Infinite Runway: Recent Episodes
Emily Xu
An infinite runway to explore stories & ideas, question hidden assumptions, opine on current events, and jam with esteemed guests on the future of tech, investing, and media & entertainment. Hosted by Emily Xu, formerly PM at Shopify and Salesforce.
Timestamps
(1:00): Introductions
(2:18): Transition to becoming a founder, Hype (her startup in AR/VR ads space), startup lessons, hype cycles, finding a co-founder
(31:13): Raising funding during the recession as a startup founder
(35:15): Podcasts she listens to on financial wellness
(38:06): Misconceptions of being a founder, historical/active correction, biases, "boxing" of founders
(46:42): Her golden advice for founders
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Spandana's advice on finding the right co-founder
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Timestamps
(1:07): Apple Watch upgrades
(4:31): Telecom monopolies in Canada
(5:59): FTX updates, Binance usage outside of NA
(9:52): Startup funding environment, Keith Rabois, layoffs, Salesforce
(13:44): Remote work vs. In person at startups, startup raising rounds
(20:57): Hot takes that people would find contentious right now, OpenAI, startups leveraging AI/ML, GitHub Co Pilot
(24:57): Legal/regulatory implications on OpenAI, regulators slow to regulate
(28:55): VCs investing in AI ChatGPT/DALLE enabled startups, lowered barrier to entry for startups
(34:23): Perception of Large Language Models (LLMs) compared to crypto
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BONUS EPISODE. SHORT AND SWEET BUT PACKED WITH A PUNCH...Follow me, Ghees:https://twitter.com/mlexuhttps://twitter.com/datagheesFollow the pod:https://twitter.com/8RunwayPod--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mlexu/message
Timestamps
(0:37): Episode Intro.
(1:31): Content creation helps VCs discover your thinking and your startup idea(s). It also helps startups discover you.
(4:01): VC firms, like a16z, becoming media companies. Marc Andreessen, Elon & Twitter.
(8:23): Consumer social companies rising, Meta, Gas by Nikita Bier, next wave of social apps will be decentralized, Farcaster, Twitter bots, Twitter's problems with ads, other social platforms that didn't work out, memeing on Twitter, what Elon will do with Twitter.
(23:44): Startup and VC market right now, hard time raising money, big tech stock performance, Discords that Gees is in to advise, Open Bio, cross section of bio and machine learning.
(29:37): Computational biology market and investing, running a product team in biology startups, bio tech versus tech bio, VC firms investing in this market.
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My first guest is Spencer - an Industrial Engineer turned Software Developer hacking away at 3 side projects. We delve into what is the difference between front end, back end software development, his career progression, what his 3 totally different side projects are about, and finally how I have been a bad host lol. I'll try better next time.
In the meantime, you can find Spencer's passion projects here:
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https://thebible.faith/ (Bible app inspired by his mother's devotion to studying the Bible, featuring an interface to explore the Bible)
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https://readss.tech/ (The RSS, AKA Really Simple Syndication, feed of news, thoughts, and opinions, about tech, business, and entrepreneurship)
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https://www.jamplay.live/ (Collaborative music sharing experience powered by Spotify)
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Finally got down to brainstorming and came up with this...felt cute, might change later, tbh.
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This is episode -1. I'm testing this out as an experiment to see if I can do this and know what topics I want to talk about. OH, I kinda have an idea, something about tech and media or whatnot....
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