014 - Jon Wheatley
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12/04/19 • 145 min
Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch
6:00 - Intro
7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis
15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis
18:30 - ArchGrants
22:00 - Going into Y Combinator
23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009
28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications
35:00 - Favorite American city
42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth
46:30 - Getting “banned” from America
54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year
58:30 - DailyBooth winding down
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1:01:00 - Starting up Peel
1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment
1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency
1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign
1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects
1:20:30 - Managing time & projects
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1:23:30 - Stopwatch
1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019
1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works
1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta
1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model
1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship
1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’
1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future
1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation
2:04:00 - Bruce Mau
2:07:30 - Making slingshots / Dead Eye Club
2:12:45 - White House trip
2:21:00 - Outro
Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch
6:00 - Intro
7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis
15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis
18:30 - ArchGrants
22:00 - Going into Y Combinator
23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009
28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications
35:00 - Favorite American city
42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth
46:30 - Getting “banned” from America
54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year
58:30 - DailyBooth winding down
-
1:01:00 - Starting up Peel
1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment
1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency
1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign
1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects
1:20:30 - Managing time & projects
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1:23:30 - Stopwatch
1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019
1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works
1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta
1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model
1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship
1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’
1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future
1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation
2:04:00 - Bruce Mau
2:07:30 - Making slingshots / Dead Eye Club
2:12:45 - White House trip
2:21:00 - Outro
Previous Episode
013 - Bob Brazell
Bob Brazell is the Chef & Co-owner of Byrd & Barrel and Tamm Avenue Bar. He’s currently working on re-opening The Tenderloin Room at The Chase Park Plaza.
2:00 - Intro
8:00 - Athlete Eats
10:30 - Finding the Byrd & Barrel building
12:00 - Having good partners
14:00 - Owning restaurants is entrepreneurship on steroids
16:15 - Dealing with depression
18:00 - Desire to work in food & hospitality
22:00 - Restarting his life & going to culinary school
24:15 - Working at Monarch with Josh Galliano
25:30 - Working at Niche with Gerard Craft
29:00 - Asking a question and writing a paper
30:30 - Generational differences in workers
35:00 - Being a positive influence
36:30 - Working with his fiancee
39:00 - Social media & City Hall
45:00 - There needs to be a chef/restaurant alliance
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47:00 - Finding his business partners
52:30 - Roles in the partnership
55:30 - Why fried chicken?
57:30 - Importance of keeping the drive-thru
1:00:30 - Getting into the Enterprise Center
1:04:00 - Working on the Tenderloin Room
1:07:30 - The myth of the chef
1:09:00 - Rick Lewis
1:14:00 - Be your brand
1:16:00 - Taking over an established business
1:29:30 - Old school cool coming back in fashion
1:31:30 - Social media for businesses now
1:36:15 - Soft opens
1:37:30 - Receiving feedback
1:47:00 - Maturing as a business owner
1:55:30 - Business highlights
1:59:00 - Outro
Next Episode
015 - Michael Frachetti
Michael Frachetti is a Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His current projects include studies of medieval Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan and ancient maritime trade throughout SE Asia and Indian Ocean.
https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/michael-frachetti
4:00 - Intro
7:00 - Contemporary value of information
9:00 - Real deal facts vs. Audience-friendly content
11:20 - Authenticity of Wikipedia
14:00 - It takes forever to fact check now
16:45 - Knowing how to talk to people
18:45 - Older generations strive for a longer childhood for their children
22:30 - Captain Fantastic
23:00 - The Tech Age
25:00 - There’s no more remoteness
32:00 - Generational differences
33:15 - Instagram over-saturation
36:30 - Getting too “preachy” on captions
38:00 - What should social media be used for?
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49:00 - Growing up with martial arts
50:00 - Seven Samurai
55:00 - Meeting his archaeology mentor
59:00 - Geographical Information Systems defined
1:03:45 - Focusing on nomads
1:15:00 - What is the purpose of Archaeology?
1:17:00 - Re-contextualizing data from the perspective of different identities
1:21:00 - Redefining what “civilization” means
1:24:30 - Doug North on Institutions
1:26:00 - Similarities between the lived experience in individuals
1:29:00 - Audience for his new book
1:31:30 - David Wengrow
1:33:30 - The Utopian Paradox TEDx Talk
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1:39:00 - Shifting focus after publishing
1:44:00 - Does popularity affect findings in archaeology?
1:49:30 - Upside and downside of Guns, Germs & Steel
1:51:00 - Michael Pollan
1:52:00 - Developing writing skills
1:55:00 - Nuance is necessary
1:58:00 - Outro
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