Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo is the ex-CEO of Twitter and managing partner at 01 Advisors. Costolo joins Big Technology Podcast to look ahead to the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs, looking at whether the offerings will be successful, who should go first, how the companies differ, and where the capital will come from. Tune in for the second half where we discuss the state of Meta, Costolo's Twitter memories, and Silicon Valley's 'Permanent Underclass.' Tune in for a fun, in-depth discussion of the most important pending business event in decades.
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AI is a crystal ball into your codebase
Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Microscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the need for humans-in-the-loop for reviewing PRs so AI tools can efficiently and effectively debug, and how AI can increase visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level and high signal-to-noise ratio code reviews.
Episode notes:
Macroscope helps you understand your code through AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and real-time status reports
Connect with Kayvon on Twitter and LinkedIn.
This week’s shoutout goes to user Jesper Grann Laursen for winning a Populist badge on their answer to Exclude Table during pg_restore.
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Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success
The discussion also:
Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively.
Explores how Abnormal Security utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and his team are leveraging AI to drive compounding productivity within their organization.
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#800: Ev Williams — The Art of Pivoting (e.g., Odeo to Twitter), Strategic Quitting, The Dangers of Premature Scaling, Must-Read Books, and More
Ev Williams is the co-founder of Mozi, a new social network that helps you connect in person with the people you care about. Over the past 25 years, Ev has co-founded several companies that have helped shape the modern internet—including Blogger, Medium, and Twitter. This episode was recorded live at Diggnation, where digg.com was relaunched. Go to digg.com and sign up to get early access when invites go out.
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Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Start
[00:05:35] Kevin Rose starts the party like it's 2004.
[00:07:27] Ev's first internet product.
[00:08:54] How technology became social for Ev.
[00:10:52] The simple idea behind Mozi.
[00:12:05] Strategic quitting vs. sunk-cost perseverance.
[00:18:36] How Odeo begat Twitter.
[00:22:01] Twitter's $11,000 SXSW 2007 inflection point.
[00:23:45] Ev's hopes for Mozi's evolution.
[00:25:02] Favorite books and information inputs.
[00:30:45] Raising a generation to co-exist with AI.
[00:33:12] Ev's billboard.
[00:35:56] How Ev learned to manage his feelings.
[00:37:16] Facing strangers as an introvert with the Hoffman Process.
[00:39:57] Recently adopted habits that have galvanized positive change.
[00:42:44] The silver lining of being fired from Twitter.
[00:45:18] Contemplating how the universe works with The One by Heinrich Päs.
[00:47:04] How Ev stocks his reading list arsenal.
[00:50:26] Big thoughts on a Medium regret.
[00:52:47] Resisting the urge to bloat Mozi with superfluous features.
[00:55:40] How Mozi balances privacy with utility.
[00:57:40] Parting thoughts.
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Social Media’s Original Gatekeepers On Moderation’s Rise And Fall
Since the inception of social media, content moderation has been hotly debated by CEOs, politicians, and, of course, among the gatekeepers themselves: the trust and safety officers. And it’s been a roller coaster ride — from an early hands-off approach, to bans and oversight boards, to the current rollback and “community notes” we’re seeing from big guns like Meta, X, and YouTube.
So how do the folks who wrote the early rules of the road look at what’s happening now in content moderation? And what impact will it have on the trust and safety of the platforms over the long term? This week, Kara speaks with Del Harvey, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter (2008- 2021); Dave Willner, former head of Content Policy at Facebook (2010-2013); Nicole Wong, a First Amendment lawyer, former VP and deputy general counsel at Google (2004-2011), Twitter's legal director of product (2012-2013), and deputy chief technology officer during the Obama administration (2013-2014).
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Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
As co-founder of Twitter and founder of Blogger and Medium, Evan Williams literally helped change the conversation: he understood that real-time connectivity—being able to write a post and have people read it seconds later—was the future of engagement online. A Nebraska farm boy who dropped out of college, Ev ran into several business failures before starting Blogger, and—after it sold to Google—launching Twitter with Jack Dorsey and others. Ev also came to learn that he understood product better than people, a trait that would contribute to his eventual ouster as Twitter CEO. After that crushing blow, he returned to his first love by starting Medium, a blogging site for posts that are neither too short or too long.
This episode was produced by Kerry Thompson with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by Neva Grant. Our audio engineers were Josh Newell and Gilly Moon.
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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour
Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live video streaming platform at the time. Periscope pioneered technology that inspired Instagram Live, TikTok Live, Facebook Live, and other social networks’ expansion into video streaming. In our conversation, we discuss:
• The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon’s acquisition
• How he turned Twitter’s stagnant culture around
• Kayvon’s thoughts on the limitations of frameworks like Jobs to Be Done
• Why Periscope failed
• Advice for building consumer products
• When to copy, when to innovate
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Kayvon’s background
(04:31) Getting Elon up to speed at Twitter
(11:34) The story of being let go from Twitter after Elon’s acquisition
(21:09) Changing the product culture at Twitter
(29:44) Building the “hide replies” feature
(32:02) Sacred crows, taking bold bets, and reigniting growth
(34:28) Aquihires and their impact
(42:40) Tips for successful acquisitions and staffing
(47:00) The limitations of frameworks like JTBD
(53:20) Signs you’ve gone too far with a framework
(57:44) Lessons from building Periscope
(01:00:41) Reasons why Periscope failed
(01:07:24) The challenges of implementing video at Twitter
(01:12:05) Copying ideas in good taste
(01:17:58) How to get better at building consumer products
(01:19:51) What Kayvon is building
(01:20:31) Lightning round
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Referenced:
• Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-on-building-product-sense-navigating-ai-optimizing-the-first-mile-and-making-it-through-t/
• What it’s like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it’s even launched: Meet Twitter’s new prized possession, Periscope: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3
• Walter Isaacson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-isaacson-b8b81520/
• Elon Musk on X: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
• Parag Agrawal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parag-agrawal-5a14742a/
• Jack Dorsey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dorsey-a43b07242/
• Blackboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.
• Keith Coleman on X: https://twitter.com/kcoleman
• Esther Crawford on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esthercrawford/
• Twitter acquires Chroma Labs: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/twitter-acquires-chroma-labs-story-aqvcRPAoYXqXJuAbefA6cN.html
• John Barnett on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbarnettt/
• Jobs to Be Done framework: https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90
• Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/hot-takes-and-techno-optimism-from-techs-top-power-couple-sriram-and-aarthi/
• Nike Is Unveiling the Kobe 11 Tomorrow Using Periscope: https://sneakernews.com/2015/12/13/nike-is-unveiling-the-kobe-11-tomorrow-using-periscope/
• Chris Sacca’s website: https://chrissacca.com/
• Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/formedia/tools/facebook-live
• Kevin Hart on X: https://twitter.com/KevinHart4real
• Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/
• Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
• Paul Davison on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davison/
• Rohan Seth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohanseth/
• Cryptonomicon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380788624
• Reamde: https://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B004XVN0WW
• The Name of the Wind: https://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Book-ebook/dp/B0010SKUYM
• Star Trek official site: https://www.startrek.com/
• Dune: part 2: https://www.dunemovie.com/
• Oppenheimer on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/oppenheimer
• Tokyo Vice on Max: https://www.max.com/shows/tokyo-vice/e7d93204-7f98-4e62-ab52-6c1da053f942
• Devs on Hulu: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs
• Nick Offerman on X: https://twitter.com/nick_offerman
• 3 Body Problem on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
• Perplexity AI: https://www.perplexity.ai/
• Particle: https://www.particle.news/
• Crokinole board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/521/crokinole
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20VC: AI's Biggest Questions: The Commoditisation of LLMs, Open vs Closed: Who Wins, Model Size vs Data Quality, Why Google are Vulnerable and Apple are the Dark Horse
Des Traynor is a Co-Founder of Intercom, and has built and led many teams within the company, including Product, Marketing, and Customer Support.
Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science.
Emad Mostaque is the Co-Founder and CEO @ StabilityAI, the parent company of Stable Diffusion. Stability are building the foundation to activate humanity's potential.
Jeff Seibert is the Founder & CEO @ Digits, building the future of AI-powered accounting. Digits have raised funding from the likes of Peter Fenton @ Benchmark and 20VC.
Tomasz Tunguz is the Founder and General Partner @ Theory Ventures, just announced last week, Theory is a $230M fund that invests $1-25m in early-stage companies that leverage technology discontinuities into go-to-market advantages.
Douwe Kiela is the CEO of Contextual AI, building the contextual language model to power the future of businesses.
Cris Valenzuela is the CEO and co-founder of Runway, the company that trains and builds generative AI models for content creation.
Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016.
In Today's Episode We Discuss:
Foundational Models: Analysis
Will foundational models become commoditized?
Who are the major players? What are their different strengths?
Who will win? Who will lose?
How important is the size of the model vs the quality of the data?
2. Open vs Closed:
What are the biggest pros and cons of an open ecosystem for LLMs?
Why is it naive to think that open-source LLMs will prevail?
What will determine which method wins?
3. An Analysis of the Incumbents:
Why is Google the most vulnerable? What can they do to regain ground?
Why is Apple the sleeping giant? How could they win the next wave of AI?
What should Amazon do today to compete with Microsoft?
4. The Future: Doom and Gloom?
Why is it ridiculous to assume AI systems want to dominate?
Why will AI create a renaissance of creativity and human freedom?
What role should regulation play in the advancement and progression of AI?
20VC: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play, Why Apple Will Win in an AI World, Why Google is the Most Vulnerable Incumbent, Will LLMs Be Commoditised, Which Startups Are Thin vs Thick Wrappers on Top of LLMs with Jeff Seibert, Founder @ Digits
Jeff Seibert is the Founder & CEO @ Digits, building the future of AI-powered accounting. Digits have raised funding from the likes of Peter Fenton @ Benchmark and 20VC. Jeff previously served as Twitter's Head of Consumer Product, a position he came to following the acquisition of his prior company, Crashlytics. Today, Crashlytics is the de-facto mobile crash reporting solution for iOS and Android and runs on over 6 Billion monthly active smartphones worldwide.
In Today's Episode with Jeff Seibert We Discuss:
1. The Art of the Pivot:
What are Jeff's biggest pieces of advice to founders pivoting?
How do you know when you have enough data to make the decision to pivot?
What are the single biggest mistakes founders make when pivoting?
2. AI: Who Wins and Who Loses:
Why does Jeff believe that OpenAI will transition into an infrastructure play?
What are the most significant challenges OpenAI will face moving forward?
Why does Jeff believe that Apple are best positioned to win in an AI world?
Why does Jeff believe that Google are the most vulnerable incumbent?
What would Jeff do if he was CEO of Google?
3. LLMs: What Happens Now:
Will we see the commoditization of LLMs?
What are the biggest misconceptions people have on training and fine-tuning LLMs?
Will we see LLMs increasingly specialise to vertical-specific models or will they remain horizontal?
What is the difference between a thick and a thin wrapper when building on top of LLMs?
4. Angel Portfolio in Review:
How many angel checks has Jeff written? How many failed? How many home runs?
Does Jeff believe that company valuations are being kept artificially high?
How did Jeff make 200x selling through the secondary market for a now failing company?
What are Jeff's three biggest pieces of advice for angels today?
The Yoel Roth-Linda Yaccarino Showdown
On Wednesday, two Twitter-related interviews rocked the stage at the 2023 Code Conference. Kara interviewed the former head of trust and safety at Twitter/X, Yoel Roth, and Julia Boorstin, CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent, interviewed X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino.
The late booking of Roth rattled Yaccarino, and her interview led to a media storm. Today, we bring you both interviews. We start off with Kara and Nayeema, as they set the stage early on Wednesday morning, play the interviews in chronological order and then rejoin Kara and Nayeema for a debrief to address accusations that the schedule change amounted to “sandbagging” Yaccarino. (Kara’s response: it does not).
Questions or comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on social media. We’re on Instagram/Threads as @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza
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717: Overcoming Adversaries with A.I. for Cybersecurity, with Dr. Dan Shiebler
Dr. Dan Shiebler, Head of ML at Abnormal Security, joins Jon Krohn this week and unveils the intricacies of cybercrime detection and email protection, and the role of AI in future challenges.
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In this episode you will learn:
• The heuristic and “intermediate” ML models that they develop at Abnormal Security [07:08]
• How Dan uses LLMs at Abnormal Security [15:46]
• How false negatives are individually the biggest classification error to avoid in cybersecurity [20:49]
• How head-to-head competitor analysis helps refine models [34:34]
• Resilient ML in cybersecurity [38:36]
• Abnormal Security’s routine for updating their models [52:37]
• AI's impact on the urban world [1:09:57]
• How to stay updated in data science and AI [1:13:46]
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#280 – Replacing Yourself as CEO, Living on a Boat, and Crowdfunding to Survive with Alex MacCaw of Reflect
Alex MacCaw (@maccaw) talks living on a boat, quitting his own 7-figure company, starting over with a lifestyle business, whether free will exists, crowdfunding from your own customers, and gaining a foothold in a crowded market with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).
Mr. Altman Goes to Washington + Casey Goes on This American Life
In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I. But like so many other proposals to regulate tech, will it actually happen? The Times’s technology reporter Cecilia Kang helps us understand whether Congress will actually act, and what that could look like.
Then, Casey talks with Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, before and after Elon Musk took over the company.
On today’s episode:
Cecilia Kang is a reporter at The New York Times covering technology and regulation.
Yoel Roth is the former head of trust and safety at Twitter.
Additional reading:
Sam Altman urged Congress to pass legislation to regulate A.I., including the proposal that A.I. developers should be required to get licenses from the U.S. government to release their models.
Casey Newton reported for This American Life on Roth’s time at Twitter, before and after Musk took over.
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Why Twitter’s Former Safety Chief Left Elon Musk
Elon Musk's Twitter is a spectacle, and the drama and meaning of the last six months is perhaps best unpacked by Yoel Roth. The company’s former head of trust and safety survived the early flood of firings and resignations — in fact, he was ascendant, in the early days of this new Twitter, and he became the face Musk presented to advertisers. Kara asks Roth whether he felt “used” by Musk and why — having been embraced by Elon’s inner circle — he ultimately decided to abandon Elon.
Before the interview, Kara and Nayeema weigh in on Elon Musk’s seeming needling of Tim Cook, and they discuss whether Apple has too much power. Stay tuned until the end for Kara’s rant on this very topic.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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630: Resilient Machine Learning
Jon Krohn sits with Dr. Dan Shiebler at the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) to dive into the critical components of building resilient machine learning.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/630
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EP 41: FTX Part 2 and the Twitter Breakdown: Aztec’s Jon Wu joins to talk FTX then Former Twitter Director Ryan Sarver & Fintwit Poster Compound248 Break Down Elon’s Takeover, Paid Verification, Advertisers Fleeing and the FTC
In episode 41 we get a visit from Aztec’s Jon Wu to talk briefly about FTX and then former Twitter Director Ryan Sarver joins along with Fintwit Personality Compound248 to try to explain everything that’s happened with the Twitter take private. From Elon firing half the staff, desperately trying to rehire them, advertisers bailing, and paid verification leading to fake companies and celebrities. As well as explaining why this has gotten so bad so quickly, why Twitter is unique, and what could have been done differently.
(0:00) Intro
(1:54) Welcome Rashad
(4:12) “Verified” Twitter Accounts
(7:36) FTX
(10:08) Rashad’s new podcast
(12:43) Welcome back Jon Wu
(14:32) SBF, FTX, and Alameda
(21:33) What was the fraud?
(24:56) Malicious intent or the tipping point?
(30:49) What was the sentiment of SBF by people in the ecosystem?
(34:10) What’s upcoming to pay attention to?
(36:23) CZ
(38:10) Welcome Ryan Sarver and Compound248
(43:04) Recapping what’s happened since Elon bought Twitter
(45:30) Blue checks
(51:48) Why Twitter is a difficult business
(1:00:30) Brand-based advertising to subscription
(1:16:33) Who will pay for verification?
(1:26:51) Why has Twitter been advertising-based?
(1:32:12) How much was pseudonymity a feature?
(1:34:49) What changes would you focus on?
(1:41:22) Twitter’s FTC order
(1:45:40) Elon shifting blame
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Out At Twitter — With Simon Balmain
Simon Balmain was laid off by Twitter today. A former Twitter senior community manager, Balmain takes us through the last few weeks at the company, describing the atmosphere, employee reactions to the layoffs, and whether the company can still function after losing this many people. Join us for a tough but balanced look at a historic moment at the company.
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EP 32: Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Talks About His Time at Second City, Running Twitter, and Missing Out on Instagram
In the 32nd episode of Cartoon Avatars former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo discusses his time at Second City with greats like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Steve Carrell, successfully managing and running Twitter as a non-founder, and trying to buy Instagram.
(0:00) Intro
(0:58) Mark Cuban canceled
(4:08) The editing room
(6:07) Logan’s engagement
(9:22) Welcome Dick Costolo
(13:54) Dick’s time at Second City
(28:16) After Second City
(32:44) Why Twitter is a unique challenge
(35:06) Treating all Twitter accounts equally
(40:09) Social Media Regulation
(42:06) Twitter monetization
(44:06) Trying to buy Instagram
(48:37) Social media platform Saturn
(52:01) Expectation setting
(57:10) Leading a company you didn’t found
(59:53) Role vs identity
(1:02:15) Bill Campbell’s mentorship
(1:07:57) Letting people go
(1:12:47) Successful managing
(1:15:42) Marxist vs Darwinian management
(1:19:13) Assume best intentions
(1:24:40) Getting unfollowed by Elon Musk
(1:30:31) Rapid fire
(1:35:14) Outro
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A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise.
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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Building Reflect at sea (Interview)
This week we’re talking with Alex MacCaw — he’s well known for his work as founder and CEO of Clearbit. In May of 2021, Alex shared a personal update with the world on his blog. After much reflection, he decided to step down as CEO of Clearbit to go back to his roots. In his words, “I love the early stages of company building. Hacking together code, setting up the Stripe account, getting the first customer. That’s my jam.”
We talk with Alex about this portion of his journey at Clearbit, the Catamaran he bought in South Africa and then sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and the new thing he’s building called Reflect that let’s you keep track of your notes, books, and meetings.
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Featuring:
Alex MacCaw – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
A personal update
Alex’s first appearance on The Changelog
reflect.app
Clearbit
Earl Grey Capital
Google - “Catamaran”
The Manager’s Handbook
Ross Moser
Beginning of Infinity
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
remirror/remirror
Replicache
Mimestream
The Changelog #455: Building software for yourself with Linus Lee
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Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey ♻️ (Interview)
This week we’re re-broadcasting a very special episode of Founders Talk. Adam was invited by our friends at Square to host a fireside chat with Jack Dorsey as the featured finale of their annual developer conference called Square Unboxed. Jack is one of the most prolific CEOs out there. He’s a hacker turned CEO, often working at the very edge of what’s to come. He’s focused on what the future has to offer and an innovator at scale. He’s also a Bitcoin maximalist and has positioned himself and Block long on Bitcoin.
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FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.io
Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
InfluxData – InfluxData’s Edge Data Replication feature allows developers to replicate data from local instances into InfluxDB Cloud, enables users to aggregate and store data for long-term management and analysis, and to satisfy regulations. It brings the horsepower closer to the sensor and gives developers and solution builders the ability to leverage their own elastic compute resources deployed at the edge. Learn more at influxdata.com/changelog
Featuring:
Jack Dorsey – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Block.xyz
Square Unboxed 2022
Square Unboxed 2022’s replay on YouTube
Square Unboxed 2022’s recap blog post
Jack Dorsey on Lex Fridman (#91)
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Work from anywhere: sailboats, solar generators, and Starlink
David Pierce hosts a special "work from anywhere" episode of The Vergecast while he is on vacation.
02:33 - CEO of Rove Jonah Hanig chats about his approach work-friendly travel. Reflect's Alex MacCaw shares his experience working from a sailboat in the middle of the ocean.
17:12 - Verge deputy editor Thomas Ricker talks about his review of the Jackery Solar Generator 2000 Pro, as well as his experience of working remotely in Europe.
36:28 - Verge policy editor Russell Brandom and senior reporter Loren Grush discuss the state of using satellites like Starlink to access the internet in rural areas.
Further reading:
Starlink’s Dishy McFlatface internet now available for Boaty McBoatfaces — just $5,000 per month
Jackery Solar Generator 2000 Pro review: letting flex-workers flex
Starlink RV review: the dawn of space internet to go
Ventje VW Campervan review: 'work from home' from anywhere
How Starlink and other satellite services are changing the shape of the internet
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What Happens To Twitter After All This? — With Three Ex-Twitter Employees and Two Reporters
Three former Twitter employees (Jenna Golden, Brandon Borrman, Leslie Miley) and CNBC media & tech reporter Alex Sherman join Big Technology Podcast for a breakdown of Twitter v. Musk. While at Twitter, Golden ran political ad sales, Borrman ran communications, and Miley ran an engineering team. We do our best to make sense of this wild story, looking at how far Twitter should take its lawsuit, what's happening inside the company as it goes through this episode, and how Twitter's balancing the needs of shareholders with its users. Stay tuned for the second half, where we predict the outcome of the case.
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20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, master of product reviews, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.
Tony Fadell, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of the last 30 years as one of the makers of some of the most game-changing products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest.
Lenny Rachitsky is one of the OGs of product, having spent over 7 years at Airbnb as a product lead he left to start his newsletter, find it here.
Kayvon Beykpour is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 years, Kayvon has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research and Customer Service & Operations.
Aparna Chennapragada is Chief Product Officer @ Robinhood, the company revolutionising consumer finance with commission-free investing.
In Today's Episode Breaking Down Product Reviews We Discuss:
1.) What makes a truly great product review?
2.) What are the biggest mistakes that product leaders make when leading product reviews?
3.) Who should be invited to the product review? How does this change with scale? How does this change in a world of remote work and Zoom?
4.) Who should set the agenda for the product review?
5.) How can leaders assign accountability and ensure that the follow-ups from product reviews are executed on?
6.) How can leaders ensure that they do not dominate product reviews with the weight of their words? How can they give designers and devs the space to share their thoughts without being judged?
20 Product: Twitter's Former Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour on How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews, The Core Set of Questions to Ask All Potential Product Hires and When To Continue vs Quit on New Products
Kayvon Beykpour is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 years, Kayvon has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research and Customer Service & Operations. Kayvon came to Twitter through Periscope, the live broadcasting app that raised from GV, Bessemer, Scott Belsky and was ultimately acquired by Twitter in 2015. If that was not enough, Kayvon is also an active angel investor today.
In Today's Episode with Kayvon Beykpour You Will Learn:
1.) Entry into Product:
How did Kayvon make his way into the world of tech and come to be Head of Consumer Product @ Twitter?
What were some of Kayvon's biggest lessons from the journey with Periscope?
What were some of Kayvon's biggest takeaways from working closely with Scott Belsky?
2.) Building Your Product Team:
How does Kayvon advise on your first product hires? Should it be Head of Product or more junior product team members?
When is the right time for the founder to hand off some core product decisions to these hires?
What are the core traits and characteristics of some of the best first product hires?
3.) Perfecting the Hiring Process for Product Teams:
How does Kayvon approach the hiring process for all new product team members?
What are the stages? What does he look to learn at each stage?
What questions reveal the most in product candidates? How do the best respond?
How does Kayvon use case studies and product demos in the process?
4.) Building Product: 101:
How does Kayvon approach product reviews? Who is invited? Who sets the agenda? How often?
What have been Kayvon's biggest lessons about what leaders need to do to get the most from their product teams? How do they communicate?
What has been one of Kayvon's biggest product mistakes? What did he learn?
How does Kayvon advise founders on when to give up on a new product vs when to iterate and persist?
Melania Trump’s NFT, Reddit to go public + Twitter’s Tony Haile: news & product evolution | E1347
First Jason covers Melania Trump launching an NFT series (02:27) and Reddit just filing to go public(13:10). Then, Twitter's Tony Haile joins (24:14) to talk about selling his startup Scroll to Twitter, helping lead Twitter's product team (37:07), Twitter's roadmap and more.
Moment 31 - How To Instantly Improve Your Creativity: Bruce Daisley
In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO. Creativity is often labelled a skill which only certain people are born with. A gift for only those lucky enough to have it. This statement is NOT correct. We are all creative and we can all train this skill. Bruce Daisley (Ex VP of Twitter) explains beautifully how we can almost instantaneously engage the creative parts of our brains and allow ideas to flow. Here’s how to instantly improve your creativity. Episode 66 - https://g2ul0.app.link/fEZR9DRs4kb Bruce: https://twitter.com/brucedaisley https://www.instagram.com/brucedaisley/ Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/StevenBartlettYT?sub_confirmation=1 The Diary Of A CEO live - Sign up here - https://g2ul0.app.link/diaryofaceolive
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Engineering Effectiveness and KubeCon NA 2021, with Jasmine James
Jasmine James is an Engineering Manager within the Engineering Effectiveness organization at Twitter, focused on their internal developer experience. She is also the latest co-chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, starting with the North America event last week. Jasmine joins us to talk about being in the same room as other people - up to 3,000 of them - for the first time in a long while.
The cover art for this show is courtesy of the CNCF and licensed under CC-BY.
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Chatter of the last wee while KubeCon NA 2021
Google Cloud Next '21
SREcon21
William Shatner's words after touching the edge of the final frontier
Adele to release a new album
Common People
Shatner's new album "Bill"
News of the recent past Google Cloud Next: Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Hosted
BigQuery Omni is GA
Anthos for VMs
Managed Service for Prometheus
VMworld VMware Tanzu Community Edition
Cartographer for supply chain choreography
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon CNCF announces record number of new silver members
KCNA entry-level certification
Cilium joins the CNCF
Triggermesh becomes open source
Codefresh replatforms on upstream Argo
Cloud Native security microsurvey results
Introducing Chainguard Episode 152, guest hosted by Dan Lorenc
Episode 47, with Kim Lewandowski
Kubernetes documentary trailer
Links from the interview Atlanta
AT&T
Delta Air Lines
Avoiding the weeds in the Cloud Native Landscape at KubeCon NA 2018
Q&A with Jasmine James, newest KubeCon co-chair
The selection process for KubeCon NA 2021
Upcoming CNCF events
Co-co-chairs: Episode 117, with Constance Caramanolis
Episode 130, with Stephen Augustus
Keynotes of note: Three Developer Experience keynotes from Constance, Jasmine, and Robert Duffy
A Vulnerable Tale about Burnout by Julia Simon
The Road to Multicluster by Kaslin Fields
Episode 62, with Ricardo Rocha, Lukas Heinrch and Clemens Lange
Interaction wristbands
Horseback riding and fishing
Jasmine James on Twitter
(TWTR SPC) An Interview With @kayvz, Who Is Leading The Twitter Product Revolution
Chris and I thought we had not guests lined up this week so we were going to just potpourri some topics. But then Keyvon Beykpour, who is heading the Twitter project revolution came on and talked to us longer than we had any right to ask for. It was a great conversation.
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Launching Twitter Blue with Twitter’s Head of Product Kayvon Beykpour | E1225
Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's Head of Product shares the strategy behind Twitter's recent feature releases, what structural changes enabled Twitter to increase product velocity, how they segment composers & consumers, the Twitter blue launch & more!
(TWTR SPC) Tip Jar, Basecamp And Doge
We talk about the Tip Jar and all the other big changes Twitter has been making. We get into the Basecamp brouhaha and also why I didn’t end up covering it this week. We talk about Dogecoin with someone who was there at the beginning of the project. And we even have an actual newsmaker on the show. At the very end, we talk to Tony Haile, founder of Scroll, which, if you’ll remember, just got acquired by Twitter this past week.
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