paper examines how AI tools like ChatGPT can change the way cybersecurity is taught in universities. It uses a method called "Understanding by Design" to look at learning objectives in cybersecurity courses. The study suggests that ChatGPT can help students achieve these objectives more quickly and understand complex concepts better. However, it also raises questions about how much students should rely on AI tools. The paper argues that while AI can assist in learning, it's crucial for students to understand fundamental concepts from the ground up. The study provides examples of how ChatGPT could be integrated into a cybersecurity curriculum, proposing a balance between traditional learning and AI-assisted education.   "We hypothesize that ChatGPT will allow us to accelerate some of our existing LOs, given the tool's capabilities… From this exercise, we have learned two things in particular that we believe we will need to be further examined by all educators. First, our experiences with ChatGPT suggest that the tool can provide a powerful means to allow learners to generate pieces of their work quickly…. Second, we will need to consider how to teach concepts that need to be experienced from “first-principle” learning approaches and learn how to motivate students to perform some rudimentary exercises that “the tool” can easily do for me."     A Step Closer to Comprehensive Answers: Constrained Multi-Stage Question Decomposition with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07491 What this means is that AI is continuing to get better, and people are finding ways to make it even better, at passing exams and multi-choice questions     Assessing Logical Puzzle Solving in Large Language Models: Insights from a Minesweeper Case Study https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07387 Good news for me though - I still have a skill that can't be replaced by a robot. It seems that AI might be great at playing Go, and Chess, and seemingly everything else. BUT it turns out it can't play Minesweeper as well as a person. So my leisure time is safe!     DEMASQ: Unmasking the ChatGPT Wordsmith https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05019 Finally, I'll mention this research, where the researchers have proposed a new method of ChatGPT detection, where they're assessing the 'energy' of the writing. It might be a step forward, but tbh it took me a while to find the thing I'm always looking for with detectors, which is the False Positive rate - ie how many students in a class of 100 will it accuse of writing something with ChatGPT when they actually wrote it themself.  And the answer is it has a 4% false positive rate on research abstracts published on ArXiv - but apparently it's 100% accurate on Reddit. Not sure that's really good enough for education use, where students are more likely to be using academic style than Reddit style! I'll leave you to read the research if you want to know more, and learn about the battle between AI writers and AI detectors     Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project And outside of research, it's worth taking a look at work from the metaLAB at Harvard called "Creative and critical engagement with AI in education" It's a collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi. It includes an AI starter, an LLM tutorial, lots of resources, and a set of assignments https://aipedagogy.org/     Microsoft Ignite Book of News There's way too much to fit into the shownotes, so just head straight to the Book of News for all the huge AI announcements from Microsoft's big developer conference Link: Microsoft Ignite 2023 Book of News  

Episode 488: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Andrew Wilkinson (https://twitter.com/awilkinson) - entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny - about how he's easily making +$200k a year on Twitter. Andrew also opens up about his $80m a year agency that provides the cash flow to expand his business portfolio, why you should take a profit-first approach, the classic trap the rich fall into and more. Plus, Sam reveals his game plan for Hampton. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: 0:00) Intro (8:34) How to make millions from Twitter/X (13:54) The reality of meeting celebrities and billionaires (18:18) How do you play the status game? (21:54) The reality of going on a $100M yacht (25:05) The trap of always wanting more (27:40) How does MetaLab make so much money? (35:42) How Andrew would start from scratch (39:47) The 1+1=100 business model (43:58) Businesses that turn your family member's life into a book (52:00) Business that runs you through the day of successful people (55:32) Why he invested in Maui Nui Venison (1:07:03) How much will Hampton be worth in 10 years? (1:16:59) Why you should adopt the profit-first mindset (1:28:36) Closing thoughts — Links: • Andrew's Twitter - https://twitter.com/awilkinson • Storyworth - https://tinyurl.com/bdfubc58 • No Story Lost - https://nostorylost.com/ • Routines - Routines.club • Tamba - https://www.tamba.ca/ • Maui Nui Venison - https://mauinuivenison.com/ • Profit First Book - https://tinyurl.com/3pb9mzzs • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

In this interview we discussed the new MetaLab program recently approved by the Board and the Kids Free Trip to Africa Program.

Trey chats with billionaire entrepreneur and investor, Mr. Andrew Wilkinson. They discuss various topics, including self-care and parenting, as well as exciting deals he collaborated on with Bill Ackman and Howard Marks.Andrew is the co-founder of Tiny, which has been called the Berkshire Hathaway of Tech companies. Andrew turned his first business, MetaLab, into a not-so-tiny conglomerate in a similar fashion to how Buffett turned an old textile mill into the juggernaut Berkshire is today.IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:0:00 - Intro04:50 - The philosophies behind Tiny and how it operates.10:49 - How he partnered up with Bill Ackman and Howard Marks on some exciting deals.30:07 - Andrew's insights from his conversations with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.35:56 - What it means to set “Anti-goals”. 54:03 - The art and science of self care, de-stressing and delegation.59:00 - Andrew's thoughts on parenting, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, investing and a TON of amazing resources.Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.BOOKS AND RESOURCESHow to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis.Khan Academy Website.The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber.The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai.Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth with Commentary by David Clark.Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini.The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charlie Munger Audiobook.Tiny Website.Trey Lockerbie's Twitter.Andrew Wilkinson's Twitter.NEW TO THE SHOW?Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs.Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here.Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool.Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services.Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets.P.S The Investor's Podcast Network is excited to launch a subreddit devoted to our fans in discussing financial markets, stock picks, questions for our hosts, and much more! Join our subreddit r/TheInvestorsPodcast today!SPONSORSHave peace of mind knowing River holds Bitcoin in multi-sig cold storage with 100% full reserves.If you're aware you need to improve your bitcoin security but have been putting it off, Unchained Capital's Concierge Onboarding is a simple way to get started—sooner rather than later. Book your onboarding today and at checkout, get $50 off with the promo code FUNDAMENTALS.Easily diversify beyond stocks and bonds, and build wealth through streamlined CRE investing with EquityMultiple.Get the professional support you need to prepare for your future career with UBC Sauder School of Business.What does happen when money and big feelings mix? Tune in to find out on the new podcast, Open Money, presented by Servus Credit Union.Set, track, and manage your financial goals as your life evolves with Scotia Smart Investor.Make connections, gain knowledge, and uplift your governance CV by becoming a member of the AICD today.Let an expert do your taxes from start to finish so you can relax with TurboTax.Apply for the Employee Retention Credit easily, no matter how busy you are, with Innovation Refunds.Have Commonwealth Private's Private Bankers take the time to understand your goals and tailor solutions that create less for you to do and more for you to enjoy.Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signup Welcome to DTC Podcast Today we're releasing the feature fireside chat with Andrew Wilkinson from Tiny from our last live event, C-Suite Mastermind in Victoria's BC. Andrew, who the Hustle dubbed "The Warren Buffet of Startups" is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, having ownership in over 40 businesses that operate in and around the DTC space. Attendees at C-Suite got to spend the day with Andrew asking him specific questions, with more than attendees getting to chat about investment/partnership. Wild! Don't miss your opportunity to join the next C-Suite Mastermind in Las Vegas - https://directtoconsumer.co/events This talk is wide-ranging and covers Andrew's entire career, ranging from starting one of the top design firms in the world, Metalab, to starting Tiny, taking companies public, hiring and firing CEOS, and everything in between. You'll also hear: Why the Aeropress acquisition made sense and how the negotiations went down Bootstrapping vs taking angel, VC, and PE - and why grinders should remember to enjoy the ride! Don't miss your opportunity to join the next C-Suite Mastermind in Las Vegas - https://directtoconsumer.co/events Subscribe to DTC Newsletter - https://dtcnews.link/signup Advertise on DTC - https://dtcnews.link/advertise Work with Pilothouse - https://dtcnews.link/pilothouse Follow us on Instagram & Twitter - @dtcnewsletter Watch this interview on YouTube - https://dtcnews.link/video

Depuis fin octobre, les annonces de licenciements sont fréquentes chez Twitter, Meta, Google et la plupart des géants de la tech qui ont vu le jour à la Silicon Valley. Les GAFAM sont-ils au bord du gouffre? Licencient-ils tous pour les mêmes raison? Et le modèle de travail paradisiaque mis en place par Zuckerberg ou Jobs dans le berceau de la tech a-t-il atteint ses limites? On en discute dans cet épisode du Point J avec Benoît Bergeret, directeur exécutif du Metalab for data, technology and society à l'ESSEC Business School en France, qui a vécu 13 ans dans la Silicon Valley. Julie Kummer Réalisation: Sylvain Michel Nous écrire: +41 79 134 34 70 (WhatsApp) ou pointj@rts.ch

One of the most anticipated technologies of the future is AI. What will it be? What will it do? How will we react? But, before we can anticipate sentiency, which we will discuss in this episode,  we must train AI to do its jobs. However, that requires properly organized data sets, a new topic in the town square. If AI is to imitate the data it is given, how do we determine what data to give it? This is a looming question in the fog of the future as the data we train AI with today creates our relationship with this unknown tech tomorrow and, in many ways, shapes the future we will soon inherit. Join me as I examine this with my friend, Sarah Newman (Full bio below).  (Check out my 100th episode special with Sarah Newman here)Topics-Data Sets and Data Nutrition - Why and How the data of today shapes the future of AI tomorrowAI and Sentiencey- Will it happen?Artificial General IntelligenceWhat is it?The current state of AGIThe future of AGIValue Alignment - Before we give AI our values, we must determine what our values areUniversal values - Are there such things?Ultimate purpose - Does man have an ultimate purpose?What books have had an impact on you?What advice do you have for teenagers?Sarah Newman is Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Working at the intersection of research and art, her work engages with technology's role in human experience, and interrelations between complex systems. In addition to her art practice, she is also an educator, and leads creative workshops to address interdisciplinary research problems. Her research in artificial intelligence and related technologies investigates how emerging technologies embed and mirror historical social and ethical challenges. Newman is Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, which designs tools and practices for responsible AI development. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Newman's work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Rome, and London, and she has held artist residencies in Germany, Sweden, and Italy.  Newman has previously been an AI Grant Fellow, a Harvard Assembly Fellow, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Fellow at the Royal Society of Art, a Rockefeller AI Bellagio Resident, an artist-in-residence at Northeastern School of Law, and a grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts; with the Data Nutrition Project, she was awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity.Socials! -Lessons from Interesting People substack: https://taylorbledsoe.substack.com/Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiming4moonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-Tw

In honor of the 100th episode, I am interviewed by guest host, Sarah Newman (full bio below)! Sarah Newman is Director of Art & Education at metaLAB at Harvard, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Working at the intersection of research and art, her work engages with technology's role in human experience, and interrelations between complex systems. In addition to her art practice, she is also an educator, and leads creative workshops to address interdisciplinary research problems. Her research in artificial intelligence and related technologies investigates how emerging technologies embed and mirror historical social and ethical challenges. Newman is Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, which designs tools and practices for responsible AI development. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Newman's work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Rome, and London, and she has held artist residencies in Germany, Sweden, and Italy.  Newman has previously been an AI Grant Fellow, a Harvard Assembly Fellow, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a Fellow at the Royal Society of Art, a Rockefeller AI Bellagio Resident, an artist-in-residence at Northeastern School of Law, and a grantee of the National Endowment for the Arts; with the Data Nutrition Project, she was awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity.Socials! -Lessons from Interesting People substack: https://taylorbledsoe.substack.com/Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiming4moonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/

What is the relationship between machine learning, magic, and surprise? Tune into the Episode #17. Part II, where Jeanette Andrews, one of the most innovative illusionists in the world, talks about using the art of magic to explore the questions posed by Alan Turing of whether machines can exhibit intelligent behavior that cannot be distinguished from that of a human. About the Podcast Guest Jeanette Andrews is an artist, magician, and researcher. Andrews' work focuses on developing interactive magic and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation, and audio. Over 27 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and sleight of hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on crafting experiences with nuanced psychological underpinnings, direction of attention and inattention, creating surreal visuals, and designing/building objects that function completely differently than they appear. Her research-based process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive science, and physics. Her work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible to create a lived phenomenology. Themes of pieces have included invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic, unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality. Andrews works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, including her 2020 work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen,” which was later commissioned as a site-specific work for the Quebec City Biennial. Further site-specific works for numerous museums and galleries include the Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, and International Museum of Surgical Science. Andrews is also an acclaimed speaker, presenting with the Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas, Fortune 500 companies, universities, and conferences across the country. She has been an artist in residence for High Concept Labs in Chicago and The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles.  She is currently an Affiliate of metaLab (at) Harvard and an artist in residence at CultureLAB LIC in New York City. Illusion is Andrews' life's work, and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS, and the New York Times. Jeanette's references and other resources Jeanette's magic & art portfolio: https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/ Jeanette's magic performances and talks: https://www.jeanetteandrews.com/ Sleights of Mind book: http://www.sleightsofmind.com/ Science of Magic Association: https://scienceofmagicassoc.org/home Illusion of the Year: http://illusionoftheyear.com/ Thomas Griffiths paper on transformations in magic, "Revealing ontological commitments by magic": https://cocosci.princeton.edu/tom/papers/magic.pdf Jennifer Keisin Armstong (nonfiction workshops): https://jenniferkarmstrong.com/ Connect With Jeanette Andrews Jeanette's Instagram: @JeanetteAndrewsMagic   About the Podcast and Its Host The Neurocareers podcast is brought to you by The Institute of Neuroapproaches and its founder - Milena Korostenskaja, Ph.D. (Dr. K) - a neuroscience educator, neuroscience research consultant, and career coach for students and recent graduates in neuroscience and neurotechnologies: https://www.neuroapproaches.org/ You will benefit from neuroscience-based coaching if you want to... Get your projects DONE instead of procrastinating and feeling stuck. STOP feeling anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed when managing your time and responsibilities. ACHIEVE your goals and BUILD a successful career instead of failing. Get in touch with Dr. K. by sending an email: neuroapproaches@gmail.com Schedule a free consultation session with Dr. K. by following this link: https://neuroapproaches.as.me/

Innovation? Technology? Illusions? Meet and greet Jeanette Andrews - one of the most innovative illusionists in the world today! Jeanette is using modern technologies, including AIs and cognitive science principles, in her Magic shows!    Jeanette is an artist and an informal cognitive scientist recognized for hundreds of sold-out and standing-room-only performances for Fortune 500 companies, theaters, and universities, including Infiniti, Kraft, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lyric Opera & Chicago Ideas Week.   Tune into the Episode #17. Part I. conversation with Jeanette Andrews to hear about her career path and advice on how to succeed in your chosen career.   Stay tuned for Part II of this Neurocareers podcast episode!   About the Podcast Guest Jeanette Andrews is an artist, magician, and researcher. Andrews' work focuses on developing interactive magic and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation, and audio.   Over 27 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and sleight of hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on crafting experiences with nuanced psychological underpinnings, direction of attention and inattention, creating surreal visuals and designing/building objects that function completely differently than they appear.   Her research-based process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive science, and physics. Her work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible to create a lived phenomenology. Themes of pieces have included invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic, unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality.   Andrews works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, including her 2020 work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen,” which was later commissioned as a site-specific work for the Quebec City Biennial. Further site-specific works for numerous museums and galleries include the Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, and International Museum of Surgical Science.   Andrews is also an acclaimed speaker, presenting with the Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas, Fortune 500 companies, universities, and conferences across the country. She has been an artist in residence for High Concept Labs in Chicago and The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles.    She is currently an Affiliate of metaLab (at) Harvard and an artist in residence at CultureLAB LIC in New York City. Illusion is Andrews' life's work, and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS, and the New York Times.   Jeanette's references and other resources Jeanette's magic & art portfolio: https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/ Jeanette's magic performances and talks: https://www.jeanetteandrews.com/ Sleights of Mind book: http://www.sleightsofmind.com/ Science of Magic Association: https://scienceofmagicassoc.org/home Illusion of the Year: http://illusionoftheyear.com/ Thomas Griffiths paper on transformations in magic, "Revealing ontological commitments by magic": https://cocosci.princeton.edu/tom/papers/magic.pdf Jennifer Keisin Armstong (nonfiction workshops): https://jenniferkarmstrong.com/   Connect With Jeanette Andrews Jeanette's Instagram: @JeanetteAndrewsMagic   About the Podcast and Its Host The Neurocareers podcast is brought to you by The Institute of Neuroapproaches and its founder - Milena Korostenskaja, Ph.D. (Dr. K) - a neuroscience educator, neuroscience research consultant, and career coach for students and recent graduates in neuroscience and neurotechnologies: https://www.neuroapproaches.org/ You will benefit from neuroscience-based coaching if you want to... Get your projects DONE instead of procrastinating and feeling stuck. STOP feeling anxious, stressed, and overwhelmed when managing your time and responsibilities. ACHIEVE your goals and BUILD a successful career instead of failing. Get in touch with Dr. K. by sending an email: neuroapproaches@gmail.com Schedule a free consultation session with Dr. K. by following this link: https://neuroapproaches.as.me/

Knowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Mimetic desire: whatever the people you surround yourself with want, you end up wanting as well, i.e. being subconsciously driven to achieve external validation rather than intrinsic validation The constant desire to want to improve parts of your life or business turns your weaknesses into strengths“Most successful people are just an anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity” – Andrew Wilkinson Andrew focuses on building businesses that do not compete with venture capital and whose success can be predicted with reasonable certainty Andrew applies the “80/20 rule” to learning about health; spend an hour a month reading all of the scientific summaries and then don't think about it againOn raising kids with wealth: “At the end of the day, your kids just need to know that you're there and you love them, and I hope that's enough.” – Andrew WilkinsonThe Concept of Self-Binding: create an environment where you can't do the things you don't want to do, such as eating ice cream, by removing the stimulus from your environment completelyThe unconscious mind is far more powerful than the conscious mind Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgCanadian businessman and billionaire investor Andrew Wilkinson has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword. On this episode, Wilkinson goes in-depth on the lessons learned from a career that's seen him build a business empire of more than 40 companies, but also why he's had to re-calibrate his personal goals after struggling to find happiness in the summer of 2021. He also discusses mimetic desire, building a business in a small Canadian market, competing with venture-backed companies, strategies for hiring CEOs, the mistakes that have cost him millions of dollars, and so much more.   Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny Capital, which boasts an enterprise value of more than $1 billion and owns 35 different companies including AeroPress, MetaLab and Dribble. He is also the co-founder and chairman of WeCommerce, a holding company that starts, buys, and invests in the world's top Shopify businesses. He is based in Victoria, British Columbia. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish

Knowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Mimetic desire: whatever the people you surround yourself with want, you end up wanting as well, i.e. being subconsciously driven to achieve external validation rather than intrinsic validation The constant desire to want to improve parts of your life or business turns your weaknesses into strengths“Most successful people are just an anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity” – Andrew Wilkinson Andrew focuses on building businesses that do not compete with venture capital and whose success can be predicted with reasonable certainty Andrew applies the “80/20 rule” to learning about health; spend an hour a month reading all of the scientific summaries and then don't think about it againOn raising kids with wealth: “At the end of the day, your kids just need to know that you're there and you love them, and I hope that's enough.” – Andrew WilkinsonThe Concept of Self-Binding: create an environment where you can't do the things you don't want to do, such as eating ice cream, by removing the stimulus from your environment completelyThe unconscious mind is far more powerful than the conscious mind Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgCanadian businessman and billionaire investor Andrew Wilkinson has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword. On this episode, Wilkinson goes in-depth on the lessons learned from a career that's seen him build a business empire of more than 40 companies, but also why he's had to re-calibrate his personal goals after struggling to find happiness in the summer of 2021. He also discusses mimetic desire, building a business in a small Canadian market, competing with venture-backed companies, strategies for hiring CEOs, the mistakes that have cost him millions of dollars, and so much more.   Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny Capital, which boasts an enterprise value of more than $1 billion and owns 35 different companies including AeroPress, MetaLab and Dribble. He is also the co-founder and chairman of WeCommerce, a holding company that starts, buys, and invests in the world's top Shopify businesses. He is based in Victoria, British Columbia. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish

Canadian businessman and billionaire investor Andrew Wilkinson has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword. On this episode, Wilkinson goes in-depth on the lessons learned from a career that's seen him build a business empire of more than 40 companies, but also why he's had to re-calibrate his personal goals after struggling to find happiness in the summer of 2021. He also discusses mimetic desire, building a business in a small Canadian market, competing with venture-backed companies, strategies for hiring CEOs, the mistakes that have cost him millions of dollars, and so much more.   Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny Capital, which boasts an enterprise value of more than $1 billion and owns 35 different companies including AeroPress, MetaLab and Dribble. He is also the co-founder and chairman of WeCommerce, a holding company that starts, buys, and invests in the world's top Shopify businesses. He is based in Victoria, British Columbia. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish

Can play and delight be an afterthought? Or must they be integral to a product from day one? Our guest today is Richard Ward, chief design officer at Otter.ai. You'll learn how to balance designing for delight and utility, how to bring joy to product users, ways to get design inspiration, and more.Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.Show NotesOtter.ai — Richard's place of workFrog Design, MetaLab — famous design agenciesDonut, Bonusly — examples of playful toolsEpisode 91: Meaningful Motion in UX with Adrian ZumbrunnenPitch — a presentation design toolDribble, Product Hunt, Design Sprint Kit — resources for design inspirationOutline — Google's tool for VPNPage Flows — a collection of UX flowsRetool — a tool for quickly building internal toolsCareers at Otter.aiOtter.ai free trialToday's SponsorThis episode is brought to you by InVision. When collaboration thrives, work becomes more inclusive, creative and impactful. Whether it's strategic plans or spontaneous brainstorms, InVision brings all your people, tools, and ideas together in one real-time collaborative workspace. InVision makes it easy for teams to connect, align, and do incredible work–together. Try it for free at invisionapp.com/go/uibreakfast.Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.

Joanna Wiebe is the creator of Copyhackers and the Copy Chief at CH Agency. For nearly 15 years, she has worked with incredible companies like BT, Canva, Glowforge, Intuit, MetaLab, Prezi, SAP, Sprout Social and VWO to optimize their copy. Check out: https://copyhackers.com/

In episode six of the 12-part podcast series, "https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/white-men-journey (White Men & the Journey Towards Anti-Racism)," Tim interviews Sydney Skybetter choreographer and founder of the Center for Research on Choreographic Interfaces that convenes experts in dance, performance, computer science, kinesiology, anthropology, social justice, and design to explore the relationship between bodies, movement, and emerging technologies. This series was created to be a resource for white men who might be wrestling with questions like, “What's my role in anti-racism, equity, inclusion, and justice work as a white man with power and privilege?” and “How might my personal commitment to do this work manifest itself in the organization I help lead?” Are you new to the series? Check out https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/podcast2/ep54 (episode 54) where podcast co-hosts Lauren Ruffin and Tim Cynova introduce and frame the conversations. Explore https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/white-men-journey (the other episodes in this series) with guests: Raphael Bemporad (Founding Partner) & Bryan Miller (Chief Financial Officer), BBMG Ted Castle (Founder & President) & Rooney Castle (Vice President), Rhino Foods Ron Carucci, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Navalent David Devan, General Director & President, Opera Philadelphia Jared Fishman, Founding Executive Director, Justice Innovation Lab Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-Founder, B Lab; CEO, Imperative21 Kit Hughes, Co-Founder & CEO, Look Listen Marc Mannella, Independent Consultant, Former CEO KIPP Philadelphia Public Schools John Orr, Executive Director, Art-Reach David Reuter, Partner, LLR Want to explore related resources primarily *not* by white guys? Check out https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/white-men-journey (our compilation of 30 books, podcasts, and films). Read "https://humanparts.medium.com/reflections-from-a-token-black-friend-2f1ea522d42d (Reflections From a Token Black Friend,)" mentioned in this episode. Bios SYDNEY SKYBETTER is a choreographer. Hailed by the Financial Times as “One of the world's foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies,” Sydney's choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center, Jacob's Pillow and The Joyce Theater. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured at SXSW, Yale, Mozilla, and Stanford, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. He is a https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sskybett (Public Humanities Fellow, Senior Lecturer and the Associate Chair of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University), and an affiliate of https://metalabharvard.github.io/ (metaLAB at Harvard University) and https://www.darklaboratory.com/ (Dark Laboratory at Cornell University). He is a https://www.wired.com/search/?page=1&q=skybetter&sort=score (regular contributor to WIRED) and https://www.dancemagazine.com/search/?q=skybetter (Dance Magazine), has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a founding member of the https://futurearchitects.com/ (Guild of Future Architects), and is the Founder of the https://choreographicinterfaces.org/ (Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces). TIM CYNOVA (he/him) is the Principal of https://www.workshouldntsuck.co/ (Work. Shouldn't. Suck.), an HR and org design consultancy helping to reimagine workplaces where everyone can thrive. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and a trained mediator, and has served on the faculty of Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Banff, Canada) and The New School (New York City) teaching courses in People-Centric Organizational Design, and Strategic HR. In 2021, he concluded a 12-year tenure leading Fractured Atlas, a $30M, entirely virtual non-profit technology...

This week, we wrap up our series on the the future of work with Founder and CEO of Freedom, Fred Stutzman. Freedom is developing the essential toolset for the future of focused work. In a distraction-first world, we believe that the ability to reliably and consistently do focused, deep work is a differentiating skillset. In this episode we reflect on Fred's own thoughts on the future of work, how the Freedom team is organized to embrace asynchronous, remote working, and some of his favourite insights from our most recent series. We cover: what initially attracted Fred to building a productivity tool reflections on his own productivity how Freedom works in an asynchronous remote way (and the roles of Trello, Slack and email in all that) why 4 Day Work Weeks are better than holidays the tension between new ways of working, and the return to the office as a celebration of normalcy the role of office and workplaces in the future of work Fred is a seasoned GTM executive and serial entrepreneur, having taken multiple consumer technology companies from the idea/R&D phase to market. His core strengths include technology development, remote team formation and management, and using research-driven strategies to identify market needs. Fred has conducted research at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science (HCI), and degrees in Survey Research and Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Additionally, he completed postdoctoral work in Behavioral Economics at CMU. Previously, he co-founded ClaimID, a distributed social identity provider, served as Director of Technology for Ibiblio.org/Metalab, where he managed large, distributed technical projects. In his spare time, Fred is a competitive masters racer on the bike. You can find out more about Fred here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fstutzman/ Or at Freedom here: freedom.to Host and Producer: Georgie Powell https://www.sentientdigitalconsulting.com/ Music and audio production: Toccare https://spoti.fi/3bN4eqO

Here is our first full episode released on our podcast platforms! Michelle and Kathryn are back again and lucky enough to have Jeanette Andrews a magician, artist, and speaker featured on this weeks curious conversation. These 3 dive into Jeanettes extensive background and their collaborative projects within the behavior research space. Jeanette Andrews is hailed as one of the most innovative illusionists in the world today and has staged hundreds of sold-out and standing-room-only performances for Fortune 500 companies, theaters and universities including Infiniti, Kraft, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lyric Opera & Chicago Ideas Week. She has presented commissioned and site-specific works for The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. ​Andrews presented her first magic performance at age four, was paid to do her first magic show at age six, began running her business that day and has never had another job since, and is now internationally recognized as a pioneer in her field. Andrews uses sensory anomalies, art and scientific anecdotes to create luxurious experiences that bridge everyday life to a special, heightened world. She loves creating experiences for audiences to engage with the impossible in fun, insightful, generous ways. Andrews is an Affiliate of Harvard's metaLAB and prior artist in residence for High Concept Labs and The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Illusion is Ms. Andrews' life's work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS and the New York Times. Jeanette Andrews Website Facebook - @SensoryIllusions Twitter - @JeanetteMagic YouTube - @JeanetteAndrewsMagic Instagram - @jeanetteandrewsmagic Be sure to give us 5 Star rating, leave a review, or subscribe to your preferred method of listening. Don't forget to also follow us on any of our social media platforms listed below Kathryn on LinkedIn Michelle on LinkedIn HCD Research Website YouTube - @HCDResearchInc. LinkedIn - @HCDResearch Twitter - @HCDNeuroscience Twitter - @HCDResearchInc Facebook - @HCDResearch Instagram - @HCDResearch MindSet is excited to have each and everyone one of you join our curious conversations! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mindset-hcd-research/message

"I was like, well, Buffet closes deals in like three weeks. And people like selling to him because he's nice and straightforward and he doesn't mess up their business. And so we just copied Buffett and started doing the exact same thing. And now we're up to about 30 wholly-owned businesses." — Andrew Wilkinson In today's episode, we're speaking with Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson), co-founder of Tiny. Here are some of the main topics we discuss: how Andrew reverse engineered Berkshire Hathaway to build Tiny how he started out making $60,000 from his basement how he runs a company with $1B+ in enterprise value with 5 decisions a day how to make an acquisition profitable using simple frameworks why Joe Rogan got ripped off by Spotify his inspiration behind starting the Tiny Foundation Welcome to the Conscious Creators Show; where through intimate and insightful interviews with authors, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs and other podcasters, you'll learn tools and tactics to 10x your creativity and improve your business and life. Like this show? Support us by following the show, leaving a review here and helping us spread the word by sharing the pod with one (or three) friends: https://refer.fm/creators Do you want to learn how to make a living as a creator? Check out the CreatorsMBA where we show you how to get paid to create online: http://www.creatorsmba.com Follow our host, Sachit Gupta, and get it touch if you have any questions or ideas related to the show: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok. Please enjoy today's episode and thank you for listening! Sachit Show Notes 03:06 The evolution of an inspiring technology entrepreneur and the inspiration behind it 12:56 The art of delegating & being a good manager 15:33 The secret behind successful entrepreneurship and the factors it depends on Or Fish where the fish are 21:28 Identifying opportunities, drawing a great team, and the structure and methods of buying and maintaining a successful business 24:38 The incremental value and making the most from best practice 26:35 The importance of ethics vs. skills, and the M & A approach Andrew's way 34:33 The idea behind Mailman and how his hobbies always transform into growing businesses 38:30 Following you natural inclination without compromising your freedom, and with maintaining your balance 42:59 The autonomy as a pillar of his ventures, and incorporated as a way of work for the team 49:47 Recommendations from a successful entrepreneur to podcasters 56:08 An insight on the types of personalities: the innovator, the founder, the scaler, and the operations person 58:13 Tools & Tactics on personal productivity 60:56 The philanthropic aspects of Andrew's entrepreneurship 68:53 The happiness effect according to Andrew Tweetable Quotes "I was like, well, Buffet closes deals in like three weeks. And people like selling to him because he's nice and straightforward and he doesn't mess up their business. And so we just copied Buffett and started doing the exact same thing. And now we're up to about 30 wholly-owned businesses." — Andrew Wilkinson "One of the interesting things about being a CEO for us is that we basically do not intervene in any way unless asked to so, unless the CEO wants to go spend a ton of money or they want our feedback on something, we don't talk to them." — Andrew Wilkinson "If you bring in somebody (CEO) that the team rejects, it's a complete failure, it doesn't matter if they're incredibly smart and they have a great strategy." — Andrew Wilkinson About Our Guest Andrew Wilkinson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada and developed an early interest in computers and technology at a young age. In 2001 he took over a tech news site called MacTeens.com. While managing this site, Wilkinson started to gain significant traffic to his site by covering tech news and reviewing tech products. After graduating high school, his tenure in college was short-lived and he decided to drop out after a few months. He started to become a freelance designer and this led to him starting MetaLab. In 2006, Wilkinson started a design agency called MetaLab. In a short period of time, MetaLab became a market leader for Silicon Valley companies that were looking for marketing and web design services. Some of the notable companies that were MetaLab clients included startups like Slack, Coinbase, Pinterest and Shopify as well as Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Google, Walmart, and Facebook. Today, MetaLab has launched over 205 products for clients and 3 of those products became billion-dollar businesses. Unsure of what to do with the proceeds, Wilkinson started reading about investing and quickly learned about Warren Buffett. This led to Wilkinson transitioning from a business operator role to investing full-time. After delegating his operating business to CEOs, Wilkinson founded Tiny with his long-time business partner, Chris Sparling. Tiny began buying profitable internet businesses and quickly started growing their portfolio due to their unique value propositions. Tiny would purchase businesses from founders in a swift, seamless manner by providing full or partial cash outs for founders in addition to getting deals done in less than 30 days. Additionally, Tiny would promise to not make any significant culture changes and hold the companies long-term. This led to significant growth in Tiny's portfolio and now there are over 25 businesses under the Tiny umbrella. Notable companies in Tiny's portfolio include Dribbble, MetaLab, PixelUnion, Creative Market and more. In June 2020, Wilkinson announced the launch of the Tiny Foundation. Wilkinson has noted interest in charitable areas such as science, journalism and child protection services.

Unser heutiger Gast ist Christian Reber, CEO und Founder von Pitch. Christian zählt unbestritten- und nicht zuletzt nach seinem neunstelligen Exit an Microsoft – zu den Superstars der Berliner Startup-Szene. Mit seiner neuen Startup Pitch startet er erneut durch und greift den globalen PowerPoint-Markt an. Traction und Geschwindigkeit sorgten dafür, dass das Unternehmen im Zuge seiner letzten Finanzierungsrunde mit ca. 600 Millionen US$ bewertet wurde. Neben dem berühmten US-VC Tiger Global Management sind auch Index Ventures, thrive Capital, Tiny Capital und die deutschen VC BlueYard Capital, Lakestar und Freigeist an dem Startup beteiligt. Darüber hinaus auch zahlreiche Business Angels, die sich wie das Who-is-Who der internationalen Software-Elite lesen: Die Gründer von Slack (via Slack Fund), Koen Bok (Gründer von Framer), Olivier Pomel (CEO & Co-Founder von Datadog), Simon Willnauer (Gründer Elastic), Andrew Wilkinson (Gründer Metalab), Mike Krieger (CTO & Co-Founder Instagram), Kevin Systrom (CEO & Co-Founder Instagram), Rahul Vohra (Founder & CEO Superhuman), Eric Subrah Yuan (CEO & Gründer von Zoom) und Frank Thelen. Ein absolut hörenswertes Gespräch über die Erfahrungen, die Christian im Laufe der letzten Jahre sammeln konnte und über die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren eines schnell wachsenden Ausnahme-Startups.

Andrew Wilkinson is the co-founder of Tiny, a venture capital firm that has helped to build over 25 profitable internet businesses over the last 15 years. He got his start founding MetaLab, one of the world's top design agencies. He has gone from working out of his apartment a little over a decade ago, to today overseeing a group of companies with over 300 employees and tens of millions in revenue.   Artwork and illustrations by Jack Butcher of @VisualizeValue   Huge thanks to Modern Stoa (modernstoa.co) for their help on creating and growing this very podcast you're listening to now. 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Robinhood's shares are up so much after that busted IPO that trading had to be halted today. What gives? Also, what's up with the rush into Buy Now Pay Later all of the sudden? Vudo will become Roku's official video store. Superhuman raises another round. And do you need a smart soap dispenser in your life? Probably not.Metalab.comTinyCaptial.comLinks:Robinhood surges as much as 81% in second day of wild trading (CNBC)Apple, Affirm to Join on Buy Now, Pay Later for Canadian Purchases (Bloomberg)WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once' disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)New ‘Google Identity Services' consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap' (9to5Google)FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free (TechCrunch)Blizzard's head of HR is out (The Verge)Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt (The Verge)Smart homes and vegetable peelers (Benedict Evans)Link to the Twitter Space reminder!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I was joined by the inspirational Andrew Wilkinson, founder of Tiny; he started product and branding agency Meta Lab in 2006 and was responsible for some of our most-loved and used companies such as Slack, UberEats, Coinbase, Pinterest and Headspace, to name a few. He then used MetaLab's profits to purchase other companies that have solid revenues, are designed well, have a great culture, and are profitable, which he knew he could rocket ship. Tiny now owns circa 30 companies, the likes of designer platform dribbble and the largest remote work community in the world, WeWork Remotely. Tiny has never relied on outside funding until recently where it launched a $150m fund to buy more businesses and for their own company WeCommerce, which has raised $60m, which is now on the Canadian stock exchange with a market cap of circa $1bn - WeCommerce buys and builds businesses that sit solely on the Shopify ecosystem. We listened to the pitch from Will, founder of Circl, which is looking to bring the concept of social betting to the masses. The concept being a group of friends form a Circl, put money in the pot then dependent on what happens in a sports match, the pot moves around the Circl...eg. A throw in, the pot moves clockwise two steps, a red card the pot moves anti-clockwise 4 steps etc...whoever has the pot at the end of the match takes it all. Circl is looking to bring the fun back into betting and make it a social activity, rather than something that's done in isolation and in excess. Andrew and I dug down on go-to-market strategy, where the concept could go beyond sport, the complications of the betting market and the team around Will. Brought to you by my Startup Playground, Horseplay Ventures - https://horseplay.ventures/ Circl - https://www.playcircl.com/ Tiny - https://www.tinycapital.com/

Jeffrey Schnapp's career is a study in professional interoperability. He's Faculty Co-Director at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Founder and Faculty Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard. He's the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature and teaches at the famed Graduate School of Design. His business card identifies him as the Chief Visionary Office of Piaggio Fast Forward and, while we're at it, he's authored or edited 25 books. Whew. “It's not good enough to be a generalist but if you are *only* a specialist, it's unlikely that you're going to see where the great areas of opportunity lie,” Schnapp tells producer Ken Gordon in the latest episode of *The Resonance Test.* At EPAM Continuum, we feel this idea. Profoundly. We also live in the world of multidisciplinary activity and saw a vast area of opportunity in creating a dialogue with Schnapp—about robots and the future of cities, loneliness, Dante, digital communities, the revitalization of public dialogues, libraries, and the psychopathologies of devices. Whew (again). Much to learn from a man has made his living as a “learner-in-chief.” Host: Alison Kotin Engineer: Kyp Pilalas Producer: Ken Gordon

Joanna Wiebe is the creator of Copyhackers and the Copy Chief at CH Agency. For nearly 15 years, she has worked with incredible companies like BT, Canva, Glowforge, Intuit, MetaLab, Prezi, SAP, Sprout Social and VWO to optimize their copy. Check out: https://copyhackers.com/

Today's episode features the Co-Founder of Tiny Capital, Andrew Wilkinson. Tiny Capital owns 30+ companies and focuses on buying, starting, and investing in internet businesses. On this episode, Chris and Andrew discuss his childhood creating MetaLab which led him to help design some of the most well known companies like Slack and CoinBase. They also talk about the process of acquiring businesses, Andrew's habit of starting businesses when he's bored, his experience going public with WeCommerce and much more. Enjoy! Follow Chris on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/FortWorthChris Learn more about Chris Powers and Fort Capital: www.FortCapitalLP.com Follow Chris on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/ Follow Andrew on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/awilkinson (02:51) - Andrews Background MetaLab The Making of an American Capitalist  (09:50) - How did you think about money at an early age?  (13:54) - Do you consider yourself a designer? How did you learn this? (17:17) - Did you have founder’s guilt when it came time to replace yourself? (19:21) - Doing the Things You Hate Doing in Business (21:35) - Do you actually like reading a P&L and balance sheets? (22:16) - What’s an immediate ‘no’ of all the businesses that cross your desk? (26:00) - Once you’ve agreed to buy a business, what’s the process like going forward to close? (29:32) - Do you negotiate? (30:13) - Structuring CEO Comp and What Questions You’re Trying to Answer When Developing a Plan (32:27) - Will you steer founders to go get a bank loan for a new company project or will you deploy capital? (34:43) - If you had one hour to talk to each of your CEOs per year, what would you discuss with them? Tao of Charlie Munger (36:09) - Twitter Q: What is the key role, or person, to take a company from $500k-1M in revenue to $5-10M? (38:00) - You speak very highly of your partner Chris. What do you do and what does he do? (39:03) - Do y’all have a standing meeting or when do you communicate? (39:51) - WeCommerce  (43:17) - A Traditional IPO vs. a Reverse Takeover  (45:20) - When did you decide it was time to go public? (46:11) - What was your involvement in the Stamped Acquisition? (47:28) - What have you learned from Bill Ackman and how did you meet him? CharityBuzz (51:26) - What's your process like to go from an idea to the launch of a business? (58:19) - What’s the biggest thing content creators are missing when it comes to monetization? Joe Rogan Got Ripped Off by Spotify (1:02:34) - If you were the CEO of Twitter, what would you do to change the company? (1:06:38) - Is there a childhood experience that shaped where you would go in life?  (1:07:49) - What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? (1:08:57) - How can people get in touch with you? Twitter: www.twitter.com/awilkinson

Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab and Flow. Metalab is a design agency that Andrew founded when he was just 20 years old and has grown it into a business with over 60 employees. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 billion. And Flow is a task management SaaS application for teams which is used by companies like Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, and TED. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Metalab Ballpark Flow Pixel Union OmniFocus Tumbler David Karp - @davidkarp Andrew Wilkinson - @awilkinson Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.

Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab and Flow. Metalab is a design agency that Andrew founded when he was just 20 years old and has grown it into a business with over 60 employees. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 billion and Flow is a task management SaaS application for teams that is used by companies like Etsy, Tesla, Adobe, and TED. Links, Resources & People Mentioned Metalab Flow Slack Coinbase Ballpark Pixel Union Shopify Andrew Wilkinson - @awilkinson Omer Khan - @omerkhan Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to the podcast Leave a rating and review Follow Omer on Twitter Need help with your SaaS? Join SaaS Club Plus: our membership and community for new and early-stage SaaS founders. Join and get training & support. Join SaaS Club Launch: a 12-week group coaching program to help you get your SaaS from zero to your first $10K revenue. Apply for SaaS Club Accelerate: If you'd like to work directly with Omer 1:1, then request a free strategy session.