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Greg Kidd on Fireside with a VC. Greg recently acquired VastBank | Fintech Pioneer | Early Investor: Twitter, Square, Coinbase, Solana | Ex-Ripple (#10) | Built & Scaled First Company to IPO | Co-Founder, GlobaliD | CEO, USBC | Ex Federal Reserve | Former roommate with Jack Dorsey. Greg and I get into a few topics, including all things related to the future of finance, banking, payments, USDC vs USBC, identity being added to crypto payments and transactions, open banking and fair access, democratizing money, 10,000% markups banks take on ACH and wire transfers over the Fed charges, banking without borders, who needs Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Google or Apple to take rent on payments and how to stop this, importance of securitization and tokenization of real assets, risk management in a world of crypto and digitized centralized and decentralized banking and finance.
How can AI help enterprises unlock valuable insights hidden in tens of thousands of contracts, invoices, and financial documents? Terzo is using AI to revolutionize enterprise data mining, tackling the complex world of Fortune 500 sales. With 90% of global IT spend concentrated in the Fortune 100, is it possible to build a multi-billion-dollar company without selling into the Fortune 500? We break down the differences between servicing Fortune 500 giants versus the faster sales cycles of smaller enterprise customers.Other key topics include:The balance between acquiring new logos versus expanding within existing customers.Striking the right 30/70 revenue growth balance to align with VC investors.How AI SaaS sales cycles differ from classic SaaS sales models.Navigating complex enterprise sales processes, including the role of the “AI Czar” who can either block deals or demand bakeoff POCs, creating temporary inflated ARR for startups.The percentage of AI deployments actively in production versus those stuck in R&D.The internal business units that must be aligned to close a large enterprise AI SaaS deal.The long game: spending a year to get into a budget cycle for the following year.
This time we get into some reviews of videos related to dating, the Japanese image of foreign people, plus STORY TIME! ============== Related links: Episode 140 Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/Di68-GgOH-Y Michael Fay - Caned NAKED in Singapore May 5, 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a4St2yaPM Do Japanese Elders Want Foreigners in Japan? https://youtu.be/hyXQXDkR26Y What Worries Japanese Girls about Dating Western Guys https://youtu.be/SGld2qRUV60 Japanese Women on Dating https://youtu.be/K0H6JZrGUXU - Flipboard Magazine Page: https://flipboard.com/@akilintokyo?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=curator_share Email me: questionsforakil@gmail.com Japan According To Akil Instagram Page https://www.instagram.com/japanaccordingtoakil/
Life Picks Ep 35: What to do in Singapore May 30-June 13: Sifa shows (arts); brunch buffets (food); Deon's album launch (gigs) 7:32 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Anjali Raguraman, who talks about Singapore singer-songwriter Deon who launches his third album at The Esplanade on June 1. Wong Ah Yoke shares his experience at two new brunch spots, while Akshita Nanda recommends two events which are part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts: A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Reverie, which runs from May 31 to June 2, and the Festival Closing Concert at the Botanic Gardens on June 2 (8pm). Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg
Life Picks Ep 35: What to do in Singapore May 30-June 13: Sifa shows (arts); brunch buffets (food); Deon's album launch (gigs) 7:32 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Anjali Raguraman, who talks about Singapore singer-songwriter Deon who launches his third album at The Esplanade on June 1. Wong Ah Yoke shares his experience at two new brunch spots, while Akshita Nanda recommends two events which are part of the Singapore International Festival of Arts: A Dream Under The Southern Bough: Reverie, which runs from May 31 to June 2, and the Festival Closing Concert at the Botanic Gardens on June 2 (8pm). Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Life Picks Ep 34: What to do in Singapore May 23-June 6 - Burger And Lobster (food); Hallyupopfest (gigs) 6:01 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Eunice Quek, who had the chance to try the newly opened Burger And Lobster at Jewel Changi Airport, and Desiree Loh, who is reporting on the K-pop festival HallyuPopFest on May 25 and 26. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Life Picks Ep 34: What to do in Singapore May 23-June 6 - Burger And Lobster (food); Hallyupopfest (gigs) 6:01 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Eunice Quek, who had the chance to try the newly opened Burger And Lobster at Jewel Changi Airport, and Desiree Loh, who is reporting on the K-pop festival HallyuPopFest on May 25 and 26. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg
Life Picks Ep 33: What to do in Singapore May 16-30: Ghost Call (arts); sliced fish soup in Kaki Bukit and Sumire Yakitori House (food) 8:17 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Olivia Ho, who talks about the text-and-movement performance Ghost Call at Goodman Arts Centre. This collaboration between playwright Nabilah Said and Raw Moves artistic director Ricky Sim runs from May 16 to 18. Hedy Khoo makes her debut on the podcast series, sharing two food recommendations: Sumire Yakitori House at Bugis Junction and Teochew Fish Porridge at Kaki Bukit Market & Food Centre, Bedok North Street 3. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg
Life Picks Ep 33: What to do in Singapore May 16-30: Ghost Call (arts); sliced fish soup in Kaki Bukit and Sumire Yakitori House (food) 8:17 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Olivia Ho, who talks about the text-and-movement performance Ghost Call at Goodman Arts Centre. This collaboration between playwright Nabilah Said and Raw Moves artistic director Ricky Sim runs from May 16 to 18. Hedy Khoo makes her debut on the podcast series, sharing two food recommendations: Sumire Yakitori House at Bugis Junction and Teochew Fish Porridge at Kaki Bukit Market & Food Centre, Bedok North Street 3. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Life Picks Ep 32: What to do in Singapore May 9-23: Singapore Cocktail Festival and Violet Oon Singapore at Jewel (food); This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls (play) 10:51 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Anjali Raguraman who talks about snagging $12 cocktails at the Singapore Cocktail Festival (May 10-12). Eunice Quek chats about the exclusive dishes at Violet Oon's newest outlet at Jewel. Akshita Nanda also speaks about the latest Pangdemonium play This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls, written by Ken Kwek in response to the #MeToo movement. It is on at the Drama Centre from May 10-26. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg
Life Picks Ep 32: What to do in Singapore May 9-23: Singapore Cocktail Festival and Violet Oon Singapore at Jewel (food); This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls (play) 10:51 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Anjali Raguraman who talks about snagging $12 cocktails at the Singapore Cocktail Festival (May 10-12). Eunice Quek chats about the exclusive dishes at Violet Oon's newest outlet at Jewel. Akshita Nanda also speaks about the latest Pangdemonium play This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls, written by Ken Kwek in response to the #MeToo movement. It is on at the Drama Centre from May 10-26. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Life Picks Ep 31: What to do in Singapore May 2-16: Troye Sivan (gigs); 'Til The End Of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land (arts) 5:43 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Boon Chan, who recommends pop star Troye Sivan's concert on May 3, while Akshita Nanda talks about singer-songwriter Inch Chua's "anti-musical" titled 'Til The End Of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land, which runs until May 4. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg
Life Picks Ep 31: What to do in Singapore May 2-16: Troye Sivan (gigs); 'Til The End Of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land (arts) 5:43 mins Synopsis: Every Thursday, The Straits Times highlights the best films, concerts, restaurants and arts events you can catch in Singapore over the coming weeks. This week, Melissa Sim hosts colleague Boon Chan, who recommends pop star Troye Sivan's concert on May 3, while Akshita Nanda talks about singer-songwriter Inch Chua's "anti-musical" titled 'Til The End Of The World, We'll Meet In No Man's Land, which runs until May 4. Produced by: Melissa Sim and Ernest Luis Edited by: Adam Azlee Subscribe, like and rate Life Picks on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGc iTunes: http://str.sg/oeXg Google podcasts: http://str.sg/o8Gx Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/ DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 Relevant to your interests Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/upbound-emerges-stealth-raises-9m-gv-build-multicloud-platform-kubernetes/) Another thing k8s doesn’t do…I guess? “The eight-person Seattle-based startup plans to build a platform that will let Kubernetes users interested in multicloud deployments build services that scale across multiple public clouds and help those companies deploy their applications across those environments.” DC/OS for all the DC/OS’es. It’s DC/OS’es all the way down. (I’m glad they linked to the wikipedia definition for “lingua franca.”) As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/) This about 1/3 of what a good, internal strategy memo would be. Needs market-sizing, forecasts, and, well, more numbers. If it also said what action to take, you’d have most of it there. Is K8s Too Complicated? (http://jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-too-complicated/) AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/11/lambda_means_game_over_for_serverless/) You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_LI0UWhm4) "We can't be more than one to two years from Amazon hitting that 2 per cent of the serverless (i.e. platform) market. Which means, if you're going to counter play then NOW (not six months later) is the time to be dropping $5 to $10bn on that counter play." See also… (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/997077211407466496) Serverless is going to crush Kubernetes (but only in a theoretical world which doesn’t actually exist) (http://www.diversity.net.nz/serverless-is-going-to-crush-kubernetes-but-only-in-a-theoretical-world-which-doesnt-actually-exist/2018/05/10/) - oh boy… CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/coreos-is-new-linux-not-a-rhel-classic-killer/): ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of the Kubernetes container controller, will be deployable on either the full-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in pets mode or the minimalist Red Hat CoreOS in cattle mode. But it will be using the Tectonic version of the Kubernetes controller going forward as well as integrating the Prometheus monitoring tool and etcd for storing telemetry. Gracely tells The Next Platform that the implementation of Kubernetes had outside dependencies such as the CloudForms hybrid cloud management tool (formerly ManageIQ) and was not “native” to Kubernetes in the same way that Tectonic is, meaning free of outside dependenies.’ Developer Advocate Wars / Arms Race (http://aniszczyk.org/2018/05/15/developer-advocate-wars-arms-race/) - outward and inner…kingmakers Google now says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17342414/google-duplex-ai-assistant-voice-calling-identify-itself-update) - that sort of defeats the whole point. Important nonsense Long, loooooong MAN (https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/991506293499215872)! Conferences, et. al. May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). Also, Coté doing some meetups in Korea (May 29th) and Singapore (May 31st), URLs pending. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Listener Feedback Colin from Scotland got a sticker. Says he always learns something and enjoys the banter. Tells us to “Keep up the excellent work!” SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Recommendations Brandon: Costco Passport Photos (http://inspiration.costcophotocentre.ca/costco-passport-photos-canadian-passport-pictures). Coté: Pors-Ela international travel adaptor thing (https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Iron-M-International-European-Countries/dp/B074CRS574/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_23_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=W6JRJ9A2EYH7JBK07VXV).