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  • 208. Thrive365: Kirk Howell on Helping Diabetes Patients Live Healthier Lives

    Kirk Howell is the Founder and CEO of Thrive365, a Louisville-based HealthTech company building a platform to help physicians, coaches, and patients better manage their diabetes. Through Thrive365's food scoring system, patients can easily make more informed decisions about the meals they eat and how those meals effect their diabetes. Our conversation covers how Kirk managed to acquire Thrive365's patented software from Craft foods, the size and importance of the problem they’re solving, and his approach to building an all-star team.

    Learn more about Thrive365 at Thrive365.com

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    1 hr 4 min
  • 207. Rewatch: Connor Sears on Moving Back to KY From Silicon Valley, Working as a Product Designer at Twitter, and Building Software to Help Companies Manage Their Video Content.

    Connor Sears is the Founder and CEO of Rewatch, a software tool that securely saves, manages, and allows teams to search all of their video content. Connor is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and left for Silicon Valley soon after graduating. During his time in California, Connor was a Product Designer for Twitter, Pinterest, GitHub, and Facebook working to design some of the most used products in the world. Now based in Louisville, Connor has continued to build Rewatch as a “remote-first” company and to date has raised $40m from investors such as a16z.

    Our discussion covers Connor’s experience working at Twitter in the early days, how he approaches product design when starting a company, and some reasons behind why he chose to move back to Kentucky.

    Learn more about Rewatch at Rewatch.com

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    1 hr 19 min
  • Friday Update • 8/5/22: Zillow partners with Opendoor and a social media censorship case that could lead to a larger SCOTUS ruling

    Logan and Evan discuss Zillow partnering with Opendoor to allow home sellers to get an Opendoor offer on Zillow’s platform, and a recent ruling on censorship on social media might soon lead to a Supreme Court ruling on how the First Amendment applies to social media platforms.

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    • Zillow Partners with OpenDoor
    • Social Media Censorship Ruling

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      24 min
    • 206. Rivian: Angelo Stekardis on Building Machine Vision at for Self Driving Cars

      Angelo Stekardis is a Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Rivian, an electric vehicle manufacturer known for their high tech adventure vehicles and Amazon delivery vans. Angelo is a UK Grad who used his love for technology and cars to eventually begin working on cutting edge computer vision technology that helps cars drive themselves. Our discussion covers his journey from UK to Rivian, artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ways UK can help more students land high tech jobs.

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      Middle Tech is proud to be supported by:

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      1 hr 6 min
    • 205. BusinessU: Michael Lewis on Empowering Educators with Technology

      Michael Lewis is the Co-Founder and President of BusinessU, a Lexington-based EdTech platform offering interactive curriculum solutions for business education in high schools. BusinessU provides standards-aligned, turn-key business, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, and accounting courses that educators can leverage to provide an educational experience that's representative of today's business world. Our conversation with Michael covers how he got into entrepreneurship, why he's passionate about improving business education, and his thoughts on bootstrapping a business vs raising capital.

      Learn more about BusinessU at BusinessU.org

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      Middle Tech is proud to be supported by:

      Our presenting sponsor, KY Innovation

      Bolt Marketing

      Render Capital

      Endeavor Midwest

      59 min

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