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What separates the top 1% of venture capitalists from the rest? For Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at Eberg Capital, it's the ability — and the appetite — to invest before the crowd, before the product is built, and before there's even proof of concept. In a recent episode of the Skin in the Game VC podcast, Roger joined Tom Wallace and Saxon Baum to share how he turned a late-career pivot into one of the most impressive track records in early-stage venture capital.Roger didn't come from the startup world. He spent nearly two decades on Wall Street, running billion-dollar trading desks at Citi and Deutsche Bank. From the outside, it looked like a career anyone would want — but for Roger, it had run its course. Tired of internal politics and craving something more entrepreneurial, he walked away. Around the same time, he'd been dabbling in angel investing on the side. That small experiment — backing builders before product-market fit — quickly turned into a full-time obsession.He began writing a blog, Information Arbitrage, to share his thinking publicly. The blog gained traction. Founders started reaching out. Other investors began to follow his thesis. At a time when the idea of a “New York tech ecosystem” was almost laughable, Roger had the clarity to see where it could go — and the conviction to act. By early 2010, he scraped together a $17 million first close. That first fund would eventually land at $50 million, and IA Ventures was born.But the money was only part of the story. What set Roger apart then — and still does — is how early he's willing to go. He prefers backing companies before the market even knows they exist. In fact, he often writes the first check before there's a line of code written. This isn't blind optimism. It's founder-first investing grounded in deep research and sharp intuition.Roger's track record speaks for itself. He was an early backer of The Trade Desk when it was just a deck. He seeded Datadog, TubeMogul, and multiple other companies before they became category leaders. The common thread? Founders who could not only see the future but build their way into it. To Roger, great founders share something intangible: what he calls “aesthetic and empathy.”“Great founders understand where their product stops and where the customer starts,” he said. That could mean designing APIs that developers love or building consumer apps that feel inevitable. Either way, the best founders have an intuitive sense of product, user behavior, and market timing. Roger knows how to find them — or maybe, they know how to find him. That's the power of publishing, he says. His blog didn't just clarify his thesis — it attracted the right people. It helped him raise a fund when few believed in early-stage investing outside Silicon Valley.Since then, IA Ventures has grown to four funds and backed dozens of successful startups. Roger has since passed the torch to his partners and launched his next chapter: Eberg Capital. Now, he invests alongside his sons in a new wave of innovation — spanning sports, media, entertainment, and the evolving world of fandom.But whether he's backing a Marlins ownership stake, investing in Formula 1, or writing angel checks to creator economy startups, one thing hasn't changed: Roger Ehrenberg still goes early. He still backs founders before the world sees their potential. And more often than not, he's right.Listen to the full episode with Roger Ehrenberg now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brett Wilson was the founder and CEO of TubeMogul through its sale to Adobe. Now he's the founder of Swift.vc, a fund focused on AI enablement. Eric and Ari talk to Brett about what he's seeing in the market and where there are opportunities. In the news of the week we discuss Nielsen's move to stop selling panel data as a stand-alone service, Facebook's monster earnings, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Large Language Models have taken the world by storm. But what are the real use cases? What are the challenges in productionizing them? In this event, you will hear from practitioners about how they are dealing with things such as cost optimization, latency requirements, trust of output, and debugging. You will also get the opportunity to join workshops that will teach you how to set up your use cases and skip over all the headaches. Join the AI in Production Conference on February 15 and 22 here: https://home.mlops.community/home/events/ai-in-production-2024-02-15 ________________________________________________________________________________________ Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer and early leader in machine learning (ML) observability. MLOps podcast #210 with Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Arize AI, LLM Evaluation with Arize AI's Aparna Dhinakaran. // Abstract Dive into the complexities of Language Model (LLM) evaluation, the role of the Phoenix evaluations library, and the importance of highly customized evaluations in software application. The discourse delves into the nuances of fine-tuning in AI, the debate between the use of open-source versus private models, and the urgency of getting models into production for early identification of bottlenecks. Then examine the relevance of retrieved information, output legitimacy, and the operational advantages of Phoenix in supporting LLM evaluations. // Bio Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer and early leader in AI observability and LLM evaluation. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Before Arize, Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built several core ML Infrastructure platforms, including Michelangelo. She has a bachelor's from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program, where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group. She is on a leave of absence from the Computer Vision Ph.D. program at Cornell University. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Arize-Phoenix: https://phoenix.arize.com/ Phoenix LLM task eval library: https://docs.arize.com/phoenix/llm-evals/running-pre-tested-evals Aparna's recent piece on LLM evaluation: https://arize.com/blog-course/llm-evaluation-the-definitive-guide/ Thread on the difference between model and task LLM evals: https://twitter.com/aparnadhinak/status/1752763354320404488 Research thread on why numeric score evals are broken: https://twitter.com/aparnadhinak/status/1748368364395721128 --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Aparna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/

MLOps Coffee Sessions #176 with MLOps vs. LLMOps Panel, Willem Pienaar, Chris Van Pelt, Aparna Dhinakaran, and Alex Ratner hosted by Richa Sachdev. // Abstract What do MLOps and LLMOps have in common? What has changed? Are these just new buzzwords or is there validity in calling this ops something new? // Bio Richa Sachdev A passionate and impact-driven leader whose expertise spans leading teams, architecting ML and data-intensive applications, and driving enterprise data strategy. Richa has worked for a Tier A Start-up developing feature platforms and in financial companies, leading ML Engineering teams to drive data-driven business decisions. Richa enjoys reading technical blogs focussed on system design and plays an active role in the MLOps Community. Willem Pienaar Willem is the creator of Feast, the open-source feature store and a builder in the generative AI space. Previously Willem was an engineering manager at Tecton where he led teams in both their open source and enterprise initiatives. Before that Willem built the core ML systems and created the ML platform team at Gojek, the Indonesian decacorn. Chris Van Pelt Chris Van Pelt is a co-founder of Weights & Biases, a developer MLOps platform. In 2009, Chris founded Figure Eight/CrowdFlower. Over the past 12 years, Chris has dedicated his career optimizing ML workflows and teaching ML practitioners, making machine learning more accessible to all. Chris has worked as a studio artist, computer scientist, and web engineer. He studied both art and computer science at Hope College. Aparna Dhinakaran Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer and early leader in machine learning (ML) observability. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. Before Arize, Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built several core ML Infrastructure platforms, including Michelangelo. She has a bachelor's from UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program, where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group. She is on a leave of absence from the Computer Vision Ph.D. program at Cornell University. Alex Ratner Alex Ratner is the co-founder and CEO at Snorkel AI, and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington. Prior to Snorkel AI and UW, he completed his Ph.D. in CS advised by Christopher Ré at Stanford, where he started and led the Snorkel open source project, and where his research focused on defining and forwarding the concept of “data-centric AI”, the idea that labeling and developing data is the new center of the AI development workflow. His academic work focuses on data-centric AI and related topics in data management and statistical learning techniques, and applications to real-world problems in medicine, science, and more. Previously, he earned his A.B. in Physics from Harvard University. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links ⁠ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Richa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richasachdev/ Connect with Willem on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willempienaar/ Connect with Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvanpelt/ Connect with Aparna on Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/ Connect with Alex on Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-ratner-038ba239/

Olivia is the Head of Operations and Strategy at Haus, a decision science platform who helps brands make informed investment decisions. Prior to Haus, Olivia led growth marketing at Sonos, Netflix, and Quibi. Before diving into marketing, Olivia worked in the advertising space; and worked for an AdsTech startup called TubeMogul where she joined as the 100th employee. She saw the company grow to about 500 people and get acquired by Adobe shortly thereafter for ~$540M. Olivia also received her Bachelors in English Literature and Language from the University of Michigan.

Charles Moldow, a general partner at Foundation Capital, shares his remarkable journey from being a Wall Street analyst to becoming an entrepreneur and eventually transitioning into his current role as an investor over two decades ago. His captivating anecdotes leave you eager for more, whether he's recounting stories about his father's wisdom on the internet or recalling a memorable encounter with an exceptional entrepreneur. Charles also delves into the exciting market trends within insurtech and offers valuable insights into the areas to focus attention for fruitful opportunities.In this episode, you'll learn:[2:20] Charles Moldow's early entrepreneurial ventures during the dynamic evolution of the internet.[7:58] The role of a VC in sometimes discouraging founders to protect them from their own pitfalls.[13:01] The revealing nature of a founder's personal life story, showcasing their unique abilities.[19:54] "Don't prepare to impress me. Just share your authentic truth." - Charles Moldow[23:43] The importance for entrepreneurs to explore the vast array of promising opportunities for leveraging technology in the insurance industry.The non-profit organization that Charles is passionate about: safespaceAbout Charles MoldowCharles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital. At Foundation, he identifies technology trends and new user experiences that will change the financial services landscape. His thesis investing has him focused on fintech, insurtech and proptech opportunities with a crypto overlay to everything he evaluates. Since he joined Foundation Capital in 2005, he's made seventeen successful investments, five of which have gone public and twelve have been acquired. Charles' public portfolio includes early-stage investments that have led to notable IPOs with DOMA (IPO 2021), Rover (IPO 2021), LendingClub (IPO 2014), OnDeck (IPO 2014) and Everyday Health (2014). Fun fact: Charles moonlights as AAA Little League coach and family vacation planner.Learn more about Charles here.About Foundation CapitalFoundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm that's dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The firm is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode. Follow Us:  Twitter | Linkedin | Instagram | Facebook

Lightning Sessions #2 with Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, and Jason Lopatecki, CEO and Co-Founder of Arize. Lightning Sessions is sponsored by Arize // Abstract Monitoring embeddings on unstructured data is not an easy feat let's be honest. Most of us know what it is but don't understand it one hundred percent. Thanks to Aparna and Jason of Arize for breaking down embedding so clearly. At the end of this Lightning talk, we get to see a demo of how Arize deals with unstructured data and how you can use Arize to combat that. // Bio Aparna Dhinakaran Aparna is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer, and early leader in machine learning (ML) observability. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. Before Arize, Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built several core ML Infrastructure platforms, including Michaelangelo. Aparna has a BA from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program, where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group. She is on a leave of absence from the Computer Vision Ph.D. program at Cornell University. Jason Lopatecki Jason is the Co-founder and CEO of Arize AI, a machine learning observability company. He is a garage-to-IPO executive with an extensive background in building marketing-leading products and businesses that heavily leverage analytics. Prior to Arize, Jason was co-founder and chief innovation officer at TubeMogul where he scaled the business into a public company and eventual acquisition by Adobe. Jason has hands-on knowledge of big data architectures, programmatic advertising systems, distributed systems, and machine learning and data processing architectures. In his free time, Jason tinkers with personal machine learning projects as a hobby, with a special interest in unsupervised learning and deep neural networks. He holds an electrical engineering and computer science degree from UC Berkeley. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // Related Links https://arize.com/ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Aparna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/ Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-lopatecki-9509941/ Timestamps: [00:00] Introduction to the topic [01:13] Troubleshooting unstructured ML models is difficult [01:40] Challenges with monitoring unstructured data [02:10] How data looks like [03:02] Embeddings are the backbone of unstructured models [03:28] ML teams need a common tool [04:06] What are embeddings? [05:08] The real WHY behind AI [06:41] ML observability for unstructured data [07:08] Index and Monitor every Embedding [08:05] Measuring drift of unstructured data [08:54] Interactive visualizations [09:34] Fix underlying data issue [09:44] Data-centric AI workflow [10:08] Demo of the product [12:48] Wrap up

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio & video production system. If you're looking to jumpstart your podcast miniseries or upgrade your podcast or video production please visit www.ListenDeck.com. You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Zach Noorani,  Partner at Foundation Capital.    Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. Foundation Capital  has invested in companies like LendingClub, Sunrun and Netflix, among many others.  Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures.  The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays episode with Login Allin from Fin Capital . About the host:   John is the host of the  ‘Bank On It' podcast which is produced by ListenDeck podcast & video production.

For the past 30 years, Pattie Money has devoted her career to creating strong, healthy cultures that drive individual and organizational success. She's served as a Chief People Officer at some of the most successful tech companies of our time, like TubeMogul, SendGrid, and Twilio. Her experience is deep when it comes to scaling startups and has included multiple M&A and IPOs. Suffice it to say Pattie is somebody you'd want on speed dial whenever you're navigating change.In this episode, Pattie talks about what it means to be a rules-light HR practitioner and why it's been her philosophy from the start. We'll hear her thoughts on how to build a team that thrives in a high-growth environment, how to ground people in times of turmoil, and the motto she keeps on her desk to encourage her to keep trying new things.

Rebecca Chaiklin contacts us about doing a big cat version of Blackfish Hi Carole,  A phone call from a lady named Rebecca Chaiklin, a feature film producer.  She's doing a feature documentary on the wild life trade and is interested in coming out to BCR to film and interview you.  Her contact info is RebeccaChaiklin@gmail.com 917-439-6639. Call came in on 7/16 at 11:30 am. Diana Rao - Sent from my iPhone.    Fisher Stevens, The Cove Movie, RealTVfilms coverage of the Kat Kramer's screening of "Films That Change The World" at Bronson Studios Hollywood. Distributed by Tubemogul.  URL: http://www.celebritynetworth.com/watch/jzHVGUC9w-s/fisher-stevens-cove-movie-realtvfilms/   Academy award producer (The Cove) and actor Fisher Stevens and producer/director Rebecca Chaiklin are in Berlin film Festival after Sundance to present their new documentary ANOTHER WORLD.  Rebecca was both Director and Producer on The Party's Over (Last Party 2000), a feature documentary on the 2000 presidential election starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in Europe and SWSX in the US - and was released theatrically in over 30 cities around the US, as well as both theatrical and television broadcast throughout Europe.   Rebecca is the Producer on Poster Boy, an independent feature which premiered at the 2004 Tribeca and Locarno Film Festivals. Rebecca was the Producer on Men Make Woman Crazy Theory, a Zoe Cassavettes directorial debut, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and broadcast on Shotime.   Rebecca was the Producer on Hardball, a feature documentary on the first series of baseball games between the Cuban National Team and MLB, The Baltimore Orioles, Produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Chaiklin was the Producer on Midnight in Cuba, a feature documentary chronicling the hopes and dreams of Cuba's younger generation, which premiered at The Berlin International Film Festival.   Currently Chaiklin is finishing The King of Soho, as both Director and Producer, a documentary film featuring Michael Pompa, an older Italian-American man who lives in New York City and has not travelled outside of 8 square blocks in over 54 years. Chaiklin is also directing a film on the war on drugs and hip-hop impresario Russel Simmon's campaign to reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws.  Rebecca asked for photos of me which ultimately led to a scrapbook about my mom in Dec 2018.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

[3m04s] What sparked Alex's interest in finance and economics and led him to launch his career at Intuit[6m36s] The origins of Alex's interest in human-centered product design[12m24s] How the opportunity to work for Asana meshed with Alex's drive to bring clarity to the product development process [16m42s] Advice on how to apply human-centered design and develop customer empathy as a product builder[20m45s] How Asana is working to solve the pain points associated with hybrid work [27m21s] Why it's so important to unify brand experience, product experience, and culture [32m53s] Reflections on Asana's IPO, and how the company used its own platform to pull it off for Asana, by Asana, on Asana[34m32s] The importance of not wasting time on decisions that are easy to reverse [36m20s] Alex's thoughts on leading with curiosity In today's fractured world of work, Asana develops products that bring connectedness to teams and business processes using a human-centered design approach that prioritizes observing and understanding. And at the center of that process is their Head of Product, Alex Hood. In his talk with Jesse, Alex illuminates the principles he's developed over a career that spans tenures at Intuit, TubeMogul, and Asana. While reflecting on leading key initiatives like the development of Quickbooks at Intuit, Alex gives his advice on how to build customer empathy at scale, how to make the right product decisions while in hypergrowth, how to lead with curiosity, and much more.Guest BioAs Head of Product, Alex leads Asana's product strategy, planning, and the management of the entire product organization, which includes product management, design, and user research. Prior to Asana, Alex was a VP of Product Management at Intuit and led QuickBooks Online. Alex was also the VP of Product at TubeMogul, which is now Adobe's Advertising Cloud and has held positions at the Nasdaq Stock Market. Alex has an MBA from UC Berkeley.Helpful LinksAlex's appearance on the CIO Classified PodcastSeven insights for building hypergrowth products (from Asana blog)Forbes article: You spend 60% of your job on ‘work about work”Alex on LinkedIn and Twitter

Show Notes(01:39) Aparna talked about her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.(02:50) Aparna shared her undergraduate research experience at the Energy and Sustainable Technologies lab.(04:34) Aparna discussed valuable lessons learned from her industry internships at TubeMogul and compared the objective with that of a research environment.(08:26) Aparna then joined Uber as a software engineer on the Marketplace Forecasting team, where she led the development of Uber's first model lifecycle management system for running ML model computations at scale to power Uber's dynamic pricing algorithms.(12:40) Aparna talked about how she became interested in model monitoring while Uber's model store.(17:29) Aparna discussed her decision to join the Ph.D. program in Computer Vision at Cornell University, specifically about bias in model, after spending 3 years at Uber.(23:40) Aparna shared the backstory behind co-founding MonitorML with her brother Eswar and going through the 2019 summer batch of Y-Combinator.(26:47) Aparna discussed the acquisition of MonitorML by Arize AI, where she's currently the Chief Product Officer.(28:41) Aparna unpacked the key insights in her ongoing ML Observability blog series, which argues that model observability is the foundational platform that empowers teams to continually deliver and improve results from the lab to production.(33:17) Aparna shared her verdict for the ML tooling ecosystem in the upcoming years from her in-depth exploration of ML infrastructure tools covering data preparation, model building, model validation, and model serving.(37:01) Aparna briefly shared the challenges encountered to get the first cohort of customers for Arize.(39:23) Aparna went over valuable lessons to attract the right people who are excited about Arize's mission.(41:04) Aparna shared her advice for founders who are in the process of finding the right investors for their companies.(42:24) Aparna reasoned how participating in The Amazing Race was similar to running a startup.(44:59) Closing segment.Aparna's Contact InfoTwitterLinkedInMediumForbes ColumnWebsiteGithubGoogle ScholarArize's ResourcesWebsiteMediumLinkedInTwitterMentioned ContentBlog PostsML Infrastructure Tools for Data Preparation (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Model Building (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Production (Part 1) (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Production (Part 2) (Sep 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools — ML Observability (Feb 2021)The Model's Shipped — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Feb 2021)PeopleRediet Abebe (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows)Timnit Gebru (Founder of Black in AI, Ex-Research Scientist at Google)Serge Belongie (Professor of Computer Science at Cornell and Aparna's past Ph.D. advisor)Solon Barocas (Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell)Manish Raghavan (Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department at Cornell)Kate Crawford (Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Co-founder/Director of research at NYU's AI Now Institute)Book“The Hard Thing About The Hard Things” (by Ben Horowitz)New UpdatesSince the podcast was recorded, a lot has happened at Arize AI!Aparna has continued writing the ML observability series: The Playbook to Monitor Your Model's Performance in Production (March 2021) and Beyond Monitoring: The Rise of Observability (May 2021).Arize has been recognized in Forbes's AI 50 2021: Most Promising AI Companies.Aparna has also contributed to Forbes various articles: from the Chronicles of AI Ethics and Q&A with Ethics researchers, to a list of Women in AI to watch and emerging ML tooling categories.About The ShowDatacast features long-form, in-depth conversations with practitioners and researchers in the data community to walk through their professional journeys and unpack the lessons learned along the way. I invite guests coming from a wide range of career paths — from scientists and analysts to founders and investors — to analyze the case for using data in the real world and extract their mental models (“the WHY”) behind their pursuits. Hopefully, these conversations can serve as valuable tools for early-stage data professionals as they navigate their own careers in the exciting data universe.Datacast is produced and edited by James Le. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing khanhle.1013@gmail.com.Subscribe by searching for Datacast wherever you get podcasts or click one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsIf you're new, see the podcast homepage for the most recent episodes to listen to, or browse the full guest list.

Show Notes(01:39) Aparna talked about her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.(02:50) Aparna shared her undergraduate research experience at the Energy and Sustainable Technologies lab.(04:34) Aparna discussed valuable lessons learned from her industry internships at TubeMogul and compared the objective with that of a research environment.(08:26) Aparna then joined Uber as a software engineer on the Marketplace Forecasting team, where she led the development of Uber's first model lifecycle management system for running ML model computations at scale to power Uber's dynamic pricing algorithms.(12:40) Aparna talked about how she became interested in model monitoring while Uber's model store.(17:29) Aparna discussed her decision to join the Ph.D. program in Computer Vision at Cornell University, specifically about bias in model, after spending 3 years at Uber.(23:40) Aparna shared the backstory behind co-founding MonitorML with her brother Eswar and going through the 2019 summer batch of Y-Combinator.(26:47) Aparna discussed the acquisition of MonitorML by Arize AI, where she's currently the Chief Product Officer.(28:41) Aparna unpacked the key insights in her ongoing ML Observability blog series, which argues that model observability is the foundational platform that empowers teams to continually deliver and improve results from the lab to production.(33:17) Aparna shared her verdict for the ML tooling ecosystem in the upcoming years from her in-depth exploration of ML infrastructure tools covering data preparation, model building, model validation, and model serving.(37:01) Aparna briefly shared the challenges encountered to get the first cohort of customers for Arize.(39:23) Aparna went over valuable lessons to attract the right people who are excited about Arize's mission.(41:04) Aparna shared her advice for founders who are in the process of finding the right investors for their companies.(42:24) Aparna reasoned how participating in The Amazing Race was similar to running a startup.(44:59) Closing segment.Aparna's Contact InfoTwitterLinkedInMediumForbes ColumnWebsiteGithubGoogle ScholarArize's ResourcesWebsiteMediumLinkedInTwitterMentioned ContentBlog PostsML Infrastructure Tools for Data Preparation (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Model Building (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Production (Part 1) (May 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools for Production (Part 2) (Sep 2020)ML Infrastructure Tools — ML Observability (Feb 2021)The Model's Shipped — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Feb 2021)PeopleRediet Abebe (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows)Timnit Gebru (Founder of Black in AI, Ex-Research Scientist at Google)Serge Belongie (Professor of Computer Science at Cornell and Aparna's past Ph.D. advisor)Solon Barocas (Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell)Manish Raghavan (Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science department at Cornell)Kate Crawford (Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Co-founder/Director of research at NYU's AI Now Institute)Book“The Hard Thing About The Hard Things” (by Ben Horowitz)New UpdatesSince the podcast was recorded, a lot has happened at Arize AI!Aparna has continued writing the ML observability series: The Playbook to Monitor Your Model's Performance in Production (March 2021) and Beyond Monitoring: The Rise of Observability (May 2021).Arize has been recognized in Forbes's AI 50 2021: Most Promising AI Companies.Aparna has also contributed to Forbes various articles: from the Chronicles of AI Ethics and Q&A with Ethics researchers, to a list of Women in AI to watch and emerging ML tooling categories.About The ShowDatacast features long-form, in-depth conversations with practitioners and researchers in the data community to walk through their professional journeys and unpack the lessons learned along the way. I invite guests coming from a wide range of career paths — from scientists and analysts to founders and investors — to analyze the case for using data in the real world and extract their mental models (“the WHY”) behind their pursuits. Hopefully, these conversations can serve as valuable tools for early-stage data professionals as they navigate their own careers in the exciting data universe.Datacast is produced and edited by James Le. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing khanhle.1013@gmail.com.Subscribe by searching for Datacast wherever you get podcasts or click one of the links below:Listen on SpotifyListen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsIf you're new, see the podcast homepage for the most recent episodes to listen to, or browse the full guest list.

2008 Annual Report     A Year in Video by Jamie Veronicahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4O2srCwX4 Big Cat Rescue is more than just a place that provides permanent care for big cats.  It is a movement;  a change in the tide of human perceptions and is the combined effort of more than 80,000 supporters.  If you are one of them, you are a Big Cat Rescuer and the following is the great work YOU did!  If you haven't helped yet, you can do so now at the top right of the screen or here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/donate.htm   Big Cat Rescue's Mission Statement:  To provide the best home we can for the animals in our care and to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abuse, abandonment or extinction by teaching people about the plight of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity, and how they can help through their behavior and support of better laws to protect the cats.   Advances:  With your help we are winning in the battle for compassion!  Up until 2003 the number of requests for rescues we had to turn down due to lack of space or funds had roughly doubled each year, to 312 that year. We feared it would double again to over 500 in 2004. Instead, it has steadily declined since then. Read why, and about the offers we made this year and why their owners would not agree to our terms. http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008AbandonedBigCats.htm   At least one big cat sanctuary has dropped “Feline” from their name as the new laws have caused such a dramatic decrease in the number of unwanted big cats that they are turning their attention to other animals. We are on the brink of no more abused and unwanted big cats.  This change only happened because of you, and I just can't thank you enough!   CFO, Howard Baskin was a finalist in the Tampa Bay Business Journal's CFO of the Year awards.   We became the first animal charity in the world to be qualified for and utilize Mobile Giving Foundation's Text 2 Give program.  Text tiger to 20222.  We discontinued the service in Dec. 2011 however as the carriers were constantly requiring us to change the text everywhere the call to action was posted and we often did not have access to places that reposted our videos.   Animal Care:  Rescued liger and 2 tigers.  What do we do when a baby Florida bobcat arrives that is still nursing? We find a domestic cat who is nursing kittens and hope she will “adopt” the baby bobcat.  Big Cat Rescue's version of Growing Up Bobcat takes you day by day through the challenges of rescuing a baby bobcat, hand rearing her and teaching her all she needs to know so that she can one day be set free.  Watch for Hope to be released in the spring of 2009.   Big Cat Rescue planned Chance the bobcat's escape for months. Last year a baby bobcat call came in as the third one in three weeks. He only had one eye and a lump on his belly the size of an orange. Big Cat Rescue was there to get him the medical attention he needed. Emergency surgery repaired the hernia in his abdominal wall. The swelling was the contents of his intestines and other internal organs that had spilled out of the muscled area and were rubbing away at the inner lining of his skin. The attending vet, Dr. Liz Wynn, believes that his hernia and missing eye were caused by some sort of trauma. The area where he was found is completely surrounded by development in West Tampa, but bobcats are often reported there and last year one was found as road kill. After months of recuperation and rehabilitation, Chance the yearling bobcat was released. Watch the movie and see his wild dash for freedom: http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00190.htm   As our population of exotic cats continue to age, we are dealing with more and more medical issues.  You may have seen some of these procedures on our You Tube site where we have dealt with abscesses, tumors and rotting teeth.  Our cats live about twice as long as cats would in the wild, so their parts begin to wear out, long before the cats are through with them.  Some of our 2008 surgeries have included draining a hemtoma on Windstar the Bobcat's ear, removing a cancerous growth from Trucha the tiger and treating a bite wound after her sister bit her.   Removing a non cancerous growth from her sister, Modnic the tiger, pulling what was left of Indian Summer's rotten teeth to stop the infection, treating a fracture to Cachanga Caracal's front paw and removing rotting teeth from King the tiger.  Shiloh went in to the vet for an evaluation of his rotten teeth and was found to be suffering from bone cancer.  He is the 19 year old cage mate of Indian Summer and was put to sleep to end his misery.   Most captive cats do not get the early nutrition they need for healthy bones and teeth because their owners pull them from their mothers to bottle raise them.  There is no substitute for their own mother's milk and their natural diet in the wild.  While we try to supplement their diets and feed them whole prey, it is always too little, too late.  These great cats were not designed for lives of captivity.  Our hope and your help will ensure a future where wild cats live in the wild and not in cages. Read tributes to our cats who have passed on at: https://sites.google.com/site/bigcattributes/home   Only 4% of our budget is spent on fundraising, so that is why it is so easy to see where your donations go.  The cats got lots of cage enlargements and improvements in 2008.   Our snow leopard cat-a-tat was built in 1997 and featured a freezer box that is air conditioned 24/7 where the snow leopards could choose to go when it got too hot.  11 years ago these enclosures were our most noteworthy and still offer more comfort than most, but due to their shape and location, there was no way to expand them as we have done with most of our other cats' cages. We have two snow leopards and three cage sections, but had no good way to shift the cats from one side to another.  After Shaq the black leopard passed away, It only took volunteers a couple of days to join Shaq's two sections to one section of the old snow leopard enclosure.  Volunteers then spent days painting the cages, landscaping and hauling in logs and lots of stuff for Chloe the snow leopard to enjoy.  Finally the big day came for her to gain access to her new area.  See her enjoying her new, enlarged space here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00205.htm   It's like musical chairs but with big cats!  Windstar moved into the waterfall cage next to Aquarius the Fishing Cat.  Of all of our bobcats, Windstar loves pools the most, so while his cat-a-tat was getting some upgrades, he vacationed with a lake side view and a fish filled private pond.  Now that his enclousure has been remodeled he has returned to his home with its window view into the President's office.   Nyla leopard has been on the list to get an 8 x 12 concrete den, cleverly disguised as a fern covered hill, with a huge room addition since August of last year.  Her project kept getting pushed back due to the rescue of four tigers from a facility that was shut down by USDA in FL and 2 lions and 2 tigers who were rescued from Ohio.  Now Nyla has a hurricane shelter like all of the other cats and she is really loving it.   Snorkel was relocated up next to Auroara's old one acre enclosure next to Shere Khan and China Doll. He will be on the tour path now and rescuers are sure that he will enjoy his new digs. Snorkel is very social and loves to snort and chuff at keepers when they clean his Cat-a-tat or when they are feeding him.   When rescuers released Snorkel into his new pad, he excitedly toured the perimeter, checked out his swimming pond, jumped on top of his den to get a better view of his territory and then chowed down on some fresh grass growing in the enclosure. All the while Shere Khan followed Snorkel, watching his every move. Keepers dug out several large weeds that were growing in Snorkel's previous home and then loaded up Flavio into the tiger transport. What was old to Snorkel was brand new and fun for Flavio. He hopped right into transport and moved just one Cat-a-tat over. All the new smells will keep him busy for quite a while.   Moving all these tigers around does have a purpose. Now two empty tiger enclosures could be joined together to make a double tiger enclosure for Trucha and Modnic. The new enclosure gave them almost twice the room. At Big Cat Rescue there are a few empty enclosures that are set aside for projects such as these. This way as an enclosure needs to be maintained, repaired, replanted or whatever else, Keepers can relocate the resident feline to one of the empty Cat-a-tats. Because we rescued three more big cats this year, we only have one empty enclosure suitable for tigers and could really use a couple more spares for these moveabouts.   The operant conditioning program has become a crucial element in making these relocations go smoothly. Through the use of operant conditioning Keepers are able to get nearly any cat into transport or their feeding lockouts by simply rewarding the cats with their favorite treats. CleoCatra Bobcat has a new, duplex with elevated dens, lots of logs and thick green ferns and bushes.  When she moved out of her old, single sided enclosure, Vern was able to connect it to Cherokee Bobcat's single sided cage.  Now Cherokee has a big duplex, giving her twice as much space as she had before.  She already had lots of ferns and foliage, but now she has a lot more room to run.   We took down a lot of dead pine trees and have planted lush landscaping in cat-a-tats that were renovated to be a new home for Mac the Cougar, Bobcats Bobby Blue Rose and Indian Summer.  When Indian Summer moved, her enclosure was connected to Bobcats, Running Bear and Little White Dove's single cage.  That gave them a duplex and the best climbing tree in the sanctuary.  (Indian Summer is 19 and her climbing days have long since passed)  These younger cats (11 yrs) love to climb and now we frequently see them lounging high in their new tree house.   It took four years of raising funds and a year of permitting hassles but only 2 weeks to build the first phase of the 10 foot high concrete wall that will one day surround Big Cat Rescue.  See photos of this imposing barrier and find out who helped:  http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/zoning.htm   The faithful followers of our site have probably noticed the new addition of pet related articles we have posted to benefit the lives of pets.  http://bigcatrescue.org/pets/000pets.htm   We launched a huge campaign to upgrade two of the largest and most expensive enclosures that housed Auroara, Shere Khan and China Doll the tigers.  See a slide show of the cage enhancements and the biggest of our cats having the biggest of times. http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/TigerCages.htm   As Big Cat Rescue has become more successful in ending the trafficking of exotic and endangered wild cats we have drawn the wrath of the breeders and dealers. Our lives have been threatened and our vehicles vandalized. Twelve tires on our van, trucks and trailers were rigged to explode at high speeds over a 3 month period.  We mounted surveillance cameras around the property and on the rehab cages so we can monitor the bobcats without exposing them to humans. http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008cameras.htm   Education:  On March 27th, 2008 Big Cat Rescue was honored to host almost 100 visitors from a very special audience. The American Animal Hospital Association was visiting Tampa for AAHA's 75th Anniversary Yearly Conference held this year in sunny Tampa, Florida.  This specialized group of attendees included veterinarians; practice managers; vet technicians, assistants and support staff; vet students, and family guests. Read more:  http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008AAHA.htm   In April Big Cat Rescue was the featured story at Encyclopedia Britannica. Anita Wolff had contacted Jamie Veronica to ask for permission to use some of her photos and she suggested they contact Carole Baskin about some of the legislative work we are doing. Encyclopedia Britannica devotes an impressive section of their site as a source of information, a call for action, and a stimulus to thought regarding humanity's relationship with the animals with whom we share our planet. They support worldwide efforts to ensure humane treatment of animals, develop the understanding of their nature, promote their survival, and protect and restore the environment. We are honored to be a part of the great work they are doing to educate, inform and enlighten.  Read it here and see some of Jamie's photos they have put to use: http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2008/04/big-cat-rescue/   Our Education Department had to raise their prices to cope with growing demand, but our financial return continues to escalate.  We offer about 220 outreach and field trips per year and have committed to offering 12 of them for free each year to lower income schools, but have already given 30 such free tours this year and expect that demand will continue to rise with the cost of transportation.  Even when we offer the tours for free, many schools cannot come because they cannot afford the $200.00 fee for their busses.  Our Education Department began writing grant proposals to raise the money needed for the buses.   Huge gaps in U.S. regulations for tigers held in captivity could make the big cats a target for illegal trade, wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC and World Wildlife Fund found in the first-ever comprehensive report on captive tiger regulations across the United States. The report, “Paper Tigers?: The Role of the U.S. Captive Tiger Population in the Trade in Tiger Parts,” found there are no reliable regulatory mechanisms to keep track of captive tigers in the United States. Big Cat Rescue provided investigators with crucial data and enabled them to see how the lack of protective laws and enforcement are exploited by animal abusers in the real world. http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/   Big Cat Rescue wants to end the need for big cat sanctuaries, but until that day comes we are involved daily in assisting other sanctuaries.  We help improve their ability to convey their message and assist with manpower, resources and guidance on issues such as fundraising, animal care, volunteer training and more.   On November 21st we began assisting the Parco Zoo Punta Verde in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy in a three-year study on Caracal caracal for the purpose of providing information on the species to expand the knowledge of the behavioral, social and pathological state of Caracal caracal in captivity and to create husbandry guidelines on species.  GoNomad.com posted letters from Big Cat Rescuers about animal interaction opportunities that exploit big cats as a way of educating tourists of the real issues involved in keeping big cats captive.   Modified our Children's DNA ID disks so that they can be used in MO as well as FL and distributed 140 via the Assemblies of God in Springfield.  Once a month all of our Big Cat Rescue Volunteers meet to share lunch, stories about the cats and to get the essential training they need to make Big Cat Rescue the haven it is for the cats. In April we had a guest speaker, Laurie Macdonald, Florida Program Director of Defenders of Wildlife, come and educate us about the issues facing the Florida Panther, bobcats, black bears and other native wildlife.  Our boots were lined up at the door as 70 or so of us sat on the floor, mesmerized by her slide show presentation that included some of our own cats as stand-ins for their wild cousins.   Love is the universal language and the one we speak best at Big Cat Rescue, but now our website, which is well over 5,500 pages of information, is available in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.  Check out the google Translate box in the lower left hand side of every page of our site to translate the page into one of the supported languages.  The translations are far from perfect as this technology is still being developed, but we are happy to be able to reach so many more people around the globe.   Legislation/Education:  Thanks to all of you who wrote letters, attended town hall meetings and met with your lawmakers, the world is a little kinder place. Many of the worst breeders, dealers and tiger-tamer-wanabees were finally shut down.  Most of these collectors were fined or shut down by USDA or the state, or both in some cases:   • CA:  Hesperia Zoo AKA Cinema Safari Zoo owned by Stephanie Taunton was put on probation and fined $30,000 by USDA. • FL: Horseshoe Creek owned by Darryl Atkinson was shut down by USDA and FL. • FL:  Wild Things' land owned by Kathy Stearns went into foreclosure and bankruptcy. • FL:  Amazing Exotics appears to have been shut down.  It was notorious for allowing contact between large exotic cats and the public for a fee.  The head of their tiger-tamer-wanabee program was Ron Holiday (real name Ron Guay) who gained fame in the HBO movie Cat Dancers and the book by the same name.  His career in dancing with big cats ended when a white tiger he had raised from a cub killed his wife and his lover within a few days of each other in 1998. • IN:  Great Cats of Indiana, formerly known as Cougar Valley Farms, Inc., owned by Robert B. Craig and Laura Proper came under investigation by USDA. • IN:  Ervin's Jungle Wonders owned by Ervin Hall was shut down by USDA for a three year term. • MO:  Wesa-A-Geh-Ya owned by Sandra Smith was shut down after a visitor lost his leg to a tiger. • MS:  Cougar Haven closed its doors for good, sending the last 3 big cats to Big Cat Rescue. • NC:  Metrolino Wildlife Park owned by Steven Macaluso was shut down by USDA. • NE:  Zoo Nebraska was ordered to find appropriate homes for their big cats and bears. • OH:  Pearson's L & L Exotics owned by Lorenzo Pearson was shut down by USDA following six years of violations including the mauling death of his own two year old child. • TX:  Zoo Dynamics, owned by Marcus Cook was fined $100,000.00 You can read the USDA reports and news stories at http://www.911AnimalAbuse.com   Better laws were passed:   • CITES Decision 14.69: Parties with intensive operations breeding tigers on a commercial scale shall implement measures to restrict the captive population to a level supportive only to conserving wild tigers; tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives. (Most of the tiger breeding in the U.S. is for photo booths and petting sessions. None of the breeding of generic tigers does anything to conserve wild tigers. Ask your lawmakers to uphold this CITES decision and end the breeding of tigers outside of the Species Survival Plans in AZA accredited zoos.)  • MO: Effective March 2008 MO Wildlife Code changed as follows:  Safety:  Because of the inherent danger and potential liability associated with the possession of bears, mountain lions, wolves and their hybrids, the Conservation Commission now requires owners of these animals to identify each individual with a microchip embedded under the animal's skin. The owners must also submit a blood or tissue sample for DNA analysis. All animals must be registered with the Department when acquired, born, at death, or when sold. This will aid enforcement of illegal sales of these animals and will help Department biologists distinguish escaped and released captives from wild animals.  MO Conservationist magazine Feb issue at magazine@mdc.mo.gov where Wildlife Code book for 2008 has been released. • Sheriff Kevin T. Harrison asks county to ban private possession of dangerous exotics. • December 11, 2008 Park Hills, MO bans most exotic animals, except small monkeys, within the city limits. • OK:  5/7/08 Gov. Henry signed Senate Bill 1463 into law last week. Sen. James A. Williamson (R-Tulsa) introduced the legislation which prohibits the use of computer-assisted remote control hunting of wildlife. The bill also makes it illegal to engage in, sell, offer for sale, assist in or provide facilities for computer-assisted remote control hunting. Thirty-eight states prohibit Internet hunting, and a federal bill introduced in the U.S. Congress – S. 2422 and H.R. 2711, the Computer- Assisted Remote Hunting Act – would end Internet hunting nationwide. • UT:  Internet Hunting Banned.  Gov. Huntsman signed Senate Bill 164 into law. Sen. Michael Waddoups (R-6th) introduced the legislation which prohibits the use of a computer or other device to remotely hunt an animal.37 states now prohibit Internet hunting, and a federal bill introduced in the U.S. Congress – S. 2422 and H.R. 2711, the Computer- Assisted Remote Hunting Act – would end Internet hunting nationwide. • USDA roared out in support of Haley's Act HR 1947 but Congress never took the time to hear the bill in 2008.  http://bigcatrescue.org/laws/zPDFlaws/USDAcommentHR1947.pdf • Iberville, LA:  Referring back to a law that has been on Iberville Parish's books since 1993, the LA Wildlife and Fisheries Dept. finally banned the notorious Tiger Truck Stop from using live tigers as a public display. Thanks to Sky Williamson and more than 11,000 letters from Big Cat Rescuers, the Tiger Truck Stop was finally ordered to remove the last remaining tiger from this truck stop cage in Grosse Tete, LA. This should have ended a sad history of 21 years of tigers in small concrete cages in the middle of this busy truck stop, but the owner filed a lawsuit to keep Louisiana's Wildlife and Fisheries from doing their job.  At year end we are still fighting to Free Tony the tiger at FreeTony.com   Directing the traffic to the legislative sections had to be more creative however, because by and large, people don't want to think about politics.  The cat's stories and their photographs had to be compelling enough to overcome this typical aversion to political matters and we feel that we have had considerable success in doing that since we have been able to track 728,656 visitors to our legislative pages in 2008.  1,653,788 legislative pages were viewed in 2008. 1,743,210 visits to our main web site bigcatrescue.org resulted in 5,794,358 pages being viewed.  Combined visitors were 2,471,866 who viewed 7,448,146 pages or 6,772 visitors per day who viewed 20,406 pages per day.  Our peak day in 2008 was May 13 with 9,340 page views on bigcatrescue.org alone.    The most popular campaign was to free Tony the Tiger from the Truck Stop and accounted for one quarter of all letters sent.   Carole filled in for Allen Green at the Public Interest Land Air Water conference that attracted 3,500 people from all over the U.S. who care about issues such as wildlife trafficking, climate change and other important issues concerning our planet's health.   At the Sept. 17-19 Florida Wildlife Commission hearing in Jacksonville discussed public comments on the Captive Wildlife Rules.  Of the 1,700 comments our supporters were 1,430 of them.  44,460 letters were sent via our CatLaws.com site in 2008 which is up 25% from last year.  We now have 42,826 members registered to help us with email campaigns.  That is up 9,542 in 2008.   Big Cat Wins Abroad:     • Brazil:  12/11/08 After ongoing efforts by many animal organizations an animal group in Brazil has successfully lobbied and a law has been passed banning all animals in circuses there. • Johor, Malaysia Bans ALL Commercial Hunting:  The Johor government banned all forms of commercial hunting.  Johor is home to the Endau-Rompin National Park, the second largest national park in Peninsular Malaysia. The state will lose some money in licensing fees — in 2006, it issued more than 2,000 hunting licenses — but that pales into insignificance when compared with the benefits of such a move. Johor wants to save the tiger. The ban would also help the Department of Wildlife and National Parks to collect data, train staff and curb wildlife crime. Classified as an endangered species, the tiger is fully protected. But its food is not. The ban should ensure that the population of animals that the tiger preys on — such as wild boar and deer — will increase. If the tigers have sufficient food, they are also unlikely to wander into areas with human habitation. • Australia:  August 3, 2008 Environment Minister Peter Garrett immediately banned the import of Savannah cats into Australia upon learning they were a cross between a Serval and domestic cat.  He said the Savannah cat posed “an extreme threat to Australia's native wildlife.” • Australia:  Craig Bush, the “Lion Man” was ousted from the Zion Wildlife Gardens by his mom.   Fundraising and Marketing:  Big Cat Rescue was reported favorably in the news 70 times in 2008.   Some of the national press included shows on Animal Planet, Discovery and the History Channel in addition to such publications and Encyclopedia Britannica and Women's World Magazine and major media coverage in several other countries as well.   The Fur Ball netted over $110,000.00!  Over 550 big cat supporters had a blast at the Fur Ball; dining, dancing, shopping in the Bargain Sale, tasting and voting in the cake contest, playing the Wheel of Fur-Tune casino table and bidding in the silent auction and live auctions. Spirited bidders in the live auction won exotic trips see lions in South Africa, tigers in Thailand, visits Paris, Brussels and London and golf at St. Andrews.  Roger and Wilhelmina Hopper  won the mountain condo vacation in the costume contest.  The men's and lady's Rolex watches donated by AvantGold were won by Trey Ashmore and Linda Colon.  The Wheel of Fur-tune raffle prize of $1000 Gift Certificate to AvantGold went to Richard Bosley and the King of Feasts cake contest prize went to Cakes Plus.  Watch the video of the night's fun and see if we caught you on film in the photos posted under the video. http://bigcatrescue.org/000archives/2008furball.htm   We had 24,734 visitors this year, compared to a comparably sized zoo that hosts 700,000 visitors annually.  With our annual budget approaching a million dollars a year, we have to be creative in our fund raising, so we turned to the 1,743, 210 web site visitors to bigcatrescue.org and on Valentine's Day asked them to shop in our new online store at http://www.bigcatrescue.biz/  On July 30th we began cross promoting the online store throughout our main web site.   Watch this new episode of Magnificent Obsessions starring our very own Scott Lope.  Lion Feeding Frenzy premiered with lots of interest sparked with each airing.  Scott has also been featured as the big cat expert in Untamed and Uncut and Monster Quest in the U.S. and U.K.   On 2/9/08 we added this Social Bookmarking option to every page of our site to encourage visitors to add us to their social networks.   People who love animals love to share their photos and stories.  On March 1st Big Cat Rescue unleashed a Chat Big Cats community.  It offers unlimited storage space for members' photos, videos and music.   Members can post their own blogs, or join in our forums and contests. It is a YouTube/ MySpace styled community made up entirely of animal lovers. By year end there were 785 members and nearly 2,500 videos, songs, photos and blogs posted to the site.  Get in on the action free at http://www.chatbigcats.com   In late December, 2008, we qualified for google Adsense ads to run on YouTube.  We ended the year as the 6th most viewed Non Profit of all time and the 8th most subscribed Non Profit with 4,265 subscribers and 111,015 channel views.  By year end we had 139 videos posted on YouTube and we began using TubeMogul to post to other popular sites like google, Blip, MetaCafe, Revver and others.  http://www.youtube.com/bigcatrescue   Our MySpace account now has 6,291 friends, 254,024,879 people in our network and our site has had 34,443 profile views. http://www.myspace.com/1BigCatRescue   We took our cats' faces to Face Book: http://apps.new.facebook.com/causes/68903 and enhanced our presence on Care2.org and many other such sites.  We added 134 contacts to our LinkedIn presence here:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/BigCatRescue If you live in the Tampa bay area, look for Big Cat Rescue videos on Brighthouse Channel 340 in the Pet Performances section.  Some of your favorite videos, like Hope the baby bobcat are playing there right now.   Big Cat Rescue now has an Endowment Fund to provide a secure future for the cats. The Fund resides at the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we were able to qualify for a 33% matching fund by raising $150,000.00.  The Community Foundation granted us a $50,000.00 match and this brought our total to $200,000.00 that can generate income to provide for the cats in years to come. http://bigcatrescue.org/communityfoundationoftampabay.htm   We initiated the Legacy Society. This recognizes supporters who have included the cats at Big Cat Rescue in their estate planning. For more info visit:  http://bigcatrescue.org/legacy.htm   We began offering Instant Bingo in our gift shop and created free bingo to play online as well as a site for non US members to play charity bingo where the big cats win every time the player loses.   http://www.bigcatbingo.com   On 7/31/08 our Google grant went up from $10,000 a month in free ads to $40,000.00 a month at a cost of only $1,500.00 to us.   Our Ink Recycling new supporter count was up 324% increase over September 2007 thanks to 235 new ink recycling supporters!!!  This came following a 1/2 page ad about it in the fall issue of The Big Cat Times.  On Sept. 15th we began distribution of newsletters from Dunedin to Sarasota in 20 CVS, Bally's, Sears, Blockbuster and Albertson's stores at a cost of $150.00 a month.  Read all of the back issues here: http://bigcatrescue.org/cat_tales.htm   Placed first paid ads in Cat Fancy, CATS, Dog Fancy and DOGS to appear in Dec. issue.   In November we began accepting American Express and Discover credit cards.   Thanks to your votes Big Cat Rescue was awarded the People's Choice Award by WEDU, our local PBS affiliate. More than 80 charities competed in a 16 county radius for this award, but Big Cat Rescue took 31% of the vote.  This is the second year in a row that Big Cat Rescue has taken home this coveted prize. We have been advised that we are finalists again for the award in 2009.   In the lead for America's Best Animal Shelter.  Winners to be announced in 2009.   Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats:  Big Cat Rescue was welcomed into the International Tiger Coalition, which is a group of 39 organizations committed to saving the tiger, based upon our unique ability to address the captive issues that imperil tigers in the wild.   The goal is 10,000 tigers in the wild in 10 years.  There are less than 3,000 in the wild currently and we are losing one per day due to poaching.  We persuaded ITC to keep US tiger farming issue as part of their mission to eradicate because legalized trade puts even more pressure on wild populations.   What makes this initiative unlike all of the past programs is two fold.  39 major conservation groups, including Big Cat Rescue, have joined forces with one common goal:  Save the tiger in the wild.  There have been other joint efforts, but none this large and never before has an entity as powerful as the World Bank been a committed partner in saving wild places for wild animals.   Harrison Ford, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, thanks to his latest Indiana Jones movie breaking records in theaters, is on the board of Conservation International and spoke at the June 9th launch.  Also in attendance were our friend, the beautiful Bo Derek, who won the Wildlife Guardian Award at the Fur Ball last year, and Robert Duvall.  HSUS brought Tiger Kids to the launch and this photo is from their participation as a ITC members.  See these celebrities up close and purrsonal in the most important roles of their lives in this video we shot and find out more about how the World Bank and the International Tiger Coalition plan to save the tiger. http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00206.htm   Other:  On 4/4/08 we had another perfect USDA inspection.  We were “green” before it was cool with our recycling, water restrictions and other steps we have taken to walk softly and leave only footprints, but things are going to get a lot greener, and yellower and purpler. Our friends at Biological Research Associates lovingly relocated 2000 pickerelweed, golden canna and gulf coast spikerush.  They spent an afternoon transforming the lake bank and by summer you should see a green three foot swath of native plants that flower in yellow and purple like irises and canas. Kevin Atkins, PWS Senior Project Scientist and Vice President of Biological Research Associates, who once worked with Belinda Wright in the wilds of India to save the tiger, has a deep affection for the big cats.  In reference to wild excursions and his upcoming trip to Africa he commented, “It's a beautiful planet.” http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008Greener.htm   With more than 100 big cats on 45 acres, we are always in the process of refurbishing and replacing old cages.  Landscaping is another ongoing project whether it be hauling off tree limbs lost in a storm, to mowing acres of grass, to installing beautiful plants to give the cats shade, privacy and the excitement of the butterflies. Most of the trees and flowers at Big Cat Rescue were donated and this video thanks John Deere, Tampa Bay Nursery, Babs of Garden Magic, our volunteers and those of you who make it possible. http://bigcatrescue.org/video/00192.htm   Helping Others:  Big Cat Rescue offered a $5,000 reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for shooting a young, female tiger to death. Her body was found next to an apartment complex and I-35E in Dallas, TX on Christmas Day. This was our first offer of a reward to solve a crime and it generated leads but no convictions.  We donated thousands of dollars worth of our tours to other worthy animal non profits including Animal Coalition of Tampa, Boxer Rescue, the Humane Society, the Lakeland SPCA, the Largo SPCA, National Humane, and many, many others.   America's injured veterans have found Big Cat Rescue a place of tranquility where they can surround themselves with beauty and grace;  a respite from all that they have endured protecting our country.  It started with one group and now they come to visit quite frequently.  It's on the house and we provide lunch when we can as well by asking donors to contribute.  They have done their part in keeping Americans free and we are doing our part to fight for that same freedom for the big cats.  Offered to provide mounted cougar and a native bobcat who was road kill to the Florida Conservation Commission to use in their exhibit at the fairgrounds, if they would stop using live cats.   Then and Now:     Our CFO, Howard Baskin, compiled a ten year snapshot of the sanctuary and its growth.  This is just a comparison between 1996 and 2007. Wildlife on Easy Street to Big Cat Rescue   1996    2007 Visitors    85  24,574 Total Expenses  $1,686,386 *    $926,619 Total Income    $0  $1,509,284 Total Net Assets    $148,455    $2,760,047 Spent on Program Services   100%    86% ** *funded by Founder        ** 14% spent on Management and Fundraising combined   Officers and Members of the Board of Directors in 2008 and meetings: • CEO and Founder  Carole Baskin (not compensated by BCR) • President and Chairman of the Board Jamie Veronica • Vice President & BOD Cathy Neumann (not compensated by BCR) • Secretary Jen Ruszczyk (not compensated by BCR) • Treasurer Howard Baskin (not compensated by BCR) • Director Dr. Liz Wynn, DVM  (not compensated by BCR for her role as a Director)   Paid Staff:  Figures from 2007 as the final reports for 2008 are not in. Check back after April 15, 2009:  We went from 3 paid staff to 7 and now provide worker's comp insurance.  We are working to offer health insurance if enough of our staff opt for it.   • Operations Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Scott Lope $35,000.00 incl. bonuses • Staff Manager, Editor & Creative Director Jamie Veronica $24,700.00 (compensated but not for her work as a member of the board)  Gift Shop & Guest Services  Honey Wayton $22,800.00 • Intern Director & Lead AdvoCat Tiffany Deavor $25,000.00 Replaced by Kathryn Quaas in 2008. Education Directors Dr. Beth Kamhi & Coleen Kremer $14,000.00 combined • Vernon Stairs Cage Builder and Maintenance $35,600.00 • Jessica Allen took Bridget's place in Feb.  Chris took Brian's place May 1. • LaWanna Jones hired as an independent contractor 3/1/08 to work on web issues.  Debra Scott was hired as an independent contractor to do CapWiz alerts in July.   All of our animal care is done by volunteers or by staff who also volunteer time before & after work.   Volunteers:  Big Cat Rescue had 110 volunteers in 2008 who clocked in 39,902.57 man-power hours in addition to staff, intern and Volunteer Committee member hours.  Roughly the equivalent workforce of 23 more full time staff.   2008 The S.A.V.E. award for Scratch's Award 4 Volunteer Excellence.  The recipients were January – Becky Gagliardo, February – Rich Bluder, March – Mary Lou Geis, April – Sherry Levesque, May – Erin Newman, June – Scott Milshaw, July – Shiloh Grant, August – who?  , September – Rachel Pipitone, October – who? , November – who?  and December –  who?  Winners of the S.A.V.E. award are allowed to direct $500.00 to the cat project of their choice.   The Volunteer of the Year Award is Big Cat Rescue's most prestigious award.  It is also the hardest award to bestow as we have the best volunteers in the world and so many of them deserve our highest honors and praise.  This year's recipient was announced at the 2008 Fur Ball by Cathy Neumann, our Vice President.  Because of her outstanding service Cathy won the award herself so frequently that the only way to get her out of the running was to name the award after her and let her present it each year.  This year's winner was Becky Gagliardo.  Check out Becky's hero page to find out more about her. http://bigcatrescue.org/hero/beckygagliardo.htm   Staff and Volunteer Training:  On Jan. 25 Coleen Kremer, Dr. Beth Kamhi, Scott Lope, Jamie Veronica, Honey Wayton, Tiffany Deavor, Jen Ruszczyk, Jessica Allen, Barbara Frank, Dr. Liz Wynn, DVM, Howard Baskin and Carole Baskin met for a four hour crash course in People Mapping by Dr. Mike Lillibridge.http://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/PeopleMap.htm  Jamie Veronica and Dr. Liz Wynn completed the Safe Capture Course on Sept. 15, 2008.  We want to say a special thank you to four of our staff & volunteers who have just completed their 10th year of service to the cats:  Bill Lewis, Mary Lou Geis, Cathy Neumann and Scott Lope.  

Hey, it's Jesse. Thanks for tuning into Season 3 of Breakthrough Builders!In case you didn't notice, we've made a few changes to the experience of the show - you've probably taken note of some new intro and outro music. That's just one of the many cool things that's happened because of our partnership with StudioPod Media in San Francisco. They've joined up with the team here at Breakthrough Builders to do editing, production, and music. Thanks to TJ, Julian, Katie, and Deanna for partnering up with me and Todd to make the show happen.So, we're now 5 episodes into our 8-episode Season 3. Before we round the bend into the final lap of Season 3 conversations, I wanted to take a minute to tell you about and hype up our next 3 Guests!Our guest on May 26 will be Jeetu Patel, who runs the Security and Collaboration businesses at Cisco. He's got an incredible story about emigrating to the US from India, remaining at one company for 17 years, then going on to product and strategy leadership roles at EMC, Box, and Cisco. He's a great leader and an even better human being, he's accomplished, he's humble, he's reflective, and he's got an incredibly human story to tell.We're off the week of the Memorial Day Holiday in the US. Then, on June 9th, you'll hear my conversation with Lakshmi Shenoy, the CEO of Embarc Collective, a Tampa-Florida based organization founded in 2018 at the nexus of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Lakshmi moved to Tampa from Chicago, where she led strategy at innovation incubator 1871, after meeting and being persuaded by the vision of Jeff Vinink for the future growth of Tampa. Lakshmi talked to me about how she brings together creative energy from her days at Leo Burnett, brand acumen from her time at P&G, Time, and Prophet Brand Strategy, and the startup gusto she honed working with the community at 1871. And she explained how exciting it is to be a CEO and an entrepreneur for and with entrepreneurs in a region that's experiencing the early waves of transformative growth.And, for our last episode of Season 3, on June 16th, I talk to Alex Hood, the Chief Product Officer at team-based work management platform Asana. We haven't recorded that conversation yet but Alex is someone I've known for a while and you can trust me that it'll be a great one. Alex has been a product person his entire career - at Nasdaq, Intuit, TubeMogul, and now Asana - and if there's anybody who can tell the story of what it's like to build and thrive in a career in product management, it's Alex.Keep sharing your input on the show, your reactions to the episodes, and of course, any suggestions for Guests you want to hear on the show! Contact us through our website, over at breakthrough-builders.com, that's breakthrough-hyphen-builders-dot-com.Again, thanks so much for taking the time to follow or subscribe to the show, and if you're on Apple Podcasts, to leave a rating and a review. If you've already done it, thank you! And if you like the show, please, tell your friends!Looking forward to having you again next week, on Breakthrough Builders. 

Miguel Armaza sits down with Charles Moldow, General Partner at Foundation Capital, a legendary Venture Capital firm founded in 1995 that has raised nine funds, received over $3B in committed capital, has seen 28 IPOs, and over 80 acquisitions from their portfolio companies. Charles has been at Foundation since 2005, having led impressive investments like Uber, LendingClub, OnDeck and Rappi. Before Foundation, he lived the startup journey and was part of the founding team of two high-profile startups with successful exits in 97 and 2006. He is also a proud alum of our amazing Wharton School! We discuss: - Charles experience as an operator and entrepreneur through the dotcom bubble and why he eventually transitioned to the investing side - Thought process behind his investment strategy and reflections on some early mistakes as a venture capitalist - All things Fintech, including trends he’s most excited about - Foundation’s impressive track record and their secret behind this success - Why he’s particularly excited about the entrepreneurial scene in Latin America - And a lot more Charles Moldow Charles current portfolio contains fintech breakouts and emerging direct to consumer businesses. Fintech investments include StatesTitle, HealthIQ, LendingHome, Auxomoney, OneFinance, Hatch, Branch, Canopy, Agentero, Deepfraud and Decent. Direct to consumer businesses include Rappi, Rover, NextRoll and Clubhouse. Charles has seen four portfolio companies go public with Uber, LendingClub, OnDeck and Everyday Health. He has also managed nine companies through acquisition: Powerset by Microsoft, Motif by Schwab, Coverwallet by Aon, Finxera by Stonepoint Capital, Xoopit by Yahoo!, CloudOn by Dropbox, Zoomer by GrubHub, Refresh by LinkedIn and Bureau of Trade by Ebay. In 2016, CB Insights listed Charles among The Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and Forbes named Charles to the Midas List for the second time—citing among other factors his deep experience in all things marketplace lending. Charles attended the 2016 White House FinTech Summit, one year after publishing “A Trillion Dollar Market by the People, For the People,” which became the authoritative must-read on the potential of and challenges facing the marketplace lending industry. The paper has been downloaded more than 30,000 times and has frequently been cited by leading thinkers in finance and the media. Charles is an alumnus of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Business School. Charles moonlights as a AAA little league coach and family vacation planner. Foundation Capital Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. As an early-stage venture capital firm, Foundation has lived through the emergence of the World Wide Web, the IT war of the 90s, the dot-com bubble, Web 2.0, the mobile revolution, the Great Recession, the rise of Big Data, software’s ascension to the cloud, and the birth of blockchain. The wisdom of those experiences remains with the company, transmitted to each successive generation of partners. Two-thirds of VC firms never make it past their first fund; only 10 percent survive beyond their fourth. Foundation is 25 years and nine funds strong, with over $3B in committed capital, 28 IPOs, and 80+ acquisitions to their name. Their fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments have reinvented industries and defined new markets, with companies that include Lending Club, Sunrun, TubeMogul, Chegg, and Netflix. For a quarter of a century—through boom and bust, prosperity or calamity—Foundation Capital has endured, evolved, and thrived. Building companies is in their bones. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Miguel's Twitter: twitter.com/MiguelArmaza Miguel's Substack: https://bit.ly/3jWIpqp

Paul Martino is a venture capital investor and has raised 5 funds totaling over $350 million in capital. That money has been deployed into FanDuel, Grove, Ipsy, and SpotHero.   Before forming Bullpen, Paul was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy.   Prior to his investing career, Paul founded four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust) and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). He is the holder of over a dozen core patents covering social networking and big data.    In this episode, Paul and Aaron discuss the FanDuel success, his advice for startups going through tough times, and the different space that venture capital investors make their mark.   Sign up for a Weekly Email that will Expand Your Mind.   Paul Martino’s Challenge; Start every meeting on time   Connect with Paul Martino Linkedin Twitter Bullpen Capital Website paul@bullpencap.com If you liked this interview, check out episode 231 with Andy Rachleff where we discuss how to find non-consensus investing ideas that work.   Text Me What You Think of This Episode 412-278-7680 Underwritten by Piper Creative Piper Creative makes creating podcasts, vlogs, and videos easy.    How? Click here and Learn more.   We work with Fortune 500s, medium-sized companies, and entrepreneurs.   Follow Piper as we grow YouTube Instagram Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | Spotify 

Nick Livingston is a math major who moved to NYC originally to get into the music business - but ended up as a Rockstar Agency recruiter and the ultimately the Director of TA for MTV. He moved back to the bay to get his MBA from Berkeley whilst running TA for TubeMogul and now focuses his efforts on his own company Honeit which is helping companies simplify the hiring process through the capture of conversation and interview soundbites and intelligence.

In this episode, Hall welcomes Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Foundation Capital was founded in 1995. As an early-stage venture capital firm, they have lived through the emergence of the World Wide Web, the IT war of the 90s, the dot-com bubble, Web 2.0, the mobile revolution, the Great Recession, the rise of Big Data, software’s ascension to the cloud, and the birth of blockchain. The wisdom of those experiences remains with them, transmitted to each successive generation of partners. Foundation Capital is 25 years and nine funds strong, with over $3B in committed capital, 28 IPOs, and 80+ acquisitions to their name. Their fintech, enterprise, and consumer investments have reinvented industries and defined new markets, with companies that include Lending Club, Sunrun, TubeMogul, Chegg, and Netflix. For a quarter of a century—through boom and bust, prosperity or calamity—Foundation Capital has endured, evolved, and thrived. Building companies is in their bones. The Rubik’s Cube has 43 quintillion combinations – but only one solution. At age 11, Ashu found that solution in 25 seconds flat. Although Ashu hasn’t picked up a Rubik’s Cube in quite a while, he still takes great pleasure in solving complex business challenges. To give just one example, in 2010, an early stage Berkeley-based company that specialized in analytics wanted to get into the media-buying platform business. Ashu helped their small team reach the growing number of brands that were migrating their television advertising to the web. That company, TubeMogul, soon became the leading video-advertising platform for brand advertisers, went public in 2014, and was acquired by Adobe in 2016. Ashu serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Cohesity, Conviva, Eightfold, Fortanix, Layer9, OpsMx, Stacklet, Skyflow, and Turing. In addition, Ashu was responsible for our investments in Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar), Custora (acquired by Amperity), FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast), TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe), and Tubi.tv (acquired by Fox). He has led seed investments in HipDot, Next Force Technology, Oliv.ai, Radiance Labs, Robin Systems, Testim, and has personally invested in Databricks, Falcon Computing, G2 Esports, and VPS. Ashu is passionate about helping technical founders scale as CEOs. His podcast B2B a CEO has featured Eric Yuan, Jennifer Tejada, Aaron Levie, and Tien Tzuo. Before joining Foundation Capital in 2008, Ashu was the general manager for Microsoft’s online-advertising business and led field marketing for the software businesses. Previously, Ashu worked at McKinsey & Company, helping technology companies scale their go-to-market efforts. Earlier in his career, Ashu founded TringTring.com, one of the first search engines in Asia, set up Unilever’s Nepal operations, and led the marketing and pre-sales teams at Cadence Design Systems. Ashu has a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore, where he received the President’s Gold Medal. Ashu has lived in India, Nigeria and Sudan, and today makes his home in California with his wife, Pooja (an entrepreneur as well), and their two sons. Ashu advises investors and entrepreneurs in the space. He also discusses how he sees the industry evolving and the investment thesis of Foundation Capital.  You can visit  Foundation Capital at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .   Ashu can be contacted via email at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .

Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, one of the most iconic venture firms in Silicon Valley. Ashu was first an entrepreneur before becoming an investor and discovering amazing companies like TubeMogul, Cohesity, Eightfold, and Databricks.Listen and learn...How Ashu translated his unique brand of hustle into finding and backing amazing entrepreneursWhy Ashu feels, as an entrepreneur, it’s worse to be too early than too lateThe challenges and opportunities of applying NLP to enterprise software What emerging technology will most impact work in 2031 How the ability to automate routine tasks creates an opportunity to change the world Companies mentioned on the show:Foundation CapitalEightfoldTuringArizeTubeMogulCohesityDatabricks

Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO podcast. I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space and we’re here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so they can be more effective in their jobs. Today I’m excited to have Radhika Parashar join us from Figma. Radhika, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Radhika Parashar: Sure. Hey everyone. Thank you so much for having me, Shawnna and Olivia. So excited to be here. This community is so vibrant and so wonderful. My name is Radhika Parashar. I currently lead sales enablement at Figma. A little bit about myself, I come from a learning and development sort of learning operations background. I’ve spent some time doing this work now at ByteDance, at TubeMogul and in the past at Couchbase. And I think a lot of my interest in this world and my interest in sort of training generally comes from the burning question of learning, how to learn, which I think a lot of us share as a community. For me personally, it comes from my time as someone who was homeschooled actually from kindergarten to 12th grade. So, I think it’s something that I’ve always thought of like just what are the intrinsic motivators? How do you get people to participate? And more importantly, how do we create a culture of learning and a culture of curiosity that can allow people to succeed and motivate in their roles? So that’s a little bit about myself. SS: Well, I’m excited to have you and I now have a whole nother level of respect for your parents homeschooling you because I’ve been thrown into a remote homeschooling situation this year, and it is not easy. But that’s fantastic. I’m so excited that you’re here and I want to broaden this out a little bit with everything that’s occurred over the past several months, driving a rich and diverse culture is becoming a critical priority for a lot of organizations, which I’m extremely excited to see. I think it’s about time. How can enablement help companies embrace this to continue to grow in the next year and beyond? RP: Yeah, that is a really powerful question. I think I would start answering that question by kind of saying that we have such a powerful role in enablement because we kind of sit in this very unique opportunity to be at the forefront, the vortex of everything going on in a company, our role, our opportunity, or our job description. It touches upon literally, I would say, every single role within an organization I think from when you’re thinking of every onboarding, you’re not only talking to HR and ops, you’re talking to product managers, you’re talking to, you know, product marketing. You’re talking to education teams, support, business development. If you have that, your company, it is such a sort off far-reaching scope that with that lens, it’s also our job, I think, to gently remind people about being inclusive and modeling that in our own way. So, one thing I think about a lot is sort of education and onboarding are your first impressions when you join a company and as someone in the enablement world, and especially as like that first face that someone meets. You just being there, you being a person of color, a woman of color, or even just you are modeling that behavior with what you say, can be so, so indicative of what the company’s culture is. So, for us, Figma has a lot of special traditions, I think one of the first things I will say about Figma is like our mission is to make design accessible to all. And I think just that mission alone is such an inclusive mission in that it’s trying its best to make sure that this skill can be something that can empower anyone to do their best work on our tool. And I think if you really think about that, it inspires this really vibrant community of people who are so conscious and who are so open to learning and are so open to being educated, because that’s also a huge part of this, right. Education is critical to diversity, and inclusion initiatives in the sense of that if the more you know about something, the more you are curious to learn about something. The more that culture can sort of be created where other people are also curious. And a lot of that modeling comes from up top. It comes from leadership. It comes from folks who are willing to take a step back and say, wait, I don’t know much about that. I need to be educated. And having that humility to also, you know, take that time, take that effort to learn more about what’s going on. So, I think for us, like when we think of creating that rich and diverse culture, so much if it sits in enablement’s hands. So much of it can be modeled in the way we show up the way we create programs, the thoughtfulness with which we create those programs, right? Hey, have we made concessions for X, Y, and Z? If someone doesn’t know this, how are we going to make sure that we can teach them that? Right. We recently had maker week at Figma, which is this wonderful, twice a year opportunity where the whole company takes time off. Well, not time off necessarily, but takes time away from their day jobs to create something that will be better for Figma as a company. And in that it was just so inspiring and beautiful to see people thinking through like, wait, how do we make this product more accessible to folks? How do we make sure that our values are encompassing of everyone? How do we make sure we’re making tiny tweaks to the processes that we do that will help candidates have better access to the company? How do we make sure that we are being inclusive in everything we do? And say, whether that’s even something as simple as the representation on the website or the skin tones we chose, or the names we choose, all of that stuff matters. And I think that trickles down into the programs we run as well. So now that was a really broad answer to the question, but I think there’s no single answer for this. I think it is a set of behaviors that is a set of values that can ultimately change the way we make this a critical priority. SS: Absolutely. I could not agree more. And you’ve touched on so many of the ways in which sales enablement can play an important role in this, but I want to double click into one of the areas where sales enablement can play a role in driving change and that’s really in hiring and retaining the right sales reps. So, I’d love to hear from your perspective, what are some of the key skills and characteristics that you’re working with your talent team to look for as you’re recruiting new folks and onboarding them into your organization right now? RP: I think the two things we look for honestly are flexibility and curiosity, right? I think right now, flexibility in this current atmosphere is so critically important because not only is everything changing so quickly, and not only are our tooling, our sales motions, our ability to do outreach. Everything is shifting in so many dramatic ways that being able to be flexible and adaptable to everything that’s happening is so critical. And then that curiosity, right? Again, with that change, if you have inherent curiosity, if you have an inherent desire to learn how processes run or learn how something is done. Whether that’s in the space, that’s the product buyer behaviors, whatever it might be, that curiosity will take you so far. So, I think a great way to think through some of this is what can and what can’t you train for. And when we think through onboarding, when we think through the initial sort of introduction that a person might have to a sales team, if they have those two, I think if they have flexibility and curiosity, we were put in a much stronger place to train on, better behavior is trained on. All of the soft skills that you know are important as well but are no replacement for those two major characteristics. And then I think moving on in terms of retaining the right reps, I mean that’s a critical part of the conversation as well. And I think right now mental health is something to really think about. I think there’s so much going on in that world. I know there’s so many folks right now in the network and the community, or who are talking about this, but it’s at the forefront of everyone’s minds, because retaining grips in this current climate, especially good reps, is going to require a lot of empathy of leadership. It’s going to require an empathy of understanding that like circumstances are not normal. There are added stresses and pressures of all sorts that are weighing upon everyone, not just the sales team, but literally everyone within an organization. So, what are some ways you can create that support? Right. And, and for me that’s been, you know, creating those safe spaces we mentioned earlier, but also, you know, we have the sales, leadership council for people to come in and very vulnerably share. Like, do I feel connected to my team or do I not? There’s a check-in on that. Are you feeling overwhelmed with the current state of events, are you not, how are you dealing with that? Share some of those best practices. And I think within that small group sharing, we really have the opportunity to forge a little bit of understanding, but even more microscopically, I think the buddy program, right? Like something as simple as creating buddies with onboarding, creating those mentorship opportunities for folks can create that really strong connection between people that I think really helps in retaining folks because I think so much of the retention challenge is making sure people feel heard. And I think if you can find opportunities to kind of create those spaces for folks to feel heard and to feel valued, past just attaining quota or hitting their number. That goes a long way as well, especially in the current climate where I think anxiety levels, as we all know, are at an all-time high. Everyone’s worried about everything. So how do we quell some of that? How do we make it easier for them to come to work? SS: Absolutely. I couldn’t agree more. I have absolutely loved this conversation. Like I said, this is a topic that is near and dear to me. And so, I’d like to close, and just kind of get your advice on how enablement can help remove barriers to ensure that there’s more equity in the opportunity to exceed for all reps in organizations. RP: Yeah, this is such a huge question and I think enablement is in such a powerful place right now. It is poised to be such an asset to any sales organization. And I think it’s an indicator, at least for me, a lot of maturing sales organizations that the team is getting ahead of onboarding. It’s getting ahead of thinking through how reps are going to be successful. So, when it comes to removing barriers, I think onboarding is such an equalizer, right? Like creating a really robust onboarding program about an industry, about a space, can really help, at least at the very beginning, remove some of those barriers of understanding how to sell a product, training for skills. It can also reveal so much of what’s missing, what the gaps are, where there are coaching, mentorship opportunities. it can create such an immediate eye into how you can remove those initial barriers and how you can start molding you’re really successful rep. I also think, like I was saying earlier that enablement has the opportunity to create these really safe spaces for folks to ask for help. I think that’s such a difficult thing for sales folks, especially, but I think for anyone who considers themselves a professional, sometimes the hardest thing you can do is say, wait, I don’t know what this is. Is there some way I can ask for clarification, can I ask for help and creating the Slack channels, creating those virtual rooms? Something I did was also creating like a sort of sales power hour. I know the power hours are traditionally reserved for sort of the out bounding efforts and this time for the teams to get together and sort of aggressively and proactively go out. But for me, I think a power hour is also reflecting internally. So, what I did was I created time for the team to get together. It was an open sort of office hours slash power hours, whatever you’d like to call it once a month, because we didn’t want it to be yet another Zoom meeting for everyone. We get them together and just throw out a topic like it might be, “Hey, what decks are people using?” Someone wants to share. They don’t need to know what’s working, what’s not working. How are you feeling? Right. Just creating again, those spaces for folks to sort of say this really resonated well, or this piece of copy is really making the rounds, or this is really working for me. Like I think just that opportunity again helps remove those barriers between even something as simple as the most junior ups and the most senior apps or folks you may never have met before, because we’re all onboarding virtually. Another thing I was thinking through was we had to open up our London office, completely virtually, right. We hired and, and also trained reps overseas in what I think ordinarily would have been just coming into the office here and going through the same onboarding and meeting folks and that sort of thing. And I think just that, even that physical barrier of not being able to come to the office like that in itself can feel so overwhelming and daunting for folks who are not physically or not within the same time zone can’t necessarily attend everything. So again, when you think of inclusion, when you think of culture, I think it’s broader than just the realms of the barriers of this country. I think we also have to think of our teams who are abroad. We have to think of how to bring them in. We have to think of how do we create a program that’s just as robust for the EMEA sales team as it is for the US sales team. And how do we create those moments of sort of cross-cultural or cross-team or cross-function collaboration that can, again, create the opportunities for folks to ask for help can create these equalizing opportunities for everyone to sort of level set on what the expectations are. I’d actually like to end this question and the answer to this question by, actually sharing a quote that I think has been so pivotal to the way I approach my role, both in this world and in my previous world and where I was in the nonprofit community for a while. I think everyone’s familiar with Van Jones, but he talks about how there are two kinds of smart people in this world. There are smart people who take very simple things and make them sound very complicated so they can enrich themselves. And there are smart people who take very complicated things and make them sound very simple to empower others. And I think the enablement world has that unique opportunity to make very complicated things very simple, to enable or empower other people. And sometimes we forget that, but that’s probably I’d say one of the most critical parts of our field is that we literally get to share the mission, the vision, the value, the product, the market opportunity with the rest of the sales team, as they sort of share our message with the broader community with the broader customer base. SS: I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more fitting quote for sales enablement. So, thank you so much for sharing that with us, Radhika. Thank you so much for joining us today. I learned so much in this conversation and I greatly appreciate your time. RP: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, Shawnna. I really appreciate the work that you’re doing. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders, visit salesenablement.pro. If there’s something you’d like to share or a topic you’d like to learn more about, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you.

Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO podcast. I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space and we’re here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so they can be more effective in their jobs. Today I’m excited to have Radhika Parashar join us from Figma. Radhika, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Radhika Parashar: Sure. Hey everyone. Thank you so much for having me, Shawnna and Olivia. So excited to be here. This community is so vibrant and so wonderful. My name is Radhika Parashar. I currently lead sales enablement at Figma. A little bit about myself, I come from a learning and development sort of learning operations background. I’ve spent some time doing this work now at ByteDance, at TubeMogul and in the past at Couchbase. And I think a lot of my interest in this world and my interest in sort of training generally comes from the burning question of learning, how to learn, which I think a lot of us share as a community. For me personally, it comes from my time as someone who was homeschooled actually from kindergarten to 12th grade. So, I think it’s something that I’ve always thought of like just what are the intrinsic motivators? How do you get people to participate? And more importantly, how do we create a culture of learning and a culture of curiosity that can allow people to succeed and motivate in their roles? So that’s a little bit about myself. SS: Well, I’m excited to have you, and I now have a whole other level of respect for your parents homeschooling you because I’ve been thrown into a remote home-schooling situation this year and it is not easy. But that’s fantastic. I’m so excited that you’re here and, you know, you started at Figma earlier this year and have had to onboard in essentially also a completely remote environment. I’d love to hear from you what have been some of your lessons learned in regard to how one can get kind of immersed in a culture in a completely virtual world? RP: Yeah, that’s a great question. I mean, First of all, I think I just have so much empathy for so many people who are working in this environment right now and kind of not having the choice or not really having the ability to create the right atmosphere, the right sort of opportunities to make sure that you can work completely remotely, whether that’s like you were just describing what childcare or teaching or learning, or even cooking, or just simple tasks that I think we’ve all had some level of organization for in the past that we don’t really have anymore. So, I think that’s the first thing is just realizing that, or just agreeing that it’s a really tough environment to be part of. But past that, I think when it comes to getting immersed in culture, for me personally at Figma, the first thing I did was tons of one-on-ones. I think I clocked in around 90 one-on-ones and my first two months, and taking that time to meet people, spend time getting to know them, understanding them, hopefully at as much a full level or as deep of a level as you can within those short segments and trying to follow up with what their interests and their passions, and perhaps moments of communication or connection that you might share with them, I think has been so critical for sales enablement professionals, this is the case in a remote or non-remote world. I mean I think my managers described it in the past as like a long-term investment. And I wholeheartedly believe that just spending that time upfront, getting to people, being vulnerable, putting yourself out there as daunting as it is, is probably one of the best ways to get immersed in a culture. In addition to that at Figma, we use platforms to sort of play like roulette with understanding and meeting new folks. We also just make sure that you’re attending different meetings. That for me has also been pretty critical. I sit on all of our weekly sales meetings and in an attempt to get to know the team and their fears and their hopes, as well as their progress, really up close and personal. If your company has employee resource groups definitely take advantage of those. I think those are huge opportunities to get to know the culture more intimately. I also want to acknowledge that it is a lift to be constantly on, especially in those first couple of weeks and months. But I think, like I was saying earlier with that long-term investment strategy, it really pays off. The last thing I’d add there is like, ignore the voice in your head, right? There’s a voice in your head that’s going to keep saying don’t ask about that inside joke. You don’t need to know so much about blah, blah, blah, you know, but really ignoring that and jumping in with both of your feet and trying your best to be as present and as engaged as you can in those short stents are those 30-minute calls and are those one-hour calls that you might have. I think really helps for me. That’s like taking notes on everything. I’m trying to wrap my head around what’s going on. So, I have a sense of, okay, let me set the context for this next meeting or set the context for this next interaction with this person. Being intentional about that, right? Like really sharing as much about yourself as you can. Your stories, your wins, you know, what inspires you? It requires a certain amount of vulnerability, which I know is really tough for so many of us, but right now, without that opportunity to be in an office and kind of share that in the hallway or in the bathroom or wherever else you might, or in the snack room, I think it’s really important to just take the first step, especially as someone new in an organization, get to know people, share what your favorite snack is, right? Share your latest Trader Joe’s haul, whatever it might be, just trying to create those moments of connection. I think really pay off in the long run. SS: Absolutely. How have you taken some of these things that you’ve learned through your role in enablement to help create a healthy culture, while your company is scaling remotely? RP: Yeah. That’s another great question. I mean, I think for us, I think the first step to that problem is trying to figure out what our culture is. I think a lot of us have a sense of what our culture is. We have our values; we have our mission. But I think for us, it was really understanding that we had a really robust and really vibrant sales culture that existed before we went remote and now, we’re also scaling in such a huge amount. And the last year, how do we sort of take all of the learnings and take the idea of what culture is and translate that to this virtual world. So, for us, that’s also been thinking through, highlighting good culture, passing that on. So, for example, in our upcoming sales kickoff, we’re going to have awards for people who exemplify our culture. We’re thinking through a leadership council that’s actually something I implemented very shortly after I joined, which is, you know, having the teams nominate two or three people from their team who exemplify their culture and kind of are the stewards if you will, of their culture, of what Figma sales culture is individually for that team and collectively as an org. And using a lot of existing reps as are our buddies for our onboarding of new hires, as well as having a lot of cross-team collaboration opportunities with our EMEA team, as well as in the US so again, trying to bridge those divides that might have already been bridged had we had the opportunity to be in the same office in the same space. Other ways we’ve done that is forging more connections with the team. So, in our onboarding program, I’ve created a module called tea with the teams. So, kind of forcing those conversations that can sometimes be really awkward for someone who just joins, and instead put it on an entire team. So, for example, if we have a cohort of three or four people, we’ll have them meet the entire PMM team with some prompts. If you know what you can kind of talk about. And get to know like an entire team in that context really early on. So again, you’re forging those connections so early on. So, there’s no sense of like, I wasn’t able to meet that person or I didn’t get the time or whatever. You’re just kind of doing it as organically as you can, but also in a way that is a little bit more efficient. SS: Absolutely. Now, how do you go about ensuring that your reps feel comfortable coming to you and the enablement team with questions and ideas, kind of around creating a better environment especially when things often feel a little bit disconnected? RP: Yeah. I mean, that’s been a huge focus for me actually because I recognize that pretty early on that if we don’t create a culture of reps feeling comfortable, and I know the word vulnerable is used a lot, but truly feeling like this is a space these are folks who understand them and are there for them, it’s really difficult for them to feel that unless you create those spaces. So, for me, it was trying to keep that door open from the get-go. So, in all of my one-on-ones, I let everyone know, feel free to email me, Slack me, if you need to call me, whatever it is, I’m your person. I like to describe the sales enablement role as a little bit of a sales therapist as well, where you will often hear about what’s going on and the inner workings and the inner team dynamics of a sales team and being mindful and cognizant of that. But also, very respectful of that and making sure that you create that safe space is really powerful. I created a dedicated Slack channel early on for sales enablement questions, sharing of resources, all of the regularly scheduled programs that we made sure that we had regular updates in the Slack channel of what had been published or what had been presented the day before. So, people had access to all of that information. Office hours have been huge for us as well. So, like just having an open time and an open forum every single week. Shout out to our sales operations team who are running a fantastic office hour, other folks at Figma. So, we’re running that to just kind of make sure that everyone has an opportunity to come in and ask their questions. Really it is such a huge focus because in an office you would just tap someone on the shoulder or you would ping someone really quickly and say, “Hey, can I quickly chat with you about X, Y, and Z?” So, I really thought about that and I thought about how critical shadowing was going to be for our onboarding. We have shadowing is like the advanced portion of our onboarding after their first two weeks for new hires to work with their buddies to shadow calls and also have their call shadowed. And in that process, I think there’s so much sharing that happens of best practices, but we try to move that past just one person too, because in an office you would probably be surrounded by four or five people. You could have those conversations with pause for thought. I would also like to end by saying there are no right answers, right. Enablement is constantly evolving. So, my team, my network are just huge resources for me to sort of ask that, like, what are the ways you’re sort of keeping people on your team feel comfortable, right? I’ve heard of folks having private office hours with just their team, without their managers in an attempt to get the team to open up with one another, again, the way you would in the kitchen or over coffee to kind of share learnings or show concerns or whatever it might be like. That that is all so valuable, I think, to the sales experience and sort of creating that very healthy culture where you can address those things. Again, if you know you’re going through something, if you share it with someone else like that camaraderie can go a long way as well. Even for me, having folks in the enablement world who I can sort of gut check things with my team, my manager has been so fantastic at that to just sort of say, “Hey, like, does this make sense? Are you seeing this too?” And if you are like, I know there’s complete confidence that you’re going to agree to disagree, but that’s going to be between us. So, I think that also is a really powerful part of creating that culture on a sales team. SS: I love that. I also love encouraging that with my team as well. We call it player’s only meeting. Thank you so much for joining us today. I learned so much in this conversation and I greatly appreciate your time. RP: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, Shawnna. I really appreciate the work that you’re doing. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders, visit salesenablement.pro. If there’s something you’d like to share or a topic you’d like to learn more about, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you.

Spoiler Alert: There’s no panic this episode. Why? Because I had Brett Wilson on, someone who doesn’t panic, but rather finds solutions and different ways of doing things. I first met Brett back in 2007 and quickly became a seed investor in his company, TubeMogul. He’s a special guest, and not just because he’s made me some money. Brett is an amazing investor, entrepreneur, board member and thought leader. No one has been at the center of video (specifically digital) quite like Brett. Since selling TubeMogul to Adobe and leading advertising efforts there for a bit, Brett is now an angel investor, partner at Swift Ventures, and board member at companies such as Tubi, WeTravel and, more recently, Arize AI. In this episode, Brett and I had a great discussion about being at the center of the video bomb, TikTok, Netflix, Tubi, life as a CEO and entrepreneur, company pivots, TubeMogul’s journey, resurfacing trends, AI and what excites him as an investor as of late. We talked about a lot of great companies, trends, industries and the types of people who make them great. Hope you all enjoy it!  Guest - Brett Wilson, Entrepreneur, Founder of TubeMogul  howardlindzon.com, swift.vc, tubemogul.com  Twitter: @howardlindzon, @bjwilson34, @knutjensen  linkedin.com/in/bjwilson  #fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance 

How can you create a career that works for you and your ideal lifestyle? How has the changing world of work impacted recruiting? In this episode, Nick Livingston of Honeit joins me to discuss how hiring can become more efficient & equitable and how he has gotten to where he is today. Nick enjoys helping companies recruit, hire and scale. Honeit turns interviews into talent insights. As the Head of Talent Acquisition at TubeMogul (now Adobe), Nick and team scaled from 60 to 360 employees through IPO ($TUBE) in just 26 months. In the same two years, he received his MBA from UC Berkeley (evenings/weekends), started a family (three daughters) and co-founded Honeit Software. At MTV Networks (Viacom) in New York City, he was the Director of Talent Acquisition responsible for global digital media, interactive technology and product management recruitment. He’s worked at two HR Technology companies (Taleo, NextSource) and started his career as a tech headhunter in NYC. MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. BS in Applied Mathematics Find him at honeit.com or nick@honeit.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-the-cosmos-empower-your-vision/donations

As more and more machine learning models are deployed into production, it is imperative we have better observability tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and explain their decisions. In this talk, Aparna Dhinakaran, Co-Founder, CPO of Arize AI (Berkeley-based startup focused on ML Observability), will discuss the state of the commonly seen ML Production Workflow and its challenges. She will focus on the lack of model observability, its impacts, and how Arize AI can help. This talk highlights common challenges seen in models deployed in production, including model drift, data quality issues, distribution changes, outliers, and bias. The talk will also cover best practices to address these challenges and where observability and explainability can help identify model issues before they impact the business. Aparna will be sharing a demo of how the Arize AI platform can help companies validate their models performance, provide real-time performance monitoring and alerts, and automate troubleshooting of slices of model performance with explainability. The talk will cover best practices in ML Observability and how companies can build more transparency and trust around their models. Aparna Dhinakaran is Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a startup focused on ML Observability. She was previously an ML engineer at Uber, Apple, and Tubemogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built a number of core ML Infrastructure platforms including Michaelangelo. She has a bachelors from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group. She is on a leave of absence from the Computer Vision PhD program at Cornell University. Join our slack community: https://join.slack.com/t/mlops-community/shared_invite/zt-391hcpnl-aSwNf_X5RyYSh40MiRe9Lw Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Cris Sterry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissterry/ Connect with Aparna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/

Episode 45: Pattie Money – Twilio Pattie Money brings over 25 years of People leadership experience, working with executives and leaders at all organizational levels. Her work is focused on driving exceptional organizational performance while helping those within the organization achieve their fullest potential. She currently serves as the interim Chief People Office at Twilio and was the Chief People Officer at SendGrid until their successful acquisition by Twilio, where she was responsible for the companies greatest asset, their people. She has been responsible for building and implementing the People strategies and programs required to support ambitious growth and an evolving organization while preserving and enhancing an award winning culture. Prior to joining SendGrid, Pattie served as Chief People Officer at TubeMogul, a publicly traded global ad tech company in the Bay area and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology company. Prior to Mercury, she lead the People function for Monotype, a publicly traded font and font technology company headquartered in Boston, leading through multiple stages of growth including a successful IPO and global expansion. Pattie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from University of Memphis and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development Degree from Villanova University. Links to things we talk about: Pattie Money on LinkedIn Twilio https://twilio.org Click to Review and Rate Colorado TechCast on iTunes! We value every review we receive, and often read them out on the show. If you take the time to leave one, THANK YOU – You rock! IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE: Subscribe to our list Connect with us on Twitter Email us and tell us what you think!

Pattie Money brings over 25 years of People leadership experience, working with executives and leaders at all organizational levels. Her work is focused on driving exceptional organizational performance while helping those within the organization achieve their fullest potential. She currently serves as the interim Chief People Office at Twilio and was the Chief People Officer at SendGrid until their successful acquisition by Twilio, where she was responsible for the companies greatest asset, their people. She has been responsible for building and implementing the People strategies and programs required to support ambitious growth and an evolving organization while preserving and enhancing an award winning culture. Prior to joining SendGrid, Pattie served as Chief People Officer at TubeMogul, a publicly traded global ad tech company in the Bay area and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology company. Prior to Mercury, she lead the People function for Monotype, a publicly traded font and font technology company headquartered in Boston, leading through multiple stages of growth including a successful IPO and global expansion. Pattie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from University of Memphis and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development Degree from Villanova University. Links to things we talk about: Pattie Money on LinkedIn Twilio Twilio.org Click to Review and Rate Colorado TechCast on iTunes! We value every review we receive, and often read them out on the show. If you take the time to leave one, THANK YOU – You rock! IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE: Subscribe to our list Connect with us on Twitter Email us and tell us what you think!

Comedian Sunda Croonquist talks comedy with standup comic Georgie and National Lampoon alum Scott Rubin. Scott Rubin is the longest serving Editor-in-Chief of National Lampoon. Rubin's tenure began in 1999, when he and his team created the award-winning National Lampoon Dotcom -- an outlet for NatLamp's cutting edge comic sensibility online. The site's content was entered into the Smithsonian Institute for best exemplifying American satire in the weeks following the 9-11 attacks, and has been awarded "Best of the Web" from the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, CNN and The Wall Street Journal. In his ten years at the helm, Rubin created, wrote, and produced nearly 600 animations, videos, and written pieces including many multi-million viewed youtube videos. The site received two Webby Nominations for Best Comedy Site and upon his departure in 2008, Rubin/NatLamp videos were ranked #1 in the 12-24 demo (according to ranking service TubeMogul).   "Runaround" by Andre Merrit and DJ Topic Instagram: @Andre_Merritt Twitter: @Andre_Merritt Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dre-merritt

@NLivingston -- @HoneIT -- LINKEDIN:  The Honeit interview platform makes it easy to schedule, record, transcribe, index, search and share interview intelligence. Turn hiring kick-off calls into audible job descriptions and turn phone interviews into audible talent previews. As the Head of Recruiting at TubeMogul, we scaled from 60 to 360 employees in 26 months across 12 cities, and through a successful IPO ($TUBE). In the same two years, I attended business school at UC Berkeley (evenings/weekends), started a family (three daughters) and founded Honeit Software. At MTV Networks (Viacom) in NYC, I was responsible for global digital media, interactive technology and product management recruitment. I also managed recruiting tools and employment branding. I've worked at two HR Technology companies (Taleo & NextSource) and am passionate about improving the interview experience and hiring process. MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. BS in Applied Mathematics 

In this episode, I speak with VideoAmp Chief Strategy Officer Jay Prasad about his career has taken him to VideoAmp and how he has helped them become one of the leading AdTech players in the industry. From his time as a consultant with EY where he learned that listening was a big part of how to succeed. Before joining VideoAmp, he served as VP of Global Business Development at TubeMogul where he led the company’s launch of Programmatic TV, data and supply partnerships, and international partnership teams in the U.S., EU, Japan, and Southeast Asia.  Previously, Jay led strategic development at FreeWheel, focused on broadcasters’ distribution to digital and OTT platforms. In this episode, Jay discusses; - Early challenges VideoAmp faced - Building the company culture- What do look for in employees and how do they create loyalty? - The hardest decision he made? (33:50) - Management skills- what to look for. - What separates VideoAmp from competitors (39:30) - What did Jay want to be when he was 15? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 206, we're lucky enough to hear from two talented marketers! Karl Gibson, a global product creative for Netflix, tells us about his journey from print to digital. We also spoke to Dea Lawrence, who began her career as an actress and later made the jump to marketing. How did this former actress help save TubeMogul from going out of business? Listen in to find out!

Insights on Proper Interview Communication and the ways to incorporate them effectively for the Hiring Process: What are the broken issues in the Interview communication Fix the crucial areas  Utilize Solutions and Tools that are available to enhance communication and overall candidate experience With all the technology & tools available, Why is this still a problem today? We try really hard to take out the human element from the process Lost art Transactional Where the challenges lie Recruiter & Interviewee Recruiter & hiring manager Interviewee & hiring manager Forms of Communication & Issues Video interviewing vs phone interviewing, Video cons: implicit bias Chatbots- engagement /screening tool Text messages How do we make interview communications effective? Recruiter & Interviewee Recruiter & hiring manager Tools Interview Data/Evidence Remember your Conversations Reduce misinterpretation and bias Remove redundant interview steps Other Tools:videos, Chatbots Technical tests Take home tests Nick Livingston is CEO of Honeit Software. He has been scaling recruiting teams and companies in San Francisco and New York City for 15 years. Nick started his career as a technology headhunter in NYC. After a successful IPO at TubeMogul (now Adobe) while attending business school at UC Berkeley, he co-founded Honeit Software to rethink interview communication and simplify the hiring process. At MTV, Nick was the Recruiting Director responsible for digital media and interactive technology talent. Nick worked at HR Technology companies Taleo and NextSource. He received his MBA from Berkeley, with BS in Applied Mathematics.   Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.  

What gets Kira Noodleman excited about her job as an investor with VC firm Bee Partners? The opportunity to paint a picture of what the future looks like—and then back it up with money and resources for startups in the early stages. Kira is a fan of tackling problems in disruptive industries and across cultures. With a background in product and program management, Kira has an appreciation of the skillful risk-taking that fuels successful entrepreneurship. She was a part of Google's Project Ara as well as LAUNCH, the University of California's leading startup accelerator. Kira did an internship with Bee Partners while earning her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and she joined the team as an investor in August of 2017. With a special focus on space, cryptocurrency, and climate change innovation, Bee Partners' portfolio includes companies like Tradesy, TubeMogul and StatMuse. Kira sits down with us today to share her passion for building things that matter. She discusses the Big Hairy Audacious Goals that VC should support, from efficiency in the food value chain to clean meat. Kira walks us through the work Bee Partners is doing in the blockchain space, and we debate the impact of crypto mining on the environment. Listen in for Kira's insight on what VCs look for in an entrepreneur and learn how to build a ‘board of mentors' in venture capital. Connect with Kira Bee Partners http://beepartners.vc/ Kira on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kira-noodleman-48ab1210/ Kira on Twitter https://twitter.com/kiranoodleman Resources Memphis Meats http://www.memphismeats.com/ Arvind of IndieBio on Boost VC https://www.boost.vc/podcast-archive?tag=Biology Ocean Protocol https://oceanprotocol.com/ Chia Network https://chia.net/ Forbes Cover Story ‘Venture Catalysts' https://www.forbes.com/midas/#35cda95c5650 All Raise https://www.allraise.org/ FoundHer http://www.foundherfest.com/ Charles Keeling and NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3-_5_Y1RA Connect with Boost VC Boost VC Website https://www.boost.vc/ Boost VC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/boostvc/ Boost VC on Twitter https://twitter.com/BoostVC Watch this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MeeOxSoUt0

Michael Berolzheimer is the founder & managing partner at Bee Partners, a fund specializing in partnering with startups at the earliest stages of their business.  Some of their notable pre-seed and seed investments include TubeMogul, IndieGogo, Tradesy, tbh, and even Bear Naked Granola. On this episode, we’ll explore the pre-seed investing space, dig into Bee Partners’ decision-making process, as well as the evolution into partnering with blockchain startups.   Learn more about Michael, Bee Partners, and the Frontier Innovation Awards. Follow Michael (@berolz) on Twitter. Michael's favorite book: 2312 Michael would travel 500 miles to see the band: Seven Mary Three and Tom Petty Got big ideas in blockchain and ties to UC Berkeley?  Click here to apply for the Frontier Innovation Awards. _____ Executive producer & host: Joe Mahavuthivanij Edited by: Joe Mahavuthivanij Theme music by: Music for Makers Logo design: Debra Lin

Ashu Garg is a General Partner @ Foundation Capital whose portfolio includes the likes of Uber, Lending Club, Adroll and Netflix, just to name a few. As for Ashu, at Foundation he has led investments and naming just a few of them here, in the likes of Conviva, Localytics and TubeMogul, later going public in 2014. Prior to Foundation, Ashu was the General Manager for Microsoft’s online advertising business. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: How Ashu made his way from completing to the Rubik's cube as a kid in 25 seconds to being a leading SaaS VC? How does Ashu really define scaling a SaaS company? What does product market fit really look like with regards to ARR growth? What are the 3 fundamentals that SaaS founders have to nail if they are to scale to $30m+ ARR? Why does Ashu believe it is so important to have a single insertion point? What does this mean for SaaS founders? What does Ashu advise first time founders making their first foray into the world of SaaS? How should they think about obtaining and building an ecosystem of mentors? How should they manage weaknesses within their own skill sets? Does Ashu believe with Aaron Levie @ Box, “anyone can learn to be a great CEO”? Where do technical founders most often struggle? What can be done to help them go from 0-1 on customer acquisition? Where do business led founders most often struggle? How must they think of the engineering element as a core part of the founding team? 60 Second SaaStr What does Ashu know now that he wishes he had known at the beginning? Chats: Fad in the enterprise or here to stay? Biggest inflection points and breaking points in SaaS company growth? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Ashu Garg

On this week’s #MediaSnack we report on a little feisty exchange of words between the CEO of GroupM UK, Nick Theakstone and Mark Finney the head of media at ISBA, the UK’s leading marketer trade association. It all stems back to March 2016 when ISBA’s head of consultancy practice Debbie Morrison launched they excellent media agency contract template with some comments to the FT which angered agencies. In her FT interview, Debbie had suggested that media agencies don’t have the best interests of their clients at heart anymore. The fight back from agencies at the time was quite aggressive but months have passed, the media transparency debate has gathered momentum in different areas, not least thanks to the ANA’s Media Transparency initiative and we probably felt it was water under the bridge. Not so. Last week Nick Theakstone thought that the recent success of one of ‘his' agencies MediaCom (the UK’s largest media buyer) at a media awards event entirely defended the agency community from the transparency concerns raised by ISBA. We discuss how this simply doesn’t make sense, the two things are entirely separate - and we doubt whether Nick would have been making the same point the morning after a successful awards sweep by Zenith. Whatever his intentions, Nick has managed to get headlines for himself and the agency for entirely the wrong reasons, of course everyone is talking about the sniping against ISBA rather than appreciating MediaCom's excellent work. Mark Finney, ISBA’s head of media responded in Campaign, reminding everyone that we need to revert to a more constructive dialogue - at the same time calling Nick’s words “baffling and disappointing” - they won't be exchanging Christmas cards this year one supposes. Next up, we share details of the excellent ID Comms CMO panel which we hosted at LinkedIn’s lovely London HQ. The event was an invitation-only networking and panel discussion, attended by 40 marketers from brands including Unilever, Mars, Lego, Universal Pictures, Disney, British Gas and Royal Mail. The panel discussion featured Martin Moll, Head of Marketing at Nissan Europe, Lindsay Pattison, Global CEO of media agency Maxus and Steve Hyde CEO of 360xec. Finally, we report on news that Adobe has acquired TubeMogul for $540m - a strong indication of the much-expected consolidation in the ad tech space is actually happening.

Paul Martino is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Bullpen Capital, the fund that finds overlooked companies by understanding biases in venture capital. Paul has led several of Bullpen’s key investments including FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. Prior to forming Bullpen, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy. Before becoming an investor, Paul was the founder of four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust); Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Nuestar).  In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Paul made his way into early stage investing from founding and exiting 4 companies? What was the data that made Paul excited for venture? 2.) First has Paul witnessed the Series A Crunch? What does the crunch mean for founders? How should they navigate it and approach burn rates? How does this affect the fundraising time horizon? How does this affect how much startups should raise? 3.) How does the crunch affect valuation? How does this affect investor expectations of startups pitching them? How does Paul respond to Mike Maples' statement, 'bridge rounds are often because startups have simply not hit the metrics for Series A'? 4.) What would Paul most like to see change in the venture ecosystem? Why does Paul not believe there are enough innovative funds? Why is it so hard for innovative funds to raise from traditional LPs? 5.) What would Paul most like to see change in the LP ecosystem? What was the affect of Accel's Facebook fund on the LP community? Why is that such a problem? Items Mentioned In Today’s Episode:  Paul’s Fave Blog: Matt Ocko Paul’s Fave Book: The New Thought Police Paul's Most Recent Investment: Cleanify As always you can follow The Twenty Minute VC, Harry and Paul on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. The Twenty Minute VC is proudly sponsored by Luma, Luma is the world’s first ever Surround WiFi system that brings speed, security and control to the home network. And Unlike traditional routers, Luma comes in a pack of two or three sleek devices to place in different rooms in your home. Luma then creates a mesh network that work together to create an outrageously-fast, ultra-secure Surround WiFi network.  Lastly, Luma’s app lets you easily see and control which devices, users and content are on your network. To buy your Luma, simply dead to getluma.com or amazon.com. So many problems start with your head: stress, depression, anxiety, fear of the future. What if there was some kind of exercise you could do, that would help you get your head in shape. That’s where the Headspace app comes in. Headspace is meditation made simple. The Headspace app provides guided meditations you can use whenever you want, wherever you want, on your phone, computer or tablet. They have sessions focused on everything from dealing with stress and depression, to helping you eat more mindfully. So download the Headspace app and start your journey towards a happier, healthier life. Learn more at headspace.com/20vc. That’s headspace.com/20vc.

In this recorded interview with [itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, Jay Prasad, Chief Business Officer at advanced-advertising specialist, VideoAmp, discusses recent developments from the company--including the launch of its Advanced Television (ATV) software-as-a-service (SaaS) ad-buying platform--and casts light on its plans for the future.(Note: Our next TV of Tomorrow Show event, TVOT NYC 2016, takes place December 8th at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Purchase your tickets here: http://tvotnyc2016.eventbrite.com). Jay PrasadChief Business OfficerVideoAmpJay Prasad’s extensive background in TV, digital video, mobile and data-driven advertising makes for a unique combination of digital media and ad technology experience. He has held strategic business development and management roles with Yahoo!, FreeWheel, Ernst & Young and VP of global business development at TubeMogul. Jay leads a team at VideoAmp that helps partners and clients envision, plan and execute cross-screen video advertising initiatives, implement TV technology integrations and leverage data science to measure actual sales impact for brands. Jay earned his BBA in Marketing, International Business, and Risk Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied International Business and International Political Economics at the London Business School. 

This week, Dave interviews Paul Martino, founder and General Partner at Bullpen Capital, one of the pioneers in post-seed round funding. Remember to subscribe to Venture Studio on iTunes so you never miss an episode. As always, you can find us on twitter @ventureStudio and you can listen to prior episodes at venturestudio.org or on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher or TuneIn. Paul founded Bullpen in 2010 and has led several of its key investments including FanDuel, the leader in daily fantasy sports. Prior to starting Bullpen Capital, Paul was the founder of four companies and an active angel investor in companies such as Zynga, TubeMogul, uDemy, and PayNearMe. In today's episode, Paul discusses how the herd mentality of most venture investors presented a huge opportunity for Bullpen, how to effectively manage a board and what its like to be coached by Bill Campbell.

Sonny is a seasoned sales and business development executive with 15 years experience in helping grow technology companies. Sonny is currently Chief Commercial Officer at BitPay, the largest processor of bitcoin in the world. Prior to BitPay, Sonny was VP of Sales at Jumio and is currently an advisor at Lumia Capital. If that wasn’t enough Sonny is also a serial investor himself having invested in TubeMogul at the seed stage up until their IPO in 2014, Narrativ, Jumio, Getaround and many more. In today's amazing interview with Sonny we deep dive into 1.) How Sonny sources potential investments? 2.) What Sonny looks for in co-investors? 3.) How does Sonny deal with the fear of missing an investment? 4.) How has Sonny's investing strategy changed over time? 5.) What is Sonny's favourite investing resource? As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com

[itvt] is please to announce the TVOT 2015 Master Class, "It's Time to Change the Channel: How Audience Data Hubs Will Drive TV to a New Frontier."The Master Class--led by Experian Marketing Services executives, Brienna Pinnow, Brad Danaher and Kevin Heindl--will take place at 12:40PM on Tuesday, June 23rd (during lunch); and again at 12:05PM on Wednesday, June 24th. It is one of four Master Classes at TVOT 2015 (the others will be presented by Adobe, EPAM and TubeMogul).[itvt] Editor-in-Chief, Tracy Swedlow, recently interviewed Brienna Pinnow about the Master Class.Join us for a look behind the addressable TV curtain and see what industry leaders are doing when it comes to TV targeting, technology and analytics. Session leaders include:•    Brad Danaher, Addressable Media Manager, Experian Marketing Services•    Kevin Heindl, Director of Partner and Advertiser Solutions, Experian Marketing Services•    Brienna Pinnow, Product Lead, Addressable Advertising, Experian Marketing Services Site URL: http://www.thetvoftomorrowshow.comPurchase your TVOT 2015 tickets here: http://tvotsf2015.eventbrite.com

EPAM Master Class at TVOT 2015: Beyond "Watch" Apps: Building a Better Audience with Adobe Products[itvt] is please to announce the TVOT 2015 Master Class, "Beyond 'Watch' Apps: Building a Better Audience with Adobe Products."The Master Class--led by Martin Focazio, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Consulting at EPAM Systems--will take place at 11:40AM on Tuesday, June 23rd; and again at 9:10AM on Wednesday, June 24th. It is one of four Master Classes at TVOT 2015 (the others, which we will be announcing soon, will be presented by Adobe, Experian and TubeMogul).Description: The many challenges of delivering high-quality on-demand video via the Internet have largely been solved, or are at least managed. However, the challenges of finding--and retaining--a high-quality, economically viable audience are many and complex.This Master Class is created and presented by EPAM Systems, an Adobe implementation partner that has deployed Adobe products in over 40 media companies worldwide.In the class, we will focus on the practical realities of building a media management and delivery platform that does more than simply authenticate users and play video. We'll start with the assumption that the participant has experience with--or is at least generally familiar with--either Adobe Omniture and/or Adobe pass; we'll then show, through a step–by-step evolution of the Adobe products and capabilities involved, how to create better audience profiles that generate more engaging and personalized content catalogs, which in turn can improve engagement and overall audience value. This class is ideal for any content company that is considering a "direct-to-consumer" offering.URL:  http://www.thetvoftomorrowshow.com 

In the last post I attached a PDF of the slides I used for a presentation on Screencasting I delivered a few weeks ago at Podcamp Boston. In this episode I've embedded a screencast that I made from the slides and the audio I recorded during that session. I've also included just the audio, which is part of the Video StudentGuy feed and will show up on iTunes if you're a subscriber.Chapters & Timecode:00:00 Preface03:50 Introduction13:53 What is Screencasting15:45 How to do it21:20 Workflow29:00 Tools31:35 Screencast Demo41:30 Screenflow and Captivate44:25 Online Screencasting Software49:10 Other Editing Tools55:08 Suggestions from the audience57:20 Closing thoughtsThe screencast was just too large to host on my Libsyn.com account. I don't know if I'll be doing enough of these to justify upgrading my account, so in the short term I'm going to look at TubeMogul and Blip.tv as a no cost solution. I'll let you know how that turns out.You can view the source video and also download a copy of the file here at Vimeo.I'm going to upload an updated version of this screecast in a week's time following a presentation I'll be making in New Haven at Podcamp Connecticut. And again, a week later following a third presentation at Podcamp New Hampshire.If your interested in screencasting I promise to make it worth your while to watch the next two screencasts because I plan to include some, maybe lots of new material. I'll note in the Chapters & Timecode section if there's new material.

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Welcome to episode #95 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. Whoops! I totally screwed up the intro and said, "welcome to episode #85" - I have no idea what I was thinking. Actually, that's not true - I think I botched it because I have tons on my mind. Including the state of Podcasting (are you really listening?) and the power of Blogging (hint: it's very powerful). There are also some great audio comments about how to stimulate action in online social networks and more. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #95 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 41:34. Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056. Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com. Hello from Beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society - please join (we have over 1350 members). Check out my other Podcast, Foreword Thinking - The Business And Motivational Book Review Podcast - sponsored by HarperCollins Canada. Foreword Thinking - episode #8 is now live and features Deepak Chopra - author of the book, Buddha – A Story of Enlightenment. A belated but hearty congratulation to David Jones and Terry Fallis for hitting episode #100 of Inside PR - be sure to check them out. Wired Magazine – Chris Anderson – article on Free. IAB Social Media Marketing Full-Day Seminar: Montreal, Quebec – March 12th, 2008. Toronto, Ontario – March 19th, 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia – March 28th, 2008. Has Podcasting shifted – does Six Pixels of Separation still work for you? Audio Comment – Jay Moonah – Uncle Seth – Media Driving. Virgil Evans. TubeMogul. Media Driving – Jay Moonah's new Podcast. Audio Comment – Robin Brown – dabizblog. Seth Godin. Unleashing The Ideavirus. Survival Is Not Enough. Bebo – AOL. Six Points of Separation – Six Ways To Re-energize A Podcast: 1. Format. 2. Length. 3. Feedback. 4. Voices. 5. Audio comments. 6. Quality. Music from the Podsafe Music Network: The Black Crowes – ‘Goodbye Daughters of The Revolution'. Please join the conversation by sending in questions, feedback and ways to improve Six Pixels Of Separation. Please let me know what you think or leave an audio comment at: +1 206-666-6056. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #95 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising aol bebo black crowes blog blogging bryan eisenberg business chris anderson dabizblog david jones digital marketing facebook foreword thinking future now google grokdotcom harpercollins canada iab canada ideavirus inside pr interactive advertising bureau itunes jay moonah marketing meatball sundae media driving montreal motivational books online social network online video podcast podcasting podsafe music network purple cow robin brown seth godin six pixels of separation social media marketing social media marketing seminar squidoo survival is not enough terry fallis toronto twist image uncle seth vancouver youtube wired magazine