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In this episode of Product Hunt Radio, I'm visiting TechCrunch HQ to hang out with two journalists that see more startups in a month than most people in a lifetime. Josh Constine is the Editor-At-Large at TechCrunch where he specializes his analysis on social products, including everything Facebook. Two fun facts: He's a Stanford graduate with a Master's degree in cybersociology and (like myself) a big fan of live music. Sarah Buhr is a new mother and, as she announces on the show, is taking a break from reporting at TechCrunch to raise her child. I've known Sarah since she joined TechCrunch in 2014 and more recently she's focused her writing on the wild world of biotechnology. We also have one more special guest: Sarah's beautiful six month old baby boy, Hayes. If you hear crying and clapping in the background, it's probably him. In this episode we talk about: The baby boom in Silicon Valley, including some of the coolest tech-enabled baby products helping tired moms and dads, as well as the ways that tech company cultures have changed since their founders and employees started having children. Why it might be possible to beat unhealthiness with convenience. We talk about a number of startups that are trying to get you fit by making the healthy option the easier option, similar to how Spotify beat piracy by making streaming easier than pirating. The future of work and education and how it will affect the world baby Hayes grows up in. We talk about why Sarah and her husband have been debating whether they should be saving for Hayes to go to college, how AR and VR will transform education and how automation will affect the workplace. All things Facebook – whether new startups can compete with the massive social network and some quick thoughts on their first hardware product, Portal. We of course also talk about some of their favorite products including a robot that makes burgers, a time-sucking app for meme lovers, and a virtual assistant that can do things for you when you run out of time (because you were browsing memes). 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, Airtable, GE Ventures, Intercom and Stripe for their support.
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a full house which was super great. TechCrunch's Connie Loizos and Sarah Buhr held down the fort in San Francisco along with our guest, Susan Mac Cormac, a partner at Morrison Foerster where she works on some of the most interesting deals in the private capital space. I dialed in from the home office in Providence.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a full house which was super great. TechCrunch's Connie Loizos and Sarah Buhr held down the fort in San Francisco along with our guest, Susan Mac Cormac, a partner at Morrison Foerster where she works on some of the most interesting deals in the private capital space. I dialed in from the home office in Providence. It was good that we had eight hands on deck as there was more than enough news to go around. We started with the recent executive changes at Zoox, an autonomous car company that came up on the show a few weeks back when it raised $500 million. The firm is now down its CEO after he was ousted after the round. In the founder-friendly era that we find ourselves in at the moment, this is High Drama. Next up was the #breakingnews concerning Eventbrite, which filed to go public just before we recorded. My initial notes are here, but we're still far from knowing where the unicorn will price. That means it's hard to say much today, aside from the fact that the company appears to be in more than rude enough health for a flotation. And then, the megarounds. There were three: Slack is richer and more valuable than ever after raising over $400 million at a valuation of more than $7 billion. The news surprised precisely no one, but it's again amazing to see how the enterprise chat app and budding productivity platform can raise as much as it wants, whenever it wants. The new round, of course, came after Slack put $250 million in its pockets last year. (Here's some quick math on its new valuation, just for fun.) One Medical picked up $350 million of its own, though the company doesn't get all the money. It's $220 million for One Medical itself, and $130 million for extant shareholders in the premium medical service. Getaround raised $300 million led by SoftBank (which also invested in Slack, of course). SoftBank's 2017 and 2018 investment cadence are already the stuff of legend. How the firm will do when returns are tallied isn't settled, though some early wagers are bearing fruit as we noted on the show. Getaround faces competition from rival peer-to-peer car sharing service Turo, which also raised this year. All that and we managed 1.7 jokes and 2.3 puns. We'll be back in a week, and don't forget that we are coming to you live at Disrupt in about two week's time. Stay cool!
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a full house which was super great. TechCrunch's Connie Loizos and Sarah Buhr held down the fort in San Francisco along with our guest, Susan Mac Cormac, a partner at Morrison Foerster where she works on some of the most interesting deals in the private capital space. I dialed in from the home office in Providence. It was good that we had eight hands on deck as there was more than enough news to go around. We started with the recent executive changes at Zoox, an autonomous car company that came up on the show a few weeks back when it raised $500 million. The firm is now down its CEO after he was ousted after the round. In the founder-friendly era that we find ourselves in at the moment, this is High Drama. Next up was the #breakingnews concerning Eventbrite, which filed to go public just before we recorded. My initial notes are here, but we're still far from knowing where the unicorn will price. That means it's hard to say much today, aside from the fact that the company appears to be in more than rude enough health for a flotation. And then, the megarounds. There were three: Slack is richer and more valuable than ever after raising over $400 million at a valuation of more than $7 billion. The news surprised precisely no one, but it's again amazing to see how the enterprise chat app and budding productivity platform can raise as much as it wants, whenever it wants. The new round, of course, came after Slack put $250 million in its pockets last year. (Here's some quick math on its new valuation, just for fun.) One Medical picked up $350 million of its own, though the company doesn't get all the money. It's $220 million for One Medical itself, and $130 million for extant shareholders in the premium medical service. Getaround raised $300 million led by SoftBank (which also invested in Slack, of course). SoftBank's 2017 and 2018 investment cadence are already the stuff of legend. How the firm will do when returns are tallied isn't settled, though some early wagers are bearing fruit as we noted on the show. Getaround faces competition from rival peer-to-peer car sharing service Turo, which also raised this year. All that and we managed 1.7 jokes and 2.3 puns. We'll be back in a week, and don't forget that we are coming to you live at Disrupt in about two week's time. Stay cool!
Sarah Buhr talks with Co-Founder and COO of Molekule Jaya Rao about their flagship air purifier.
Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard Interview starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51 "I think it's become very clear that there's going to be a devoted subset of people who do read on eReaders, and there's going to be a lot more reading on phones." News “Amazon App for iPhone Now Has X-Ray Vision to See Inside Your Packages” by Andy Orin at Lifehacker - November 16, 2016 “Alexa, What Are Your Deals?” - Amazon press release on November 18, 2016 The Grand Tour one-day deal on Amazon Prime - November 18, 2018. “Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - November 15, 2016 Certified Refurbished items at Amazon.com “Amazon looks to clean house—literally” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - November 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Invests Billions to Make Amazon a Top E-Commerce Player in India” by Newley Purnell at The Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016 “Amazon is going to sell cars online” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - November 18, 2016 New Amazon Prime TV commercial featuring a priest and an imam “Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts” by Mark Sweney at The Guardian - November 15, 2016 “Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - November 17, 2016 Tech Tip Two mistakes to avoid with Amazon Prime Fresh Interview with Laura Hazard Owen Nieman Foundation at Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab The Nieman Fellowships Amazon Prime Reading Six months free of digital access to The Washington Post for Amazon Prime members New York Times podcasts New York Times The Daily 360 virtual reality news clips VR experience of solitary confinement by The Guardian I'll Be Right Back Laura Hazard Owen's parenting newsletter Publishing Trends “Why We Are Buying PaidContent” by Om Malik - February 8, 2012 Om Malik on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech - November 8, 2015 Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance Content Amazon editors pick The Best Books of 2016 “Amazon rolls out Rapids, a chat style reading app for kids” by Sarah Buhr at Techcrunch - November 2, 1016 Amazon Rapids Next Week's Guest Seira Wilson, senior books editor at Amazon.com Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Virtual reality has transformed the way we think of and create new worlds, but it also allows us to explore the inner-most workings of the human body. We'll discuss the very real implications virtual reality is having on healthcare—from how we study biological structures to how we administer care. Hear from UCSF's Adam Gazzaley, Next Galaxy Founder & President Mary Spio, and TechCrunch's Sarah Buhr.
Last week Cloe, Siri's smarter sister, launched on Product Hunt (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/cloe). The unique, SMS-based Q&A service captured the attention of the community and the shortly afterward TechCrunch's Sarah Buhr, added to the conversation (http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/sms-based-recommendation-engine-cloe-aims-to-outsmart-siri/). One of the founders, Chase, was in town so we invited him over for a quick podcast at our new office in lovely San Francisco. Listen in.
I recently visited the colorful, graffiti-filled TechCrunch headquarters to chat with the tech publication's Susan Hobbs, Sarah Buhr, and Kyle Russell. We chatted about a wearable smart ring, an app to command your friends, and a fun TapTalk meta game Susan and I play named #tapwhere. Listen in. Products mentioned: - Pressfarm (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/pressfarm) - Find journalists to write about your startup - TalkTo (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/talkto) - Never Make Another Phone Call, Text Message Businesses - Taptalk (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/taptalk) - Personal video and photo messaging - 4 Snaps (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/4-snaps) - Snapchat + Draw Something, an all-new kind of word game. - Ding Dong (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/ding-dong) - "What's up" in one tap - Swarm (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/swarm) - Keep up and meet up with your friends- by FourSquare - Snapchat Our Story (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/snapchat-our-story) - Experience live, real-time events together - Vpeeker (http://www.vpeeker.com/) - Watch the world in real-time via Vine videos - TravelbyDrone (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/travelbydrone) - Collects travel videos taken by drones - IRIS Auto-pilot Drone] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/iris-auto-pilot-drone) - Android-controlled smart videography (incl auto-follow) - Android Wear (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/android-wear) - Google's smart watch technology - Ringly (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/ringly) - Fashionable wearables. Rings connected to your phone - Cuddle Clones (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/cuddle-clones) - Custom stuffed animals based on your pet! - Sup (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/sup-2) - See what your friends see - Povio (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/povio-2) - Message friends from your POV - Yo (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/yo) - A simple app to say "yo" to friends - Slingshot (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/slingshot-3) - Facebook's new ephemeral photo/video app P.S. As announced on TechCrunch last week (http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-founder-ryan-hoover-to-speak-at-disrupt-sf/), I will be speaking at Disrupt in San Francisco this September. We'll probably talk about Product Hunt and products. :)