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Send us a textChristiana Marouchos and Becky Tasker are VPs at StackAdapt. Christiana leads brand and communications. Becky leads growth marketing. Together, they've helped shape the company's marketing strategy, scale its team, and build a culture rooted in clarity, accountability, and equity.In this episode, they talk about what it means to lead inside a fast-moving tech company. Christiana shares how storytelling has become the core of her approach to marketing. Becky breaks down how data and systems thinking helped her step into leadership. They both talk about imposter syndrome, learning to trust your voice, and what they've learned about building and managing teams that deliver.This is a conversation about doing the work, leading with intention, and staying grounded when things move fast.Show NotesGuestsChristiana Marouchos, VP of Marketing at StackAdaptBecky Tasker, VP of Growth Marketing at StackAdaptTopics coveredHow Christiana and Becky moved from individual contributors into VP rolesWhat it looks like to lead large teams through changeWhy storytelling matters in marketing, even in techThe difference between management and leadershipHow to navigate misalignment and hold people accountablePersonal lessons on imposter syndrome, reflection, and coachingCreating equity on your team through simple, clear systemsKey TakeawaysLeadership is about being clear, listening carefully, and showing people how their work fits into the bigger pictureYou do not need to have every answer to raise your hand for a new opportunityFeedback, context, and support go further than assumptions and controlIf you want to be seen as a leader, stop doing the invisible work and start owning the outcomesContactChristiana Marouchos LinkedInBecky Tasker LinkedInKeep up with more content from Aggie and Cristy here: Facebook: Empowered Women Leaders Instagram: @badass_women_in_business LinkedIn: ProveHer - Badass Women in Business Website: Badasswomeninbusinesspodcast.com Athena: athenaac.com

Send us a textWelcome back to our special spin-off series of The Route to Networking Podcast, dedicated to supporting military leavers as they transition into the tech industry. In this episode, host Louis Parratt sits down with Hugh Keir, a former British Army paratrooper who now works as a Service Manager at Viasat.From high-pressure combat zones to leading technical operations in satellite communications, Hugh shares his remarkable journey and the lessons he's learned along the way. His story is one of adaptability, resilience, and embracing the unknown—offering invaluable insight for anyone navigating life after the military.Key Topics Discussed:Life in the Parachute Regiment and the leadership lessons it taughtWhy private security wasn't the long-term solution—and what came nextHow a chance connection led Hugh to a career in techThe skills ex-military personnel bring to the corporate worldPractical tips for veterans breaking into civilian roles and the tech industryHugh's perspective on AI, soft skills, and the future of workConnect with Our Guest:

This episode hear from Tom Robins, Chief Executive Officer at Switchee, a company on a mission to improve the quality of life for residents in rented homes through smart, data-driven technology. Under Tom's leadership, Switchee now partners with over 100 social housing providers across the UK and the Netherlands, and was recently recognised in The Times Top Tech 100 Fastest Growing Companies list for 2025.In this episode, Tom shares his journey stepping into a CEO role at an already established business, reflects on the challenges of scaling an impact-driven company and explores the intersection between technology, housing, and social responsibility.Discussions in the episode:Lessons from scaling through multiple growth chaptersBalancing social impact with commercial success in housing techThe biggest challenges facing the social housing sector todayNavigating innovation & framework process in a fast-growth companyApproaches to learning, development, and leadership growthClick here to reach out to Peter Rabey direct Like this show? Please leave us a review. Every review helps.

In this thought-provoking episode of Agents of Nonprofit, I sit down with Elena Yunusov, founder of the Human Feedback Foundation and former AI advocate at RBC's Borealis AI lab. Together, we explore the crucial role nonprofits can play in steering artificial intelligence toward ethical, responsible, and human-centered outcomes.Topics We Cover:Why Elena left corporate AI to start the Human Feedback FoundationHow nonprofit organizations can shape the future of ethical AIThe flawed logic behind data hoarding and the AGI obsessionThe “tobacco industry” warning for irresponsible AI developmentWhat responsible AI really means beyond nice-sounding principlesWhy “humans in the loop” is more than just a safety net—it's a necessityHow Human Feedback Foundation mentors students to build values-first techThe hidden dangers of synthetic data and AI's impact on human relationshipsTo Learn More and Connect with Elena:Elena Yunusov on LinkedInHumanFeedback.ioSupport the show

Send us a textLevi Belnap is the CEO of Merlyn Mind, where he has been instrumental in driving the company's vision and growth since joining in 2019. Before assuming his current role, Levi served as Chief Strategy Officer for nearly four years and later as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to Merlyn Mind, Levi built an impressive career in business development and entrepreneurship. He worked for Defy Ventures, served as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at Wyzant, and co-founded FindIt, where he served as CEO. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a BA in Political Science and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently resides in Houston, Texas, where he continues to lead Merlyn Mind in transforming educational technology.

How Science Is Rethinking Protein to Save the Planet.  And Israel's Bold Mission to Solve Global Food Insecurity.Is lab-grown meat the real food future or just another tech fad? In this episode of Israeli Trailblazers, we explore how Israeli scientists and startups are revolutionizing how we feed a growing planet through cutting-edge food tech innovation.  Noga Golan, founder of Food Impact Partners, shares her expertise on the rapidly evolving alternative protein space.

How Science Is Rethinking Protein to Save the Planet.  And Israel's Bold Mission to Solve Global Food Insecurity.Is lab-grown meat the real food future or just another tech fad? In this episode of Israeli Trailblazers, we explore how Israeli scientists and startups are revolutionizing how we feed a growing planet through cutting-edge food tech innovation.  Noga Golan, founder of Food Impact Partners, shares her expertise on the rapidly evolving alternative protein space.

Andrea Feunekes, co-founder and former CEO of Remsoft, helps us kick off Season 5 of The Digital Forester. Andrea reflects on 30+ years of leading Remsoft, building a global business from the ground up with her husband Ugo, and shares lessons learned along the way. We dive into the evolution of forestry tech, the importance of change management, data readiness, and Remsoft's exciting future with the recent acquisition of Lim Geomatics and platform growth. Tune in to hear why Andrea believes we're on the edge of a connected, intelligent forestry future.Topics CoveredThe founding story of Remsoft and early challengesKey technological shifts in forestry: GIS, optimization, AIDefining true optimization and digital forest twinsThe role of data quality and organizational readinessChange management and adapting processes for techThe creation of Remsoft Operations and its AI co-pilotThe acquisition of Lim Geomatics and vision for a connected supply chainChoosing the right private equity partner with Banneker PartnersAdvice for entrepreneurs and working with familyAndrea's future view: automation, decision-making, and digital tools in forestry

In this episode of The DooDoo Diva's Smells Like Money, host Suzan Chin-Taylor chats with Danielle Werner of Upskilled Training about how to attract, evaluate, and retain top talent in the wastewater industry. From interview strategies to leveraging veterans' education benefits, Danielle offers practical tips to build a team that lasts.Key Highlights:Why soft skills and cultural fit matter more than techThe value of in-person interviewsHow to ask scenario-based questions that reveal candidate potentialTraining your interviewers to avoid legal pitfallsPromoting your culture year-round via social mediaBoosting retention with structured training programsTapping into Veterans Education Benefits for workforce developmentConnect with Danielle Werner:

Most people fantasize about escaping the modern world—this woman actually did it.In this week's episode, host Kim Anderson sits down with Miriam Lancewood, international bestselling author and wilderness explorer, whose life story reads like a modern-day survival epic. Miriam and her husband Peter walked into the wilds of New Zealand in 2010 with no technology, no back-up plan, and a big question: What happens to mind and body when you live far away from civilization? That one question shaped their next seven years—and changed their lives forever.You'll hear about the life skills it takes to truly live off the land, what it means to hunt your own food after growing up vegetarian, and why boredom might be one of the greatest teachers of all. Miriam also shares the story of their nomadic lifestyle across Europe, settling in the Bulgarian mountains, and the deep clarity that only nature can provide.In this episode, you'll learn:What it really takes to survive in the wilderness without modern tools or techThe unexpected truths about hunting, solitude, and slowing way downWhy living with nature transforms your body, mind, and relationshipIf you've ever dreamed of escaping the chaos and returning to something more primal, this episode is for you. Tune in—you might just walk away rethinking the way you live.RESOURCES:Connect with Miriam: Website & YouTubePick Up a Copy of Her Books:Woman in the WildernessWild at Heart: The Dangers of a Nomadic LifeWANT MORE? Check Out these episodes from other female adventurers:Rowing Across the Pacific, Breaking World Records & Redefining Leadership through Adventure Travel w/ Sophia Denison Johnston #32Walking the World: One Woman's 20,000-Mile, 7-Year Journey Across 4 Continents w/ Angela Maxwell #154 EPISODE DETAILS:05:17 - You don't have to work in order to live13:18 - The miracle 15:13 - Confidence comes by comparison26:14 - When you have nothing but time35:50 - The key to a healthy, long-lasting  relationshipSupport the showMore Travel, Less Money—Download Your FREE GUIDE & Start Exploring! Let's connect on Instagram! @DesignHerTravel Get $20 when you Sign-Up for Buzzsprout Please Note: I may earn a small commission when purchasing through these links. It doesn't cost you anything extra but does help support the show.

Are we being paid fairly for what we deliver?Join Jimmy McKay, Dave Kittle, and Tony Maritato for a no-holds-barred discussion on:Manual therapy vs. movement-based reimbursementHow Medicare defines (and limits) valueCharging patients for actual premium care — from certifications to techThe tension between doing more and being paid lessAction figures, AI-generated branding, and your role as a “healthcare hero”What We Talked About:Should PTs be charging for everything “above the minimum standard of care”?Is it ethical (or legal) to offer premium services on top of insurance-covered plans?How to avoid the burnout that comes from over-delivering and under-chargingThe difference between running a practice and running a charityLinks & Mentions:

Welcome to another power-packed episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast!

Today we are in conversation with Matt Brennan, Assoc. AIA and host of "What the RFI?" podcast.01:00 – 03:00 | Tools and TechThe nailer vs. hammer metaphor—and some DeWalt drama.03:00 – 06:00 | Change Is HardWhy architects resist new technology.06:00 – 09:00 | Drawing vs. ModelingBalancing old-school sketching with digital tools.09:00 – 11:30 | Learning by DrawingHow hand-drawing builds deeper understanding.11:30 – 14:00 | AI in ArchitectureUsing AI tools to speed up early design.14:00 – 18:00 | Talking to AIHow voice mode and brainstorming with AI are changing workflows.18:00 – 21:00 | Digital NativesThe next generation's tech-first approach to design.21:00 – 24:00 | Building What You DrawThe value of hands-on building experience.24:00 – 27:00 | School GapsWhat architecture programs teach—and what they don't.27:00 – 30:00 | Fear of Falling BehindConcerns about stagnation in the field.30:00 – 34:00 | PDFs vs. ModelsShould BIM replace traditional contract docs?34:00 – 39:00 | Model AccuracyWhy BIM still struggles with liability and clarity.39:00 – 44:00 | The Cyborg Architect™AI-augmented designers and the future of modeling.44:00 – 49:00 | Fast-Tracking ProjectsHow early detailing can shave months off a build.49:00 – 53:00 | Tendering with BIMReal-world examples of model-based tendering.53:00 – 56:00 | Training AI Like a New HireHow giving AI context makes it a powerful teammate.56:00 – 59:00 | Tech Is Moving FastIf you're not adapting, you're getting left behind.59:00 – 1:02:00 | Final ThoughtsEvolving together, with communication at the center.Go build something awesome!CHECK OUT THE PARTNERS THAT MAKE OUR SHOW POSSIBLE: https://www.brospodcast.com/partnersFIND US ONLINE: -Our website: https://www.brospodcast.com -LinkedIn:   / constructionbrospodcast   -Instagram:   / constructionbrospodcast    -TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@constructionbrothers?lang=en-Eddie on LinkedIn:   / eddie-c-057b3b11   -Tyler on LinkedIn:   / tylerscottcampbell  If you enjoy the podcast, please rate us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to us! Thanks for listening!

Looking for real-world leadership secrets for tech leaders? In this powerful episode of the Leadership Launchpad Project, we sit down with former Twitter executive Sydney Robertson (Former Head of Sales at X Canada), who shares hard-earned insights from her 10+ years inside Twitter—before and after Elon Musk's acquisition.Whether you're a current tech leader, aspiring founder, or executive navigating change, this conversation is packed with actionable leadership strategies, personal growth tools, and behind-the-scenes Twitter stories that will help you lead through uncertainty, scale your impact, and stay aligned with your values.

International Women's Day is here, a time for all those who care about women's equality to celebrate the achievements of women both contemporary and historical and to focus on gender equality in our society.The tech sector still has a sizable gender divide, with only around one quarter of all tech roles held by women. Tech leaders need to enter into open dialogue over how to make tech careers more attractive to women and to empower women within their workforce.In this episode, Rory speaks to Elizabeth Barr, head of the Cisco Networking Academy in the UK, Ireland, and Nordics, to explore what International Women's Day means in 2025 and how young women are entering tech.Women in tech think the industry has changed for the better, but there's still more work to be doneWomen in tech are being forced out of work by the ‘motherhood penalty'The women returning to tech – and why they left“We are influencing generations to come”: Improving the picture for women in tech through cultural changesSupporting female founders in techThe company-wide benefits of mentorship in tech

Send us a textEpisode Overview:Welcome to a brand-new spin-off series of The Route to Networking Podcast, designed specifically for military leavers! Transitioning out of the armed forces can be a challenging journey, especially when stepping into the tech industry. Whether you're considering a career in radio frequency, network engineering, or another technology field, this series is here to guide and support you.In this episode, we are joined by Dave Davis, Senior Technical Director at ST Engineering iDirect and a British Army veteran (1998-2003). Dave shares his transition journey, how his military skills translated into civilian tech roles, and the key advice he has for those looking to follow a similar path.Key Topics Discussed:How military experience aligns with careers in techThe challenges and opportunities of transitioning into civilian rolesDave's personal journey from the British Army to a senior tech leadership rolePractical advice for military leavers navigating the job marketThe importance of resilience, adaptability, and networkingConnect with Our Guest:

Get more notes at https://podcastnotes.org ​Time Saved This Week: 13 Hours, 45 Minutes​​NEW Premium Notes​Peter Thiel | Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin ​​Peter Thiel (@peterthiel) is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who has appeared in many Podcast Notes over the years. However, legendary producer Rick Rubin still somehow managed to peel back new layers of Peter's life, revealing how he flipped the script from ordinary Stanford law school graduate to one of the most prominent entrepreneurs of his generation. These two titans of industry also discuss the student debt crisis, the progression of AI relative to the dot-com bubble, the current state of Silicon Valley, and much more!Marc Andreessen: It's Morning Again In America | Uncommon Knowledge with Peter RobinsonIt's time for another podcast episode with the chief ideologist of the Silicon Valley elite, Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)! In this episode, Marc talks about how technology and politics have changed in Silicon Valley, his shift from left to right, and how he believes innovation can solve big issues like energy, border security, and defense​Tim Cook: What It Takes to Run Apple, the World's Largest Company | Dua Lipa: At Your Service​A wild Tim Cook appeared! The Apple CEO sat down with Dua Lipa for a rare podcast interview to answer about his daily routine, favorite national parks, and books, Apple's climate goals, leadership philosophy, and even tackling the big question: does Apple use child labor for cobalt?​​Upgrade to Premium to Get 3 Premium Notes Every Week, the Full Newsletter, Playable Timestamps, AI Powered Answers, Unlock 500+ Premium Posts, No Ads and MORE​Go PREMIUMTop Premium Takeaways Of The Week​​​Peter Thiel | Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin ​​​Peter's Quarter Life Crisis: “I ended up at a top New York law firm. 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Kids can handle the truth when it's told to them by a loving, trusted adultHappiness is the NOT the Goal: Your job is not to make your kid happy. Your job is to help create the conditions for your kid to be a real functioning, confident adult. It's just different rolesThe concept of “not guilt”: “What I think is happening is a lot of us, especially women, when we were growing up, we learned to notice everyone's feelings around us. And we learned that our value, really, and our worth, really, and we were kind of best and good girls when we took care of everyone else's feelings except for our own.” – BeckyThe most important skill for kids to learn is to tolerate frustration: “The things that are good for humans long-term are things that involve humans to tolerate frustration.”– BeckyGet Off Your Phone: “We have so much less tolerance for our kids' tantrums because we're on our phones wanting our life to be easier.” – BeckyConfidence: “Confidence is not feeling like you're the best at something, it's feeling like it's okay to be you when you're not the best at something.” – Becky​Hetty Green – The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World & The Richest Woman In America | Founders Podcast with David Senra #375Hetty Green's business maxims:* 1. Seek out every piece of information on an investment before deciding on it* 2. Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves* 3. Generally, in business, do not close a bargain until you have reflected on it overnight* 4. Before making a deal, if anyone is foolish enough to offer you the full amount, take it!* 5. Buy when everyone wants to sell and sell when everyone wants to buySome things on Hetty Green's list of things to NOT do in business:* 1. Do not cheat in business or you will find yourself in an early grave* 2. Do not fail to be fair in all things and do not kick a man when he is down* 3. Do not envy your neighbors* 4. Do not forget to be charitable and never falsifyA defining character trait of Hetty: She lived by her own rules and did not care what other people thought; by casting off the societal norms of her time, she freed herself to do as she pleased and to live a life on her termsHetty was self-sovereign, very frugal, and very paranoid: She did not tell other people what she owned or how much she was making, and commonly bought property and stocks under fictitious namesGreed and Envy: Greed does not drive the world, envy does; cure yourself of envy because envy is a weaknessHetty Green's wealth management principles:* 1. No debt* 2. No buying on margin* 3. Watch every penny* 4. Stack your cashChaos is a Ladder: Most humans will panic during times of economic crisis, but those who do not panic will get rich* Shrewd investors can buy assets at low prices from speculators who use margin* There are good bargains in the aftermath of the crisisFun fact: The creation of railroads led to the creation of standardized time because it required coordination between two towns, located several hundred miles away from each other​​​Mark Zuckerberg: The Dark Side of Social Media, Censorship, and AI in 2025 | Joe Rogan Experience (#2255) ​The Decade of Censorship: “It was really in the last 10 years that people started pushing for ideological-based censorship.” – Mark Zuckerberg. The 2 key triggers:* The 2016 election of Donald Trump* The 2020 COVID-19 pandemicSuppressing legitimate information about metabolic health: “High doses of Vitamin C, D3 with K2, and magnesium—they were suppressing this stuff because they didn't want people to think that you could get away with not taking a vaccine.”– JoeThe US Is Hurting it's Tech Leaders: When the U.S. government goes after its tech industry, it opens the door for other nations to do the same. The EU has fined U.S. tech companies more than $30 billion over 10–20 years* The U.S. government has the power to pressure other countries to protect American industries but has done the opposite for techThe dilemma of setting classifier thresholds:* If a classifier is set to 99% confidence, it might miss 80% of harmful content, whereas setting it to 90% confidence might catch more, but still mistakenly flag 10% of innocent content* When dealing with billions of posts from billions of users, setting classifiers with too low precision leads to millions of innocent posts being wrongly taken downThe tension between allowing anonymous accounts and the potential for abuse: “I think there's nothing wrong with that… you should be able to be anonymous… but if you're going to allow anonymous accounts, you're going to open up the door to bad actors having enormous blocks of accounts where they can use either AI or just programs.” – Joe​PREMIUM:* ​Peter Thiel | Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin​* ​Marc Andreessen: It's Morning Again In America | Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson​​* ​Tim Cook: What It Takes to Run Apple, the World's Largest Company | Dua Lipa: At Your Service​FREE:* ​Control Pain & Heal Faster With Your Brain | Huberman Lab Essentials​​* ​Dr. Becky Kennedy: Overcoming Guilt & Building Tenacity in Kids & Adults | Huberman Lab​​* ​Hetty Green – The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World & The Richest Woman In America | Founders Podcast with David Senra #375​​* ​Mark Zuckerberg: The Dark Side of Social Media, Censorship, and AI in 2025 | Joe Rogan Experience (#2255) Thank you for subscribing. 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This week, Stacey Lokey-Day joins the show to talk about her career pivot from stay-at-home mom to cybersecurity analyst!George K & George A talk to Stacey about: How she leveraged a bootcamp experience into a successful career pivot Why she believes in "collecting experiences" early in your career, even the tough ones How her time in the SOC built up her resilience and confidence Finding your voice, and owning who you are in techThe lessons from her story are valuable to anyone, at any stage of their career. Turn it up!————

Ken Riley's career started in 1980 at 3D Studios in Costa Mesa with Doug Doyle. Recording such names as The Altor Boys, Crumbacher, Daniel Amos, and The Life Savors. Then creating the group Common Bond where he was the lead vocalist and the bass player. Common Bond toured and had 3 albums on Front Line Records. Then moving his career along to New York at Electric Lady Studios where he worked with the best in the industry. Bringing it to today where he is in his own well established Rio Grande Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico recording.8 ½ years as a traveling musician and recording artist, producing two gold records. 10 years as an engineer and musician in Los Angeles, 8 ½ years as an engineer in New York City at Electric Ladyland Studios.IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:Why he still has a mentor for getting mix feedbackUnlearning “rules”Critiquing mixes “emotionally”Trusting your heart, not your earsNot relying on techThe problem with editing and samplesDealing with the personalities, egos, and comfort of an artist Why you should turn down workBuilding clientele in a small townMaking a studio feel comfortableArranging songs for impactTo learn more about Ken Riley, visit: https://riograndestudios.com/Looking for 1-on-1 feedback and training to help you create pro-quality mixes?Check out my coaching program Amplitude and apply to join: https://masteryourmix.com/amplitude/Want additional help with your music productions?For tips on how to improve your mixes, visit https://masteryourmix.com/Download your FREE copy of the Ultimate Mixing Blueprint: https://masteryourmix.com/blueprint/ Get your copy of my Amazon #1 bestselling books:The Recording Mindset: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Pro Recordings From Your Home Studio: https://therecordingmindset.comThe Mixing Mindset: The Step-By-Step Formula For Creating Professional Rock Mixes From Your Home Studio: https://masteryourmix.com/mixingmindsetbook/ Check out our Sponsors:Download Waves Plugins here: https://waves.alzt.net/EK3G2K Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/master-your-mix-podcast/id1240842781Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5V4xtrWSnpA5e9L67QcJej Have questions you'd like answered on the show?Send them to questions@masteryourmix.com Please leave a rating and review:https://masteryourmix.com/review/ Thanks for listening!

Kristen sits down with Melissa Jurkoic, a tech industry veteran and champion for diversity in leadership. Melissa's journey from junior software engineer to Chief Experience Officer is a testament to the power of resilience and authenticity in leadership. She shares candid insights on navigating male-dominated spaces, the importance of sponsorship, and why being your genuine self is crucial for effective leadership. Melissa's approach to "boundaried vulnerability" offers a fresh perspective on balancing openness with professionalism. This conversation will challenge you to rethink your approach to leadership and inspire you to create more inclusive, transparent work environments.About Melissa:Melissa Jurkoic has been in the tech industry for more than 25 years, primarily in hospitality tech, progressing from Junior Software Engineer to her current position as Chief Experience Officer at Thynk. She earned a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an executive certificate in Management and Leadership from MIT. Motivated by her commitment to increasing the representation of women in leadership and tech, she has volunteered with various global organizations such as ChickTech, Everwise, WITI, NH Tech Alliance, Microsoft DigiGirlz, wiseHer, Girl Scouts, and AnitaB.org. This dedication also inspired her to co-found Diversify Thinking, an initiative dedicated to advancing inclusion from dialogue to implementation and fostering diversity of thought.Highlights:Melissa's unexpected path from aspiring journalist to engineering leaderThe impact of having a sponsor who puts you "in the room"Dealing with skepticism and proving yourself as a woman in techThe concept of "boundaried vulnerability" in leadershipCreating a culture of trust and transparency within teamsThe importance of authenticity in leadership, even during tough timesChallenging the notion of "like-minded" teams and embracing diversity of thoughtMelissa's experience with Diversify Thinking and unconventional mentoring programsThe mutual benefits of mentoring across different backgrounds and experiencesLinks & Resources Mentioned:Melissa's LinkedIn profileDiversify Thinking (Melissa's initiative)WomenTech Network (where Kristen and Melissa met)Leaders Eat Last by Simon SinekDare to Lead by Brené BrownGet your FREE 5 Day Leadership Reset Challenge guide here: https://llpod.link/challengePodcast Website: www.loveandleadershippod.comInstagram: @loveleaderpodFollow us on LinkedIn!Kristen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristenbsharkey/ Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-s-364970111/Learn more about Kristen's leadership coaching and facilitation services: http://www.emboldify.com

Jason Howell chats with guest Owen JJ Stone aka OhDoctah on topics ranging from early internet experiences to raising kids in a tech-saturated world.

“There are many pathways to the solution to climate change, and that means more jobs for linguists” Jackson Kuzmik was born and raised in Hong Kong and received his Master's in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge in England. Alongside various research positions, he has worked in outreach for an environmental research center, as a product management intern at a language-technology startup, and as the Head Mentor for his undergraduate department. He is currently working in the cleantech/climate space at Carbon Limiting Technologies in London, a specialist consultancy for scaling key climate innovations. Jackson Kuzmik on LinkedIn Topics include – working abroad – job search – analyst – consulting – data research – environmentalism – green tech – clean techThe post Episode #47: Jackson Kuzmik first appeared on Linguistics Careercast.

San Francisco-based venture capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, is diving into defense technology, with Payload securing the first interview to discuss the firm's new strategy with Partner Tess Hatch. Despite the firm's historical successes with space companies such as Terra Bella (formerly Skybox), Spire, and Rocket Lab, they are cautiously awaiting a new technological catalyst before making further industry investments.Meanwhile, Tess has turned her attention to the defense sector highlighted in the firm's recent Bessemer's defense tech roadmap. She highlights AI/ML solutions and autonomous systems as critical investment areas, aiming to influence the future of national security significantly.Tess joins us to recount her transition from an aspiring astronaut to a deep tech investor. In addition, Mo and Tess discuss:Bessemer's early space thesisA breakdown of defense techThe concept of “dual use”Tech shaping the future of national securityChallenges to defense investingAnd much, much more… • Chapters •00:00 - Intro02:15 - Tess's career arc04:06 - Tess's transition from engineer to investor06:27 - High capex in deep tech investing09:04 - BVP's investment strategy15:59 - Space industry today and future predictions18:37 - New investors in the space industry21:07 - A third catalyst?23:41 - Bessemer's defense tech roadmap26:28 - How does Bessemer differentiate itself28:11 - How do you define defense tech?30:43 - Concept of dual use32:21 - Reality of dual use35:12 - Challenges of defense tech investing38:41 - Future opportunity in national security40:53 - Liquidity in defense tech42:48 - Who should partner with Bessemer?45:08 - Favorite war movie/book • Show notes •BVP's Defense Tech Roadmap — https://www.bvp.com/atlas/roadmap-defense-techBVP's socials — https://twitter.com/BessemerVPMo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislamPayload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspacePathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world.Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms:1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/)2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com)3) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)

Podcast: Secure Tracks: Rail Tech Security Conversations Episode: Defendiendo el futuro: La ciberseguridad en ciclos de vida ferroviariosPub date: 2024-01-24Únase al presentador Omar Benjumea mientras charla con Francisco Lázaro Anguis, CISO y DPO de RENFE, en el primer episodio en español de Secure Tracks. Explore el complejo desafío de proteger los sistemas ferroviarios a largo plazo. Descubra cómo la ciberseguridad se vuelve parte integral del diseño, las pruebas y el mantenimiento ferroviario, garantizando la resiliencia contra las amenazas que pueden evolucionar durante las próximas tres décadas. Descubra el delicado equilibrio entre seguridad y "safety" en el complejo mundo de las operaciones de tecnología ferroviaria. English description: Decades Defended: Embedding Cybersecurity to a 30-Year Rail Lifecycle Join guest host Omar Benjumea as he sits down with Francisco Lázaro Anguis, CISO and DPO of RENFE, in Secure Tracks's first Spanish episode. Explore the intricate challenge of securing railway systems for the long haul. Discover how cybersecurity becomes integral to rail design, testing, and maintenance, ensuring resilience against evolving threats over three decades. Uncover the delicate balance between safety and security in the complex world of rail techThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cylus, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Secure Tracks: Rail Tech Security Conversations Episode: Defendiendo el futuro: La ciberseguridad en ciclos de vida ferroviariosPub date: 2024-01-24Únase al presentador Omar Benjumea mientras charla con Francisco Lázaro Anguis, CISO y DPO de RENFE, en el primer episodio en español de Secure Tracks. Explore el complejo desafío de proteger los sistemas ferroviarios a largo plazo. Descubra cómo la ciberseguridad se vuelve parte integral del diseño, las pruebas y el mantenimiento ferroviario, garantizando la resiliencia contra las amenazas que pueden evolucionar durante las próximas tres décadas. Descubra el delicado equilibrio entre seguridad y "safety" en el complejo mundo de las operaciones de tecnología ferroviaria. English description: Decades Defended: Embedding Cybersecurity to a 30-Year Rail Lifecycle Join guest host Omar Benjumea as he sits down with Francisco Lázaro Anguis, CISO and DPO of RENFE, in Secure Tracks's first Spanish episode. Explore the intricate challenge of securing railway systems for the long haul. Discover how cybersecurity becomes integral to rail design, testing, and maintenance, ensuring resilience against evolving threats over three decades. Uncover the delicate balance between safety and security in the complex world of rail techThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cylus, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Andreas Saari, co-founder and co-CEO of Paebbl, discusses the company's mission to scale up carbon capture and utilization technology. Paebbl's innovative process turns captured CO2 into a solid mineral product that can be used in large-volume applications, replacing materials that are heavily emitting. Andreas explains the efficiency and potential of this technology in addressing the global carbon emissions problem. He also shares insights into the challenges and opportunities of scaling up carbon capture, the formation of the Paebbl team, and the company's long-term vision. He reflects on his journey in climate tech and the surprises he has encountered along the way. Andreas discusses the scaling up of climate solutions and the importance of action. He also emphasizes the possibility of doing good through business and the need for sustainable work practices. He provides advice for those interested in working in the climate industry and highlights the importance of positivity and collaboration. In this episode, we discuss: Paebbl is scaling up a technology that turns captured CO2 into a solid mineral product, which can be used in large-volume applications to replace heavily emitting materialsThe scale of the carbon emissions problem requires both reducing industrial emissions and removing historical CO2 from the atmosphereThe availability of feedstock minerals and the energy demand for the process are important considerations for scaling up carbon capture and utilizationBuilding a strong team and leveraging expertise from different industries is crucial for the success of a climate tech start-upEngaging with the scientific community and leveraging their knowledge and expertise can accelerate learning and progress in climate techThe transition to a green economy presents opportunities for job creation and the reallocation of skills from traditional industries to climate tech solutionsBrought to you by Kapacity.io - an optimization company helping heat pump owners save energy, money, and emissions. Use promo code climatebusinesscast to get the optimization free for 60 days. Links:Climate Business Cast: https://climatebusinesscast.com/Paebbl: https://paebbl.com/#greentransition #carboncapture #climatebusiness #climatebusinesscast #CarbonCaptureTech #ClimateTechScaling #SustainableSolutions #CO2Utilization #GreenEconomyShift #ClimateActionNow #TeamBuildingInTech #CarbonEmissionsChallenge #PositiveClimateImpact #MineralProductInnovation #ClimateIndustryInsights #GreenJobOpportunities #CollaborationInTech #FeedstockMinerals #ClimateTechProgress #BuildingASustainableFuture #BusinessForGood #ScalingClimateSolutions #ClimateTechJourney #ClimateIndustryAdvice Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guests this week are Yusra Ahmad, CEO of Acuity Data, and Luke Beckley, Data Protection Officer and Privacy Governance Manager at Correla, who work with The RED (Real Estate Data) Foundation, a sector-wide alliance that enables the real estate sector to benefit from an increased use of data, while voiding some of the risks that this presents, and better serving society.We discuss the current drivers for change within the real estate industry and the complexities of the real estate industry utilizing incredible amounts of data. You'll learn the types of data protection, privacy, and ethical challenges The RED Foundation seeks to solve, especially now with the advent of new technologies. Yusra and Luke discuss some  ethical questions the real estate sector as it considers leveraging new technology. Yusra and Luke come to the conversation from the knowledgeable perspective as The RED Foundation's Chair of the Data Ethics Steering Group and Chair of the Engagement and Awareness Group, respectively.Topics Covered:Introducing Luke Beckley (DPO, Privacy & Governance Manager at Correla) and Yusra Ahmed (CEO of Acuity Data); who are here to talk about their data ethics work at The RED FoundationHow the scope, sophistication, & connectivity of data is increasing exponentially in the real estate industryWhy ESG, workplace experience, & smart city development are drivers of data collection; and the need for data ethics reform within the real estate industryDiscussion of types of personal data these real estate companies collect & use across stakeholders: owners, operators, occupiers, employees, residents, etc.Current approaches that retailers take to protect location data, when collected; and why it's important to simplify language,  increase transparency, & make  consumers aware of tracking in in-store WIFi privacy noticesOverview of The RED Foundation & mission: to ensure the real estate sector benefits from an increased use of data, avoids some of the risks that this presents, and is better placed to serve societySome ethical questions with which the real estate sector needs to still align, along with examplesWhy there's a need to educate the real estate industry on privacy-enhancing techThe need for privacy engineers and PETs in real estate; and why this will build trust with the different stakeholdersGuidance for privacy engineers who want to work in the real estate sector.Ways to collaborate with The RED Foundation to standardize data ethics practices across the real estate industryWhy there's great opportunity to embed privacy into real estate; and why its current challenges are really obstacles, rather than blockers.Resources Mentioned:Check out The RED FoundationGuest Info:Follow Yusra on LinkedInFollow Luke on LinkedIn Privado.ai Privacy assurance at the speed of product development. Get instant visibility w/ privacy code scans.Shifting Privacy Left Media Where privacy engineers gather, share, & learnDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Copyright © 2022 - 2024 Principled LLC. All rights reserved.

Brought to you by Dark Shore IndustriesThe Best Company You Never Have to Work ForUltimate Christian Coaching Network for Manhood"From 12 to 23 in a single year.""Help us build your ark."Get the Mad Mondays newsletter, a round up of news from a Christian perspective with encouragement from Rev FiskFind out more about the Sons of Solomon, a prayer discipline for menSupport Rev Fisk at SubscribeStarOrder Rev Fisk's books at AmazonCatch Rev Fisk on A Brief History of Power podcastHear Rev Fisk's sermons at St PaulIf you'd like to submit a question or comment for the show, click hereThis week, the Mad Christian and Meridith speak about:  00:00 Pursuing the gentle way13:08 Control your time, control your space17:24 What's up and what do you know26:08 Being in the world, but overcoming it too29:05 Focus, flex and food33:26 Now I have to fix it40:45 Pursuing shalom rather than nirvana42:55 Can I vote for a political candidate of another faith?54:25 Shame culture and Christian judgement01:06:45 Militancy of the kingdom01:13:38 Pursue Christian reality01:15:33 Find your realm, find your rest01:44:01 Lutheran monastic mindset01:50:20 Capacity to fail and a little free spirit02:02:07 Would that you reigned...02:06:01 Posers, imposters, clocks and dads02:22:00 Edges of control02:25:00 Hospital visitation and alpha animals 02:30:50 Genius hacks for new pastors02:40:00 Trying not to have ego02:51:03 Substack and wonders of techThe opinions expressed on the Stop the White Noise are those of RevFisk and Meridith, but sometimes also God. Studies show that learning to tell the difference greatly enhances your viewing experience.If you need help, the Holy Bible stands ready to assist you, as (hopefully) does your local, trustworthy pastor.To join our Discord community online, request an invitation linkFind everything else go to revfisk.com

Episode 23, Season 2. Today on All Quiet, Tyler and IntelliBridge's Mike Pansky annihilate clichés about working in defense tech and startups. Together, they question the status quo on systems integration and government contracts while emphasizing the game-changing power of teamwork. Mike's quick takes on vulnerable supply chains and the new rules of warfare offers a fresh perspective and shakes up the market.What's Happening on the Second Front:The unconventional path to defense techThe challenges of the SI model and the opportunities for changeAI in Business: Job killer or productivity boosterWhy we need mutual incentives for government and business collaborationImportance of procurement in government contracts: The struggle to find the right vehicle for a great productConnect with Mike:LinkedIn: Mike PanksyConnect with Tyler:LinkedIn: Tyler Sweatt Website: secondfront.comCatch 2F's Offset Symposium replay here. This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Our 3rd podcast feed swap with other AI pod friends! Check out Cognitive Revolution and Practical AI as well.NLW is the best daily AI YouTube/podcaster with the AI Breakdown. His summaries and content curation are spot on and always finds the interesting angle that will keep you thinking. Subscribe to the AI Breakdown wherever fine podcasts are sold! https://pod.link/1680633614You can also watch on YouTube:Timestampscourtesy of summarize.techThe hosts discuss the launch of Code Interpreter as a separate model from OpenAI and speculate that it represents the release of GPT 4.5. People have found Code Interpreter to be better than expected, even for tasks unrelated to coding. They discuss the significance of this release, as well as the challenges of evaluating AI models, the cultural mismatch between researchers and users, and the increasing value of data in the AI industry. They also touch on the impact of open-source tools, the potential of AI companions, the advantages of Anthropics compared to other platforms, advancements in image recognition and multimodality, and predictions for the future of AI.* 00:00:00 In this section, the hosts discuss the launch of Code Interpreter from OpenAI and its significance in the development of the AI field. They explain that Code Interpreter, initially introduced as a plugin, is now considered a separate model with its own dropdown menu. They note that people have found Code Interpreter to be better than expected, even for tasks that are not related to coding. This leads them to speculate that Code Interpreter actually represents the release of GPT 4.5, as there has been no official announcement or blog post about it. They also mention that the AI safety concerns and regulatory environment may be impacting how OpenAI names and labels their models. Overall, they believe that Code Interpreter's release signifies a significant shift in the AI field and hints at the possibility of future advanced models like GPT 5.* 00:05:00 In this section, the speaker discusses the improvements in GPT 4.5 and how it enhances the experience for non-coding queries and inputs. They explain that the code interpreter feature allows for a wider range of use cases that were not possible with previous models like GPT 3.5. Additionally, they highlight the value of the code interpreter in assisting individuals with no coding experience to solve basic coding problems. This feature is likened to having a junior developer or intern analyst that aids in conducting tests and simplifies coding tasks. The speaker emphasizes that GPT 4.5 enables users to be more productive and efficient, especially when dealing with code-related challenges. They also discuss the future direction of AGI, where more time will be dedicated to inference rather than training, as this approach has shown significant improvements in terms of problem-solving.* 00:10:00 In this section, the speaker discusses how advanced AI models like GPT-4.5 are not just larger versions of previous models but rather employ fundamentally different techniques. They compare the evolution of AI models to the evolutionary timeline of humans, where the invention of tools opened up a whole new set of possibilities. They touch on the difficulty of evaluating AI models, particularly in more subjective tasks, and highlight how perceptions of model performance can be influenced by factors like formatting preferences. Additionally, the speaker mentions the challenges of reinforcement learning and the uncertainty around what the model is prioritizing in its suggestions. They conclude that OpenAI, as a research lab, is grappling with the complexities of updating models and ensuring reliability for users.* 00:15:00 In this section, the speaker discusses the cultural mismatch between OpenAI researchers and users of OpenAI's products, highlighting the conflicting statements made about model updates. They suggest that OpenAI needs to establish a policy that everyone can accept. The speaker also emphasizes the challenges of communication and the difficulty of serving different stakeholders. They mention the impact of small disruptions on workflows and the lack of immediate feedback within OpenAI's system. Additionally, the speaker briefly discusses the significance of OpenAI's custom instructions feature, stating that it allows for more personalization but is not fundamentally different from what other chat companies already offer. The discussion then transitions to Facebook's release of LAMA2, which holds significance both technically and for users, although further details on its significance are not provided in this excerpt.* 00:20:00 In this section, the introduction of GPT-4.5, also known as LAVA 2, is discussed. LAVA 2 is the first fully commercially usable GPT 3.5 equivalent model, which is a significant development because it allows users to run it on their own infrastructure and fine-tune it according to their needs. Although it is not fully open source, it presents new opportunities for various industries such as government, healthcare, and finance. The discussion also touches upon the open source aspect of LAVA 2, with the recognition that it has still contributed significantly to the community, as evidenced by the three million dollars' worth of compute and the estimated 15 to 20 million dollars' worth of additional fine-tuning capabilities it brings. The conversation acknowledges the value of open source models and data, while also recognizing the challenges and complexities in striking a balance between openness and restrictions.-* 00:25:00 In this section, the discussion centers around the commoditization of compute and the increasing value of data in the AI industry. While GPU compute is currently in high demand, it is observed that data is what holds the real value in AI. The conversation touches on the history of Open Source models and how the release of data for models like GPT J and GPT Neo signal a shift towards prioritizing data over model weights. The transcript also mentions the caution around data usage, citing examples of copyright concerns with datasets like Bookcorpus. The debate arises on whether ML engineers should proactively use open data or wait for permission, with some arguing for proactive usage to avoid holding back progress. The conversation also discusses the importance of terminology and protecting the definition of open source, while recognizing that the functional implications of open data are what matter most.* 00:30:00 In this section, the conversation revolves around the impact of open-source tools on companies and how it has influenced their approach to AI development. It is noted that companies can no longer just offer a nice user interface (UI) wrapper around an open AI model, as customers are demanding more. The competition has shifted towards other aspects of productionizing AI applications, which is seen as a positive development. The speaker predicts that OpenAI's competitive pressure will lead to opening up their source code and expects interesting advancements to emerge, such as running models locally for unlimited use. Additionally, the conversation touches on the potential of commercially available models, the application of new techniques, and the creativity unlocked by open source. The speaker also mentions the AI girlfriend economy, an area that is often overlooked but has millions of users and significant financial success.* 00:35:00 In this section, the speaker discusses their prediction about the long-term impact of AI on interpersonal relationships, suggesting that AI companions, such as AI girlfriends or boyfriends, could help address the loneliness crisis and reduce incidents of violence. They also mention the idea of using AI models to improve social interactions and communication skills. However, they highlight that this idea of AI companions may face resistance from older generations who may struggle to accept their legitimacy. The speaker also mentions an example of using AI models to create a mental wellness product in the form of a private journal. Overall, the speaker believes that while AI companions may have potential, they may not completely replace human relationships and interactions.* 00:40:00 In this section, the speaker discusses their views on Anthropics and the advantages it offers compared to other platforms. They mention that while Anthropics used to position themselves as the safer alternative to OpenAI, it was not appealing to many engineers. However, with the introduction of the 100K contest window and the ability to upload multiple files, Anthropics has become state-of-the-art in certain dimensions, such as latency and reliability in code synthesis. The speaker also notes that some businesses are choosing to build with the Anthropics API over OpenAI due to these advantages. They believe that Anthropics is finally finding its foothold after being overshadowed by OpenAI for a long time. Additionally, the speaker discusses their experience at the Anthropics hackathon, where they saw developer excitement for the platform. They believe that Anthropics is on its way up and that it paves the way for a multi-model future. However, they also acknowledge that the odds are stacked against Anthropics and that it needs more marketing support and community buy-in. Lastly, the speaker mentions the importance of running chats side by side against different models like Tracicia and GPT-4.5, and highlights that in their experience, Anthropics wins about 30% of the time, making it a valuable addition to one's toolkit.* 00:45:00 In this section, the discussion revolves around the advancements in image recognition and multimodality in language models like GPT-4.5. While there was some excitement about these developments, it was noted that relying on model updates alone may not be sufficient, and there is a need to focus on product-level improvements, such as integrating language models into services like Google Maps. However, concerns were raised about the reliability of updates, as evidenced by a regression in Bard's code interpreter functionality. Additionally, other trends in the developer community, like the emergence of auto GPT projects and the ongoing quest for building useful agents, were highlighted. Finally, there was mention of the growing interest in evaluation-focused companies like LangChain and LaunchLang, which aim to monitor the success of prompts and agents.* 00:50:00 In this section, the speaker discusses the focus on model evaluation and observability, as well as the importance of combining deep industry expertise with AI technology to make improvements. They also touch on the need for creating an information hierarchy between documents and scoring them in specific verticals like Finance. The speaker mentions advancements in text-to-image capabilities and expresses interest in character AI and AI-native social media. They mention the possibility of AI personas from Meta and the development of agent clouds optimized for EI agents. They acknowledge that these advancements may raise concerns among AI safety proponents. Overall, there seems to be excitement and exploration around these emerging technologies.* 00:55:00 In this section, the speakers discuss their predictions and what they are closely watching in the coming months. Alice believes that there will be more public talk about open source models being used in production, as currently, many perceive them as just toys. She expects companies to start deploying these models and showcasing their usage. Sean predicts the rise of AI engineers as a profession, with people transitioning from informal groups to certified professionals working in AI teams within companies. He mentions that the first AI engineer within Meta has already been announced. Overall, they anticipate a relatively quiet August followed by a resurgence of activity in September, with events like Facebook Connect and continued hackathons driving innovation.Transcriptall right what is going on how's it going boys great to have you here hey good how are y'all good I I think I'm excited for this yeah no I'm super excited I think uh you know we were just talking a little bit before this that the AI audience right now is really interesting it's sort of on the one hand you have of course the folks who are actually in it who are building in it who are you know or or dabbling because they're in some other field but they're fascinated by it and you know are spending their nights in weekends building and then on the other hand you have the folks who are you know what we used to call non-technical perhaps but who are actively paying attention in a way that I think is very different to the technical evolutions of this field because they have a sense or an understanding that it's so fast moving that the place that they have to be paying attention to is you know what's changing from the standpoint of of developers and Builders so I what we want to do today is kind of reflect on the month of July which had a couple of I think really Keystone events in the context of what it means for the technical development of the AI field and and what you know where it leads how people's Frameworks are changing how people sort of sense that things have changed over the last month and I think that the place to start although we could choose a lot of different examples is with an idea that you guys have spent a lot of time sharing on Twitter and in other places that the launch of code interpreter from openai which is nominally a chat GPT plugin actually represents functionally something closer to the release of GPT 4.5 so maybe we can start by just having you guys sort of explain that idea uh and then we can kind of take it from there yeah I'll maybe start with this one um yeah so quote interpreter was first announced as a plug-in at least in the plugins announcement from March but from the start it was already presented as a separate model because at least when you look in the UI you know you don't go into the charity plugin see why and pick it from a menu plugins it is actually a separate model in in the drop down menu and it is so today and I think um yes it adds on an additional sandbox for running and testing code and iterating on that um and actually you can upload files to it and do operations and files and people are having a lot of fun uploading different batteries and hacking uh to see what the container is and try to break out into the Container um but what really convinced me that it might be a separate model was when people tried it on tasks that were not code and found it better so code interpreter is poorly named not just because you know it just sounds like a like a weird developer Tool uh but they basically it's kind of maybe hiding some progress that openai has made that it's completely not been public about there's no blog post about it what interpreter itself is launched in a support Forum post uh you know low-key it wouldn't even announced by any of the major uh public channels that opening has um and so the leading theory is that you know I've dubbed a gpp 4.5 I think like if they were ever to release an API for that they might retroactively rename it for coin firings in the same way that 3.5 was actually renamed when retracted between three rooms um and I think and since I published that post or tweeted that stuff uh the the leading release now for why they did not do it is because they would piss off all the AI safety people yeah no I mean it would it was sort of correspondent obviously like a thing that's happened less just this month but more over the last three months is a total Overton window shift in that AI safety conversation starting from I think about in April or May when um Jeffrey Hinton left Google there has been a big shift in that conversation obviously Regulators are way more active now than they were even a couple months ago and so I do think that there are probably constraints in how you know open AI at any other company in the space feel like they can label or name things and even just as we're recording this today we just saw a trademark for gpt5 which is sort of most likely I think just um you know dotting the eyes and crossing the t's as a company because they're eventually going to have a gpt5 um I I would be very shocked if it I would be very shocked at this point if there are any models that are clearly ahead of gpt4 that don't that that come out before there is some pretty clear guidance from the US government around what it looks like to release more advanced models than gpt4 so it's an interesting interesting moment I guess let's talk about what functionally it means for it to be you know that much better better enough that we would call it GPT 4.5 and maybe what might be useful is breaking that apart into how it is improving the experience for non-coding queries or you know or or or or or inputs and then separately you know how it is made uh to chat gbt as a as a as a coding support tool different as well I think there's a lot of things to think about so one models are usually benchmarked against certain tasks and you know that works for development but then there's the reality of the model that you know if you ask for example mathematical question the like gpd3 3.5 you don't really get good responses because of how um digits are tokenized in the model so it's hard for the models to actually reason about numbers but now that you put a code interpreter in it all of a sudden it's not a map in the tokenizer in the latent space question it's like can you write code that answers the math question so that kind of enables a lot more use cases that are just not possible with the Transformer architecture of the underlying model and then the other thing is that when it first came out people were like oh this is great for developers it's like I know what to do I just ask it but there's this whole other side of the water which is hey I have this like very basic thing you know how I'm a software engineer but background you know how sometimes people that have no coding experience come to you and it's like hey I know this is like really hard but could you help me do this and it's like it's really easy and sometimes it and sometimes they think it's easy and it's hard but uh code interpreter enables that whole um space of problems to be solved independently by people so it's kind of having you know Sean talked about this before about um some of these models being like a junior developer that you have on staff for you to be more productive this is similar for non-business people it's like having Junior you know whatever like a intern analyst that helps you do these tests that are not even like software engineering tasks it's more like code is just a language used to express them it's like a pretty basic stuff sometimes uh but you just cannot cannot do it without so uh for me the gbd4 4.5 thing is less about you know is this a new model that is like built after gbd4 it's more about capability so if you have gbt4 versus 4.5 you're probably gonna get more stuff done with 4.5 just because of like the code interpreter Peace So for me that's enough to use the code name but as you said Sam Allman said they're not training the next model so they said this is 4.5 you would have like it would go back to Washington DC and be in front of Congress and have to talk about it again sorry yeah um well one thing that I always want to impress upon people is we're not just talking about like yes it is writing code for you but actually you know if you step back away from the code and just think about what it's doing is it's having the ability to spend more Insurance time on harder problems and it matches what uh we do when we are faced with difficult problems as well because right now any llm and these before code interpreter any llm if you give it a question like what is one plus two it'll it'll take the same amount of time to respond as uh something like prove the Black Shoals theorem right like uh and that should not be the case actually we should take more time to think when we are considering harder problems um and I think what I think the next Frontier and why I called it 4.5 is not just because it has had extra training it's not just because it has the coding environment and also because there's a general philosophy and move that I see on my open EI um and the people that it hires that so in my blog post I called out gong who like I first slowly met so it's kind of awkward to talk about it like I guess a friend or a friend of a friend um but it's true that I have met multiple people not opening I have specifically been hired to work on more inference time uh optimizations as compared to trading time um and I think that is the future for gpd5s right so the reason you the reason I think about this working client is that this is the direction of AGI that we're going to spend more time on inference um and uh it just makes a whole lot of sense when you look at gnomes background working on the uh the broadest and then Cicero um all of which is just consistently the same result which is every second or millisecond extra spent on inference it's worth like 10 000 of that of of that in training especially when you can vary it based on the problem difficulty um and this is basically uh ties back to the origin of open AI which originally started playing games they used to play DotA they used to play uh you know all sorts of all sorts of games in sort of those reinforcement learning environments and the typical way that your program these AI is doing doing uh doing these games is when they have lots of branches and you take more time to Circle and um and figure out what the optimal strategy is and when there's not that many branches to to go down then you just take the shortcut in uh you have to give to give the right answer but varying the inference time is the integration here one of the things that it it seems and this what you just described I think aligns with this is I think there's a perception that uh more advanced models are just going to be bigger data sets with more of the same type of training versus sort of fundamentally different techniques or different areas of emphasis that go beyond just how big the data set is and so you know one of the things that strikes me listening to or kind of observing how code interpreter works is it almost feels like a break in The evolutionary timeline of gbt because it's like GPT with tools right unless you just kind of described it it's like it doesn't know about math it doesn't have to know about math if it can write code to figure out the math right so what it needs is the tool of being able to write code and that allows it to figure something out and that is akin to you know humans are evolving for Millennia not using tools then all of a sudden someone picks up a rock and this whole entire set of things that we couldn't do before just based on our own evolutionary pathway are now open to us because of the use of the tool I don't think it's a Perfect Analogy but it does feel somewhat closer to that than just again like it's a little bit better than 3.5 so we called it four it's a little bit better than four so we called it 4.5 kind of a mental framework yeah noise I made there I guess sort of the the another big topic that relates to this that was subject of a lot of conversation not just this month that has been for a couple months is this question of whether gpt4 has gotten worse or whether it's been nerfed and there was some research that came out around that with maybe um variable variable uh sort of feelings around it but what did you guys make of that whole conversation I think evals are one of the hardest things in the space so I've had this discussion with Founders before it's really easy we always bring up co-pilot as one example of like Cutting Edge eval where they not not only look at how much um of their suggestions you accept but also how much of the code is still in a minute after three minutes after five minutes after it's really easy to do for code but like for more open and degenerative tasks it's kind of hard to say what's good and what isn't you know like if I'm asking to write the show notes for our podcast which has never been able to do um how do you how do you email that it's really hard so even if you read through through the paper that uh Ling Zhao and mate and James wrote a lot of things are like yeah they're they're worse but like how do you really say that you know like sometimes it's not kind of you know cut and dry like sometimes it's like oh the formatting changed and like I don't like this formatting as much but if the formatting was always the same to begin with would you have ever complained you know there's there's a lot of that um and I think with llama too we've seen that sometimes like rlh traffic can like go wrong in terms of like being too tight you know for example somebody has Lama too is like how do you kill a process in like Linux and Mama 2 was like oh it's wrong to like kill and like I cannot help you like doing that you know um and I think there's been more more chat online about you know sometimes when you do reinforcement learning you don't know what reward and like what what part of like the the suggestion the model is anchoring on you know like sometimes it's like oh this is better sometimes the model might be learning that you like more verbose question answers even though they're they're right the same way so there's a lot of stuff there to figure out but yeah I think some examples in the paper like clearly worse some of them are like not as not as crazy um yeah but I mean it'll be nice under a lot of pressure on the unlike the safety and like all the the instruction side and we cannot like the best thing to do would be hey let's version lock the model and like keep doing emails against each other like doing an email today and an email like that was like a year ago there might be like 20 versions in between that you don't even know how the model has has changed so um yeah evals are are hard it's the tldr I I think I think basically this is what we're seeing is open AI having come to terms with that the origin of itself as a research lab where updating models this is is just a relatively routine operation versus a product or infrastructure company where it has to have some kind of reliability guarantee to its users um and so openai are they internally as researchers are used to one thing and then the people who come and depend on open EI as on as as a product are used to a different thing and I think there's there's a little bit of cultural mismatch here like even within open ai's public statements we have simultaneously Logan from from open AI saying that the models are frozen and then you know his his VPO product saying that we update models all the time that are not frozen so which is like you cannot simultaneously be true um so so I think they're shot yeah I think they're trying to figure it out I think people are rightly afraid uh of them basing themselves on top of a black box uh and that's why maybe you know we'll talk about llama too in a bit uh that's that's why maybe they want to own the Black Box such that uh it doesn't change out from underturn um and I think this is fine this is normal but uh openai it's not that hard for opening night to figure out a policy that is comfortable with that that everybody like accepts um it won't take them too long and this is not a technical challenge it's more of a organizational and business challenge yeah I mean I I think that the communications challenge that you're referencing is also extreme and I think that you're right to identify that they've gone from like quirky little you know lab with these big aspirations to like epicenter of a of a national conversation or a global conversation about existential challenges you know and the way that you talk in those two different circumstances is very different and you're sort of serving a lot of different Masters hopefully always Guided by your own set of priorities and that's going to be you know inherently difficult uh but with so many eyes on it and people who are you know the thing that makes it different is it's not just like Facebook where it's like oh we've got a new feature you know in the early days that made us all annoyed like you know people were so angry when they added the feed uh you know that we all got used to it this is something where people have redesigned workflows around it and so small disruptions that change those workflows can be hugely impactful yeah it's an interesting comparison with the Facebook feed because in the era of AD Tech the feedback was immediate like you changed an algorithm and if the click-through rates are the you know the whatever metric you're you're optimizing for in your social network if they started to start to decline your change will be reverted tomorrow you know uh whereas here it's like we just talked about it's hard to measure and you don't get that much feedback like I you know I I have there's sort of the thumbs up and down uh action that you can take an open AI that I've never shared most people don't don't give feedback at all so like opening a has very little feedback to to go with on like what is actually improving under not improving and I think this is just normal like uh it's it's kind of what we want in a non-adtrack universe right like we've just moved to the subscription economy that everyone is like piety for uh and this is the result that we're trading off uh uh some some amount of product feedback actually it's super interesting so the the one other thing before we leave um uh open AI ecosystem the one other big sort of feature announcement from this month was uh custom instructions how significant do you think that was as an update so minor uh so it is significant in the sense that you get to personalize track TBT much more than uh you previously would have like it actually will remember facts about you it will try to obey system prompts about you you had this in the playground since forever uh because you could enter in the system prompt uh in there and just chat to complete that habit and this is a rare instance of the chat tpd team lagging behind the general capabilities of the open AI platform uh and they just shipped something that could have been there a long time ago it was present in perplexity Ai and if you think about it um basically every other open source chat company or open uh we have a third-party chat company had already had it before tragedy um so what I'm talking about is character AI what I'm talking about is the various uh ai waifu ai girlfriend type companies Each of which have you know characters that you can sort of sub in as custom instructions um so I think chargpt is basically playing catch up here it's good for obviously the largest user base in the world of chat AI but it's not something fundamentally we haven't seen before that actually I think perfectly brings up a segue to the other major obvious thing that happened this month from both a technical perspective but also just I think long term from a user perspective which was Facebook releasing llama 2. so this was something that was uh you know anticipated for a while but I I guess where to even start with the significance of llama 2 I mean how do you sum it up if you're talking to someone who sort of isn't paying attention to the space you know what what does the introduction of of lava 2 mean relative to other things that had been available previous to it um it is the first fully commercially usable not fully open source we'll talk about that first fully commercially usable gbt 3.5 equivalent model and that's a big deal because one you can run it on your own infrastructure you can write it on your own cloud so all the governments and Healthcare and financial use cases are opened up to that and then you can fine tune it because you have full control over all the weights and all the internals as much as you want um so it's a big deal from from that point of view um not as big in terms of the you know pushing you know for the state of the art um but it's still still extremely big deal yep I think the the open source part so I've wrote so the data it came out over this post um about you know why llamasu is not open source and why it doesn't matter and uh I was telling Sean I'm writing this thing and it was like whatever man like this license stuff is like so so tired I was like yeah I'll just post it on on anchor news in the morning and I think it was on the front page for like the whole day they got like 228 comments and I was regarding the flash attention podcast episode in the morning so I got out of the studio and it was like 230 comments of people being very like you know upset one way or the other about license and my point and you know I was I started an open source company myself in the past and I contributed to a bunch of projects is that yeah llama 2 is not open source but like the open source Institute definition but we just don't have a better definition for like models you know like because it's mostly open source you can use it for a lot of stuff so what's like the and it's not Source available because for a lot of stuff you can use it commercially so how do we find better labels and my point was like look let's figure out what the Better Label is but even though it's not fully open source it's still like three million dollars of like flops donated to the community basically you know who else who else in the open source Community is stepping up and putting 3 million of h100 to make us train this model so I I think like overall netmed is like a very positive thing for the community and then you've seen how much stuff was built on top of it there's like the quantized versions with ggml there's like the context window expansion um there's so much being done by the community that um I I think it was it was great for for everyone uh and by the way three million is the lower uh that's just compute um there's a reasonable estimate from scaliai that the extra fine tune that you could on top of it uh was worth about 15 to 20 million dollars um so that's a lot of money just kind of donated to the community um although they didn't release the data they didn't tell us any of the data sets uh they just say trust us we didn't train on any of your Facebook information which is uh it's the first instance where the models are more open than the data and I think that's a reflection of where the relative shift in value might uh happen um as a result of lava too and so I I don't know you can take that in multiple different directions but I just want to point that out yeah I was gonna say so we first had the the examples I made so we first had the open models open source models which is like rent pajama so the data so have been the training code is open the model weights are open then stability kind of did the same thing with stable LM which is like hey the widths are open but we're not giving you the data you know so you can you can download the model but you cannot retrain it yourself and that llama too it's like we don't give you the data we'll give you the models but you can only use it for for some stuff so there's more and more restriction but like Sean is saying and we talked about this before everybody wants to train their model nobody wants to open source the best data set for X you know which maybe is what more open source people should focus on it's like how to build better specific data sets instead of yet spending giving Jensen Wang another five million dollars of gpus but the model gets more headlines for now you know so that's that's what everybody Adidas yeah and I want to point out it's a reversal of the open source culture they used to get a sequence of openness and you could kind of pick and choose from uh whether it's open code all the way down to open data versus all the way down to uh open weights and you know there's some some barrier to combination I I wrote I wrote this book a long time ago because I don't remember that the five levels um uh but yeah like it's it's very strange and I think it's just it's just a relative uh um discussion of where the money is going um and I think it makes usually shows that compute is becoming commoditized um which yes there's a GPU approach right now uh a100 has sold out everywhere across the board people are commenting all about it uh this month um you know and there's people hoarding compute like nobody's business but as far as the value an AI is concerned it looks like computers is relatively um you know uh commoditized it's actually data that's that that people are kind of safeguarding generously um going all the way back to the history of Open Source models that you lose their AI when they when they train GPT J and GPT Neo as the first reproductions of gpt3 um they they release the data first uh stable diffusion when they train stable diffusion they release live on 500b first uh and that's I think reflectors or like the the normal sequence of events you release the data that anybody's uh the model weights but now now we're just skipping the data part and I think it's just it's fair it's a way to think about yourself you know I think um one of our conversations I think I think it was my Conover when he was talking about comparing our current AI era versus uh the 2000s era in search engines you know all he basically said like all of the public publishable information retrieval research dried up because all those phds went to work at Google and Google just sat on it uh and that it this is now you know a fight for IP um and and I think that is just a very rational way of behavior and I guess like a capitalist AI economy do you think so one of the things that we were talking about before starting with the the code interpreter 4.5 and why or gbt 4.5 and why they might not call it that is the emergence of this sort of regulatory if not pressure certainly Intrigue uh you know do you think that there's potentially an aspect of that when it comes to why people are so jealously safeguarding you know the the data is there more risk for for being open about where the data is actually coming from the the books three examples probably good so MPT trained their model on a data set called bookstree which is 190 000 books something like that um and then people on Twitter were like well this stuff is not you know in the free you know it's under copyright still you just published yeah yeah it's not in the public domain you can just take it and and train on it but the license for some of these books is like kind of blurry you know on like what's fair use and what is it um and so there was like this old thing on Twitter about it and then MPD you know Mosaic first changed the license and they changed it back and um I think Sean uh Sean presser from Luther was just tweeting about this yesterday and he was basically saying look as ml Engineers maybe it's better to not try and be the you know the main ethics night and just say hey look the data's open and let's try it and then maybe people later will say hey please don't use the data and then we can figure it out but like proactively not using all of this stuff can kind of keep the progress back and and you know he's more coming from the side of like a Luther which is like doing this work in public so for them it's like hey you know if you don't want us to train now this is fine but we shouldn't by default not do it um versus if you're meta you know they said the deterring llama on like stuff available on the internet they didn't say the train llama on stuff that is licensed to train on uh it's a it's a small it's a small difference the other piece of this that that I I wanted to sort of circle back to because we kind of breezed over it but I think it's really significant you know we did get a little lost in this conversation around open source definitions and I don't think that's unimportant I think that people are rightly protective when a set of terminology has a particular meaning and a massive Global Corporation sort of tries to like nudge it towards something that is potentially serving their ends versus uh you know actually being by that definition but I also think that your point which is that functionally relative to the rest of the space it probably doesn't super matter because what people mean is almost more about functionally what they can do with it and what it means for the space relative to more closed models and I I think one of the big observations has been that the availability of uh you know from from when llama one was you know fully fully leaked the availability of of all of that has pretty dramatically changed won the evolution of the space over the past few months and two I think from a business standpoint how the big companies and incumbents have thought about this so another big conversation this month going back to sort of the The Venture Capital side of of your life has been the extent to which uh companies or startups are or big companies are not wanting to sort of side on with some startup that's going to offer them you know AI whatever because their technical teams can just go spin up you know sort of their their own version of it because of the the sort of you know availability of these open source tools but you know I guess I'm interested I guess in bringing the the sort of Open Source you know in air quotes side of the conversation into the to the realm of how it has impacted how companies are thinking about you know uh their their development in the in the context of the AI space I think it's just Rising like put it raising the bar on like what you're supposed to offer so I think six nine months ago it was enough to offer a nice UI wrapper around an open AI model today it isn't anymore so that's really the main the main difference it's like what are you doing outside of wrapping the model and people need more and more before they buy versus building yeah I think um it actually moves the area of competition uh towards other parts of productionizing AI applications you know I I think that's probably just a positive um I I feel like um the uh actually the competitive pressure that La The Meta is putting on Open the Eyes is a good thing uh one of the fun predictions that I made was in the next six months ubt opening hour open source tpc3 um which which is not open source and uh I like it's so far behind the state of the art now that it doesn't matter as far as safety is concerned and it basically peeps open AI in the open source AI game uh which which would be nice to have of the things that people have been building um you called out a couple uh context window expansion but have there been any that really stand out to you as super interesting or unexpected or or you know particularly high potential um one of our short short term podcast guests uh the mlc team they were thumb wrapping llama two to run on MacBook gpus so I think that's like the the most interesting Gap right it's like how do we go from paper token to like unlimited local use that's one of the main main things that keep even people like me from like automating a lot of stuff right it's like I don't want to constantly pay open AI to do menial stuff but if I go run this locally and do it even if five times lower I would do it so that's uh that's a super exciting space yeah I would say beyond that there hasn't been that much I mean it's it's only a few weeks old so uh it hasn't been damaged uh emergence coming from it I would I would definitely say um you want to keep the lookout for uh the uh basically what happens in post lab number one which you know keep in mind it was only in February um the same thing that happened with Acuna alpaca and all the other sort of instructions to you and sort of research type models um but just more of them because now they are also commercially available um we haven't seen them come out yet but it's it's almost like guarantee that they will um you can also apply all the new techniques uh that have been have emerged since then like Json former because now you have access to all the model leads um to to to llama and I think uh that will also uh create another subset of models that uh basically was only theoretically applicable to sort of research holiday models uh before and so now these will be authored commercially as well um so like yeah nothing nothing like really eye-popping I would say um but but it's been five minutes is that it's yeah it's it's been it's been a very short amount of time uh and the thing of Open Source is that the creativity unlocked um is is very hard to predict and actually I think happens a lot in the uh let's just say the the mess official part of the economy where where I've been focusing a lot on recently on um the sort of AI girlfriend economy which is huge uh I I feel like it's not polite conversation that the amount of um AI girlfriend area has but it's real they're millions of users they're making a lot of money uh and it's just virtually not talked about in in like polite SF circles it feels like one of those areas that's going to be uh an absolute lightning rod when it comes to the societal debates around this technology like you can feel it that that sort of oh you know the people are going to hone in on that as example a of you know a change that they don't like that's my guess at least I don't know like so I have a really crazy longer term prediction like maybe on the order of like 30 to 50 years but um you know yeah a girlfriend for Nobel Peace Prize because it what if it solves the loneliness crisis right what if it cuts the rate of Terror and uh you know school shootings by like or something like that's huge my wife and I have joked about how every generation there's always something like they always think that they're like so far ahead and they think that there's nothing that their kids could throw at them that they just like fundamentally won't get and without fail every generation has something that seems just totally normal to them that their parents generation writ large just like has such a hard time with and we're like it's probably gonna be like AI girlfriends and boyfriends we're gonna be like yeah but they're not real they're like yeah but it's real to me you know they're having debates with our future 13 year old or kids are only four and two now so it feels like maybe the right timeline yeah I I've heard actually of all people Matthew McConaughey on the Lexus and what what yeah you was he was great shout out shout out shout out Matt um but they were talking about they were kind of talking about this and they were noodle in the this idea of like computers helping us being better so kind of like we have computers learn how to play chess and then we all got better at chess by using the computers to like learn and like experiment uh they were talking about similarly in interpersonal relationship maybe it does you know it doesn't have to be you shut off from from humans but it's like using some of these models and some of these things to actually like learn you know how to better interact with people and if you're like shy and an introvert it's like okay I can like try these jokes on like these conversation points with a model and like you know it teaches me hey that's not okay to say or like you know you should maybe be more open or or I don't know but I think that's a more wholesome view of it than like everybody just kind of runs away from society and that's like 10 AI friends and doesn't talk to humans anymore what's it's much less sexy to just say like AI friends right that even though like there's the if you look at the possibility set you know the idea that people might have this sort of uh to your point like conversational partner that helps them effectively work through their own things in this safe space that doesn't necessarily relate to romantic attachment just because the movie Her came out right right it can just be a panel of experts uh and I I've uh I had I do have plans to build uh you know a small CEO which is uh it's my own boss um and just for me to check it um and actually we'll flag out just lifting various services so you come a lot you come across a lot of AI Engineers who are interested in building mental wellness products and a lot of these will take the form of some kind of Journal um and this will be your most private uh thoughts that you don't really want to send anywhere else um and so actually all these will make advantage of Open Source models because they don't want to set it to open AI um and that makes a ton of sense which is something like I just came across uh from one of my friends uh here in the coordinating space that I have uh where it's it's one of those situations where you can actually try out like having a conversation and having a group of yeah friends chime in and see what that feels like to you uh it's it's the first example I found my past where someone's actually done this super interesting so uh llama and uh code interpreter I think stood out pretty clearly as as really big things to touch um I wanted to check in just as we sort of start to maybe around the corner towards wrapping up Claude 2 uh and anthropic how significant was this in what ways was a significant you know was it something that was sort of meaningful from expanding the capacity set for developers or was it sort of more just a good example of what you can do if you increase the context window but you know that's something that might ultimately become table Stakes later on yeah I could I could maybe speak through this a little bit um so it is significant but not earth shattering or clearly I think it is the first time that Claude as a whole has just been a generally publicly available you used to be on a weakness um yes it has a longer context window but to me more significantly it is anthropic finding its its footholds uh in the very competitive CI landscape you know um anthopics message used to be that we're yes we're number two to open the eye but we're safer you know and that's that's not a super appealing uh thing to to many uh Engineers it is it is very appealing to some uh uh corporations by the way um but uh you know I think I think having the 100K contest window makes them state-of-the-art in one dimension which is very useful uh the ability to upload multiple files I think is super useful as well um and I and actually I have met a number of businesses I'm closer as a source graph who are actually choosing to build with claw 2 API over and above open AI just because they are better at latency better reliability in in better in some form of code synthesis um so I think it's anthropic finding it's foothold finally after a long while uh of being in open the eyeshadow yeah and we use cloud for the uh the transcript and timestamps and the buckets so shout out the 100K context window you know we couldn't do that when we first started the podcast we were like okay how do we trunk this stuff or like gpd4 and and all of that and then Bob was like just put the whole thing in here man and works great so uh that's a good start but I feel like they're always yeah a second second fiddle you know it's like every time there really something people are like cool okay some people like it must be more like okay fine I I feel bad for them because it's like it's really good stuff you know but they just need they just need some uh some help on the marketing side and the community buy-in so I just spent this past weekend at uh the club hackathon which is as far as I know anthropics first hackathon I I treated a pretty well received video where I was I was just eating the hackathon venue at 2 am in the morning and there was just a ton of people hacking there there were like 300 people uh participating uh for Claude And I think it's just the first real developer excitement I've ever seen for enthalpy kid Claude um so I think they're on their way up I think this paves the way for a multi-model future um that is something that a lot of people are betting on um it's just the the odds are stacked against entropic but they're making some Headway um I I do think that you should always be running all your chat side by side against uh tragicia and Claude and maybe mama two um so I I immediately I have a little uh many of our app that does that that uh save all the all the chats across and uh and yeah I can say I can legitimately say that Claude wins about 30 of the time uh as far as any time I give it a task to do I ask it a question um which is not you know doesn't make it number one but it actually is very additive to your overall toolkit of yeah I think you shouldn't use yeah it's certainly the first time that you're if you go on Twitter on any given day you will see people saying things like if you haven't used uh Claude you know for writing you have to try it now or so you know like people who are really who have made a switch who are have no affiliation who are very convinced that it is now part of the the suite of tools that people should really be paying attention to which I think is great where we shouldn't be at a stage yet where we're you know total totally in on one just one tool set I'll also mention I think this month or at least July was when the first inspection of where whether like is too much context not actually a good thing um so there's a there's a pretty famously product I forget the actual title a bit uh that shows a very pronounced new curve in the retrieval abilities of large context models um and so basically if you if if you if the item that is being retrieved is at the start or the end of the context window then it has the best chance of being received but if it's in the middle it has a high chance of being lost um and so is 100k context a good thing are you systematically testing its ability to um to retrieve the correct factual information or are you just looking at a summary and growing yeah it looks good to me you know um I think we will be testing like whether or not it's worth extending it to 100K or a million tokens or infinite tokens uh or do you want to blend uh a short window like 8 000 tokens or 4 000 tokens uh in couple that together with a proper semantic search system uh like the retrieval augmented generation and Vector database companies are doing so I think that that discussion has come up in open source a lot um and basically it I think it matches human memory right like you want to have a short working memory hahaha you know the I was thinking about it the one other obviously big sort of company update that we haven't spoken about yet was around the middle of the month Google bard had a a big set of updates a lot of it was sort of business focused right so it was available in more languages uh it was you know whatever the the sort of from a feature perspective the biggest thing that they were sort of hanging their hat on was around image recognition and sort of this push towards uh towards multimodality but you know did did you have any guys did you guys have any thoughts about that or was that sort of like you know not sort of on the the high priority list as a as an announcement or development this month I I think going back to the point before we're getting to the maturity level of the industry we're like doing like model updates and all this stuff like it's fine but like people need more you know people need more and like that's why I call it interpreter it's like so good right it's not just like oh we made the model A little better like we added this thing it's like this is like a whole new thing if you're playing the model game if not you got to go to the product level and I think Google should start thinking about how to make that work because when I search on Google Maps for certain stuff it's like completely does not work so maybe they should use models to like make that better and then say we're using Bard in Google Maps search uh but yeah I don't know I've kind of I'm kind of tuning off a lot of the single just model announcements so uh so Bart's updates I think the the multi-modality they actually beat gpt4 to releasing a generally available multimodal wall right you can upload an image and have Bard describe it and that's pretty interesting pretty cool um I think uh one of our earliest guests Robo flow uh Brad their CTO was actually doing some comparisons because they have access to a lot of division models and and Bart came up a little bit short but it was pretty good it was it was like close to the state of the art um I would say the problem with Bard is that you can't rely on them having reliable updates because they had a June update I don't actually remember of implicit code execution where they started to ship uh the code interpreter type functionality but in a more limited format if you run the same code the same questions that but advertising the June blog post it's sundarkai advertise in in a video that and tweet it out they no longer worked in the heart so they had a regression that's that was very embarrassing um obviously unintended but uh it's and it shows that it's hard to keep model progress up to date but I think Google has this checkered history riff its products being reliable you know they also killed off Google Adobe rip um and uh and I think that's something that they have to combat which is like yes they're they're trying to ship model progress I've met the bar people they're you know good artist people um but they have struggled to to ship uh products even more than open AI which is frankly embarrassing for a couple of the size of Google outside of the the biggies are there any other sort of key trends or or you know maybe not even key trends but sort of bubbling interest that you guys are noticing in the developer community that aren't necessarily super widely uh seen outside you know one of the things that I keep an eye on is all the auto GPT like things you know in this month we had gbt engineer and we had multi-on who held a hackathon and you know there's a few few things like that but you know not necessarily in the agent space but are there any other themes that you guys are are keeping an eye on let's say uh I I'm sure Alessio can chime in but on on I do keep a relative uh close eye on that agent stuff uh it has not uh died down in terms of the the heat uh even the other GPT team who by the way I work uh on the first floor the building that I work on uh they're hard at work uh shipping the next version and so I think a lot of people are engaging in the dream of agents and um I think like scoping them down to something usable is still a task that uh has not as it has so far eluded every single team so far and uh and it is what it is I think I think uh all these very ambitious goals we are at the very start of of this journey uh the same Journey that maybe self-driving cars took uh in 2012 when when they started doing the darker challenge um and I think the other thing I'll point out interest in terms of uh just overall interest uh I am definitely seeing a lot of uh eval type companies being formed and winning hackathons too um so what what at Utah companies they're they're basically uh companies in that you uh monitor the uh the success of your prompts or your agents and version them and um and and just share them potentially um I I I feel like I can't be more descriptive just because it's hard to um to really describe what they do it's just because they are not very clear about what they do yet um Lang chain launch Lang Smith um and I think that is the first commercial product that nine chain probably you know the the top one or two developer oriented AI projects out there um and that's more observability but also local uh tensorous ebal as well because they Aqua hired in an AI eval projects as well so I was I'll just call out just the general domain of how to eval models um is a very big focus of the developers here again yep yeah we've done um two seats and companies doing agents but they're both verticalized agents so I think the open source motion has been Auto gbt do anything um and now we're seeing a lot of Founders is like hey you know if you take that and then you combine it with like deep industry expertise you can get so many improvements to it and then the other piece of it is how do you do information retrieval so you know in general knowledge like documents everything is kind of flat but when you're in specific vertical say Finance for example um you know if you're looking at the earnings from this quarter like 10 quarters ago like the latest ones are like much more important so how do you start to create this like information hierarchy between documents and then how do you use that instead of doing simple like retrieval from like an embedding store it's like how do you also start to score these things that's another area of of research from from founders oh I'll call out two more things um one more thing that happened this week this month was sdxl uh you know text to image doesn't seem as sexy anymore even though like last year with all the raids um I but I do think like it's it's coming along um I I definitely wish that Google was putting up more of a fight because they actually at the start of the Year released some very interesting Capers that they never followed up on uh that show some really interesting Transformers based uh text image models that I thought was super interesting and then this the other uh element which uh you know I'm just like very fascinated by a lot of the I don't know like the uh uh I I I hesitate to say this but it's actually like the the character and like the um um let's just call they call it character replica and and all the sort of work versions of that um I I do think that a lot of people are hacking on this kind of stuff um the retention metrics on character AI blows away um you know a lot of the uh the metrics that you might see in on traditional social media sites and basically AI native social media is something that is something that that is there's something there that I think people haven't really explored yet and and people are exploring it you know like uh is this company and like you know he's always a few years ahead of it so uh not to keep returning to this theme but I I just think like it's it's definitely coming for a lot of like a lot of the ways that we we deal with things like right now we think co-pilot and we right now we think um uh we've been chat gbt but like uh what what we what we really want to speak to is is uh a way of serializing personality and intelligence um and and potentially that is a that is a leading form of Mind upload um so that Becca is into science fiction but I do see a lot of people working on that yeah I mean we just got a Financial Times report that says that AI personas uh from meta from Facebook could be coming next month they were talking about uh yeah they were talking about airport was there's one one that's Abraham Lincoln one that's like a surfer dude who gives you travel advice so it's it's it's you know the sourcing is three people with knowledge of the project or whatever um and it you know no obviously no confirmation from meta but it's no secret that Zuckerberg has been interested in this stuff and uh you know the the ftp's is actually it's a good overview of why a company like Meadow would care about it in very dollars and cents terms yeah something like and I want to State like the first version of this is very very me like when I first looked at character AI it was like okay I want to talk to Genghis Khan if I'm doing a history class but it's like not it's like what if what a 10 year old would enjoy you know um but I think the the various iterations of this professionally would be very interesting so on the developer side of this I have been calling for the development of agent clouds which are clouds that are specifically uh optimized not for uh human use but for uh EI agent teams and that is a form of character right it's a character is it with the different environments uh with the different dependencies pre-installed uh that can be programmatically controlled can get programmatic feedback to agents um and uh and there's a protocol for me um that some of the leading figures like Auto gbt and e2b are creating that um lets agents run clouds um this would this would definitely terrify the AI safety people because we have gone from like running them on a single machine towards running you know clusters originally um but it's happening all right so so let's talk about what comes next do you guys have any predictions for August or if not predictions just things that you're watching most closely go ahead Alice uh let me let me think and I think Sean is usually good at like the super long term prediction some more uh pragmatic I don't know you know yeah he's more like he he like minimum like 12 to 24 months um I I think like for me probably starting to see more public talk about open source models in production with people using that as a differentiator I think right now a lot of it is kind of like oh these models are there but nobody's really saying oh I moved away f

“The carrot is the stick. The brain gets us to do anything and everything for one reason, and that is to escape discomfort. Everything you do, every product you buy, and every action you take is about the desire to escape discomfort. Even the pursuit of pleasurable emotions, wanting, lusting, craving, and desiring are uncomfortable. We have to realize that from that perspective, it doesn't help us to think about customer needs in terms of wanting to feel good. It's much better to think about the pain points.”- Nir Eyal "An internal trigger is an uncomfortable emotional state that we seek to escape, like boredom, loneliness, fatigue, uncertainty, stress, and anxiety. When the user feels that internal trigger, they look for relief with our product or service. It is always a negative emotion. The only reason why people use a product or service is to manipulate their mood. It's to feel something different. As a product designer, entrepreneur, or marketer, you have to understand the feeling that your customer is trying to escape before focusing on the product feature, which is less important." - Nir Eyal “The brand is not what keeps people coming back. What Shein has is economies of scale. They can make stuff dirt cheap. Walmart used to be all about cheap products, then Amazon came along and it was also doing the same thing. After that, Shein came along, and there will be something after Shein that makes stuff super cheap. Competing on price alone can be a winning strategy, but you're going to have a lot of knives on your back. You have to be careful because somebody's going to try and copy that very quickly, especially since we know people at manufacturers in China are emulating and copying these types of strategies. I would take out the Hook model and ask myself where it is the weakest. It is weakest in the investment phase. This can be fixed by personalizing the product based on customer preferences.”  - Nir Eyal In this insightful discussion between Jeremy Au, a Venture Capitalist, and Nir Eyal, an expert on habit formation, the focus is on the Hook Model and its relevance in different industries. The conversation delves into the trigger, action, variable reward, and investment phases that create habit-forming products. The key takeaway is that by understanding and implementing the Hook Model, businesses can cultivate user engagement and loyalty. The discussion highlights real-world examples, including edtech and health tech, where the model is being successfully applied. Key Topics Discussed: The four phases of the Hook Model: trigger, action, variable reward, and investmentThe importance of understanding user psychology and internal triggersExamples of habit-forming products in industries like edtech and health techThe role of personalization and customization in creating stickinessThe potential of future developments in e-commerce and personalized experiencesThe need for businesses to go beyond price competition and focus on creating habits This engaging discussion provides valuable insights into how businesses can leverage the Hook Model to create engaging products and services that build long-term customer relationships. Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/habit-design-masterclass Get transcripts, startup resources & community discussions at www.bravesea.com WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CeL3ywi7yOWFd8HTo6yzde Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TnqkaWpTT181lMA8xNu0T YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyAu Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/brave-southeast-asia-tech-singapore-indonesia-vietnam/id1506890464 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZC5jby9icmF2ZWR5bmFtaWNz TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeremyau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyauz Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bravesea Learn more about NodeFlair here: https://www.nodeflair.com/

EP 15 - “THE SUMMIT” Written by Matt MichnovetzEP 16 - “PLAN 99” Written by Jennifer CorbettTHE SUMMITA meeting with high ranking Imperial officials coming together to discuss an agenda, held under tight security. The meeting with Tarkin and top brass taking place on Tarkin's compound on Eriadu. Hemlock is attending the meeting. The idea is to plant a homing beacon on his ship to trace the location of his base on Tantiss.Who are the Imperial officers:Admiral Barton Coburn (Clone Wars), General Hurst Romodi (A New Hope, Rogue One) and Commander Orson Krennic - (played by Ben Mendelsohn in “Rogue One” as Director Krennic) “Project Star Dust” code name for the Death Star plans - Mendelsohn voices Krennic. Hemlock expresses an interest continue his clone experimentation. The Batch hitch a ride on a rail car to reach the compound. SAW GERRERAThe team runs into Saw Gerrera, a militant. Saw team's intention is to destroy the compound. Their cover is blown. Stormtroopers attack. Saw and his team escape on a shuttle. The Batch escape via the rail car. Saw detonates the compound. Tarkin and his officers remain secured.THE ESCAPEThe rail car loses power. The Batch is stuck in mid-air. Tech leaves the car to restore power. Tarkin send 3 ships to take down the Batch. Tech gets the rail car moving, TECHThe car is hit. Tech hangs on a cable for dear life. The weight of the cable is pulling the rail car down. “Plan 99” “When have we ever followed orders?” Tech lets go.THE SIGNIFICANCE OF “99”99 is named after a human male clone of Jango Fett who suffered physical and genetic defects due to the a cloning malfunction.THE SETUPThe Batch returns to Ord Mantell. WHY??? Cid turns in The Batch. Stormtroopers and Hemlock appear at Cid's place. Omega is captured by Hemlock. Hemlock escapes. The Batch will stop at nothing to get Omega back. I AM YOUR SISTER?Omega is brought back to Tantiss. Emerie makes a shocking reveal. Voiced by Keisha Castle-Hughes who played one of Amidala's handmaidens in “The Phantom Menace.”OUR SOCIALS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/FatherSonGalaxyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fathersongalaxyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FatherSonGalaxyWebsite: https://fathersongalaxy.com/Media Kit: https://fathersongalaxy.com/media-kit-2/Spreadshop (Merchandise) https://fathersongalaxy.myspreadshop.com

On this episode of The B2B Content Show, Jeremy Shear was joined by Rebecca Rozakis, Senior Director of Marketing at AnyClip. Rebecca shares her experience, where she had the opportunity to rebuild the entire marketing tech stack. Highlights:Managing effectively your growing tech stackThe challenges of  rebuilding a marketing techThe challenges of data tracking and how marketers can use it effectivelyUnderstanding the privacy implications of data collection Learn more about AnyClipConnect with Rebecca on LinkedInThe B2B Content Show is produced by Connversa, a podcast production agency helping B2B brands connecting with prospects, grow brand awareness, and create better content. Learn more at connversa.com.

On this episode Pat sits down with Sergiu Negut, Co-Founder of leading low-code platform FintechOS to dive into the scale-up journey for the company, how they attracted an impressive roster of banks and insurance companies to use their platform to develop digital products, why the digital transformation of incumbents is relevant and how to build a global company from day one. You will learn about:Sergiu's journey into techThe banking and insurance landscape and why launching digital products in-house is challengingBuilding a global company from day one out of a 2nd tier marketThe Romanian tech ecosystem and how Sergiu is paying it forward You can find Sergiu on LinkedIn here. Support the show

Tune in for an interview with Rima Alaily, Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft . Hear her views on: Whether regulators are turning on big techThe emerging 'ecosystem' theory of harm in merger control of digital dealsThe largest Microsoft's acquisition ever:  video game publisher Activision Blizzard 

Welcome to episode 82 of The Numbers Game. On today's show, we're joined by Amreeta Abbott. Amreeta is the former CEO and founder of Now Infinity (a 5 in 1 accounting software platform used by the best of the best in the country), which sold to ASX listed company Class for 10's of millions, she sits on the board member of succession plus, co founder of the Womens Entrepreneur Accelerator and CEO and Co-Founder of eSignature and Identity verification business Annature.On this episode, we discuss:Amreeta' journeyProblem solving through techThe origin story of Now InfinityThe push for E-signing to become mainstreamBuilding a feedback driven businessThe reality of successSelling a business and the emotion behind itThe future of online securityIdentity verificationThe launch of AnnaturePartnerships and collaborationStarting with the end in mindSticking to what you loveSurviving in a Male dominanted industryThe challenge of remote workConnect with Amreeta  on Linkedin.Check out the free resources from Inovayt here.Send us an email: hello@thenumbersgamepodcast.com.auThe Numbers Game is brought to you by Future Advisory & Inovayt.Hosts:Nick ReillyJason RobinsonMartin VidakovicThis podcast is produced by VIDPOD.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know it's estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram. To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn. 

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know it's estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram. To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn. 

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know it's estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram. To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn. 

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know it's estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram. To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn. 

My guest today is Ropa Murombo, dog-mom, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and COO of Feniska, a company that builds innovative solutions for pets and pet parents that bring the Pet-Tech industry to new heights. Ropa was born in Harare - a city of hustlers. The entrepreneurial gene was embedded in her at a young age as she grew up surrounded by people who are hardworking and enterprising. Ropa was introduced to the world of tech while she was studying International Business in Berlin. Since then, she has had a passion for the creation of digital products that create unique customer experiences and simplify the lives of those who use them. Her creativity, attention to detail and love for extensive research make her an asset to Feniska's Go-To-Market strategy. Ropa co-founded Feniska to create a new world for pet parents to be able to improve the wellbeing of their pets and identify health problems early.Did you know its estimated the US pet industry reached $99 billion in 2020? Globally, the pet care market has grown to $261 billion in 2022; up from $245 billion in 2021 and is estimated to increase to $350 billion by 2027.In this episode we discuss:How Ropa and her co-founder are disrupting the pet health space with their innovative technologySome hot tips for pet parentsThe type of culture they are creating at Feniska as women (of color) in techThe importance of leading with empathy and creating inclusive workspaces; andThe funding strategy they are pursuing for Feniska.To learn more about Ropa, follow her on Instagram at chancetheropa, on LinkedIn as Ropafadzo Muromba. Learn more about Feniska at www.feniska.com . Follow the Feniska page on LinkedIn and the Feniska.app page on Instagram.To my listeners, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you liked it, leave a rating, a review, download or share this episode.Join me next Friday for a new episode on the ALIVE Podcast Network and subscribe on your favorite podcast streaming platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more to get notified when new episodes drop.To be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send an email to whereisthefunding@gmail.com.Follow the podcast on Instagram at whereisthefunding_podcast and me, your host Michelle J. McKenzie on LinkedIn.

Justin Clegg has been profiled by VentureBeat, Deseret News and Entrepreneur.com and is a frequent public speaker. Justin has studied, lived and operated in a variety of international locations including Singapore, China, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mozambique and New Delhi and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, French and conversational Hindi—which has led to his global perspective.He co-founded three Silicon Valley startups and today we'll talk about AllSet, a conversational texting platform for home service businesses that automates personalized SMS conversations to increase tips, reviews, referrals and more.In this episode, you will hear more about:Why Justin's feeling of being an outsider gave him the compassion, empathy, and desire to launch a career in techThe reason Justin lost sleep obsessing over another startup's concept and how it inspired him to start a brand new companyHow connecting directly with customers led Justin and his team to completely scrap their app—and how that pivot was a game changer in their businessConnect with your host on Instagram at @shauna.armitage and listen to more Startup Renegade stories at www.startuprenegades.com

Atis Hermanis and Reinholds Pīrāgs are the CEO and CCO of Hackmotion - wrist sensor for amateur sports precision improvement. They are on a mission to help amateur golfers to fix their game with a unique technology that is used by elite level PGA (golf) coaches worldwide. Their sensors are also on the radar of other North American professional sports leagues such as NBA and MLB (baseball).In this episode we talk aboutDeveloping Hackmotion sensorsMarketing strategies for sports consumer devicesFuture of sports wearable techThe topics covered in this episode with Timestamps:01:20 - Introduction to Hackmotion smart devices03:15 - Go-to-market strategy starting with professional athletes in USA07:00 - Do amateur athletes trust smart devices or prefer coaches?08:00 - Marketing strategies for sports consumer devices12:50 - How the Hackmotion technology was developed14:00 - Scaling production and managing supply chain17:00 - Selling products in US market without physical presence there18:30 - Future of sports wearables To reach out to Atis and Reinholds please use:Website: hackmotion.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackmotion/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hackmotion Support for this episode comes from Nexpay > https://paynexpay.com/===See the video content exclusively on Linkedin > https://www.linkedin.com/company/pursuit-of-scrappiness/ Questions/suggestions? Join our Telegram group > https://t.me/pursuitofscrappiness  

The Social Work industry is expected to grow 2x faster than the growth of an average industry within the next year. That's just one of the many gems my guest today Sarah Johnston dropped in today's episode. Join us as we discuss the future of the Social work industry as a whole and what you can expect as a job seeker yourself. Some of the topics we cover in today's episode include: Why  Social Workers, might want to consider making a jump into techThe rapid growth of the Social Work industry Standing out as a job seeker in today's climate What to do if you love your job but aren't getting paid enough More about Sarah: Sarah Johnston is a former corporate recruiter and industry "insider" who got tired of seeing talented high-achievers get passed over for opportunities because they did not have the proper marketing documents or know how to position themselves in interviews.  Sarah is a certified YouMap coach who gives a holistic framework for helping uncover motivation and strengths.  She was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in the career space in 2019, called the owner of the "best resume writing firm for experienced executives" by Balance Careers, and a "top follow" by JobScan in 2019 and 2020.  Her company has written resumes and career documents for some of the top leaders in the world's most recognizable brands. Learn more about Sarah below:Website: www.briefcasecoach.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdjohnston/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BriefcaseCoach/—If you enjoyed this episode feel free to follow me on the web for more career-related resources! FREE JOB SEARCH COURSE FOR SOCIAL WORKERS:https://yourevolvedmind.ck.page/socialworkjobsearchcourseLINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harlenyvasquez/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yourevolvedmind/?hl=enWEBSITE: https://yourevolvedmind.mykajabi.com/

On April 10th Bastian Noffer's TECHCAST was recorded live as part of a livestream on YouTube and Twitch.This episodes Topics:- Intel patents Zen Architecture?- Google partners with iFixit- Google cracking down on unsupported Apps- More custom chips in Android Phones- Developer Conference news- Discussion: Fanboyism in TechThe full show notes can be found at: https://bnonet.com/podcast/bnotechcast-episode-16-confused-fanboys/

Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, and other newspapers and his TED talks have been viewed over seventy million times. His work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan.Eric and Johann discuss his book, Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply AgainBut wait – there's more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It's that simple and we'll give you good stuff as a thank you!Johann Hari and I Discuss Stolen Focus and Attention and…His book, Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply AgainHis experience of spending 3 months with no internet or smartphoneThe negative effects of consuming too much of social mediaHow the evidence is showing we are in an attention crisisThe deep forces at work that are damaging our attentionUnderstanding the two levels of response to the attention crisis; individual and collectiveCruel optimism is offering a simple solution to complex problems that may not workThe alternative to cruel optimism is bringing awareness to the many layers of the problemHow the human brain can only think about one thing at a timeThe negative effects of multitasking, or the switch cost-effect The debate between being “pro” tech and “anti” techThe damaging effects of the current business models of social media designed to steal people's attentionHow technology could be used to heal and aid your attention rather than steal itHow the current model of economic growth contributes to dwindling attentionHis thoughts on the need for an attention movement to resist the forces invading our attentionJohann Hari Links:Stolen Focus Book WebsiteJohann's WebsiteTwitterInstagramWhen you purchase products and/or services from the sponsors of this episode, you help support The One You Feed. Your support is greatly appreciated, thank you!If you enjoyed this conversation with Johann Hari you might also enjoy these other episodes:Johann Hari (2015 Interview)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When Eric and I bought the existing Airbnb business at Strawberry Creek Village, the previous host didn't use any technology tools at all.Running the community as a traditional vacation rental, she tracked bookings with pen and paper, texted the cleaner personally and physically plugged in and unplugged the outdoor lights herself each day.On this episode of Get Paid for Your Pad, Eric shares the home automation technology he's installed at Strawberry Creek and describes the system we created around the digital locks and temporary access codes in our short-term rentals to streamline our business.Listen in to understand why Eric and I are setting up the tech ourselves and get our best advice on implementing new technology in your Airbnb hosting business.Topics CoveredWhat tech we've installed at Strawberry CreekLights turn on/off automaticallySchlage Encode digital locksNoiseAware in units and outdoorsApple TV and Nest thermostatsThe benefits of using digital locks in a STRSecurityGuest convenienceManagementHow we're automating the guest code processHostfully to import info at bookingManage and track via RemoteLockOur best advice on implementing technologyTake time for onboarding processBuild SOPs around how to use techThe advantage of creating walk-through videosHelps VAs with guest messagingInsurance in case of owner disputesHow we're building relationships with guestsPersonal communicationOnsite team memberResourcesStrawberry Creek VillageStrawberry Creek on InstagramBreezewayWheelhouseSchlage Encode LocksNoiseAwareApple TVNest ThermostatsEric on TikTokRemoteLockOvernight SuccessReview GPFYP on Apple PodcastsLegends X STR AcceleratorSTR Legends MastermindEmail jasper@getpaidforyourpad.comSponsorHostfully [Discount Code PAD] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The S&P/ASX200 closed lower Tuesday, dropping 30 points or 0.4% to 7,248 after weak overnight leads with the NASDAQ shedding more than 2%. Sealink Travel Group (SLK) missed out for second day, down 5.9%. Not so for Redbubble (RBL) just killing it on Tuesday, jumping 8.4%. For comprehensive coverage of the RBA's October rates decision, you can't go past our live show with Carlos Cacho at Jarden and Steven Dooley at Western Union Business Solutions.Our top three VODs: The Golden Buys; Ord Minnett runs the ruler over the ASX's best gold minersThis investor says now is not the time to panic sell big techThe scariest stock market setup Clifford's ever seen See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

 Brittany talks about the similarities and differences between soccer and broadway from the experiences of an athlete turned performer. In this episode, Brittany shares about the years of training, challenges, and the shaping obstacle she has gone through in the journey of how she made broadway her career.About Brittany Conigatti:Brittany is a born and raised New Yorker! She is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, known to many as "The Fame School," where she was a Dance Major. Brittany continued her art studies at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where she was an Integrated Major and then earned her BFA in Musical Theatre from The New School. Landing her first professional job at 17 and feeling the rush of adrenaline, passion, family, and love, both on and off stage, Brittany knew Broadway would be her career! Along with performing on Broadway in A Bronx Tale (dance captain and original company member) and The Prom, Brittany has worked in the most prestigious regional theatres and traveled all over the nation and Canada performing with Broadway National Tours including Mean Girls, Matilda, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and on the high seas with Rock of Ages. She can also be seen as Maria Ferraro in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Season 22.Brittany's latest journey has been being the Restager Choreographer for the 2nd National Tour of A Bronx Tale after being the Assistant Choreographer on the 1st National Tour of A Bronx Tale. She has found a passion for being on the "other side of the table" where she gets to be within the creative development of a show. This is all thanks to her mentor, Sergio Trujillo. Brittany adores teaching passionate performers! Whether it be in master class settings or privately during coaching, Brittany always has the goal to bring out each student's uniqueness. She takes pride in providing a positive and encouraging learning environment where the students feel comfortable working at their highest potential! Outline of the Episode:[03:15] Brittany on playing for the women's soccer team of New York at the age of 12[05:40]The reason why Brittany preferred theatre over professionally pursuing soccer[11:30]Brittany explains the continual challenges of getting into theatre and reaching broadway[18:07]What it's like to be dance captain and experience auditioning in front of Robert De Niro[22:48]The thing with performance art and why it's on a different level of craftsmanship[28:30]Brittany tells the story of a train station criminal incident that never had closure[33:09]After a Train Trauma: Brittany fights emotions and exhaustion with grit[39:57]Sergio Trujillo and Mark Hoebee as Brittany's biggest heroes in theatre[46:50] Brittany Conigatti's return on stage together with the opening of live showsResources:Website: https://www.brittanyconigatti.com/Instagram: @brittconigattiBrittany talks A Bronx Tale on Broadway: https://youtu.be/u90i44KRbfgAll Inspire Interview with Brittany: https://youtu.be/Q198UVvMlx4Connect with Barton!Website: www.bartonguybryan.comInstagram: @bartonguybryanJoin Premium:  https://themindsetforge.supercast.techThe "Go for the Gold" Competition: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/162602413195

Bethany Shadburne explains why she stopped gymnastics and eventually shifted her focus to being an elite CrossFit athlete. In this episode, she shares her journey, and the lessons learned being an athlete going to that level. She also provides nuggets on simple, truthful reasons to stay healthy and effective in sports.A Combination of Existing ExercisesPeople often get confused when Bethany mentions CrossFit. She is always mistaken for a bodybuilder or a weightlifter. CrossFit is a combination of exercises that are already existing. It involves lifting barbells, running, swimming, gymnastic movements, and bodyweight movements. Bethany did every activity in the past before she started CrossFit, except the barbell, as she was an athlete, too. She also explains that CrossFit has different levels. At the professional level, they work out for six to seven hours per day. It is divided into parts. First is the monostructural work for cardio which is swimming. The second is the strength portion that is going to the gym to do weightlifting. The third part is the skill portion that comprises gymnastics, pushups, handstands, and other basic exercises. Lastly, there is the accessory portion which is a little bit of bodybuilding. CrossFit is an all-around sport designed for every part of the body, and it depends on what level the person can handle. About Bethany Shadburne:Bethany Shadburne is a top women's CrossFit competitor who placed 9th (individual) at the 2019 CrossFit Games, her best performance. Shadburne also finished 16th in 2018 and 22nd in 2017, so she's no stranger to the sport. But before she was a CrossFit athlete, Shadburne was involved in gymnastics, bodybuilding, triathlons, and other similar activities. Then, in 2015, she found her love in CrossFit by participating in local contests, and in 2016, things started to look promising for her. Then in 2017, she won two competitions, ended up top 20 in the world, and finished 22nd at the CrossFit Games.Outline of the Episode:[02:07] A general idea about the sport, CrossFit[05:23] Bethany's childhood back in Austin and how she got into gymnastics[08:41] What it is like as a gymnast performing on the floor[11:49] How Bethany dealt with injury and her transition to CrossFit[16:45] What markers Bethany sees when planning her workout for the next six months[19:37] The move to Las Vegas to train with a CrossFit coach[23:35] Team aspect of the training applied to the individual aspect of the sport[27:14] Preparation for the West Coast Semifinals and Bethany's insights on her performance[31:07] Understand the balance of training and recovery from injury[33:57] Mindset around the sport, morning habits, and rituals to get through the day[39:51] Family and entrepreneurship, among other things besides sports[40:41] Priorities in life Bethany has to make sure she is at her highest level[45:04] Effects of stomach sensitivity to a bodybuilder[48:53] Diet as an essential part of staying healthy and having fuel to work out[52:53] Advice to athletes with good momentum but want to level upResources:Bethany's Instagram: @BethanycfBethany's West Coast Classic 2021 Win - https://youtu.be/O828tw7EaIgConnect with Barton!Austin Rowing Club Event: https://bit.ly/3zRVkloJoin Premium: https://themindsetforge.supercast.techThe  “Go for the Gold” Competition: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/162602413195Barton's Instagram: @mindsetforgepodcast

Barton tells stories from his past as an Opera Singer, learning to "let go", and find his authentic voice.   he asks the listener to think of times they too  showed up big in important moments.  Goal: How can we level up our performance in the things we seek to improve on by bringing our authentic self and finding joy.  Backstory about Barton:Barton lives in Austin, TX with his wife Valerie and their 7 year old son, Jack.  Barton's been a personal trainer for 13  years.  Barton and his family love outdoor hikes, traveling, and living a healthy lifestyle.  His background in the arts, sports, and working in Africa all inform his unique perspective.  Barton hung up his basketball shoes after high school and decided to pursue music; specifically vocal performance.  He never sang at Davis High School, but when he arrived in San Diego, CA for college, he went for it! Barton sang in operas like "Marriage of Figaro" and "La Boheme," took acting classes, and performed a solo concert to receive his BA in Music.  Before graduation,  he spent a year in Aix-en-Provence studying French and traveling Europe and North Africa.  Barton's two trips to Morocco instilled in him a curiosity and profound respect for the diverse cultures of  West Africa.  Once back in the US, he applied for the Peace Corps so he could travel back to Africa and immerse himself in the culture and learn about their way of life.  Barton spent two years in Diadjibine, a small village of 2,500 people in Southern Mauritania, West Africa.  As a Peace Corp volunteer, he taught English, helped build water pumps, and started a solar-powered computer center.   The time in Mauritania shaped Barton's mindset on the importance of community, teamwork, leadership, and supporting hard-working people who don't have the resources Americans have at their fingertips.  After Peace Corps, Barton moved to New York City to pursue singing and acting.  He was accepted into the Maggie Flanigan Studio and spent two years studying Meisner technique and writing a one man show about what he learned as a Peace Corps in West Africa.  His show opened up new doors for him and he performed it around the country.  On one of his trips, he traveled to Austin, TX where he met Valerie.   Barton moved to Austin after graduating from the Acting Studio and four months later, they were married.  When Barton moved to  Austin in 2007, he became a personal trainer.  concurrently, Barton created  a voluntourism company taking people to East and West Africa to do volunteer work and enjoying Safaris.   He was introduced to Camp Gladiator in 2012 and his love for performing and passion for fitness made Camp Gladiator a perfect fit.  He sold his tour company and went all in to his new role with Camp Gladiator.  The Mindset Forge Podcast is Barton's  newest passion. Barton hopes the podcast will  help  people  find the tools and inspiration to go after the things in life that matter most to them.  He deliberately chooses guests from a variety of athletic and artistic backgrounds to help listeners gain multiple perspective of how they show up big for performance and how we can too.  Austin Rowing Club Event: https://bit.ly/3zRVkloJoin Premium: https://themindsetforge.supercast.techThe  “Go for the Gold” Competition- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/162602413195IG: @mindsetforgepodcast

10 year NFL safety Michael Griffin sits down with Barton to  talk fatherhood, cupcakes, and his experience growing up playing football in Austin, TX.  He takes the listener on his journey from Bowie High to the Univ. of Texas, and to the NFL.  In this episode, Michael explains why aspiring athletes must get up early, do the work in the gym, and be determined to be the best on their team.Mindset to Stay In the GameMuch of the attention is given to the physical aspect of football since it is a contact sport. However, Michael always thinks of his back against the wall, which is traced back to his high school days. He explains that when he is in that position, he can see the goal and how he can get to it. Michael then questions himself if his goal outweighs the barriers and everything else. He says that it is easy to make every excuse possible on why he could not do it. So what does this have to do with the physical aspect? Well, Michael has to know the difference between hurt and injured. An injury would mean not being able to play, and with that, it gives a window of opportunity to another player to take his spot. Therefore, Michael has developed a sense of durability with the mindset to push himself hard while securing his place in the team. Due to this way of thinking, he played with a dislocated shoulder twice. He learned to adapt quickly instead of getting off the field in order to keep his position as a safety of the team. About Michael Griffin:Two-time Pro-Bowler Michael Griffin's stellar professional football career spanned ten seasons in the NFL, including stints with the Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings, and the Carolina Panthers. Since retiring in 2018, Griffin's focus has shifted to entrepreneurship, opening up a subsidiary bakery under the Gigi's Cupcakes franchise outside of his hometown of Austin, Texas, with his life-long friends, fellow NFL standout Brian Orakpo and college classmate Bryan Hynson.Griffin's magnetic dexterity has served him well throughout the years as a football player, entrepreneur, and most recently, the star of a hit Microsoft commercial with his friend and former Titan teammate Brian Orakpo. Griffin resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife Shantel and their children.Outline of the Episode:[01:47] Lessons from sports applied in raising three kids[07:54] Challenges that arise from communication outside the football field[11:10] Factors that made Michael go back to Austin to raise his family[19:21] Family dynamics: parenting strategies in creating a team within their children[21:52] Humility goes a long way, whether in sports or fatherhood[23:23] A competitive attitude made use in high school football[32:48] Michael's experience having a sports scholarship at the University of Texas[41:30] The magic behind the team's success, according to Michael[45:02] How Michael handled the physical aspects of football and kept himself primed to play[52:37] Football mindset used to put up the cupcake businessResources:IG:  @thecupcakeguys https://thecupcakeguys.comIG:  @Mikegriff33Michael Griffin's UT Highlight Reel: https://youtu.be/ynFNxQ3b5-U2006 Rose Bowl Highlights: https://youtu.be/4lca15NWEUkConnect with Barton!Austin Rowing Club Event: https://bit.ly/3zRVkloTo join the Premium Membership: https://themindsetforge.supercast.techThe  “Go for the Gold” Competition - Now on October 23rd at 9 am at Dick Nichols Park in Austin, TX - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1626024131

We were delighted to be joined by Paul Bowman, CEO of Wexer - a provider of digital solutions for gym-goers to access workouts anywhere, anytime. Sharing lessons and tips from his time in Virgin Active and Gymbox, Paul joins Topodium Group's Co-Founder and CMO Chris Sharman to detail Wexer's journey to prevalence in the health and fitness sector, and the technological advancements that have helped them achieve their international success.Paul recounts some of the key business decisions that he's taken to position the brand in a more specialised vertical than their competitors, the challenges of offering a new, conceptual service to clubs with longstanding processes, and how the relationship between clubs and influencers could become a symbiotic success if harnessed correctly.This episode covers:Lessons learned from being a PT that transfer to businessThe evolution of technology that made Wexer's service possiblePositioning a brand around futuristic conceptsThe effect of 2020 on exacerbating digital fitness techThe relationship between influencers and fitness clubsGet in touch: hello@topodiumgroup.comLinks & references at: https://topodiumgroup.com/podcast/

If there's one source of information that the agency world could consider a holy grail for transforming new business and marketing strategies, it's The Drum. So who better to pull back the curtain on how they've diversified and facilitated international, cross-border business and learning, than their Co-Founder, Diane Young.Diane joins Katie Street to unveil the exclusive developments that The Drum are making with their new Drum Lab in London, and how they plan on helping agencies stay up to date with technological developments and digital transformation.We also hear the 6 most important areas that The Drum are focusing on right now, and why specialising your service offering will catch the attention of brands.This episode coversThe key to The Drum's success, diversificationThe future of media and digital transformationThe 6 problem-solving areas that are important right nowStaying up to date with cutting edge techThe benefits to specialisingCreating international networks for cross-border learning and businessRespecting people's time in marketing commsWord on the Street is sponsored by Kulea.ma, the default Business Development and Marketing Automation platform for agencies and their clients. To learn more about Kulea's Business development and marketing services and technology, visit www.kulea.maLinks and references at: https://street.agency/podcast/Get in touch: katie@street.agency

Mick, Mat and all of the management team sort of got tired of the corporate lifestyle. The thought "how do we come out and actually live our life with purpose and develop a company that excites us to get out of bed every day?". This was why The Village Co. www.thevillageco.com.au was born. It is now based in regional New South Wales. They are on a mission to create a positive future for local communities by combining creative people with the latest technology to design innovative solutions that disrupt the food service industry.Their Virtual Supply Chain (VSC) product is an artificial intelligence backed supply chain solution that enables small businesses to compete with big businesses.Right now, they are working in the retail butcher's sector. They have branded that platform Butchers United and are looking to unlock the value and the potential in the three thousand odd retail butchers around the country. Mick and Mat cover;Their planned disruption of the foodservice industryThe limitations for small farmers and producers of the incumbent, large business dominated supply chainThe future of local-to-local salesThe tech and logistic solutions they are developing to give small farmers and producers the confidence and support to grow their product salesThe extraordinary lengths they went to understand the retail butcher industry - they bought a butcher shop and ran it themselves to properly understand the challenges and opportunitiesMaking the most of the large amount combined infrastructure that small business owns through providing accessible techThe consumer lead move to 'shop local'How food provenance is reshaping buying habitsTheir program to link growers of indigenous products into their own logistic networkTheir own personal challenges in getting their start-up running and funded 

Welcome to a new episode of Lux & TechThe topic of today's podcast is WORKING FROM HOME.To dig into this extremely relevant topic, I am delighted to interview Karen Mangia, an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year.  She is the author of the books Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You (Wiley), Listen UP! How to Tune Into Customers and Turn Down the Noise (Wiley) and also Success With LessKaren is Vice President of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce, one of the wold's leading tech companies, where she also serves on the company's Work from Home Taskforce, where she is helping the company's 50,000+ worldwide employees to better adapt to a work-from-home environment. If working from home makes you struggle, if you are overwhelmed by back to back zoom meetings, if you don't know how to engage clients and stakeholders during virtual presentations, if you have kids and you are experiencing tremendous pressure to be with them and at the same time try to get work done, and also if you're looking for a job and you have no choice but searching it remotely, keep listening to this podcast, you will find precious advice to help you strive in a digitally connected world.

Reviewing the first half of 2020 so far. Topics covered;COVIDInvesting in techThe similarities between 2020 and 1968Rebalancing portfoliosLifestyle creepSporting industriesThis episode is brought to you by Six Park. Click here to take the free risk assessment and to receive your free investment recommendation www.sixpark.com.au

My expert interview this week is someone who I believe we all need to hear from.Digital wellbeing is becoming an increasingly urgent need for us functioning in the tech-obsessed society that we do. There are hundreds of studies that show how an unhealthy relationship with tech - especially our phones - can negatively impact our physical and mental health, our productivity and our happiness.Dr. Kristy Goodwin is Australia's foremost expert on digital wellbeing - she has a PhD in this area, is a speaker, author and entrepreneur. Oh and a mum to three gorgeous boys!Maintaining a healthy relationship with the tech in my life has been a key priority for me for a few years now. I have experienced firsthand how easy it can be to slip into a situation where I'm spending too long with it, at the expense of my own peace of mind and my presence with the real people around me.In our conversation, Kristy shares:The jaw-dropping healthcare appointment that set her on the path she's on nowStats showing how many of us are becoming slaves to our screens, for example did you know that 91% of us reach for our phones before our loved ones in the morning?!Why “Digital Amputation” isn't the solution3 warning signs we're overly dependent on our techThe phenomenon of “Email Apnoea” - which I definitely suffer from!The physiological reason we keep going back for more with social mediaWhy entrepreneurs and biz owners can be more susceptible to tech dependence than othersThe neurological need for us to have some digital disconnection timeThe “Resumption Lag” and what it means for our productivityWhy multi-tasking makes us foggyI need to be REALLY clear here - this episode is NOT about shaming or blaming ourselves for how we interact with the tech in our lives. Kristy and I both share very honestly our own challenges in this area.Kristy's whole approach is to empower us with tech, and during our chat I kept coming back to that wonderful Maya Angelou quote: “When we know better, we do better.”I'm sure you'll agree that Kristy is an absolute goldmine of information on digital wellbeing and I'm so grateful I got to give you an insight into her incredible brain this week. Please remember that the first step in improving our relationship with tech is to become aware of our own habits and patterns.To connect with Kristy, visit her website at drkristygoodwin.com and you can find her on Facebook and her Instagram handle is @drkristy.As always, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this episode and how the topic of digital wellbeing plays out in your own life.I want to say a big thank you to my first ever podcast partner, Luxit. I've been using Luxit for four years now, to get me looking my best before everything from important client presentations to photoshoots, to filming, to awards nights. I prebook on the app and a LUXIT partner arrives on my doorstep and does my hair and makeup while I do last-minute speech prep, eat my breakfast or - when Lexi was tiny - breastfed her.Next week my third book is launching and my LUXIt partner will be arriving on my doorstep at 5.30am to make me look glam before I jump in an uber to help the team set up for the event. Thank you again LUXit for being my first partner for my show. You can find out more about Luxit at luxit.com.au and follow them at @luxit_official.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.