Thinking Is Cool

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Meet Steph Mui, the founder and CEO of PIN, a startup innovating the venture capital model through community funds. Where Andreessen Horowitz zigs, Steph and PIN zag. Because the incentive model for venture is clearly not working (looking at you, Adam Neumann).

So how do we rewire the money? Steph Mui has an idea or two.

1:20 meet Steph and PIN

3:53 how has VC traditionally worked?

6:33 venture's competitive landscape

8:11 the c word (community)

13:47 community investing has risks

17:13 rage against the money machine

21:55 the future of VC

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Today, you'll hear from Sami Sage, cofounder and chief creative officer of Betches, the digital media brand behind some of your favorite podcasts (like U Up? and The Betchelor and many many more), newsletters, meme pages, and now canned cocktails.

We talk about weathering the many storms of digital media this last decade, from the first pivot to video to the second pivot to video. Also TikTok, Instagram sucking, etc. Also? Creativity, the fallacy of determination, and more.

Listen! Learn! Live! Laugh! Love!

1:36 meet Sami and Betches

5:37 the world is changing...does that mean you should too?

9:50 pop culture & current events (Elon Musk x Ramona Singer)

15:21 the evolution of Betches content

Check out Sami's Morning Announcements here: https://betches.com/podcast-channel/m...

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Presenting: Naomi Shah. Naomi is the CEO and founder of Meet Cute, the storytelling incubator breathing new life into rom-coms. We talk about her founder journey, her ambition to out-Disney Disney, and the challenges and advantages of operating in "modern" media.

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1:01 meet (cute) Naomi

4:10 in defense of rom-coms

6:30 on disruption

7:19 audio, video, and both

11:41 modern storytelling, decoded

16:17 defying expectations (self-set and otherwise)

21:08 Naomi's biggest founder lessons

28:57 watch out Disney

Learn more about Meet Cute: https://www.meetcute.com/

Follow Naomi: https://twitter.com/naomicshah

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You posted the infographic. You made the donation. But now what? What are we to do to fight for a better future in a dystopian present after the overturn of Roe vs. Wade?

Rachel Cantor and Ben Allan-Rahill have an idea or two. Welcome to postroe.

00:56 meet the guests

03:11 what is postroe?

05:31 the business angle

08:26 should companies have morals?

17:04 small is better than nothing

20:04 where to find postroe

Check out postroe.co at...uh, postroe.co.

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Last week, I outed myself as a web3 doubter. This week, I'm pushing myself to consider whether I might be...wrong.

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Now to the episode: I'm hanging out with Kirby Porter, the founder of New Game Labs and W3 Sports and a former Harvard basketball player. She explains her thesis on the nexus of web3 and sports, namely how athletes navigating new rules around monetizing their careers can leverage web3 tech. The best part of this interview, though, is that it's about more than just people who play sports. It's about all of us.

Listen, learn, think about how you squandered your hoop dreams. Lots to be absorbed with this one!! Also Kirby is genuinely one of the coolest, smartest people I know. Enjoy!!!

00:32 meet Kirby

3:20 NIL changes & impacts

05:28 the athlete as a brand

08:18 why web3 for athletes?

15:31 fine let's talk about NFTs

18:32 the risks of web3

23:06 the future of web3

LINK TIIIIIMMMMEEEE

Follow Kirby: https://twitter.com/KirbyPorter_

Kirby mentioned Li Jin, whom you can follow here: https://twitter.com/ljin18

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It's just like my grandpa used to tell me: "If the Twitter bros can't shut up about how much money they're making within the blurry paradigm of a so-called technological revolution, there's probably not much going on there."

Today, let's consider the possible reality that web3, the so-called technological revolution du jour, isn't what its evangelists say it is. What if web3 is just a masterclass in over-promise, under-deliver hype tactics? We consider the answer with Ryan Broderick, writer of the Garbage Day newsletter about web culture and host of The Content Mines podcast.

Think we're wrong about where web3 is going? You know where the comments section is.

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00:22 hello Ryan :)

01:42 web3 is not the future

04:41 dissecting the "web3 bro"

07:24 the web3 hype train

12:21 barriers to entry

15:32 actual web3 use cases

22:11 "political leviathans"

26:23 web3 as a political tool

32:03 the future of web3

LINK TIME!!

Follow Ryan: https://twitter.com/broderick

Subscribe to Garbage Day: https://www.garbageday.email/

I flexed on 'em with a mention of the Gartner Hype Cycle, here's what that is: https://www.gartner.com/en/research/m...

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See you next week for something else web3...with a little bit of a different spin muahahah

Turns out the pro-immigration and anti-immigration people *do* have one thing in common: neither group has fully considered the biggest element of coming to America—cost.

On average, it costs as much as $11,000 to gain full citizenship to the U.S., including green card, application for citizenship, legal fees and payments for processors.

So what's to be done? Enter: One Percent for America, a community of lenders, borrowers, and supporters helping to defray the costs of citizenship slowly but surely.

Come for the cool insight into a cool mission...stay for the epiphany I have around the 20-minute mark.

00:10 hello Jaime

1:10 what we're missing in the immigration conversation? cost

4:35 why America? (yes we talk politics)

9:09 America vs. the world

10:23 who gets the money?

15:14 the risks of OPFA

17:37 immigration in a time of tragedy

21:42 the future of immigration & OPFA

Learn more about One Percent For America here: https://www.onepercentforamerica.org/

And while you're at it...

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Maybe...maybe not... (it's maybe not)

Today I speak with Em Herrera of Night Ventures (that MrBeast fund) to learn more about:

1. How venture capital survives a recession

2. How creators should cosplay as founders

3. How to spend $20 million

Em's a certified superstar genius and we had a blast recording this one. Venture is weird but it doesn't have to be!! Hope you enjoy :)

Follow Em here: https://twitter.com/emilyhxrrera

And while you're at it...

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How do you build an erotica company when the odds are systematically stacked against you? You get creative.

That was the ethos for Caroline Spiegel, founder and CEO of the audio erotica app Quinn, when she started the company three years back.

(Real ones remember Caroline from her appearances on the show way back when—I can't get enough what can I say.)

Today, Caroline shares her story, lessons, challenges, and predictions for the future of...ahem...entertainment.

00:45 meet Caroline & Quinn

05:37 on expectations, both of purity & sexuality

09:47 preserving the fantasy

13:13 Quinn's business challenges

15:33 Quinn vs. the world (and p*rn industry)

Follow Caroline here: https://twitter.com/CaroSpiegel

And while you're at it...

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Reminder as always that this aired first on YouTube! Watch the original video here: https://youtu.be/5Pkb3CtFucM

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Step 1: Recognize that we should have seen this coming.

Step 2: Disrupt the monopolistic formula industry.

Step 3: Give parents more options.

At least according to Laura Katz, food scientist and founder and CEO of Helaina, the company using fermentation to create human milk proteins designed to provide the same health properties of breast milk.

Laura's work has, as you might expect, gotten a lot more intense over the last several weeks as the U.S. grapples with a high-stakes formula shortage. So how did we get here? How do we make sure this never happens again? And what does the future look like for America's infants?

Let's think about it with Laura Katz.

00:00 intro hi hi :)

00:39 meet Laura & Helaina

03:57 how has the formula shortage come to be?

06:28 we need to talk about formula, not fake meat

12:35 parents are terrified, and with good reason

15:56 the formula industry needs to change

18:44 anecdote break! in which I talk about breastfeeding anxiety

21:11 where we go from here

Thanks for watching! Follow Laura here: https://twitter.com/LauraHelaina

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