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"It's really just about a platform or service that allows restaurants to continue doing what they do best. Right. Which is design great food and prepare great food while taking some of the complexity of the technology out and setting up the integration with couriers, delivery drivers, or these delivery apps, in really seamless way."

‍In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Ken Chong, the founder of Virtual Kitchen Company which empowers restaurants, chefs, and food entrepreneurs to take advantage of the delivery boom without enduring the challenges of building out additional locations themselves.

We talk with Ken about the food delivery economy, food entrepreneurship, and the role delivery will play in building the future of both food and restaurants!

Resources:

• Read the A16Z Investment Thesis
• Get in touch with the team by emailing [email protected]
• Order food from their restaurants at localfoodhall.com

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"Forcing people to provide this hugely expensive good that they then have to give away for free has been a mistake and it's resulted in a lot less flexibility for businesses. It's resulted in more expensive housing. It's resulted in cities that are flooded with cars and with buses that are stuck in public transit. And I think we're just getting to the point where we're starting to see the light. And we're starting to realize that perhaps the future could look a little different."

‍In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Evan Goldin, the founder of Parkade which builds parking software that helps businesses, cities, and individuals better utilize the overabundance of parking spaces around them.

We talk with Evan about the havoc that free parking has wrecked on our cities, the impact of COVID on our city streets, and the role that parking innovation will play in building the future of cities.

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"I want all of us to build a world where we in the future and our descendants are as fantastically well off compared to today as we are compared to the past."

In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Jason Crawford, the founder of Roots of Progress. Roots of Progress is an organization promoting the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of human progress.

We talk with Jason about the three layers of progress, how much better the world is now vs. 100 years ago, the space race, knowledge creation, and so much more!

Take a listen to this episode to understand the importance of understanding the role progress has played in our past and how important it is in building the future.

Resources:

• Follow Jason and Roots of Progress on Twitter
• Learn more about Roots of Progress
• Join the Progress Studies Slack Community
• Participate or learn more about the Young Scholars Program

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"If you look outside your window right now and you see a drone hovering there, how would you feel?"‍

In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Luke Fox, founder of WhiteFox Defense, who is pioneering the future of drone airspace security and safely integrating drones into society. We talk with Luke about autonomous technologies (drones, robots, cars), what's halting progress in this space, and why it's absolutely critical that we create social and technological frameworks to bring forward the future of drones.

If we don't? We'll never get the Amazon Prime deliveries, Westworld drone-copters, or the necessary improvements to our critical infrastructure. Instead, drones will be left in the hands of hobbyists and criminals.

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My long term goal is to create a world where people can start countries. Like they start companies today.

In this episode of Build The Future, we talk with Patri Friedman (@patrissimo), the founder of Pronomos Capital where they're supporting the development of charter cities and new forms of governance. In doing so, they're building the future of how new cities are creating, how they're run, and how they innovate.

Key Ideas

• Law as Code, Cites as Product — Similar to code, law can operate as an open source library or database of the best laws that people around the world are continually contributing to and adapting. As a result, the cities and governments that are built off of these laws will be best positioned to serve their people.
• Everything as Insurance — In these charter cities, insurance would be used as a way to control who is allowed to visit the city. Everyone may buy liability insurance based on the risk they pose given their past history, psychological profile, and assets they own. Rather than being discriminatory, the efficiency of markets could make this a very accurate model reducing and providing compensation for any harm or damage that occurs.
• Markets Eating the World — By creating more markets, such as a market for governments, competition between different ways of doing things will arise which forces those who want to be at the forefront to optimize and improve their solutions.  

Links:

• Follow Patri on Twitter (@patrissimo)
• Pronomos VC
• Charter Cities Institute

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We had a unique understanding and we said, okay, we're going to rebuild healthcare software, but we're not going to make it look like traditional healthcare software. We're going to make it feel like platforms these people already use. And more importantly, we're going to make it so easy and flexible and affordable for them that it just becomes a no brainer.

In this episode of Build the Future, we talk with Goke Olubusi, the founder and CEO of Helium Health. In Africa where access to technology is very limited and few people know how to use it, Goke and his team at Helium health have made huge strides towards reshaping healthcare without providing new devices or training. 

The next question seems to be how? 

Due to his extensive knowledge of the African market gathered from previous startups, Goke knew he had to work within people’s existing behaviors. While access to technology and the skills to use it are both constraints, he recognized that most people have a smartphone and are familiar with programs like Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp. From there, Goke shares how he specifically developed a new healthcare software that can be used on a smartphone and has a similar interface to apps people already know. 

Key Ideas

• Data-driven decision making: Goke envisions healthcare in Africa and other markets being driven entirely by data and technology. Collecting and analyzing data rather than storing thousands of paper files would allow hospitals in Africa to analyze things such as when they are busiest and need to allocate the most resources, where they are losing money and where they could be more efficient. 
• Digital Infrastructure: In order to enable this, Helium is building the digital infrastructure for hospitals. This is a collection of data and metrics that is built on top of the existing infrastructure of smartphones that already exists. Hospitals can then easily access and use this data to operate more efficiently. 
• Telemedicine: Similar to other countries, the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of telemedicine in Africa. Before coronavirus, Hospitals were not very interested in telemedicine, but they are now looking for a solution because they have never thought of operating virtually and their revenue is down 80% to 90%. 

Links

• Connect with Goke Olubusi (@thisgokeboysef)
• Helium Health: Website | Twitter

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"What we're really trying to accomplish is, providing another tool for one of these step changes. Something where we go from an expensive & manual process to one that's highly automated to enable the next generation of machines."

In this episode, we talk with Ryan Dunn the CEO of Mantis Composites.

Mantis Composites has developed a 5-axis, 3D printer for carbon fiber parts. In the development of this technology, they're helping usher in the next step change in materials innovation. Innovation that will enable the technologies of tomorrow to be built more efficiently and affordably — technologies like rockets, satellites, hyper-cars, and planes. 

In this episode, we talk about the step changes throughout history; Ryan's most anticipated technologies and their implications; and the role that government can play in helping foster the development of these frontier technologies.

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"To make cities affordable for everyone, it's a ridiculous mission. But it’s ridiculous on purpose, because it should drive us to work on this for the next 50 years."

In this episode we talk with Jon Dishotsky the CEO of Starcity.

Starcity builds intentional and sustainable co-living communities to help people find a place to call home in today's cities. In pursuit of their mission to make cities more accessible to everyone, Starcity is shaping the future of urban living, community, and sustainable development.

In this episode, we talk about the trends around city living, the challenges of our individualism, and the role that cities can play in providing opportunity and community.

Items Mentioned:‍

• Connect with Jon Dishotsky: LinkedIn | Twitter | Email
• Starcity
• Raj Chetty and the Opportunity Atlas 
• Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill
• Study: 48% of people have < 1 close friend
• What people regret on their deathbeds
• The Israeli Kibbutz
• The Japanese Ryokan
• US Communes
• Conversation between Elon Musk and Joe Rogan on Space X
• Michael Phelps: Winning as a team vs. winning solo.
• Y Combinator‍
• Schlep Blindness by Paul Graham

Show Notes:

• Can you tell us a little bit about what you’re building at Starcity and the future you are trying to create? [00:37]
• Is the idea that previously inaccessible areas for a large number of people become more accessible? [03:34]
• How do you see the dynamic of people working remotely and leaving cities working out in the future? [05:21]
• Are cities providing in-person communitie

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In this episode we talk with Kelly Smith the CEO of Prenda. Prenda is a new type of school — called a microschool — that blends in-person interaction and technology to create personalized learning programs for kids that focuses on mastery and responsibility.

We talk about alternative education models, growth mindset, and how Prenda is working to develop the next generation of empower learners.

Items Mentioned:

• Growth Mindset
• The Inner Game of Tennis
• Kelly's article on taking the red or blue pill when it comes to education. 
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Acton Academy
• Khan Academy
• Mystery Science

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In this episode we talk with Tyler Shaddix the CPO of GoGuardian. GoGuardian is one of the fastest growing education companies in the US. They provide thousands of K-12 schools with the technology they need to create safe and effective digital learning environments.

We talk about how Tyler ended up at GoGuardian, the incentives in the K-12 system, digital learning technology, and how we can use data to create experiences that meet the needs of every student.‍

“Education is one of the best ways to change the world because you’re basically sculpting the next generation” - Tyler Shaddix

‍Links to Items Mentioned:

• Connect with Tyler Shaddix: LinkedIn | Twitter
• Go Guardian 
• Go Guardian founders: Aza Steel, Advait Shinde and Nick Tyler
• UC Merced
• Go Guardian products: classroom
  management tool, suicide prevention, and
  learning filter‍
• Build Bridges Before Kingdoms (Tyler's Essay)
• Elon Musk - Plan to colonize Mars‍
• Minimum Viable Product - MVP‍
• GoGuardian's Beacon Suicide Prevention Service
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• American Association for Suicidology
• A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer‍

Show Notes:

• The story about how Tyler ended up at Go Guardian. [03:00]
• Courting process for joining Go Guardian. [06:

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