Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) takes a seat with Erik Dunteman (@erikdoingthings), founder of banana.dev, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the world, moving to Mexico City, his ML infra startup Banana, dealing with rejection, how he trained for an Iron Man, his Citi Bike conspiracy theory, and more...

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Links:

· Erik's Twitter

· Banana

· The Dock

Show Notes:

0:38- Banana Name Origin

3:03 - Moving To Mexico City

4:12 - Winning Crypto

7:38 - Finding Banana Co-Founder

10:24 - When To Leave A Startup

12:16 - Software 2.0 Explained

14:42 - Future Of AI

21:46 - Stable Diffusion

26:26 - Is A College Degree Important?

31:37 - GPT3 Explained

34:08 - Open AI/Whisper

37:22 - Robocalls

39:03 - Smart Home Tech 

45:00 - Twitter Segment Intro

48:11 - Rejection Therapy

54:07 - How To Train for An Iron Man

55:56 - Erik’s Startup Journey

1:01:03  - Remember Clubhouse?

1:07:14 - Toilet Paper Startup

1:13:33 - Erik’s Running Process

1:23:48 - SF City Bikes Conspiracy

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) takes a seat with Abhishek Bhargava (@abhargava20) and talk about how his startup Covalent uses AI to start meaningful relationships, building a cloud gaming platform, and the wonderful world of Greek Yogurt and clean energy.

Links:

· Abishek's Twitter

· Covalent

· The Dock

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:20 - The Social Dilemma

3:28 - Mirror Exposure Effect 

7:55 - Covalent Intro

11:05 - Foundational Value Alignment

12:54 - Covalent’s Main Thesis on Creating Relationships

17:00 - Tivity Intro

20:00 - Omar's Parking Story

22:00 - The Facebook Algorithm

25:37 - Covalent's Pivot

31:30 - Early-stage startup culture

34:04 - Work Background as an Intern

36:13 - Educational Background

37:50 - Gaming Startup 

40:33 - Startup Lessons

42:05 - Why He Started Covalent

44:45 - F.Inc Community Building

48:41 - Startup Investments

50:50 - Slack Read Receipts

51:35 - VectorDash Business Learnings

53:25 - Yogurt Startup?

57:16 - Industrial Revolution

59:09 - Electricity Startup Idea

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) sit down with Johnny Dallas (@_johnnydallas_) and discuss how he started working in startups at 14, became the youngest engineer at Amazon, and built his DevOps startup Zeet.

Links:

· Johnny's Twitter

· Zeet

· thedock.fm

Show Notes:

1:30 - Johnny’s Startup background

4:15 - Not going back to High School

8:52 - Youngest Engineer at Amazon

10:40 - Transitioning to Twitch Work Environment

11:42 - Zeet Company Overview

18:35 - Building the Zeet Team

31:23 - Daily Routine

41:15 - What Motivates Johnny

44:40 - Uber Conspiracy Theories

50:00 - Music Interests

54:14 - Pitching a Startup Segment

57:15 - Taking Zoom Calls in the Shower?

Omar Waseem (@omarwasm) and Vishal Kolar (@vishalkolr) sit down with Labib Yasir (@labibyasir) to talk about going from YouTuber to reinventing social fitness with MMA and his startup, Kayyo.

Links:

· Labib's Twitter

· REACT YouTube Channel

· Kayyo

· thedock.fm

Show Notes:

6:13 - What is Kayyo

13:26 - 41k waitlist sign-ups pre-launch

17:00 - Getting rejected from Google

28:15 - Losing 120lbs

35:00 - How to find the right cofounder

1:06:00 - Labib’s First MMA Fight

1:32:00 - Pitching horrible startup ideas to Labib