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What Is The Biggest Problem With Ride Sharing Scooters?

People treat the scooters and their usage as a toy. You are going 15 miles an hour down the road, and you've got people and other cars. It is not simple. Yet, because getting a scooter via an app is so easy, people don't feel the appropriate degree of caution. Most people don't even wear a helmet.


How Can You Model A Successful Happy Family For Your Kids?

Modeling happy family does not guarantee that your kids will end up with one. Best you can do is to work towards what you want the most from your relationship and to let the rest take care of itself.


What Advice Do You Have For Aspiring Podcasters?

Be prepared to spend as much time on your advertisers as you do on the podcast itself. Finding advertisers, writing ad copy, explaining your audience and your metrics, and creating custom content for the advertisers, all of that will put huge demand on your time.


What Is Something That Mike Learned As A Parent?

What helped him was realizing that when you have kids, they owe you nothing. They didn’t decide to have you, but rather, you chose to have them. There’s a trap where parents want to have gratitude from their kids. Expecting it from them is a form of manipulation, which is the wrong reason to think that this is what parenting is about.


What's The Longest That Someone Has Had Hiccups?

One man's hiccups lasted for 68 eight years, ending shortly before his death.


How Does Mat Manage Working Full Time While Being In Another Country?

Matt thoroughly enjoyed being a digital nomad because he says that if he’s home in New York, it’s difficult for him to focus on other things besides work. Being in another country offers other things to explore and do when he takes a break, which provides a nice work-life balance for him.


What Is Transistor.Fm?

Transistor.fm is a podcast hosting. When someone listens to a podcast through apps such as Apple, Google, etc., the files stream from a central platform, much like websites. Transistor is place to publish these files and to get basic including analytics about their downloads.


What's Kevin Systrom's Trick To Disagreeing Respectfully?

Do not be a jerk and make your counterparty feel bad about feeling differently. Be firm, but explain your reasoning.


Is Uber Deemed To Fail?

If you give great founders with vision a lot of runaway, they are going to take it.

Jason Calacanis, an early investor into Uber, explains that massive amount of private money enabled Uber to grow rapidly in the early days, ignoring some of the realities at the expense of getting to scale.

Once they IPO'ed, the company had to switch from focus on massive growth, to focus on profitability. It was a big shift, and it will take time to transition.

However, as long as they can differentiate, and people love their product, they will figure out how to adjust their margins to give public markets what they need.


What Was Garry Tan's $200 M Mistake?

Garry shares a story about how he turned down the opportunity to start a company with his friends and Peter Thiel to stay at Microsoft and how that mistake cost him $200M.


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