Jason Calacanis and a rotating group of guest experts bring you this weekly take on the best, worst, most outrageous and interesting stories from the world of Web companies. Calacanis, a podcasting pioneer, gives you an insider's look at what's happening in the tech industry with his trademark blunt style and good humor. Looking to start your own company? Need strategies for improving your business or motivating your team? Just want to catch up on what's happening in Silicon Valley and beyond? Your journey begins here.
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E957: Luminous Computing CEO & Co-founder Marcus Gomez is building the world’s largest supercomputer that fits in the palm of your hand, allowing AI to go supernova by giving everyone the compute to scale anything, raises $9m seed from Bill Gates, Gigafun
4:36 What is Luminous Computing?
15:07 Pitching his big-name investors
19:55 Why photonics?
32:51 The growing dangers of AI
42:31 The potential upside of AI
E956: Scaling Your Startup, “Culture”: Creating your culture, hiring, diversity & inclusion, high performance, scaling culture, work environment & tools with Jason Calacanis & LAUNCH Managing Directors Ashley Whitehurst & Jacqui Deegan — E10 of 10-ep mini
Episode Ten: Scaling Your Startup, "Culture": Jason Calacanis & LAUNCH Managing Directors Jacqui Deegan Ashley Whitehurst go through creating your culture, hiring, diversity & inclusion, high performance, scaling culture, work environment & tools
3:15 Creating your culture
18:00 Hiring
26:18 Diversity, inclusion & non-harassment
40:27 High performance
50:04 Scaling culture
58:33 Work environment
1:04:45 Tools
E955: Office Hours Sydney! Australian founders present universal startup challenges: finding the right geo, fundraising & pivoting in niche market, gaining traction in hardware/software, effective messaging for a noble vision & more with Jason & investor
2:50 Kim from Buddee Fitness
13:40 Pete from Ayvri
30:10 Sean from TimeChi
46:40 Frances from GoodGivs
E954: Gentry Underwood, Co-founder & CEO of Navigator, demos new AI assistant for meeting efficiency & teamwork, insights from selling Mailbox to Dropbox for $100M just 37 days after launching, SaaS burnout in SV, desktop v. mobile cognition, mastering fo
4:20 Why Gentry built Mailbox
16:25 Optimizing email for mobile
24:36 Best aesthetic designs in tech today
45:15 Origins of Navigator
48:52 Gentry demos Navigator
1:03:54 Importance of seating arrangements in board meetings
E953: Neyborly Co-founder & CEO Ben Seidl shares journey from nearly shutting down to $1m in revenue, optimizing LAUNCH Founder.University, Accelerator & Jason’s Syndicate, redefining a massive market & leveraging the retail apocalypse to create a network
4:03 What is Neyborly?
12:12 Ben's experience at Founder.University
15:00 Understanding numbers for founders seeking $
19:34 Building connections through the LAUNCH Accelerator
28:34 Creating market-networks
34:27 Raising through Jason's Syndicate
45:27 Neyborly's rollout plans
48:45 Meeting with David Sacks and securing his investment
57:57 Solving the problems with modern retail
E952: MasterClass Co-founder & CEO David Rogier on shaping the future of online learning with life-changing & accessible classes taught by world’s top talent, landing Dustin Hoffman as 1st to scaling to over 60 celebrity courses, lessons in raising & depl
4:32 Why Jason passed on investing in MasterClass & landing Dustin Hoffman as 1st instructor
8:53 Bridging the gap between professional entertainment and online education
13:18 Ideal target customer & company mission
26:00 Why Steph Curry was the perfect MasterClass instructor for basketball
33:31 How David negotiated masterclass.com domain name
46:32 David's shares how his grandmother, who fled Poland from the Nazis, gave him the gift of appreciating education
E951: News Roundtable! Antonio Garcia Martinez (“Chaos Monkeys,” WIRED) & Zach Coelius (Coelius Capital) take on Facebook content moderation, crypto play with Libra & the currency of audacity, Ive departs Apple, trade & surveillance war with China, oblite
Facebook content moderation (2:36)
Is Facebook responsible for the sensitivity of its employees?
Jony Ive leaving Apple (16:12)
Is Chrome OS coming catching up to Apple?
Libra / @Libra_ (19:45)
Audacity is the currency, Zuckerberg still has guts, Jason is meta-trolling Zuck
Libra use cases (33:18)
Content micropayments
Incoming Cultural/Societal Changes (41:48)
End of physical labor, 100% immersive VR, sensory...
E31: “Angel” podcast: Samantha Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures (Canva, Culture Amp), shares insights on the growth of Australia’s startup ecosystem, valuations outside of SV & benefits for investors, focusing on deep tech &“science nonfiction,” backin
E31: "Angel" podcast: Samantha Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures (Canva, Culture Amp), shares insights on the growth of Australia's startup ecosystem, valuations outside of SV & benefits for investors, focusing on deep tech & "science nonfiction," backing founders with an unstoppable force, & how immigration laws impact entrepreneurship
E950: Ethos Co-founder & CEO Peter Colis makes life insurance accessible to everyone, leverages data to eliminate friction & simplify the traditional complications, enables 99% of customers to obtain an affordable policy in 10 minutes with no medical exam
Ethos Co-founder & CEO Peter Colis makes life insurance accessible to everyone, leverages data to eliminate friction & simplify the traditional complications, enables 99% of customers to obtain an affordable policy in 10 minutes with no medical exam or blood test
E949: Pony.ai co-founder & CEO James Peng shares insights from scaling his global self-driving unicorn, developing Level 4 & 5 autonomous tech to make any car operate safely in all conditions without human intervention, visions for trucking & ride-hailing
Pony.ai co-founder & CEO James Peng shares insights from scaling his global self-driving unicorn, developing Level 4 & 5 autonomous tech to make any car operate safely in all conditions without human intervention, visions for trucking & ride-hailing, creating collaboration between U.S. & China, how the cultures compare, & other lessons innovating in our driverless future