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How Did Chad's Experiences In Hedgefunds, Investment Banking, And The Real Estate Industry Prepare Him To Be A Ceo ?

Chad believes having the hardcore experiences of those fields were critical. It was rigorous in that you had to put in your time and that you had to acquire technical skills (income statements, balance sheets, etc.) and then develop presentation abilities as well.


What Does It Mean To Create A "Family Forward" Work Culture?

Some of the solutions are policy-related (which can always be adjusted) and some are physical designs of a work environment.


What Is The Number #1 Challenge With Remote Work?

We have not figured out how to deal with ourselves.

In an office environment, a lot of structure is provided for you. You are told exactly when to show up and when to leave. You are told exactly when to go to eat. You get social interactions with co-workers, and these social rules of engagement are understood.

In a remote company, the structure does not exists. You have to build it from scratch.


How Did Submittable Founders Pay For Their Business In The Early Days?

Submittable started around 2009 and for two years, before getting into Y Combinator, most of the founders had kept their day jobs while working on Submittable nights and weekend. Even though they already had customers and revenue, it was not yet enough to pay for the team.


How Did The Idea Of Smash Notes Come To Life?

Kirill Zubovsky has a podcast called Rad Dad where he interviews dads, often entrepreneurs, They talk about many different subjects: kids, education, work and all kinds of things. He needed Smashed Notes to share his own podcast with different audiences.

Specifically, it started with Chris Ballew, who goes by a stage name Caspar Babypants. Kirill and Chris talked about his punk rock career, MTV, parenting, divorce, business and more, and at the time there was way to share this this multidimensional episode with Kirill's friends, without asking everyone to listen to the whole hour+ recording. Smash Notes was born.


What Is A Major Challenge For A Repeat Startup Founder?

Repeat founders feel the pressure of having to work on a big idea. Unfortunately most big discoveries seem to come from people working on small things first.


How Can I Conquer The World?

Focus on what you want to build right now, and do that in the shortest amount of time. What can you do by this Friday? Work on that because failure to achieve your goals will be obvious, keeping you motivated and on-time.


What's It Like Building This In La?

It's fantastic:

1. Great weather
2. Hollywood fashion
3. Talent in many dimensions.
4. Great tech scene


What Do You Do If Investors Don't Want To Invest?

You can either figure out a different business, one they do want to invest into, or figure out a way to self-fund a business or fund it through customer revenue. Most investors want to invest in a business that will run with or without them anyway.


How Did Covid19 Affect Crowd Cow Operations And The Meat Industry?

The meat plans that have been setup to provide super-scale commodity state to the grocery story cannot work efficiently in the pandemic.

On top of that, home-cooked meals have increased dramatically as meals used to be consumed at home and at work has gone away.

People are looking for new solutions to their daily consumption, and Crowd Cow fits nicely into the new norm.


What we do (and don't) know about the coronavirus | David Heymann @ 9.5m?

So a nim urging infection today is just a warning of what will happen in the future. We have to make sure that that technical collect collaboration in the world is there to work together to make sure that we can understand these outbreaks when they occurred and rapidly provide the information necessary to control.


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