What we covered:

01:43 – Kurt welcomes to the show, Tyler Crowley, who speaks to his background as a musician and the decision to pursue a career in tech

10:19 – Tyler expounds on his academic background and some of the projects he worked on while studying

15:22 – Tyler speaks to the genius of his colleague Jason Calacanis and how they initially started collaborating together

27:02 – How the Swedish government hired Tyler to build a tech community

43:14 – Buying a resort in Thailand and the threat of genetic engineering

51:41 – Best practices for preparing for some of society’s challenges on the horizon

1:03:08 – The issue with Amazon autotomizing their factories

1:08:57 – Tyler speaks to the community he built on Clubhouse, Tech News around the World

1:17:09 – Tyler opens up about the hardest challenges he’s had to overcome throughout his life

1:21:54 – The best boss Tyler ever had, an unknown fact about Tyler and the one band he would go see play live if he could

1:27:41 – Kurt thanks Tyler for joining the show and let’s listeners know where they can connect with him and how they can be of service to Tyler

Episode Sponsor:

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Tweetable Quotes:

“I thought I want to engage the politicians and use the engineering community that I’ve brought together at my events to try and focus on making solutions for problems like water and food and energy and the global problems. In trying to bring together these ministers and NGOs and foundations and UN-types, I learned that in doing these events, I familiarized myself with just how bureaucratic and ensnared in red tape all of those folks are.”

“Do you think people in Beijing knew what was going on in America under Trump and the essence of the nuance of the American political system? They do not. Do you think Americans know what’s going on in Venezuela and the essence of what’s happening in the Middle East? You cannot. You need to be deeply engaged in the culture to know what’s really going on.”

“You look at how society is already stressing under the weight of social media. Social media is kindergarten compared to the genetic revolution that we’re about to go through. If you think society is unraveling because of social media, wait until you see what happens when we have genetic engineering and militarized swarms of hundred-dollar drones.”

“It’s very difficult to achieve meaningful success, by society’s standards, independently with zero employees, with zero partners, with zero clients.”

“I wasn’t trying to climb a corporate ladder because I wasn’t on the ladder before that and I wasn’t ever gonna be on the ladder after that. And I knew that because I’m not a corporate-type person.”

Links Mentioned:

Kurt’s Twitter

Kurt’s Instagram 

Kurt’s LinkedIn 

Tyler’s LinkedIn

Tyler’s Twitter 

Tech News around the World Twitter

Link to Tech News around the World

This Week in Startups Podcast 

Link to Pinduoduo App

Link to OEC World

Link to Stack Commerce

Link to Can’s Tago Mago Album