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What Is The Best Way To Get Kids Excited About Science?

Get kids really excited about learning science. Ask them to pick their favorite thing and then write out all the aspects of science that makes it exist. For example, if they love coffee, think about the beans, the agriculture, the roasting. Dive into each one of those aspects, figure out all the details..etc.


How Did Justin Kan Rise To Fame?

Justin has been an Internet entrepreneur since 2005.

He first founded a company called Kiko, which was a version of Google Calendar but unfortunately came out a month before Google Calendar and got completely crushed.

After that he started a live TV show on the internet, called Justin.Tv. It was 2007, before the iPhone, so Justin had to carry a computer in the backpack, with multiple cellphone connections, live-streaming a hacky video feed to people at home. He admits to not had been very popular at the time, with only hundreds of viewers at first. Eventually however, other people caught wind and wanted to create their own shows, just like Justin's. Justin.tv raised a bunch of money, just in time to survive the "nuclear winter" when most video startups died.

While still working on Justin.tv, Justin and Co create an app called "Social Cam", which they were able to promptly sell to Autodesk for many millions.

Finally, after years of hard work in the video space, Justin's co-founder Emmet though up the idea for Twitch, which exploded and sold to almost $1 Billion dollars!

After the acquisition Justin played around with other startups, namely Exec, a home cleaning on-demand, and Whale, a social app for Q&A.

Finally, two years ago he decided to put all his eggs in one basket and stated Atrium, a technology enabled law company for entrepreneurs.


What Should You Spend Money On As The Ceo?

Chad Robbins breaks the job down into 3 categories: money, people, and strategy. Without money, you can't get the right people and without the right people, you can't develop the best strategies possible.


What Is In This Podcast About Vaccines?

History and biology of vaccines, how they work and their benefits, how vaccines are developed, and successes and challenges in global vaccine development all delivered to you by vaccines experts from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.


How Did Sahil Lavingia End Up Working At Pinterest?

While a college student, Sahil was making some apps and posting them on Hacker News. Ben, the CEO of Pinterest, emailed Sahil asking if he'd be able to make one for them. Eventually, he dropped out of college and joined Pinterest full-time.


How Will Receiving Saliva Samples Benefit Oral Research?

Oralta will offer customers an opportunity to send a saliva sample to their lab. Doctors will be able to use the samples to design new therapeutics and redefine current probiotics. They also want to learn about the people who send their samples because they reveal customers' habits that lead to the states of their microbiomes to correlate with health status and habits.


What’s The Best Way To Test If You Have Bad Breath?

Most people try to smell their own breath, which has been proven to be inefficient. What you really want to do is lick the palm of your hand and wait about 20 seconds, then smell.


Are We On The Cusp Of Another Great Depression?

Despite the depression, 1930s saw a boom in innovation and growth, riding on the tailwind of scientific and and technological innovation from the 1920s. Aviation, plastics, movies, appliances, and a bunch of other industries got going in that time. By 1939 three-times as many people had cars in US as they did in 1929. It all got badly mismanaged, but the basis for a booming economy were all there. Today, on the other hand, we are doing a fine job managing the economy, but we don't have such a strong tailwind to propel our growth.


What Did Belinda Think After Meeting Grigor?

Since he was a Russian entrepreneur, she was thinking that he would be her next client because he has needs for her company.


How Can Any Company Improve Employee Productivity?

Hiten Shah has a theory that if visibility into everyone's progress is improved, productivity will improve with it.

Documenting company's processes and decision making can help to giving everyone an insight into their progress, and could enable any employee to make progress without relying on their peers.

Hiten's new company FYI is now working on a tool, a master document for teams, that would become a central repository of all company's information.


What Is One Advice For Someone Starting A New Podcast?

You should know what you want to get out of it. If the download numbers are not huge at the start, and most likely they won't be, then you need a reason to keep you motivated. A podcast could be a great idea for growing your business, or to meet new people. Commit to a set number of episodes and don't quit.

Prepare in advance, and make sure that you allocate plenty of time to work on the podcast. Not only will you actually enjoy the process if you give it enough time, but your show will be better for it.


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