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Subscription models are crazy powerful. Savvy small companies can easily deploy them to knock huge Goliaths off kilter. We’ve seen it in entertainment, software, hardware, news, retail, hospitality—the list goes on. In her podcast series, Robbie Kellman Baxter interviews the leaders of this revolution about how they’re using subscription pricing and membership models to redefine the biggest industries and generate predictable recurring revenue along the way.
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A podcast offering conversations with a diverse group of SaaS leaders from around the world who share lessons they learned at various stages of their business. You’ll hear stories from bootstrapped and VC-funded founders, c-suite executives, and developers that will inspire new growth strategies in your own business. This podcast is brought to you by FastSpring. As the leading merchant of record payment platform for SaaS and software, FastSpring lets you reduce your payments, subscriptions, ...
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Web3 is going to eat software! I talk with minds behind truly innovative projects using blockchain technology to solve real-world problems so you can be ahead of the curve with your knowledge or business. Discover future Amazons, Googles, and AirBnBs of the world through the exciting personal journeys of their creators! I’ve been building and helping tech businesses since 2001. I know firsthand how important it is to constantly learn about what’s happening on the edges. How is your industry ...
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SaaS is seen as one of the best things that have ever happened in the world of software in terms of costs and ease of usage. But it’s not enough to embrace its advantages alone. There are two sides to a coin, and even SaaS has a lesser-known side that can harm businesses if left unattended. The dark side of SaaS involves shadow IT, security and compliance risks, and SaaS wastage. We’ve started this podcast series, “SaaS Whispers,” to focus on the inefficiencies and cost overruns posed by inc ...
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Venture Pill

Sam Gordon, Brandon Osian

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Your weekly dose of startups and venture capital. Brandon Osian and Sam Gordon prescribe all you'll need to get into the wonderful world of venture. From fundraising news to startup deep dives, you can expect to stay up to date with the most innovative, exciting companies out there.
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Welcome to our monthly podcast co-hosted by the Radio Bros - Dan and Shaz. Not only are they good friends, the Radio Bros are experienced in developing and consulting for a particular cloud software. Or, as they like to put it, they are Consultant Developers. Every month, they go offline from the daily grind and wind down, casually discussing topics around their work and own experiences with anything that touches the cloud: like web dev, gadgets and everything in between. Dan and Shaz will b ...
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Product Voices

Product Voices, hosted by JJ Rorie

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People who work in product management are on a constant learning journey. Markets are dynamic. Customer needs are transient. Technologies evolve. The ways in which we work changes. We must learn and adapt along the way. Product Voices is a forum to share practical, real-world stories about how to learn and grow in important areas in product management. Learn from the best voices in product management.
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Jade Global is well-positioned to be your strategic IT services partner. We create value through our vast portfolio of IT services delivered by highly skilled and experienced consultants. Our services include business application implementations, integrations, software product engineering, Cloud services, technology advisory, testing, and managed services. We have domain expertise in a variety of industries including manufacturing, high-tech, energy, pharmaceuticals and warehouse distribution.
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Welcome to MODELS OF MASTERS. I'm Michael, an author, marketing veteran, and entrepreneur. Following a profound spiritual awakening, I created @new_earth_knowledge, growing it to 61k followers and coaching creators worldwide as a digital nomad. In 2023, I sold the brand to focus on my book, CONTENT CAPITALIST, now available for purchase. On this show, I share insights from my journey. Visit michaelbecker.org for more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Introducing VMware Today, your go-to podcast for all things VMware. Join us as we dive deep into the dynamic world of virtualization, cloud computing, and digital transformation. Each week, we’ll bring you the latest insights, news, and expert interviews, delivering valuable knowledge and real-world experiences straight to your headphones. Whether you're an IT professional, a technology enthusiast, or simply curious about the future of computing, VMware Today is your gateway to understanding ...
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Welcome to the Invent Like An Owner Podcast, where I’ll talk with the Amazonians who helped build Amazon.com into one of the world’s most valuable companies. This weekly podcast is for entrepreneurs, future business leaders, and all students of history (not to mention, people interested in getting hired at Amazon!). The goal of the podcast is to capture the Amazon Creation Stories and create a historical archive... before we forget all the details -- that’s it. My name is Dave Schappell (and ...
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, we start (1:45) with a breakdown on Hoop, an AI-powered productivity startup that aims to revolutionize task management for professionals in today’s …
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, we start (1:43) with a breakdown on Fantasy Chess, a startup founded by grandmaster Magnus Carlsen and one of Norway’s top businessmen to make chess …
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, we have Meredith Perry, Co-Founder and CEO of Elemind, the startup that helps people fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer through their breakthr…
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Budgets are tight and competition to get and keep subscribers has never been more fierce. But what if I told you that there was a way to nudge your prospects and subscribers to help them engage more deeply and rapidly? It's possible. Today's guest, Nancy Harhut, has a wealth of easy and inexpensive tactics that can motivate your members to do the r…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn On this week’s dose, we start (1:47) with a breakdown on Twelve Labs, a startup that’s building a video understanding platform driven by leading perceptual-reasoning research, fresh off a $50M Series A. Then …
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Summary In this conversation, I talk with Jonny about his journey into the world of crypto, his transition from working at Google, and Coinbase, to founding his own company - called Fabric and their development of Hypersub; an onchain subscription service. You could say Hypersub is NaaS product - NFTs as a subscription (NaaS). We touch on many thin…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, you’ll first hear about Fizz (1:48), a startup that is helping young adults boost their financial literacy and build credit through their reward-earn…
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One of the hottest growth areas for subscriptions is farming. Surprising? Maybe. But with small margins and big numbers, efficiency matters. And farming has become an increasingly high tech, high stakes business. Justin Rose is the President of Lifecycle Solutions, Supply Management, and Customer Success at John Deere, a 187 year old company with r…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, we start (1:58) with a breakdown on Eyebot, a startup that’s building AI-powered kiosks that provide 90-second vision exams without the need for on-s…
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Conversation with Adam Riemer, President of Adam Riemer Marketing, about advanced affiliate marketing and SEO. Affiliate marketing can be a great growth lever to scale your digital product business, but how can you drive meaningful growth with the right affiliates without losing out to fraud or shady attribution schemes? In this episode of Growth S…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:47) we start with a breakdown on Suno, an AI-powered music creation platform, and their recent $125M Series B. Then (10:43), we discuss Zen Educat…
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This is an exclusive episode, taken from my eLearning program (link below). In it, I share a few miscellaneous learnings around monetization timing, failing fast, lead handling, outbound prospecting, exponential thinking, and getting behind mega-trends before they pop. =============== 📖 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://michaelbecker.org/product/content-capitalist-…
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In this episode, Dan and Shaz look at the announcements made at the Apple "Let Loose" event, the pricing and a particular fallout. Everyone's doing it, so we would like to share our opinion on it, too. Dan's relationship with Alexa has got complicated, then Shaz has an announcement of the Windows kind. Oh, and, there's another special announcement.…
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Conversation with Podia Senior Growth Marketer Marc Thomas about how to de-risk trying new, more innovative marketing strategies. Traditional marketing playbooks are falling short in the SaaS world, but while many marketers privately acknowledge the ineffectiveness of these playbooks, they are still hesitant to discuss it publicly. Far too often, t…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week's episode, we switched things up as we discussed some personal updates and reflected on our time in Austin, and our experience building Venture Pill over the…
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This is an exclusive episode, taken from my eLearning program (link below). In it, I dissect 7 things to consider when buying a business and 3 things to do when selling yours. =============== 📖 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://michaelbecker.org/shop -------------------------------- 🎓 𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗬: https://t.ly/u0Dk5 -------------------------------- 💼 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗪/ 𝗠𝗘: https:…
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Summary I talk with Billy Luedtke, from the project Intuition about his short journey to crypto and long journey in crypto :) We both agree on the importance of decentralized identity and Intuition aims to create a trusted interaction layer in the blockchain space, allowing users to make better decisions by providing more data for humans and things…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:45) we start with a breakdown on Kutt, a peer-to-peer sports betting platform that lets users wage bets directly against one another, and their $1…
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Summary Today it's a colorful chat about underground music and art discovery and support. UNDRGRND's journey is a testament of passion and persistence of NFTJoe. Listen as he shares his journey into Web3 and crypto, starting with his interest in NFTs and writing about them. He discusses the early days of UNDRGRND, the project focused on featuring (…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:35) we start with a breakdown on WILDE Brands, a startup that’s creating tasty, high-protein crisps made from chicken breast and egg whites, fresh…
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Many subscription entrepreneurs lament their lack of fancy software and dashboards to allow them to better manage their business. But if you know your ideal member and understand their pain points, and if you're always tinkering and adjusting your offering to better align with the needs of those members, you can build a powerful recurring revenue b…
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In this episode, I touch on a few topics related to public perception, reputation management, and churn reduction. Specifically, I focus on how to combat negative reviews in the public domain by going above-and-beyond what other companies are doing (and what customers are used to). I also explain how to use cancellation reversals to stop defecting …
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:44) we kick things off with a breakdown on Screen Skinz, a startup that lets smartphone users create custom screen protectors, fresh off a $1.5M s…
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Summary In this episode, BFG talks with Evin, CEO of Disco.xyz about why are digital identity and onchain credentials important to individuals and how it can be useful for companies and brands, especially in the crypto space. Evin shares her background, including her experiences working at ConsenSys and Berkshire Hathaway, and how she got into cryp…
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I want to share three ways to enable monthly recurring revenue and three ways to grow customer lifetime value, regardless of your business model. There are essentially three ways to enable MRR: a full-fledged subscription or membership business; what I call a “perpetual performance-based” pseudo subscription option; or optional add-on recurring pro…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, we have the founders of Floaties Floatin’ Saloon, Grant Perkins and Austin Lim. This was a special interview out on Lake Austin on their beautiful bo…
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Conversation with Fred Linfjärd, Director of Growth at Planday, about switching from a one-time fees model to a subscription billing model. If you're selling your software, plugin, add-on, or other digital product for a one-time fee, you’re likely thinking about switching to a recurring subscription model. While the financial reasons are strong to …
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Today is a bit of a rant day. We revisit some interesting news what with Tesla issues and range anxiety. There's also Microsoft's continued advertising experiments, leading to talks about ditching it. Shaz has created his own music streaming experience. Then finally the rant about subscriptions are becoming central to our lives. News references CNN…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:45) we start off with a breakdown on Collaborative Robotics, a startup that makes robots that work alongside humans in all kinds of facilities, ho…
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One of the great mysteries for me is why so many otherwise sophisticated companies don’t focus on involuntary churn. Also known as passive churn or accidental churn, involuntary churn happens when a payment issue raises a flag that causes a merchant to cancel a customer’s subscription. In 70% of these cases, there is no fraud, so the company is lit…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:43) we kick things off with Lawhive, an AI-based legal tech platform that's targeted towards small law firms, and their recent $12M seed round. Fr…
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In this exclusive workshop taken from my first eLearning program, 7-figure entrepreneur Anton Wisbiski shares stories, principles and mental frameworks he learned going form rock bottom to consistent $50k months. Anton dives into the two factors that determine, more than anything else, how much abundance you can create in your life. These include: …
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This episode is an exclusive sneak peak from my new eLearning academy that I just launched in tandem with my upcoming book, CONTENT CAPITALIST. 📌 Key Takeaways: Have a "disruptor" mindset; aim to bring more value in a more economical, scalable way than others When you "go meta" on an industry, you encompass and invalidate all prior iterations of a …
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In this episode, I break down eight marketing and growth principles for business. They include the following: · Delay gratification. Invest in audience, content, and long-term brand equity over vanity metrics or quick cash-outs. · Give more than you get. Maximize consumer surplus to encourage word-of-mouth and grow CLTV. · Attention & trust compoun…
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Pricing strategy can make or break a company. In this episode, I explain why it's best to compete on value and brand but not on price; I share why premium pricing is often the most effective strategy, especially if you're going after more affluent buyers; and I compare different models for both high-ticket investments along with monthly membership …
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I'm sharing a snippet from a recent interview I did on Josh Elledge's podcast to promote CONTENT CAPITALIST. We chat on the changing marketing landscape. ============ 📖 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://t.ly/ioHGR -------------------------------- 🎓 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗬 (𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘): https://t.ly/u0Dk5 -------------------------------- 🎧 𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 - 𝗡𝗘𝗢𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘'…
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Summary Zak discusses his journey into crypto and his background in consulting. He introduces Sukuri, a crypto-native tool for startups that aims to provide a comprehensive business dashboard. The platform enables startups to accept crypto payments, automate back-office operations, and manage treasury and payroll. Zak emphasizes the focus on self-s…
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The Content Continuum is not only the most accurate but also the most mutually-beneficial model for both company and customer. In this episode, I chat with Hernan on The Business Bros Podcast to share my new model for modern marketers. Whereas a quick sale was the goal before, the new strategy is built to house and help as large an audience as poss…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:30) we start with Kidsy, an e-commerce startup that aims to give consumers access to discounted baby and kid products, and their $1m pre-seed roun…
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It's time to move to a distributed brand newsroom. An emergent opportunity for entrepreneurs building companies is to decentralize the content function by moving to what I call a participatory publishing model. Here, your entire team is responsible for content (not one or two marketing people). In a creator-centric model, the system constraint is t…
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In this episode, I offer thoughts on connected technologies like brain computer interfaces and explain why I cofounded a non-invasive BCI company focused on adaptive content experiences that use EEG data to guide the content you receive (and how you receive it) on your device. ============ 📖 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://t.ly/ioHGR -------------------------…
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In this episode, I explain how humans are poised to evolve with, and, ultimately, through technology. I share how my view on technological mergence has shifted 180-degrees from where I was three or four years ago. The transhumanist dystopia many are fearful about is only one (and a very unlikely) scenario. The truth is that ascension—a divine and s…
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You might be familiar with the great promise of Product Led Growth (PLG). As the story goes, PLG is based on the notion that the value a product delivers and how easy it is to adopt and share will lead to self-sustaining increases in product adoption and less reliance on human intervention to get the deal done. The expected result is more new reven…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:50) we start with Mallard Bay, an easy-to-use marketplace that connects people looking to go on fishing and hunting trips with outfitters, and the…
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Summary In this episode, we discuss with Oren Fine, co-founder of SphereX, the importance of security in the crypto space and how SphereX is on a mission to bring proactive protection to protocols and smart contracts. Oren shares his background in cybersecurity and how he became interested in Web3 and also explains how Spheerex protects protocols b…
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We're back and finally got this recording produced. In this episode we've got a loooot of catching up to do... starting with a potential success story for Google's RCS, but not for the reasons you think. Then following it with an article about Discovery leaving the Playstation platform, we have to get real. You don't own anything in this age of dig…
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I was recently selected to participate in Antler's Spring '24 MENAP cohort, their first in Dubai. Getting invited into Antler as a founder is statistically more difficult to do than gaining acceptance into Harvard. For context, Antler accepts about 3% of applicants across their 12 global locations, and the acceptance rate for their MENAP arm is eve…
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Content is changing, and consumers are changing how they consume it. In this episode, I explain how to parlay personal brands to scale your company, how to enroll employees in creating and sharing, and how to shift to a distributed branded newsroom. This episode is best for startup founders or sole proprietors. ============ 📖 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://t…
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Our Social Media Pages, follow us and engage with the Pill-grim community! Join our Entre Community Instagram Twitter YouTube TikTok LinkedIn And now for this week’s prescription: On this week’s dose, (1:52) we start with Oishii, the world’s largest indoor vertical strawberry farm, and their $134M Series B. Then (10:40), we break down RapidSOS, a s…
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Summary In this episode I talk with Antoni Isaacson, co-founder of Nimble as he shares his journey into crypto world (btw: very recent) and evolution of their project and its focus on decentralized AI. Nimble aims to glue together all the building blocks of decentralized AI, providing an aggregation layer over the different components of the AI sta…
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