Founder Secrets with Taylor and Flaviu
Oct 9, 2022
Monthly Reflections, Biden's CTO problem, Zoom Hack, Apple products review
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Topics:
- Month in review - How to review the last year/month.
- Question-based project management
- Biden’s CTO problem
- Working out tips
- Zoom hack to focus better
- Apple review of current devices
- Being real vs. raising money
- Industries and startups succeeding though the recession
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Links & Mentions
* Future Fitness (digital personal trainer): mentioned at 00:19:50
* Yousician (music learning app): mentioned at 00:21:16
* Negotiating prices on Airbnb and healthcare bills: mentioned at 00:23:18
* Identifying location of a phone call through electric signal: mentioned at 00:24:53
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Bonus Phone Trick [00:19:05] A bonus phone tip from Speaker 1.
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New ways of spying [00:25:54] Discussion on how electricity running through devices can be used to solve crimes and how it's being used to gather intelligence.
YouTube movie summaries [00:27:27] Discussion on a business idea for YouTube to create AI-generated movie summaries to monetize and democratize movie-watching.
Shazam and fingerprinting technology [00:29:08] Discussion on how Shazam works and how it's one of the best detection mechanisms in the world for identifying songs. Also, a mention of how humming a song can now be flagged as a violation of copyright.
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