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249 Blockchain Panel w/ Joe Bender, Chris Wilmer, and Tom Marnik @ Thrival 2017

9/27/2017

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Joe Bender, Decentralization Engineer - ConsenSys
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Joseph Bender is a decentralization engineer, solidity developer, blockchain evangelist, Ethereum aficionado, and all-around CryptoNerd. After graduating, he moved to New York to follow his passion for blockchain and began employment at ConsenSys. ConsenSys is a venture production studio building decentralized applications (dApps) and various developer and end-user tools for blockchain ecosystems, primarily focused on Ethereum. At ConsenSys, Joe is technical lead in the alignment circle working directly with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin. He oversees development of a full stack product including various decentralized applications, developer tools, and protocol layer frameworks.

Tom Marnik, Director, Worldwide Consulting - ANSYS
Over 25 years experience in all aspects of the enterprise software business including product strategy and development, marketing, business development, pre and post sales support, and implementation.

Chris Wilmer, Founder & Co-Managing Editor - Ledger
Christopher E. Wilmer is the co-founder and managing editor of Ledger, the first peer-reviewed journal for scholarly research on blockchain technologies. He is also a professor in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh, whose research group focuses on computational materials discovery. He has published 25 peer-reviewed articles has co-authored a book on Bitcoin called “Bitcoin for the Befuddled,” which is published by No Starch Press.


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248 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody is Lying about their Sexual Preferences, Racism, and Sexism

9/25/2017

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has used data from the internet -- particularly Google searches -- to get new insights into the human psyche.  

Seth has used Google searches to measure racism, self-induced abortion, depression, child abuse, hateful mobs, the science of humor, sexual preference, anxiety, son preference, and sexual insecurity, among many other topics.  

His book, Everybody Lies, describes his research and argues for social scientists to make greater use of internet data. It was a New York Times bestseller and received widespread media attention.
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Book Recommendations
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner 

Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here.

Seth’s Challenge; Read a book per week for the next year.

Connect with Seth
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If you liked this interview, check out my most popular episodes.


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247 Scot MacTaggart, Timeless Sales Skills & Protecting Yourself from the Robot Takeover

9/21/2017

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Scot MacTaggart is the creator and host of The Pitchwerks Podcast.  Having logged more than 20 years in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship, Scot has built a diverse portfolio of experiences helping businesses of all sizes to get to the next level.  

If you're in sales, biz dev, marketing, product management or politics, The Pitchwerks Podcast is a fast, easy way to sharpen your tools each week.

Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here.

Scot’s Challenges; 1. Find the reason why you can unleash your creativity. 2. Determine the reason you’re doing what you’re doing.

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If you liked this interview, check out previous episodes with Pittsburgh podcasters Marta Mazzoni and the Drinking Partners Ed Bailey & Day Bracey.


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246 Joe Calloway, Real Estate Real Talk

9/18/2017

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Joey Calloway
Joe Calloway has no time for BS real estate gurus standing in front of Ferraris.

Instead, he’d prefer to offer his perspective. He’s built a $40,000,000 real estate portfolio through hard work, persistence, and patience. Being raised by a single parent in a two bedroom, low income apartment in Mt. Oliver doesn’t usually breed success, but Joe Calloway’s story is anything but usual. Joe went from those unfortunate circumstances to being the largest single family home buyer in Pittsburgh.

With little direction in life and few marketable skills, Joe enlisted in the US Navy in 1997. Using his military reenlistment bonus, Joe bought his first property in 2004. For his early projects he served as investor, contractor, designer, and property manager, giving him first-hand experience which proved to be invaluable.

Joe formed RE360 in 2009 and has grown the company’s rental portfolio to 270 units with a monthly gross rental income of $229,000. 2014 alone saw the rags-to-riches Calloway invest $5 million and purchase 72 homes, making him the largest housing buyer in Pittsburgh for the second year in a row. Not bad for the poor kid from Mt. Oliver.

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Joe’s Challenge; Don’t rely on traditional sources if you are unhappy with your current position. If you want something great, you have to make it yourself and get creative.

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If you liked this interview, check out my other interviews with people making moves in the city of Pittsburgh, like Bill Peduto and Grant Oliphant.


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244 & 245 Brendan Eich, Creator of JavaScript Protects Your Privacy & Gets Kind Words from Edward Snowden

9/12/2017

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When you are on a mobile device that does not use blockers against ads and trackers, YOU ARE PAYING $23 per month just to load the tracking and targeting scripts for ads. It’s a payday for both advertisers and your telecommunications provider. 

This podcast series explores a potential solution to the problem.

This interview has been split into two parts to make it more digestible. I'm really excited for you to learn more about Brave.
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Brendan Eich is an American technologist and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is currently the CEO of Brave software, the next generation web browser. Brave loads major news sites 2 to 8 times faster than Chrome and Safari on mobile and is 2 times faster than Chrome on desktop.

He co-founded the Mozilla Corporation, which created the Firefox browser, and served as the Mozilla's chief technical officer and briefly its chief executive officer.

Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here.

Brendan’s Two Challenges; 1. Adopt an good ad blocker like uBlock or Disconnect Me. 2. Read a real physical book in the sunlight.

Resources
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking (Washington Post)
Mobile Ads Cost you $23 per month (Medium)
Basic Attention Token Raises $35 Million in 30 Seconds (CoinDesk)

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Brave
Basic Attention Token

If you liked this interview, check out the rest of my interviews with leaders in the blockchain and crypto space and my interview with Kevin Kelly about technological trends.


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243 Mark Leslie, from Zero to Billion Dollar Company in 10 Years

9/6/2017

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Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO, the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000, Veritas was the 10th largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.

From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. His prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer.

Mark Leslie is a successful retired entrepreneur and continues to be active in the Silicon Valley community.

Connect with Mark
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Resources
The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie & Charles A. Holloway


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