Podcast appearances and mentions of sara mauskopf

Send us a textJoin hosts Alex Sarlin and Ben Kornell as they break down a pivotal week of AI announcements, edtech disruption, and education policy shifts.✨ Episode Highlights:[00:00:00] China introduces AI education for 6-year-olds, sparking urgency for U.S. to respond[00:05:23] OpenAI teases a creative writing model as Google and Anthropic push into coding AI[00:07:59] Gemini Canvas and Deep Research go free, redefining educational productivity tools[00:11:09] Copyright clash: OpenAI wants to train on protected content, creatives push back[00:14:02] Gemini's UI outpaces OpenAI with real classroom use cases[00:17:54] Chain of Draft from Zoom cuts AI costs by 90% and mimics human note-taking[00:18:34] Baidu, Alibaba launch emotion-reading and multi-modal AI models in China[00:20:50] Manus, China's autonomous AI agent, sparks global interest in multi-agent systems[00:23:36] U.S. vs. China: centralized AI strategy meets decentralized innovation culture[00:27:57] U.S. Education Dept. shutters Office of Ed Tech, leaving a national guidance gapPlus, special guests:[00:30:11] Annie Chechitelli, CPO at Turnitin, on launching Clarity for ethical student AI use[01:03:49] Sara Mauskopf, CEO & Co-founder of Winnie, on expanding into K-12 and the rise of school choice

This week we chat with Sara Mauskopf!Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a leading marketplace for daycare and preschool helping millions of parents across the United States. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data and more.Child care providers use Winnie to get the tools and support to grow their business. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management and is also a mom of 3 young childrenFollow us!Sara Mauskopf: @smWinnie: @winnieErica Wenger: @erica_wengerDear Twentysomething: @deartwentysomething

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Climate change doesn't just impact wildlife and the weather. It also impacts human life—and that includes parenting. This week, we're resharing an important past episode with Sara Mauskopf, CEO and co-founder of Winnie, that discusses the intersection between climate and childcare—and how younger generations are directly impacted. For show notes, visit https://brightly.eco/how-climate-change-affects-childcare-and-education/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the last Startup Dad episode of 2023! It has been one hell of a year. Starting in June I released a show a week for the entire rest of the year; 27 episodes in total. Talking parenthood with dozens of startup dads and a few startup moms blew away all of my expectations. For this episode I pulled together the best of over two dozen conversations covering everything from mistakes made to frameworks for parenting success. At the end I asked many of my guests what they're most looking forward to in 2024. This episode includes excerpts from nearly every one of my conversations. Guests include: Nick Soman, Buster Benson, George Arison, Guy Yalif, Jake Wood, Gaurav Vohra, Tobi Emonts-Holley, Ben Williams, Lloyed Lobo, Ryan Johnson, Mike Duboe, Sara and Eric Mauskopf, Trae and Michelle Stephens, Aaron Huey, Will Rocklin, Tom Willerer, Darius Contractor, Adam Grenier, Alex Cohen, Brian Balfour, Josh Herzig-Marx and Carla Naumburg, Casey Woo, Fareed Mosavat, and Matt Greenberg. In this episode we discuss: Mistakes made as a Dad The successes and high points of parenting Frustrations and challenges with parenting Frameworks for success Advocacy and raising children with special needs Coping with loss Startup Dads' optimism for 2024 Where to find Adam Fishman - Newsletter: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com - Newsletter: http://startupdadpod.substack.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/ - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/ — In this episode, we cover: [0:00] Hello & intro from Adam [01:15] Mistakes made as a parent [01:22] Ryan Johnson (CPO, CallRail) - thinking your kids are older than they are [02:41] Tobi Emonts-Holley (CEO, Tiphereth) - losing your temper, recovering and learning to let go [04:20] Nick Soman (CEO/founder, Decent) - when I felt like I was drowning [05:45] Mike Duboe (General Partner, Greylock) - being too hard on yourself [07:12] Lloyed Lobo (Co-founder, Boast.ai) - yelling at your kids [07:54] Jake Wood (Founder, Groundswell and Team Rubicon) - avoiding mistakes of the heart [08:42] Guy Yalif (Co-founder/CEO, Intellimize) - quality minutes with your kids vs. quantity of hours [09:29] Gaurav Vohra (Founding team, Superhuman) - taking advice from other parents; not getting a crib [11:50] Buster Benson (Product leader, Medium) - thinking your kids are more mature than they are [14:27] George Arison (CEO, Grindr) - not explaining why to kids [14:46] Ben Williams (PLG Advisor, PLGeek) - thinking it would be easy [15:15] Parenting successes [15:24] Will Rocklin (Product Advisor) - marriage and parenthood unlocking your best self [17:25] Tom Willerer (COO, Reforge) - watching your kids be successful [21:51] Trae and Michelle Stephens (Partner, Founders Fund, Co-founder Anduril, Co-founder Oathcare) - watching kids learning new things and experiencing the world [22:53] Eric and Sara Mauskopf  (Product leader, Winnie; CEO/co-founder, Winnie) - rejoining the workforce and working with your spouse [027:20] Guy Yalif - seeing your kids navigate transitions; college and high school [28:06] Darius Contractor (CGO, Otter.ai) - helping your kids be centered and defining success with them [28:59] George Arison - watching your kids learning [29:28] Aaron Huey (Founder, National Geographic Photographer, 3rd Coolest Dad in America) - being named the 3rd coolest Dad in America [31:07] Parenting frustrations and challenges [31:19] Will Rocklin - conception struggles and a positive experience with IVF [33:23] Alex Cohen (Product leader, Carbon Health) - not having family or a support network nearby [34:25] Nick Soman - starting a company and becoming a husband and father at the same time [35:13] Eric and Sara Mauskopf - navigating cancer; a dismembering experience; family planning with cancer [42:28] Adam Grenier (VP Growth, Eventbrite) - having a child with special needs [44:17] Buster Benson - navigating separation and divorce; talking to your kids about it; advice for others [53:03] Tobi Emonts-Holley - getting intense feedback online and saying the wrong thing [01:00:20] Best parenting frameworks [01:00:30] Nick Soman - irrevocable guidelines [01:00:59] Tobi Emonts-Holley - personal discipline equals freedom [01:02:57] Mike Duboe - making time for date night [01:04:04] Lloyed Lobo - positive discipline, rewarding the effort and trusting the process [01:07:51] Jake Wood - making sure your kids know they're loved [01:08:30] Guy Yalif - making sure your kids know they're loved and you only control how you show up [01:09:29] Adam Grenier - tools from Brene Brown and understanding your couple capacity [01:10:37] Gaurav Vohra - Delete, automate, delegate [01:13:14] Casey Woo - the importance of routine [01:13:50] Josh Herzig-Marx and Carla Naumburg (Product advisor, best-selling author) - prioritization and tradeoffs using mission and vision [01:19:04] Buster Benson - creating a safe space and not trying to diagnose your kids [01:21:37] Adam Grenier - special time with each kid [01:22:50] Gaurav Vohra - full vertical responsibility management [01:28:41] Brian Balfour (CEO/founder, Reforge) - defining your parenting values [01:30:15] Ben Williams - making 1-on-1 time [01:31:37] Alex Cohen - giving zero fucks and going with the flow [01:32:15] Fareed Mosavat (Advisor) - remembering that you're the adult [01:33:06] Advocating for your kids [01:33:17] Ryan Johnson - getting difficult medical diagnoses and navigating that process [01:36:07] Matt Greenberg (CTO, Handshake) - the process of diagnosing and advocating for your autistic child in the school system [01:41:29] Adam Grenier - the tools for helping and advocating for your autistic child with caregivers [1:46:01] Ben Williams - helping your child understand racism [1:47:14] George Arison - navigating the surrogacy process as a gay man [1:54:41] Matt Greenberg - more about advocating for your autistic child [1:59:51] Startup dads & moms discuss loss [2:00:02] Trae & Michelle Stephens - navigating miscarriage and advice for others  [2:02:24] Brian Balfour - coping with the loss of a child at birth [2:08:06] Lloyd Lobo - navigating the loss of a twin [2:13:21] What are Startup Dads looking forward to in 2024? [2:13:29] Matt Greenberg - looking forward to his four year old turning five [2:13:47] Lloyd Lobo - my wife's 40th birthday [2:14:13] Alex Cohen - side projects turning into real things [2:14:48] George Arison - excited about building culture together and the transition to kindergarten [2:15:58] Gaurav Vohra - traveling to exciting places as a family [2:17:06] Ben Williams - taking a family holiday... somewhere warm [2:18:05] Trae & Michelle Stephens - having an escape from the city, celebrating milestone birthdays, and rest [2:19:13] Tobi Emonts-Holley - watching his kids pursue their sports and passions; connecting with more dads [2:20:19] Ryan Johnson - the technology landscape settling and what will happen with AI [2:21:36] Will Rocklin - a baby who sleeps [2:22:39] Thank you — Show references: IVF - https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716 RMA - https://rmanetwork.com/ Harville Hendrix - https://harvilleandhelen.com/ Fatherly - https://www.fatherly.com/ National Geographic - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ UCSF Fertility Clinic - https://crh.ucsf.edu/ Jocko Willink - https://jocko.com/ The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison & Craig Walsh - https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472 Brene Brown - https://brenebrown.com/ Fair Play by Eve Rodsky - https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Play-Game-Changing-Solution-When/dp/0525541934 The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman PHD - https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0553447718 Brickies - https://brickies.club/ CCRM Fertility - https://www.ccrmivf.com/ HAND of Bay Area - https://handsupport.org/ — Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/ Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/  

Welcome to the last Startup Dad episode of 2023! It has been one hell of a year. Starting in June I released a show a week for the entire rest of the year; 27 episodes in total. Talking parenthood with dozens of startup dads and a few startup moms blew away all of my expectations. For this episode I pulled together the best of over two dozen conversations covering everything from mistakes made to frameworks for parenting success. At the end I asked many of my guests what they're most looking forward to in 2024.This episode includes excerpts from nearly every one of my conversations from this past year.Guests include: Nick Soman, Buster Benson, George Arison, Guy Yalif, Jake Wood, Gaurav Vohra, Tobi Emonts-Holley, Ben Williams, Lloyed Lobo, Ryan Johnson, Mike Duboe, Sara and Eric Mauskopf, Trae and Michelle Stephens, Aaron Huey, Will Rocklin, Tom Willerer, Darius Contractor, Adam Grenier, Alex Cohen, Brian Balfour, Josh Herzig-Marx and Carla Naumburg, Casey Woo, Fareed Mosavat, and Matt Greenberg.In this episode we discuss:* Mistakes made as a Dad* The successes and high points of parenting* Frustrations and challenges with parenting* Frameworks for success* Advocacy and raising children with special needs* Coping with loss* Startup Dads' optimism for 2024Listen, watch and subscribe: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Overcast.Where to find Adam Fishman- Newsletter: FishmanAFNewsletter.com- Newsletter: startupdadpod.substack.com- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/—In this episode, we cover:[0:00] Hello & intro from Adam[01:15] Mistakes made as a parent[01:22] Ryan Johnson (CPO, CallRail) - thinking your kids are older than they are[02:41] Tobi Emonts-Holley (CEO, Tiphereth) - losing your temper, recovering and learning to let go[04:20] Nick Soman (CEO/founder, Decent) - when I felt like I was drowning[05:45] Mike Duboe (General Partner, Greylock) - being too hard on yourself[07:12] Lloyed Lobo (Co-founder, Boast.ai) - yelling at your kids[07:54] Jake Wood (Founder, Groundswell and Team Rubicon) - avoiding mistakes of the heart[08:42] Guy Yalif (Co-founder/CEO, Intellimize) - quality minutes with your kids vs. quantity of hours[09:29] Gaurav Vohra (Founding team, Superhuman) - taking advice from other parents; not getting a crib[11:50] Buster Benson (Product leader, Medium) - thinking your kids are more mature than they are[14:27] George Arison (CEO, Grindr) - not explaining why to kids[14:46] Ben Williams (PLG Advisor, PLGeek) - thinking it would be easy[15:15] Parenting successes[15:24] Will Rocklin (Product Advisor) - marriage and parenthood unlocking your best self[17:25] Tom Willerer (COO, Reforge) - watching your kids be successful[21:51] Trae and Michelle Stephens (Partner, Founders Fund, Co-founder Anduril, Co-founder Oathcare) - watching kids learning new things and experiencing the world[22:53] Eric and Sara Mauskopf  (Product leader, Winnie; CEO/co-founder, Winnie) - rejoining the workforce and working with your spouse[027:20] Guy Yalif - seeing your kids navigate transitions; college and high school[28:06] Darius Contractor (CGO, Otter.ai) - helping your kids be centered and defining success with them[28:59] George Arison - watching your kids learning[29:28] Aaron Huey (Founder, National Geographic Photographer, 3rd Coolest Dad in America) - being named the 3rd coolest Dad in America[31:07] Parenting frustrations and challenges[31:19] Will Rocklin - conception struggles and a positive experience with IVF[33:23] Alex Cohen (Product leader, Carbon Health) - not having family or a support network nearby[34:25] Nick Soman - starting a company and becoming a husband and father at the same time[35:13] Eric and Sara Mauskopf - navigating cancer; a dismembering experience; family planning with cancer[42:28] Adam Grenier (VP Growth, Eventbrite) - having a child with special needs[44:17] Buster Benson - navigating separation and divorce; talking to your kids about it; advice for others[53:03] Tobi Emonts-Holley - getting intense feedback online and saying the wrong thing[01:00:20] Best parenting frameworks[01:00:30] Nick Soman - irrevocable guidelines[01:00:59] Tobi Emonts-Holley - personal discipline equals freedom[01:02:57] Mike Duboe - making time for date night[01:04:04] Lloyed Lobo - positive discipline, rewarding the effort and trusting the process[01:07:51] Jake Wood - making sure your kids know they're loved[01:08:30] Guy Yalif - making sure your kids know they're loved and you only control how you show up[01:09:29] Adam Grenier - tools from Brene Brown and understanding your couple capacity[01:10:37] Gaurav Vohra - Delete, automate, delegate[01:13:14] Casey Woo - the importance of routine[01:13:50] Josh Herzig-Marx and Carla Naumburg (Product advisor, best-selling author) - prioritization and tradeoffs using mission and vision[01:19:04] Buster Benson - creating a safe space and not trying to diagnose your kids[01:21:37] Adam Grenier - special time with each kid[01:22:50] Gaurav Vohra - full vertical responsibility management[01:28:41] Brian Balfour (CEO/founder, Reforge) - defining your parenting values[01:30:15] Ben Williams - making 1-on-1 time[01:31:37] Alex Cohen - giving zero fucks and going with the flow[01:32:15] Fareed Mosavat (Advisor) - remembering that you're the adult[01:33:06] Advocating for your kids[01:33:17] Ryan Johnson - getting difficult medical diagnoses and navigating that process[01:36:07] Matt Greenberg (CTO, Handshake) - the process of diagnosing and advocating for your autistic child in the school system[01:41:29] Adam Grenier - the tools for helping and advocating for your autistic child with caregivers[1:46:01] Ben Williams - helping your child understand racism[1:47:14] George Arison - navigating the surrogacy process as a gay man[1:54:41] Matt Greenberg - more about advocating for your autistic child[1:59:51] Startup dads & moms discuss loss[2:00:02] Trae & Michelle Stephens - navigating miscarriage and advice for others [2:02:24] Brian Balfour - coping with the loss of a child at birth[2:08:06] Lloyd Lobo - navigating the loss of a twin[2:13:21] What are Startup Dads looking forward to in 2024?[2:13:29] Matt Greenberg - looking forward to his four year old turning five[2:13:47] Lloyd Lobo - my wife's 40th birthday[2:14:13] Alex Cohen - side projects turning into real things[2:14:48] George Arison - excited about building culture together and the transition to kindergarten[2:15:58] Gaurav Vohra - traveling to exciting places as a family[2:17:06] Ben Williams - taking a family holiday... somewhere warm[2:18:05] Trae & Michelle Stephens - having an escape from the city, celebrating milestone birthdays, and rest[2:19:13] Tobi Emonts-Holley - watching his kids pursue their sports and passions; connecting with more dads[2:20:19] Ryan Johnson - the technology landscape settling and what will happen with AI[2:21:36] Will Rocklin - a baby who sleeps[2:22:39] Thank you—Show references:IVF - https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716RMA - https://rmanetwork.com/Harville Hendrix - https://harvilleandhelen.com/Fatherly - https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/100-coolest-dads-in-america-2018National Geographic - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/UCSF Fertility Clinic - https://crh.ucsf.edu/Jocko Willink - https://jocko.com/The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison & Craig Walsh - https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472Brene Brown - https://brenebrown.com/Fair Play by Eve Rodsky - https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Play-Game-Changing-Solution-When/dp/0525541934The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman PHD - https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0553447718Brickies - https://brickies.club/CCRM Fertility - https://www.ccrmivf.com/HAND of Bay Area - https://handsupport.org/—Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit startupdadpod.substack.com

Welcome to a special Holiday Edition of Startup Dad! As parents we all need to go easy on ourselves at this time of the year. To bring a little holiday cheer to your lives I went back through 2023's roster of guests and highlighted their best and worst parenting purchases. You'll also hear a series of never-before-shared thoughts on the best and worst holiday presents they've ever given their spouse and the best and worst gifts they've ever received.You'll hear from past guests: Adam Grenier, Alex Cohen, Casey Woo, Brian Balfour, Buster Benson, Gaurav Vohra, Aaron Huey, Darius Contractor, Eric and Sara Mauskopf, Mike Duboe, Nick Soman, Ryan Johnson, Trae and Michelle Stephens, Tom Willerer, Fareed Mosavat, Will Rocklin, Matt Greenberg, Ben Williams, Jake Wood, and Tobi Emonts-Holley.In this episode we discuss:* The best parenting product they've ever purchased* The worst parenting product they've ever purchased* The best or worst holiday gift they've ever given their spouse* The best or worst holiday gift they've ever receivedListen, watch and subscribe: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Overcast.—Where to find Adam Fishman- Newsletter: www.fishmanafnewsletter.com- Newsletter: www.startupdadpod.substack.com- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/—In this episode, we cover:[0:00] Intro and welcome[1:32] Best parenting product ever purchased[4:01] Worst parenting product ever purchased[7:49] Best or worst gift they've ever given their spouse[12:26] Best or worst gift they've ever received—Show references for Best Parenting Purchases:Butt Cream - https://www.babylist.com/hello-baby/best-diaper-rash-creamsBlackout Tent - https://www.amazon.com/SlumberPod-3-0-Portable-Blackout-Sleeping/dp/B0B7PBRZX5?th=1Umbrella Stroller - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-umbrella-strollers/Night Nanny - https://www.care.com/c/what-is-a-night-nanny/White Noise Machine - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-white-noise-machine/Kids Tower / Step Stool - https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/childrens-products/g37342617/best-learning-towers/Doona Stroller - https://www.doona.com/en-us/car-seat-stroller/discover-doonaBaby Gate - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-baby-gate/Travel Stroller - https://www.verywellfamily.com/best-travel-strollers-4177015Nose Frida - https://frida.com/products/nosefridaSleep Expert - https://wellrestedmamas.com/sleep-training-consultant-coach/Fellow Tea Kettle - https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-ekg-electric-pour-over-kettleOnesies with Zippers - https://www.target.com/s/zipper+onesie+newborn—Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit startupdadpod.substack.com

Welcome to a special Holiday Edition of Startup Dad! As parents we all need to go easy on ourselves at this time of the year. To bring a little holiday cheer to your lives I went back through 2023's roster of guests and highlighted their best and worst parenting purchases. You'll also hear a series of never-before-shared thoughts on the best and worst holiday presents they've ever given their spouse and the best and worst gifts they've ever received. You'll hear from past guests Adam Grenier, Alex Cohen, Casey Woo, Brian Balfour, Buster Benson, Gaurav Vohra, Aaron Huey, Darius Contractor, Eric and Sara Mauskopf, Mike Duboe, Nick Soman, Ryan Johnson, Trae and Michelle Stephens, Tom Willerer, Fareed Mosavat, Will Rocklin, Matt Greenberg, Ben Williams, Jake Wood, and Tobi Emonts-Holley.   In this episode we discuss: The best parenting product they've ever purchased The worst parenting product they've ever purchased The best or worst holiday gift they've ever given their spouse The best or worst holiday gift they've ever received — Where to find Adam Fishman - Newsletter: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com - Newsletter: http://startupdadpod.substack.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/ - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/ — In this episode, we cover: [0:00] Intro and welcome [1:32] Best parenting product ever purchased [4:01] Worst parenting product ever purchased [7:49] Best or worst gift they've ever given their spouse [12:26] Best or worst gift they've ever received — Show references for Best Parenting Purchases: Butt Cream - https://www.babylist.com/hello-baby/best-diaper-rash-creams Blackout Tent - https://www.amazon.com/SlumberPod-3-0-Portable-Blackout-Sleeping/dp/B0B7PBRZX5?th=1 Umbrella Stroller - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-umbrella-strollers/ Night Nanny - https://www.care.com/c/what-is-a-night-nanny/ White Noise Machine - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-white-noise-machine/ Kids Tower / Step Stool - https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/childrens-products/g37342617/best-learning-towers/ Doona Stroller - https://www.doona.com/en-us/car-seat-stroller/discover-doona Baby Gate - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-baby-gate/ Travel Stroller - https://www.verywellfamily.com/best-travel-strollers-4177015 Nose Frida - https://frida.com/products/nosefrida Sleep Expert - https://wellrestedmamas.com/sleep-training-consultant-coach/ Fellow Tea Kettle - https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-ekg-electric-pour-over-kettle Onesies with Zippers - https://www.target.com/s/zipper+onesie+newborn   — Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/ Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/  

In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss:1. Big Tech:Meta launches “Seamless” LLM for speech-to-speech translation.  Multi-modal innovationMeta's Instagram also made news in all the wrong ways2. Higher Ed:StraighterLine Partners with Acadeum to Offer College Course Sharing3. In Other News...U.S. Department of Education Holds Off On New Rules for Third-Party Servicers… For NowCurriculum Associates Acquires SoapBox LabsParentSquare Acquires Remind2U finances unveiled by Phil Hill, doesn't look goodPortland Teachers Strike Ends after a month and nobody is happyCongress (Tom Cotton) pushing a ban on cell phones in schoolSpecial Guests:Sara Mauskopf from Winnie discuss Early Childhood EducationCandice Faktor from Disco discuss Community Powered Learning

In this special Startup Dad (and Mom) episode I interviewed husband and wife team Eric and Sara Mauskopf. Sara is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie, a platform that helps parents find much needed childcare and helps childcare providers find parents and run their business. She founded Winnie after a decade-plus career in product at Postmates, Twitter, and Google. Eric is a product leader at Winnie where he joined about 18 months ago after leaning in as a stay-at-home-Dad for 3.5 years. Prior to that he was a long-time product leader at Google and YouTube for over 10 years.In this episode we discuss:* Eric and Sara's personal and professional backgrounds including how their parents shaped them and how they met* Their decision to start a family and whether three kids was the goal* Eric's cancer diagnosis, treatment, recover and raising a young daughter during this process* How to prepare for your family's future when you have a serious illness* Eric's decision to step back from the workforce and why that is so hard for men* Eric's transition back to work and what it's like to work with your spouse* How to take your kids on exciting adventures* Philadelphia sports (if you know Sara this is a requirement)* Rapid fire!Listen, watch and subscribe: Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Overcast.—Where to find Eric Mauskopf:- LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/mauskopf- Twitter: https://linkedin.com/in/mauskopfWhere to find Sara Mauskopf- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/sm- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smausk/Where to find Adam Fishman- Newsletter: http://www.startupdadpod.substack.com- Newsletter: http://fishmanafnewsletter.com- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/—In this episode, we cover:[2:56] Professional backgrounds[5:28] Personal backgrounds[7:52] Their parent's careers[11:38] How did you meet?[13:00] Tell me about the kids?[15:29] Decision to start a family[17:52] Was 3 kids ideal?[18:52] Kids' interaction with each other[20:26] Eric's cancer/perspectives [24:23] Preparing for the future with cancer[27:53] Family support [32:28] Earliest memory of being a dad[33:54] Eric's decision to step back/why is that hard for men?[40:32] Transition back to work[42:30] Eric's Winnie interview[46:10] Taking kids on adventures[49:35] What has been the most fun adventure?[53:10] Sharing your kids online[56:02] Where Sara and Eric don't align[57:56] One mistake you made as a dad?[59:11] Where can we follow along?[1:00:01] Detroit Lions VS. Philadelphia Eagles[1:01:05] Rapid fire round—Show references:Winnie - https://winnie.com/Kobe Bryant - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kobe-BryantGoogle - https://www.google.com/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/Phil Simms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_SimmsPhillies - https://www.mlb.com/philliesGiants - https://www.mlb.com/giantsWarriors - https://www.nba.com/warriorsTraveling Wilburys - https://www.travelingwilburys.com/Bob Dylan - https://www.bobdylan.com/Seahawks - https://www.seahawks.com/—Thanks to my sponsor for this episode: unitQ!—Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit startupdadpod.substack.com

In this special Startup Dad (and Mom) episode I interviewed husband and wife team Eric and Sara Mauskopf. Sara is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie, a platform that helps parents find much needed childcare and helps childcare providers find parents and run their business. She founded Winnie after a decade-plus career in product at Postmates, Twitter, and Google. Eric is a product leader at Winnie where he joined about 18 months ago after leaning in as a stay-at-home-Dad for 3.5 years. Prior to that he was a long-time product leader at Google and YouTube for over 10 years. In this episode we discuss: Eric and Sara's personal and professional backgrounds including how their parents shaped them and how they met Their decision to start a family and whether three kids was the goal Eric's cancer diagnosis, treatment, recover and raising a young daughter during this process How to prepare for your family's future when you have a serious illness Eric's decision to step back from the workforce and why that is so hard for men Eric's transition back to work and what it's like to work with your spouse How to take your kids on exciting adventures Philadelphia sports (if you know Sara this is a requirement) Rapid fire! — Where to find Eric Mauskopf - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/mauskopf - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mauskopf   Where to find Sara Mauskopf - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/sm - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smausk/   Where to find Adam Fishman - Newsletter: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com - Newsletter: http://startupdadpod.substack.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/ - Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/fishmanaf - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/ — In this episode, we cover: [2:56] Professional backgrounds [5:28] Personal backgrounds [7:52] Their parent's careers [11:38] How did you meet? [13:00] Tell me about the kids? [15:29] Decision to start a family [17:52] Was 3 kids ideal? [18:52] Kids' interaction with each other [20:26] Eric's cancer/perspectives  [24:23] Preparing for the future with cancer [27:53] Family support  [32:28] Earliest memory of being a dad [33:54] Eric's decision to step back/why is that hard for men? [40:32] Transition back to work [42:30] Eric's Winnie interview [46:10] Taking kids on adventures [49:35] What has been the most fun adventure? [53:10] Sharing your kids online [56:02] Where Sara and Eric don't align [57:56] One mistake you made as a dad? [59:11] Where can we follow along? [1:00:01] Detroit Lions VS. Philadelphia Eagles [1:01:05] Rapid fire round — Show references: Winnie - https://winnie.com/ Kobe Bryant - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kobe-Bryant Google - https://www.google.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/ Phil Simms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Simms Phillies - https://www.mlb.com/phillies Giants - https://www.giants.com/ Warriors - https://www.nba.com/warriors Traveling Wilburys - https://www.travelingwilburys.com/ Bob Dylan - https://www.bobdylan.com/ Seahawks - https://www.seahawks.com/ — Production support for Startup Dad is provided by Tommy Harron at http://www.armaziproductions.com/ Episode art designed by Matt Sutherland at https://www.mspnw.com/  

Jake and Anthony check in on human spaceflight with a bit of a roundup—Axiom-3, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and more.TopicsOff-Nominal - YouTubeEpisode 124 - Accidental Cadence - YouTubeSara Mauskopf on X: “Companies that raised money in 2021 trying to raise again today”Sara Mauskopf on X: “When you're in the arena trying stuff and then some of it doesn't work”Sara Mauskopf on X: “Aaron Rodgers after the opening drive”‘Galactic 04' Mission Marks Virgin Galactic's Fifth Spaceflight in Five Months | Virgin GalacticVirgin Galactic's president explains how VSS Unity is now flying frequently | Ars TechnicaA year after New Shepard's accident, Blue Origin may return to flight next month | Ars TechnicaAxiom Space names crew for third private astronaut mission to ISS - SpaceNewsVladimir Putin meets North Korea's Kim Jong-un at Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome spaceport for 5-hour summit | SpaceFollow Off-NominalSubscribe to the show! - Off-NominalSupport the show, join the DiscordOff-Nominal (@offnom) / TwitterOff-Nominal (@offnom@spacey.space) - Spacey SpaceFollow JakeWeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity's Journey to MarsWeMartians Podcast (@We_Martians) | TwitterJake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit) | TwitterJake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit@spacey.space) - Spacey SpaceFollow AnthonyMain Engine Cut OffMain Engine Cut Off (@WeHaveMECO) | TwitterMain Engine Cut Off (@meco@spacey.space) - Spacey SpaceAnthony Colangelo (@acolangelo) | TwitterAnthony Colangelo (@acolangelo@jawns.club) - jawns.club

This week, Alex and Mary Ann had Sara Mauskopf on the show, the CEO and co-founder of the childcare marketplace, Winnie, and a former Postmates and Twitter denizen. Here's what we got into:The progress of Winnie over time, and how it found its niche in the childcare marketThe state of care as a venture-backable category, and where startups can find the most impact and business resultsThe reported issues at Papa and the pressures of fundraising-driven growth in care-oriented marketsAnd, of course, why care work is not given its full due and value in our society.We had a blast with this one. Thank you for sticking with Equity for all these years. We'll see you live at Disrupt!For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity's Simplecast website.Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders and more!

Since I'm off celebrating Passover, instead of releasing a new interview today, I present to you a mashup of key insights from past episodes on several recurring topics, including: Product market fit — what it is, how it's measured, and how you know if you have it. Talking to customers and collecting user feedback. How launching on Product Hunt has gone for several of the startups featured so far on the podcast. If you're new to the pod, hopefully, this is a good entry point and encourages you to go back and listen to these fantastic interviews. But even if you're an avid listener, I find it helpful to revisit these important topics. Chapters: (00:00) Intro (01:28) Rajesh Nerlikar; Product market fit definitions (03:56) Rajesh Nerlikar; Negative signs to watch out for in product market fit (05:40) Jacob Knutzen; How do they think about and measure PMF at Butter (08:02) Sam Shepler; Reevaluating your PMF and buying personas (09:22) Raphael Allstadt; The AHA moment (10:52) Sara Mauskopf; Pivoting to success (16:27) Adam Nash; Considering growth before and after PMF (19:52) Rajesh Nerlikar; Customer discovery (23:24) Jakob Knutzen; Talking to different customer personas (25:23) Raphael Allstadt; The upsell from free to paid (28:24) Pietro Saccomani; Building in public and gathering user input on public roadmaps (31:19) Derek Osgood; Launching on Product Hunt (34:57) Pascal Weinberger; Using Product Hunt to go from V1 to V2 (37:35) Raphael Allstadt; Best video of the year (41:46) Jakob Knutzen; Launching twice on Product Hunt (43:05) Wrap-up Sponsor:  This podcast is brought to you by grwth.co. Grwth offers fractional CMOs, paired with best-in-class digital marketing execution to support early-stage startup success. With a focus on seed and series A companies, Grwth has helped a number of SaaS, digital health, and e-commerce startups build their go-to-market function and scale up. To learn more and book a free consultation, go to grwth.co. Get in touch with Mosheh: linkedin.com/in/moshehp twitter.com/MoshehP hello@pmfpod.com www.pmfpod.com

Our expert host, Kate Moody, is joined by some great guests to ask: 'Do parents need better financial services?' Growing families have previously been considered as baked into the fabric of joint accounts and wealth management - but there's actually a lot of gaps in which new players are looking to address the needs of new parents directly. Like the children themselves, this industry is very much still in its infancy. So, in this show, we've put together a panel of experts to discuss what the market looks like today for new parents, what the biggest challenges are stopping this niche from becoming bigger, and what we hope to see in the future. This week's guests include: Sara Mauskopf, CEO & Co-Founder, Winnie Jacklyn Rome, Founder & CEO, Onward Youssef Darwich, Co-Founder, Nosso This episode is sponsored by Amplitude In today's volatile market, financial services companies that want to thrive must prioritize customer loyalty and engagement. Amplitude, the number one self-service digital analytics platform, helps teams identify key drivers of retention and opportunities for improvement. With Amplitude's insights, you can build your product to increase transactions, retain customers, and grow loyalty. To succeed in today's market, visit Amplitude.com. Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. It's hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David M. Brear, Ross Gallagher, Benjamin Ensor, and Kate Moody - as well as a range of brilliant guests. We cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Send us your questions for the Fintech Insider Mailbag here (https://11fscompany.typeform.com/to/kBMan5qL?typeform-source=t.co) Follow us on Twitter: @fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Jacklyn Rome, Sara Mauskopf, and Youssef Darwich.

If you follow Tech Twitter then you probably already know who Sara is. Before starting Winnie, Sara was Director of product at Postmates. She was an early employee at Twitter, and also worked at YouTube and Google. In today's conversation, Sara shares how her company initially struggled to find product market fit and her journey pivoting the product to success. We also dive into the nature of multi-sided marketplaces; launching new product lines, and how to choose a co-founder. Sara has got really insightful and down-to-earth advice that I think you'll find valuable. Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (1:50) What is Winnie? (2:18) How did your background lead you to start the company? (3:52) What did the initial product look like? (7:22) How did Winnie iterate to find PMF? (12:20) Gathering customer feedback with NPS (14:26) What are the dynamics of two-sided marketplaces? (17:15) Solving the chicken and egg problem (19:16) Figuring out PMF for each constituent of the marketplace (20:21) Expanding the product offering; the “sophomore act” (23:31) How do you ensure you don't make assumptions about your customers? (25:57) How big is Winnie today? (28:06) What growth channels have worked for you? (30:38) How to choose a co-founder (33:22) Advice for working with family (35:18) Hiring part-time employees (36:41) Managing a remote team; (38:58) Lessons from working at Google, Twitter & Postmates (40:39) Lightning round (+ The future of Twitter) (45:50) Final thoughts Guest contact info: https://twitter.com/sm https://winnie.com/ Sponsor: This podcast is brought to you by grwth.co. Grwth offers fractional CMOs, paired with best-in-class digital marketing execution to support early-stage startup success. With a focus on seed and series A companies, Grwth has helped a number of SaaS, digital health, and e-commerce startups build their go-to-market function and scale up. To learn more and book a free consultation, go to grwth.co. Get in touch with Mosheh: www.linkedin.com/in/moshehp/ twitter.com/MoshehP hello@pmfpod.com www.pmfpod.com

Discussing weekly tech news w/ second time venture founders. No investors. Guest - @sm (Google, Twitter, Postmates, Winnie) @julien (Breather, Practice) @kevingibbon (Shyp, Airhouse) @berman66 (Nanit, Vowel) @JoeFernandez (Klout, Joymode, newco)

Climate change doesn't just impact wildlife and the weather. It also impacts human life—and that includes parenting. In this week's episode, Sara Mauskopf, CEO and co-founder of Winnie, discusses the intersection between climate and childcare—and how younger generations are directly impacted. For show notes, visit https://brightly.eco/how-climate-change-affects-childcare-and-education/.

In this special episode, Edtech Insiders hits the road and travels to San Diego for the ASU GSV conference, the biggest and most influential Edtech conferences in the US.Rather than a single interview, this episode contains no less than EIGHT short 'hallway' interviews with all variety of amazing Edtech and education founders and influencers.  This episode focuses on innovators in the PK12 space; part two will focus on Higher Ed and workforce innovators. 1. John King Jr., former Secretary of Education for the US under President Obama and candidate for Governor of Maryland2. Sara Mauskopf, the CEO of Winnie, a daycare and preschool marketplace with millions of users3. Aditya Kaddu, Founder and CEO of Edstruments, a leading school budget planning platform 4. Gavin Cooney, CEO of Learnosity, a leading assessment platform 5. Maria Berrera, CEO and Founder of Clayful, a text based coaching platform for SEL6. Vishal Goenka, Founder and CEO of 2Sigma School, which offers accredited CS courses for high school students. 7. Yair Shapira, Founder and CEO of the Amplio Special Education Learning Platform8. Yaki Dayan, the Founder and CEO of Edtech Israel and Neurotech Solutions

Juan Gabriel and Sara Mauskopf team up in an attempt to survive a barrage of natural disasters on Roblox while discussing how to fix childcare. Sara is the CEO and Co-Founder of Winnie the largest childcare marketplace in the US. Winnie helps connect millions of parents with high quality and vetted childcare.  Sara's career has spanned a suite of big tech companies including Google, and Twitter before launching her own startup centered on pain points and experiences as a new parent. What You Will LearnWhy childcare should be considered essential infrastructure How to build from a place of lived experience to achieve founder-market fitThe importance of large networks early in your careerHow to establish a supportive culture by leading through exampleIf you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐review on Apple Podcasts! It will help us get all sorts of guests on the show. Outline*YouTube timestamps*0:00 - Introduction1:40 - From Big Tech to Small Tech4:30 - Building from Lived Experience6:30 - Why Childcare is Broken10:59 - Creating a Supportive Culture13:41 - Crypto x Parenting17:00 - Explain that Tweet! 18:40 - Vices - $$ on Childcare20:35 - Investor Update Emails22:15 - Childcare as Essential Infrastructure Social

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers.   Parents use Winnie to research and uncover high-quality daycares and preschools in their geography with detailed information about licensing, tuition, and photos. Sara started Winnie in early 2016 after she experienced the frustration of researching daycares first-hand as a new mom.   She has called upon her experience in product management at Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Postmates to catapult Winnie to success.    In this episode, Sara and Aaron discuss the origins of the company, the evolving market for daycare, and the business model behind the platform.   Sign up for a Weekly Email that will Expand Your Mind.   Sara Mauskopf's Challenge; If you have children in childcare, talk to the care provider/teacher about how you can help.   Connect with Sara Mauskopf Linkedin Twitter Winnie Website   If you liked this interview, check out our interview w/ Luke Skurman where we discuss building a platform for researching schools & neighborhoods. Underwritten by Piper Creative Piper Creative makes creating podcasts, vlogs, and videos easy.    How? Click here and Learn more.   We work with Fortune 500s, medium-sized companies, and entrepreneurs.   Follow Piper as we grow YouTube Instagram Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | Spotify

Sara Mauskopf is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie.com, a marketplace platform that connects parents looking for childcare and preschool providers with over 250,000 centres around the USA. To date, Sara and her team have raised $15.5 Million in venture funding over three rounds, with the most recent $9 million series being led by Rethink Impact. In this interview we first dive back into Sara's history as a math major, then moving over to computer science, which led her to a job at Google after graduation. She later left Google for Twitter, then left again to join Postmates, where she met her co-founder, Anne Halsall. Sara and Anne were a little unique as working parents inside Postmates, and realized how difficult it was to juggle raising children and maintaining full time jobs. One of the challenges was childcare, an industry that was still driven mostly by a word-of-mouth for finding good options. Sara breaks down all the steps from making the first version of their platform, how they built the supply side up, attracted parents to the site, raised funding and currently make money. There's a lot to learn from Sara and she shares a lot of wisdom, so don't miss this one. Enjoy the podcast. Yaro Podcast: https://www.yaro.blog/pod/Blog: https://www.yaro.blog/

Sara Mauskopf, founder and CEO of Winnie, joins the show to talk with Scott about finding access to childcare and the challenges millennial parents face. Sara goes into her origin story how she never intended to be a founder, but after experiencing difficulties finding childcare solutions for her own child, she decided to create Winnie, a one-stop marketplace for childcare providers and parents to contact and transact. Parents can see vetted information on childcare options all across the US. Sara and Scott talk about the unique circumstances the pandemic brought on parents, especially working moms, and how it shined a glaring light on opportunities to address childcare through public policy and the private sector. They also talk tech and why Winnie is able to attract talent from some of the best tech companies around and make a impact on people's daily lives.

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycares and preschools helping millions of parents across the United States in their search for childcare. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management, having worked at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube, and Google. Prior to her professional pursuits, she graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She’s also a mom of 3 young children.To sign up with Winnie today, click here: https://pages.winnie.com/childcarecrm

This week, the hosts are over winter and guest Sara Mauskopf, CEO and Co-Founder of https://winnie.com/ (Winnie), shares how her frustration with the long search to find child care resulted in her taking matters into her own hands by creating one of the largest online marketplaces for it. Today, Winnie is used throughout the United States and is helping connect millions of parents with high quality child care.

How do you know when you have a product-market fit? Sometimes the community tells you. Sara Mauskopf, founder of Winnie, a product and community for parents.    In The Minute, Anna and Christian reflect on the conversation and discuss the importance of focus to achieve product-market fit, the community’s role in Winnie’s growth, and how sometimes the biggest obstacle for any startup is simply patience.

This week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sara Mauskopf, CEO & Co-founder of Winnie ( https://winnie.com/ ). They talk about buying pants with no holes, tricking kids into exercise, secretly keeping score, the most polarizing flavor of La Croix, and the time Sara got kicked out of yoga class. You can find Sara on Twitter @sm ( https://twitter.com/sm ) and Alexis at @yayalexisgay ( https://twitter.com/yayalexisgay ) and @NonTechnicalPod ( https://twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod ). This episode is sponsored by Public.com , ( //public.com/yayalexisgay ) the investing social network, where you can buy stocks with any amount of money and share ideas within a community of investors. Head to Public.com ( //public.com/yayalexisgay ) to sign up, or take a look at what I’m investing in at public.com/yayalexisgay ( http://public.com/yayalexisgay ) ! (And now for the fine print: Valid for U.S. residents 18+ and subject to account approval. See Public.com/disclosures for more info!)

Follow The Takeoff: https://thetakeoff.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/_TheTakeoff Michael: https://twitter.com/mspiro3 Sara Mauskopf (@sm) is co-founder & CEO of Winnie, the leading marketplace for child care. To date, Winnie has raised over $15M from investors including Rethink Impact, Reach Capital, Afore Capital, Homebrew, and Ludlow Ventures, among others. Prior to founding Winnie, Sara was Director of Product at Postmates. Before that, she spent a number of years at Google, YouTube, and Twitter. In this episode, you will learn about: What Winnie is and the company's mission. How Winnie approaches content moderation on its platform. PM v. CEO. Hiring great talent. Advice for aspiring female founders and why female founders often have more sustainable businesses. Joining a big company v. a small company. The importance of relationships. Advice for aspiring founders If you want to learn more about Winnie, head over to https://winnie.com/ and follow their journey on Twitter @winnie. Likewise, you can find Sara on Twitter @sm. Be sure to head over to https://thetakeoff.substack.com/ and subscribe with your email to have all future content sent directly to your inbox. That's all from me. I hope you enjoy the episode! - Michael (@mspiro3) Follow The Takeoff: https://thetakeoff.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/_TheTakeoff Michael: https://twitter.com/mspiro3

Show Notes:Sara is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie: a marketplace for childcare and early education that helps millions of parents find daycare and preschool for their kids. What we talked about:Starting Winnie when her first daughter was a baby Was working in tech at the time she started WinnieHad her first daughter and realized how hard it was to find childcare and do all the things that working moms have to do Connected with a co-worker who had 2 children and they saw a gap and wanted to solve the problemHer co-founder is incredibly optimistic and they built on each other’s enthusiasm Got married in her 20s, which is considered very young on the West CoastHad her first daughter when she was 30, which was so much more intense than she expectedDecided she would be one and done because having a child shifted everything in her universeRealized she wanted her daughter to have a sibling In between having her first and second child, her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, which left him infertile They had done sperm banking prior to starting his treatment Did IVF for their second and third children She was months into starting Winnie when her husband was diagnosed with cancerHer co-founder stepped up and handled everything, which was what led her to realize she could have more kidsWanting to build a culture at Winnie that wasn’t 24/7, and would allow people to step away as the demands of their family required She and her co-founder both have 3 kids and need flexibility - it comes from the top down and their employees see that they are able to prioritize family and work Flexibility is really helpful in attracting talent - a competitive advantage Big proponent of hiring returners who left the workforce to provide caregivingThey’re hiring right now! Hire across the country and remote because it’s the future and way to attract the best talent Her husband being a stay-at-home dad and being grateful that their kids are seeing that having a dad at home is possible, and women can be the breadwinnersWinnie lists every licensed daycare in the USA lot of places weren’t discoverable online so parents were left feeling like there were only 2 daycares in their area that had waitlists Many daycares don’t have an online presence Daycares during COVID have really needed Winnie’s help Parents realizing that childcare was more than just a way for them to work, it was impacting their children and how they’re being educatedThe best part of Winnie is knowing the impact they have on parentsPotentially keeping someone in the workforce because they are able to find careIn many cases the families that they’re impacting are not the super wealthy - they are the real American, low-income families finding programs that work for themNot even being able to register her needs anymore because the needs of her 3 kids take over Follow Sara and Winnie on Instagram or their website.Follow Mommin’ Podcast on Instagram and FacebookThanks so much for listening and for supporting our podcast! Please rate the show, leave a review if you liked what you heard and make sure to subscribe on

Today's guest on the EdTech Startup Show is Sara Mauskopf. Sara is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4 million parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie she held product leadership roles at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. Sara lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. To access this episode's bonus clip, where Sara shares her lessons learned building a marketplace, join The Business of Learning Letter.

Tom talks to Kate Clark about the state of funding for female-led startups, which has sunk even lower during the pandemic. We also interview Tracy Chou, founder of Blockparty and Sara Mauskopf, cofounder of Winnie, who discussed their experiences raising money for their startups. And Cory talked to Nick Bastone and Humu's Liz Fosslien to talk about why some workers feel they've become less efficient as they work from home.

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 7M parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management, having worked at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She’s also a mom of 3 young children.   Sarah joins Kristen Hall, COO of Mother Honestly, to discuss the current state of childcare in the US. Parents who relied on public schools for childcare are now looking at their childcare options for elementary age children in a space traditionally reserved for ages 0 to 4. Sarah shares the work her team is doing to help support childcare providers and working parents and the community they are building together. Learn more about what options are available to you to help with childcare by visiting https://winnie.com/ and @winnie   The Mother Honestly Podcast is proudly sponsored by Motor City Woman Studios.

Sara Mauskopf is CEO and Co-Founder of Winnie, a marketplace for childcare. She worked for Twitter in its startup days, and in several product creative roles for Google, YouTube, and Postmates. In this episode, Adii and Sara talk about raising millions of dollars and transforming the childcare market with Winnie, early ambitions and adjusting to change, and creating a work/family life balance.

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie, a marketplace for daycare and preschool helping over 4M parents across the United States. Sara has a background in consumer technology and product management. Prior to founding Winnie she was the Director of Product at Postmates, and prior to that held product leadership roles at Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She lives with her two daughters and her husband Eric. I loved the opportunity to chat with this awesome Mom CEO about her journey in Tech as a woman, her fundraising journey while pregnant and now building a company with two kids and one on the way!  Do not miss out on this episode!

In this episode, Sara and I dive deep into the realm of what it's like to have product-market fit and how everything feels like its on fire (but that's a good thing). Hope you enjoy this episode with Sara, Cofounder of Winnie.

Childcare is fundamentally shifting - the share of households where both parents work hit 66% in 2016, up from 49% in 1970, according to the Pew Research Center. Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie (https://winnie.com), a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently. Winnie was started in early 2016 when Sara became frustrated with the long search to find child care for their young children. Now Winnie is used throughout the United States and is helping connect millions of parents with high quality child care. This conversation was one of the most genuine we've had on the podcast - Sara talked fundraising while pregnant, why Winnie is for ALL parents and not just moms, equality in the workplace and equality at home, and what keeps Sara down to earth maintaining perspective while running a high growth company.

Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie, a platform for modern parents. Moms & dads use the website or mobile apps to browse fun activities nearby, find quality childcare, or get advice in real-time on any parenting topic. Winnie is growing fast with over 1M users in 10K cities across the United States. International Best-Selling Author Lisa Q. Fetterman is the founder and CEO of Nomiku, the first home sous vide immersion circulator machine on the market. Lisa has been featured in Wired, MAKE, and Forbes, and was named on Forbes, Inc, and Zagat Survey’s 30 Under 30 lists for her pioneering work in the food space. Lisa has worked at some of the top restaurants in the country including Babbo and Jean-Georges in New York and Saison in San Francisco. She lives in San Francisco where she and her husband-cofounder have brought manufacturing back to the states with their new Wifi-Nomiku device.  

Another season of Better Product is in the books, which makes this the perfect time to reflect on some of the conversations we’ve had over the course of Season 2. Instead of re-hashing what you’ve already heard, we decided to dig through the tapes to find some great soundbites that got left on the cutting room floor. We’re calling them ‘Genius Cuts’ after our good friends at Share Your Genius, who produce this podcast. You’ll hear additional product insights from great guests like Marty Cagan, Pieter Omvlee, April Dunford, and Sara Mauskopf about everything from product positioning statements to combining your product focus with insights from your community of users. Listen in as Christian and Anna react to these insights and share their own takeaways from another season of Better Product. Connect with Christian Connect with Anna Learn more about Innovatemap Past Episodes Mentioned:  Scaling a Product While Building a Community with Sara Mauskopf The Real Definition of a Product Manager with Marty Cagan Creating a Better Product Starts by Solving a Real Problem with Pieter Omvlee

I’ve got 99 problems, which one do I solve (first)?   While this isn’t exactly the question Sara Mauskopf had when she first became a parent, she did have an influx of questions with no good answers. As many product people do, she decided to find a solution. Thus the creation of  Winnie, a platform to make parents’ lives easier through childcare resources and community.    When she launched the company, Sara and her co-founder lacked focus because there are so many problems to solve with parenting. As they developed and launched the platform, they found the area parents needed the most help is childcare.    How did they know to make the change and shift the focus? You’ll find out what factors they considered and how listening made all the difference.  Connect with Sara Learn more about Winnie Connect with Christian Connect with Anna Learn more about Innovatemap Past Episodes Mentioned:  Navigating a Complex Product Roadmap to Launch | Jeremy Leventhal How Sales and Product Work Together to Achieve Product-Market Fit | Rod Feuer Products mentioned:  Sketch  Instagram

Lisa Fetterman is here to tell it like it is. She's a gifted entrepreneur and inventor, and she cannot understand why Silicon Valley doesn't care about female founders. This is a must-listen edition of the show featuring some great insight on how to fix the diversity problem in tech. Fetterman started her current company with her husband, and when we asked her about an anecdote about the company, we heard the horrible tale of an investor who had other intentions when he put money in the company. We hear from Lisa about how her experience is fairly common, but it's what motivates her ultimately. Lisa shout-outs some of her favorite female founders (including Jessica Scorpio from Getaround, and Sara Mauskopf from Winnie. We hear about the groups that Lisa runs, and what female founders say about VCs and male founders when they are not in the room. We learn the ultimate, and easiest solution to fix the diversity problem Silicon Valley is plagued with. A lot of ground covered on this episode, so please do give it a listen!

Today I'm visiting San Francisco's Mission district to chat with Winnie co-founders, Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall. They have a unique background working at large tech companies like Google, Twitter, Quora, and Postmates, where they worked together before starting Winnie, “the companion app for parents.” As someone who's built and admires community-driven businesses, it was a pleasure to dive into how Winnie is creating community and a platform for parents. As mothers, Sara and Anne exemplify founder/market fit and are uniquely qualified to build a product for parents. In this episode we talk about: How Anne and Sara found founder/market fit and how their personal experience — Sara and Anne both have two children — informs not only how they built Winnie the product, but also how they built Winnie the company. How Winnie combats fake parenting news, and why it was important for them to take a stance on certain issues and actively moderate out certain topics. The power of communities aligned around a single vertical. We compare custom-built communities to generalized community-building tools like Facebook and Reddit. Of course, we also talk about some of their favorite products, including a way to continuously share your location with other members of your family, an app to share photos with family members, and another that captures one second every day and over time turns it into a highlight reel for your life. We’ll be back next week so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Also, big thanks to our sponsors, GE Ventures, Rally Rd, and AngelList for their support.

Parent Driven Development Episode 018: Designing Apps/Digital Products for Parents 00:24 Welcome, Anne Halsall (https://twitter.com/annekate) and Sara Mauskopf (https://twitter.com/sm)! Anne is the co-founder & head of product of at Winnie (https://winnie.com/). Sara is the CEO. 01:12 Coming Up With Winnie: Providing Local Information for People With Children Great app to use for travel! Gives parents child-friendly reccomendations for activities, places to eat, things to see. 03:12 Content Moderation and Quality Winnie is a crowdsourced platform similar to Yelp or Quora where you can both ask questions or give advice. You can post under a pseudonym or anonymously in a community that is very well monitored and moderated. 05:23 Gathering Information Grew organically from private beta testing. The community would add members: friends and family. 06:23 Monetization Winnie is venture-backed. It's very important to keep the app free and accessible to all. 08:32 Building an App For and Around Parenting Parents are wonderful participants and well-behaved to boot. Content that could be considered harmful is not distributed. 11:06 How do you have time to be a parent AND work a full-time J-O-B?!?! Family-friendly workplace. Kids give you motivation. Attitudes towards parents are changing. 15:53 Winnie's Childcare Discovery Platform Links to the Licensing Database to make sure that places are legit. Childcare providers aren't necessarily web marking gurus -- many do not have sweet websites or the time/budget to create them. Rage-driven Development. 21:21 Holy Crap! Kids and Parents Exist in San Francisco?! 22:23 Topic Channels Connecting parents based on special interests. 24:10 Favorite Parts of Being a Parent and a Founder 27:11 Genius / Fail Moments Mandy: Her daughter reffered to Hillary Clinton as Harley Quinn (#Fail) Jess: Comparing voting to choosing between chocolate cake and ice cream (#Genius) Allison: Suggesting her toddler to "stop and think." (#Genius) Sara: Her daughter needs to cut back on the watching of Daniel Tiger after renaming her sister after the sister on the show! (#Fail) Anne: Her 4-year-old confused "voting day" with "boating day" and broke his heart. (#Fail) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community. Panel Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton) Mandy Moore (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Jess Szmajda (https://twitter.com/jszmajda) Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p)

The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated. Join Michelle as she chats about being a working parent with Sara Mauskopf who is the co-founder of the website Winnie, whose mission is to create and organize the information parents need and make it accessible through products, technology & community. Whether you want to ask other parents for advice, find new things to do with your kids, or just get to the nearest changing table in a hurry, Winnie can help. www.winnie.com Register for the free online conference Mindful Parenting in a Messy World which runs from September 18th-20th here. Sign up for the Mindful Parenting Online Course ‘The Foundations of Practice” offered October 2018 here.

Erik talks to Sara Mauskopf (@sm) and Anne Halsall (@annekate) about Winnie, the “companion app for parents” which Erik calls the “most slept-on consumer social company today.” Sara and Anne tell us about Winnie’s unique combination of a community and a utility. They talk about how they bootstrapped the company to where it is today and their unique approach to company culture. They also discuss how they approach social media and play Long-Short, where Erik names a company and Sara and Anne say whether they’re long or short and why. They end with the advice Sara and Anne have for new founders. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc/podcast.

Erik talks to Sara Mauskopf (@sm) and Anne Halsall (@annekate) about Winnie, the “companion app for parents” which Erik calls the “most slept-on consumer social company today.” Sara and Anne tell us about Winnie’s unique combination of a community and a utility. They talk about how they bootstrapped the company to where it is today and their unique approach to company culture. They also discuss how they approach social media and play Long-Short, where Erik names a company and Sara and Anne say whether they’re long or short and why. They end with the advice Sara and Anne have for new founders. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc/podcast.

#030 — Motherhood, Tech Startups and Giving Up Control with Sara Mauskopf of Winnie  Motherhood can be a real revelation for those of us with Type A personalities. As much as we would like to control our own destiny and schedule our lives according to a predetermined plan, parenting simply doesn’t work that way. Life doesn’t work that way. And neither do startups. Sara Mauskopf was already dealing with the surprises that come from being a new mom back at work when she got the idea for a tech startup of her own. With the financial means to move forward and a supportive partner in her husband, Sara realized that while it was not an ideal time to walk away and become an entrepreneur, it would never get any easier. She would never have fewer responsibilities or less on her plate, so she took the leap. Together with her co-founder, Sara created Winnie, a companion app for modern parents. And then her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Resigned to the fact that the new company might die without her, Sara signed off for two weeks to focus on her husband. But when she returned to work, the Beta version of the app was ready to launch. The team had been productive without her, facilitated by the flexible, family-friendly environment in place at Winnie. Today Sara shares the inspiration for her venture, explaining how the app offers parents timely, personalized information as well as answers to basic parenting questions. I ask her about making the decision to found a tech startup as a new mom and establishing the family-friendly work environment at Winnie. Sara discusses her husband’s illness, how she used blogging to ask for help and process in real time, and how the experience changed her perspective on work. Listen in for Sara’s insight on the compatibility between motherhood and startups and her advice around mentorship and networking with women in tech.   FULL SHOW NOTES: Get the complete show notes with episode quotes, photos, and time stamps at www.startuppregnant.com/030.   EPISODE SPONSOR & SPECIAL OFFER: Thank you to the sponsor of this episode: Aeroflow Breastpumps. They are dedicated to making the hassle of getting your breast pump a little bit easier—actually, a lot easier! Head to www.aeroflowbreastpumps.com/startup to have them help you qualify for a free breast pump through insurance. All of our sponsor offers are available on our website for you to grab the perks and discounts offered to podcast listeners: http://startuppregnant.com/sponsors.   LEARN MORE ABOUT SARA MAUSKOPF: Sara Mauskopf is the co-founder and CEO of Winnie, a venture dedicated to making parents’ lives easier through technology. Sara graduated from MIT with a degree in computer science and engineering and went on to work as one of the early employee at Twitter. Her impressive resume also includes positions with Silicon Valley powerhouses including Google, YouTube and Postmates. Winnie Winnie on Twitter Winnie on Facebook Winnie on Pinterest Winnie on Instagram Sara on Medium   RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Tech Ladies Women in Technology Female Founders Fa --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startuppregnant/message

What happens when two women with amazing tech skills and experience have kids? They create Winnie, a companion app for modern parents. Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall, founders of Winnie, have some seriously impressive tech cred. Anne was a Webmaster at Google during its early days, then quit to build iPhone apps as soon as soon as Apple released the iOS software development kit, because, as she explained to her horrified parents, “that is the future, I am going to work on that.” After a stint at a startup called Inkling, she was an early employee at Quora, before going to Postmates, where she met Sara, who had prior stints at Google, YouTube, and Twitter. Sara returned to work shortly after having her daughter, and quickly realized that there was a lot she needed to know—but she wasn’t sure how to find it. “I was a working mom, and I was busy, and so I turned to Anne and I said, where do people get all of this information? I don’t have time to dig, and look at the bulletin board at my local library for activities. And she said, there really isn’t anything. You have to spend time, and you have to network, and you have to meet other parents, and that’s how you get your information. It’s really you can’t just put in a Google search, you have to find the right groups to really get the high quality information.” That was the lightbulb moment, when the two of them realized, “This was a problem we could solve with technology. We could take these vast amounts of data that’s right now in parent’s minds, or offline, bring it online and make it searchable and accessible and personalized.” Winnie was born. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Venture capitalist Keith Rabois set off a Silicon Valley firestorm earlier this month about what it takes to succeed. When another tech investor wrote on Twitter that working on the weekends and burning out isn’t cool—and doesn’t work—Rabois fired back. “Totally false,” he said, suggesting that dogged dedication (usually measured by long hours) was the only way to reach the top. Lots of people objected to his assessment. Francesca and Rebecca speak with one of Keith's critics, startup founder and engineer Sara Mauskopf, about why she thinks flexible hours and a healthy work-life balance can actually make your product better. Then we check in with Keith to see whether he has revised his opinion.

Sara Mauskopf came home from the hospital with a healthy baby. She herself on the other hand, while healthy otherwise, struggled with postpartum depression. With help from her family, friends and professionals, she came out the other side fully recovered. Her experience as a new mom, both because of the depression and in general, helped inspire her to create parenting app Winnie. Be it Winnie or another app or online resource, we encourage parents of all types to seek the information and support they need. And there's no need to wait until after baby is born. While you're expecting is a great time to explore the resources around you for everything from parenting meetups to breastfeeding support to local kid-friendly restaurants and everything else.

A few months after Sara Mauskopf launched her first company, her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. With an infant at home and investors looking for results, Sara had to find a new definition of what “normal” looked like. In this episode, Sara talks about how she started her company while supporting her husband through his illness, why having a co-founder is so important for stability, and what companies get wrong when they try to create products for parents.

This week on BSDNow, we've got all sorts of post-holiday goodies to share. New OpenSSL APIs, Dtrace, OpenBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof (https://www.mail-archive.com/tech@openbsd.org/msg36437.html) As many of you will already be aware, the OpenSSL 1.1.0 release intentionally introduced significant API changes from the previous release. In summary, a large number of data structures that were previously publically visible have been made opaque, with accessor functions being added in order to get and set some of the fields within these now opaque structs. It is worth noting that the use of opaque data structures is generally beneficial for libraries, since changes can be made to these data structures without breaking the ABI. As such, the overall direction of these changes is largely reasonable. However, while API change is generally necessary for progression, in this case it would appear that there is NO transition plan and a complete disregard for the impact that these changes would have on the overall open source ecosystem. So far it seems that the only approach is to place the migration burden onto each and every software project that uses OpenSSL, pushing significant code changes to each project that migrates to OpenSSL 1.1, while maintaining compatibility with the previous API. This is forcing each project to provide their own backwards compatibility shims, which is practically guaranteeing that there will be a proliferation of variable quality implementations; it is almost a certainty that some of these will contain bugs, potentially introducing security issues or memory leaks. I think this will be a bigger issue for other operating systems that do not have the flexibility of the ports tree to deliver a newer version of OpenSSL. If a project switches from the old API to the new API, and the OS only provides the older branch of OpenSSL, how can the application work? Of course, this leaves the issue, if application A wants OpenSSL 1.0, and application B only works with OpenSSL 1.1, how does that work? Due to a number of factors, software projects that make use of OpenSSL cannot simply migrate to the 1.1 API and drop support for the 1.0 API - in most cases they will need to continue to support both. Firstly, I am not aware of any platform that has shipped a production release with OpenSSL 1.1 - any software that supported OpenSSL 1.1 only, would effectively be unusable on every platform for the time being. Secondly, the OpenSSL 1.0.2 release is supported until the 31st of December 2019, while OpenSSL 1.1.0 is only supported until the 31st of August 2018 - any LTS style release is clearly going to consider shipping with 1.0.2 as a result. Platforms that are attempting to ship with OpenSSL 1.1 are already encountering significant challenges - for example, Debian currently has 257 packages (out of 518) that do not build against OpenSSL 1.1. There are also hidden gotchas for situations where different libraries are linked against different OpenSSL versions and then share OpenSSL data structures between them - many of these problems will be difficult to detect since they only fail at runtime. It will be interesting to see what happens with OpenSSL, and LibreSSL Hopefully, most projects will decide to switch to the cleaner APIs provided by s2n or libtls, although they do not provide the entire functionality of the OpenSSL API. Hacker News comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284648) *** exfiltration via receive timing (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/exfiltration-via-receive-timing) Another similar way to create a backchannel but without transmitting anything is to introduce delays in the receiver and measure throughput as observed by the sender. All we need is a protocol with transmission control. Hmmm. Actually, it's easier (and more reliable) to code this up using a plain pipe, but the same principle applies to networked transmissions. For every digit we want to “send” back, we sleep a few seconds, then drain the pipe. We don't care about the data, although if this were a video file or an OS update, we could probably do something useful with it. Continuously fill the pipe with junk data. If (when) we block, calculate the difference between before and after. This is a our secret backchannel data. (The reader and writer use different buffer sizes because on OpenBSD at least, a writer will stay blocked even after a read depending on the space that opens up. Even simple demos have real world considerations.) In this simple example, the secret data (argv) is shared by the processes, but we can see that the writer isn't printing them from its own address space. Nevertheless, it works. Time to add random delays and buffering to firewalls? Probably not. An interesting thought experiment that shows just how many ways there are to covertly convey a message *** OpenBSD Desktop in about 30 Minutes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13223351) Over at hackernews we have a very non-verbose, but handy guide to getting to a OpenBSD desktop in about 30 minutes! First, the guide will assume you've already installed OpenBSD 6.0, so you'll need to at least be at the shell prompt of your freshly installed system to begin. With that, now its time to do some tuning. Editing some resource limits in login.conf will be our initial task, upping some datasize tunables to 2GB Next up, we will edit some of the default “doas” settings to something a bit more workable for desktop computing Another handy trick, editing your .profile to have your PKG_PATH variables set automatically will make One thing some folks may overlook, but disabling atime can speed disk performance (which you probably don't care about atime on your desktop anyway), so this guide will show you what knobs to tweak in /etc/fstab to do so After some final WPA / Wifi configuration, we then drop to “mere mortal” mode and begin our package installations. In this particular guide, he will be setting up Lumina Desktop (Which yes, it is on OpenBSD) A few small tweaks later for xscreensaver and your xinitrc file, then you are ready to run “startx” and begin your desktop session! All in all, great guide which if you are fast can probably be done in even less than 30 minutes and will result in a rock-solid OpenBSD desktop rocking Lumina none-the-less. *** How DTrace saved Christmas (https://hackernoon.com/dtrace-at-home-145ba773371e) Adam Leventhal, one of the co-creators of DTrace, wrote up this post about how he uses DTrace at home, to save Christmas I had been procrastinating making the family holiday card. It was a combination of having a lot on my plate and dreading the formulation of our annual note recapping the year; there were some great moments, but I'm glad I don't have to do 2016 again. It was just before midnight and either I'd make the card that night or leave an empty space on our friends' refrigerators. Adobe Illustrator had other ideas: “Unable to set maximum number of files to be opened” I'm not the first person to hit this. The problem seems to have existed since CS6 was released in 2016. None of the solutions were working for me, and — inspired by Sara Mauskopf's excellent post (https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-to-start-a-company-with-no-free-time-b70fbe7b918a#.uujdblxc6) — I was rapidly running out of the time bounds for the project. Enough; I'd just DTrace it. A colleague scoffed the other day, “I mean, how often do you actually use DTrace?” In his mind DTrace was for big systems, critical system, when dollars and lives were at stake. My reply: I use DTrace every day. I can't imagine developing software without DTrace, and I use it when my laptop (not infrequently) does something inexplicable (I'm forever grateful to the Apple team that ported it to Mac OS X) Illustrator is failing on setrlimit(2) and blowing up as result. Let's confirm that it is in fact returning -1:$ sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::setrlimit:return/execname == "Adobe Illustrato"/{ printf("%d %d", arg1, errno); }' dtrace: description 'syscall::setrlimit:return' matched 1 probe CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME 0 532 setrlimit:return -1 1 There it is. And setrlimit(2) is failing with errno 1 which is EPERM (value too high for non-root user). I already tuned up the files limit pretty high. Let's confirm that it is in fact setting the files limit and check the value to which it's being set. To write this script I looked at the documentation for setrlimit(2) (hooray for man pages!) to determine that the position of the resource parameter (arg0) and the type of the value parameter (struct rlimit). I needed the DTrace copyin() subroutine to grab the structure from the process's address space: $ sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::setrlimit:entry/execname == "Adobe Illustrato"/{ this->r = *(struct rlimit *)copyin(arg1, sizeof (struct rlimit)); printf("%x %x %x", arg0, this->r.rlimcur, this->r.rlimmax); }' dtrace: description 'syscall::setrlimit:entry' matched 1 probe CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME 0 531 setrlimit:entry 1008 2800 7fffffffffffffff Looking through /usr/include/sys/resource.h we can see that 1008 corresponds to the number of files (RLIMITNOFILE | _RLIMITPOSIX_FLAG) The quickest solution was to use DTrace again to whack a smaller number into that struct rlimit. Easy: $ sudo dtrace -w -n 'syscall::setrlimit:entry/execname == "Adobe Illustrato"/{ this->i = (rlimt *)alloca(sizeof (rlimt)); *this->i = 10000; copyout(this->i, arg1 + sizeof (rlimt), sizeof (rlimt)); }' dtrace: description 'syscall::setrlimit:entry' matched 1 probe dtrace: could not enable tracing: Permission denied Oh right. Thank you SIP (System Integrity Protection). This is a new laptop (at least a new motherboard due to some bizarre issue) which probably contributed to Illustrator not working when once it did. Because it's new I haven't yet disabled the part of SIP that prevents you from using DTrace on the kernel or in destructive mode (e.g. copyout()). It's easy enough to disable, but I'm reboot-phobic — I hate having to restart my terminals — so I went to plan B: lldb + After using DTrace to get the address of the setrlimit function, Adam used lldb to change the result before it got back to the application: (lldb) break set -n _init Breakpoint 1: 47 locations. (lldb) run … (lldb) di -s 0x1006e5b72 -c 1 0x1006e5b72: callq 0x1011628e0 ; symbol stub for: setrlimit (lldb) memory write 0x1006e5b72 0x31 0xc0 0x90 0x90 0x90 (lldb) di -s 0x1006e5b72 -c 4 0x1006e5b72: xorl %eax, %eax 0x1006e5b74: nop 0x1006e5b75: nop 0x1006e5b76: nop Next I just did a process detach and got on with making that holiday card… DTrace was designed for solving hard problems on critical systems, but the need to understand how systems behave exists in development and on consumer systems. Just because you didn't write a program doesn't mean you can't fix it. News Roundup Say my Blog's name! (https://functionallyparanoid.com/2016/12/22/say-my-blogs-name/) Brian Everly over at functionally paranoid has a treat for us today. Let us give you a moment to get the tin-foil hats on… Ok, done? Let's begin! He starts off with a look at physical security. He begins by listing your options: BIOS passwords – Not something I'm typically impressed with. Most can be avoided by opening up the machine, closing a jumper and powering it up to reset the NVRAM to factory defaults. I don't even bother with them. Full disk encryption – This one really rings my bell in a positive way. If you can kill power to the box (either because the bad actor has to physically steal it and they aren't carrying around a pile of car batteries and an inverter or because you can interrupt power to it some other way), then the disk will be encrypted. The other beauty of this is that if a drive fails (and they all do eventually) you don't have to have any privacy concerns about chucking it into an electronics recycler (or if you are a bad, bad person, into a landfill) because that data is effectively gibberish without the key (or without a long time to brute force it). Two factor auth for logins – I like this one as well. I'm not a fan of biometrics because if your fingerprint is compromised (yes, it can happen – read (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/09/hack-of-security-clearance-system-affected-21-5-million-people-federal-authorities-say/) about the department of defense background checks that were extracted by a bad agent – they included fingerprint images) you can't exactly send off for a new finger. Things like the YubiKey (https://www.yubico.com/) are pretty slick. They require that you have the physical hardware key as well as the password so unless the bad actor lifted your physical key, they would have a much harder time with physical access to your hardware. Out of those options, Brian mentions that he uses disk encryption and yubi-key for all his secure network systems. Next up is network segmentation, in this case the first thing to do is change your admin password for any ISP supplied modem / router. He goes on to scare us of javascript attacks being used not against your local machine, but instead non WAN exposed router admin interface. Scary Stuff! For added security, naturally he firewalls the router by plugging in the LAN port to a OpenBSD box which does the 2nd layer of firewall / router protection. What about privacy and browsing? Here's some more of his tips: I use Unbound as my DNS resolver on my local network (with all UDP port 53 traffic redirected to it by pf so I don't have to configure anything on the clients) and then forward the traffic to DNSCrypt Proxy, caching the results in Unbound. I notice ZERO performance penalty for this and it greatly enhances privacy. This combination of Unbound and DNSCrypt Proxy works very well together. You can even have redundancy by having multiple upstream resolvers running on different ports (basically run the DNSCrypt Proxy daemon multiple times pointing to different public resolvers). I also use Firefox exclusively for my web browsing. By leveraging the tips on this page (https://www.privacytools.io/), you can lock it down to do a great job of privacy protection. The fact that your laptop's battery drain rate can be used to fingerprint your browser completely trips me out but hey – that's the world we live in.' What about the cloud you may ask? Well Brian has a nice solution for that as well: I recently decided I would try to live a cloud-free life and I'll give you a bit of a synopsis on it. I discovered a wonderful Open Source project called FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/). What this little gem does is allow you to install a FreeBSD/zfs file server appliance on amd64 hardware and have a slick administrative web interface for managing it. I picked up a nice SuperMicro motherboard and chassis that has 4 hot swap drive bays (and two internal bays that I used to mirror the boot volume on) and am rocking the zfs lifestyle! (Thanks Alan Jude!) One of the nicest features of the FreeNAS is that it provides the ability to leverage the FreeBSD jail functionality in an easy to use way. It also has plugins but the security on those is a bit sketchy (old versions of libraries, etc.) so I decided to roll my own. I created two jails – one to run OwnCloud (yeah, I know about NextCloud and might switch at some point) and the other to run a full SMTP/IMAP email server stack. I used Lets Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) to generate the SSL certificates and made sure I hit an A on SSLLabs (https://www.ssllabs.com/) before I did anything else. His post then goes in to talk about Backups and IoT devices, something else you need to consider in this truely paranoid world we are forced to live in. We even get a nice shout-out near the end! Enter TarSnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) – a company that advertises itself as “Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid”. It brings a tear to my eye – a kindred spirit! :-) Thanks again to Alan Jude and Kris Moore from the BSD Now podcast (http://www.bsdnow.tv/) for turning me onto this company. It has a very easy command syntax (yes, it isn't a GUI tool – suck it up buttercup, you wanted to learn the shell didn't you?) and even allows you to compile the thing from source if you want to.” We've only covered some of the highlights here, but you really should take a few moments of your time today and read this top to bottom. Lots of good tips here, already thinking how I can secure my home network better. The open source book: “Producing Open Source Software” (http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.pdf) “How to Run a Successful Free Software Project” by Karl Fogel 9 chapters and over 200 pages of content, plus many appendices Some interesting topics include: Choosing a good name version control bug tracking creating developer guidelines setting up communications channels choosing a license (although this guide leans heavily towards the GPL) setting the tone of the project joining or creating a Non-Profit Organization the economics of open source release engineering, packaging, nightly builds, etc how to deal with forks A lot of good information packaged into this ebook This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License *** DTrace Flamegraphs for node.js on FreeBSD (http://www.venshare.com/dtrace-flamegraphs-for-freebsd-and-node-js-2/) One of the coolest tools built on top of DTrace is flamegraphs They are a very accurate, and visual way to see where a program is spending its time, which can tell you why it is slow, or where it could be improved. Further enhancements include off-cpu flame graphs, which tell you when the program is doing nothing, which can also be very useful > Recently BSD UNIXes are being acknowledged by the application development community as an interesting operating system to deploy to. This is not surprising given that FreeBSD had jails, the original container system, about 17 years ago and a lot of network focused businesses such as netflix see it as the best way to deliver content. This developer interest has led to hosting providers supporting FreeBSD. e.g. Amazon, Azure, Joyent and you can get a 2 months free instance at Digital Ocean. DTrace is another vital feature for anyone who has had to deal with production issues and has been in FreeBSD since version 9. As of FreeBSD 11 the operating system now contains some great work by Fedor Indutny so you can profile node applications and create flamegraphs of node.js processes without any additional runtime flags or restarting of processes. This is one of the most important things about DTrace. Many applications include some debugging functionality, but they require that you stop the application, and start it again in debugging mode. Some even require that you recompile the application in debugging mode. Being able to attach DTrace to an application, while it is under load, while the problem is actively happening, can be critical to figuring out what is going on. In order to configure your FreeBSD instance to utilize this feature make the following changes to the configuration of the server. Load the DTrace module at boot Increase some DTrace limits Install node with the optional DTrace feature compiled in Follow the generic node.js flamegraph tutorial (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/uncategorized/profiling-node-js/) > I hope you find this article useful. The ability to look at a runtime in this manor has saved me twice this year and I hope it will save you in the future too. My next post on freeBSD and node.js will be looking at some scenarios on utilising the ZFS features. Also check out Brendan Gregg's ACM Queue Article (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2927301) “The Flame Graph: This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging” SSHGuard 2.0 Call for Testing (https://sourceforge.net/p/sshguard/mailman/message/35580961/) SSHGuard is a tool for monitoring brute force attempts and blocking them It has been a favourite of mine for a while because it runs as a pipe from syslogd, rather than reading the log files from the disk A lot of work to get SSHGuard working with new log sources (journalctl, macOS log) and backends (firewalld, ipset) has happened in 2.0. The new version also uses a configuration file. Most importantly, SSHGuard has been split into several processes piped into one another (sshg-logmon | sshg-parser | sshg-blocker | sshg-fw). sshg-parser can run with capsicum(4) and pledge(2). sshg-blocker can be sandboxed in its default configuration (without pid file, whitelist, blacklisting) and has not been tested sandboxed in other configurations. Breaking the processes up so that the sensitive bits can be sandboxes is very nice to see *** Beastie Bits pjd's 2007 paper from AsiaBSDCon: “Porting the ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system” (https://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P16-paper.pdf) A Message From the FreeBSD Foundation (https://vimeo.com/user60888329) Remembering Roger Faulkner, Unix Champion (http://thenewstack.io/remembering-roger-faulkner/) and A few HN comments (including Bryan Cantrill) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13293596) Feedback/Questions Peter - TrueOS Network (http://pastebin.com/QtyJeHMk) Chris - Remote Desktop (http://pastebin.com/ru726VTV) Goetz - Geli on Serial (http://pastebin.com/LQZPgF5g) Joe - BGP (http://pastebin.com/jFeL8zKX) Alejandro - BSD Router (http://pastebin.com/Xq9cbmfn) ***