PowerUp Boston

Omer Tene, a Partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, took the time to join Adam and Mike to not only give us a primer on what privacy means for us all, and discuss how the world of privacy has been changing - especially with AI!

PowerUp Boston is back!

In this latest episode, we had the incredible opportunity to connect with Stephanie Roulic, the visionary founder of Startup Boston and a force in her own right in the Boston startup community. Following our own talk at Startup Boston Week and witnessing the vibrant community they've cultivated, we just had to bring Stephanie onto the podcast.

Join us as we dive into Startup Boston's roots, the value of hybrid events, the significance of community research in your startup adventure, and so much more!

Find Steph and everything they're up to at startupbos.org/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephroulic. Also for the latest in Boston events, check out their Community Events calendar here! 

In this episode of PowerUp Boston, Adam and Mike are joined by Kylie Bourjaily of InnoCrew and talk about her experiences being a founder of two companies in Boston, as well as building community and the unspoken stresses founders go through! 

Find InnoCrew and everything they're up to at theinnocrew.com & twitter.com/theinnocrew, as well as Kylie at twitter.com/KylieBourjaily.

Tech Superpowers will be at StartUp Week Boston 2023! Find us in the Founder track on Thursday at 2 PM! https://www.startupbos.org/founder-track-sbw2023

Mike and Adam chat with Matt Crane of MGMT Boston about the differences between the startup scene on the West Coast and in Boston, what the Endeca effect is, and what's next for MGMT Boston! 

Follow Matt and the happenings over at MGMT Boston at mgmtboston.com, and sign up for the newsletter at mgmtboston.substack.com!

Stay in touch with the Tech Superpowers team and everything we're up to over at tsp.me and on Instagram!

Tech Superpowers is back in your feeds with a brand new show! Adam and Mike are here to talk about everything that's been happening since you've heard us last and introducing what we're doing next! PowerUp Boston will be a regular podcast where we connect with folks from the Boston startup community to discuss the scale-up journey and all the various items that come up as a business grows!

Adam, Kelly, and Mike are back with a collection of quick-hit articles, bringing you that classic Grepcast energy while not being all too mired in the constant pandemic-related technology coverage. While we kick it off with everyone's new morning / evening routine, we take a glance at the past (2003 to be specific) before doing some future tripping.

Links and Extra Reading

Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health

Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board

Beyond Zoom: The future of virtual meetingsMedivis - Pushing the limits of what's possible

Looks like you need Iceland

The Grepcast is joined by a special guest today, Sarah Pruski, Director of Security Operations at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education for a conversation about all things cybersecurity. But! Before we get into cybersecurity, we touch back in with our best friends - Spot the Dog and Silicon Valley.

Links and Extra Reading

Spot the Coronavirus Doctor Robot Dog Will See You Now

Is ‘dopamine fasting’ Silicon Valley’s new productivity fad?

Telecoms paranoia, 5G vs Covid-19 (and phones turning into human heads)

Radio Galaxy Zoo: LOFAR

How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later

Indycar's Virtual Race Crashes Sparked Real-World Controversy Among Drivers

As we continue to record from our homes in the time of COVID, we start by chatting about VR once again, even though Adam continues to be unconvinced. From there, the gang talks through Contact Tracing improvements and then how COBOL and technical debt has brought about a new group of superheroes. 

Links and Extra Reading

@michaelfolkson: Yesterday I co-hosted a Socratic Seminar in VR

Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version

Google And Apple Will Enable Mobile Phones To Trace User Contacts In Coronavirus Fight

How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia

Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now It’s Falling Apart

Zoom Lets Attackers Steal Windows Credentials, Run Programs via UNC Links

Bookshop

Network traffic insights in the time of COVID-19: March 23-29 update

In this episode of the Grepcast, we focus on all the things that feel worse than the new normal of self-quarantines. Come for the Bird smack-talk, stay for Kelly going off on the Internet Archive. 

Links and Extra Reading

My friend just got laid off along with 400 other employees by dialing into a pre-recorded Zoom message.

It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode' The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar

Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online

The Pandemic Is Not an Excuse to Exploit Writers

Twitter: Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing?

Boston Public Library: Into the Water

LinkedIn: Our strategy for COVID-19 layoffs

In this episode of the Grepcast, we check-in on how COVID is changing the landscape of the internet - especially as it pertains to Zoom and Netflix. From there, Adam gets mad at an article bemoaning the limitations of VR and then we dissect a new wearable that promotes privacy from Alexa and Siri. 

Links & Extra Reading

AT&T Suspends Broadband Data Caps During Coronavirus Crisis

‘Zoombombing’: When Video Conferences Go Wrong

Netflix and YouTube are slowing down in Europe to keep the internet from breaking

VR Was Supposed to Help Us Work Remotely. So Where Is It?

Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop

Rachel Barenbaum's 'A Bend In The Stars' Tells A Tale Of Injustice And Romance

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