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Who Is Eric Yuan?

He is the founder of Zoom IPO. Inspired by Bill Gates while he was in Japan, later in time, Yuan applied for a work visa nine times until he was accepted to work in the US to enhance technology and change the world. His most important philosophy is about happiness, and how to pursue and sustain it.


How Can Shorter Lesson Plans Allow Children To Learn Better?

When teachers have shorter lesson plans, it allows children to engage on a single focus to retain information.


What Do People Like About Belinda’s Relationship With Peter?

It seems like Belinda has met her match. They both seem like two very equal parties. James Cooper sees problems on the horizon because they are both two dominating partners.


How Is Neuroscience Beginning To Inform How Tech Companies Develop Artificial Intelligence Systems ?

Many neuroscientists who spent most of their careers in academia are now being snatched up by companies in Silicon Valley.


Who Is Jason Schuller ?

Jason is the founder of Press75, a WordPress theme company that he founded by a lucky accident. After working on his business for many years, Jason eventually sold it and focused entirely on his family.


Who Is Burt Blackarach?

He is a Grammy Award winning composer, producer, DJ, and sound engineer.


What Does It Mean To Create Your Own Luck?

Kathryn doesn’t believe in luck. Instead, she believes that any information suggested to her that could help her become a better version of herself, she is open to do and look into. She references to reading Kevin Hart’s book about him being an overnight success of ten years in the making.

Kathryn states how there’s always a glorified story of once you reach a high level of success, people believe that this person just shows up. In reality, it's a person that has been built over time with lots of failures.


What Is The Difference Between Being An Employee Of A Big Company And Being A Founder Of A Startup?

Big companies are set up to optimize individual's performance. All you have to do is to be good at one thing, and the company will support you being the best at that one thing. Startups require entrepreneurs to be extremely self sufficient and to take on all the responsibility.


What Is New About The Ad Business Today?

Brands used to buy ads in relation to the content in which their ads were shown. Now they are simply placing a purchase order for eyeballs, regardless of where those ads show up.


Is The Lockdown Necessary?

It's a nuanced question and it should be a little bit more involved in terms of treatment, testing and containment strategy. And it doesn't need to be so binary.

It may be that we need a more nuanced policy where you say, let's keep people over 65 years old, and give them a strong recommendation to stay home. Make sure that you distribute helpful drugs to doctors around the country. As soon as elderly people start having symptoms, they maybe get some treatment. But, you know, that's kind of an option. You keep 65 year olds at home, you do random test general population for antibodies. And once you hit a certain percentage of the population having been exposed to this thing, it may be that at that point you say, okay, the over 65 limit is lifted. You also do it with medicine being distributed.


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