Tech Talks Daily

2020 saw millions of people adapt to remote working across the globe. As a result of the pandemic, businesses including Twitter and Microsoft, to name a few, have committed to long term remote working plans for their employees.

However, how do these businesses, who may not have had remote work strategies in place before the pandemic – adapt to this way of working? How do new remote companies continue to hire employees worldwide while remaining fully compliant with individual country laws and regulations?

Remote was founded in 2019 by Job Van Der Voort and Marcelo Lebre to simplify how companies employ global talent. Their entire team works remotely in countries around the world. They don't have any offices because we believe that people do their best work when they are free to work where they choose.

Before founding Remote, Job Van Der Voort worked as a neuroscientist and was the VP of Product at GitLab, the world's largest fully remote company. I invited Job to join me in conversation on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast to share how they help unite international payroll, benefits, compliance, and tax for businesses in one place.

For innovative companies of scale, DailyPay is the leading no-cost, on-demand pay experience platform. It delivers transparent, compliant, and seamless integration with existing payroll systems. Employers who offer DailyPay can reduce costs substantially by out-hiring the market and keeping employees longer, because employees with financial peace of mind are happier, more productive, and have stronger relationships with their employers.

The senior management team at DailyPay spent years at AOL, Goldman Sachs, and LendingHome. DailyPay is backed by leading venture capital firms and world-class strategic investors. The Company is headquartered in New York.

Since its inception in 2015, DailyPay has partnered with over 250 companies like Kroger, Burger King, Vera Bradley, and Sprinkles Cupcakes to provide employees real-time access to earned pay, with the end goal of empowering Americans to have more control of their earnings to better save, spend and invest.

Jason Lee, CEO, and founder, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. We talk about why the traditional monthly payroll system is outdated in a digital age and on-demand world.

Before founding DailyPay, Jason spent nearly two decades at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he founded and led the Global Structured Equity Group. Jason is an active angel investor and is a member of the Forbes Finance Council.

Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer administrative burdens and workers with flexible work arrangements.

Noah Labhar is a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host. Noah shares his startup story and personal experience building an engineering team of non-CS grads.

In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast hosted by Noah featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created.

He interviews tech visionaries on his show, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry and build & lead a team that has your back. Code Story is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world-class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses.

We talk about all this and the shifting landscape for on-demand workers, and the tech hurdles Noah has overcome in his career.

Useful Links https://noahlabhart.com https://veryableops.com https://codestory.co

Arsen Avakian, founder/former CEO of Argo Tea and current co-founder and CEO of Cooler Screens, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. Cooler Screens recently announced its largest round of funding yet, backed by Microsoft and Verizon.

I learn how Cooler Screens has secured a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft focused on bringing an immersive digital experience to brick-and-mortar retail environments. Through the collaboration, Cooler Screens will work with Microsoft to scale the delivery of its immersive digital media and merchandising platform hosted on Microsoft Azure to retailers and product brands. The companies will also explore additional integration opportunities to deliver enhanced experiences to customers.

Cooler Screens is transforming retail cooler surfaces into IoT-enabled screens. Their media platform reimagines the brick-and-mortar shopping experience for consumers in the cooler and freezer aisle while delivering new marketing opportunities and smart merchandising for brands and retailers.

Employees work directly with proven leaders as an integral part of the development and growth of our company. Their digital- and design-led culture allows our team members to think creatively, challenge the status quo, and use their abilities to change the face of retail forever.

Arsen also shares his plans for the future of the first-of-its-kind media and merchandising platform that leverages smart screens powered by AI and IoT.

Liam Delap, Digital Automation Leader and Director of Enterprise at Pypestream, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast.

Liam is a CX automation and Conversational AI evangelist and has served as an enterprise technology consultant and leader throughout most of his career, working with many Fortune 1000 organizations to transform their customer's digital experience.

At Pypestream, Liam enables both existing and prospective clients with insight into how to craft their automation journey using Conversational AI for optimal success. His dedication to understand each client's environment and needs allows Liam to design custom solutions that always ensure an outstanding return on investment (ROI).

Pypestream is a conversational AI platform that optimizes the customer experience at the enterprise level. Pypestream has been in business for five years. They are venture-backed, with 38M raised and seeing increased success as the pandemic forces large companies to think outside of the call center box when outsourcing customer support.

We talk about AI Chatbots and using artificial intelligence to automate customer experience. We also discuss the effects of the CoronaVirus pandemic on CX and the technological changes they have forced.

Ads can be complicated. Ajala Digital is on a mission to make them simple. Run by a former Google employee, the company is a certified Google Partner specializing in mobile, search, video, shopping, and display ads.

Pamela Wagner is the founder and CEO of Ajala Digital. A company that has worked with more than 2000 companies to grow their businesses through paid ads.

In 2017, Pamela was made Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and her insights have been featured on all major media platforms, such as ABC News, Forbes, Yahoo, Mashable, MSN, the Washington Times, Google Startup Grind, and many more.

Before founding her company, she worked at Google, and the accomplishment she is most proud of is Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro at 22. I invited her on to the show to talk about how to grow/scale companies through Google Ads & Google Analytics and manage Google Ads (or paid ads in general) effectively in-house.

Many of putting tech geniuses such as Steve Jobs or Elon Musk on a pedestal. Equally, self-imposed limitations and imposter syndrome prevent us from building the next Amazon out of a garage like Jeff Bezos. But how can the average Joe or Joanne be the next Silicon Valley Tech Genius?

How did some tech founders create breakthrough products and grow their startups into household names? How did one tech entrepreneur convince an investor in a brief car ride to sign a term sheet for 4 billion dollars?

They are tech geniuses—software programmers and startup founders with a magic touch and a special mystique. They capture the imagination of our media, as they turn simple ideas into highly profitable, billion-dollar businesses. But the tech genius is not exactly what you might think.

Shawn Livermore tackles this subject head-on in his Amazon Best Selling Business Business Non-Fiction Book called Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius.

Average Joe dispels the myth of the tech genius, explaining how these clever nerds work their wonders. But in a surprising twist, it also helps anyone become the myth themselves.

Using new concepts and tools like the Slow Create Framework, the Mindless Work LADDER, and Sustainable Mystique, anyone can up their game and go from average Joe to tech genius.

Have you eaten and drank too much over the holiday season? Have you already uttered the words, New Year, New Me? In today's episode, I want to explore our relationship with food and the increasing role that technology plays in managing our diet.

I invited Tracy Stuckrath onto Tech Talks Daily to discuss the apps and tech solutions that she recommends. We also talk about the food tech scene and community and how more people are turning to technology to manage their health and wellbeing. Tracy shares the tech trends that could help people with dietary requirements, lays to rest a few myths around food allergies and dietary requirements.

Tracy Stuckrath is an event planner and international speaker with food allergies based in New Bern, North Carolina. She launched Thrive! Meetings & Events in 2010, changing the trajectory of her event planning career to educate organizations on how to feed attendees with dietary needs.

Tracy has co-authored two books — Humans@Work and You@Work, working on her third (Eating at a Meeting), and has been named Top 25 Women in the Meetings Industry, Meetings Industry Change Maker and one of the Top 500 Event Professionals in North America for her work on the topic of inclusive food and beverage.

Tracy's Eating at a Meeting podcast explores various topics on food and beverage (F&B) and how they impact individual experience and inclusion, sustainability, culture, community, health and wellness, laws, and more. Her mission is to share authentic stories that illustrate the financial, social, emotional, and mental impact food and beverage have on individuals, organizations, and the earth.

Millions of cryptocurrency users face a challenging problem when it comes to staying compliant with tax laws. Due to the way the digital asset is treated by governments around the world, it is most often subject to capital gains and losses rules similar to stocks, bonds, and other forms of property.

This sparks a wide variety of problems for consumers, cryptocurrency exchanges, tax professionals, and other platforms that need to provide both cost basis data and fair market value data to properly report the asset for tax purposes.

CryptoTrader.Tax is a platform built to solve this challenge, and with its 2018 partnership with tax giant TurboTax, it is now bringing cryptocurrency tax services to the mainstream. The company is often referred to as The TurboTax for Crypto Investors.

David Kemmerer is a veteran in the crypto space and co-founder and CEO of CryptoTrader.Tax, a tax reporting software for Crypto Investors. He joins me on Tech Talks Daily to share the fascinating story of how he got started in Crypto and what we can expect in the coming years in this exciting new field.

David is a thought leader in the cryptocurrency industry on all things tax-related. His work has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Venture Beat, CoinTelegraph, and many other publications. David has also spoken at industry events like the LA Blockchain Summit, TF Blockchain Conference, and more.

Quuppa has raised the bar for advanced location systems, delivering the world's most open, accurate, and reliable location positioning thanks to a unique combination of Bluetooth®, the Angle-of-Arrival (AoA) and Angle-of-Departure (AoD) methodologies, advanced location algorithms, and management software tools that have been developed over the course of more than 15 years.

To date, the Quuppa Ecosystem has more than 180 partners around the world who use Quuppa's open positioning platform to deliver accurate, cost-effective location solutions to companies in a range of industries, including manufacturing and logistics, retail, healthcare, sports, law enforcement, and security, government, asset tracking, and others.

Fabio Belloni, CCO, Quuppa, joins me on the podcast to talk about their all-in-one indoor positioning systems that enable unmatched accuracy, safety, and reliability. I learn more about how Quuppa offers highly accurate positioning using a multifaceted, data-driven approach that applies to a seemingly endless number of use cases.

We also discuss the importance and power of location service technology and how by providing real-time insights into key environments, businesses, and lives can be protected and improved, especially in an increasingly challenging world.