This week’s episode covers February Founders Live Seattle Event and the winners MyPeopleNow.com. We transition into talking about Flexport, a company that raised $1B and the benefits and drawbacks to raising that much money.

This is not our first show together. Nick and Conner first met at an event series called Feature Friday (eventually became Founders Live). We worked together at a company called Knotis, and used to record a show called Straight Up Startups on Google Hangouts. Those lessons have led us to create Catching Up, a way for us to continue our conversations and get you involved. Thank you for supporting our show! Please leave us a review or send us your questions

Ep038 was intended to have another set of topics, but we open the show asking Nick to give a shout out to a unique company he’s met this year and he brings up EXECrank which helps founders form a board of directors. This leads us into a series of questions about why and when you should start thinking about forming a board.

Ep037 brings up some questions about our personal brands and some of our individual goals. Spotify also bought Anchor

Nick is back in Seattle to host Founders Live and we are talking about the winner, Coffee Break. We also dive into the reason why Burger King got so much attention online this week and their video from Casey Neistat (link below). Lastly we are talking about the new robot influencers that popped up on Instagram and how they could disrupt the concept of influencer. Thanks for listening! /////// Burger King: https://youtu.be/yto4a3tdqYc ///// robot influencers https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/digital-influencers-and-the-dollars-that-follow-them/

Episode 035 dives into the recent news of layoffs in numerous media and tech companies. Dealing with layoffs or being fired can create a ton of difficulties but Conner and Nick discuss some ideas including how creating content could help find your next gig.

This weeks show debates a recent quote by Netflix stating they are more concerned with Fortnight than HBO. We also dig into a recent interview with Jack Dorsey discussing their need to fix the platform or shut down. Lastly, Nick bought AirPods and the Sounders have a New jersey sponsor.

It’s been a long break for Nick and Conner with some big life changes happening. The pod for a time was in question, but now we are back for our weekly round up of catching up. Nick has the most to update us on this week as he has packed up a suitcase and traveling around the country for the next year meeting with startup founders and sharing their stories

Episode 032 focuses on Anchor sponsoring the podcast. No credit to us, but we talk about the idea of sponsorships on our show and which brands we’d love to see. We also talk about Founders Live Seattle winner EarShot, Tiger vs Phil, and Bird Fleets for entrepreneurs. We experimented with Anchor advertising in this episode and they pay $10 for every 1000 listens. We are nowhere close to hitting that number. Thank you for watching Catching Up with Conner & Nick

Episode 031 starts with the announcement of Shyft raising $6.5M Series A to help retail businesses with scheduling. We spend lots of time talking about Social Capitals change in direction and their call out of the VC Ponzi Scheme in Silicon Valley. Lastly, would you move to Tulsa, Ok for $10k?... Oh yes! Conner said hi to Jeff Bezos, what would you say to him?