Podcast appearances and mentions of ryan rzepecki

Kicking off the “Metaverse Metropolis” series, Unfrozen spends a fascinating hour with Andreea Ion Cojocaru, CEO of Numena, and Nick Kauffman, Director of Communities for Spectra Cities. The companies are collaborating to build open-source city-building tools and in augmented and virtual reality, and working to translate the resulting deeper understanding of 3D space to build better communities in the physical world. Catch Andreea live at South by Southwest (SXSW): From Words to Worlds, March 14, and at “Placemaking Across Realities,” with Spectra Cities founder Ryan Rzepecki at Cornell Tech, New York City, March 21, along with Unfrozen's own Greg Lindsay. Intro: “Numena” by Cosmosquad Outro: “Spectra” by Pink Skies

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson is joined by Ryan Rzepecki, the Founder and CEO of Spectra Cities. Spectra helps placemakers design and model virtual cities. They also plan to eventually build a real-world million-person city. Leveraging the power of VR and AR, architects, urban designers, and engineers can create "blocks" that bring city planning ideas to life.Topics Covered: Introduction to Spectra — (01:23)Spectra's Audience — (03:26)Open Source and Revenue — (04:20)Building a Community of Placemakers — (06:24)Building Neighborhoods in Spectra — (08:23)Harnessing AR and VR for Citybuilding — (09:54)The Optimal Spectra Setup — (12:04)Making Micro Mobility Work — (14:05)Advocating for Bikes in Your Community — (17:03)Reforming Versus Building New Cities — (21:36)Campfire is brought to you by Cabin - a network of coliving neighborhoods for nature-loving creators and remote workers. You can learn more at the following links:Website (cabin.city)TwitterDiscordRead more urbanist content at The Future of Living Newsletter Episode Links: Spectra's Website Spectra on TwitterRyan on Twitter Episode Credit:Hosted by @JacksonStegerSound Engineering by @ProdcolinProduced + Distributed by @PhilippeIze

This week we share a recent TripleM webinar where Oliver interviews Ryan Rzepecki. Ryan was the founder of Jump which sold to Uber and as of a few weeks ago, was sold to Lime. Ryan is a wealth of knowledge and understands this space inside and out. It’s a great discussion. Specifically, they dig into: - The Social Bike / Jump journey story including how it started, pivoted and what Ryan learnt along the way - The behind the scenes story - The highlights, lowlights and things people were not so privy to. - A discussion of why design was so important and how that came through in the scooters and bikes. - What Ryan thinks of the industry today, and why he believes it still so early. - What his favourite Micromobility products are. - His opinion of blitzscaling and the impact that had on Jump. - A discussion of how the fundraising environment changed over time. - Where he’s bullish on the industry overall, and their next steps. - Why the Jump hardware team was the best in the business. If you like this, you’ll like our Micromobility Membership, or Triple M. We do exclusive calls like this on a regular basis. We’ve had Kara Swisher and Felix Salmon, the founders of Spin, the head of Segway’s business development and head of Lime Joe Kraus on the current state of the industry, along with webinars on things like insurance and city data. We have a Slack channel to talk with the others like you with an interest in building the future plus you get discounts on the Micromobility Conference, swag and more, all for $100 a year. Check it out at micromobility.io

In the Know has Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) listening to Ryan Rzepecki, the founder of Social Bicycles, the creators of the JUMP electric bike network acquired by Uber. Hear how he went from day 1 through the huge acquisition. In

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Experiments in the life sciences, taxi technology and bike sharing are helping regular people do DIY scientific research and transform the way they get around.  This week on New Tech City, reporter Jessica Gould visits Genspace, a community biotech lab in Brooklyn where lay people can extract genes from strawberries, sequence DNA and play Bill Nye the Science Guy for a few hours.  "The benefits of having a garage biology or amateur biology movement grow are that you get people thinking outside the box," said Art Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University. Meanwhile, New Tech City producer Dan Tucker tests out a new model for bike share with no docks, no kiosks, just bikes. Unlike New York's Citibike program, tech startup Social Bicycles makes a self-locking bike with a bevy of tech-savvy features like GPS location and social media capability.  "What we've done is put the communications technology onto the bike," said Social Bicycles co-founder Ryan Rzepecki.  Also on this week's show, this is the first summer when New Yorkers can "e-hail" a taxi with a smartphone app like Uber or Hailo, and so far, it's caught on with only a very small slice of the population. During June, the first month the apps were allowed, less that one-quarter of one percent of taxi rides originated with an e-hail. When the data came out last week, New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi tweeted: "Old habits die hard. New Yorkers still prefer to hail cabs by hand." When Stacy-Marie Ishmael, product manager at the social media startup Percolate, tweeted back "Brown people disagree," New Tech City called her up to hear her story.  "One of the advantages of these kinds of apps is they remove the uncertainty that you face that a cab driver will pass you by because they're profiling you based on how you look," Ishmael said. This is an extended podcast of New Tech City. You can listen to the broadcast version every Wednesday morning at 5:50 and 7:50 a.m. on WNYC 93.9 FM, AM 820 and New Jersey Public Radio or subscribe to the program on iTunes.