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Who Is Giulia Enders?

Giulia Enders is a German doctor and author. In 2012, she won her first prize at the Science Slam in Berlin with her presentation, "Darm mit Charme" ("Charming Bowles”). Dr. Enders speaks about her scientific research on the gut and her three steps on why she loves this organ. She highlights the importance of our gut and how it has an impact on waste distribution and mental health. She dives deeper into the gut, the magician that’s working its magic that we are unaware of our body doing.


What Was The Inspiration In Naming Fuel ?

She collaborated with a few friends. While many names were already taken, she loved the name "fuel" and "what fuels you" came really organically and has become their slogan for nearly everything they do.


What’s The #1 Disease Killer In The Entire World?

Heart disease is the #1 killer in the world. In the U.S, it’s the #1 reason people go to the hospital and the #1 reason of healthcare expense. We spend over $100 billion in this country every year on the treatment of heart disease-- that’s more than twice the annual budget in the state of Washington!


What’s Aaron’s View On Big Families?

Being a parent is a pain, and no one has it figured out. Bigger the family equals more challenges, more anxiety in some ways, but more fun in others. Overall, it’s it worth.


How Much Screen Time Does @Dhh Give To His Kids?

According to DHH, his kids can have as much screen time as they want because scarcity only builds desire, and once he's let kids watch all the TV and to play all the video games, they got bored and found other activities. The key here is to have other activities available so that once kids are ready, they do have something more interesting to do than just play games or to watch TV.


How Can We Enable Ground Breaking Innovation?

According to Eric Weinstein, our survival depends on the theoretical physicists. As their occupation continues to be underpaid, now is a great time to enable them to dream of the future, and invent it while at it.


How Did Linkedin Go About Acquiring Rapportive?

Linkedin initially approached Rahul with a request to stop using a third-party API to acquire their data, and as an entrepreneur would, Rahul requested they gave him direct access instead.

There were only ~20 companies using this secret Linkedin API and Rapportive was now one of them. It all started as a business development conversation, and eventually turned into an acquisition.


How Did Basecamp End Up On The Cloud?

They used to run their own data centres, and still do for the older products. However, when Basecamp 3 came around, they wanted to run it on a more scalable system. When you have your own data centre, you have to administer your hardware. With the cloud, all of that is abstracted and is taken care of your.

Basecamp starter their cloud journey with AWS in 2016, tired Google Cloud for a while, but eventually went back to Amazon.


Why Did Russ Roberts Start Econ Talk Podcast?

Russ realized there was a sizable audience willing to listen to what he had to say, and it was exhilarating!

His podcast, Econ Talk started with a few thousand listeners more than a decade ago and has since grown by a few orders of magnitude.


How Do You Build You Tube For Audio Snippets?

Before YouTube, videos had to be downloaded and consumed in big monolithic blocks, but now, pretty much every bit of video content is available in short snippets.

In the same way, every podcast on Smash Notes is chunked, divided in section, with immediately playable audio for each individual section.

Each section is usually a question that was asked on the episode, something that provides immediate value to the listeners.


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