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What the heck is the Metaverse? Everybody is talking about it. It is supposed to usher in a grand new world, but what s it really, and who is building it. Hang tight, because we are about to talk to someone doing just that.

Welcome, today we have back Adam Voss from Surreal, and they are one of the leaders in the space. They are working with Unreal engine and Epic Games to build out this virtual world, and today we are going to find out just where things are at, and when we can get to the Oasis.

Welcome Adam

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Meta Verse

Not meta in the sense of self reference, and not a verse in the sense of epic, lyrical poetry.

Rather Meta in the sense of greater or transcendent and verse as in universe. However, since the metaverse exists within the known universe it logically can not be greater than that which contains it.

Which is an apt description because, in the end, it is merely the illusion of infinite space, time and possibility.

And, while it is a transcendent expanse of virtual existence, it is perhaps more a symbol of our exhaustion with the existing world and universe in which we toil day after day with small minds and limited possibilities.

This virtual existence offer the endless promise of delightful illusion, bridging gaps that time and space lays before us, giving us instantaneous connection to the totality of human existence.

We sit at the edge of its existence, the primordial ooze from which it will arise, and one has to ask oneself, what will we make of it. Will we create a skeuomorphic simulacrum of the failed utopias of tangible existence, or will we truly transcend.

Will the old ways of corporate exploitation, pettiness and greed drive the evolution of this brave new world, or will our better angels be revealed bringing into existence a new eden as we fall, powerless toward the singularity.

Will this be our final step towards our own transcendence, or a will we fall into the gaping maw of oblivion.

The journey starts now, and it is up to us to choose the destination.

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We have all been inundated with security breech after security breech, with no end in sight. With the highly distributed nature of infrastructure and applications these days, the amount of data that needs to be analyzed to identify threats and compromises is sometimes the biggest hurdle that security teams face. Today, we are going to be talking with a company that promises to streamline that data to make it more valuable.

Today we are talking with Cribl a company that is solving the log data pipe challenges businesses are seeing these days. When the founders were working at Splunk, they saw first hand the challenge of working with large complex data streams, and set off on their own to solve that problem. To date, they have raised over $250 million from top VC firms. Today, we have Nick Heudecker, Senior Director of Market Strategy & Competitive Intelligence at Cribl to tell us about how they can help enrich and optimize data to give you better, faster and more cost effective analytics.

Welcome Nick

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We love startups, and today we are going to talk with an early stage company with an idea that could one day solve a big problem in the industry. We have talked about the massive shift to subscription and consumption based models before, but with that comes enormous challenges in managing all of those subscriptions. Today we are going to talk with a company that is building a platform to solve that problem

Today we are going to be talking about a something that I have been wanting for a while now. We have with us Akash Khanolkar one of the founders of Octane, a company who is building a SaaS/consumption/subscription billing platform. I am excited to talk to this company, because the total addressable market for this product is huge and where they could take it is really exciting, and I can’t wait to learn more.

Welcome Akash

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Today we are going to be talking about Database as a Service and about some of the big announcements that just came from Pure Storage.

Today we are going to be talking with Michael Ferranti who is VP of Product and Corporate Marketing for Portworx, which is now a part of Pure Storage. He is here to tell us about all Portworx and their new Database as a service offering as well as fill us in on all of the great new stuff that Pure just announced.

Welcome Michael.

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It seems like every day we see headlines about some public company behaving badly. Whether it is environmental disasters, abuse of workers, or just plain theft, companies often don’t have an overarching mission to do good. This shouldn’t be a surprise, because the main job description for the CEO of a public company is to maximize shareholder profits.

But there is a different way, B-Corps. So stay tuned to find out more.

Today we are talking about a topic I have wanted to discuss on here for a long time, B-Corps, or Benefit Corporations. In 2010, Maryland became the first US state to pass benefit corporation legislation, and to date, 38 states including the District of Columbia have followed suit. Today there are many prominent companies like Patagonia, Athleta, Allbirds and Ben & Jerry’s that are B-corps.

I first learned of B-Corps from the social media postings of Tim Frick, an early proponent of B-corporations in Illinois. Tim is a Co-founder B Local Illinois and Tim’s company, Mighty Bytes is celebrating 10 years of being a B Corp. So, Tim is here to fill us in on why they are important and how they work.

Welcome Tim.

Mightybytes: https://www.mightybytes.com/
Mightybytes Impact Report: https://www.mightybytes.com/benefit-reports/2020-impact-report/
Sustainable Design: https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/sustainable-web-design/
Corporate Digital Responsibility: https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/what-is-corporate-digital-responsibility/
Web Accessibility: https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/web-content-accessibility-guidelines/
Data Privacy: https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/data-privacy-checklist-free-download/
Mightybytes code of etches: https://www.mightybytes.com/code-of-ethics/
About Mightybytes B Corp: https://www.mightybytes.com/b-corporation/
Eco Grader: https://ecograder.com/
B Local Illinois: https://illinoisbcorps.org/
B Lab Tools: https://www.mightybytes.com/code-of-ethics/
B-Corp Climate Collective: https://www.bcorpclimatecollective.org/
B Work: https://www.bwork.com/
B The Change: https://bthechange.com/
B Impact Assessment: https://bimpactassessment.net/

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Ask any successful person, and they will tell you how important their network is to them. Your network can be your single greatest asset in life, yet so many people don’t work on building their networks. Today we are going to talk with a master networker, so get ready to up your game.

Today, we are going to be talking with someone I have known for a long time. I know her, because she is a master at networking and pretty much everyone in Chicago knows her. Ellen Barry runs her own consulting company these days, The EBarry Group, but in her past, she was Director of IT for the Chicago Water Reclamation District, CIO for McCormick Place and 1st Deputy CIO of the City of Chicago. If there is an organization in the City of Chicago, she probably sits on its board. If you don’t know Ellen, you should. And here is your opportunity, because she is here to talk with us about the importance of networking and she is going to give us insight into what works for her.

Welcome Ellen

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There has been huge growth in both cloud and SaaS, and with this has come the emergence of new business models and ways of selling. Today we are going to look at these new go to market strategies, and find out what the future of technology sales looks like.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. On the venture capital front, we are seeing a big preference for companies that are breaking with the old sales models, focusing instead on companies that offer self-service, education and community. The role of the sales person is changing drastically. Today we are talking with Brian O’Shea, VP of sales at Clumio, a cloud native data protection SaaS offering that is well positioned for this new kind of go to market. So, we are going to talk with Brian about what that sales transition looks like today, and where it is going tomorrow.

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:05 - Brian's Journey
02:30 - Clumio's Hybrid Strategy
06:20 - Consumption Based pricing and OpEx Models
08:00 - The New GTM - Unusual Ventures - AWS Marketplace
15:15 - The Role of the Trusted Advisor
19:35 - Getting Good Information in a Fast Changing World
22:10 - Challenges for Large Enterprise - Rise of Mid Market
31:40 - Modern Sales Skills that are needed
36:35 - Sales needs to get more technical
42:20 - Changing Compensation Models
46:15 - Importance of collaboration
50:15 - Brian's take on the future of sales
52:05 - Sandesh's take on the future of sales
55:00 - Chris' take on the future of sales

Clumio: https://clumio.com

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/3ljvFfI

Unusual Ventures "Field Guide": https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/chapters-enterprise/the-modern-go-to-market

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The South Asian Diaspora is significant, with over 18 million people living outside their countries of origin. In America, South Asians make up 12 percent of the workforce and South Asian women are an important part of that. Today we are going to be talking with one of the founders of the largest professional organizations advocating for South Asian women, so stay tuned

Today we are talking with Mythili Sankaran one of the founders of Neythri and the Neythri Futures Fund. Mythili worked in tech for years, but when she was attending professional women’s leadership groups, she didn’t see South Asian women represented. She also knew how limited South Asian women’s access to capital was. This was the impetus behind Neythri a community to support the professional aspirations, and to advance the careers of South Asian women, and Mythili is here to tell us all about it.

Welcome Mythili

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There is a lot in the news about SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, and their ability to bring high speed connectivity to remote locations around the world.

While the promise of satellite broadband connections sounds great, they have typically fallen short of what you can get from a wired connection.

One of the big challenges with Satellite broadband is latency. Latency is often very misunderstood. It is the time it takes a packet to traverse a network, and this can drastically impact your total throughput.

To understand this issue, let’s talk about a couple of major network protocols, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol).

TCP provides the mechanisms to control the flow of packets across a network. It allows you to recognize when packets get lost and retransmit them. It can identify when the network begins to get congested and throttle back. It does a great many very useful things. The problem is that in order for all of this to happen the sender needs to receive an acknowledgment from the receiver or an ACK packet.

This is where the latency of a network comes in. As the round trip time between networks grows, the amount of data that can flow across a TCP stream goes down. TCP gets hung up waiting for the ACK packets and the transfer rates go down. This is why even though someone might put in a 10Gb connections between Kansas and Jakarta they are disappointed when they don’t get 10Gbs of throughput.

UDP on the other hand does not guarantee transmission like TCP, and sends data without needing to receive a confirmation. This type of protocol is useful for streaming data, where it doesn’t entirely matter if a packet gets lost here or there, and because of this it can move more data over high bandwidth, high latency connections. This is not to say that latency doesn’t still impact it, because it can cause delays, and latency’s brother, jitter, can really mess up communications. 

You can think of jitter as variable latency with is what causes the strange robotic sounds, chirps and dropouts on audio calls.

So, getting back to satellite broadband, there are some latency limitations built into due to the speed of light. We often think of the speed of light as being very fast, but in the world of telecommunications, it can be a bottleneck.

There was a study put out by Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, that said Starlink latency varied from two seconds to just under 30ms. They found that on average, Starlink's latency remained below 70 milliseconds, with a latency of 45 milliseconds achievable 77% of the time.

To put some perspective to things, the speed of light from Chicago to NewYork is about 13.3 ms. I have seen fast wired connections that see about 18ms, but more typically it is in the 20-24 ms range. Latency in satellite communications has historically been pretty high in the 45 ms to 600ms range. 

I know, tens of milliseconds doesn’t sound like much, but over billions of packets, it adds up. To give you some perspective on this, here is my voice with a 1ms delay. Here is my voice with a 30ms delay and here is my voice with a 70ms delay.

Speed of light to low earth orbit is typically between 2 and 27ms, but the lower the satellite, the faster it needs to orbit. This means that the satellite will be available for shorter periods of time, which brings challenges for things like signal variation, hand-offs between satellites and acquisition delays.

Elon Musk claims their goal is to get the latency below 20ms, which would be a pretty incredible feat, but still slower than a wired land connection or point to point microwave in most cases. For some perspective a wired local link from 30 miles outside of Chicago to the Chicago NAP is typically under a 1ms.

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