Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Rob’s career began as an early adopter in internet marketing and then he got the bug for machine-to-machine IoT (2:47)
• Making assumptions about mass scale (8:44)
• Pervasiveness of IoT in the market (11:47)
• Initial reactions to technological advances that we take for granted today (17:28)
• What makes IoT unique (23:56)
• Killing the SQL server (29:11)
• What really separates a smart device from a dumb device that can send data to the cloud (33:13)
• 5G, LoRa, and drawbacks and advances in widespread IoT adoption (37:05)
• Security and privacy in IoT (41:23)
• Using IoT as a cattle rancher (45:20)

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